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WSL Finals: Preview, schedule and how to watch live as next world surfing champions are crowned

The men's and women's WSL Championship Tour champions will be decided between 8 and 16 September in a one-day, winner-takes-all spectacle at Lower Trestles, California. Here is everything you need to know.

The wait to find out the next world champions in surfing is almost over as the 2023 season of the World Surf League's (WSL) Championship Tour comes down to the final 10 men and women going head-to-head at Lower Trestles, California.

Five male and five female surfers remain in contention for the world titles after 10 events across five continents. Defending champion Filipe Toledo and Olympic champion Carissa Moore go into the WSL Finals as the top seeds, but with shaky results leading up to the competition, it will take an effort to maintain that top standing through to the final whistle.

The competition in Lower Trestles will also decide whether Tokyo 2020 Olympian Caroline Marks or Championship Tour rookie Caitlin Simmers will secure the final Olympic women's quota available for USA through the WSL Championship Tour.

The other eight surfers have already secured provisional quotas for their National Olympic Committees (NOCs) at earlier events.

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WSL Finals: One-day, winner-takes-all format

The WSL Finals have a unique format that differs from that of the regular Championship Tour season.

Instead of three and two-surfer heats, the competition will be played out in a single day starting with the match-ups between the fourth and fifth seeds. The winner of that heat will advance to the next stage to face the third seed and so forth, until facing the world No.1 in a best out of three title match for the world title .

The winners of the men's and women's competitions will be crowned on the same day.

Men's Final Five: Top seed Toledo looking to defend title

Brazil's Filipe Toledo heads into his third consecutive WSL Finals with three victories on the record since January 2023. Aside from a surprising Round of 32 exit at Portugal Pro in March, the defending champion has not finished outside the Top 10 this season.

While Toledo has shown great mental fortitude in recent months - even winning El Salvador Pro despite severe back pain - there are still plenty of challenges to overcome on his road to the Championship Tour trophy.

The biggest one comes from USA’s Griffin Colapinto . The 25-year-old California native topped the rankings for the first time in his career after winning Surf Ranch Pro earlier in the season. After narrowly missing the Final Five in 2022, Colapinto comes to his first WSL finals as the second seed and hungrier than ever to dazzle on the home waves.

Joao Chianca has also enjoyed a top ranking this season. The Brazilian youngster showed particular skill at the start of the year, including a career's first win at Portugal Pro. While his results have dipped since then, the earlier No.1 rank has helped him clinch a forth seed position at Lower Trestles.

Chianca will face off against Australian fifth seed Jack Robinson in the first match. Robinson was the last to claim a Final Five spot after winning Tahiti Pro in August .

Fellow Australian Ethan Ewing has also booked his spot in the finals, as the third seed. Ewing's entry remains in doubt, however, as he suffered a back injury during a free surf session in Tahiti, though he has since resumed training.

Women’s Final Five: Carissa Moore back as top seed

The unpredictability and drama of the winner-takes-all format was on full display last season when fifth seed Stephanie Gilmore battled her way up through the stages until taking down top seed Carissa Moore in the title match.

Moore returns to Lower Trestles now, once again as the top seed and determined not to let the same scenario play out.

It has been a solid season for the Olympic champion who started off with a victory in the opener at Pipeline and followed that up with two more wins. The last, at Surf Ranch Pro, took her back to the top of the rankings.

The five-time world champion has not been able to make the final since though, getting eliminated by three of the surfers she could face in the final at Lower Trestles – Marks, Simmers, and Australian Molly Picklum. Moore has had more success against Tyler Wright , defeating her in two finals this season, but as the regular season closed in Tahiti, the two-time world champion from Australia was just 425 points behind Moore in the rankings.

The first match for the women's world title will be a head-to-head between the sport's most promising young talents, 17-year-old Caitlin Simmers and 20-year-old Molly Picklum both of which made the Final Five for the first time.

Simmers needs to beat Picklum to advance to the next stage where she would face third seed Caroline Marks . The outcome of that head-to-head would then determine which of the surfers will secure the final women's quota available to the United States through the Championship Tour.

Since National Olympic Committees have the exclusive authority for the representation of their respective countries at the Olympic Games, athletes' participation at Paris 2024 depends on their NOC selecting them for the delegation.

WSL Finals: How to watch live

The Rip Curl WSL Finals will be held on one day between 8 and 16 September. The specific competition day will be chosen depending on weather and wave conditions.

All the WSL Championship Tour events are streamed live on the  WSL website  and  YouTube page .

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WSL Announces 2024 Championship Tour Schedule

LOS ANGELES, Calif., USA (September 20, 2023) - Today, the World Surf League (WSL) announced the schedule for the 2024 Championship Tour (CT). The calendar will continue to showcase a combined women’s and men’s schedule featuring nine regular-season events, a Mid-season Cut after CT Stop No. 5, and the fourth-annual WSL Finals. 2024 will also see Fiji return to the schedule for the first time since 2017 as the final stop of the regular season. Next year, surfing will also make its second appearance in the Olympic Games at Paris 2024.

2024 WSL Championship Tour Schedule:

• Banzai Pipeline, Hawaii, USA: January 29 - February 10
• Sunset Beach, Hawaii, USA: February 12 - 23
• Peniche, Portugal: March 6 - 16
• Bells Beach, Victoria, Australia: March 26 - April 5
• Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia: April 11 - 21

Mid-season Cut: 36-man and 18-woman fields reduced to 24-man and 12-woman fields.

• Teahupo'o, Tahiti, French Polynesia: May 22 - 31
• Punta Roca, El Salvador: June 6 - 15
• Saquarema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: June 22 - 30

2024 Paris Olympic Games: July 26 - August 11 (Surfing scheduled between July 27 - August 5)

• Cloudbreak, Fiji: August 20 - 29

WSL Final 5 determined to battle for the men’s and women’s World Titles.

• WSL Finals (Lower Trestles, San Clemente, Calif., USA): September 6 - 14

The 2024 CT will include nine regular-season events in seven countries, starting in January at Pipeline, Hawaii. The Mid-season Cut will come into action following Stop No. 5 in Margaret River, Australia. Surfers who make the Cut will compete in Tahiti, El Salvador, and Brazil before a break for the Olympic Games Paris 2024.

