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Victorious at Teahupoo in 2000, 2003, 2005 and 2011, Kelly Slater looked set to add a fifth jewel to his Tahitian crown and clinch his third win of the season. Finishing combo’d - a rarity - and angry about his fourth round heat, the King got back on track in round five kicking out his favorite rival, Joel Parkinson. Deprived of a greater maneuver margin with his opponents because of the reasonable size of the barrels, he did the job and took back the WCT’s top spot from Fanning.
Surfagram co-founder Nykola Duma.
Journalist Vincent Martin.
Not included in the Top 34 analysis: Owen Wright (AUS), Tiago Pires (PRT), Dusty Payne (HAW) and Glenn Hall (IRL) who was wounded and missing in Teahupoo, Raoni Monteiro (BRA) who was unable to finance his trip to Tahiti lacking sponsors. Their replacements were Yadin Nicol (AUS), Pat Gudauskas (USA), Jocelyn Poulou (PYF), Nathan Hedge (AUS) and Ian Walsh (HAW) and the two wildcards from the trials: Alain Riou (PYF) and Anthony Walsh (AUS).
Editor’s Note: This article is a collaborative work between Vincent Martin and the Surfagram team (Nykola Duma & Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot). Vincent is a journalist and runs the popular French surf website Planète Surf. Nykola is a graphic designer and art director and Pierre-Arnaud is a software engineer. Together, they created Surfagram–a fun and visual way to look at ASP World Tour results and statistics on contests and surfers.