Check it out… MBC shot some great footage of the contest yesterday…

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And here are the results from the final:

1. Craig Stallion
2. ritch Goalpost
3. Mape Riptide
4. Colleen Brennan
5. Frankie Miles
6. Gypsie Summers
7. Tightline Kidd

Congratulations everybody!! Way to go, Craig!

An old friend of mine, Pavcules Superior, was gracious enough to take the afternoon to come out to the Kahuna Beach contest and take about 200 photographs… Here are a few from that Pav took:

Congratulations to all the surfers who came out to Kahuna Beach on Hedonism Isle today to brave the crazy epic waves. The conditions were choppy and challenging, but these competitors did their best and Namiko Team Rider, Malcolm Sydney, came out on top! Congrats Mal!

Malcolm Sydney, winner of the Kahuna Beach Epic Surf Contest at Hedonism Isle

Here are all the final placings for all the competitors!

Finalists

1. Malcolm Sydney
2. Flynn Sheridan
3. Kimmy Leroux
4. Yoofaloof Pacer

Semi-Finalists

5. Rani Decosta, Thor Bishop
7. Frankie Miles
8. Craig Stallion
9. SamyJo Ah

Quarter-Finalists

10. Tabby Babii
11. DeVinna Toll
12. Creed Lisle
13. Requiem Theriac
14. Seano Osumi
15. Pablitin Couffer
16. Mishy Damask, Gypsie Summers
18. Cierra Theriac
19. Aries Ashton

Turnout was fantastic today, with 65 people spread over two sims… and all the spectators sat up in the sky seating that Flynn had placed. Fantastic.

Thank you our judges, JD Snook, Kiana Foxley, and Surferjoe Wind for …

Ahh, the deadline has closed and here are the randomized heats and colours! This time I’m using CMYK and white… that’s cyan (turquoise), magenta (hot pink, wooo!), yellow, black and white:

Heat 1

Tabby Babii (C)
Pablitin Couffer (M)
Kathy Heberle (Y)
SamyJo Ah (K)
kiddd Ikarus (W)

Heat 2

Yoofaloof Pacer (C)
Flynn Sheridan (M)
Mishy Damask (Y)
Cierra Theriac (K)
Blue Alonzo (W)

Heat 3

Aries Ashton (C)
Gypsie Summers (M)
Seano Osumi (Y)
Craig Stallion (K)
Frankie Miles (W)

Heat 4

Kimmy Leroux (C)
Rani Decosta (M)
Creed Lisle (Y)
DeVinna Toll (K)

Heat 5

Malcolm Sydney (C)
Thor Bishop (M)
Vincent Olivier (Y)
Requiem Theriac (K)

Competitors, you’ll get your rashguards and rules dropped to you before the event… and the surfboards will be provided for you on the day. Mainly, remember to read through the surf ettiquette post by Mal… the judges will be cracking down more on surfers who drop into waves. Basically, if the judges see two surfers on the same wave, both competitors might receive deductions against their score. …

Surfers waiting for the heat to begin. Photo by Ramus Overlord.

Congratulations to all the competitors who came out the The Weather Channel Island today for the first ever big wave surf contest in SL! And congratulations to SurfChix Team Rider, Frankie Miles, for beating out 21 other competitors for first place!! Here are all the final placings:

Finalists

1. Frankie Miles (Surf Chix Team Rider)
2. Requiem Theriac (Hedonistic Surf Team)
3. Seano Osumi (Namiko Team Rider)
4. AlexSurfer Hirons (BillabongTeam Pro)

Semi Finalists

5. Malcolm Sydney (Namiko Team Rider)
6. Thor Bishop (Namiko Team Rider)
7. Eield Decosta
8. Flynn Sheridan (Hedonistic Surf Team)
9. Valent1ne Apogee (Namiko Team Rider)
10. Creed Lisle

Quarter Finalists

11. Pablitin Couffer and Vincent Olivier (Hedonistic Surf Team)
12. JD Snook (Namiko Team Rider) and Aries Ashton (Namiko Team Rider)
13. Kimmy Leroux and Tabby Babii (Hedonistic Surf Team)
14. Polysilox Apogee (Surf Chix Team Rider)
15. Gypsie Summers
16. Cierra Theriac …

Woooot! Surfing in SL is the main story for the business section of the SLNN.com site today.

http://www.slnn.com/article/epicsurfcontest/

Here are some thoughts regarding some judging and scoring in a Second Life Contest.

