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Note: You may Sign Up for this event at ANY TIME! - Visit the Signup Thread
Do not hesitate if you would like to be a part of this tour, even if you have missed an individual tournament. You can still easily achieve a decent standing and rank for the second half of this tour and the next tour by beginning your participation now instead of later. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=499393)




What is this?

The Surf NS Tour is a Surfing competition which you are invited to join. How it works is, once the tour starts, results will be simulated using a complex system of formulas which are influenced by both the settings you input at the bottom of this thread, and a random factor which make the results more enjoyable. Additionally, you can earn bonus points towards your competitors performances by contributing worthwhile posts to this thread. If you have out-of-character questions or comments or need something clarified, please contact Vilita or post in the Signup Thread (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=499393).

The competition will not start until, at the earliest, Friday September 15th, or until sufficient signups have been reached, whichever comes first. The RP thread has been opened early for any nations already signed up to begin setting up their story lines and prepare for the opening event.

In Character-ly, all events will take place in the Tropics of Vilita or in the Vilitan Cove in the Atlantian Oceania region. Below is a map of the Vilitan Cove region, and the locations of the venues shown below and the schedule at the end of this thread.

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Event Format

Each Event on the Surf NS Tour will have a similar format. An unlimited number of participants can enter the First Stage. At the first stage of each event, the participants will get 3 scoring runs towards their overall score. After the first stage, the Top 16 participants based on average score from their qualifying runs will advance to the elimination portion of the Event. From this second round stage, the field will be cut in half. During the elimination rounds, only the surfers run from that round will count. So this means the if the leader after the first stage has a bad run in round 2, their scores from round 1 will not contribute to them finishing in the top 8 in round 2 and advancing.


First Round ( 3 Scoring Runs )
Second Round (Top 16 - First Round Average Score)
Quarter Finals (Top 8 - Second Round Single Score)
Semi Finals (Top 4 - Quarter Final Single Score)
Finals (Top 2 - Semi Finals Single Score)
Champion (Highest score in Finals Run)



Team & Individual Standings

Individual Standings will work very clearly, as all of a competitors runs from an event will contribute to his/her overall score for the season-long Individual Standings. These Individual Standings will have no effect on the results in the inagural tour. Much like the Baptism of Fire Cup, as far as a rank modifier, all nations will be starting out on level playing ground, but can gain additional bonus based on their RP. In Season Two, a Rank modifier will be introduced, based on the overall Nation/Team standings, which will be determined based on the performance of a nations surfers at any given event. It is most likely that the national standings will simply be the accumulation of a nations best run from amongst its surfers in each run of an event.

In the long run, it will be the national standings, and not the individual ones, that will determine rankings for future tours, but the individual standings is where the most pride will be won on a seasonal basis. The Team & Individual standings will either be updated in this post, or in a scores thread if interest level warrants one.


How to Enter:

If you have not yet signed up for the NS Surf Tour in Vilita, please visit the official Signup Thread (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=499393) and submit your competitors there. The following is a list of nations who have been confirmed as signing up for the tour and submitting their nations representatives on the tour.


Andossa Se Mitrin Vega
Aurendia
Az-Cz
Bainbridge Islands
Bazalonia
Bedistan
Divensi
Dorian and Sonya
Edoniakistanbabweagua
Elves Security Forces
Geisenfried
Liverpool England
Milchama
Misrantis
Napieria
Nedalia
New Montreal States
Nueva Ganja
Pablicosta
Quakmybush
Rejistania
Schiavonia
Spruitland
System Karela
The Islands of Qutar
The Lowland Clans
The Mushroom Kingship
The Resurgent Dream
Tocapa
Vilita


If your nation does not appear in the list above, AND! A nation who has submitted their roster in the Signup Thread (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=499393) after you have submitted yours does appear in the list, then please return to the Signup Thread (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=499393) to declare this fact, or contact Vilita. The RP thread is not the place for matters regarding to signups! Thanks.




First-Half Tour Venues ( As signified by the Map Above )
1 - Lonngeylin Coast Challenge [Lonngeylin, Vilita]
2 - Crosaibi Coast Challenge [Crosaibi, Vilita]
3 - Surf Sile [Turoki Isle, Vilita]
4 - Tiones Lumber Open [Yeaddin, Vilita]
5 - Surf Morata Valley [Morata Point, Vilita]
6 - Capitol City Open [Alikki-Corra, Vilita]
7 - Arcticala Junction Open [Arcticala, Vilita]
8 - Silver Sand Shores [Jlinal, Vilita]
9 - Lopinka Memorial [Lopinka, Vilita]
10- Mavaloiao Point Challenge [Turoki isle, Vilita]
11- Inlet Open [Arcticala, Vilita]
12- Peninsula Challenge [Alikki-Corra, Vilita]
13- Lonngeylin Point Open [Lonngeylin, Vilita]
14- Vilitan Pipeline Invitational [Lonngeylin, Vilita]


The Types of Events:

Open - An open (Or a Non-Specified event Type) is a standard event, which allows unranked surfers to compete at any time so long as they sign up before the event.
Challenge - A Challenge holds fractionally more prestige than an Open due to increased media attention and preparation by the venue
Invitational - An invitational is the highest level of tournament with the most prestige going to the winner. The Vilitan Pipeline Invitational is the most prestigious event on the tour, and is the only Invitational in the first half of the schedule. New signups will be accepted throughout the duration of the tour, however a surfer will not be allowed to compete in an invitational if they have not first surfed in an Open or a Challenge.

First Half Schedule Announced!

The first event in the Inagural NationStates Surf Tour will be held on the pristene Lonngeylin Coast. The Lonngeylin region of Vilita, reknowned for being one of the top surfing hotspots in the Vilitan Cove, will not only host the opening event of the Tour's first half, but also the concluding event, the Vilitan Pipeline Invitational. The Vilitan Pipeline Invitational is the biggest event on the Tour of Vilita, and, although competitors will get the same contribution from the event towards the final standings, bragging rights to the victor of the Vilitan Pipeline Invitational will rival those of the overall tour champion.

While the tour will stop in Lonngeylin three times during the first half, there are other venues such as the anticipated visit to the shores of Turori, that will not occur until the second half of the tour. Some venues for the second half have yet to be finalized and the second half schedule will be announced in the near future. While the tour champion will not be decided until the full season has been completed, it is possible that team rankings will begin taking influence at the midpoint of the season. However, reputations for the first half of the tour will be entirely determined through representation by a nations media outlets and press releases. Teams may still enter the competition by filling out a Signup Application (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=499393) at any time.

First-Half Tour Venues
1 - Lonngeylin Coast Challenge [Lonngeylin, Vilita]
2 - Crosaibi Coast Challenge [Crosaibi, Vilita]
3 - Surf Sile [Turoki Isle, Vilita]
4 - Tiones Lumber Open [Yeaddin, Vilita]
5 - Surf Morata Valley [Morata Point, Vilita]
6 - Capitol City Open [Alikki-Corra, Vilita]
7 - Arcticala Junction Open [Arcticala, Vilita]
8 - Silver Sand Shores [Jlinal, Vilita]
9 - Lopinka Memorial [Lopinka, Vilita]
10- Mavaloiao Point Challenge [Turoki isle, Vilita]
11- Inlet Invitational [Arcticala, Vilita]
12- Peninsula Challenge [Alikki-Corra, Vilita]
13- Lonngeylin Point Open [Lonngeylin, Vilita]
14- Vilitan Pipeline Invitational [Lonngeylin, Vilita]

In the driver's and passenger's seat of a red SUV, respectively, headed down the coast of the large Meereskutse range that rolled down on to the sea, one Mister Gregor Schlosser and a Mister Henry Schultheis were discussing the latest dispatch they had been sent over on. It told of the inaugural edition of the 'World Surfing Tour' hosted by nearby Vilita, and they had been told to select who it was that would represent them. The problem was that Geisenfried had nothing that could be considered professional order concerning surfing, and so the two were left at a conundrum until Schlosser came up with a simple idea.

"Why don't we just go to some local surfing contests and ask the winners if they want to join?"

Schultheis was a bit skeptical about the scheme the instant it came out of Gregor's mouth.

"That seems like a good idea... for us to get humiliated on an international stage."

Schlosser's reply was quick.

"Got a better idea? We don't have to take the first one that pops up, but find someone who impresses us and have him help us select the others."

Though Henry wanted to say something as a rebuttal, he couldn't find the words or arguments and gave in to the idea.

"Very well then."

After their first view contests they watched, nothing special seem to show out until they watch one rather flashy surfer flatten his competition in one of the larger contests. Convinced by his showmanship, the two moved to converse with their first offer. The surfer, a rather tall and muscular young man with rather long blonde hair, whose attitude almost perfectly fit that of your stereotypical surfer seemed ecstatic at the opportunity, and Raynard Wechsler, known better by his nickname 'Ray', became Geisenfried's first competitor in the competition.

The next would take a bit longer to find, but soon enough, when watching another competion, one of the surfers gained their attention. While his style was much more reserved than Ray, the technique he showed was undeniably good. This new surfer, Luther Artz, was quite the opposite of Ray. Shorter, skinnier with near black hair and a very quiet aura about him, Luther, or 'Lute', as he shortened it, was none the less intrested in the opportunity and the team was now almost complete.

The final one would come on a dreary day not too much later. Heading towards a surfing contest that was quite close to the front of an oncoming storm. The waves were rough and many fell, but one stood out for how well he clung to his board and the waves. Impressed by his tenacity in such rough conditions, this new surfer would complete their team. Kraig Kaltenbach, the surfer, had brown hair and freckles dotting his face, complete with a rather upbeat attitude off the waves, and heavy determination while on them.

After finishing their submissions and such, Schultheis quickly conversed with Schlosser.

"You know, Greg, they just might make it."

Smiling, Gregor simply replied.

"Well, we'll see at Lonngeylin, now won't we?"

Indeed they would...

For the rejistanians, every sport which is not soccer pretty much has the reputation to be a sport for those, too bad for soccer. This is why the surfers from Narha kali were seen as a group of weirdos, who spend their time listening to Kala and Xiris, smoke joints and smell of seaweed. There were some competitions, but most people could not care less about surfing competitions.

For the group of Narhan surfers, it however was a stroke of luck that the national competitions took place in their beloved haditera. The Narhan surfers had a good day in the national championship but favorite Kiki Sera~l went out in the first round. Nena~o Sa~la surprised everyone including herself by advancing. She would eventually end winning the competition. The second winner was Ha~e Ketemi~l, a Jinhesi. He came to the small city west of Na~ovi with his parents and his girlfriend Keaie. The parents and the friends of him ignored each others ostentively. The third place was won by a shy centraler, who even though he lived in Na~ovi kali, showed all signs of a centraler. Therefore, he was called: Doro "Sike" Vexora. The organizers, who fit the cliche of pot-smpoking, seaweed-smelling Kala-friends very well: They 'forgot' to tell that the 3 best surfers would qualify for the international competition in Vilita. Maybe they also were afraid of underperforming topstars due too the fact that most rejistani surfers are broke. Somehow, against all odds, all 3 rejistanis managed to "organize" the money to go to Vilita for the competition.

OOC: i have entered a second Surfer.

Leif Sultra, Kolby “Chic” Chirkoff, and Arianda “Crush” Ellissedil sat in a local coffee shop near the beach in Alpennecea, Sylvanaes Kingdom of Dorian and Sonya. The coffee was the same as usual, but the conversation was much more intense than usual.

Leif pulled at his hair. “Explain to me again just how we managed to get picked for this gig. It’s still beyond me.” He had made that same statement over and over for the past two hours and it seemed that nothing was going to make him understand. Leif wasn’t the smartest guy riding waves these days.

