Club Wyndham Corporate Surf Challenge 2024

Club Wyndham Corporate Surf Challenge 2024

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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.

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!

Barry Robinson

President and Managing Director, International Operations

Travel + Leisure Co.

Sponsorship Packages

This package includes:

• 4 surfers at the event

• Welcome gifts for 4 surfers

• Breakfast for 4 surfers

• Lunch for 4 surfers

• Beer, wine and soft drink for the 4 surfers for the duration of the event

• A marquee for your guests

Investment $4,000 incl. GST

*$100 per head for additional spectators

To register, please go to our Club Wyndham Corporate Surf Challange page.

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.

Draw

Round One Heats:

Four heats with up to five teams per heat. Top two finishers in each heat advance to the semi-final.

Repechage Rounds:

Teams who finish 3rd, 4th and 5th in Round One Heats will nominate their best two surfers to battle it out in the repechage round (two x 10-minute surfs per team). Only one team from each repechage will advance to the semi-final.

Semi-final Round:

Top two teams in each five-team heat advance to the finals.

Final:

One four-team heat.

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.