"Nothing but a facade pretending there isn’t a huge elephant in the room. Wall of positivity but no one’s buying it. It’s cringe."
The World Surf League is under siege tonight after an innocuous post celebrating Caroline Marks’ first world title lanced a boil of fury among surf fans seething over tour leader Carissa Moore’s second successive Finals Day failure.
The WSL wrote,
Caroline Marks just became:
– Only the fourth Women’s World Champion since 2006
– The first goofy-foot Women’s World Champion since 2005
– The first mainland American
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All true and a beautiful moment for a kid who had to step away from the tour for a year to deal with unspecified but “recurring medical and health issues.”
But WSL’s surf fans, many of whom, I’d predict, have yet to feel the sensation of wax underfoot, mutinied en masse in an orgy of fury not seen since the damn Cawnpore massacre in 1857.
“What a bloody terrible caption for this post. What are you telling the others it’s time to retire. If it wasn’t an Olympic year it would not shock me to see Carisa step away from the WSL while this final five nonsense continues. And I say this as someone who is really happy for Caroline and picked her to win. This post though is in very poor taste.”
“You guys are changing the history of world surfing with bizarre rules. you already stole two world titles from Carissa Moore. Enough, right?”
“Carissa was the true champ! Bring back the old format. Marks just won trestles, but not the circuit.”
“Just tell us that it’s the end of this bullsh*t format era. Champions deserve to be fully supported by the fans, wich is not the case BECAUSE OF THE WSL. Athletes deserve better, fans deserve better. Pro surfing this days divides instead of federate…and it’s definetly getting worst.”
Once again this completely unfair system has stolen a title from the real champ Carissa More. That’s 2 already. Stop this nonsense. You don’t see anyone supporting this format online.”
“Should be Carissa on 7. So shit, all for viewer ratings. When are WSL going to acknowledge what Carissa achieved this season?”
“Carissa should be celebrating a 3 peat. Best all year and lose title cause a subpar day at trestles.”
“The people’s word champ” 🏆. Marks the Trestles champ on 1 day. Great achievement for both. And I am sure the humble Riss will honor Marks title, and Caroline herself will undoubtedly know that Riss won overall this year and last.”
“Congratulations @wsl. You invented a format that prevents the best surfer of the year from becoming the champ.”
“End of wsl if they don’t go back to old format and end season in Hawaii, the birthplace of surfing, Carrissa is the true Champion.”
“Yeah right! @wsl people, keep saying this format gives opportunity to others surfers to have a shot for the world tilte but all sums to a 1 event,…and in the USA 🤔”
“This doesn’t make sense and its unfair for that 1 surfer that has been proving all year why the number 1 is number 1.”
“Now imagine if all the other sports adopted this stupid idea/format? U can’t right? Because it doesn’t make sense and it’s Not fair. Stop this format, please.”
“This is a very tone deaf post. Read the room. It’s like WSL is just trying lose as many fans as they can these days.”
When the WSL’s own Jess Miley-Dyer poked her head above the parapet she was met with a fusillade of anger as the blood lust reached fever pitch.
“read the room”
“old format back. You ruined the surf”
“Carissa got robbed two years in a row! It’s painful to watch.”
“We are all praying you end up with E-Lo 🙏 congrats on the trestle win Marks and congrats on four years in a row tittle wins Carissa.”
“Typical WSL hologram comment. Nothing but a facade pretending there isn’t a huge elephant in the room. Wall of positivity but no one’s buying it. It’s cringe. Everyone sees the truth for what it is, Carissa should be world champ.”
“Read the comments. 95% of fans don’t like the format. We all see @rissmoore10 as a champ. Changing history of surfing not crowing the best surfer all year for a profit format for you guys to keep your jobs is a ridiculous insanity.”
Again, I quite enjoyed all the tension with my midnight snack as I watched the drama unfurl, curled up like a baby in front of a heater in my jammies, fiddling away as well as fiddling with the keys. I certainly wasn’t involved in such a way during any of the other events.
Why so much hate?
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Why? To semi-quote ‘zbah’: We’re haters and we have a code to live by. The real question is what is a happy person doing reading BG comments? Leave while the sun still shines lest ye become one of us.