Ok, for the hundredth time.” Chic Chirkoff was completely annoyed at the repetitive nature of Leif’s idiocy. “It’s surfing, Dude! And we are the very best that can be sent from D&S to the competition. And besides, that self-righteous Queen had no control over who gets to go. She passed the assignment off to some pencil-neck who gave us a call. If she had made the choice, it would have been more of those stinking female Elves that represent instead of us.”

“And this coming from a guy named Chic!” Arianda “Crush” Ellissedil was fuming. “In case you haven’t noticed, I am one of those ‘stinking female Elves!’”.

“Nope. You’re a surfer! That transcends everything else! And now we get to prove ourselves against the best of the best in the world. That’s the way it should be considering we are the best here.”

“What about Rhino Aller………..?”

“Shut the hell up!. Time to go pack for Vilita! Time to catch some major waves!”

Finally!

Presidente Commandante Viastormin Vega was looking through the mass of papers he had been neglecting on the corner of his desk. “Too damn much of this shit” was the thought running through his mind.

ASMV Govermental Budget Amendments - Uhggg. Tossed into the “Get to it later” pile.
Meldenburg Ground Water Test Results - “Some idiot intern pile”
Project Erosis Field Report Summaries - “Important - but not today - pile”
Sea Dragon WCxXx Reports - “Waste of time pile”

And so on…..and so on…..and so o………

Back up.

NS Surfing Tour :: The Inagural Edition (Tour of Vilita) Selection Log - Viastormin thumbed quickly through the file and turned to the aide standing quietly in the corner. “have you heard of this competition yet?”

“Yes Sir.”

“Do we have anyone ready to compete?”

“No Sir”

“And just why not?”

“No one surfs here Sir.”

“No one?”

“No one.”

“And why not?”

“Because the water here is freezing for much of the year Sir.”

“Oh. But what about the month and a half of hot weather?”

“No one bothers with it here Sir”

“Surely someone must surf in this country.”

“Well Sir. When I was on vacation in Triarrii Rivii there were these three morons attempting to surf in the cold water. Insane if you ask me Sir.”

“I didn’t. Just get them here ASAP. They will be going to compete in Vilita.”

“What if I cant find them Sir?”

“Then don’t come back.”

Viastormin smiled to himself. ASMV would be able to compete after all - well at least be there anyway.”

The two young men stepped into the ostentatious office. One, with darker skin and black hair, was clearly the more nervous of the two. The red-haired lad's emotions inscrutable behind his sunglasses.

A uniformed official stepped in behind them.

"Take a seat there."

The nervous boy spoke up. "Sir? why are we here, exactly?"

The uniformed man looked at him impassively. "He'll be in to see you in a few moments." He turned on his heel and left.

The nervous boy sat down. "This is so wierd. I've never been to the palace before."

The other young man leaned over and offered his hand. "I'm Tango."

"Tango? Tango MacMurray?" Tango nodded.

"You won the nationals last year!"

Tango raised his eyebrows. "You a wai fan?"

Nodding, the other young man took his hand. "I'm Cameron Takimoana. I surf, too. Not in the nationals, of course, but... wow."

The door opened, and the two young men stood as another older gentleman entered.

"Gentlemen, I'm Fergus Cochrane. Minister of the Interior."

Minister Cochrane took a seat behind the large desk that dominated the lush office.

"I've asked you here to offer you a great opportunity to represent our Kingdom in the surf tour in Vilita. Tangaroa MacMurray, you're what people think of when they think Napieria surfing. Your off-the-cuff style and casual charm has made you a popular favorite in our nation, and we think that can translate into great international representation."

"Cameron Takimoana... People in your village call you 'Te Taniwha,' the sea monster. Although you're little-known as surfers go, our scouts have singled you out as a surfer of excellent skill and coordination."

"Tangaroa... 'Tango,'... while you have great charisma and flash, you lack some of the technical skills to make you great. And Cameron, you have those skills, but lack the improvisational reflexes to make you a great surfer."

"That's why we've chosen the two of you. Should you accept, we'll fly you to Vilita, where you can tour the beaches for a few days before competition starts, and work with each other. Maybe together you two can gain us some international recognition."

Tango sat forward. "Dude. Minister Dude. What's in it for us?"

The Minister steepled his fingers in front of him. "Fame not enough?" he nodded. "If you win... not if you do well, but if you win... the King is prepared to offer you commendations. A cash prize, of course, will accompany them. Also, of course, you'll travel first-class, and stay in Vilita's finest hotel. On the King."

Cameron, giddy, stood up. "I'm in!"

Tango leaned back. He looked at Cameron, and back at the Minister.

"The sea monster, eh? I'd like to see that."

Standing up, he added. "Count me in."

"Excellent. The King will be most pleased."

* * *

Tango and Cameron stepped out of their hotel room in Vilita, the sun shining on their faces. In front of them waited a large SUV to take them around to the beaches on the tour.

As Cameron got into the vehicle, Tango's eyes caught a pair of lovely young Vilitan girls.

"Uhh..." Tango turned to Cameron. "You go, dude. I'm gonna check out the scenery on my own."

Smiling a wide grin, he added, "Cheers."

"You want me to do what?" said Z-Boy.

"I want you to join the Vilitan surfing tour with me," reiterated Kl-Slt.

"And why would I do that?"

"Because you're one of the best surfers in Az-cz."

"Yeah, but I'm no circus doom bug either. I surf my way."

"You can still surf your way on the tour. But this way you'll make a living at it."

"What would you call what I do now?"

"Different. You're teaching and making boards. That's not necessary for the tour. If you were on the tour, it would be just you and the waves."

"Ok. Good Point. But I'm not gonna be a corporate stooge man."

"Alright. I'll do the corporate stuff and the team management stuff. You've just got to surf. And if an event really makes you uncomfortable, you can skip it or just surf without respect to the rules."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I'd have to give up my comfortable lifestyle here and go to Vilita."

"I think there's something you'd really like about Vilita."

Kl-Slt shows Z-Boy a picture.

"Damn! Who's that?"

"Oh, that's a friend of mine. I met her on vacation in Vilita. Her name is Taihenna Eromi."

"I do love leggy surf babes."

"And there's a lot more like her in Vilita."

"Alright. I'm in. Is it just gonna be the two of us?"

"Nope. Al-Va's also signed up."

"Sweet. I got to get this place sorted out, but I'll be there. And give me the number for this Eromi chick."

"Alright. I'll introduce you when we get there."

"What you doing for boards?"

"We've got some suppliers in mind. Why you ask?"

"If we're doing this we're doing it right. A team with me on it is surfing Z-Boy boards. I'm not letting me or my teammates surf no tool surfboards."

The sun was rising as Holakio was looking out as the VIP boarding area of Honolulu International, watching the Aloha Airlines jumbo jet begining to board. The crowd was waiting for him to board, and he, in turn, was waiting for Api Kiko to arrive.

“That damn woman! She knows she was supposed to be here two hours early to make this plane! You know, if it wasn’t for her shenanigans…”

“Like being a whore?”, asked his brother and assistant, Kene.

“Well, yeah, but I wouldn’t have put it like that…”, answered Hola, blushing. “Bra, please, don’t talk like that, eh?”

“Look, I call it as I see it. Anyway, we don’t have time to wait. I checked the boards, they’re in their cases on the plane, you have your tunes loaded up on your aquapod, and all we have to do is get on board the plane.”, said Kene.

Hola insisted, “I told her I’d wait for her, and we’d go to the competition together, representing the Kingdom as a team.”

“Look, Bra, if she can’t make it on time, then we should just leave. We’ll make sure her boards are safe, and all she has to do is get her skanky ass to the next plane.”, offered Kene.

“Yeah, I know you’re right, but…”

Kene pleaded, “But nothing! There is a reason you’re a pro, she’s an amateur! You’re disciplined, she’s a flake. Now come on, lets go.”

Holakio emerged from the VIP lounge to thunderous applause from the onlookers in the airport. He waived, gave high fives and “hang loose” picture ops for his fans and media outlets, eventually boarding the plane.

Shortly thereafter, once everyone was aboard, a loudspeaker announced, “Last boarding call for Lonngeylin. Last boarding call for Lonngeylin.” No one showed, so the aircrew secured the entry to the plane, and the plane taxied onto the runway, just as a stunning blonde ran into the boarding area.

“Wait, Wait, hold the plane!”, yelled Aki, the “bad girl” of the KBI Surf Authority.

The aircrew supervisor apologized, “I’m sorry ma’m, but we couldn’t wait any longer. The gentleman said that he needed to go, and was unable to wait any longer.”

“That son of a bitch! I told him to wait for me!”, screamed Aki. “He just took off without ME! If that’s the way he wants to be, fine! I can be a real bitch, too!”

A fine sunny day along the beaches of Mar Sara, with General Edmund Duke talking on the phone with Tobias.

"You did what?!"

"I entered us in the Vilita surfing tour."

"Yes I heard that part, but why?"

"Well everyone else was doing it, so I figured what the heck, we elves have better balance than everyone else, we can easily win this thing."

"But the ESF only has three cities with beaches, Mar Sara, Rinaldi, and Capri Patriarch. There is not enough of a base to choose from."

"Surely some of your cadets go to the beach General."

"No sir, I keep them so busy during training hours that all they want to do afterwards is sleep. However, I do have two office aides that venture down to the beach every weekend, and I heard that they were pretty decent surfers to boot."

"Ok, it's settled then, we'll send those two. Afterall, doesn't every young woman want to travel the world? And this way, they can do so while promoting the ESF."

"Ah Toby, you're something else. I'll send you their information in an e-mail shortly, and have Hess and Rebicca pack their things and leave tommorow."

"Good deal you wacko. Talk to you soon."

"Good bye Patriarch."

Compared to all the other surfers, Liqa Tameq is a far less exciting person. Her hair is brown and her skin white from being exposed to va'karela'ny all her life. In her job, she works for the temple of karela as librarian. Liqa started surfing because she knew that there were no va'karela'ny in the sea, She enjoyed being in a place, where her thoughts belonged to herself and not to the temple. Since she however also needs to make sure the temple of Karela does not outtlaw surfing, she tried hard to be really good. System Karela has nothing like a surf culture. There are some surfers, in Unentschiedenstadt, in Scoreless City, and she and 2 friends in Kepaq. One day, a monk contacted her and told her that the Temple of Karela selected her as System Karelan competitor for the surfing competition in Vilita. She was not surprised because seeing how few karelans surf. there is a chance that she was the best. She was supposed to bring among the normal things, 15 va'karela'ny, for personal use and for the brethren in Vilita.

"Hah, Dudes... Speading all that time at the Fulton Beach has finally worked." said Greg Oswald bearing a letter.

"Huh, What are you talking about Odie?" Asked Barker "Bread" Farlelle as he and Simon "Simo" Turks rested against a wooden railing over looking their favourite Surfing spot in Bazalonia.

"Got this letter from the DoS[Department of Sport]... They've picked us to represent Bazalonia in Vilita." The was a pregnant pause.. infact the pause was so long you could have given birth."What aren't you like excited..." Odie

I'ts Vilita, dude. Granted they've got some gnarly breaks but, I don't even know if they've got cars." Bread

"Plus and I don't like going overseas... Travelling over water gives me the heebies." Simo

"Dude, your a surfer. You live for travelling over water." Odie

"But that's different. Surfing is not travelling over water it's being one with it. Totally different thing." Simo

"Well, are we going to do this? We get new surboards." Odie

"New Surfboards... of course I'm in." Bread

"oo.. and me. So where are the tickets?" Simo

"DoS said they'll organise something with BazAir." Odie...

"Woot, new surfboards."

