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Sorting your World Title confusion… sort of

Words by Jake Howard The sleepless nights worrying about what Adriano De Souza has to do to be your champ are over. The new WSL World Title Scenario Generator is here. It’s the Al Hunt of algorithms. Released yesterday for all of us that still can’t figure out who needs to do what to win the 2015 WSL title, it’s as easy as shuffling through a few dropdown menus. Simply select how you foresee the top 7 surfers in the world finishing at the upcoming Pipe Masters and Interweb magic does the rest. The generator processes your picks and spits out the winner. You can even show your friends how smart you are by sharing it on Facebook or Twitter. The only problem, there’s infinite possibilities. The only sure thing is that Italo can’t win the title, but they threw him into the generator anyway for shits and gigs. Toy with the world title scenarios as you will, but released concurrently with the generator was a series of six hype videos, one for each contender. Not exactly biographical, the WSL has gone ahead and summed up each guy in three words. Because they were worth sharing (and discussing), we figured we’d list them for you: Adriano De Souza: Ferocity meets tenacity Filipe Toledo: Innovation meets passion Mick Fanning: Speed meets power Gabriel Medina: Drive meets dominance Julian Wilson: Precision meets progress Owen Wright: Force meets finesse So there you have it. Now that you’ve been gifted with this ever-so valuable information; use it wisely…

news // Mar 8, 2016
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Words by Jake Howard

The sleepless nights worrying about what Adriano De Souza has to do to be your champ are over. The new WSL World Title Scenario Generator is here. It’s the Al Hunt of algorithms.

Released yesterday for all of us that still can’t figure out who needs to do what to win the 2015 WSL title, it’s as easy as shuffling through a few dropdown menus. Simply select how you foresee the top 7 surfers in the world finishing at the upcoming Pipe Masters and Interweb magic does the rest. The generator processes your picks and spits out the winner. You can even show your friends how smart you are by sharing it on Facebook or Twitter. The only problem, there’s infinite possibilities. The only sure thing is that Italo can’t win the title, but they threw him into the generator anyway for shits and gigs.

Toy with the world title scenarios as you will, but released concurrently with the generator was a series of six hype videos, one for each contender. Not exactly biographical, the WSL has gone ahead and summed up each guy in three words. Because they were worth sharing (and discussing), we figured we’d list them for you:

Adriano De Souza: Ferocity meets tenacity

Filipe Toledo: Innovation meets passion

Mick Fanning: Speed meets power

Gabriel Medina: Drive meets dominance

Julian Wilson: Precision meets progress

Owen Wright: Force meets finesse

So there you have it. Now that you’ve been gifted with this ever-so valuable information; use it wisely…

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