SurfLine Shortboard Pro competition postponed

Following massive technical problems with Second Life and an enforced grid lock-down, the Second Life Surfing Association has decided to postpone the SurfLine Shortboard Pro surfing competition at Rezzable Discover that was to be held today.

"We were waiting till the very last minute possible," said SLSA director Milo Voss "We will get together as soon as possible to schedule another date. In the meantime, we advise competitors to stay smiling and use the time to practice some more!"

"This is an extraordinarily prolonged and unusual disruption," read the 11am post from Linden Labs on the Second Life blog Saturday. "Many high-profile services and corporations are feeling the pain this morning, and full scale efforts are underway to isolate and fix the root cause."

Where to now Shortboard Pro?
However, the postponement of the competition does beg the question 'where will it eventually be held?' The Rezzable Discover sim was created specifically for the SurfLine Shortboard Pro and was destined to be turned over to another non-surf related project almost straight after the SLSA competition.

In the days following the Havok4 server update disruption it proved, by all accounts, to be the best performing surf sim in a very fluid Havok4 update affected environment. Other than that, it would be a great shame not to be able to hold the SurfLine Shortboard Pro on the sim that SurfLine designed for it, not to mention having had two very dedicated SurfLine employees working very hard on keeping it at competition standard for the past few days.

SurfWatch hopes that the SurfLine and Rezzable management are able to take the wishes of 50-odd competitors, officials and organisers on board, and the aspirations of the surfing community post-Havok4, whilst it weighs up where to host the postponed Shortboard Pro.

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