"Hank" called Lima Roose across the hall of their apartment, "Hank!?". Lima was lying on the floor in the long hallway of the appartment, clearly drunk. Her hair was bright pink and quite short, her clothes straight from the 1980's.
"Hank...tequila!"
Hank lifted himself up from behind the bar practically sideways, holding an almost empy bottle of whiskey.
"Hank!" he called out before swigging from his bottle and rolling over the bar. He hit the ground with a thud, and continued rolling to Lima's side.
"Mrs Robinson, are you trying to sed-", Hank was interrupted.
"-Tequilla!" Screamed Lima as she stood up, leaning on the door frame.
"Fine, Tequilla" snapped Hank, handing her his whiskey. She drank blindly.

Lima opened her eyes and saw Hank stumbling down the beach towards the sea, the waves lapping his feet as he picked up his board and dived into the water.
"Bastard! Hank, you forgot the booze!" Lime called as she started trying to run down the beach, her board under one arm and a bottle of vodka from the floor in the other hand.
"Hank!"

"Viltia?"

"Huh?"

"There's a surfing contest there."

"Ah."

"And we've been picked to represent the NMS there."

"Jolly good."

"So we need to get up and get on a plane."

"Eh?"

"Well, we need to get on a plane to Viltia."

"Ah. Where's it at?"

"The plane? At the airport."

"No, Viltia."

"Umm...far away. It should be on a map somewhere."

"Right, I think I've found it."

"That's a street map of Lennoxville."

"Well, Lennoxville is kinda far from here, so I figured..."

"Well, Viltia is a sunbathed tropical paradise, or so I've heard. Anything like one of those in Lennoxville?"

"Nope. Not much of anything there, really. But it's sixteen hours from here, and that's pretty far."

"Idiot."

"Yep. Want a toke?"

"Once we get on the plane we'll light up another one."

"Loser."

"Someone's got to drive us to the airport."

"Why are we going to the airport again?"

Anacaona ran up the beach out of the water. Her long black hair glimmered in the warm sunlight as the surf hit her brown skin. That had to have been the biggest surf she had caught all year.

"Hey Caonabo'!!" she yelled at her friend on the beach. He was wearing white abadas with an open white guajavera (sic) but no shirt. Caonabo' was doing Capoeira on the beach, practising for a batizado in the next month. He stopped and waved. "How's the surf?"

"Its pretty rough out here," Anacaona said. "La Venida de Jurakán is definately coming. These waves are insane. Where's Tiburon?"

As if being summoned, the big man ran quickly to the two, panting and sweating.

"Guys...check...this out!" Tiburon held up a flyer for them. Caonabo' took it and read it.

"Theres apparently a surfing contest in a place called Viltia," Caonabo' read. "Looks pretty inviting I guess..."

Anacaona looked at Caonabo'. "No," Caonabo' said. "We arent going. Too many foreigners."

She kept staring with her wide amber eyes. "Its not going to work Ana. It is not going to work."

A tear strolled down her eye. "I CAN"T TAKE IT!!!" yelled Tiburon. "I get the tickets!"

"Ill get packing!!" yelled Anacaona. The two ran away from the beach, leaving Caonabo' very confused.

"Dammit..." he muttered. "I hate foreigners..."

Team Misrantis arrives in Lonngeylin

It was an exciting day for all those in Misrantis. Just mere weeks ago, Kleptochaser Khufu Alamaidus became the first athlete to wear the colors of the Misrantian nation in a competitive internationstatal sporting event. Alamaidus competed, and was victorious in the NS Kleptochase Tour Qualifying round, earning a place on the NationStates Kleptochase Tour. And now, Misrantis will be engaging in internationstatal sport once again. A pair of Misrantians will take advantage of the opportunity to use their newly established relationship with the nation of Vilita to join up on the Nationstates Surf Tour, the inagural tour of Vilita.

Surfing is a popular sport in Misrantis, although it is not dont competitively, but instead of part of ritual traditions and for leisure. Some of the most experienced surfers in Misrantis are those whom have been practicing with the Misrantian Esteemship, and two of those surfers have been chosen to represent Misrantis on the tour of Vilita. Crete Ptolomaios is perhaps the most experienced of the two, and it is likely that he will be the more competitive of the two surfers from Misrantis. Ptolomaios has been performing ritual surfing in Misrantis since he was just 7 years of age and is one of the most respected in his artform. Likewise, Tutan Tezzam is a respected ritual surfer for the Misrantian Esteemship.

In other exciting news, both surfers arrived in Lonngeylin in preparation of the first event of the tour, and after negotiations with local Vilitan company 3wide Surfwear; both Tezzam and Ptolomaios will be provided with board shorts and equipment bearing their national colors by the Vilitan Surfwear company, who has asked only that their logo remain on the merchandise in return. It is the first endorsement of any kind for Misrantian individuals in sport, and a sample of the board shorts provided by 3wide Surfwear of Lonngeylin, Vilita is shown below.

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The noises, the chaos, the total lack of defensive behavior. When Liqa Tameq arrived in Vilita, she nearly wanted to take the next plane anywhere. However the Karelan knew, that other places are not better and normally, System Karela is not really a frequently visited location due to the karelan defensiveness of this place and stupid prejudices about Karela. Liqa knew that some people, who deceived the country or were a disgrace for it were exiled. And only now she understood how cruel that was for them. She always thought it would be a mild measure. From now, she understood, that she had to give far more than just her best.

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NationStates Surf Tour :: Tour of Vilita - - - Official Tournament Results
(http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=500762)

1 :: Lonngeylin Coast Challenge (Lonngeylin, Vilita)

1) Summer Conlin - Vilita[6.85 - 6.37 - 6.03] [6.9] [6.47] [5.77] [5.84]
2) Kraig Kaltenbach - Geisenfried[6.08 - 6.36 - 7.52] [5.88] [6.24] [6.26] [5.78]
3) Barker "Bread" Farlelle - Bazalonia[5.77 - 6.78 - 7.21] [5.79] [5.88] [5.51]


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TOUR OF VILITA :: NATIONAL STANDINGS
NATION NAME G - S - B POINTS
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1 Vilita 1 - 0 - 0 [6.44]
2 Geisenfried 0 - 1 - 0 [6.42]
3 Bazalonia 0 - 0 - 1 [5.28]
4 Bainbridge Islands 0 - 0 - 0 [4.57]
5 Pablicosta 0 - 0 - 0 [4.51]

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I must say I'm dissapointed.




Hosts Take Gold, Pablicostan's fail to impress

In the first round of the Vilitian Surfing Tour today, Pablicostan surfers Hank Galland and Lima Roose both finished in the top 15 places, but failed to impress the judges enough to challenge the hosts for a Gold medal. Infact, Hank Galland's second run score of 7.09 was one of the best performances of the day, but he was let down in the 3rd run and slipped to 8th for the day.
The hosts, Vilita picked up a gold medal, with Katenbach scraping silver and Farlelle of Bazalonia making 3rd place comfortably.
Hank Galland, who was for once sober claimed that his partners poor performance was mainly due to a man named 'Jack Daniel' who kept her up all night dancing. Questions are being asked by sports officials as to the treatment of Pablicostan sports people in foreign lands, although Galland's accusations seem unfounded.
The next event of the tour is scheduled for Crosaibi Coast Challenge, in Crosaibi, Vilita, and this reporter looks forward to great success from our team.

TMK Struggles at Surfing Contest

(Excerpt for the Misc section of the MCP Digest Dailey)

TMK has got a "hang 2" i at the first ever Surfing Contest,as both Kelvin "Green Meanie" Henderson,Who was mistakinly called Koops K Lee and Koops Lee both finieshed in the lower half of the field. TMK is 29th of 30 teams.


OOC:Koops K Lee Should be Renamed Kelvin Henderson

"It's a shame you lost to Conlin in the finals."

The three Geisenfried surfers, after their competition, collected themselves on the patio of one of the nearby beachside restaraunts at the Lonngeylin beachside before they headed out to Crosiabi.

"But still, we crushed everyone, dudes!"

Ray, though he had done the worst of the three, had still placed sixth and was wholeheartedly ecstatic, not to mention loud, which was probably the reason why the restaraunt had declined to put anyone close to the celebrating surfers.

"I know! All 3 of us in the quarters! And Lute, I'm happy that I managed to get to the finals in such a big competition."

Kraig, whose hard-fought silver medal now hung around his neck, was undeniably happy, probably to the level of Ray, but Kraig at least had the common courtesy to be a bit more polite and quiet.

"No surprise. 7.52 in the last ride of the opening round? That was incredible, to say the least."

Lute had managed to get fourth place, and while he was much more silent, serious and reserved than his two teammates, the smile plastered on his face showed that he was thoroughly enjoying the moment as well.

"If we continue like this, there's going to be no one to stop us!"

"Then let's do the best we can to make sure we do continue like this."

While Lute would normally put in a cynical comment after a statement like this, he was in too good of mood to spoil the fun.

"No harm in trying."

The three raised their drink glasses in a toast before bringing their glasses back to their lips and taking a swig. It was a good thing Crosiabi was not going to be held the next day...

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Later that night at the hotel, Henry Schultheis heard a knocking on the door of his room. He and his partner had traveled to Lonngeylin to see how the competition went.

Once opened, his partner was revealed, with the most gigantic smirk on his face. On the other hand, Henry's face turned into a blank stare. Scultheis uttered one word.

"Don't."

However, Gregor couldn't resist.

"Remind me, whose idea was this again? And who was against it?"

Neglecting to answer but instead grabbing a nearby object small enough to throw yet unlikely to break something (except, perhaps, Schlosser's nose) and flung at him. Schlosser jumped out of the way and starting running down the hotel's hallway like you would expect an hyperactive young kid would do, after his fun had been fulfilled.

With Schlosser away, Henry put his hand to his face and simply sighed, disappointed at being wrong, before heading back into his room.

"God Damn Vilitan Judges!" screamed Z-Boy. "I clearly put on the best run of this tournament. I don't know why they didn't like my flying headstand. You could hear the crowd ooh and aah when I did it."

"Yeah, but it's not a by the book surfing maneuver." replied Kl-Slt

"By the book?!? It's surfing, not figure skating."

"Yeah but maybe Vilitans are more strict in the way they do things. I can't explain it either."

"I definitely recieved the biggest ovation. Shouldn't that count for something."

"Forget it. I stashed my skateboard. I'm gonna go grind the streets of this country. See how their roads hold up under my bearings." chimed in Al-Va.

**Telephone Rings**

"Hold on, let me take this" said Kl-Slt. "What's swinging? Oh, Taihenna. How goes it? Oh you wanna talk to Z-Boy. Alright. I'll put him on."

"Oh hey babe. You thought I was the best? Well thanks, but it's your Vilitan judges. Yeah maybe you can help me figure out how you guys think. Meet for drinks tonight? Definitely. Alright. I'll figure out how to get there. Ciao babe."

Z-boy hung up the phone.

"It sounds like I've got plans for the evening. I'll catch you guys tomorrow." Z-Boy left.

Kl-Slt thought to himself "Those two might be out galavanting but I'll be ready for the Crosaibi Coast Challenge."

King Rom takes 5th in Inaugural NS Surf tour
Lonngeylin, Vilita (Honolulu Star Bulletin) - Romulus Kahani'i, aka "King Rom", the KBI Authority 2006 surf champion, took fifth place in a field of seventy eight surfers the inaugural NS Surf tour in Lonngeylin, Vilita. Api Kiko, a KBIA favorite placed 18th, after dropping in on a wave (cutting in on a wave that was occupied), and then taking a hard gouge (turn) and almost losing her balance. However, the combined score has catapulted Europa's team into 4th place overall.

