Well said Gustavo, BRING THE FUCKING TORCHES, LETS KILL THE BRAZZO WHO WON A WT CONTEST !!!! AGAIN !!! OH , SHAME ON ASP…..oh man, Aaron, “possibly the worst judged heat of all time”….I tell you, that´s agressive…How can someone write an article the way you did in such a good mag ?,it´s just said. I think Owen won that heat, but that was a close call… over the last two decades I saw countless heats much more controversial than this, and, again, historically the brazzos have been ripped off 10 to 1 against Aussies and Americans….
as Mr. Gustavo wrote, just get used to it ok ? accept.
Ps 1. By the way, the footage you got doesnt shoe Adriano´s first turn on his second score

HAHAHAH O MEDINA ACABOU COM VOCÊS!!! CHUPA GRINGO!!! 8 BRAZILEIROS NO TOP 32!!!! NINGUÉM SEGURA!!! ALGUMA COISA ESTÁ FORA DA ORDEM MUNDIAL!!! HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA JÁ ERA VÃO PERDER O TRONO!

Aaron, you’re a big joke!! Have you ever surfed in your life?? Come to any beach in Brasil and you’ll see 11 year olds busting airs much bigger than that (very low, by the way, extremely easy landing) in every wave they surf.
It’s funny, last year jadson was flying high (waaay higher than owen), but was always underscored. And everybody on tour said that wasn’t surfing, that he should stop busting airs and focus on curvs, cut-backs and a less progressive line of surf (except the HERO Andy Irons, who came to him a few days before he died – when jadson won a heat agaisnt Andy at Supertubes, getting deep barrels – and said he shouldn’t listen to any of that). Now, just because it’s an Aussie, easy airs should be high scores???? Okay, let’s do it!! I bet all top 5 surfers in the world will be brazilians!!
Everybody is asking you about the heat in Snappers (Taj x Adiano) and you’re not gonna say a word about it?!!
Dumb american, allways thinking you’re on top of the world and can look down on everyone else!
For sure it was a close hit and could have gone either way. I agree that Adriano’s backup wave was over scored (not the floater, wich was really harder than it apears), but wouldn’t give anything else for Owen’s lame airs. But the thing is, it was the first time in ASP history that judges favored a brazilian, so every aussie and american is now thinking it was absurd!!! Well, i’ll tell you something, it sure feels good to have things going our way once!!! I can imagine now Teco Padaratz, Fábio Gouveia, Peterson Rosa, Neco Padaratz and many other who were robbed during their entire career laughing their ass offs (not to mention the old scool, like Picuruta Salazar, Ricardo Bocão, Rico de Souza, etc).
And, the last thing: AUSSIES (LIKE JOEL), LEARN A LITTLE WITH TAJ, WHO ALWAYS HAS LOTS OF FUN HERE IN BRASIL AND IS WORSHIPED BY US!!! WE ALWAYS WELCOME FOREINGNERS HERE IN THE LINEUP, IT”S RIDICULOUS TO COMPARE BRAZILIANS WITH AUSSIES AND HAWAIIANS. IF YOU’RE A BRAZILIAN, TRY SURFING AT KIRRA, SNAPPER OR EVEN WORST, ANYWHERE IN HAWAII…

This article is disgusting but someone wrote the publisher has the right to express his opinion, which I believe is Surfers Magazine position too, and I agree with that. Prejudice, thats the word. I have been following surf for a long time, which is much easier with internet these days. There are so many close heats favoring aussies and american top surfers against under dog ones, that is impossible to name them all. ASP position defending 5 judges decision is ridiculous and a dangerous precedent: are they gone argue and justify any close heat from now on? How is gonna be Adriano judgement from now on? Are they gonna be more strict with his performance? Shame on you all. I have never bought this magazine and never will, I just came here to express my indignation against this ridiculous attitude. Surf is just amazing as it is, with all subjective annalysis. Try to diminish Adriano’s victory is just unacceptable. He accepted his defeat against Taj early this year after riding two deep barrels – what was written about it? Get a life my friend!