The final event of the regular season will see the world’s best surfers return to the iconic Cloudbreak in Fiji and battle for a place in the WSL Final 5. Cloudbreak is a world-renowned reef pass located offshore the island of Tavarua in Fiji. It is one of the most awe-inspiring left-hand barrels and can hold waves anywhere from two-to-20 feet. Due to its fast and powerful nature, it is known as a highly advanced and heavy wave. 

For 2024, the WSL Finals will return to Lower Trestles in San Clemente, California, where the men’s and women’s Top 5 surfers will face off for the World Titles in the one-day, winner-take-all format. The waiting period will run from September 6 to 14, 2024, which is the ideal time of year for favorable Southern Hemisphere swells at one of the most high-performance waves in the world. 

The 2024 Championship Tour season will return to Clouldbreak in Fiji as the last regular-season event from August 20 - 29, 2024 (Photo: WSL / Sloane)

Held earlier this month on September 9, the WSL Finals shattered the record for the most-watched day of professional surfing in WSL history. With 10.7 million video views on the single day, the WSL surpassed the 2022 viewership numbers by 29%. The competition was also distributed via the WSL’s linear broadcast partners, whose audiences elevated the viewership even further. For example, viewership on Globo/SporTV, the WSL’s broadcast partner in Brazil, totaled over one million viewers, an increase of 16% from 2022. In the lead-up to the competition, the WSL delivered 25 million video-on-demand views, marking a 58% increase from the previous year. Carrying the success of the 2023 CT finale, the WSL will continue this momentum into the 2024 season, where the world’s best surfers will compete on the world’s best waves. 

With the Olympic Games Paris 2024, a break has been added to the schedule in July to allow time for qualified athletes to travel to Tahiti ahead of the Games, where the line-up will be closed for Olympic athletes to practice. With this break, the Tour will not host an event in J-Bay or Surf Ranch this season. The CT event in Tahiti has been moved earlier to May to accommodate the Olympics and will be the last opportunity to watch the world’s best surfers in competition at Teahupo'o ahead of the Games. 

“2024 is set to be a big year for surfing, and our schedule is designed to support that,” said Jessi Miley-Dyer, WSL Chief of Sport. “I’m stoked that we’re bringing Fiji back. It’s such an iconic wave, and it’s the perfect place to test our surfers as they battle to secure their place in the WSL Final 5. We’re also really happy to confirm that the WSL Finals will return to Lower Trestles next season. We’ve hosted three exciting WSL Finals at this high-performance wave, which has proved to be an incredible showcase for the WSL Final 5 to crown our World Champions. The Olympic Games represents one of the biggest stages in the world, and we want our surfers to have the opportunity to perform at their best, which is why we’ve instituted the scheduled break and updated CT dates in 2024.”

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First observation - unlike previous years announcements, they have not listed each event's sponsor (Rip Curl, Billabong, Corona etc).

Interesting.

Still negotiating some of them I guess

Possibly, except most have been long term sponsors of each event.

And the WSL still hasn't been able to find an overarching title sponsor since Samsung wound up at the end of 2016.

OK, it seems they left all sponsors out of the press release - isn't that odd? - but have included them on the WSL website.

And we have:

- Pipe Pro - Hurley Pro Sunset Beach - MEO Pro Portugal - Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach - Western Australia Margaret River Pro - SHISEIDO Tahiti Pro - Surf City El Salvador Pro - VIVO Rio Pro - Fiji Pro - WSL Finals

1. Billabong have pulled out of the Pipe Pro (huge news IMO - they've sponsored it since 2007, and it's definitely the marquee WSL event - but unsurprising given the recent sale of Boardriders etc) 2. Rip Curl are no longer sponsoring the Finals (three year deal finished this year) 3. Rip Curl are no longer a sponsor in Portugal (previous events were a dual sponno event, known as the "MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal") 4. Fiji doesn't have a sponsor (unsurprising, as many previous years have been sponsorless) 5. Margs has gone from being an unbranded event (but funded by the WA Govt) to now - just like El Salvador - having some kind of geographic moniker as the sponsor

They can’t even get a sponsor for their biggest event of the year, the finals. Says it all really.

Breaking: “Filipe Toledo has just stumped up the cash to sponsor the ‘Holy Toledo finals’ event at Trestles until 2028 to ensure the stability and longevity of this important event on tour.”

Haha, wouldn’t surprise me

I still had the WSL app, don’t know why. Deleted it at 6 this morning about a minute after getting the press’s.

Hmm, now the WSL website isn't showing ANY events for 2024.

https://www.worldsurfleague.com/events/2024/ct?all=1

Click and repeat,soon as the sepps got hold of the 'dream tour' the result was inevitable,disney on ice coming to a venue near you. Ive decried the valueless impotence of crowning a world champ in medioce performance surf . Re- instate Pipe to where it righfully belongs, bring back those challenging roaring reef breaks,bring back St. Lieu,noahs and,surely even the suits that have corporatised this tour must concede they've well and truly fucked,the only reason u dont have 13 year olds competing on it apart from the creche and parental issues is the indemnity involved would be worth as much as Toledo's bonuses.Blah farken blaaaah

I wonder if the corporations involved in surf culture and extreme sports have given WSL the reasons for turning their backs on the pro tour? Sponsorship is a form of investment, and with big bucks involved I am sure the corporate world would like to have some input on how the shooting match is organised and marketed. What a sorry list of sponsors. Possibly the surf companies are targeting a local market via club, state and regional events? The WSL will wither and die before it is on sold.

I have some friends in the industry... Interesting to note how most big corps dumped actions sports marketing 3 / 4 years ago. It had a twenty year run. People were shifted to other fields , youth is the focus , what are youth doing ? I'm not sure .....cause I'm over 40........

Surely they could have squeezed Jbay in somewhere! Or have they made it the sacrificial lamb to dump alongside surf ranch so it’s not so obvious that surf ranch is least popular and thus first cull option to fit olympics in. Or am I looking for a conspiracy and it’s the coinciding scheduling alone?

I’d like to be positive. I used to really enjoy the tour but nup.

The reverse positive sandwich (shit sanga) approach by throwing in Cloudy as a distraction.

‘Hey guys and girls we’re going to take J-bay away, BUT we’re sending you to Fiji and we’re continuing with this finals shtick at Trestles’

Its not America’s sport. Feels like they have stolen it.

No Jbay is so lame. Happy to see Cloudy back but there’s at least 3 other events that I couldn’t care less about. Funny to think Flippy has to surf Chopes twice in 2024.

