World Surf League
The World Surf League ( WSL ) has been an association of professional surfers and host of the world championships in surfing since 2015 . The WSL was founded in 1983 as the Association of Surfing Professionals ( ASP ).
history
The International Surfing Federation (ISF) organized the world championships in surfing as a single event every two years from 1964 to 1972. Anyone could register for it. Between 1973 and 1975 the ISF could not find any sponsors. As a result, there were no ISF championships.
In 1976, Fred Hemmings and Randy Rarick founded the “International Professional Surfers” (IPS) with the aim of combining a series of 12 surfing events into a world surfing championship.
In 1982, former surf professional Ian Cairns founded the Association of Surfing Professionals as a direct competitor to IPS. With the support of the clothing manufacturer Ocean Pacific, it was quickly possible to get many surfers to take part in the ASP competitions. At the same time, the ASP put the IPS under pressure by banning all surfers from participating in IPS tournaments under threat of exclusion.
After a dispute broke out at Ocean Pacific Pro Huntington Beach in 1986 , Ian Cairns resigns and Graham Cassidy becomes director of the ASP. In the same year, the Pipe Masters is held for the first time by the ASP, which also means the end of the IPS. Two years later, the Masters became the final of the ASP World Tour, which, with the exception of a brief interruption, remains to this day. The tour has now grown to more than 20 stops.
In 1992, the two-stage system of the World Championship Tour (WCT) / World Qualifying Series (WQS) is introduced, the trials for the individual events are abolished. An important part of the WQS is the American Bud Pro Tour, which is now led by Ian Cairns and which receives a lot of media attention.
In 1994, the current score at the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing was broadcast over the Internet for the first time, followed in 1995 by the first live audio stream from Portugal, and a year later the video was also broadcast live.
World Tour
The championships in surfing are summarized under the title Championship Tour . They are divided into women's and men's competitions and each consist of 5 series: Championship Tour, Qualifying Series, Big Wave, Longboard Tour and Junior Tour.
In addition, “special events” such as the “ Vans Triple Crown of Surfing ” or the “ Eddie Aikau ” are offered.
On September 5, 2018, the WSL announced the same prize money for all women's and men's competitions from 2019.
Scoring system
Each competition is carried out in the simple knockout system without a hope run, with the addition that the first round takes place with 3 surfers, with the winner advancing directly in round 3 and the second and third placed come in round 2. Each round lasts 25 minutes, the final 35 minutes. During this time, surfers can take up to 15 waves. Each wave is rated by the 5 judges with 0.2 to 10 points, with "radical, controlled maneuvers", a large variety and maximum use of the wave being rated positively. Of the 5 ratings, the best and the worst per wave are deleted and the average is formed from the 3 remaining ratings. The two best rated waves then count for each run.
| space | Points (men) | Points (women) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1200 | 1200 |
| 2 | 1032 | 972 |
| 3 | 876 | 756 |
| 5 | 732 | 552 |
| 9 | 600 | 360 |
| 17th | 410 | 180 |
| 33 | 225 | - |
| Injured | 225 | 180 |
Previous world champions
World Qualifying Series (WQS)
A WSL QS 10,000 event takes place in first-class locations with a limited number of participants and offers 10,000 world ranking points for the WSL QS.
An event of the WSL QS 1000, 1500, 3000 is a lower level of competition than an event of the WSL QS 5000 and 10,000, the importance of which is determined by the number of points awarded: More points generally mean better competition and better prize money.
The qualification for the WSL Championship Tour with the 34 surfers consists of:
- the best 22 surfers from the previous season of the WSL World Title Ranking.
- The 10 best surfers of the preseason of the WSL World Qualifying Series (QS) ranking (those who have not yet qualified through the World Title Ranking)
- And 2 wildcards. (Awarded to athletes who were injured and failed to qualify or deserved athletes who enrich the competition)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b worldsurfleague.com
- ^ World Surf League (WSL) Announces Prize Money Equality , World Surf League, English
- ↑ ASP Rule Book 2006 Archived copy ( memento of the original from December 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ surglich.com