Predujice, arrogance. These are the words, nothing else.

This footage shows exactly what the “ASP” mentioned: Owen’s waves were a lot smaller than Adriano’s and Adriano’s surfing was more agressive. But I agree that the judges have been underscoring floaters through all these years. IT DOES SEEM A LITTLE BIT OF PREJUDICE FROM AUSSIES AND AMERICANS. WHEN ADRIANO GOT ROBBED AGAINST TAJ IN SNAPPER ROCKS, NOBODY SAID A DAMN WORD ABOUT IT. NEITHER THE ASP.

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME A BRAZILIAN WON A CLOSE (or polemic, as you wish) HEAT. AND YOU GUYS WILL NOT LET IT GO UNNOTICED! IF IT WAS JOEL, JORDY, DANE, KELLY, TAJ OR MICK YOU WOULDN’T SAY A THING…

P.S.: ADAM, YOU SHOULD NOT GENERALIZE A WHOLE COUNTRY BECAUSE OF WHAT SOME GUYS DID. THERE ARE AS MUCH JERKS IN BRAZIL AS IN USA, OZ, HAWAII, ETC.

AARON CARRERA, DO NOT DISRESPECT ADRIANO. IF HIS NAME SHOULD BE MARKED WITH AN *, SO DOES KELLY’S, MICK, JOEL, JORDY, TAJ… ALL OF THEM ALREADY WON VERY WEIRD HEATS…AND NOT JUST ONE, SOME HEATS…BE CAREFUL WITH WHAT YOU WRITE. YOU WORK FOR THE MOST TRADITIONAL SURFING MAGAZINE IN THE WORLD…

WAKE UP! OPEN YOUR EYES!

one of the greatest victories of Kelly in Brazil was a tube followed by an insane floater in the middle of the bar … woe is me to tell me that a California floater is not maneuver ????? Aaaaaaa’ll see!

Hei Aaron, I would like to read your comments on the Snapper hits when the brazilians Adriano and Alejo lost and got out of the competition.

AARON CARRERA HAHAHAHA WHO ARE YOU MAN? BY THE WAY DO YOU KNOW HOW TO SURF? CAN YOU COMPLETE THAT SAME FLOATER ON A 2 METERS CLOSE OUT SECTION?
OWEN WRIGHT GET ONLY THE SMALLER WAVES OF THE HEAT, HERE IN BRAZIL EVERY GROMMET SURFER CAN DO THE SAME TURNS AND THE SAME AIRS THAT OWEN DID ON THAT HEAT, THE TURNS THAT HE DID I CAN’T SEE ANY SPRAY, RIDICULOUS, HE SEEMS LIKE A WOMAN SURFING, FROM BEHIND YOU THINK THAT HE IS A GIRL

MATT WILKINSON? OWEN WRIGHT? DUSTY PAINE? KIEREN PERROW?
HAHAHAHAHA YOU GOT BE KIDDING
THEY NEVER WON A EVENT IN A LIFE TIME

BRASIL ALWAYS ON TOP ON BODYBOARD AND SKATEBOARD PUSHING ALL THE LIMITS
ALWAYS ON TOP ON BIG WAVES AND NOW WE WON BILLABONG XXL WITH DANILO COUTO PADDLING OUT JAWS HAHAHAHA
ADRIANO DE SOUZA NUMBER ONE OF THE WORLD MAN
GET USED TO IT!!!!!!!!
OUR TIME HAS COME
MIGUEL PUPO ALEJO MUNIZ GABRIEL MEDINA WILL GET YOU

Surfing will never be correctly Judge if the judges are old school guys who don’t know any better, why the ASP don’t get guys like Gerlach, Pottz, Curren, Carroll,Olivencia, Elko, Ho, who
know what’s up, I think this will help this problem for sure and there will be a lot less errors!!!