Having Cloudbreak as the penultimate event to decide the 5 is just enough red meat to keep me interested.

How so? Doesn’t feel that much different to having Chopes prior to finals. The end goal is the same. A few crew fight it out in pustule waves and the rest just coast as no event past the cut is consequential in the slightest (to those outside the top 5).

Yep agree, and I think that removing J-Bay and the Tub, and adding Cloudbreak will massively affect Toledo's chances at sitting in top spot coming into Trestles. And he's beatable at Trestles - Ewing came close without an air game, and the others just failed to fire.

Agreed FR. That’s going to add a bit of drama.

Goodbye professional surfing and sponsors.

Maybe going the way of the bodyboard world tour? Minor, very niche sport. Surfing’s broader popularity is probably the only thing holding it afloat as a semi legit ‘sport’

Really not sure how they can justify trestles after the last two years. Very disappointing

At least there’s finally a performance left back on tour.

2024 prediction: with J bay gone and Fiji in its place Gabby and JR finish in the top 2, EE third and puckered Fil in 4th. Come finals day at Lowers Fil goes on a rampage in head high gutless surf, dismantling an uninterested JR and then Gabby. Fil is crowned 3 time world champ, on par with AI, Mick, Gabby and Curren.

Not having JBay has nothing to do with allowing a break for the Olympics. Their viewership numbers are total BS <<>>

No J-bay is so sad other than pipe that's my fav comp, it has everything turn sections, barrels and length

Its really a terrible mix/balance of waves.

Much more rights than lefts and the lefts are generally shallow hollow and heavy the rights generally, well fat is not the right word but rarely hollow more deeper water type rolling waves with just the odd barrel.

Hollow lefts=x3 Hollow rights= x1 (backdoor) Not hollow rights= x5 (ok inside sunset, but its more a deep water rolling type wave) Not hollow lefts=1 (x1 trestle's left) Beachies=x2

Lefts x2 Rights x5 Left & rights x4

There needs to be at least one comp where the only option is to go a hollow right, and one comp on a left that isn't hollow and heavy and where the focus is more on turns.

Worth remembering that we didn't have a CT event at J-Bay in 2012 and 2013. Prior to then was sponsored by Billabong.

In 2012 it was relegated to the QS (still as a Billabong Pro). In 2013 it disappeared completely.

In 2014 it returned to the CT, as the unsponsored J-Bay Open. It remained sponsorless until 2017 when Corona came on board.

Interesting to go back through old media releases. Here's the ASP presser in Feb 2012 re: J-Bay downgrade:

COOLANGATTA, Queensland/AUS (Friday, February 24, 2012) – The Billabong Pro Jeffreys Bay, Event No. 5 of 11 on the 2012 ASP World Championship Tour, has been officially downgraded to an ASP 6-Star event for 2012.

In an official statement today, Billabong said: "The change in event status follows a broader review in which we are seeking to identify cost savings throughout the business. By retaining an event at Jeffreys Bay, it now provides two qualifying events back to back in the South African region. The move to an ASP 6-Star also opens the event up to South Africa's aspiring pro surfers for the first time in 20 years and ensures continuity of the event for the local businesses in Jeffreys Bay."

The downgrade drops the 2012 ASP World Championship Tour calendar from 11 events to 10, with surfers now counting their best 8 out of 10 results towards their ASP World Title ranking.

"We agreed as a Board that whilst very regrettable, the commercial realities are such that a pragmatic approach by ASP at this time seemed sensible," Richard Grellman, ASP Executive Chairman, said. "Billabong have been long-time supporters of professional surfing and still sponsor three of the ten World Championship Tour events and we look forward to our deep relationship with them continuing."

Any chance of the SA CS event switching to Jbay? I tuned in a few times to their beachie event, pretty average viewing. Would also make the CS very right dominant with Kirra, and Portugal bells.

Have to say it's a good possibility. The South African event calendar (QS and CS) changes from year to year but I'd be pretty confident they'll find someone.

Has Jbay gone from CT to QS for 2024? Or just dumped completely?

No-one knows.

Likely to be a CS event (IMO) but, using this year's schedule as an example, the CT was announced in in Sep 2022, whilst the CS was announced siz months later, in Mar 2023 (just before the first event kicked off).

So, we won't know for a long time.

Until then, speculate away!

thanks for the information Ben; its very confusing - what sort of global sports organization can't predict their 2nd tier a year out?

Well we know why Kelly was hanging around. Another session at CB with one other guy

And the cameras of course.

he won't make the cut and they better not give him another wildcard.

He won’t and they will

very early for Bells. can see this unravelling at small winki

Trestles again......yawn

Not so bad, Pipe, Sunset, Chopes, Cloudbreak.

Losing J-Bay is a bummer, my personal fav. event. I always like Bells- a wave that can magnify a surfers flaws and no one is gonna rue the ousting of the Ranch.

Trestles though- FFS.

There's a 4 week break between Margs and Chopes.

Then there's a 7 week break between Brazil and Fiji.

From an Australian viewing perspective, if you discount Brazil and El Salvador (low chance of exciting waves, poor time zone etc), then it's almost 12 weeks between watchable events.

Or, one watchable event in four months (after Margs).

Momentum is a very important part of any sporting league, especially from a broadcast media perspective.. and it seems to be an issue with the tour.

F#*k off JMD with your corpo BS talk, all you care about is keeping you're well-paid job

The silence is defining from tour surfers and commentators re the Trestles debacle . Paid whores

Surely the olympics doesnt count toward a finals placing?

Cloudbreak at the cost of JBay. tough bargaining from the wossle but it's arguably worth the price to get a high performance left onto the tour of rights. assuming the other global locations are needed, would much rather have lost Margies (or dare i say Bells) than JBay

I’d swap all of Sunset, Margs and El Sal for J bay. Actually throw Brazil and Portugal in there too

Audience records shattered in the finals.

I fell asleep about 3 times in the final so my clicks and excitement might be a bit overcooked in their analysis.

Audience records shattered. Can’t find a sponsor to pick up the pieces.

Ba doom tshhhhh.

99.17%* of the fan base hate Trestles as the finals day location. The WSL know that. It’s getting to boggling to bear

*actual empirically correct figure

“ We’re also really happy to confirm that the WSL Finals will return to Lower Trestles next season”

If you asked JMD privately, where she thinks the best location for the finals day location is, that’d it’ll be Trestles? Or has is she too far gone?