A sunny day with a windward breeze of about 25 kph provided the ideallic background for the field of professionals gathering from all regions of the Nations States. Intense media coverage from hundreds of regions have added to the stress that the participants feel, as they represent their nations in what has quickly become a highly competitive and high visibility sporting event.

After placing in the top five, Mr. Kahani'i was asked if he had ripped (performed to the best of his ability). He responded, "Bra, I'm just getting a feel for the waves here in Vilita. The frequency downshifting is shorter than in the KBI, and cnoid waves are a little longer here. Next time, with the Kahuna's blessing, I'll do even better against the excellent competition here."

After seeing Ms. Kiko parting late into the night before the competition, she was asked if the late night affected her performance. "Der ain't nottin wrong wit my performance, boy. And what I do is my biz, haole!", she exclaimed, as she walked off, giving this reporter a single finger salute.

The KBIA has high hopes for the two representatives from the Kingdom. "We hope to place in the top ten, as we aren't too familiar with the competitors yet", commented Issac Pano'a, the chairman of the KBIA.

Conlin tops Team Geisenfried


A larger than expected crowd turned up to the first event on the Inagural NationStates Surf tour, the Lonngeylin Coast Challenge in Lonngeylin, Vilita. Home of the internationally famous Strike FC Football/Soccer team, and many legendary Vilitan Sports Stars, the beaches were packed and the media, typically scarce in Vilita, was out in full force.

Many of the locals were talking about a Vilitan sweep going into the event, claiming that they didn't think foreigners who had never expereinced the unique conditions in the Vilitan Cove would be able to compete with the tropics best representatives. But they got their first dissapointment early as Malaiki Tovali had a poor 2nd qualifying run, and had to settle for 26th in the 78 surfer field, without advancing to the elimination rounds. Then the realization became more apparent when Viiker Surf posted a dissapointing second round effort that left the offspring of famous Yeaddin Owls AFC and Bedistan National Team head coach wondering what might have been, going home early in the 12th position. Summer Conlin, however, the most recognizable and outgoing Vilitan surfer, stormed into the Quarter Finals by posting the best individual performance in the second round by a full point over the next competitor.

It was not a silver platter for Conlin in the Quarters however, as the stage was dominated not by the Vilitan favorites, but by the Geisenfried contingent, who had all three of their surfers in the Quarter Final stage, an amazing feat and a clear declaration that Geisenfried has come to the tour of Vilita prepared to prove their Surfing prowess to the entire community. Conlin was unshakable in the Quarter Finals, however, once again topping the field and advancing to the Semi's where he was joined by Lute Artz and Kraig Kaltenbach of Geisenfried, and Bazalonia's Bread Farlelle. Kaltenbach finally unseeded Conlin in the semi's, becoming the first surfer to outscore the Vilitan in the elimination rounds, but Conlin would have the last laugh, rebounding to out-surf the impressive Kaltenbach in the final pairing to take the gold in Lonngeylin.


After the match, team Vilita posed with their new surfwear and boards which debuted at the tournament, provided by Lonngeylin, Vilita based 3wide Surfwear. 3wide, who has also agreed to provide surfwear to the nations of Az-Cz, Bazalonia, Bedistan, Misrantis, Quakmybush and the Islands of Qutar for the NS Surf Tour, were delighted to renew their association with the best of Vilita's surfing stars.

http://www.3wideracing.com/3wide/sites/ao/sports/kits/surf/vilitasurffull.gif

Elven Times
Marl and Suetur Off to Rough Start

In the first edition of the NS Surfing Tour, the elven riders were unable to wow the judges enough to get the scores the team was hoping for. Marl recieved the highest score of the two with a 6.93 in her second run, but was unable to replicate the result in the third run and had to settle with a 5.84. Suprisingly, there were a few fans of the two women spotted on the beach and when asked to assess their performance, they had this to say.

"Dude, like what the fudge man? Marl got totally robbed on that last run. Her tech skrills were off the charts. She was jammin man, but those judges be biased mon to those surfers from Atlantia Oceania."

"Marl was good but Suetur really kicked it. She be needing some tuning before she rides again."

"Akura hie, aman na set hie, akura hie! Vetican des chartag Vilita!"

With no real knowledge of the sport, we have to settle with these lunatics comments. However, there are rumors about that the ESC is requesting proper boards for the two ladies with the sudden peak of interest in the sport. That's the ESC for you, jumps up on any oppurtunity to make a silver coin or two. With the sunset fast coming, we will hope that the ladies can improve their skills between now and the next competition, and wow the fans and judges more than they did today.

Article by Rie Taun

The pitter-patter of rain hitting the roof, the windows, the cars outside; that was was Stacii heard as she downed another shot. "Damn, I hate her."

"Who?" asked the man sitting next to her.

"Amia... everyone alvays likes her better than me," replied the not-quite-drunk-but-getting-there-soon girl.

"Could that be because she's prettier? Smarter? Nicer? A better surfer than you?"

"Shut up, you don't know vhat you're talking about," grimly said Stacii. Of course, the man did know what he was talking about, as not only was Amia prettier, smarter, nicer, and a better surfer than Stacii, but everyone liked her more for those exact reasons in that exact order. The fact that he'd gotten it perfect was just a coincidence.

"True, but the faster you get hammered the sooner you're in the hotel room I'm staying in."

If she wasn't drunk she might have been offended. Might. Under any circumstances what she might do, have done, or be doing was inconsequential, being that the bartender was now using her hair as a rag.

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The prettier, smarter, nicer, and better surfer was just at that very moment reading a book in her hotel room. That is, if by reading, one means getting screwed; and by a book one means some random hot guy she picked up in a bar.

"Oh man, Amia, you are so much nicer, prettier, smarter, and a better surfer than that other bitch," said some random hot guy she picked up in a bar.

"Nicer is third," replied the girl.

"Sorry," apologized some random hot guy.

"YEAH!!!" exclaimed Barker , better known as bread in the surfer world. He wasn't fancy but he's fundamentals, balance and consistancy where good. He was a solid performer and hence his quite boring and un-assuming name. But don't get mixed up with his personality. He was a firey person on the beach...

Pumping his fists in the air he was excited with his 3rd place in the tournament.

Bearing a new board in the Bazalonian national colours from the major local surf provided Billagoon. He was in his normal surfing board-shorts and he had previously laughed to himself,he was still without the Bazalonian board shorts that where provided by 3wide. Now if the government hadn't outsourced the national boardshorts to 3wide Bread would have been much happier but he had assurances that the design was finalised and it was just in a day or two that they could make the shorts. Either way it didn't matter for this tournament.

Odie and Simo rushed up and jumped on the man, congratulating him on some pretty solid good technique and solid balance. The style he was known.

"So I'm..... 3rd in the comp and you are...... let me see If I can remember... Oh that's right 62nd and 68th.

"Aw.. man don't rub it in... but seriously congrats. You where Awesome." said Odie.

"Heh, suck-up. Just because he came third does not mean he's special... In fact.. Me and you out there now... well , okay as soon as the tournament has ended. Carving out the waves... proving just who is better."

"Oh, well, looking at our ranks 3rd... to... what, oh that's right 68! I'll wipe the ocean floor with you."

Those three have been the best of friends but that does not stop a serious competitive streak that Bread and Simo have with each other. Simo will now have to prove that he's as good or better. Though it never looked good for Simo when he and Bread have their famous tussles on the wave.

Daniel Davies, Director of Football Operations, sat at the Starbucks across from the office, sipping coffee and reading his newspaper. Sat across from him was his aide, Geofferey Jenas. He turned to the sports section, and after skipping the AOCAF Coverage page, as he essentially knew all of it, and went straight to the AOMC page. "Hey, what the hell, they cut off half of the stuff for the AOMC?" he said, slightly offended that they would take away his beloved open-wheel racing coverage. He glanced over the page, and then saw that it had been replaced with this 'surfing' thing.

"Geofferey, do you now what the hell we are doing in a surfing competition?"

"Not really sir. I've heard about it, but we haven't exactly got a surfing culture here in London." Davies looked out the window. It was raining.

"Point taken"

"I was talking to a friend from college whose from Cyprus, and he said that he was really excited about it."

"Well, we should probably take the time to learn something about it if it's going to replace the AOMC coverage. I want a report on my desk my the next event in this Surfing Tour."

Oh great, thought Geofferey.

"Yes sir."

"Can you get me some more coffee? Know, what are these wave terminologies mean..."

"Well, that sucked."

"Eh."

"Do you have any constructive advice, or do you just plan on bashing the two of us?"

"We could turn down the Zeppelin and lose the hookah."

"Eh."

"So you think we lost just because we were stoned off our asses?"

"Pretty much, yeah. Right, Marcel?"

"Eh."

"EVERYONE was stoned off their asses. This is surfing, man. You need to be pretty zoned to have the balls to get on a piece of wood and go ride on top of gianormous waves."

"So maybe we can be exceptions."

"Eh."

"I'm not getting on that fucking wave if I'm not as lit up as I can get. Because, when I'm not stoned, I'm sane, and when I'm sane, I don't go over some of the most destructive shit mother Nature throws around with nothing but a piece of wood with a killer paint job and a pair of Smurf swim trucks..."

"With little mushrooms on them as well."

"Eh."

"Fine. Even with my Smurfs being fortified by mushrooms, I'm still not that dumb. I need my gaseous courage, mate."

"Fine."

"Eh."

Diplomacy takes back seat
With Michael Harley taking part in the inaugural NationStates surf tour, diplomacy took a back seat in Vilita. Harley, who is Deputy Prime Minister, was also in Atlantian Oceania to discuss the future of Chacor in relation to Liverpool England, as Chacor's constitution still says that the head of state of Chacor is the head of government in Liverpool England - meaning Thomas Douglas, Prime Minister of Chacor and Liverpool England, is both the Head of State and Government of Chacor. While widely expected that Douglas would resign from his job as Liverpool England Prime Minister for Harley to take over, this clearly wasn't in the potential PM's mind as he took to the waves.

The 31-year-old is set to become the youngest Prime Minister the nation has ever had, but that obviously isn't fazing him, as he finished 48th out of 78 competitors, impressing most people who assumed that diplomats suck at sports.

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"Congratulations, Mr. Deputy Prime Minister. Few words?"

"Sure."

"Liverpool England sent a representative from Lox Land Island, which bans surfing in waves higher than 12 feet. He's here competing under an alias for fear of prosecution. Your thoughts?"

"I've spoken to him, and have guaranteed him protection from the territorial authorities."

"The federal authorities are stepping in to prevent prosecution?"

"He's representing the nation. Vilita isn't within the jurisdiction of the Lox Land Island authorities. Neither is his training site; that's in the West-T (Western Territories), which allows it as we saw Kuepça do today. Next question?"

"You're widely tipped to become the next Prime Minister of Liverpool England. Is this supposed to be a break from all that politics?"

"I will not be commenting on politics until I have sorted the matter out with Prime Minister Douglas. No further comments."

The Daily Quak
Quakmybush's Longest Running Daily Newspaper
Surfers Get off To a Okay Start

The first even in the Inagural NS Surfing Tour, The Tour of Vilita was held yesterday. The 3 surfers from Quakmybush didnt fair very well and finished 44th (Igor Vladimirovič Uspenskij), 56th (Dale González), and 70th (Boris Adamopoulos). Quakmybush currently sits 25th in the team standings out of 30 teams. While individualy the surfers sit in the same spots as they finished the Lonngeylin Coast Challenge. The next event is the Crosaibi Coast Challenge where all the surfers hope to improve.