Judging any art form is problematic. This is amplified in surfing, because of the additional factors of wave size, positioning, perspective… ad infanitum. From the video I saw in this post, the winner of this heat grabbed the bigger waves (wave) and surfed competently, while the surfer in yellow grabbed the smaller, more lengthy waves, and connected more moves. It was a “close heat” but I would favor the way it was called.
For the heat overall, I saw two airs on smaller waves with longer rides; verses one air on a smaller wave and one big move on a set wave.
Holding contests decisive toward a world title in surf like this is the real controversy, and a point much more worthy of debate.

Get over it…. bunch of sore loosers… we could go on forever with our comments back and forth, but the bottom line is….. Adriano won and nobody can take that away from him. Better luck next time.

Gus, this YOUR opinion, not mine.

OK, jb you are a real gentleman and us e, Brazilians, are all almost barbarians. So i want to pay a ticket for you to go visit Hitler’s mausoleum.

A judged event is subjective and always will be. Poor surf makes it even worse. It was a close heat and the local boy won. Get over it. I think it’s great that the race has tightened up and look forward to J Bay.

jb, you must say that to Queen Silvia (brazilian), from Sweden.

It saddens me to see the bulk of Brazilians making defensive comments here in a manner that merely vindicates the negative stereotypes they have created for themselves.
You guys really need to elevate your game.
More altitude and less attitude. Do it for yourselves, for your nation, and for the world that would happily share in your successes if you could just learn to demonstrate a little more humility and show more respect when you travel.

HERE, SURFER MAG. THAT’S HOW YOU WRITE AN ARTICLE PROPERLY ABOUT THIS ISSUE. PLEASE LEARN WITH TRACKS MAGAZINE!!!!!

http://www.tracksmag.com/201105263107/Blogs/Tracks-Blog/%E2%80%98FLOATERGATE%E2%80%99-OPENS-OLD-STYLE-WOUND-BLOG.html

These heat was a pretty controversial heat, that is fact, but the thing I CAN`T understand is why the brazzos can`t be on the top. Try to put yourselves on brazillians place. A nation that LOVE surfing and threat all WT surfers like godds, Idon`t think that surfers receives that threatment in all places the tour takes part, but the first time EVER they have a surfer on the top of ASP ranking they have to deal with MEDIA like SURFER mag that minimalize their win.
THERE ALWAYS BEEN CONTROVERSIAL HEATS AND ALWAYS WILL BE, CAUSE IS COMPLETELY NORMAL TO A JUDGE, WHICH IS A HUMAN TO MAKE MISTAKES.
that article sucks, and surfer mag should be ashamed

People who hate Brazilians, I will tell you a few names: Cesar Cielo, Bob Burnquist, Pedro Barros, Danilo Couto, an d the list gos on… Be prepared, our time will come in the competitive surf too.

good looking man, perspective achieved.

“O choro é livre”. Adriano beats three aussies in one day. Good boy!

Go Mineirinho!

You people bagging Owen talk like you can all bust an air. I’m sure most of you can’t. The degree of difficulty to launch and land is higher then an old skool floater. It is a bread butter maneuver because the guys on tour all rip. The footage shows the wave size wasn’t a factor. ASP should man the fuck up and admit they made a mistake. It has nothing to do with anyones nationality it’s about getting the judging right for the fans, viewers and competitors wanting to win a world title. Be good to hear a Brazo actually say it should have gone Owens way instead of getting all defensive thinking it’s has anything to do with Nationality although on some sub conscious level it may have to the Judges.

Yes you’re right. And can you imagine they are going to made other 2 tour events in New York and San Francisco? I bet you agree that’s ridiculous too…..or not?

In Brazil we have an expression for that kind of situation. It goes something like this: “chilly on your fellow’s eyes is soda pop”.

Reading this article leads me to believe there has never been a misjudged heat in the whole history of profesisonal surfing. And I´m not even sure this was the case here. Actually I think Owen´s tiny little waves were very unimpressive, despite the airs. This heat had not a clear winner. It was just a close call.

