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Quarterfinalists are Decided on Day One
of Rip Curl Surf & Music Festival Presented by Axis and the Coca-Cola ISC Men’s
Open Championship is Still Up for Grabs
20 October 2012,
Kuta-Bali: The 2012 Coca-Cola
ISC Men’s Open Championship was 20 seconds away from being decided this
afternoon at Kuta Beach on Day One of the Rip Curl Surf & Music Festival
presented by Axis, as number 2 seeded Raditya Rondi was sitting in second place
desperately needing to score at least 5.6 points to advance and keep his hopes
for his first tour championship win alive.
With a small bump rearing up in front of him he took off and
somehow found enough speed on the half meter wave to rip into it with several
turns, finishing it off just as the horn blew.
He came out of the water with his head down, thinking that
it wasn’t enough, but then the MC called out the score and it was a 5.75, just
enough to win the heat and advance into the quarterfinals.
“I really thought it was all over,” said a relieved Rondi
back on the beach. “It was a bit
slow out there with the low tide and I really didn’t ever find any good waves,
just did my best on whatever came my way.
I’m so stoked I made it through that heat against Dedi. He’s one of the most dangerous guys out
here at Halfways, he surfs so well in all conditions here, that I feel like
tomorrow will be a lot easier knowing I don’t have to compete against him!”
Rondi is still in the pressure cooker however, even though number
one seed Lee Wilson was eliminated by Wayan “Betet” Merta in the first heat of
Round 4 today. Rondi must win this
event or Wilson will go home with the 2012 Coca-Cola ISC Men’s Open
Championship. Rondi is last year’s
Rip Curl Surf & Music Festival winner, and as a Kuta Beach local has an
excellent chance of repeating that result this year, but he still has three heats left to go. He will face Soma Warsoma from Seminyak in Quarterfinal 3
tomorrow.
Lee Wilson was somewhat fatalist about his elimination,
saying, “You never know what will happen in a comp. You’re either going to win or you’re going to lose, so I
never plan what’s going to happen.
I just go out there and surf.
Sure I’m not happy about getting knocked in Round 4, I really want to be
surfing again tomorrow, but I’ll come to the beach with my daughter and hang
out and have fun. If luck is with
me, Raditya won’t make it to the final and I’ll get the championship. We’ll just have to wait and see what
happens tomorrow won’t we?”
Wilson has won two events already this year, at the Rip Curl
Pro Mentawai and the Quiksilver Open West Java, with equal thirds at the Oakley
Pro Canggu and at the Quiksilver Thailand Open, and only one bad result at the
O’Neill Freak of the Reef Sumbawa event, which Rondi won. If Rondi fails to win the Rip Curl Surf
& Music Festival tomorrow, the 2012 Coca-Cola ISC Men’s Open Championship is
Wilson’s….and it will be his third.
His name is already on the trophy for the 2007 and 2010 championships
So expect a super exciting finale tomorrow in the race to
the event win and the 2012 Coca-Cola ISC Championship.
Quarterfinal One:
Wayan “Betet” Merta vs Marlon Gerber
Quarterfinal Two:
Darmaputra Tonjo vs Garut Widiarta
Quarterfinal Three:
Raditya Rondi vs Soma Warsoma
Quarterfinal Four:
Made Darmayasa vs Pepen Hendrik
It was a big day on Kuta Beach as huge crowds were on hand witness the highest level of
surfing and skating action, with drink sponsors Smirnoff and San Miguel on
hand to quench the spectator’s thirst on this smoking hot day on the sand. They were also treated with
pumping beats from Skullcandy, who had set up a DJ tent on the beach.
Off the beach and in the skate part set up in the nearby
parking lot, skater’s including Dewa Oka, Andrew Remote, and Yogi impressed
their fans and the gathered crowd as they practiced up for tomorrow’s skate
competition.
There is a beginners and an open division skating competition
starting at 11 am, so if you’re keen come on down and sign up to skate.
The Rip Curl Surf & Music Festival will come to a
massive climax tomorrow after the surfing and skating competitions and the
winners are announced, with live music on the big stage pumping until late,
headlined by Souljah and including Jeruji, Painful by Kisses, Mom Called
Killer, Star and Rabbit, with DJ Electrofux.
According to Contest Director and Rip Curl SEA Marketing
Manager James Hendy, tomorrow morning will start off with the Women’s Open
Division taking to the water first, then moving into the National GromSearch
Finals to let the frothing groms have their way with Kuta Beach in their search
for the 2012 SEA GromSearch title, and a trip to Bells Beach to compete in the
World GromSearch event next year.
To keep updated on all the scores and action from the 2012
Rip Curl Surf & Music Festival, check out http://www.isctour.com/events/RSMF12
The Rip Curl Surf & Music Festival 2012 is presented by
AXIS and sponsored by Skullcandy, Smirnoff Ice, San Miguel Light, Gilbeys,
Bliss Wayan Hotel, Cahaya Interprise and Beach Hut. Media support is by TRAX, JUICE, Area, Oz Radio Bali,
Surftime, Lines, Indosurflife.com, Balibelly.tv and the event is sanctioned by
the Coca-Cola Indonesian Surfing Championships and Asian Surfing Championships.
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About the Coca-Coca
Indonesian Surfing Championships
The Coca-Cola Indonesian Surfing Championships is the sanctioning body for professional surfing in Indonesia. The ISC was established in 2004 to provide surfing athletes with a consistent, legitimate, and respected forum where they can compete and measure themselves against their peers, a stepping-stone towards their ultimate goal of becoming a professional surfer at the international level
The Coca-Cola Indonesian Surfing Championships is the sanctioning body for professional surfing in Indonesia. The ISC was established in 2004 to provide surfing athletes with a consistent, legitimate, and respected forum where they can compete and measure themselves against their peers, a stepping-stone towards their ultimate goal of becoming a professional surfer at the international level
With
the support of Coca-Cola Amatil Indonesia, through organized surfing
competitions, the Coca-Cola ISC seeks to grow the awareness of the sport of
surfing in Indonesia and throughout the Asian region for the benefit of the
surfers, their community, their environment, their nation and the surfing
industry. Find out more at www.isctour.com.
About the Asian Surfing
Championships
The
Asian Surfing Championships began in 2011 with the mission of growing the sport
of surfing in South East Asia from the grassroots level by assisting each
country in organizing professional surfing events that will develop the skills
of their surfers in healthy competition as well as to draw attention to their
area for the progression of surfing locally, nationally, and throughout the SEA
area.
Organized
surfing competitions have historically been the best medium for the development
of surfers and for the sport of surfing, where learning how to compete fairly
and to being disciplined in training and competition are key skills needed not
only for surfing but also for life.
The ASC works with the local, national and
multinational event sponsors and organizers to maximize the results of these
competitive surfing events towards accomplishing the goals of sharing the sport
of surfing and bringing positive economic, social, and environmental benefits
to the people in these South East Asian countries. See more at http://www.asiansurfingtour.com
--
Tim Hain
Media and Communications
Coca-Cola Indonesian Surfing Championship Tour - Asian Surfing Championship Tour
CV. Selancar Indonesia (ISC)
Jl. Raya Kuta No. 21
Pertokoan Kuta Raya Blok 9 Abian Base
Kuta, Bali 80361
INDONESIA
Phone/Fax: +62 361 768293
Mobile: +62 8123606674
Email: tim@isctour.com
www.isctour.com
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