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The Weirdest WSL Week Ever, Pumping Kirra, and Nate Florence's Backdoor Gem Ten Things from Surfing & the Internet on the Week That Was December 18 2020 Photo: WSL / Bielmann Link copied to clipboard 1. Pipe Masters got the Rona Was this the most bizarre week in the WSL’s time as an organisation? It has to be a contender, right? To recap: on Sunday, Aus time, the WSL announced that they were halting the Pipe Masters “as a result of positive COVID-19 tests within the WSL staff, including WSL CEO Erik Logan”. Who could have foreseen that coming? The running of an international sporting ev...

WSL plans to finish the 2020 Pipe Masters December 17, 2020 | Surfing The CEO of the World Surf League (WSL) announced that the 2020 Billabong Pipe Masters will resume after a pause of several days. Erik Logan plans to run the competition taking advantage of "a promising forecast." The first stop on the 2021 Championship Tour (CT) was suspended on December 12 due to positive Covid-19 tests within its WSL staff, including Logan. "A mammoth amount of work has gone into getting professional surfing back, part of which included comprehensive Covid-19 protocols to ensure the safety of the local co...

Billabong Pipe Masters Presented by Hydro Flask To Resume in Hawaii With Promising Forecast Next Call for Billabong Pipe Masters: Thursday, December 17 Share Hello Everyone, I hope this finds you well. Today, I'm pleased to announce that we are ending our suspension of the Billabong Pipe Masters pres. by Hydro Flask and we'll look to run competition over the coming days with a promising forecast. A mammoth amount of work has gone into getting professional surfing back - part of which included comprehensive COVID protocols to ensure the safety of the local community, surfers and staff. Last we...

 Just a few days after the Billabong Pipe Masters fired the starting gun,it was called off for an undetermined amount of time. On December 11, the League released the following statement as an explanation: “The WSL has decided to suspend the Billabong Pipe Masters presented by Hydro Flask competition as a result of positive COVID-19 tests within the WSL staff, including WSL CEO Erik Logan.” After a period of silence regarding when and how the event might resume, it was announced Wednesday morning that the Pipe Masters is back on. In the same press release, Logan announced that the rece...

ou likely knew that the Pipeline Masters was put on hiatus recently.  It was called off after a handful of WSL staffers tested positive for Covid-19. It was a rough start to the first event of the year, but with any luck, the WSL will be back up on its feet and running events safely in the near future. But just because the Pipe Masters was called off doesn’t mean that Pipeline didn’t serve up the goods… and Jamie O’Brien was, of course, there to score. View Comments