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Are Teahupo’o Locals About To Ruin Someone’s Season?

Stace and Mikey dissect the matchups, the forecast, and the wildcard threat in Tahiti.

news // Aug 7, 2026
Words by Stab
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Ia orana!

When Ferran Torres scored Spain’s World Cup-winning goal against Argentina, three separate seismic stations registered tremors during the celebrations.

The seismometers at the PS18 station in Taravao, on the isthmus that connects Tahiti Nui and Tahiti Iti, sometimes mistake groundswells for tectonic activity.

Recent back-to-back South Pacific pulses have kept the pens twitching, and another promising swell is lining up just in time to rouse the Championship Tour from its more than month long slumber. Along with it? Some dicey winds. We’ll see what that means tomorrow when the event window opens.

With the welcome bonus of fresh water footage from smallish Teahupo’o practice sessions running in the background, Stace Galbraith and 2014 Men’s World Qualifying Series No. 515 Michael Ciaramella discuss the forecast for the event with anticipation — plus all the reasons to fear local wildcards, a run-through of the heat draw for your BetOnline picks and, of course, the implications of a good or bad run here on the tour campaign.

Listen, but you’ll be better off if you watch.

There are juicy odds getting arounf on Betonline.ag. Make your picks here.

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