For may decades now, the Republic of Nueva Ganja has been a hotbed of surfing, both professionally and recreationally. The pro surfing tour of Nueva Ganja garners intense media coverage, is far away the most popular sport in the land, is well funded, and is overseen by the Minister of Culture Dr. Stefania Grant. She who many years ago became the first women to win the tour and currently has two daughters working their way into the top ranks at the moment. Of the current top three surfers in the surfing tour of Ganja, only tour leader Howie "Off The Lip" Arenas and number three Ian "Cloudbreak" Carroll will be representing, as tour number two, Kristofer "Maniac" Curren has been temporarily suspended for a well publicized partying misshap. Tour number four, the up and coming charger Tommy "Green Room" Slater who has won the past two events, will take his place in representing Nueva Ganja in Vilita. Kristofer will be accompanying the three though to provide advice and also to ensure that they enjoy Vilita's nightlife! All three are stoked to be representing N. Ganja at this epic event.

Weston, CRS (September 24, 2006) - The Commonwealth of Reanimated States, a global biotechnology leader with products and capabilities in necrobiology, neurology, and marine biology, announced today its entry of a three-member team in the Vilita NS Surf Tour. The team showcases two of CRS's research efforts and marks the privately-held nation's entry into global sporting events.

John Spencer Mark II joined CRS pre-mortem as a research assistant in 2001. After loss of vital functions in early 2004, Spencer continued full-time employment through CRS's generous death benefits program, including 80% revitalization and extensive neuromotor therapy. Spencer's surfing behavior, 92.7% mediated through the spinal cord, was developed in cooperation with the Scripps Medical Institute.

"Charlie" is a Stellanus longostiris dolphin, modified under a spinoff of CRS's littoral development program. Charlie's natural versatility in the water and distinctive spinning maneuvers, combined with behavioral modification, make it a strong competitor. During the event, twenty-four electrodes in Charlie's brain will record activity for further research on echolocation in mixed water-air environments.

Dr. Tara Helg joined the Revitalization Therapeutics division in 1998. In addition to monitoring performance of the other team members, Dr. Helg will be competing in the Commonwealth's third slot. Dr. Helg has led multiple research initiatives in human kinetics, and won the 2000 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Surfing Open.

About Commonwealth of Reanimated States

Commonwealth of Reanimated States creates new standards of care in neurology and necrobiology. As a global leader in the development, administration, and ubiquitization of novel therapies, CRS transforms scientific discoveries into advances in healthcare.

In a bar in a place in Vilita, 3 Rejistanis are getting drunk and over their horrible ratings. "Can you imagine that?" said a teenager in his horribly slanted centraler rejistanian. They can not even write our names!" For the one, who they all just call "Sike" this is an important issue. He then turns to the barkeeper and orders another lychee liqueur.

"Sike, you were not even affected by that!" Nena~o "Neneriva"
Sa~la commented. She was very down to earth and not at all inclined to participate in the kind of discussions "Sike" preferred.

"Right, I was not, this is, why I finished 8 places above you!" For the Centraler, the world consists of spirits, Gods and ghosts more than of what you see around you. He is the most religious person, these 2 people have ever met. "Don't you understand that? They are misspelling your names intentionally so the gods won't help you! They are inhibiting your simu."

"You believe in that? I mean, honestly?" Ha~e "Koleni'sis" Ketemi~l made a gesture, which was a rather Jinhes kalian way to say: "You're nuts!".

Doro "Sike" Vexora did either not realize that it meant exactly that or chose to ignore it: "I do. I am a real Inikresaist, no Karelan heathen or such!"

"And by far the most devout person, I have ever seen." Neneriva was a bit positive about that, not too much but a bit.

"Even more than that Karelan?" Koleni'sis joked. "I mean, she always looks as if the next Bengalian tiger is about to attack her any second. and dresses as if color is painful!"

"Not sure, she is very extremist." Neneriva said then she lowered her voice: "we have talked yesterday, and you know what she says? She is considerred a weirdo in System Karela for not participating in soccer, but instead in surfing."

"Well, we all are!" Sike said and the others laughed.

"For her it is special. She is nearly a dissident for doing so!" Neneriva explained "So we should stop laughing about her" An uneasy silence followed.

Then Koleni'sis suddenly had a crazy idea: "Let's take revenge on these Vilitans then!"

"Oh yeah, beat Summer Conlin up." said Neneriva ironically.

"They misspelled our names, we'll misspell theirs intentionally because Sike said it'd lower the simu!" Koleni'sis looked at Sike to check his reaction.

"I will not participate in that. il'hadada su?" Sike said defensively as a System Karelan.

"I'm cool with that!" said Neneriva and so they found a college block and wrote on every page in big letters the misspelled names of Summer Conlin, Viiker Surf and Malaiki Tovali in rev'jan and etresi. Then they put the pages where the vilitans would find them. Doro Vexora instead fell into his bed and slept.

“So you think that if I toe-in the second board, that I’ll have a better response at Crosaibi?”, asked Hola, adjusting the fins on his board.

Kene answered as he waxed his board, “Yeah, you gonna have to keep clear of da coral on the left side of the inlet. I saw a local dude get scabbed real bad. It was like, blood everywhere, crazy man.”

“Well, at least we have a few hours to catch up on our sleep before we have’ta be there. I hear they have fresh squid, eh? Maybe they even have poi?”, asked Hola.

“Na way, man. Da haole don’ drink da poi, they can’ handle it.”, responded Kene.

At that moment, the door to the shop flung open, with an angry blonde glaring at the two men working on their boards. “Who da hell to you think you are – no wait, I know! You’re the “Mighty Rom, King of the surfers, and biggest jerk in the Kingdom”! You left without me! You knew I was coming, yet you just got on the plane and left without me!”, screamed Aki.

“Hey sistah, calm down! I waited fo’ you, but you…”, Hola interjected.

Aki continued, “You left without me! I hadda pay for the trip out here with my own money! You couldda kept the plane a few more minutes, but you left!”

Kane interrupted, wagging his finger, “We did, but you couldn’t make it on time! We waited almost twenty minutes, but you was a no-show, so we left.”

“You shut up, you sonna bitch! I’m not talking to you!”, retorted Api.

“Well, look on the bright side, Api. I hear Crosaibi has a Naval base, and their fleet is in, so maybe you find a boyfriend, or two, or three – hundred!”, Kana said, his face turning red, as he was trying not to laugh – unsuccessfully.

“You bastard!”, Api screamed, as she lunged at Kane, who grabbed her by the wrists, to keep her from hitting him. She and Kane continued to struggle, until Hola broke them up.

“Kane! Keep quiet! Api! Being late was your own fault! Stop making excuses for not showing up on time, and go home and get some rest! You look exhausted.”, said Hola, trying to calm her down.

Aki glared a Hola, turned around, and stormed out the shop door, slamming it as she left.

“Well, I guess you told her!”, smirked Kane. “Dat’s OK, you know she’s gonna stay out all night anyways.”

Hola said, “That’s too bad, she’s got potential, but no discipline. If she keeps going like dis, she’s gonna get schooled real hard.”

The guys looked at each other, shrugged, and went back to waxing their board, in preparation for Crosaibi.

The entire nation seemed to be horribly attacking. Even people like Nena~o "Neneriva" Sa~la who was rejistanian and therefore supposed to be at least a bit defensive, had this distinct air of takilness around them. Every single thing around her felt so horribly takilan. Take the roads: She always felt a bit bad if everyone was as defensive that nothing movedquickly. Now she realized how horrible non-defensive traffic can be. Fortunately, she found an internet cafe and mailed the temple of Karela. Of course, she used an encryption, which even for most military applications would be considered total and utter overkill. The mail had the following content:

Honored Priest of Karela,

May I, despite being unworthy your precious time humbly request to be sent home again? The Takilness of this place is literally injuring me. Also, I have totally failed to achieve the objectives and finished only ninth in the first competition.

Your unworthy servant, Liqa Tameq

The replay came only minutes after the message:


Liqa,

To give up now is like conceding. Well done on finishing in the top 10, hopefully you'll be even higher next time!

Priest Kansu


Liqa understood. Then, she repeated the sentence "to give up now is like conceding" long enough untill she could recite it in the middle of the night if required.

"That'll be 40 Tures," said the shop owner, handing Stacii a dagger of questionable usefulness.

"You'd think a knife of questionable usefulness vould cost a little less," said the man standing next to her, who just happened to be Tocapan football forward Stowe Erroe. "But I don't care. I've tried every knife, dagger, sword, sabre, and katana in Tocapa, and she's still alive. Who are you trying to kill?"

"Amia Vann."

"That other surfer? The prettier, nicer, smarter, and better surfer than you?" asked Stowe.

"No!" exclaimed Stacii, and she was, for the most part, right.

"Did I get them mixed up?"

The girl grumbled and left the store in a huff. 'I hope she burns,' thought Stacii.

----

"Don't get burned," said another random hot guy as Amia took her hand out of the fireplace.

"Not that it vould make a difference. I'd still be prettier--"

"Please, I've heard it already," said another random hot guy.

"Vhatever."

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NationStates Surf Tour :: Tour of Vilita - - - Official Tournament Results
(http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=500762)

As noted, there will be some events throughout the tour when certain disciplines will carry more or less weight than others, which is why you entered skills in 4 disciplines to begin with. The first event carried on with all skills weighted evenly, but, this second event, one skill may not have been favored by the judges, and this will always be indicated at the top of the scores post with the in-character explanation for the change in weights at that particular venue, as follows:


The second event of the season is now upon us. After Team Geisenfried impressed, hometown favorite Summer Conlin fought off the foreign charge and took the gold in Longgeylin. Would he be able to keep the foreign contingent at bay once again in Crosaibi?

Crosaibi has a long history and is believed to be one of the first areas settled on the main island of Vilita. Heritage and a conservative past time still run deep through those in Crosaibi, and the local judges, though instructed to treat all disciplines with equal footing, may still be suspect to letting their own beliefs rise to the top when it comes time to judge a run. Therefore, the fundamental disciplines are favored in Crosaibi over the more eccentric styles that can be seen cropping up elsewhere in Vilita and elsewhere in the community of NationStates Surfing.


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2 :: Crosaibi Coast Challenge (Crosaibi, Vilita)



1) Romulus Kahani'i - Bainbridge Islands[6.83 - 6.69 - 6.03] [6.39] [6.37] [6.2] [5.81]
2) Liqa Tameq - System Karela[6.99 - 6.99 - 6.24] [6.74] [6.86] [6.2] [4.61]
3) Marcel "Ostie" Legault - New Montreal States[6.67 - 6.3 - 5.89] [6.27] [5.66] [6.02]



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TOUR OF VILITA :: NATIONAL STANDINGS
NATION NAME G - S - B POINTS
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1 Vilita 1 - 0 - 0 [12.02]
2 Bainbridge Islands 1 - 0 - 0 [10.91]
3 Geisenfried 0 - 1 - 0 [10.09]
4 System Karela 0 - 1 - 0 [9.86]
5 Bazalonia 0 - 0 - 1 [8.93]

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"Are you freaking kidding me? 79th? Why'd you talk to me into this tournament" screamed Z-Boy.

"Don't worry we'll find some tournaments suited to your tournament style at some point.", replied Kl-Slt

"Yeah you're just happy cause you finished 10th"

"It was a pretty good run, you have to admit."

"No I don't. I nailed a double dolphin on my first run and only got 3.78. Do those old fogies from wherever we were know how hard a double dolphin is?"

"I doubt it."

"It's hard man. So I didn't do the T&C Surf Joe Cool pose. I did tricks most people out here couldn't rock."

"What do you think Al-Va?"

"Man, I don't care. I'm just trying to do my thing. I wish we could find a professional skateboarding tour. That's really where it's at. This surfing business is just something to get me money and travel to skate in various places."

"Man these Vilitans can go F*** themselves. I'm gonna go meet Taihenna." said Z-Boy.

