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DECONSTRUCTED: Billabong Pro Tahiti

The world’s elite surfers made for a great event at Teahupoo, Tahiti, but some did better than others. This is a breakdown of how each surfer fared. This is DECONSTRUCTED: Billabong Pro Tahiti.

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The great "loser" of the season has struck again. Bad luck again for the Floridian. For those who have not been following the previous episodes, here are the facts. It's fairly simple: lots of bad luck for the other half of the Floridian brother duo, now ranked 25th, who has to gather big points before switching to less favorable playgrounds for this goofy-footed, big barrel lover.

Portrait of Surfagram co-founder Nicolas Duma.

Surfagram co-founder Nykola Duma.

Portrait of journalist Vincent Martin.

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.