Stab have an IV with Jessi (done following the press release, it seems), and they brought up Trestles:

Stab: Another major thing that didn’t change on the 2024 schedule: Lower Trestles will remain the site of the WSL Finals. Why did you decide to stay there?

Jessi: Trestles has been a really fair playing field for the surfers. I think it’s been really important for the wave to be a peak, for sure. It’s also really consistent swell-wise. Being able to give the athletes a chance for reliable competition in a great spot is the biggest thing for us, and that’s why it’s still there.

https://stabmag.com/stab-interviews/surfings-chief-of-sport-explains-why...

And how many surfers went left in this years finals? 1? Griff, and it was a low score. What a joke of an organisation. Theyve done it this time. Hooray in advance for LittleFlippy3

Yep and Stab/Mikey C got absolutely eviscerated in the comments for the total fluff piece that it was.

Anyone make odds or ends of this?

https://beachgrit.com/2023/09/surf-media-war-continues-unabated-as-stab-...

** assuming Stab so far up Woz’s arse, hard to tell where one ends and the other begins?

Its nice that SN aren’t even the slightest bit dependent on the trials and tribulations of the WSL.

Effectively, Sam McIntosh of Stab mag wrote an editorial trying to explain how Stab works, the corporate mechanisms behind it and their so-called 'line they have to toe' with the WSL.

It was also addressed on their podcast (quite cowardly in my opinion) by Mikey C who was trying to defend his interview with JMD and not asking the hard questions surf fans want to know (Elo, tour locations, trestles etc). He hid behind the wall of 'we had limited time, there was a marketing manager from WSL on the line, this wasn't the time or place'. I call absolute bullshit on that. It was the best time to ask.

Sam was quite unabashed and truthful in his op-ed, however, I think the damage was already done with the majority of the readership who already had a suspicion that Stab were in cahoots with the WSL (or had some sort of access deal in place).

I used to be a journalist, I know how this stuff works, but Stab has gone about it all wrong. They're being called out by a lot of journalists (surf and otherwise) for their blatant puff pieces for the WSL and it's looking like they've lost a lot of respect. Not sure if it's of SN's interest, but could be good to look into it/potential article.

If you listen to their podcast, which can be good at times, its clear the lack of divide between Stab and the Woz. There is a distinct absence of critique and even pumping up of mediocrity (especially via Stacey G, to a lesser extent Mikey).

I find Stacey pretty hard to take. Full on know it all. His podcast and interview style is very grating. Mikey seems like an open minded, good fella with many interesting points. Poor bloke probably getting mega diluted with all the above. Buck is their resident shock jock (for all topics not WSL).

@ TH, You were definitely paid per word rather than story ! LOL. Storm in a tea cup Between stub and beach grot..... Both have no integrity.....

I hope J-Bay is 6-8ft and pumping for the CS.

(and the Ranch 3ft and perfect)

So glad the Ranch is out and Cloudbreak is back in. Edging closer to a dream tour but to end the year with Trestles, is really disappointing.

It will be interesting to see what they do with the Surf Ranch. They haven't released the data, but with the number of waves it produces and the energy it must use, I can't see how it is economically viable to run as a commercial operation. No other organistion has bought the technology, so it must not be cost-effective. The WSL bought it as a loss leader to get the College Football / NASCA fans interested in surfing - it's not working. Now that they have dropped it off the tour, is it worth keeping it operating just to show clips of ex-pro surfers and their celebrity mates surfing it? I give it a few months until they quietly shut the place down.

Eh? They're killing it with corporate surf days. No need to run surf comps to make the pool viable.

Why do have to go and use facts to destroy my post that was just based on unfounded assumptions???

Exactly $80k Aud per day! Who needs the plebs.

Its certainly found a niche as a private play thing for the mega cashed up crowd looking for a one off thing. If someone else was paying and I was invited for day i’d be there in a flash.

Its probably now cash positive and making a profit via the private model. Not sure “killing it” though.

Why ? They haven’t been able to sell the technology to anyone. I have my doubts the UAE one will get done.

It produces bugger all waves in a day compared to other models with long breaks between waves. It needs a huge footprint so no good for urban areas. Real surfer aren't going to travel and pay for 3 or 4 waves in a day. Beginners and Intermediates are not going to progress without volume. We are now seeing ridiculous clips of the Tahitian Legend literally dragging punters to their feet and holding them up on the board so they can say they surfed it.

So it hasn’t worked for competition, hasn’t expanded the sport and hasn’t scaled as a business model. Niche but not the planned success.

The tour schedule.... Wonder where ill turn up next ? LOL !

WSL are cooked.

Get rid of all the rubbish No name waves and bring back the dream tour

Never look a gift horse in the mouth......

tour seems well stacked for huge hollow lefts if some solid swells rock up next season but Huey's gone off the Woz because they're not crowning legitimate world champions anymore

I pinched this from somewhere else -

"WSL decision-making is so bad it feels like performance art."

The pro your been on a downward spiral for years since it changed hands ,destined for the scrapheap it it stays the same

JBay probably had the best waves this season and they scrap it for next year Brilliant Best waves on the planet INDO Comps in indo Zero Should put the final five on a mentawi boat trip for two weeks

Or maybe Kelly Slater could do what Kerry Packer did for World Series Cricket

So are those viewership figures believable?

Farken Trestles again?

The thought of Toledo being a 3 x world champ is such a joke. This could easily happen.

pipe n fiji i will watch IF the conditions are good, the rest i will not world champ means nothing these days

2x Chopes and Cloudbreak!!! I'll take the Jbay loss on the chinny chin-chin. We'll be back

I think Gabby would have a little bit more motivation next year. Back half suits him with chopes and Cloud Break at the pointy end. The pressure that Toledo could face with two Chopes performances and Cloud Break could put him at the low end of a top five position for the final five. Not to mention backing up again. Fingers crossed it’s more of a closer final next year.

ditch bells for Jbay. And maybe Bondi instead of trestles... much of a muchness..

Margaret river, the 27th best wave in Margaret river.

LOL - i thought there were only 26 waves there

Time to watch female soccer .

The WSL needs to wake up and listen to their target audience.

i’m cryin over the omission of jbay - wtf

WSL just get rid of the fluff and go 8 events. PIPE, SUNSET, PORTUGAL, BELLS, MARGS (or box, north point), TAHITI, JBAY. Sort the calender out for optimun conditions and do it. So sick of this fluff tour. Brazil, El Salvador, Trestles =YAWN!