However, there is an undeniable negative bias in the circuit towards Brazilian surfers. Yes, surfing etiquette in Brazil is virtually non-existing (I credit this to the scarcity of reef or point breaks, that naturally pushes towards the formation of a ‘line’, versus the abundance of beach breaks, were preference may get fuzzy), and yes, Brazilian pros tend to have difficulty with the language. It does not help the fact that averybody else speaks English, pushing Brazilians to form its own gang. Hence, the bias exists and it does not help the sport.

I think the real problem is – They both surfed like crap !! A – the waves where closing out a bit – but “P U” !!!! If I had to pick “Owen” won !!! Also – It was a nice Floater – the best thing he did in the Heat.

The day Adriano learns to control his spastic claiming, I will support him. Great surfer, too bad about his hideous attitude. I’ll take Jadson or Heitor over him any day… Adriano is a tool and everyone on the tour knows it…

Apparently anti-free speech is this magazine that keeps blocking my post just because I said Tracks has decent argument, while Surfer doesn`t.

Well done, let`s expand the hate. Hitler style.

It’s hard to support the Brazilians after hearing them boo when Taj and other rivals crashed on waves while in the water against Mini. That was the worst example of sportsmanship I have seen in Pro Surfing. Granted the Aussies get all worked up and fly their flag around when they win. Patriotism is OK but to this extent it was rude and made them look bad. Now, I am not saying that Mini didn’t deserve to win, I would hate to be a judge. I’m just thinking the reason for the outcry even though similar situations have been equally controversial has to do with the negative attitudes (continuously) being exhibited by the Brazilians. I said this on FB that day.
Respect gets Respect
Hate Breeds Hate
And right now it’s easy to Hate on the Brazilians.

Eracism.

Its been said before and ill say it again. No one was crying this much when Taj beat Adrianno at Snapper, Kelly at Trestles, and so on. Im actually becoming a fan of Brazilians. Ill like anything most of you lames hate on.

Hey Adam, I had a dream about you!! But when I flushed the toillet you were gone, floatong down the drain.

I cant do a floater by the way.

theres no way in hell I could land an air to save my life, but i’ll try a floater at pipe if I get the chance…nuff said?

This is one of the most obscene behavior I’ve seen in a long time of a big circulation magazine.

BTW: The problem in Rio wasn’t that Adriano won it. The problem was how allot of the guys LOST it…. How crazy the judging was overall…And how pathetic the surf was. Other than that, the Brazilian girls are unequivocally rad, ya know?

Can anyone coment on the heat Taj versus Adriano on the Goldie ??? WHY THE HELL NOBODY COMPLAIN ABOUT THAT HEAT ??? Taj Lost that Semi. This heat was a close call, and I would give to Owen, but close. That heat on the goldie was outrageous. When it’s a Brazilian wining we all say it was wrong. PREjUDICE MATES !!!

@Dickson Cider, I couldn’t help but laugh on what you have just written. I’M SURE YOU DIDN’T FOLLOW the contest. IF Adriano’s floater was overscored, so were ALL of the other similar ones, done by other surfers. Judges WERE scoring commited floaters during the WHOLE event. If you want to blame the judges for that, it’s ok. But in Adriano’s heat they were CONSISTENT to what they were scoring in previous heats. I’m over with it…. I want to see some good surfing in Jeffreys!!!!

anyone remember the late 80′s and early 90′s contest scene? the ASP pulled lots of this type of shit and most of the top guys left the tour. it seemed to be on the verge of collapse at one point. then came a true dream tour and people started to care again. the best surfers started too care. but with this shit, it won’t be long before the next exodus…
the big companies are way too corpo now (remember what OP became?) and eventually all the contests will be at shit-holes like Brazil, New York, SF….oh wait…they are?!?!?!

TIME FOR ANOTHER ‘REBEL TOUR’!!!!

