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A fifth round for CJ Hobgood, a surfer we were honestly expecting in the quarters, we see as underachieving. But Julian Wilson was on his way, turning their confrontation to his advantage by a small difference (17.96 to 17.27). The outcome might have been different if CJ had not been too loose addressing a barrel and got hit by the lip. In the end, it was a memorable wipeout and a preventable elimination after a faultless run until that point in the event. The first mistake was fatal but didn’t end up affect his ranking (still 9th).
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.