Length of ride. This is easy. Take off when the wave starts to bubble and step off as the wave dissolves scores a 3. Anything less is, well, less.

Tricks. A 360 or a flip falls in this category. A good bottom turn and carve does too. Basically, mix up your attack and use what the wave throws at you.
Style. Tougher to quantify but here goes. If you did flips straight all the way to the beach and never did anything else, you flunk style even if you get some trick points. Like a wave as a canvas, you are painting a line across it, the style is portrayed by how you move across the wave. Generally, I like to start at one end …

Peahi Beach welcomes you

Moana’Ina Beach at The Weather Channel’s (TWC) recently launched Weather Island will be see surfers from all over Second Life gather on Saturday, April 14th, 2007 at 1 pm SLT (PST) to compete in the first ‘big wave’ SL surf contest. Come see the top surfers in Second Life battle these epic conditions for the top placing!

Meet the epic wave at Peahi Beach

Surfing in Second Life has been developing and expanding by leaps and bounds over the past few months with the work of Sebastian Saramago and Heather Goodliffe of Surf Systems Inc. They have developed a line of surfboards which are scripted to work with the wave systems they have designed. The surfable waves in SL range from foamy, whitewash to crystal clear pipe waves to the massive, bone-crunching big waves found at Weather Island and …

It’s time!! Here are the heats for the first big wave event, the Namiko Epic Surf Contest at TWC Island:

Heat 1

Gypsie Summers (R)
AlexSurfer Hirons (G)
Valent1ne Apogee (B)
Cierra Theriac (O)

Heat 2

Aries Ashton (R)
Thor Bishop (G)
SamyJo Ah (B)
Warren Barthelmess (O)

Heat 3

Kimmy Leroux (R)
Eield Decosta (G)
Creed Lisle (B)
Tabby Babii (O)

Heat 4

Flynn Sheridan (R)
JD Snook (G)
Gerran Voss (B)
Polysilox Apogee (O)
Frankie Miles (P)

Heat 5

Pablitin Couffer (R)
kiddd Ikarus (G)
Malcolm Sydney (B)
Seano Osumi (O)
Vincent Olivier (P)

(R) – Red Rashguard + Surfboard
(G) – Green Rashguard + Surfboard
(B) – Blue Rashguard + Surfboard
(O) – Orange Rashguard + Surfboard
(P) – Purple Rashguard + Surfboard

Competitors, please start by wearing the coloured rashguard for your first heat. We will provide EPIC surfboards for you. For those of you that get to the subsequent rounds, we will re-assign the colours and you might need to change your rashguard and board. …

SamyJo Ah, winner of the Namiko Pro at Chi with her Playboard surfboard… and Polysilox Apogee, third place finalist, dancing on the beach.

Congratulations to SamyJo Ah for being the winner of the first SL surf contest, Namiko Pro at Chi!!!

Here are all the results:

Finals

1. SamyJo Ah
2. Blue Alonzo
3. Polysilox Apogee
4. Seano Osumi

Semi Finals

5. Flynn Sheridan
6. SurfBoy Wollongong
7. Gerran Voss
8. Surfdaddy Orca

Quarter Finals

9. Kitt Snookums
10. Malcolm Sydney
11. JD Snook
12. Thor Bishop
13. kiddd Ikarus
14. Kimmy Leroux

Gerran, JD and Thor getting ready… (Photo by Joeru Pugilist)

The entire SL grid shut down for emergency maintenance just a couple hours before the contest, but luckily it all came back up in time. We packed Chi to the brim! In fact, Poid had to increase the limit on the number of people allowed in the sim so that we could get one of our judges onto …