Hope this settles this long diatribe. First of allm as usual, the majority of peopl disputing this go by names like Eduardo, which I understand because in my country I would defend Kelly and have when he decimated a very flicky Taj at Trestles by using the variety of manuevers, progressive, in the most critical sections. Watch Adrinao’s floater and you will notice one thing he does that Kelly also does, however ADS hasn’t figured out a way to make it unnoticable. He put extra drama into the drop and landing of that floater which obviously tels us it wasn’t as critical as thought. Just watch it again how he lands it and compresses like he fell off the Empire State Bldg. and then splays out his arms for balance. That was all an act to try and dramatize what he did for the judges. Slater and AI pulled floaters over near dry reef at Pipeline on waves of serious consequesnce. In short, unless you are a Brazzo, Eduardo, there has never, in my 25 years of watching the ASP, been a greater example of rediclulous overscoring of a single wave, especially on one manuever that hasn’t been in the progressive bix for 15 years. I rest my case. ADS has been surfing great lately, especially at Bells. The push will be his undoing as now the rest of the WCT have never painted a bigger target on a world no 1′s back,

Is floater a turn? Is this writer a journalist at all?

If the ASP is going backwards the same It can say about this mag.

The editor of the magazine should be more careful on what to publish. This really don’t bring nothing positive on the table.

Immature and Irresponsible sequence of articles

But I bet you cant do one.
Usually those “forum surfing icons” cant even stand on a board.

Is a floater a turn? Is the writer of this article a surfer? Most pathetic question in history haha. Couldn’t believe I just read that

Floaters aren’t considered a turn….. might aswell not do cutbacks or snaps or even get barreled. Airs and slides only to decide the champions, sounds pathetic to me. If ADS pulled into a barrel as long as the section he floated and received an 8 the world would be stoked… I pose the question ” Is a barrel better than this floater”. Might look better but def not harder. This is the worst article ever

Tell these guys to fuck off. And joel better win the tittle now before he gets to old.
Kieron Rips, but never will anything major besides backdoor where he is outstanding.
Who da fuck is Matt?Wilko?, better cut his hair, he can see where he is landing.
Dusty, is going to bite the dust soon.
Owen is a freaking baby. And you Mr Gordo, shut up

Only one thing to say: saxon idiots, you wanna own professional surfing. Extremely poor mentality. Why should surf be the unique worldwide sport always dominated by a retarded colonizeminded group of people, I ask. The world changed, and you… surfing is a tradition sport, but its not a sport of pilgrims, stupids.

Finally people are leaving the racism behind and really talk about the heat or pro surfing in general.
Good!
Regarding ASP… well, like I said before, there is no such thing as a pro surf event. It is more like a demo tour. Once you get this to your heads, you will be happy.

Regarding Brazzos… well, we all know(Inlcuding you Surfer, who even did an article about it) and has been quote by foreign surfers: There is a biased judge against brazilians. Thats a fact which many pro surfer already talked about.
Good thing that is getting way softer than it was.

Regarding the heat… Adriano`s floater was sick, many surfers were well scored for similar moves and many ended up with an injured neck for trying(to name a few Alejo, Ross, CJ, Bourez…. the last two ended up in the hospital). The other wave was overscored and Owen should have won(even is his waves were smaller).

Hey you wanna hear a true story. I was in the bathroom taking a crap the other day and looked down in the bowl, you know what i saw !?!? a ” floater”. But you know the slave drivers at the ASP could care less. There’s a whole bunch of clueless folks just waiting to get a hold of the s@*# there pushing. . Its pure business, and its competition..between sponsors that is. Go at it, you few, you ripping brave few, more power to you. The whole deal has a kind of Harlem Globetrotters feel to it. I was just starting to get on board, but could honestly care less about who’s on top when i have to watch crap like the Rio was.

