The QOTP celebrates the grace and flow of female approach to traditional longboarding. Judging criteria for all divisions is as followed:
- Surfers should ride with a classic longboard approach on turns, nose rides, style, flow, etc but must
be done with High Degree of difficulty in critical section of wave. - Don’t surf like shortboard. Pumping a longboard is not a maneuver or in the spirit of Traditional Longboard Surfing – surfers should walk, engage rail, critical nose ride with speed and continuous flow, trim well.
- Noserides must be critical – not out on shoulder, shouldn’t be able see tail from shore.
- Rail surfing, not tail surfing. Different than a shortboard turn. No lifting of the board out of water or riding off of the fin only.
- Nuances of style, flow and grace will be sought after… Where the feet are. How maneuvers are connected.
- Variety – not only nose rides (going straight), not only turns (never nose riding). Excellent surfing combines both seamlessly.
- No down time or missed opportunities by avoiding critical sections
- Use High Degree of Difficulty to help separate scores
- Tricks like heels, switch stance etc must be done critical and display high degree of difficulty – don’t
be fooled by tricks if not critical positioning. Standing switch is not a functional maneuver. - Beware of lazy nose rides (wide stance) or cheating with back foot, where surfer gets lazy five then pulls
back foot up later (safety), that is always not a truly earned 10. - Be aware of nose rides in front of the pocket/critical section.
- Uninterrupted flow from beginning to end, showing control.
Amateur Division
BOARD SPECIFICATIONS – Minimum 9ft or 3ft overhead (Itty Bitty & Mini divisions)
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS PER DIVISION – 12
NUMBER OF RIDERS PER HEAT – 6
HEAT LENGTH
- Preliminary heats – 15 min
- Final Heats – 20 min
WATER START – Paddle 5 min before heat start
INTERFERENCES – Snaking and back paddling WILL NOT be tolerated.
- 1st Offense – 2nd highest score cut in half
- 2nd Offense – Automatic disqualification
ROUND ROBIN FORMAT
- Round 1 – Top 3 places go to “TOP 3” heat; Bottom 3 places go to “BOTTOM 3” heat
- TOP 3 – Top 3 go to “FINAL”; Bottom 3 go to “ELIMINATION”
- BOTTOM 3 – Top 3 go to “ELIMINATION”; Bottom 3 are out
- ELIMINATION – Top 3 go to “FINAL”; Bottom 3 are out
*Subject to change without notice
Pro Division – $6,000 Prize Purse*
- First Place = $3,000
- Second Place = $1,500
- Third Place = $900
- Fourth Place = $600
BOARD SPECIFICATIONS – Minimum 9ft
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS – 24
NUMBER OF RIDERS PER HEAT – 4
HEAT LENGTH
- Preliminary heats – 25 min
- Final Heats – 30 min
WATER START – Paddle 5 min before heat start
INTERFERENCES – Snaking and back paddling WILL NOT be tolerated.
- 1st Offense – 2nd highest score cut in half
- 2nd Offense – Automatic disqualification
*Subject to change without notice
