2003 X Games - Surfing Results from Huntington Beach

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2003 Los Angeles X Games
Surfing Results from Huntington Beach

Backside Snap by Rob Machado Copyright Ellis/Shazamm/ESPN

EAST COAST TEAM WINS INAUGURAL X GAMES SURFING COMPETITION

The East Coast Team Takes Home the Gold After Beating The West Coast Team in The Game

Date: August 9, 2003

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. The very first competition at X Games IX ended today by making history three different times: by kicking off its first-ever year in the Los Angeles-area, by hosting its first-ever Surfing competition and by featuring The Game(tm), a revolutionary new team format that made its major competition debut. The teams were split by the East and West Coast; after an incredible match-up featuring the world’s best surfers, the East Coast surfed away with the win.

In front of a crowd of 25,500 fans at Huntington Beach Pier, the world’s best surfers competed in the debut of The Game. After a close first quarter between the two teams, the East Coast Team came out strong in the second quarter with an all-star line-up of Kelly Slater (Cocoa Beach, Fla.), Corey Lopez (Indian Rocks Beach, Fla.), Taj Burrow (Yallingup, Australia) and Shane Dorian (Kona, Hi). The East Coast Team kept their lead as Burrow pulled a huge 180 air, followed by Slater’s impressive backside cutbacks. The third quarter’s prize was Aaron Cormican’s (Orlando, Fla.) crowd-roaring frontside 360 air. As the fourth quarter developed, both Teams were vying for the lead, but the East Coast Team pulled ahead for the win.

The East Coast Team led every quarter and finished with 209.06 points to beat the West Coast Team, who had a total of 188.20 points.

"We’ve been talking about The Game concept with Brad Gerlach for two years," said Rob Machado (Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Calif.) of the West Coast Team. "Today it was everything, the people, the stands, the talking trash, the team camaraderie. It was a giant step and a great thing for Surfing."

"In the world of professional surfing, there’s a world champion," explained Slater. "In the X Games, in The Game format, you win as a team."

Two Surfing teams comprised of East and West Coast surfers competed in four quarters with each quarter broken off into two twenty-minute heats. Each team included two international wild cards, which allowed the teams to add other surfers from other parts of the world. Each of the two teams (East Coast and West Coast) has eight surfers, and each heat is surfed as a team. Four surfers from one team go out for the first twenty-minute heat, and then four surfers from the other team go out for the quarter’s second fifteen to twenty-minute heat. The Game was created by world-class surfer Brad Gerlach.

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