The heaviest losses came from Slater (41% of picks), Barron Mamiya (10%), Kanoa Igarashi (4%), Griffin Colapinto (3%) and Italo Ferreira (1%).
Over a thousand people entered the arena of the Surfival League, their dreams shimmering with thoughts of five-thousand American dollars in cash and three custom PANDA surfboards.
Winner take all.
Surfival League was born, of course, after years of surf fans winning the Surfer or WSL’s fantasy leagues and getting stiffed of prizes.
Three years back, we interviewed Shane Starling, a forty-eight-year-old cycling enthusiast, who picked ten of the eleven event winners that year and his victory came and went entirely unremarked and unacknowledged by the WSL.
The first year of Surfival, a handyman from Colorado won a thousand bucks (world champ CJ Hobgood placed second).
Last year, a butcher from Bondi won three-gees and a three-board quiver from PANDA surfboards.
Rules, real simple.
You pick one surfer, they advance past the Round of 32, and you advance. They don’t, you don’t. Winner take all.
Well, the round of 32 just concluded at Pipe and 64% of the league is out.
Six-hundred and forty players from that initial one thousand, gone.
Usually 10-25% of the league is gutted after each event.
This year, the heaviest losses came from Slater (41% of picks), Barron Mamiya (10%), Kanoa Igarashi (4%), Griffin Colapinto (3%) and Italo Ferreira (1%).
Who hath angered the Surfival Gods so?
What’s next for those 64% who are out?
Go back to Fantasy Surfer?
That’s no fun!
The Surfival Gods are cooking up a Loser’s League.
And we’re open to ideas.
Whatcha got?
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Maybe if he had pretended to be gay with his media choices he may have won? That is what the author is trying to say.
Your heat is timed! Getting there early will not make your heat come sooner. OBVIOUSLY knows NOTHING about surfing.
As Slater said it was not his day. All the best waves rolled in AFTER he had already caught waves and was out of time.
So are gays allowed to extend their heat time to get another wave or something? Otherwise I am lost how his media choices and sexuality including his opinions have anything to do with tidal timings. More woke garbage media.
Nobody’s afraid of these guys- there’s no transphobia.
WSL has a rule on PED’s. So it’s not a stretch to say they realize that extra testosterone is considered ‘cheating’. Trans women have had their muscles bathed in testosterone going through puberty. That creates an unfair advantage.
I’m not privy, nor have I asked or care about the numbers. But it’s a lot of work for someone, I’d hope Taylor is getting something out of it.
Hey Taylor,
Yep go with deathrider league where you have to pick the guy who won’t make it through rd 3.
To make it a bit more interesting, not allowed to pick wildcards.
so ya’ll got hosed too?
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Yes, Not sure, Yes
Dumbest comp eva
The waves the last 2 days at pipeline were fucked, people like the goat, griffin and zeke really sucked, some might even say Zeke showed disorderly conduct, lucky we’ve got John John for us to feel shucked.
30 idiots picked colapinto. Let that sink in
I’d tried to get on the surfival league a few times but kept on having problems with PayPal due to not having used it for years and having changed addresses etc.
Anyway, so I just went back to normal betting on the TAB in NZ.
Best I got was Rio at $6 in his first heat.
Also had him at that price in a big multi but got let down by a couple of favourites, fuckers.
Though still have a chance of redemption with a few multis if Ty and Riss win their semi’s haha.
BnB
Chief Kahn for Ty & Riss
Yeah, another Surfboard for the losers. Keeping the Punters engaged all season will have them return for next year. Maybe you could submit all your picks for the year pre-event to enter the losers round as a back up system/game to play, that way anyone can lose right up till the last event and still be gaining points on a ladder.
Since it will be for losers maybe instead of winners make them choose fellow losers somehow to crown the biggest loser of them all.
Back to gambling instead of surfvival league. Up $1200 so far this comp
First rule of gambling: never brag about your winnings before you’ve left the casino.
I’ve been betting on surfing for years. 10 X $2- bets on each comp. Less the ones where the time difference affects.
I’ve had a few wins, one was $1560- and another $380-. Add in the little ones and I’ve got roughly 50 comps in credit.
Richest fantasy surf league = $20 buy in
It’s almost as if all these rookies and guys who got axed in the mid year cut last year don’t want to have to go back to the QS
that’s not what happened. what really happened?
You don’t want to know what really happened
Now at Trestles everyone is still in with a chance and we crown our champ,
Works for the WSl!