"You see the tournament babe?" asked Z-Boy.

"Yeah you were robbed sweetie. You looked great out there." Taihenna told him.

"Yeah but I finished 79th. What's wrong with you Vilitans?"

"Don't worry about it babe. It's just those stodgy bastards from Crosaibi Coast. But you're uniques style and dashing good looks have made you the most popular surfer out there."

"Really?!?"

"Yeah your posters are flying off the shelves. I hear that they're thinking about developing a line of Z-Boy and Az-cz goods for sale for the Vilitan public. And your double dolphin move was tight."

"Ah, babe, that's sweet."

"Well, it's true, stud. Expect to get some sponsorship calls in the next few days."

"Come on babe. I don't do that corporate stuff."

"Ok. Are there any kind of companies that you would feel comfortable endorsing."

"Yeah maybe. Perhaps for independent clothing lines or something."

"Alright. I'll try to hook you up with somethings in line with your image and style."

"Sure. Whatever. Do you think there will be any tournaments where they'll appreciate my moves and style."

"Don't worry too much. I bet that your moves will be appreciated in Morata Point and when tournaments show up Vilisorma, my hometown, they'll be all over you there."

"This is so stupid." Kathren Rosario said, sitting at the hotel bar after the competition.

"Hey, we all agreed. You have to do it or you forfeit the bet." Blue Harrelson said, spinning on the barstool next to her.

"You were the one who sucked out loud." Skeeter Monroe added, messing with his hair. "Is it just me, or did that water smell funny?"

"We'll give you amensty when you vomit." Blue said, making a wild grab at the bartender. "Let's see, Skeeter finished 33rd, you finished 63rd, and thirty divided by three is ten. What will your poison be today, Miss Rosario?"

Kathren sat and grumbled for a second. "Rum."

"Bartender, my good sir, we need ten shots of rum." Blue said.

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Blue and Skeeter carried Kathren between them down the hall to her room and unceremoniously dumped her on the bed.

"That was kind of impressive." Blue said, blinking.

"If you can call being sober, doing 10 shots on an empty stomach, vomiting all over the bar, and passing out in about 15 minutes impressive, yes, that was." Skeeter said, looking a little pale.

"I hope they can get those stains out of the carpet." Blue said.

"Uhhuh."

"Man, are you ok? You look like you just witnessed an axemurdering."

"Yeah."

"Well, at least she threw most of it up so she won't keel over and die of alcohol poisoning or anything."

"Yup." Skeeter said, ducking into the bathroom, closing the door behind him.

"Man, you're a pansy. I hope you don't finish last, because you'll probably be a worse drunk than Kristen is."

A minute later, Skeeter returned. "We really need a new forfeit for the loser to do."

"Pansies." Blue said, sighing.

Shelley Stevens reflected gloomily :( that anywhere is a long way from the deserts of Funnia Lan. Desert was a probably a bit strong as Shelley lived near an area where trees reached the surf. Shelley was gloomy because she was nervous and she was nervous because:
a) she was 19 and alone and several thousand clicks from home :(
b) she was competing for the first time ever in an international competition and terrified of letting the side down.
c) her team mate was Mark de Corio, the most talented surfer Funnia Lan (and the region had ever seen)...who she had just beaten (she had come 37th and he had come 57th out of a field of 85)
d) she had noted that they had both performed so badly in the competition's second tournament in Crosaibi, Vilita, that they were now sitting in the very proud last place...she wanted to go home now. :gundge:

The trip had started okay. They had met on the 'lev train at Konig where Mark had boarded and travelled to the airport together for the five fllights that had got them from Funnia Lan to the lush tropics of Vilita. Shame that two of the flights were delayed and they missed their connections.

Arrival in Vilita meant they had missed their first tournament and had been jet lagged for the second. :gundge:

Mark had handled cooly the reporters at the farewell Press Conference at the airport. He was now mixing with the two reporters who had wangled the means to come along to cover the tour: SPORTS NEWS Marc Farer and James Fraser from GAME-TV. :rolleyes: She had been too embarassed to go after the tournament; and was now determined to get out and practice some waves.

Shelley knew she was good...damn good but good enough to beat the surfers of Vilita? or Bazalonia? or Bainbridge Islands? That would remain to be seen.:confused: :confused: :confused:

Shelley sighed again and walked in to the flat to grab her surfboard and head down to the water.:D

D&S 7th after 2 Events - Solid Start for Crush

The Surf NS - Vilita Tour has kicked off with an amazing response. More than thirty nations have announced they will now be competing and hopes are high from surfers around the NS world. Two events are already in the books and we do apologize for being late in bringing you the news you have been longing for. Severe weather has had all communications from inside the Sylvanaes Kingdom ( along with at least one other nation ) cut off and there is nothing that could be done about it. (OOC - late night thunderstorms and late night internet access don’t mix well) But now we will do our best to catch everyone up on things.

The big story for us, once again, has been made by Sabre Incorporated who have ventured into this new arena by supplying customized boards and Sylvanaes surfwear to the athletes from D&S. The surfwear is not a foreign concept for the Industrial puppet of the Sylvanaes Kingdom as they have been making football kits and Olympic Wear for a long time now as well as Hockey, Basketball, and Baseball unis supplied to a wide variety of buyers from D&S, ASMV, Lexington SC (in their many forms), The Archregimancy, Lamoni, and Bettia among many others. So it was rather expected that Sabre Inc would supply the clothing for this new event.

The big surprise was in the area of surfboards, with new customized designs being supplied for each of the D&S surfers. These boards are some of the very best we have had the privilege to see in our time here. So without further wait, lets unveil now the new designs from Sabre Inc -
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After 2 events thus far, the Sylvanaes Kingdom sits in seventh place in the standings for nations and the brightest of the individual efforts have been made by Arianda "Crush" Ellissedil who is currently just outside the top ten with 7.76 points. But it is worthy of note that all three D&S surfers are currently in the top 25.
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Crush: Ha! Two events and I am kicking both of your sorry butts. So much for the “Elven Female” comments. Teach you two to run your damn mouths!

Chic: Blah blah. Just need a little time to adjust to the level of comp here. A bit tougher than back home.

Crush: Adjust? You sucked there too. You should be used to it by now. Ain‘t that right Leif………………………………....Leif?


Lief: Huh?…………………………… What?

Chic: Idiot.

The three NS Surf Tour competitors from ASMV sat alone in the corner of a small restaurant following the Crosaibi Coast Challenge. They were involved in an intense conversation that went silent whenever anyone approached.

Rome shook his head slowly. “I still don’t get why we are here. I mean competing in this whole surfing thing. It should be apparent that we really don’t belong here. And why us anyway?”

Ngaru could only join him in the head shaking. “Well the Presidente Commandant made it very clear that we are the chosen ones to represent the DSE in this competition. And no one tells Vega no and enjoys their life later.”

Rome looked down at the fish that he had just been served. “But surfing? We don’t surf. How did they get the idea that we do?”

“Some idiot said he saw us surfing and that was good enough for the Presidente Commandante. If he finds out the guy screwed up, there will be hell to pay.”

Rome looked up once again. “But how can you make that mistake? Kayaks look nothing like surfboards and you can’t stand up on them. He’s a complete idiot.”

“Shhhhh………Someone might hear you and report it to………”

Gnat looked up for the first time. “In case you haven’t noticed , we aren’t doing all that bad. 17th overall and ahead of a lot of these actual surfers. Not bad for a group of kayakers if you ask me. Imagine how the poor guys and girls we finish ahead of would feel if they knew we had no surfing experience before Lonngeylin. As long as we finish respectably, everything will be fine.”

Rome shook his head again in despair. “But we’re not surfers!”

“Shhhhhhh………………………..It will all work out. Hurry up and eat. Let’s get out of here.”

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"DPM Harley, if Dedae Dai is guaranteed immunity, why is he still competing under an alias?"

"Why has he not been able to speak to the press?"

"Is the Liverpool England government planning something?"

"What about your performance today? Disappointed?"

"How have talks with PM Douglas got on?"

"Your thoughts about the Liverpool England Original Star contest?"

Harley didn't like press conferences for a reason. "One question at a time, please. Firstly, I've spoken to Mr. D, and he's told me that he'll reveal his identity soon enough. The Government will not let him speak to anyone except his family until he does so, for his own protection."

"Yes, I'm disappointed with my performance today. I think the judges may have missed a move I made, but in the interests of diplomacy I'll not comment further on that."

"I've been speaking to PM Douglas, and he says he will formally submit his resignation to Parliament in Liverpool England soon. I will also be launching a bill to remove Chacor from the Constitution."

"As for the singing contest I have to admit I haven't been following it. I've heard they're good, though. No further questions, sorry."

Cameron sat in his hotel room in the dark. The door flew open and Tango strode in, bathing Cameron in a swath of unwelcome light.

"Rise and shine, little surfer." Tango grinned.

Cameron sighed. "Dude... I just want to think for a bit."

Tango threw open the curtains. "You can think when you're dead."

Cameron arched an eyebrow at him. "I think it's 'You can rest when you're dead.'"

"Cameron. I don't see why you're bummed."

"Did you see our standings?"

"I did. We did great. And you... You did great."

Cameron snorted. "I sucked."

"You beat me in that first event."

Cameron nodded.

"Look, dude. You're taking this too seriously. You're going to psych yourself out."

"Well, what am I supposed to do?"

Tango sat in the chair across from Cameron, and leaned forward.

"Dude... we were put in this to help each other out. Now that I've seen you ride, I know that there's only one thing I know that you don't know, and here it is: Surfing is zen. When you're riding that wave, you're a part of the wave. Part of the ocean, part of the world. Open your mind to that, dude, and you're free."

Cameron turned and stared out the window. It was another bright sunny day in Vilita. He could hear the pounding of the surf as it hit the waves below.

"Maybe you're right."

"Damn straight I'm right." Tango stood up, and slapped Cameron's shoulder.

"Now get in gear. You gotta show me some of those moves of yours." Tango grinned.

OOC I gotta alot of catching up to do. BTW I had changed his name from Eduardo to something else (lol) his name is Caonabo'

IC

Caonabo' was staring out towards the beach. He was trying to enjoy himself here, but he could bring himself to trust any of the people here. Caonabo' sighed heavy and sat on the sand. He was doing very well. Better than his friends so far, but he didn't like competing with his teammates.

Tiburon was enjoying himself. Going straight for the resteraunt in the hotel, he began eating just about everything in the menu.

"Jeeze man," Anacaona said, "I can't take you anywhere you pg!"

"Aghh Sitthh on ith ann wroootath!" Tiburon said with his mouth half filled with lobster dripping with butter.

"Ewww. Don't do that!"

Tiburon smiled with his mouth still full. Anacaona got up and walked towards the bar. She could see some of the surfers that had competed were all talking to each other. Most of the guys were oogling her. Great, she thought as she rolled her eyes. She saw a group she recognized from some country. Andossa Se Mitrin Vega i think...she thought...couldn't hurt to talk to them. She walked over to say hi.

Caonabo' came inside the resturaunt and saw Tiburon engorging in some pufferfish.

"Enjoying yourself Big Shark?"

"MMMMHHMMM!!" Tiburon smiled his big trademark smile and said, "Your girlfriend was just here. She went over to talk to those surfers from Vega."

"For the last time she isn't my girlfriend!" Caonabo' said defensively, although he was blushing while he said it. "Besides, those guys aren't even surfers."

"Whataya talking about? They're doing pretty good man. I mean they are beating me and Anacaona pretty easily."

"I don't know. There's something..."

"Fishy?" Tiburon laughed as he plopped the last piece of pufferfish in his mouth.

"Funny. Hey you know that stuff is poisonous right?"

