Rezzable changes Surfline venue

Rezzable, owner-developer of the Surfline sims, announced late Wednesday that the upcoming SLSA Surfline Shortboard Pro surfing competition due to be held on Saturday 26 April 2008 will now not be held on Rezzable Discover as expected, but on a newly revamped Surfline Epic and Aloha sims. The Surfline Shortboard Pro has already been affected by a string of real life and Second Life circumstances over the past few weeks including its most recent deferment due to the total lock-down of the Second Life grid two weeks ago. Surfline management had confirmed earlier this month that the twice-postponed surfing competition would be held on the Rezzable Discover sim.

Rezzable's Surfline Epic sim today running pipeline 2.0 beta waves

"Our Surfline SL 'project' is coming to a very quick close this week," read last night's message from Kalani Koga on the SLSA Forum website, explaining that the Rezzable Discover and Rezzable Create sims would be turned over to future projects. "We've been furiously working on our home beaches, Epic and Aloha, to bring you a similar break and lineup!!! In actuality, what we've done is taken our lessons learned from Discover and Create, and have applied them in a more modular and prep-friendly design."

It true that the Surfline Epic and Aloha sims have been competely changed and the Surfline Epic sim is now running pipeline 2.0 beta waves which run onto a newly formed beach on Surfline Aloha. However, the Surfline Aloha sim (see pic above) hardly looks prim and script-free in comparison to the superb competition conditions created at Rezzable Discover. Surfers will obviously be hoping that Rezzable is able to create and manage a competition pipeline 2.0 set-up on the redesigned sim in what is still a difficult and unpredictable post Havok4 environment for Second Life waves.

The new competition sign on Rezzable Aloha.

SurfWatch hopes that the sign on Rezzable Aloha beach sim quoting the wrong date is not a bad omen.

Update 1100 hrs SLT
More background information is now available on this story in the SLSA Forum here, courtesy of Surfline's Kalani Koga.

Update 17 April 2008
Gweneth Lange points out on the Rezzable blog that the picture at the top of this story is misleading, since the islands visible are actually on neighbouring sims and not on the main Surfline Aloha sim itself. We concur.


SurfWatch: SurfLine Shortboard Pro competition postponed (5 Apr 08)
SurfWatch: Second Life grid lock-down could stop SurfLine competition (5 Apr 08)
SurfWatch: Wave concerns continue to dog SurfLine preparations (4 Apr 08)
SurfWatch: Tide turns as Shortboard Pro Heats Drawn (3 Apr 08)
SurfWatch: Linden Labs Code Change Threatens Second Life Surfing (2 Apr 08)
SurfWatch: New waves, new sim for SurfLine Shortboard Pro (2 Apr 08)
SurfWatch: Registrations close for Surfline (25 Mar 08)
SurfWatch: SLSA announces competition date changes (13 Mar 08)
SLSA Forum: Surfline SL announcement
SLURL: SurfLine Aloha

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