World’s richest but most ruthless fantasy surf league opens for 2024 WSL season

Seven thousand American dollars and a fleet of Panda surfboards in winner-take-all bunfight!

You all know the stories of fans winning the Surfer or WSL fantasy surf leagues, beating thousands of other keen surfers, and then getting stiffed of their rightful loot. 

Four years ago, the staggering lack of any prizes in fantasy surf leagues was brought into the spotlight when Berlin-based Australian surfer Shane Starling aka Zmonde, picked ten of the eleven event winners, although his victory came and went unacknowledged by the owners of the game. 

Surfer wasn’t any better, said Starling, describing it as a “dead platform.”

(BeachGrit remedied that situation when we despatched to the former home of the Reich a package of t-shirts and air fresheners,.)

Last year, the Australian husband of Lakey Peterson, Thomas Allen, won the WSL’s Fantasy League, beating an astonishing 115,000 competitors. His prize? Allen said, “I might have to buy myself a trophy”.

And, so, this is why the surfer Taylor Lobdell created Surfival League a few years back. You probs know the game by now, but, if you don’t, it’s real easy.

 

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Instead of picking a team you pick one surfer to advance past the round of 32. 

If they advance, you advance. If they don’t, you’re out. 

Ruthless! 

And you can’t pick the same surfer twice. 

Last man, or gal, gets seven thousand American dollars courtesy of BeachGrit and Taylor and three Panda surfboards. 

Past winner of Surfival Fantasy Surf League include a construction worker from Colorado a butcher from Bondi and an Australia skipper. 

This year, is it you? 

Wanna put money where mouth is etc? 

Twenty bucks. 

We’ll be updating who’s in, who’s out, after each event.

Sign up here.