Club Wyndham Corporate Surf Challenge 2024
Support the FSHD Global Research Foundation
Events like the Surf Challenge are essential to drive awareness and understanding of FSHD within the community as well as providing critical funding to support our research and advocacy programs.
Thank you for your support and for giving hope to the thousands of Australians living with this debilitating disease. Thank you for helping us give life to muscles!
The Club Wyndham Surf Challenge is a tag team surfing competition run under the popular Surftag format with each team represented by four surfers. All teams competed in a single elimination first round, where the winners progressed to a quarterfinal, then on to a semifinal and a final. Judging was by Surfing Queensland and every member of the winning team received a custom-made surfboard by SJS Custom Surfboards.
Registrations are open until 1 November 2024.
Major Sponsor & Host
We are hearing up for the Club Wyndham Corporate Surf Challenge.
Join the local business community this year as we hit the waves together to wipe out Facioscapulohumeral Dystrophy.
The Club Wyndham Corporate Surf Challenge raises funds for the FSHD Global Research Foundation – the organisation with a singular focus of fighting this condition.
Let’s head out, have fun and create a brighter future together!
Sponsorship Packages
• A marquee for your guests
To register, please go to our Club Wyndham Corporate Surf Challange page.
Registrations are open until 1 November 2024.
Rules
The Club Wyndham Corporate Surf Challenge is a tag team surfing competition run under the popular Surftag format with each team represented by four surfers. In relay style, each surfer catches a maximum ten waves and then returns to the beach to tag their team’s next surfer. Every surfer’s top two waves are scored. Round One Heat duration is one-hour with up to five teams contesting each heat. Bonus points are on offer for each team’s fourth surfer returning to the tag area on the beach within the one-hour period. The top two teams from each Round One Heat progress straight to the semi-final round. Teams who finish 3rd, 4th and 5th in the Round One Heats stand the chance to Round requalify by battling it out in the repechage round. Bonus Points: 1st team home = 4 Points, 2nd team = 3 Points, 3rd team = 2 Points, 4th team = 1 Point, 5th team = 0 Points. No bonus points for the repechage rounds.
Interference
Five points will be deducted from the offending surfer’s total score for any interference call.
Count Backs
If two or more teams are tied at the completion of a heat, each team’s five top scoring waves will be tabulated. If still tied, a twelve minute surf-off involving one surfer from each team will take place. Beach start with top two waves scored. If still tied, surf-offs will be repeated until a result is established.
Repechage Rounds:
Semi-final Round:
Final:
Format
Surfers are scored using standard event criteria. Depending on the number of teams entered, qualifying events may feature a second chance bracket for teams that do not advance out of the first round. Team members’ scores are combined at the conclusion of the heat (scores are cumulative and each surfer’s top two waves are counted). Tag team – each team enters four surfers into each heat. Once a surfer rides ten waves maximum, he/she comes in and tags his/her teammate. His/her teammate rides maximum ten waves, and so on. Teams receive bonus points if all surfers ride a minimum two waves and the fourth surfer returns to the tag area before the allotted heat time.
Registrations are open until 1 November 2024.