The Daily Quak

Quakmybush's Longest Running Daily Newspaper

Surfers Continue Mediocrity


The second event in the Inagural NS Surfing Tour, The Tour of Vilita was held yesterday. The 3 surfers from Quakmybush didnt fair very well and finished 47th (Igor Vladimirovič Uspenskij), 56th (Dale González), and 54th (Boris Adamopoulos). Quakmybush currently sits 23th in the team standings out of 33 teams. Uspenskij sits 45th, González sits 57th, and Adamopoulos sits 63rd in individual standings. The surfers hope to improve in the next few touneys.

"Oh Hess, you missed it by this much." Rebicca holds up her fingers barely seperated.

"I know Becs, I should of done more techiqual moves in the 2nd run, maybe I would of made it then."

"Aww girl, don't fret about it, your still kicking my butt. Besides, we're amus and we're doing a whole lot better than the pros of some of these nations."

"Ah you're right Becs, but still, I was soo close." Hess throws her head into the pillow and reaches for the rum on the counter, but Rebicca takes it out of her hand, and lifts Hess' head up into her eye level.

"We don't need that attitude girl. We're here cause Toby thinks we're good enough, so cheer up. If the great leader believes in us, then we have no right to feel sorry for ourselves. Now I saw these two hunks down in the lobby if your interested."

Hess lifts folds her hair back, and smiles at her best friend.
"Your right Becs. Let me go throw something decent on."

A bar in Crosaibi, Vilita

“Looks like I won that one T-Money. Drinks are on you tonight!”

“Big deal, you came in sixtieth. Sixtieth doesn’t get free drinks.”

“I still beat you though. And I paid after you smoked me in Lonngeylin. Now it’s your turn.”

“It doesn’t count. I got hosed by those judges. They wouldn’t know good surfing if it rode in and smacked them upside the head!”

“Well those judges still put me in front of you. Now hurry up and get me some rum!”

“Fine! I want to drown my sorrows anyways.”

<A few minutes later>

“Here’s your booze jerkass.”

“Thank you Ms. Kellen. Now come on, lighten up!”

“No. And I’m not pissed that I lost to you. I’m upset about other things. Like how we’re back in twenty-fourth out of the nations that came here. And why didn’t we send a third surfer even though we come from an island nation?”

“I know. That all sucks. But what are we going to do about it? We’re just here to surf; we don’t make any of the big decisions. Besides, it’s only been two events, I’m sure we have plenty of chances to do better. You can either worry about things you can’t control, or you can get drunk now, and kick ass in the next one while enjoying some tasty waves.”

“Where is the next one anyways?”

“Uh, I think this says ‘Turoki Isle’.”

“Alright then. Third time’s the charm, I hope.”

Much like they had been after Lonngeylin, they were now sitting near the beach of Crosiabi, not quite as joyous than before.

"I can't believe I got last place in the second round."

"Well, Ray, if you paid attention, the flashier surfers didn't get really high grades. Considering how much you can show off at times, it was pretty impressive to get past the qualifying round."

"Lute's right. We all qualified, something a lot of other surfers didn't. I'm pretty sure we're the only 3-man team to do that twice with all 3 members."

"Still... it feels like I should have done better than I did."

"We all probably could have done better."

"But that's why we improve for next time at Turoki. Right, Ray, Lute?"

"I guess. But it's still a bummer."

"Don't worry about it too much. Conditions'll be better next time, I think."

"Yeah, what Lute said. Don't worry and do the best you can next time."

"Hey, well done, Liqa!", "You were only lucky that the judges were that conservative!", "Do you even know what variation means?" The reactions were numerous for the Karelan. She never was used to being exposed to much public interest and her first reaction was to defend against it. Her va'karela'ny however ran low on batteries due to the constant use, so she could not just use them to make the others become defensive and let her in peace. The clerk at the internet cafe called her paranoid when she told him what encryption she wanted to use and so did the clerks in all other internet cafes she found. She could not be in touch with her family or the temple since also the phones were unencrypted and would not work with SysKan standards. She was alone, all movements in Vilita were a torture due to the total takil domination and Vilitan food tasted really weird. She wondered, what it would feel for a vilitan and for only one second, she lowered the intensity of her va'karela'ny (during her time abroad, she could not switch them off, only regulate the intensity). The entire takilness of the scenery was even more, but for that second, she felt in a strange way as if she could deal with it, as if the takilness was normal. During the second, the voices of conscience who shouted "takilanism! Against human nature! Evil!" were quieter and others remarked that the Vilitans apparently did not mind. She was extremely worried about that. Could it be that the va'karela'ny would not protect but control her? She planned somewhen to try it nearer to humans than in her hotel room, looking down from the window.

King Romulus takes first at the Crosaibi Coast Challenge!

Crosaibi, Vilita (HSB) – Romulus Kahani'i, aka "King Rom”, took first place at the Crosaibi Coast Challenge in the Nation States Surfing Tour, showing the value of practicing fundamental, sound surfing techniques. “When I took to the surf, I saw the beach breaks on the right side countering the reef breaks on the left side, reminding me of the Makalapa Invitational last year. After a few adjustments to my board, I was able to get lucky with the line up of the waves, and made some good runs. Simply put, hard work, fundamentals, and good luck all played key parts today!”, said the King, in a post competition interview.

Additionally, Aki Kiko improved her performance from 18th to 6th place, the highest rated female the Crosaibi Coast Challenge. “I don’ care what anyone says, you just have to feel the waves, and go with the rhythm, and everything will play out well. With a little luck, may I win da next run!”, said Aki, as she left to celebrate her standing. “Now, stop following me, I jus’ wanna have fun wit da cute boys here! Later!”

This new showing has propelled the Kingdom of Bainbridge Islands to second place in the overall standings in the first NS Surfing Tour. “With continued improvement, we may just stand a chance of winning this competition!”, proclaimed Issac Pano'a, the KBIA chairman.

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NationStates Surf Tour :: Tour of Vilita - - - Official Tournament Results
(http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=500762)

As noted, there will be some events throughout the tour when certain disciplines will carry more or less weight than others, which is why you entered skills in 4 disciplines to begin with. The first event carried on with all skills weighted evenly, but, this event, like the second, one skill may not have been as important, and this will always be indicated at the top of the scores post with the in-character explanation for the change in weights at that particular venue, as follows:


The Bainbridge Islands and Geisenfried have both put together strong runs in the opening tournaments to challenge Vilita's claim to the title of best surfing Nation in all of Nationstates. Could one of those two nations claim victory on the shores of Turoki Isle?

Off the coast of Sile, Turoki Isle, Vilita, the Surf Sile competition has taken place today under pristene conditions. The waves rolled in like clockwork, and due to the formation of the seabed, broke evenly accross the entire surface of the water far off shore. The winds were light and the sun was bright, even the least experience surfer would have no trouble staying on the board when the water is doing all the work. Therefore, surfers were more consistently able to pinpoint the technical aspects of their run and even showing off a bit for the fans without having to worry about being thrown off their boards.


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3 :: Surf Sile (Turoki Isle, Vilita)



1) Al-Va - Az-Cz[6.84 - 6.18 - 5.74 (6.25)] [5.78] [6.41] [5.71] [6.9]
2) Z-Boy - Az-Cz[5.86 - 6.02 - 7.31 (6.4)] [6.55] [7.56] [6.97] [6.22]
3) Raynard 'Ray' Wechsler - Geisenfried[7.03 - 6 - 6.02 (6.35)] [6] [7.3] [5.67]




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TOUR OF VILITA :: NATIONAL STANDINGS
NATION NAME G - S - B POINTS
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1 Vilita 1 - 0 - 0 [15.70]
2 Geisenfried 0 - 1 - 1 [15.62]
3 Bainbridge Islands 1 - 0 - 0 [15.35]
4 Az-Cz 1 - 1 - 0 [13.35]
5 Edoniakistanbabweagua 0 - 0 - 0 [13.14]



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"Man we kicked ass today" screamed Al-Va.

"Word up. These judges were way better than those killjoys in Crossaibi." replied Z-Boy.

"Yeah, you two were on today. 1st and 2nd is very impressive" added Kl-Slt.

"I knew I had the skills in me. The judged liked the double dolphin, but when I hit the starbust they went absolutely nuts." continued Z-Boy

"Yeah that round earned the highest score of the entire tour so far" Kl-Slt informed them.

"Yeah, and you just got lucky Al-Va man. I was just a split second off on my timing of the Laughing Gnome. I hit that and there's no way you earn first place."

"Well you missed it man. I've got the gold medal and the prize money that goes with it" retorted Al-Va.

"It's all good man. I finished second, got the silver, plenty of money plus a fine mama and the ad money rolling in. This surfing tour is working out great."

"Glad you like it." rejoined Kl-Slt.

"Yeah I even heard that sales at the shop in Port Mid-Mjr have doubled since we began the tour."

Al-Va then started to go. "I'm gonna go carve up the streets here. I've heard that Turoki Isle has some wicked hills to skate on. I'll catch you guys later."

Kl-Slt then turned to Z-Boy and asked "so how are things going with Taihenna."

Z-Boy replied "Great man. She's a wicked chick. She's always looking out for me, always up for any kind of fun, and doesn't mind dating a guy six inches shorter than her. Of course where else would she find a guy as good looking as me?"

"That's good."

"And she's a beast in the sack too. Hot dog, these Vilitan women know things, man........"

"Ok. Whatever dude. You seeing her again soon?"

"Yeah we've got plans to meet later tonight."

"Alright. Peace dude."

"Later, bro."

Z-Boy and Taihenna Eromi are sitting in a Shay Turoki.

"Honey. You were awesome today. But don't go thinking that gives you free range to pick out other Vilitan babes."

"Don't worry sweet thing. You've got more than enough leg to keep me satisfied for quite a while."

"I've got good news. I've lined up some contracts I think you might like."

"Lay 'em on me."

"Alright one's for Turoki Organic Produce, another's for Revolution Shades, a third for Vilitan Motors and the fourth is for Meaty Joe's Seafood Shack."

"Yes, yes, Hell's No, definitely."

"Alright. I'll let Vilitan Motors know you're not interested. We should probably film the Turoki Organic Produce one soon. You think you could squeeze in some time tomorrow."

"Yeah, I do love my organic vegetables."

(Z-Boy is in the ocean surfing and then he pulls the double dolphin, then surfs back into shore.)

"I may make surfing look easy but it's hard work. Back in Az-cz I liked to eat fresh Az-czid seafood and homegrown veggies. Here in Vilita though, I've got to make use of the markets. And nowhere has better greens than Turoki Organic Produce. When I feel a hankerin to slice in to a tomato or pop into some broccoli I always get me some from Turoki Organic Produce."

(Bites into an apple)

(Back on the surfboard and pops the biting beetle)

Turoki Organic Produce: We're TOP for your vegetable needs.

Mark de Corio (Funnia Lan's best surfer) whooped as he high fived Marc Farer (SPORTS NEWS) and James Fraser from GAME-TV: "did you see that" I showed those bainbridge dudes and Rejistania peeps what for. Fifteenth place and ol shells here ...24th..way to go":fluffle:

Shelley Stevens still engulfed in a cloud of gloom looked up "yeah and where did we finish up I'm 79th and your 77th and Funnia Lan 31st":(


Mark responded "lighten up Shells. We re getting there and the boys here are focussing on the positives" he paused and looked nervously at the two reporters"...arent you boys?";)

Marc Farer nodded gravely. "Thats right. Only the positives" and then laughed joined in by the other two men:D :D "15th and 24th out of 80 odd is pretty bloody good"

"watch out" said James, the other reporter, "bloody may get censored by Vlita or Funnia Lan" for being too offensive for the kiddies". The men broke into more laughter.

