Hedonism Isle is the newest BIG wave beach around and we are looking at running a future surf contest here (sometime in May). Owned by Phelan James and managed by Flynn Sheridan, this sim is almost entirely OCEAN, so the ride is longer. The benefit for everyone is that all the spectators for the contest can sit on the neighbouring sim, have a great view, and not cause any lag for the surfers! Woot!

Come by around 5 pm SLT (PST) this Thursday… surf, hang, relax, whatever. There are FREE Hedonism Isle surfboards here for you to pick up. Let us know what you think of the new beach!

Catch ya, Keala

Congratulations to SamyJo Ah for being the winner of the first SL surf contest, Namiko Pro at Chi!!!

Here are all the results:

Finals

1. SamyJo Ah
2. Blue Alonzo
3. Polysilox Apogee
4. Seano Osumi

Semi Finals

1. Flynn Sheridan
2. SurfBoy Wollongong
3. Gerran Voss
4. Surfdaddy Orca

Quarter Finals

1. Kitt Snookums
2. Malcolm Sydney
3. JD Snook
4. Thor Bishop
5. kiddd Ikarus
6. Kimmy Leroux

The entire SL grid shut down for emergency maintenance just a couple hours before the contest, but luckily it all came back up in time. We packed Chi to the brim! In fact, Poid had to increase the limit on the number of people allowed in the sim so that we could get one of our judges onto the island plus some other competitors. The turnout was simply STELLAR!

Thank you so much to our judging panel: Surferjoe Wind, Kiana Foxley, and Sebastian Saramago for all their hard work watching and scoring the event. All the surfers were fantastic… but the girls ripped. Seriously.

Thanks to all the competitors for sticking it out… All the competitors beat lag (even though Mal requested MORE laggy conditions), they beat missing waves, they beat lost surfboards… Seb even summoned the pipewave gods at one point… good times, good times. You guys all rock.

Thank you to our event sponsors: GR Boards, Sport2.de, Sebastian Saramago, Poid Mahovlich and Sally LaSalle!

And thank you to Sierra Sugar for doing an INCREDIBLE job with the MCing and DJing — everyone loved the music. Thanks to Valent1ne for shooting the machinima — she’s got 9.3 GIGs worth of video footage that she’ll be editing this week. Look for the video soon!

Joeru Pugilist, photographer extraordinaire will have photos shortly. Here are some that Poid took during the event:

http://flickr.com/photos/poid/archives/date-posted/2007/03/24/

NEXT SURF CONTEST: Tentatively, Saturday, April 14th… it’ll be a big wave event! IM Keala Mimistrobell if you want to compete

The competition is heating up!! Several competitors were down at Chi doing some late evening surfing, practicing for the comp, of course. It’s so exciting to see other people excited about the comp. Indeed, I spent the large part of the evening at Chi building out the stage area and grandstands… working on the competitors scoring… but that’s not what you’re here for. You want to know which heat you’re in.

So, entries have closed and the heats have been created:

Heat 1

Blue Alonzo Surfdaddy Orca Malcolm Sydney Thor Bishop

Heat 2

SurfBoy Wollongong polysilox Apogee Kimmy Leroux AlexSurfer Hirons

Heat 3

Seano Osumi kiddd Ikarus Gerran Voss Kitt Snookums

Heat 4

SamyJo Ah JD Snook Flynn Sheridan Caly Sleaford Filipe Rasmuson

There were a couple other changes since the original notice went out. Unfortunately, Heather Goodliffe will not be able to judge this weekend but she hopes to join us at the NEXT surf contest (tentatively scheduled for Saturday, April 14). We are very lucky, however, to have Kiana Foxley judge alongside Joe and Seb. Kiana hails from the North Shore, Oahu in Hawaii… her RL local spots being Pipeline and Waimea.

So! If you are competing, remember we start at 1 pm, so try and come a bit early. If you are not competing, come early anyway, so you don’t miss anything

Remember to DETACH (not just turn off) your AOs, HUDs, and blingy things. I’ve heard rumors that there will be nearly 60,000 residents online at the same time this weekend, so we’ll need to do everything we can to minimize lag for both the spectators and surfers.

If you have any questions about the rules or the contest in general, please send an IM to Keala Mimistrobell or an email to keala [dot] mimistrobell [at] gmail [dot] com.