Sexy LA man with big hair and fast motorcycle wins seven thousand dollars and three PANDA surfboards.
Who among us threw twenty bucks into the ol kitty for a shot at the seven gees, three Pandas and a little something to keep the WSL season at least vaguely interesting?
The Surfival League was born after I heard the wildly tragic story of Shane Starling, a Berlin-based data analyst who won the WSL’s Fantasy Surfer League in 2018.
Shane picked ten of the eleven winners, an impossible feat, and didn’t get a damn thing for his year’s work. The victory went unremarked and unacknowledged by the owner of the game.
The injustice inspired me to create a fantasy league that was easy to understand and spread a little wealth around.
And, here we are five years later with two winners (Original League and the Second Chance Survival League).
Please join the Surfival Gods in raising their champagne glasses to Los Angeles’s own Ed Prudhomme the winner of the Surfival League. He beat out the field to take home $7000 and three fresh PANDA Surfboards. In the Second Chance League, we have Brooklynite Emily Williams taking home the $1k and one PANDA Surfboard Second Chance Prize.
I gave Ed a call to discuss his Surfival Crown…
Eddie, is this your first year playing Survival and tell us a little bit about your strategy?
No! I’ve been playing since the beginning after listening to the Spit Podcast with David Lee Scales and Scott Bass. This is my first year making it past the first couple events. As for strategy, I didn’t want to use the big guns early. I took Fioravanti at Pipe and by the time the cut came around, I still had John at Fiji, Gabe at Cloudbreak, and then came Finals Day.
What was your Finals Day Strategy?
I read Hippy’s article on BeachGrit saying that Ethan Ewing and Jack Robinson had no chance at the world title. It felt like he wrote a whole advice article specifically for me. I initially read it, put Italo winning it as a placeholder and then just never changed it. Then he made his run, and I won.
What are you going to be doing with the $7000 and 3 PANDA Surfboards?
Honestly, I’ve had to help some family members out, luckily now I can help them a little more. Then I’ll treat my friends out for a nice dinner and then start planning the next surf trip.
As for the boards, I’m a bigger guy, so I’ve been looking at the Shiitake, Middle Age Rage, The Mid Ranger and/or The Twinzer Egg. I’m already planning my test pilot trip.
What else?
Thank you to the Surfival Gods, it was a true enjoyment to play. I didn’t expect to win. I was happy with a final appearance. I felt like I got my $20 worth just playing into the Final’s Day. See you next year!
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Eddie P and flower, two of the nicest guys Ive ever met!
I made it to the second knuckle!
Xox
Eddie is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet and has an infectious laugh.
Charges when necessary too.
So happy for him.
Just don’t let him book a surf trip for you…. demand your own control :):):):)
Let’s raise our glasses and toast this years inductees into the bumhole fingering hole of fame
Well of course Hippy is a surfing savant as he doesn’t hate surfing unlike other famous writers on this site
Also the only finalist to not pick Griff at all, the curse is real.
Help people? What is this shit? The Inertia?
Has Ed Prudhomme been a BG commenter ?
Or just an observer ?
Is Ed really the Hippy in another disguise ?
Nah! got a friend that knows him and he refers to him as “Flower Miguel”.. seen a pic once and he looks like he comes from north of our border not south of the border. Don’t know if he is a gunn fanatic but possible..
They would trip on those photos
Ed is neither a poster or an observor.
He likes European blondes, fine wine and expensive noodle places.
And thick boards, Panda’s gonna have to glue two blanks together like Chas did. Wickwire that is.
Eddie best be driving that Triumph up to San Babs and handing Mr. Hippy a check for 20% of his earnings…..or one of them fine Panda’s at least.
Absolutely. Justice 4 Hippy.
I did have fun, mostly with the comments of why I chose each surfer at each event and of course it was all tied into how well they had been fingering their bumhole of late.
Xox
This years MVP bumhole fingerer? It’s been a long year of fingering bumholes at a professional level…
I put my thumb in a girls bumhole last week and then my doodle!! But it was a bit big and we had to stop. But still!
Dogsnuts was actually doing bumhole things!!!
Xox
Jeez, the World Donkey Wanking Championships have taken a dark turn since I was last here…
I didn’t win . Fucken Russian bots
Fucken griff or jjf. I forget now but one of them fucked me. They can send me one of their boards as compo. Course I won’t be able to surf it for a damn but still…