"ROBBED! Julian can hold his head high knowing this, what a heroic display of surfing."
In a rare switcharoo of roles, non-Brazilian surf fans have erupted after judges scored a two-turn ride of Filipe Toledo, a wave that would smash the fairytale comeback of Julian Wilson, a 9.07.
Toledo, who is the reigning world champ in waves two-and-a-half feet and under, snatched the small wave and delivered his peerless attack, lube and pussy juice shining in the bursts of sunlight on an otherwise gloomy afternoon.
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Shortly after the ride was published on the WSL’s Instagram account, surf fans began their tirade below the line.
“Most overscored wave in surfing history.”
“I thought I’d missed the first half of the ride when I saw the score. Great surfing but I’m bemused by the score.”
“Holy robbery.”
“100% ain’t no way this is a nine point ride. Rewatched it six times. Seven points at best.”
“No chance that was 9 you lemons.”
“iPad must’ve been upside down giving that a 9.”
“ROBBED! Julian can hold his head high knowing this, what a heroic display of surfing.”
Even the world’s most enduring surf journalist Nick Carroll, brother of the two-time world champ Tom Carroll and who we last saw on these pages one month ago when he was disappeared in a shock cull by Surfline, got into it.
“That’s Cooked the fantasy that one…”
How did you call it?
I believe those two turns were more guttural than anything else in the final and that wave deserved every last cent of that nine point oh seven. The judges were brave as anything to ignore the usual points for turns method of scoring and stroke it for all it was worth.
Does that make my gayness more real?
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Filipe is like a mick fanning tham more speed and big airs!!!! Julian is more slow!! dont cry ausies
That was a 5 max. Throw away.
Maybe a 7 but still… cost Jules the win
floatergate is back
I didn’t watch any of it except for this clip.
WCT (Watch Clip Tonight)
The 9 made no sense in the context of the heat and makes no sense now. Jules should have won
Jules tried all his heat craft on Pip in the final like he had done the whole event…didn’t work on Pip, but I think Jules showed how important heat management is…he was brilliant !
at last , everything we wanted from a WSL event……well at least the final…….controversy , lovers/haters of Pip all becoming experts, opinions on why , how, who should have could have…ah the sweet smell of competition!
It was obvious to me that Pip was faster /cleaner and a level above everybody else…Julian was incredible and showed a lot of the vanilla journeymen on tour that having heat management down to a fine art and his surfing is still Ct level……as far as the scoring , Pip was faster and landed cleaner than Jules Slob airs which the landings were …very slobish…..and yep Pip is the best smaller wave surfer in the world and a pleasure to watch!
this is worse than covid of which we could at least get a vaccine for,,,
did anyone figure out what the back and forth was about in the lineup?
Julian looked genuinely fucked off.
Them Aussies at the comp should have had all them pro surf fan children attack Philip Torpedo after the heat. Just dozens of lil’ Aussie children, who appreciate a good turn, laying it on the Brazil. Wonderful Television that would make. Imagine Sydney News at 6:00 pm with the headline, “Surf children maul competitor at Gold Coast Pro.”
If this was in the Brazil, those Brazils would have sodomized julian and his bald head.
Kelly Slater. How about that Kelly Slater.
He just smiled right now…
far be it from me to ever disagree with anyone,.
However, after sifting through minutes of 1-2 turn 9+ rides and comparing them to the entire 7 seconds of Filpe’s 9.07, I can positively 100% confirm that Felipe’s wave was deserved of a 9 point score.
in a shot by shot, freeze frame analysis, our staff of *forensic specialists concurred, in fact; his final turn on that wave was actually a twerked, tweeked out, 237 degree aerial maneuver in which his board was completely disconnected from the wave and his tail was actually inverted above his shoulders at one point in the turn.
the overwhelming consensus of our highly trained stiff concluded: “It was a 9+ BANGER”.
*documentation and analytics available at MIT Dept. of Hydrophysics
Im pleased that judging ineptitude is non partisan, there’s hope for us yet
better to consult those hamas geniuses
Does there have to be a judging controversy EVERY SINGLE EVENT?
it’s only controversial to some people. One man’s controversy is another man”s “excellent” judging.
The League must prevail
Wrong score and correct result in the final. They flattened the 8.33 and increased the 9.07. JW’s waves were also overvalued, FT much faster and more explosive, besides the full rotation being infinitely more difficult than the slob airs.
Not saying Julz won, but when they did the side by side slow-mo Julian’s tail of his board was inverted way above his head, yeah Pip had more spin but the rotation keeps your board “stuck” to your feet. I personally thought Julz’s was the better.
Rotating airs are so overdone, and look like shit. A proper straight fat womp destroys it aesthetically. (C Nate F)
If only these fans would put their money where their mouth is, and bought a rivvia t shirt instead of being these angry instagram karens.
….and also go to the closest corner shop to buy a Hurley t-shirt and then take that home to burn it alongside the Nikes and Bud Light.
Just picked up 2 pairs of shorts, albeit they were on sale. For what it’s worth I checked it out based on your peer pressure 😉
Ha! Sure julian’s gonna appreciate that gesture a lot more than a few comments and likes on the internet.
What a sham, shame…..sham.
The most outrageous scoring in a long time.
“Long time” as in this week or since EL Salvador ?
I am so furious I just might have to buy a Rivvia shirt and donate it to goodwill.
Fuck the scoring, his lame claims are next level douchebag