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 info@surfingqueensland.com.au 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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"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!
Select to expand quoteHerbertVoigt 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???
1?Kelly MARGETTS?0:33:45?Men (Open)?1
2?Lincoln DEWS?0:35:20?Men (Open)?2
3?Jake JENSEN?0:35:54?Men (Open)?3
4?Dylan MAGEE?0:36:32?Men (Open)?4
5?Troy PEASE?0:36:52?Men (Open)?5
6?Beau O'BRIAN?0:37:03?Men (Open)?6
7?Peter DORRIES?0:37:25?Men (Over 40)?1
8?David KISSANE?0:38:05?Men (Over 40)?2
9?Paul JONES?0:38:18?Men (Open)?7
10?Dale CHAPMAN?0:41:03?Men (Over 40)?3
Results from Aussies bop. How many are queenslanders???? Surely selection should be based on this??
I still don't understand why Surfing Qld are running with the obvious error in the Surfing Australia Handbook and only 4 allocated spots (minus two wild cards) for the men's tech race. The numbers in the Surfing Aus handbook are clearly wrong as they just don't add up. The total allocation for the tech race doesn't equal 118! But if the opens men's 12'6" marathon allocations are also applied to the tech race (ie 34 open men's spots) then it all works.
Surfing NSW managed to correct it in their published allocations (8 opens not 6) so how long will it take Surfing Qld to realise its wrong. I know rules are rules and the rule book is binding (hence them adopting it) but common sense should prevail when there's an error in the rules.
Here's the allocations for every state according to to Surfing Nsw, so go figure???
To only have 2 spots left for 7 of the top 10 at last year Aussies, plus Travis who was out injured last year is just plain ridiculous!!!!
Maybe Qld should get all the extra NSW spots cause there weren't enough competitors at their states to fill their Quota.
Select to expand quoteRJK 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
seems like some genuine concern. Has anyone contacted Surfing QLD and chatted about it?
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.
We wonder why race participation is dropping what the point of paying $165 and the team has already bacically been picked. Not much motivation for anyone not mentioned in this thread. If we want more people to participate we also need ameteur divisions " anyone how has not placed in top 5 of previous races " we need more competitors " more money for events to keep them going" just having top ten turn up to each race isn't viable for race events!for long term
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...
What happens in every other sport when competition for state selection in a dominant state leads to talented athletes being robbed of opportunities? The athlete moves to another state. Outside of that option, I can't see how you can rob NSW (or any state for that matter) of allocations just because QLD has 7 of the 10 best paddlers. It wouldn't be nationals if it was all QLDers.
But the notion of doing away with state qualification as Kissa suggests also has merit.
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
what is wrong with giving QLD a couple more spots and making it the same as NSW we know there are stacks of good paddlers in QLD it seems a bit rediculous that at the National titles the best guys wont all be there as a New south welshman i think surfing QLD need to take a good look at this before the QLD titles and adjust the numbers correctly its no big deal having an extra couple of boddies on the start line.
aren,t we trying to get more people involved in SUP not trying to keep them away.
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.
I'm not pushing for extra allocations at this stage, just for someone to correct the allocations based on the obvious error in the Surfing Australia Rule Book, so that the Men's Open Tech Race allocation for each state is equal to the Men's Open 12'6" Marathon allocation, as was the case last year.
NSW has done this already, offering 8 places for the Open Men's Tech Race, rather than the 6 in the Rule Book, and i'm not sure what the other states (outside QLD) have done?
My suggestion of QLD using the additional allocations from NSW not filling their spots, was purely on the basis that this is what Surfing Australia has done in the past. Give each state the chance to fill their allocation through their respective state titles, then state based wildcards (if there is still places left after the state titles), then remaining places that states can't/don't fill and are offered to all states.
As i've said before, if they want a fair allocation based on state membership numbers, then they need to start counting SUP membership separately to short and longboard membership. I'm sure this will come with time as the sport is still in its infancy and improvements will happen over time as the sport grows.
Select to expand quotePTWoody 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!
Well said Ryan , this needs to be sorted out before Aussies . We have state of origin in qld and they have over 45 , then state is over 40 division . Best to stick with one age . Over allow for state qualifying for Aussies , so you can guarantee the best are there , lets face it unless you were a young hotshot from WA trying to make the Aussie team , you'd spend your money on a trip to bali instead of coming to qld for the Aussies .
Just entered , going to look a bit strange surfing my 12,6PSH. Am i even allowed too?
Just had my entry rejected because im not a member of surfing queensland , I thought my membership of SUPSA allows me entry and insurance.Is this only for SUPSA run events?..
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.
Select to expand quoteskebstebamal said..
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.
That's cool, we just get our winner to stop 10 metres before the finish and wait for the field to catch up, then everyone qualifies. Easy. 
Select to expand quoteSurfrod66 said...
At your age Steve a PFD is a good idea!!!!!!!!you still coming to Scott's Head
Seconded
2013 Immerse SUP & Paddle Festival
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Wilcards Announced:
Angela Jackson ? division Open Women. Please note that Queensland?s allocation, (originally 4 & 4 respectively) now reduces to 3 places available for selection via each discipline at the Immerse Festival
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.
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looks like they did have and error in numbers they displayed (still there too).
Is actually 8 spots in the marathon 12'6''!!
YEW!!!
