Surf100 Challenge Series Presented By Pacifico: Episode 3

“The tribe has spoken,” Dane Reynolds pronounced, and a surfer’s torch was snuffed.

cinema // Jul 10, 2025

Words by Stab

Reading Time: 4 minutes

Watch Episode 1 of the Surf100 Challenge Series Presented by Pacifico here. And watch Episode 2 here.

Read “Everything You Need To Know About The Surf100 Challenge Series Presented By Pacifico” here.

Welcome to Episode 3 of the Surf100 Challenge Series Presented by Pacifico, the third round in our $100,000 title fight.

Last week, we lost our second surfer — Mateus Herdy — by a Pringle-thin margin at the hands of Cam Richards (and burly Blacks Beach).

With Mateus and Noah Beschen gone, only six surfers remain in contention: Jacob Willcox, Ian Crane, Rasta Robb, Eithan Osborne, Cam Richards, and Sebastian Williams.

Six surfers hoping to break themselves into the income echelon of America’s middle class, with one check. Photo: Billy Watts

Only two surfers will survive into Episode Eight’s classic Surf100 finale*, where they’ll face off against two mystery invitees for a chance at $100,000.

Now, let’s reveal the third challenge: Surf100’s first and only team challenge, with a mutinous twist.

*Join us for a live screening of the Surf100 finale — Sept 10th at JS Garage in Oceanside, CA. The Pacificos are on us.

Stab High Japan 2025’s runner-up, Cam Richards, is seeking monetary vengeance. Photo: Billy Watts

Episode Three: Dumpster Diver Tag Team

Six surfers compete in a 2 v. 2 v. 2 tag-team match-up.
Each surfer can catch up to three waves in their round, but only the wave they claim is scored out of 100.
Once a surfer claims a wave, the head to the beach and tag in their next teammate. The second teammate must surf and claim their wave before 30 minutes are up.
Each team’s two claimed waves are combined to form their heat total.
The team with the highest heat total in Round 1 is safe — the other two teams go to Round 2, where the process repeats.
The team that loses Round 2 will then be split in Round 3 and have to surf against one another to decide who goes home.

Christmas morning. Dane outfitted each competitor with their own Dumpster Diver. Photo: Billy Watts

A few behind-the-curtain notes on this episode:

1. Sebastian Williams allegedly hurt his knee trying a layback the day prior at Blacks and was considering pulling out of the competition. The other surfers couldn’t tell if he was serious or not, and were worried about teaming up with him at Rincon when they saw him limping around at Starbucks. You’ll see in the episode how this man of mystery fares.

2. Britt Merrick and the Channel Islands team were on the beach watching their boards getting piloted with $100,000 on the line. And they were in direct earshot when one disgruntled competitor spewed the following about the DD2 — “All I want to say is: Win or lose, I want a fucking cut of whatever marketing dollars C.I. paid you to make us ride these shitty fucking boards.” We did not, in fact, get paid any marketing dollars for this. Chat, did we fuck up?

3. The night prior, Eithan and Jacob had us drop them off at the infamous Cassidy’s bar in Newport. They proceeded to play pool and smash beers until past midnight, with a 4:30 AM wake-up call scheduled for the next day. They zonked out the entire way to Rincon in the van, barely opening their eyes until it came time to chuck on the wetsuit. Then they surfed on the same team.