Or be the last man, or gal, standing for seven gees and a fleet of PANDA sleds.
Tomoz and the next day, that’s all y’got before the siren starts the first grand prix event of year, yeah Bells, and Surival Surf League, richest in the fantasy game, goes into lockdown.
Real limited edition. Frolic in the ocean with ’em on.
For the uninitiated and those living under various rocks, The Surfival League is a survivor-style contest that follows the WSL Championship Tour. Pick one surfer per event to make it past Round 2.
Can’t pick the same surfer twice.
Last person standing wins seven thousand in cash and a fresh quiver of PANDA surfboards. It’s $25 to enter and it’s the most fun you’ll have watching professional surfing, like, it makes the first two rounds legit heart-stoppers.
Before you lock in your pick, let’s talk about what it says about you as a person. And no, this ain’t Teen Vogue. We’re not going to tell you that every pick is valid and that you should hydrate. Some picks are more wrong than others.
Let’s discuss.
Griffin Colapinto (USA): You don’t know your history. Griffin and the associated “Colapinto Curse” has been responsible for over 50% of Surfival eliminations. He’ll probably squeak through Round 2, but only if you don’t pick him
Ethan Ewing (AUS): You iron your boardshorts. You’ve already checked the Bells forecast twice today. You will win Surfival and you will be completely insufferable about how obvious it was. We don’t like you but we respect you.
Gabriel Medina (BRA): You call soccer “futbol”. You locked in this pick days ago over an acai bowl and will probably not even watch the contest. Your Instagram algorithm is filled with Medina edits and ads for the newest shick quattro razor. You will sleep soundly and will most likely Surfive.
Caroline Marks (USA): You’ve already filed your taxes. You have a system. You’ve mapped out which surfers are left for every remaining event. You have a backup plan for your backup plan. You safety surf at your local without a jersey on.
Molly Picklum (AUS): You studied abroad in Australia and you got caught at Sydney airport trying to import skateboards from Bali. They deported you. You still say “keen” and you order flat whites at coffee shops that don’t know what a flat white is. You are keen to win the Surfival League.
Two days to go! April 1, Australian time, March 31 if you’re on the other side of the dateline.
See y’at Bells!
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Gotta hide yer ears. Thank goodness for the camo.
Only problem is if you drop the headphones, you might not be able to find them again.
how much to enter?
$37
What’s up with this new WSL bracket challenge?
Weird they didn’t just add the power surfer option and kill off the other version as it’s easier to play with out having to work out the draw and all its options.
Two different but the same WSL fantasy games covering the same surfers and event from the one source seems sorta pointless?
BeachGrit league for the WSL Bracket challenge.
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The perennial problem with Surfvival is that once you are eliminated, you can’t follow Survival anymore. So as the game gets more and more interesting, fewer and fewer people are involved, until almost no one has any idea what’s going on.
It’s too bad they can’t figure out a way to keep the massive majority of players who wash out in the first half of the season involved.
Put them into the reverse surfival repercharge where people win by picking surfers who lose first.
Lol. Thanks for the laugh. It’s a pretty good idea.
Theres only one Alejo Muniz!
There’s not much joy in scanning the worst surfers on tour.
we have an idea for this…stay tuned.
Hey. Are you able to link me on or two Winning lineups or strategies that have worked for a winner in the past? Can’t find anything online.
If it’s too much trouble, then no worries.
Dangle a bigger carrot. You’re running out of days!! Pull me in!
I haven’t signed up for this very reason. I wanna play a whole season, not 3/4 of it like I have been. Yes the prize pack is the best, but the fun for me is the shit talk and being engaged in every event as many ways as possible.
google has been unhelpful. Can anyone share what past Surfvival winning lineups have looked like? I’ve never really given it much thought and would be interested to see what a successful strategy has looked like in the past.
Also, are there Aussies who no longer say “keen”? I was under the impression that that was core Aussie lexicology. Foundational stuff.
” keen as fuck” ( I wanna go that girl)
keen as mustard ( a good worker)
not keen on her ( that slag reminds of my x)
Pick the local wildcards. Works 100% of the time it works!
Only in good wave locations.
I made the final 7 last year in the second chance league.
Everyone has the same idea; pick Ethan at Bells, save Jack R for Margaret river. This is a low-risk strategy but if you blow it, you’re screwed. And Jack R did wipe out half the field last year when he lost early at MR.
This year is more straightforward because most of the heats are locked in (rd 1 is essentially a trials round and you’d be nuts to pick anyone in rd 1 because they have to win twice).
In the old system all it took was one upset to throw all the projected rd 3 heats out of whack.
Those of us who made it deep tended to take the lesser-rated surfers for the first few comps, then take the safe options. But remember I was in the second chance league where this was pretty easy. I remember seeing the two guys who duked it out for the main prize and they had none of the name surfers left by the last comp, I think they were picking like Connor O’Leary.
Some comps are easier than others. Bells is risky picking a goofy if they hold it at Winki but they could dominate the bowl. MR is hard because if they hold it at the box (if they still do?) you need a way different surfer to mainbreak. Plus Margarets usually gets blown out in the afternoon and an air guy might do better than a carver. Abu Dhabi, Trestles, El Salvador are better off for a guy who can do tricks, and the hollow lefts probably better to have some gun goofy footers left in your roster.
Good luck!
Cheers, lad.
Fuck you ya scammin cunt. Digga Bet is where it’s at !
……
Medina and Picklum world champs this year.
Deal with it.
How good is gambling.. FuckYourLife.com. Save your coin scratch together some equipment go to a 3rd world country and get hell waves…. Or try try to stroke a Panda…
Australia on its way to be third world.
A few of our capital cities already look like Punjab. Literally.
Don’t worry, once One Neuron take over and kick out any non Anglo’s they will look much more to your liking. Thing good looking types like King Charles, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Fergie and Queen consort Camilla.
They’d probably smell better.
Keepingitreal61 still living the 2000’s era narrative that there’s no difference between cultures. How quaint.
Saw Sawyer L lookin rad on a winki clip. Fit as fuk too!!
Yeah, I’ve been watching a few of those Bells warm up vids.
The most impressive thing was realising that Italo still exists.
He’s donated his organs to the cartels
Italo’s shaper to airbrusher- Hey paulo… Italo order 18 boards for oz leg. He wants this design on every board.
Airbrusher- Are you fucken kidding me?!
airbrusher…fuck yeah thats the most work I had this month,LOL!!
I thought he was on paternity leave.
WSL briefly featured Sawyer’s booty in a recent season promo. Maybe signals a change this year back to when the camera lingered on female competitors’ backsides?
Sex sells!
Xox
I can’t look at a map of the Hormuz Strait without seeing your fingers…
Hawt! We all getting fingered!
Xox
Lots of olive oil..like what’s his name but with a Mediterranean feel
Tom Cruise?
Xox
she’s on the ethan ewing program.. shes gonna go on a tear this year
Is it the same clip with gabmed looking slow and uninspired? Ethan ewing razor sharp and bumping rails with some bald guy?
No, i dunno.
https://m.youtube.com/watch…
Maybe medina just pulling evil mind tricks .
The force is with him.
Ethan Ewing? What a drop-in cunt.
Video don’t lie