Immerse SUP & Paddle Festival - SUP Surfing

Location:Gold Coast, QLD
Date:Sat 8-Jun-2013 to Mon 10-Jun-2013
Entry Opening Date:Fri 8-Mar-2013
Entry Closing Date:Thu 6-Jun-2013
Condition: Must be a Surfing Queensland member
Divisions:Multiple division entry is permitted.
Open women, Open men, Over 40 (Open-Gender) , Over 50 (Open-Gender)
Cost:$65.00 (inc. GST) per division
Description:
2013 will again see Surfing Queensland expand the range of paddleboard and stand up paddleboard opportunities available to the state's best exponents of the rapidly expanding discipline.

The 2013 Immerse SUP & Paddle Festival will be activated over the June Long Weekend (June 8-10, 2013). The three-day festival will provide the exclusive qualification pathway for Queensland athletes aiming to compete at the 2013 Australian SUP titles.

The Pathway
1. 2013 Immerse SUP & Paddle Festival
2. 2013 Australian SUP Titles
3. 2014 International Surfing Association Paddleboard & SUP World Championships.

Divisions:
Open men - Top four qualify for Australian titles (must be a Surfing Queensland Member) - Pathway to Team Australia
Open women - Top two qualify for Australian titles (must be a Surfing Queensland Member) - Pathway to Team Australia.
O/40 open - Top four qualify for Australian titles (must be a Surfing Queensland Member)
O/50 open - Top two qualify for Australian titles (must be a Surfing Queensland Member)
Age divisions:

?Over Age? Divisions ? Competitors must be of age as of 1st January in the year of competition.
Rules: No straps allowed. Competitors may complete in TWO surf divisions.
A special offer of $165 is available to competitors who enter all three disciplines (SUP Surfing, Technical Racing & Marathon Racing). Simply enter all three components of the festival and contact Surfing Queensland via email [email protected] to receive your $30 discount after the event's conclusion. Beach entries will NOT receive the discount, only those who enter online prior to the closing date. All entries must be received by 6/6/13.
The Surfing Queensland Eligibility Document and Surfing Queensland Code of Conduct will be strictly enforced for participation in state selection events.
Competitors and spectators can call the Surfing Queensland Event Hotline after 6:30am each morning of competition for a confirmed start time and location Ph# (07) 30306388
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Going to be bloody excellent..........bring it on!

HerbertVoigt said...
"Wilcards Announced: Beau O?Brien & Jake Jensen ? division Open Men. Please note that Queensland?s allocation, (originally 4 & 8 respectively) now reduces to 2 places available from the Technical Sprint Racing component and 6 places available in the Marathon Racing component via the Immerse Festival."

Could be interesting with only 2 spots left for some of the other guns to fight for!

Is this right??

Two spots for travis, Kelly, Lincoln, Peasy, Dorries???? All amazing bop paddlers. Why don't they increase the numbers further so that those that actually race dont miss out and beau and jake (also amazing paddlers) can also have the chance to represent???

Results from Aussies bop. How many are queenslanders???? Surely selection should be based on this??

RJK said..

HerbertVoigt said...
"Wilcards Announced: Beau O?Brien & Jake Jensen ? division Open Men. Please note that Queensland?s allocation, (originally 4 & 8 respectively) now reduces to 2 places available from the Technical Sprint Racing component and 6 places available in the Marathon Racing component via the Immerse Festival."

Could be interesting with only 2 spots left for some of the other guns to fight for!

Is this right??

Two spots for travis, Kelly, Lincoln, Peasy, Dorries???? All amazing bop paddlers. Why don't they increase the numbers further so that those that actually race dont miss out and beau and jake (also amazing paddlers) can also have the chance to represent???

Don't worry Peasy and Kelly are now masters (like me) but will they go that road.
And what Ali said

I like their strategy, make the QLD titles more hotly contested than the Australian Titles!!! Takes me back to high school where making the school swim team relay was harder than winning the interschool carnival.

Looks like the race up on the Sunny Coast the week before could be the real Australian Titles for 2013. The race organisers would be laughing at every step of the way through this amatuer hour if all is as it appears.

Hate when the forum whinges aboout events when people volunteer their time to run them but these guys are getting paid as part of their job.

I'm not sure we really need qualifying for the aussies (for the racing that is).
Seems like you want to maximise rather than minimise participants....esp for the marathon.
For the BOP. Why not have heats and finals like they did for the MS BOP at Collaroy...

point of interest. options for the older crew.

over 40, over 50 pay SQ membership to get a pathway to the aussie titles and that's it

or do the over 40, over 50 shorter course and pathway stops at the end of the race but no membership required, no need to paddle to wendts and back after the ocean section

Surfing Australia bases initial state allocation decisions on the number of members from each state. I suspect that this formula is a total of all surfing disciplines and not just SUP members. There appears to be a push from QLD to have allocations altered to reflect someone's arbitrary opinion on who provides the best surfers and racers in the country. Meanwhile, some members from the southern and western states are saying this is all bull**** and each state should get equal allocations - it is a national event after all. Pass the popcorn, this could get interesting.

PTWoody said..

Surfing Australia bases initial state allocation decisions on the number of members from each state. I suspect that this formula is a total of all surfing disciplines and not just SUP members. There appears to be a push from QLD to have allocations altered to reflect someone's arbitrary opinion on who provides the best surfers and racers in the country. Meanwhile, some members from the southern and western states are saying this is all bull**** and each state should get equal allocations - it is a national event after all. Pass the popcorn, this could get interesting.

Arent aussie titles about the people who perform at the highest level within Australia? Not specific states. And as with every comp seeding is based on previous events. look at last years results and you will see that it is not anyones abitrary opinion on which state has the best surfers and racers.

All i would like to see is equal numbers from each state thus allowing the aussies to have the highest pedigree of athletes leading to a great event!

Just entered , going to look a bit strange surfing my 12,6PSH. Am i even allowed too?

Make it time based.... say all competitors qualify if they are within 10% of the winners time??? then the best get through. if a state only has one person within 10% they only get two spots. that will only work for racing.. heats for bop would be good.

Are we required to wear a pfd thingy for marathon race?

A promising forecast for Saturday.

2013 Immerse SUP & Paddle Festival
Get your entries in now and get your chance to win!
Surfing Queensland is excited to announce that Hawaiian Airlines are a support sponsor of the 2013 Immerse SUP & Paddle Festival. Hawaiian Airlines have kindly provided 2 x return flights from Australia to Honolulu and have waived baggage fees for up to two standard bags.

For your chance to win, simply enter the Immerse SUP & Paddle Festival via www.surfingqueensland.com