Now, the solution: Ladies and gentlemen, i would like to introduce you to the most intense surf competition in the world.
The 1st annual ” El Brunso” Pink Slip event.
This is how it works. -The pro’s show up with their selected quivers.

– 2 men per heat, 30 min heats, best out of 3.
– Winner at the end of the round gets to keep the losers board.
– No priority, full contact, drinking is encouraged.
– A tie will be determined by blindfolding the contestants and the winner will be the first one to ride a wave successfully.

-

As the 1st on the rankings, a legitimate world title contender, and as usual happens with the top seeds, the judging continues to favor De Souza. He comes to stay, its a fact.

The two worst things ever to happen to surfing are the leash and and pro surfing. Professional surfing isn’t a sport. It’s a sickness.

the final was held in average beachbreak waves and it could have gone either way. so the hometown boy won BFD. the tour still has plenty of time to put a new leader and new hero. i feel the outrage is because a brazilian is on top for the 1st time in a long time perhaps ever? quit your whining and jefferies will sort it out.

Close heats in crap waves are a recipe for 1/2 the twits to call foul.

Does 2 airs beat a floater and an air. No, the floater was “the” move of a close heat in crap waves.

Kathleen, Do you mean when Bobby won the heat against Taj and then had a brain and mouth explosion? It was a close heat and scored that way – and Bobby won. In virtually any other proffession sport he would of been fined heavily for the hate filled vomit he spilled out at the judges.

Lastly if the ASP can’t get a sponser for another high quality left they should pay for the event themselves.

It’s obvious that the Brazilians are going to say that the controversy is due to racism, and they’re partially right. There is an outcry because Owen was robbed, but maybe it wouldn’t be quite as loud if it wasn’t for the fact that a fit pumping, spasmodic, small-wave surfing Brazilian won in front of his home crowd. The truth of the matter is, having traveled extensively, Brazilians have given themselves a bad reputation. Loud, aggressive, and with no respect for order in the lineup it’s no wonder that it’s hard for us to stomach this win. They’ve made their bed, now they have to lie in it. So, Brazilians, next time you cry foul, and accuse Anglo surfers of racism, look in the mirror as the responsible party for your bad reputation!

How hard is it to get barrelled? Those snaps are definitely harder than getting a barrel.

me aburro….

WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT IT ??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3jzSbrIAqE

Taj’s overscored waves ? or snaps are most impressive than barrels !

the floater wasn’t overscored in my opinion; the 2nd wave of adriano was however. why is everbody focusing on the floater??? (which was pretty sick…)

Well done Carrera for saying it like it is. This was a bad day for competitive surfing. There are many heats in ASP events that are close and could go either way. This heat should not have been close, was always Owen’s and now the whole surfing population outside of Brazil is in uproar, not because a Brazillian won but because the judging was so poor. Good luck to the ASP getting the respect back from the competitors and the fans.

i’m sure if owen, and the rest of the surfers knew that doing a floater on a 3-4 foot closeout would get an 8, every pro would have and could have taken the set closeouts and completed that same floater over and over, it would be easy to get a 16 combo every heat. But the surfers were trying to surf to what they thought was the criteria.
please don’t take this a racism just because i do not think adriano deserved to beat owen, i mean i love the srfing of miguel pupo and gabriel, but i did not enjoy this.
u ask if ther would have been noise on the internet if the surfers had swapped place, i ask, if adriano was the one doing the turns and punts would the result be the same? and would you be happy with that result?

I really don’t agree that Brazilians have always been underscored.
Alejo did very well at snapper and deserved his result. I had no problem with Jadsen winning last year. I had no problem with Medina winning a QS at like 15, he deserved it (And he won by doing progressive stuff).

This heat was disgraceful though.

I’m glad Surfer published this article.

Saying a floater should be scored high because other floaters were scored high is circular logic.

@ Kathleen: If Owen didn’t want anything to do with that section, it’s because the highest scores throughout the event, and over the final day in particular, were (with a few exceptions – Adriano’s float, obviously) being awarded to surfers who managed to fit two or more maneuvers into the wave. The larger waves were closing out, offering fewer scoring opportunities.

