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Davidson & Euroforce up on QS ratings after Rip Curl Pro

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 25 August, 2008 : - - Coolangatta -- ASP WQS 6-Star PRIME Rip Curl Pro at Hossegor has been completed with current ASP WQS No. 2 Chris Davidson (AUS) taking out his second title this year and by doing so has probably cemented his place on the prestigious Dream Tour for 2009 along with equal 5th place finisher and current ASP WQS No. 1 Nathaniel Curran (USA), who unfortunately is injured and will be missing next week’s ASP WQS 6-Star in Portugal.

Davo outpointed current ASP Top 45 member Jihad Khodr (BRA) in the Final and equal 3rds were Germany’s Marlon Lipke and Aussie Josh Kerr. In the curren ’QS ratings Top 20, three Aussies, Dion Atkinson, Adam Robertson and Nic Muscroft have ped out making way for Tiago Pires (PRT), Shaun Gossman (ZAF/AUS) and Khodr.

Big movers this week upwards were Josh Kerr from 12th to 3rd, Marlon Lipke 14th to 7th , Tim Boal 14th to 8th, Jihad Khodr from 32nd to 11th and Shaun Gossman from 23rd to 16th (continuing his roller coaster ratings ride). In the last five events Shaun has gone from 23rd to 15th to 19th to 23rd and now back to 16th.

Those ping places were Greg Emslie from 6th to 13th, Pedro Henrique from 4th to 9th and Patrick Guduaskas from 7th to 10th. The rest remained within a couple of places.

WQS Ratings after the Rip Curl Pro Hossegor

1	Curran,Nathaniel	USA
2	Davidson,Chris	AUS
3	Kerr,Josh	AUS
4	Nicol,Yadin	AUS
5	Weare,David	ZAF
6	Courtney,Drew	AUS
7	Lipke,Marlon	DEU
8	Boal,Tim	FRA
9	Henrique,Pedro	BRA
10	Gudauskas,Patrick	USA
11	Khodr,Jihad	BRA
12	Bettero,Hizunome	BRA
13	Emslie,Greg	ZAF
14	Garcia,Sunny	HAW
14	Paulino,Pablo	BRA
16	Gossmann,Shaun	AUS
17	Monteiro,Raoni	BRA
18	Yeomans,Nathan	USA
19	Simpson,Brett	USA
20	Pires,Tiago	PRT
21	Kling,Gabe	USA
22	Atkinson,Dion	AUS
23	Robertson,Adam (Vic)	AUS
24	Dornelles,Rodrigo	BRA
24	Melling,Adam	AUS
26	Muscroft,Nic	AUS
27	Ware,Austin	USA
28	Sedley,Leigh	AUS
29	Cansdell,Shaun	AUS
30	Cuizon,Dustin	HAW
31	Barca,Dustin	HAW
31	Centeio,Joel	HAW
33	Bacalso,Kekoa	HAW
34	Hedge,Nathan	AUS
35	Bourez,Michel	PYF
36	Romao,Simao	BRA
37	Wilkinson,Matt	AUS
38	Bombaci,Rhys	AUS
39	Andre,Jadson	BRA
40	Sodre,Yuri	BRA
41	Zubizarreta,Gony	ESP
42	MacDonald,Phillip	AUS
43	Hall,Glenn	IRE
44	Flintoff,Kirk	AUS
45	Duru,Joan	FRA
46	Gudauskas,Dane	USA
47	Losness,Mike	USA
47	Silva,Andre	BRA
49	Neves,Leonardo	BRA
50	Savalli,Hugo	REU
51	Padaratz,Neco	BRA
52	Wright,Warwick	ZAF
53	Coutinho,Odirlei	BRA
54	Beven,Patrick	FRA
55	Ward,Shaun	USA
56	Fahrenfort,Damien	ZAF
57	Ohno,Masatoshi	JPN
58	Thompson,Jay	AUS
59	Ziems,Corey	AUS
60	Alves,Heitor	BRA
61	Toth,Brian	PRI
62	Barron,T.J	HAW
63	Collazo,Hodei	ESP
63	Galvao,Renato	BRA
65	Miranda,Bernardo	BRA
66	Campbell,Ryan	AUS
67	Wilson,Blake	AUS
68	Silva,Jean da	BRA
69	Gudauskas,Tanner	USA
69	Riou,Alain	PYF
71	Bastos,Leandro	BRA
72	Rothman,Makuakai	HAW
72	Souza,Adriano de	BRA
74	Thornton,Blake	AUS
75	Howse,Jarrad	AUS
76	Laulhe,Romain	FRA
77	Fisher,Paul	AUS
77	Gonzalez,Jonathan	CNY
79	Ross,Daniel	AUS
80	Geiselman,Eric	USA
81	Dantas,Wiggolly	BRA
82	Rebiere,Eric	FRA
83	Cardoso,Willian	BRA
84	Bortoletto,Antonio	ZAF
84	Logie,Travis	ZAF
86	Polo,Marco	BRA
87	Spencer,Sterling	USA
88	Sullivan,Jarrad	AUS
89	Roberts,Gavin	ZAF
90	El Harim,Abdel	MAR
91	Page,Sam	AUS
92	Payne,Dusty	HAW
93	Hansen,Bobby	NZL
94	Coleborn,Mitchel	AUS
95	Cloitre,Romain	FRA
96	Acero,Eneko	EUK
97	Perry,Jack	AUS
98	Palmboom,Rudy	ZAF
99	Quinn,Jay	NZL
100	Novak,Flynn	HAW

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It is interesting to note that of these guys, David Weare is sitting in the best position as he is carrying four scores of under 1,000 points. Jihad and Pablo two under 1,000 with Tiago Pires on a zero and a 563 so expect Tiago to jump up dramatically especially seeing the next event is at this home break.

Lately, I have been getting queries as to my prediction of the cutoff points needed to qualify for next year’s ASP World Tour. Currently it’s in the mid 9,000 mark and most surfers are carrying one or two low scores under 1,000 or just on it so they should all expect to at least have around 1,000 more come the year end. That means the cutoff is already in the mid-to-high 10,000’s with just reasonable results.

If the Dream Tour surfers continue to do the remaining ASP WQS events, I can foresee them taking most of the big points on offer and the others moving slowly upwards. If they don’t do the ASP WQS events, then those sitting high in the ratings can expect a lot more points and the cutoff could go over 12,000 easily.

What’s it mean? Well Curran is safe, Davo should be, Josh Kerr also as he has a real low 7th score and the rest who knows as only time will tell and there are still three ASP WQS 6-Star Primes and five ASP WQS 6-Star events left so someone could decide to start now from zero and still make 12,000 plus points easily.

The ASP Pro Juniors had one event this week in Ericeira, Portugal - site of this week’s ASP WQS 6-Star Buondi Billabong Pro. The ASP Pro Junior division held this past weekend was won by Charles Martin in the boy’s and Alizee Arnaud in the girls.

In Hawaii the Roxy Jam women’s longboard ASP LQS event was won by the new current ASP Women’s World Longboard Champ Joy Monahan at Queen’s on Oahu.

Until next week. Regards, Al Hunt ASP WQS Tour Manager

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