Let them eat cake.
The sudden cancellation of the upcoming Quiksilver/Roxy Pro France sent shockwaves through the professional competitive surfing community. Many of those participating in the Challenger Series event had already purchased tickets, hotel rooms, dreams of making it to the “big dance” percolating in heads. Fans having already worked early autumn, or spring, work schedules around the holding period.
The Challenger Series is relatively new in our landscape, springing out of the blood of those professional surfers who fell below mid-year cut, fertilizing the earth.
Many, again, felt very angry about the chop, including but not limited to Owen Wright, but the World Surf League brass promised even more riches were possible for the minor league surfers as long as they “trusted the process.
Rising tide.
But now France has been burned, Senior Vice President of Competition, Head of Tours Jessi Miley-Dyer delivering the news in a very “let-them-eat-cake” sorta way and might other Challenger Series, and lesser point’d, events follow?
An examination of the upcoming schedule doesn’t exactly bolster confidence.
What are your thoughts?
Taiwan on the chopping block?
More as the story develops.
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The end is nigh.
Westworld Surf League
Clearly time to get some transgender competitors and sharks in the mix otherwise the CS is doomed!
They should start a faux-punk label and call it Alternative Tentatives.
You can make anything “professional”, bowling, beauty, even sewing. Doesn’t mean you should or that it will turn a profit
If the sponsors aren’t going sponsor no more,
Dear lord, what will become of them?
Should bg start a wsl go fund me??
Good idea!
seriously these clowns think they have endless budget from Ziff – how can 3 levels of QS Challenger and CT derive an income and be viable anyway ???
the biggest disappointment when this all falls over is that there will be nothing to laugh about in the ineptitude of these cunts
Oh, if it happens, I think there would be something to laugh about…
Are we totally sure Elo said pro surfing had grown by 300% and not gone backwards by 300% ?
And that’s why he won himself a CFO.
He’s just basing it on the statistics of kids and parents dumb enough to throw education away for a shot at a free pair of boardies and pro surfing dreams. You seen the little fuckers at beaches these days? You’d think surfing was on the cusp of burying golf and tennis under the Snapper sand there’s that many of ’em.
Don’t they ever look up from their TikTok likes to realise there’s more money in fingering a cat on TikTok?
Bring back the good old days , scrap all tours and events except the CT.
Any surfers with the financial backing can follow the tour and enter events .
With the (W)right amount of cash support you can make a entire career and never get passed the first couple of rounds ..believe me heaps did back in the day.
Xi has won that event every time it has run, and always will win it. Forever.
Wsl has become a joke. Jessie miley-dyer should resign.
do you think it was Jessie’s decision?
She’s the so-called director of competition
Elo should resign. JMD is the fool he has running around doing his dirty work. I doubt she has any deciding power whatsoever considering what we’ve seen from Elo so far.
I’m still waiting hear about Zeke Lau getting “punched out” on the south shore as per the teasing mention on the podcast the other day.
Was a misdirected Kanoa claim
“Listen kids. Always brush after meals. Look both ways before crossing the road. Don’t talk to strangers.
And NEVER EVER get in close proximity to a surfer performing a claim.”
Heard it was Erin Brooks.
Is she Erin Brockovich’s daughter?
Perhaps related to Erin Onthesideofcaution?
Let the meat cake.
Were they hoping to run Taiwan Open concurrently with the upcoming Chinese amphibious assault? Unabashedly a tribute to Francis Ford Coppola it seems. Kelly to play colonel Kurtz.
“Go for it” is so dated and No Fear too. “Be tentative” –a slogan for our time.
‘Easy Now’
‘Down with that sort of thing’
“Never 100% Sure”
in olde English font, of course
“Safety first”.
“I’m grumpy about everything” a slogan for BG
gonna quit this WSL rat race and spend more time with my cool gal pal…
My girlfriend is cool because:
1. She’s very sweet to my family and they all ended up loving her
2. She doesn’t make fun of me for listening to girly music
3. She lets me play with her boobs…
I can’t say that about any of the pro CT/Challenger series surfers!
Some might be concerned you’ve lost your edge, but not me.
well, dumped Gillette USA and secured a Hatteker China multi-use…”only a lil dab will do ya…” is history.
I think there are some pro boobs floating round a surgeon’s table somewhere. Not the one at HTs either!
he had a cartoonist and a big-breasted sec…tip my LA hat!
Was hoping to see some enthusiastic hopping to the shore break, and maybe even pier shooting from a few of the Challenger guys and gals – but no live feed? Hmm…
Looks like there will be some kind of swell tomorrow for the broadcast at least.
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They don’t call it the Challenger Series for nothing…it’s reallly fucking challenging.
I think you really could’ve gone for a trifecta of killer comments.
It’s top 2 nowadays… you have priority.
Maybe they should have a live event feed to increase interest.
Our WSL works in mysterious ways.
They doing us a favour I guess, watching a contest at 1-2ft huntington almost could be rock bottom of human existence.