Moana not afraid to speak up, yew!

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95 000 miles of coastline and what can the USA deliver? Wedge would be a sick change to every surfspot ever on tour; steep drop into a fancy bottom turn into a bomb closeout or double rote which no one would land. The judging criteria would be head scratching but revolutionary

Agree could be sick, also Skeltonbay as a search event. Best event I’ve ever seen was Barra during the search. So many sick crazy waves have a Mason ho event haha

That was an amazing event. Seem to recall Taj during an interview saying some of the best waves he’d ever had.. (words to that effect).

Meanwhile back in WA the local shire still has the submission period open,asking residents if they even want the comp, let alone a 5 year extension. But hey the deal was always done in the backrooms before us plebs got a choice. Ask Stunet, he dropped the press release too early then had to rewrite the article when contacted by WA spokesperson. He never did explain to us why he had to rewrite

The 2024 comp was already part of the existing agreement for the Margaret River Pro: https://surfingwa.com.au/world-surf-league-secures-margaret-river-pro-th...

Huh, J-Bay's gone? Why?!

They claim J-Bay and the pond are off just to allow the “break” for the Olympics. We will have to wait and see if this is just WSl Fluff or truth.

Sounds like a cop-out to me.

Suspect you are right. The truth in advertising answer might be something like “we cant convince anyone to pay for J-bay and we can’t convince anyone watch Lenmore”

Surf off at Trestles still sux. It'll be interesting to see if JJF, Gabe, n Riz even bother When is someone actually going to report on why E-Lo was booted? The wall of positive noise is BS, any other "sport" & it would be public knowledge.

Wow! So much to take in... Thanx Ben / staff & crew excellent work...a lot more than meets the eye! Gonna have to sift thru this...little bit odd being an Olympic year!

Can add that Olympics are affording 'whole' 6mths WSL tour Cross Merch sales until Olympics. 'Whole' Note how 1st Comp > Olympics 'timetables exactly 6 months'...some freaky coincidence? Keep yer eye on these rogue off grid sidewinders rampin' the A Frames.

Just saying WSL could lever several in the wings Olympic Merch Sponsors > Pipe = Simba Helmets etc.

Just a little bit of that was shared here on this odd site...tbb keeps sharing...coz it is odd! Reckon we'll read more into Olympic merch crossover soon enough...maybe here...who knows! Just pretend ya heard about it here at #1 swellnet first...well ya just did...Oops! https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Paris-2024/I...

Mad Wax Dream Merchant Tour. Imagine if Olympic Ideal Fiji Pro was mulled over a Fiji lineup yonks back by Idle Rich Hodads 2015/16 WSL Fiji Pro (There about) Dirk (wsl) + Larry (Google) share Fiji line-Up (This happened!) https://www.surfer.com/features/god-from-the-machine-wsl-wave-pool Interesting that Google were 1st sponsor to sign up for 1st Olympic Surfing Games Then this also just happened...same 2 Cloudbreak hodad buds share exact same Olympic Ideal lineup Dirk simply needs to hoist just 1 Multinational flag for Larry's WSL Googlebreak Comp.

Larry owns Fiji Namotu Island + All islands servicing + including Cloudbreak itself... All owned by Google Larry Page #6 World Tycoon > Neighbours are Red Bull / Branson / Gibson. https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom/permalink/858457001407804/ https://beachgrit.com/2021/07/google-founder-and-worlds-sixth-wealthiest... https://www.escape.com.au/destinations/pacific/fiji/inside-the-fiji-isla...

Haha Haha TBB !!!!!! Mad wax Google pro surf tour Proudly presented By quik Commentary by Ross , froth and the voice of hardcore surfing Garry "kong" Elkerton ......... Google it kids ....

Anyone else notice the difference in finals day for longboard tour? First two heats are 3-person with only 1 progressing. That could make for better viewing depending on what you think of it, and allow more competitors on finals day than current final 5. https://www.pacificlongboarder.com/files/CompClub/WSL_malibu_final_pre_2...

Jacob Willcox has officially qualified for the CT. Yew!! In a year that Cloudy is back on the tour, the big dog at the big three lefts.... is going to go pretty nuts I'd imagine. But yeah, Trestles......faaaaark.

Wow, incredible. Cloudbreak should be a cakewalk for him and Robbo compared to the throaty beasts they thread up North.

Wow. Absolute balls to the wall. Incredible ride. Epic description.

Love this clip, every few years I search for it and watch it about 20 to 30 times on repeat...cant really get enough of it. Waaaaay heavier than Jacobs. And Jacob's wave is no mean feat. I know and fear that ledge well. The way it folds over and you hear it roar down the shelf towards tombies take off as you swing and paddle your ass off to get into the thing. Saw a guy from Kalbarri make that section too, so it is doable, but never seen a natural footer make an attempt. Jack Robinson - you are the next one up mate to give it a crack for us backsiders.

Remember Jim Banks gave that section a go too a while back and ended up with his board snapping and the stringer splitting his lower leg open like a banana needing emergency dash to hospital. I'm sure there have been plenty others (?) but we probably would never know.

I’d probably stop surfing after that. How do you top that? Mind blowing

Camel or Wilcox Goofy?

Camel. Way more nuts than Wilcox’s one. And Wilcox’s was mental too

He kinda reached that point a few years ago Goofy

I can’t work out how Saquerema ever became more than a QS 1* or a local boardriders locale.

It’s a horrible beach break.

WSL have now updated the 2024 schedule to include Corona as the main sponsor for Cloudbreak (it's the "Corona Fiji Pro").

Corona are also presenting sponsors in 2024 for the VIVO Rio Pro, Surf City El Salvador Pro and MEO Pro Portugal (as they were last year too).

Corona were also the main sponsor for J-Bay in 2023, so the reality is that they've just reallocated the same funds from one event to another. There's no net change in sponsorship for Corona or the WSL. It's just a little unusual that they weren't listed for Fiji during the initial announcement.

Embarrassing (IMHO), the WSL released this clip of ‘all’ the 10’s from the 2023 season. A whopping two from each the CT and CS.

Really shows the state of these tours I reckon.

You compare to some of the Stab edits of the year and the stuff Nate Flo is putting out and it’s daylight second.

https://www.worldsurfleague.com/posts/523594/all-the-10s-2023?playlistId...

