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What will be the official height of the wave winning the Billabong XXL Biggest Wave Award 2012?

What will be the official height of the wave winning the Billabong XXL Biggest Wave Award 2012?

Asked by: Super Userkruijs in Sports » Other
Settled on 05/06/2012 20:49 Settled by Super Userkruijs
Winning option:ss than 25 metres Hawaiian surfer Garrett McNamara (Haleiwa, Hawaii) winning the Biggest Wave Award for a wave measured by experts as 78 feet.


78 feet = 23.7744 meters

http://surf.transworld.net/1000146428/videos/nathan-fletcher-and-g-mac-clean-up-at-xxl-awards/

Predictions

35 metres or higher
30 metres to less than 35 metres
25 metres to less than 30 metres
less than 25 metres

Background

The 2012 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards runs through the vernal equinox on March 19, 2012, with an elaborate awards ceremony in California in late April. Unlike conventional surfing competitions which wait in one location until the waves come to them, the 12th annual Billabong XXL Awards has the unique advantage of a window which runs all year long and is open to all the world’s best surfers at all the world’s best big waves — whenever and wherever they come in – as long as they are caught on film or tape.

The 2012 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards feature an array of categories including the $50,000 Ride of the Year, Monster Paddle, Monster Tube and the Verizon Wireless Wipeout of the Year. There are also “world champ” awards for the Surfline Best Overall Performance (male) and the Billabong Girls Best Performance (female). The event features over $130,000 in cash prizes for the surfers and photographers.

http://www.billabongxxl.com

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   Super Userkruijs

The winners will be announced at the invitation-only Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards party at the Grove Theater in Anaheim, California on May 4, 2012. The show will be webcast that night on YouTube's Newtork A, and will be broadcast as a one-hour program on FUEL TV on Sunday, May 20 at 3 P.M. PT.
http://www.international.to/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5710:nominees-announced-in-2012-billabong-xxl-big-wave-awards&catid=98:sports&Itemid=218

   Super Userkruijs

The entry period for the 2012 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards is over. The Northern Hemisphere leaves winter and enters a warmer temperature. Fortunately, the world's best waves and surfers will also be getting heated up for the moment of decisions.

Nominations will be announced before the end of this month, with the awards presentation set for Friday, May 4 at the Grove Theater in Anaheim, California before an invitation-only crowd of 2,000 surf world VIPs.

http://www.surfertoday.com/surfing/7103-countdown-for-the-2012-billabong-xxl-big-wave-awards

   Super Userkruijs

Surfer Garrett McNamara: 'It was only when I got in the wave that I saw the size. I was in awe'
Garrett McNamara tells how he rode the highest recorded wave in Europe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/nov/13/garrett-mcnamara-surfing-record-wave?newsfeed=true

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