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Italo backdooring a Pipeline left

Yes, it’s a goodbye, but it’s more than that. Firstly, we don’t know the full extent of our goodbye. We DO know that we won’t be creating any fantasy content for the 2024 season, either as a fantasy game or source of analysis. Beyond that, who knows?

Staring Down the Cut

If you’ve had anything to do with professional surfing during the last fortnight, you’ve no doubt heard some static around ‘the mid-season cut’. Depending on who you listen to, opinions about the cut range from it being an overdue efficiency strategy, a clever device to increase drama, or an outright injustice. Regardless of how you … Read more

Bells Beach Fantasy Preview

Hells Bells; we’re back at the bowl. After covid breaks and travel restrictions, Bells Beach hosts a CT tour event for the first time since John beat Filipe in 2019. In the meantime, Rip Curl’s Bells maestro – Mick Fanning – found love, had a child, saved a bunch of Tweed locals during the floods, … Read more

2022 Tour Preview

Keen to get the early scoop on the 2022 seasons? Read on to see what changes are ahead for the men’s and women’s tours. The Tour While the 2021 season may have kept us on our toes (hello cancelled events and an inaugural finals contest), the WSL has doubled down and decided to keep modifying … Read more

The Tour 2.0

Gabe Medina launches into the new-look season

After a welcome start, followed by several set-backs and some on-brand radio silence, the WSL has found a new path forward in 2021.

Notes From the Line-Up: Conner Coffin

We have a great final ‘notes from the line-up’ interview this year, with Meo Pro finalist, Santa Barbara native, rail surfing connoisseur, 2016 ROTY hopeful and Jordy Smith’s new best friend, Conner Coffin. Conner has taken time out of his Hawaiian winter to talk tour life and fantasy surfing over the past few weeks. Some … Read more

Notas de um Surfista do Pico

SS: Fale um pouco sobre você FP: Fala galera, meu nome é Francisco Pimentel, sou cientista da computação, de recife e tenho o surf como esporte favorito para praticar e acompanhar. Gosto de buscar dados dos surfistas online para alimentar meus programas de computador e prever os surfistas que irão mandar bem nos eventos da … Read more

#Vai…Jamie?

Round 3 of the 2015 Billabong Pipe Masters could be underway as early as tomorrow morning.  The World Title contenders will all paddle out to either continue their quest or pack their bags as each will face a do-or-die elimination Heat.  None of these Heats of consequence,  however,  will be more analyzed,  monitored or anticipated than R3H5: … Read more

2015 Pipe Masters – R2 Update

Update: 13 December Live Projection for the Pipe Masters following R2: As the drama is defers,  it compounds;  this anticipation can’t be good for my heart. There’s no shortage of potential discussion following the 2015 Pipe Masters’ Act II,  a Round that taught every CT invasive a lesson in elimination.  Jamie O’Brien and Mason Ho avoided this massacre following their R1 Heat wins … Read more

2015 Pipe Masters – R1 Update

R1 is over,  but no one’s season has ended yet.  The losers have all been reseeded into R2 and that’s where we’ll see some drama. So far,  our picks are doing great and our Gut Instincts Team looks like it could go all the way: Obviously we need Jack Robinson to pick up the slack, … Read more