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Kelly Slater nearing end of his ride at World Surf Tour event

"This feels like the end."

Thirty minutes before the clock struck midnight Monday evening in Cocoa Beach, Kelly Slater's time on the World Surf Tour as a full-time competitor was, emotionally, ticking away in Western Australia.

"It's almost hit me," said Slater, 52, just 10 years from possibly picking up his first Social Security check and 34 since his first pro event. "It's bubbling up."

Waves simply flattened out during the final few minutes of his 11.87-6.17 loss to California's top-ranked 25-year-old Griffin Colapinto, America's newest hard-charging surfer and one of the Olympic representatives this year. It's a spot Slater still covets, but it's the one milestone he might never achieve.

After 11 world championships (the last in November 2011) and 56 major titles (the last in January 2022 at Hawaii's Pipeline just before turning 50), Slater failed to survive this year's WSL's mid-season cut, lagging in 33rd place (11 spots off the re-qualifying mark).

"Everything comes to an end," said Slater, after getting a celebratory "chair ride" on the shoulders of a couple of local Australian buddies up the famous beach stairwell at Margaret River, usually reserved for the contest winners.

"If you don't adapt, you don't survive," he said. "My motivation just has not quite been there to really put in that 100 percent that everyone is doing now."

Earlier in the day, Slater turned in a solid performance with an array of maneuvers, including a couple of huge, sweeping turns and even tucking into one of his trademark barrels.

His highest score of the day was a 7.17, good enough to place second in his three-man elimination heat to advance. But, another third-round setback, his fourth in four appearances this year, doomed his chances for another full-time season on the tour after having been granted a full wild-card season this past year due to injuries.

"I couldn't quite pull a miracle off this week; I pulled a few over the years," said Slater, knowing he needed an 8.2 score to advance. "I still had that hope out there ... one might pop up with a minute to go.".

Slater tried to hold back his emotions when asked what he would tell his family back home after all these years.

After a moment of reflection, he said: "It's just so much emotion, for so long, so much dedication. And, you know, it's not all roses, you know. But, this is the best times of my life, and I know my family is home watching. I love you guys."

During the off-season, Slater underwent a reported seven-hour hip surgery and said he used adrenaline to overcome most of the pain. His first two events this year, in Hawaii, showed he still had that magnificent Slater style, but his turns just weren't as sharp.

Now, he's ready for the next chapter, recently putting one of his homes in Hawaii on sale for a reported $20 million. And, if there's any bright side to being removed from the tour, it's the fact he and longtime girlfriend Kalani Miller are expecting a baby boy in about three months.

"As far as planning it out and the timing, this works out fairly well ... now, just get prepared for a little different lifestyle," he said.

Slater said he has filed for a wild-card entry to one of his favorite venues, in Fiji in late August, so expect him to get a few more invitations along the way. The way he figures it, as a wild card, he's likely to face Colapinto again.

"And I'll pay him back," he said, jokingly.

The deeply tanned, blond kid from Cocoa Beach High, who sat on the beach off North 3rd Street (now Kelly Slater Way), studying the patterns of waves for hours and hours, according to his mother, Judy, emerged as the sport's icon, a bronze statue at the north entrance to the city's central business district further cementing his legacy.

Will the men's surfing tour be as popular without him? Probably not.

When the tour resumes in Tahiti in late May, technically, it will be the first time since 1983 that a Brevard County surfer will not grace the men's lineup of a major circuit as it is known it today.

Matt Kechele, who operates his own line of surfboards off US-1 in Melbourne, made an impressive five-year run on the Association of Surfing Professionals Tour, starting in 1983, before later being joined by the Cocoa Beach trio of Charlie Kuhn, Ritchie Rudolph and Todd Holland, the 1987 ASP Rookie of the Year.

Slater made his full-time entrance to the circuit in 1991 and won the first of his 11 world titles a year later at age 20, before winning five in a row from 1994-98.

Since that time, there's been the likes of Matt Kechele, Danny Melhado, David Speir, twins C.J. and Damien Hobgood, and Bryan Hewitson who have led the local charge. Now, without Slater, there certainly will be a void.

"It's hard to believe," said Kechele, who once took a 13-year-old Slater and his brother, Sean, to Hawaii for the first time to introduce him to the fierce Pipeline waves. "It's been really fun to watch and kind of hard to digest that we're not gonna be seeing him at all these events.

"I don't know why it's different now. He's said long ago he's gonna retire (even taking a little break from 1999-2001), but I guess it's because he became such a figurehead of the sport, a monumental stature, for so long ... now, I think it really hits home, and it's hard to absorb that this is real.

"I'm pretty sure Brevard will be a mainstay for him ... I know he loves the golf courses here," Kechele said with a smile.

"It's the start of something else, the start of the rest of my life," Slater said. "I have had such incredible luck and good fortune over the years, and it's so tied in to my surfing ... It's been fun to be over 50 and still mixing it up with the guys. ... It's been an incredible lifetime of memories."

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‘Magical’ moment as surfer shares wave with pod of dolphins as she wins first world championship tour event

G abriela Bryan won her first world championship tour event at the Western Australia Margaret River Pro on Sunday and in a “magical” moment in the final, the Hawaiian surfer shared a wave with a pod of dolphins.

Bryan, 22, a former rookie of the year, beat 18-year-old Sawyer Lindbald to the title, an 8.10 score on one wave making sure of victory for a 15.93 total, which was nearly two points better than Linblad’s cumulative mark.

But it was on the 7.83-scoring run beforehand where she was joined by the dolphins.

“I’m just so happy we got good waves today and all the girls put on a really good show. It’s insane, I just won,” Bryan said on the World Surf League (WSL) broadcast.

“When I kicked out, I was just wow! That wave was sent to me by someone, the dolphins in it. It was magical.”

Bryan also makes the WSL’s mid-season cut and moves to No. 5 in the world rankings.

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On the biggest wave of the day, Robinson all but sealed the win with a 9.10 score, finishing with a 17.27 total in the final – 1.23 points ahead of Florence.

“That was the final I wanted, I wanted to throw everything at it. It’s always fun surfing against John - we’re going to have many more heats together,” said Robinson, per Reuters.