When she retires Caroline will do well in the tuck shop with those arms
Is there any other sport that has athlete’s drop out due to mystery illness?
Or is it just the Wright’s and now Marks?
What about the golden child, Achilles, I mean Ewing? Surfing as if never injuring his back?
So much our journalists have allowed secrecy.
Yeah, yeah, I know. But they will. And they might already be better in hollow waves.
And I should’ve mentioned Molly.
But Erin Brooks might be the most impressive female surfer I’ve ever seen.
Patti Zhou …
No 2024 schedule posted , but Vans Triple Crown Hawaii window is open Nov 11 and Lululeman Honolua women’s opens on Nov 25.
Stop. This. Please. Geez—and stop this, too. Develop your own style. This is some copycat hack shit that was lame fifteen years ago when the original hacks shit it out into the world.
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Is it over? The 3 ft final at Trestles?
Who’s the winner?
I think its bull also, and i hate the final 5. However , all surfers new the rules and the chance of losing on finals day in the beginning of the season. If Carissa didn’t accept the terms and conditions of the new format she could have not competed this year and last. But she chose to compete. Congrats to Caroline. Hope they change it back to normal next year.
You’re in luck!! I can now share my proprietary crowd size algorithm that helps target the least crowded spots. At one time it also included wave quality (WQ) as a data point, but results from a recently released longitudinal crowd size study at Doheny confirmed that WQ has no real impact.
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TI-80 linear regression. made a career out of it calibrating Dasibi Ozone Analyzers…but smog levels peter out after 5PM…dramatically!
The basic analyzer is a self-contained instrument which measures the concentration of ozone in ambient air. This is accomplished by measuring the absorption of ultraviolet (UV) light in a sample of gas flowing through the optics bench (often called an absorption cell) contained in the instrument.
The instrument is designed to provide a highly stable measurement capability for extended periods without repeated adjustments, and it operates over a wide range of ambient conditions without adverse effects on measurement accuracy.
the motherboard for most models was made in SImi Valley by Scribner’s Electronics. 20 years ago they subbed out all their circuit board work to China. Interesting also are the high level flights by aircraft measuring holes in ozone depletion were also Dasibi’s. Ozone is still the preferred sole compound used to measure smog…45-100 ppm is moderate; 200 ppm plus is severe. 300 ppm in China’s smogiest cities is common. LA’s smog events have been reduced by half over the decades. Several state-wide studies have proven that most of the smog in our area and north is caused by evening offshore breezes: onshore during the day, which reverses at night.
LA w/out smog would be like NYC w/out Lady Liberty.
Basically cliche by now, but Caity’s clips are so good. And love that she throws in all the eat shit attempts on barrels. I’m hooked.
Still a few places to surf up here where you can get away from all that but not many.
The WSL isn’t tone deaf, they’re creating engagement. Look at all those passionate quotes, all that quality engagement. It helps massage the algorithms. Algorithm’s get off on frustrated comments by passionate fans. It’s a big turn on for those dirty little algorithms.
They took the cue from BG certainly.
Adbots of the world unite!
Smells of desperation to make america great again cos the usa middle aint watching unless they are winning
Two things:
1. This sort of negative public outcry towards a sports league can usually be good for them, but you sense that the WSL fan numbers are too small and the problem just not interesting enough to a wider audience for it to make any difference. Therefore it’s just a trash fire.
2. I like Carissa, I do. But if she walks away? Hi Caity Simmers, hi Erin Brooks, hi Sierra Kerr, etc, etc. Women’s surfing done changed, and Carissa ain’t part of it.
But wait ✋️ what about the shapers , who won who came second are all the rest history as well , mmm so much to unpack in that space.
NO FUCKEN WAY
Soo Obvious!
I miss Taj doing finners and throwing punts whilst getting underscored. Bring back the ASP.
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Our belle epoch!
Why so much hate…why not…welcome to the BG.
I’d be stoked to be able to attack my backhand the way Caroline does, but I gotta say it was a bit boring to watch after a while. If the other surfers are losing to that on their frontside, then they deserved the L.