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With regard to his extravagant average score (18.06 over four heats!), we appointed him moral winner in Bali. We're tempted to do the same at the end of the Tahiti contest. Moreover, John John Florence was logically awarded the "Andy Irons Most Committed Award." At Teahupoo, the Hawaiian had been able to show off his incredible barrel science and link together high-performance heats: 16.57 in the first round, 19.10 in round three, 18.67 in round four and then 17.33 in the quarterfinal for an average score of 17.91. This time, the show-stopper was Buchan. In Bali, it was Parko and just before at Tavarua, Kelly. All three times, the surfer defeating JJF (who maintains his 14th position in the WT rankings) won the event. Coincidence?
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.