Enter surf events via the web

THE 2020 Performance Surf Web Series has kicked off, with the first surf contest in Mexico, hosted on Instagram, already completed.

The Surf Web Series is an international online surf league that holds online surf contests in which surfers can participate by sending in their clips.

It serves many functions, primarily to get surfing fans watching some exciting surfing, allowing surfers to compete in an innovative format, and for sponsors and surf industry supporters to get some mileage and coverage from their surfers.

The Surf Web Series is a direct response to the current challenges the sport is experiencing under Covid-19.

The format maintains the excitement of individuals competing directly with each other without the inherent difficulties in having the best surfing conditions on a chosen day.

By allowing each competitor to select his best video clips to use in his respective competitive arsenal, the fans can see the best surfing on the best waves each chosen country has to offer. It is also a format that opens up the competition to the next crop of rippers, underground surfers and hard-charging unknowns, allowing them to have a chance at contest success and the resultant media exposure.

The dates of the rest of the Performance Surf Web Series events are still to be confirmed, however they are planned for Chile and South Africa in July, and events in Costa Rica, Brazil, Japan, USA, and Hawaii are to be announced, and the exact dates for the Global Final in December are yet to be announced.

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The contest format is simple. Interested surfers need to enter through the event channels, soon to be announced. From these entries, there will be a selection of 32 surfers by a selection board (each country will have a selection board).

The 32 surfers will then compete online, in a regular 32-surfer contest format, entering one filmed wave for each heat.

In South Africa, the footage can be any free-surfing wave filmed in South Africa between 25 March 2019 and 25 March 2020, the day before the first lockdown date. South African surfers, South African waves.

The contest format can be viewed and analysed on the @surfopenleague Instagram account, and interested parties can follow how that surf event played out through to the action-packed final.

The judges are a mix of local judges, international judges, a head judge, and the public vote.

Once surfing has officially opened up again, The Surf Open League has plans to set up hosted beach sessions for the Surf Web Series, where surfers can come and free surf and be filmed for possible entries for that country’s event.

Surfers, sponsors, and videographers can contact the Surf Web Series on contact@surfwebseries.com.

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