Disssention In The Azores!

You may or may not have heard that the 6 Star rated Billabong Azores Islands Pro WQS event was cancelled because it was dead flat.

The official quote from the event website is "The Billabong Azores Islands Pro presented by Nissan an Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) sanctioned event was forced to cancel due to a lack of contestable waves. Event officials and surfers were greeted at dawn by a flat ocean as the expected overnight swell increase failed to eventuate. Contest director Rodrigo Heredia made another call mid-morning however this proved fruitless leaving the remaining 96 surfers of round two unable to compete further in the 145,000$US event."

This has all sorts of repercussions for the competitors. The most obvious of these being the financial outlay to attend the event that never was. The biggest issue here is the crazy number of ratings points the surfers are there chasing are no longer available.... I sussed twitter to see how some of the competitors are feeling about the whole thing.

After being injured for the first half of 2010, Julian Wilson is one surfer desperately chasing the ratings points.

Josh Kerr approached the situation a little differently.

Mick Fanning fortunately did not go to this event, but was still interested by how it would effect is mates.

Vic Mafian Jack Perry summed it up well.

Dayyan Neve was clearly over it, but he was able to shed some light on how the ASP had decided to deal with the ratings points and event prizemoney.

Once again the boys at Moborush nailed it.

To see video highlights of the womens final won by Laura Enever click the image below.