I also think Surfer should be applauded for running this article. This is the first article I’ve read on this topic that has taken a positive stance, one way or the other. Everyone else seems content to describe the result as ‘controversial’ or offer up some other banality. I find THAT disgusting. The surf media is becoming as meaningless as the ASP.

Complaints on Twitter:
Joel (Aussie)
Kieron (Aussie)
Matt (Aussie)
Dusty (Haw but loves an Aussie)

Owen is? Aussie

“The question is: if it had been the other way around (Adriano being ripped off by the judges) would Surfer have posted smthing like this? Or does it happen only when english speaking surfers get the short stick?”
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@ Jameson:
Who buy Surfer Mag? USA surfers or maybe Aussies. They simply don’t care about other places. Thats just the way it is.

By the way the things are going here, it seems that it is the first time there’s a questionable result in an ASP event. Questionable results have been part of WCT/WT events since EVER. For some reason Adriano x Owen’s heat have had the most fuss and noise since I have started to follow professional surfing events, 20 years ago. I keep asking myself if that heat, instead of having Adriano, let’s say Bobby or CJ were up against Owen… Would there be articles talking about it??? Surfing Magazines, surfing websites?? Huge discussions on the ASP page on facebook???

IF the result really should have favored Owen, it was just another mistake by the PROFESSIONAL judges. To judge waves in bad conditions like Rio is very hard.

The judges were scoring floaters during the WHOLE event. Everyone that watched the contest nows it. Adriano’s floater was no exception. That 6.5 from Owen was in a small wave and he did a pop up air with NO risk involved.

THIS ARTICLE is the most arrogant one that I’ve ever read.You should be ashamed of yourselves.

Eduardo Sampaio

COME ON!! You guys will allways act like that when a brazilian surfer win an important heat. Accept the fact that Adriano´s floater was way more difficult to complete than the little air attempt from Owen. Let the kid do his job. He deserves it. GO ADRIANOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! GO BRAZILLLLLLLLLL! I dont believe a big magazine like SURFER allow someone to write this in their website!! This is ridiculous! I bet if this had happened to Kelly or other USA or Australian surfer you guys would be really really quiet. That was a close heat and if you watch just the 2 waves from each surfer you will see why Adriano won…

The question is: if it had been the other way around (Adriano being ripped off by the judges) would Surfer have posted smthing like this? Or does it happen only when english speaking surfers get the short stick?

Kathleen,
this is an opinion, the writer has just as much of a right to express it as anyone commenting on this topic. He just has access to a medium that people will read.
Im just saying, its a good thing surf journalist’s are finally posting an opinion on judging, instead of tip toeing around the subject.
He like you, has the right to an opinion, and to make that opinion public.

Can some one clear up if the person that did this post is part of the magazine staff and whether this is the official position Surfer is going to take on this? This post is disgusting.
I agree with the commenter that the waves were bad and also contributed to the closeness of the heats. I would say that the heat was close, but was won fair and square by the little guy. I mean how many people can make that landing on that closeout section? You can see on that video that Owen didn’t want anything to do with that section and chose the easier waves. I’d say they rewarded the most critical surfing.
I dont’ consider this the most controversial heat ever, not even for a minute. Slater versus Andy in J-Bay . Taj versus Bobby this year was worse. Taj versus Adriano at Snapper, anyone? None of these heats warranted an “official response” by the ASP. Think about THAT for a minute. Everybody needs to calm down and let it go already!

even worst than the judging, which everyone and his mother knows was bad and favored adriano to win this event since the begining, is tha fact that they made a world tour event in a place like this with this waves.
Watchig this heat again what comes out is how crappy the waves were. I know there have been events on crappy waves before, but the problem here is that everyne knew from the begining that barra da tijuca is a mediocre gutless shorebreak. Obviously the money was more important that surfing here.