The Second Life Surfing Association (SLSA) announced heat line-ups on Wednesday for the 38 surfers taking part in the SurfLine Shortboard Pro, amid technical concerns over Second Life's new updates to Havok4 server software.
The SurfLine Shortboard Pro, which takes place on Saturday 5 April at Rezzable Discover, will be the third event in the SLSA competition season. Recent changes in the Second Life server code, which affects wave/board interactions and wave maneuvers, already seem to be causing some concern among competitors as the event rolls ever closer (see SurfWatch 2 April Linden Labs Code Change Threatens Second Life Surfing).
Craig Stallion, former director of the SLSA, was happy enough with his time surfing Rezzable's pipes on Wednesday before the server changes took effect: "they are running really smooth right now. The waves are responding super fast to all the controls - almost too fast at times for someone that has been training in lag."
However, the tide has definitely turned for Second Life surfing conditions during the last 24 hours. Top-ranked Pova Rustamova has spent a lot of time on the new sim and has seen it change. "It was perfect the other day," said Pova late Wednesday / early Thursday, "but today the boards are acting crazy."
Surfing competitor Abel Halderman of Team Tsunami, also expressed some concerns, "from what I hear, the competition sim is nice and smooth, but there are some issues in Second Life with physics right now."
SurfWatch was on hand while Kalani Koga, SurfLine Manager, seemed to manually generate some pipes for a group of surfers trying out the sim in preparation for the competition, indicating that even the new low-prim, script-free sim must be facing issues. SLSA 9th ranked Vic Bonetto commented after two runs, "the waves reacted a bit strange, hard to stay in them, I seemed to go too fast through the wave."
On the whole, competitors' reactions are mixed, not least of all since the competition sim has new pipeline 2.0 waves that most surfers are experiencing for the very first time this week! "The sim feels great, and I love the idea of a short board competition. Not sure of the new waves, but looking forward to a great competition," commented surfer Cipriano Grut, although again pre-code update.
The SurfLine Shortboard Pro is scheduled for 1100 hrs Second Life time (SLT) on Saturday 5 April. 38 surfers are registered to take part in 7 first heats. The following heat competitors lists were announced by the SLSA.
HEAT 1
Pova Rustamova (RED)
Able Halderman (BLUE)
Jesse Compton (GREEN)
Payten Harrop (ORANGE)
Jaay Zymurgy (PURPLE)
Rani Decosta (WHITE)
HEAT 2
DeVinna Toll (RED)
Vic Bonetto (BLUE)
Selina Otsuka (GREEN)
Oroonie Oh (ORANGE)
Fungus Kamach (PURPLE) -- Now withdrawn from competition (22.00 hrs SLT, 4 Apr 08)
Egon Zimmini (WHITE)
HEAT 3
Colleen Brennan (RED)
Ashleigh Dickins (BLUE)
Cipriano Grut (GREEN)
Whamdammit Merryman (ORANGE)
QUENCH Spotter (PURPLE)
Shelby Fitzgerald (WHITE)
HEAT 4
Carlos MacAlpine (RED)
Desirae Beaumont (BLUE)
Buffy Munro (GREEN)
Paeida Allen (ORANGE)
Kathy Heberle (PURPLE)
Crusader Arado (WHITE)
HEAT 5
Bobbi Laval (RED)
LeahJane Cazalet (BLUE)
Cierra Theriac (GREEN) -- Now withdrawn from competition
Craig Stallion (ORANGE)
LD Barrett (PURPLE) -- Now withdrawn from competition (03.00 hrs SLT, 4 Apr 08)
HEAT 6
Christine Daffodil (RED)
Desne Aabye (BLUE)
Mick Lunasea (GREEN)
Malcom Sydney (ORANGE)
Pyper Dollinger (PURPLE)
HEAT 7
VW Sands (RED)
Kimmy Fitzgerald (BLUE)
Carolin Gausman (GREEN) -- Now withdrawn from competition (08.53 hrs SLT, 3 Apr 08)
Mateus Rieko (ORANGE)
Wilfrid DeCuir (PURPLE)
Updated 22.00 hrs SLT, 4 April 2008
Useful links
SurfWatch: Linden Labs Code Change Threatens Second Life Surfing
SurfWatch: New waves, new sim for SurfLine Shortboard Pro
SurfWatch: Registrations close for Surfline
URL: Judging Criteria
URL: Competition Day Requirements (for Surfers and Spectators)
SLURL: Rezzable Discover
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