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‘It feels like the end’: Kelly Slater bows out after missing World Surf Tour cut

• US surfer defeated by Griffin Colapinto at Margaret River Pro
• 52-year-old indicates he may apply for wildcard for Fiji event

Kelly Slater’s long and decorated career appears to finally be over after the 52-year-old – widely acknowledged as the greatest professional surfer of all time – missed the World Surf League’s mid-season cut at Margaret River.

Defeat to fellow American Griffin Colapinto in the round of 32 in Western Australia could prove to be Slater’s final act on the tour, bringing to an end a career spanning more than three decades at the very top.

After he was chaired up the beach at Main Break, an emotional Slater fought back tears and said “everything must come to an end,” although he indicated he would apply for a one-off wildcard for the WSL event in Fiji later this year.

“If you don’t adapt you don’t survive,” he said. “My motivation hasn’t quite been there to put in that 100% that everyone’s doing now. I couldn’t quite pull a miracle off this week but I’ve pulled off a few over the years.”

The 11-time world champion has been battling a hip injury since 2022 and said physical issues in his advancing years – including an operation in the off-season – were becoming increasingly difficult to recover from.

“I’ve been struggling since my surgery, fighting through the pain and hoping for adrenaline,” he said.

Slater has 56 titles to his name since gathering his first in 1992. He became the sport’s youngest world champion the same year at the age of 20 and its oldest at 39 in 2011.

“It’s been an incredible lifetime of memories,” he said. “It’s so much emotion for so long … It’s not all roses but it’s been the best times of my life. It feels like the end but it’s the start of something else, the rest of my life.”

"I couldn't quite pull a miracle off this week but... I pulled a few off over the years." 🙌 An emotional Kelly Slater with a message to his family. 🐐 LIVE on 7plus: https://t.co/w7medSIWz1 pic.twitter.com/0gh6xWSHSs — 7Sport (@7Sport) April 16, 2024

It would not be the first time Slater has retired – he called time on his career at the age of 26 after winning five world titles in a row from 1994 to 1998 before returning to the tour to win a further five titles.

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On Tuesday he left the door open to one final appearance on the tour in August at Fiji’s Cloudbreak, one of his favourite waves and an event at which he has enjoyed success.

“I’ve had a fight with this wave [at Margaret River] my whole career, so it’s not necessarily the wave I want to end on,” he said.

“I have put in for a wildcard for Fiji and we’ll see how that goes.”

After inadvertently sending him towards retirement, Colapinto paid tribute to Slater and noted all that he had done for the sport.

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Kelly Slater has emotional interview after Margaret River Pro, reckoning with end of legendary surfing career

Sport Kelly Slater has emotional interview after Margaret River Pro, reckoning with end of legendary surfing career

Surfing legend Kelly Slater has fought back tears after being knocked out of the Margaret River Pro, which could effectively end his career.

The 11-time world champion was chaired up the steps after being eliminated in the round of 32 by world number one Griffin Colapinto in small surf off the West Australian coast.

Slater has applied for a wildcard into August's Fiji Pro, which he may well get, but was clearly reckoning with the end of a professional surfing career lasting more than three decades as he spoke after only managing a two-wave score of 6.17, losing to Colapinto's 11.87.

"It's almost hit me; it's right there bubbling," the 52-year-old said.

Slater said he had been "struggling … fighting through pain" since Bells Beach in 2022 , when he injured his hip and had to have surgery.

"Everything comes to an end and if you don't adapt, you don't survive," he said, trying to hold back tears.

"My motivation hasn't quite been there to put in that 100 per cent that everyone's doing now.

"It's been an incredible lifetime of memories. Just so much emotion for so long, so much dedication.

"It's not all roses but it's been the best times of my life. I know my family's at home watching. Love you guys. I couldn't quite pull off a miracle, but I pulled a few off over the years."

Slater said he started truly coming to terms with his surfing career ending in February, when talking to his partner after getting knocked out of the Sunset Beach event in Oahu by Australian Ethan Ewing.

"I was at the house talking to Kalani and I just kind of broke down and said 'this feels like the end'," he said.

Despite conquering the sport around the world since his first world title in 1992, Slater has never won at Margaret River and said he would like to end his career at a break where he has happier memories.

"The support here's been unquestionably incredible over the years. I've never even had a good result here and the crowds have been so supportive of me," he said.

"[But] I've had a fight with this wave my whole career, so it's not necessarily the wave I want to end on. I've put in for a wildcard for Fiji. We'll see how it goes."

Kalani is pregnant and expecting in about three months, with Slater saying he was looking forward to "the start of something else, the start of the rest of life".

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World Surf League Announces 2023 Championship Tour Schedule

Sep 19, 2022

Today, the World Surf League (WSL) announced the schedule for the 2023 Championship Tour (CT). The calendar marks the second full year of the WSL’s redesigned Tours and Competitions framework, which features a fully combined men’s and women’s schedule, 10 regular-season events, a Mid-season Cut after CT Stop No. 5, and the third-annual Rip Curl WSL Finals. The 2023 CT season will also be the top qualification route for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

“We are proud of the new framework we’ve developed and seen play out over the course of this season with great success,” said Jessi Miley-Dyer, SVP of Tours and Head of Competition. “The 2023 schedule provides the best possible platform and will continue to drive the world’s best surfing. Seeing the women return to Tahiti for the first time in 16 years in August was incredible, and I’m proud to confirm that 2023 will continue to see equal events, venues, and prize money with this fully combined schedule.”

“Following the incredible momentum and milestones we’ve hit in 2022, we will continue to build our global platform to progress and elevate professional surfing,” said Erik Logan, WSL CEO. “We experienced the redesign in its entirety for the first time this year, and we will further strengthen the sport through next year’s fully-combined Championship Tour, which will also qualify the first 18 athletes for the 2024 Olympic Games.”

The 2023 CT will include 10 regular-season events in seven countries, starting in January for the Billabong Pro Pipeline. The Mid-season Cut will come into action following the Margaret River Pro, Stop. No. 5. The WSL CT will return to the Surf Ranch, the world’s largest high-performance, human-made wave 100 miles from the ocean in Lemoore, Calif., as the sixth stop on the calendar. The 2023 Rip Curl WSL Finals will be held in Lower Trestles in San Clemente, Calif., where the men’s and women’s Top 5 surfers will face off for the World Titles.

