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Pete Mel Dominates Mavericks Awards; Justine Dupont Wins Female Performer of the Year Friday May 14, 2021
At 6 p.m. on the evening of May 13, the inaugural Mavericks Awards were broadcast right here on
The Inertia. Big wave contests are hard to do right. They’re generally one-day events. But the Mavericks Awards succeeded in that it was a culmination of a season’s worth of video clips from the iconic wave, submitted for judges at the end of the waiting period. Thursday night celebrated the hard-charging winter that was, a moment to salute the big wave world.
As many would expect following his season of highlight reel moments at gigantic Mavericks, it was a clean sweep by Mr. Peter Mel. Mel won Best Barrel, Male Performer of the Year, Biggest Wave, and Ride of the Year. Always a standout with her skill and willingness to charge, France’s Justine Dupont nabbed Female Performer of the Year. “When I came to Mavericks,” Dupont said in her acceptance speech,
All-Time: Mavs & ‘The Biggest Swell of the Decade’ by Drone Thursday May 13, 2021
, we’ve collaborated with videographer Abe Alarcon, who spent much of this historic winter documenting the action at Mavs by drone. The following is Abe’s firsthand account of filming “the biggest swell of the decade,” his anticipation and nerves the night before, and what he’s taken from the experience.
It was close to midnight on January 9 when the swell fully hit buoys outside of California. I vividly remember sitting at the table with photographer Ben Schutzer inside our hotel room, looking at the charts reading 42.7 ft @ 15.0 secs, averaging about 20 to 18 feet in each period band. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
O’Neill Regional Wave of the Winter Winners Announced!
Bomb-baggers throughout the U.S. and Caribbean score $1,000 and bragging rights
Bomb-baggers throughout the U.S. and Caribbean score $1,000 and bragging rights
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Never in the history of the O’Neill Regional Wave of the Winter has there been so much diversity in our field of entrants and, ultimately, our short list of winners. Some are defending champions. Some have never won it before. Some are young ladies. Some are 50-year-old men.
But after a four-month holding period (December 1, 2020-March 31, 2021) filled to the brim with impressive entries from all over the continental U.S. and Caribbean, we’ve determined the winners for the third annual event. After the field was whittled down to four semifinalists for each of the five regions, those surfers were then judged via online user voting on Surfline’s Instagram Story.