2023 WSL Championship Tour Schedule:

• Billabong Pro Pipeline (Hawaii): January 29 – February 10
• Hurley Pro Sunset Beach (Hawaii): February 12 – 23
• MEO Rip Curl Portugal Pro (Portugal): March 8 – 16
• Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach (Victoria, Australia): April 4 – 14
• Margaret River Pro (Western Australia, Australia): April 20 – 30

Mid-season Cut: 36-man and 18-woman fields reduced to 24-man and 12-woman fields.

• Surf Ranch Pro (USA): May 27 – 28
• Surf City El Salvador Pro presented by Corona (El Salvador): June 9 – 18
• Rio Pro presented by Corona (Brazil): June 23 – July 1
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• SHISEIDO Tahiti Pro (French Polynesia): August 11 – 20

WSL Final 5 determined to battle for the men’s and women’s World Titles.

• Rip Curl WSL Finals (Lower Trestles, USA): September 7 – 15

2023 Championship Tour Is Top Qualification Avenue for Paris 2024 Olympic Games 

The 2023 WSL CT is the top of the hierarchy in the Olympic qualification system for the world’s best surfers. The WSL CT rankings at the end of the 2023 season, starting at the Billabong Pro Pipeline and ending at the SHISEIDO Tahiti Pro, will determine the 18 of 48 spots at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (10 men and 8 women).

With the 2022 CT season wrapped, witnessing Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) and Filipe Toledo (BRA) claim the World Titles, professional surfing now focuses on the 2022 Challenger Series, where surfers are competing for the opportunity to make the 2023 CT. The next stop on the 2022 Challenger Series will be the EDP Vissla Pro Ericeira, which opens on October 1 and holds a competition window through October 9, 2022.

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The all-new North Course at Omni La Costa

Southern California’s newest course opened for a media preview this week. And it’s nothing short of spectacular. Omni La Costa’s North Course in Carlsbad – a half-hour north of downtown San Diego – underwent an extensive redesign by renowned course architect Gil Hanse. It opens for resort guest and member play beginning June 1, after the course hosts the 2024 NCAA Women’s and Men’s Championships in late May.

Originally designed by Dick Wilson in 1965, the course hosted several PGA Tour and LPGA Tour events. The new design looks familiar, yet completely different. It seems flatter and way more open than before, yet challenging and much more interesting as well. It has six sets of tees, and can play from 4,500 to 7,500 yards to accommodate players of all skill levels. As a side note, much of this property is below sea level so the course actually plays longer.  Parts of the renovation are environmentally oriented, such as transitioning irrigation lines that continue to use reclaimed water, removing some man-made ponds, and reintroducing natural barrancas composed of drought-tolerant and native species.

Fantastic greens have plenty of undulation

As for the golf component, several tee boxes were shifted that dramatically change their respective hole angles and playability. I particularly love the punchbowl effect around the 5th green now – no matter which side you miss on, the ball funnels down toward the green. One of the biggest changes on the front nine was completely moving and shortening the par-3 8th hole – and removing the massive pond that tortured golfers (well, at least me) prior. That pond – now filled in to be mostly a huge waste bunker – also greatly alters what was one of the course’s toughest holes, No. 9, which changes the strategy. The back nine to me seems more user-friendly now. But that openness may mean a lot more into-the-breeze shots on this side. Time will tell. It becomes a factor on holes like the par-3 12th, which plays 282 yards from the tips. Most people, however, will play from the tees set at between 190 and 230 yards. And the always-tough 18th hole now stretches 609 yards from the back tees, into the wind. But all the while, the green sizes, shaping, undulations, elevations and conditioning have been altered for the better. The putts roll really true and smoothly, with very few surprises in my experience so far. One thing that struck me is that there’s no longer the endless string of somewhat blind uphill approach shots into what seemed like every green. Your targets are more visible now. But the grass on the entire course is much more playable than ever. Yes, golfers will find plenty of thick rough and fescue, but will be rewarded by keeping the ball in the fairway. Overall, I think it’s a much fairer course now with respect to scoring – you will score what you deserve. And by the way, I walked my round and it totaled 14,000 steps — all super easy.

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I was lucky enough to play Hanse’s redo of L.A. North Country Club last year, right before it hosted the U.S. Open. I remember thinking this was one of the funnest courses I’ve ever played. And I get a similar feeling about La Costa North now. There’s a familiar SoCal feel to it that I think will be a hit with golfers. There’s no more of that tired, 1960’s SoCal look that many courses in this region still showcase.

“The North Course is now positioned to return to its stature as one of the top venues for championship golf in Southern California,” says Hanse. “We were able to combine a respect for the natural contours, landforms and vegetation with an emphasis on strategic design. This combination of beauty and interest should prove enjoyable for everyday play by members and resort guests, while asking compelling questions to be answered by the best players in the world during championship events.”

The practice facility was also completely revamped, by Beau Welling. The double-sided range now plays east and west, has been regressed and lengthened, features Toptracer technology on one side, and is flanked by an expanded short game area.

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Earth Day at the aquarium

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Maynard James Keenan, the singular rock musician best known as leader of the band Tool, turned 60 on April 17. He’s celebrating that birthday by touring with two of his bands, Puscifer and A Perfect Circle , sharing the stage with another outstanding alt-rock band, Primus . The tour, called “Sessanta,” will feature all three bands on stage at the same time. The tour comes through Utah this week, with a show Tuesday, starting at 7:30 p.m., at Maverik Center, 3200 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City. Tickets are available at MaverikCenter.com .

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The Aspire Santa Clara event will be held at the The Santa Clara ConventionCenter which is located at 5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054!

What do I need to bring to get into the event?

Please bring a Photo ID and your ticket to gain access to the event.

Can I bring a guest with me?

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We strive to make it as easy as possible for all people to enjoy an Aspire event. Most venues offer accessible seating areas to accommodate their guests. Availability and type of accessible seating will vary based on each venue’s policies and capacity. To purchase accessible tickets or get information about venue accommodations, please contact us at [email protected] . Accessible seating is subject to availability and reserved solely for those with disabilities and their companions.

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All sales are final and refunds are only allowed in limited circumstances, such as canceled, postponed, rescheduled, or moved events. If for any reason you’re unable to attend, you can opt to receive a credit to a future event or gift your tickets to family, friends, or colleagues. To receive a credit or gift your tickets, notify us at least 15 days prior to the event by writing to [email protected] . If the event is canceled, postponed, rescheduled, or moved, you’ll receive a notification outlining your options; refunds are determined on an event-by-event basis.

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