Shelley shook her head as she wandered onto the balcony thinking "Why was she low all the time?:confused: :confused:
Its not as if Funnia Lan had much coastline or surf to practice on..why was she hard on herself?"
Would they do better in round 4?"

18 year old girl in bikini and a microphone approaches Jeruselem surfer Shurc Bate in his first competition.

Shurc: Hi baby, you like my moves?
Trish: Err, well I'm the JGN reporter sent to cover the surfing.
Shurc: Good choice! You're hot.
Trish: Well, I'm actually just one of the secretaries at JGN. They just sent me because I know something about surfing ... not much though. Everyone's into football or cycling at the moment.

Shurc: 41st isn't bad considering I stayed in the board for once.
Trish: You weren't bad, but the others were much better.
Shurc: Well, I am only real surfer from Jeruselem.
Trish: Say, you have a weird name.

Shurc: Sounds like shark bait, but it's my name. Doing anything today?
Trish: Not really. I'm no Rachel Kool or Dazza Dallas. Just look at my breasts, flat. I'm not even curvy, just blonde.
Shurc: You look fine to me.
Trish: I suppose, 8 PM tonight?

Shurc: I'll be there. It is this the official interview? Kinda short.
Trish: Well, not really. I''ve been chasing some of the other surfers for interviews. So many girls around them.
Shurc: I maybe a terrible surfer by those standands, but I'm around for talking.
Trish: No problems, now to get all this sand outta me first.

Tango awoke to pounding at his hotel door. He lumbered over to his door and opened it. Cameron stood there, dressed to surf.

"Dude... is it even morning?"

"Sun rises in half an hour. I intend to be in the water when that happens."

"Have fun."

"You're coming with, aye. We need to practice."

"Our country dropped by one rank. We're still cool."

"We are not still cool. Instead of finishing in the teens, you finished in the forties, and I finished in the seventies. In the SEVENTIES. We need more practice. We need to train."

Tango looked Cameron in the eye, and saw fierce determination staring back at him.

He sighed heavily.

"Fine, dude. We do this your way. If it doesn't work, we train my way. Deal?"

"Deal."

* * *

As the sun rose over Vilita, astute observers could see two lone individuals paddling out on boards, their bodies black against the golden waves.

The Daily Quak
Quakmybush's Longest Running Daily Newspaper
Surfers Have Dissapointing Showing

The third event in the Inagural NS Surfing Tour (The Tour of Vilita) was held yesterday. The Surf Sile event was challenging for the three Quakmybushian surfers. The top Quakmybushian surfer was Igor Vladimirovič Uspenskij who finished 39th. Next was Dale González who finished in 57th. Finally it was Boris Adamopoulos who bailed on all three of his runs finished a miserable 88th. The team sits in 25th out of 35 teams with no medals and 7.74 points. Also the Quakmybushian Surfers Associations would like to reveal their new shorts.

http://www.3wideracing.com/3wide/sites/ao/sports/kits/surf/quakmybushsurf.gif

Thanks to 3wide Surfwear for the shorts. These shorts will be on sale in all local stores from a price of H 39.99. So go out and show your support for the Quakmybushian surfers.

Blue and Skeeter were sitting at a bar when Kathren walked in carrying a styrofoam cooler. "Awww, there's our loveable drunk." Blue said, laughing.

"Har har, you'll get yours, bastard." Kathren mumbled, setting the cooler on the bar. "After a lot of thought, Skeeter, I believe I have come up with a fair and equal forfeit for you to perform. You know, because you were adequately crappy to finish behind my boy Blue and myself."

"Yeah, yeah, get down to it, will you?" Skeeter said, leaning against the bar.

"Well, inside this cooler is one of these awesome live little lobster thingies." Behind Skeeter, Blue didn't wait for the end of the explination to begin cracking up. "And your job, good sir, is to let it take it's pincher thing and get a good, quality hold of your nipple."

"Oh, you're not serious." Skeeter said, blinking a few times.

"Oh, the hell I'm not." she said, reaching into the cooler and taking out a little crawfish-like crustacean.

"What if it poisons me or something?"

"It's not poisonous, I looked it up. Quit being such a baby and let it pinch your nipple. Or Blue and I could collaborate and come up with something worse."

"Fine, damnit." Skeeter said, shedding his shirt and taking the crawfish from Kathren. "I hate you so much."

"Less talk, more screams of pain."

Skeeter slowly brought it close to his chest. Suddenly, the crawfish reached out and got a quality hold of his nipple. Letting out a scream that was almost out of human hearing range, Skeeter began slapping at the crustacean wildly, trying to knock it off of himself and onto the floor. after a few good quality hits, it let go and dropped to the floor, where Kathren picked it up and returned it to the cooler. "Haha, that was the best."

Skeeter swore a few times, wincing. "Damn, that thing can clamp down hard."

Blue fell off of his stool laughing, rolling back and forth on the floor. "Oh man, that was entirely classic."

"Screw you, man." Skeeter said, grabbing the cooler. "I'm going to flush this thind down the toilet."

"Pfft, just return it. It was only a selari or something anyway, three stores down." Kathren said, throwing a crumpled up reciept at him. "You could use it for surfing lessons while you're at it." Skeeter caught it in one hand, and after putting on his shirt, stormed out of the bar. Watching him go, Kathren laughed again. "That poor ass. Does he know we shaved his eyebrows off last night yet?"

"Not a clue." Blue said, climbing back up on his stool.

"Haha, sucker."

Surf Ready for Yeaddin Return


Vilita's Viiker Surf was riding high after two events on the schedule had been completed, leaving Crosaibi just shy of a medal in the 4th position. The Vilitan rider had high hopes of improving on his 6th place position in the standings at Turoki Isle, but exactly the opposite is what occurred. The usually strong Surf was unable to break out of the qualification round for the first time on the tour, and was left back in 30th position in the final standings at Surf Sile. This poor result dropped the younger Surf to 7th in the individual standings, and allowed rival nations to close within just hundreths of a point of Vilita atop the all important National standings.

However, there is good news for Viiker Surf. If theres anywhere that Viiker knows how to surf, it's off the shores of Yeaddin. Born and raised in Yeaddin while his father was leading the world famous Yeaddin Owls to countless Vilitan Stellar Division and NationStates Champions League victories, Viiker Surf knows the waters of Yeaddin almost as good as the fish that live in it. The #2 Vilitan rider will certainly be looking for a positive run and a return to the knockout stage of the competition, and perhaps more.

Meanwhile, lead Vilitan surfer Summer Conlin was able to make it three-for-three from qualifying, making the knockout stage at Surf Sile to maintain one of the few 100% qualification records in the tour, despite losing ground to individual points leader Romulus Kahani'i of Bainbridge Islands.

“Hey, bra, how you feeling?” asked Kane, between bites of his sandwich. One of the benefits of surf competitions was the free food – a bonus Kane always made a point of helping himself. “You placed good – in the top ten again! Why you look so down?”

“You know, I feel bad for Aki…”, Hola (Rom) started…

“Yeah, too bad she still not as good as you!” interjected Kane, spilling some of his soda, mimicking her falling off her board on her last run.

“No, not that… She has such potential, but she doesn’t take the sport seriously. I mean, all she does is party, never practicing. How is she going to get any better?”, asked Hola, rhetorically.

“Maybe she don’ wanna’ get better. Maybe she’s just a sleezy bimbo who can surf? Who knows?”, said Kane.

“No, I think she just dosen’t understand the brains about surfing…”,

“Oh, and let me see, you’re just the guy to ‘show her’. I have bad news fo’ you, bra. A lotta guys have already ‘shown her’ what to do. You’d just be another anodder dummy who tinks he can change her. Trust me, you can’t. Anyway, she hates you guts, so why she listen to you?”, said Kane.

“Ya know, I have a gut feelin’ that she really wants to be a bedda surfer.”, said Hola.

At that moment, Aki walked by the buffet stand, and Hola saw her.

“Hi!”, said Hola.

“Go suck a root!”, said Aki, who then stuck out her tongue at him.

As she walked away, Kane said, trying not to laugh too much, “Oh yeah, bra, I really thinks she wants your help!”

Hola just kept quiet, chewing on the deep-fried calimari, wondering what her problem was.

KBI surfers place in the top ten at Surf Sile, on Turoki Isle, Vilita

Turoki Is. (HSB) – On an overcast day, both surfers from the Kingdom placed in the top ten, cementing Bainbridge Island’s team position in the top ten teams. King Romulus placed eighth, commenting that he had some difficulties getting good ridge placement on the crests of the waves. “I had a hard time gathering the waves, and of course, which led to a hard time trying to make good runs.”
Aki Kiko was right behind the king, with a ninth place finish. She looked to be on her way with a perfect run, but while trying a traditional “hang ten”, she fell off her board, lowering her total score. “I thought I had it, but I couldn’t pull it off. I’m really disappointed”, said Aki, in the post surf press conference. “But I have shown, so far, that a woman can surf as well as a man!”, she commented, but was rebuffed by some of the locals who shouted, “You may be hot, but you ain’t won nothin’! When you win somthin’, then talk. Until then, shut up!”

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NationStates Surf Tour :: Tour of Vilita - - - Official Tournament Results
(http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=500762)

As noted, there will be some events throughout the tour when certain disciplines will carry more or less weight than others, which is why you entered skills in 4 disciplines to begin with. The first event carried on with all skills weighted evenly, but, this event, like the second, one skill may not have been as important, and this will always be indicated at the top of the scores post with the in-character explanation for the change in weights at that particular venue, as follows:


Az-Cz's total domination in Surf Sile proved that any nation can still get right back into the thick of the overall standings with one big performance. Would there be a repeat performance in Yeaddin? Could Vilita's home-town hero Viiker Surf impress infront of his family and friends?

The judges in Yeaddin were among the most respected in Atlantian Oceania, known for their bi-partisan scoring. The weather conditions were perfect so it was down to the surfers to determine who would be crowned the Tiones Lumber Champion!


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4 :: Tiones Lumber Open (Yeaddin, Vilita)



1) Roman "Rome" Callabarro - Andossa Se Mitrin Vega[5.72 - 6.66 - 5.85 (6.08)] [5.68] [5.99] [6.24] [5.2]
2) Malaiki Tovali - Vilita[5.79 - 6.56 - 6.06 (6.14)] [5.69] [6.56] [6.3] [4.88]
3) Romulus Kahani'i - Bainbridge Islands[6.08 - 5.3 - 7.01 (6.13)] [6.17] [5.98] [5.74]




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TOUR OF VILITA :: NATIONAL STANDINGS
NATION NAME G - S - B POINTS
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1 Vilita 1 - 1 - 0 [21.95]
2 Bainbridge Islands 1 - 0 - 1 [20.80]
3 Geisenfried 0 - 1 - 1 [20.19]
4 Az-Cz 1 - 1 - 0 [18.64]
5 Edoniakistanbabweagua 0 - 0 - 0 [17.49]



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(http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=500762)

And Introducing: The National Media Ratings!

The National Media rankings are being introduced and will continue to be posted along with the standings and results following each event. The National Media rankings are determined by a panel of expert analysts as to which nations show the most dedicated coverage of the tournament relative to the other nations involved, including but not limited to the categories of Media Quality and Frequency of Coverage.

TOUR OF VILITA :: MEDIA RATINGS
NATION NAME Grade
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Bainbridge Islands A+
Az-Cz A
Vilita A
Rejistania A
System Karela B+
Geisenfried B+
Tocapa B+
Casari B
Liverpool England B
Pablicosta B


**(Please note, that this is not designed to be a ranking of the RP Bonus a nation has accumulated during the tournament. It most certainly is not (As far as a Nation receiving a "C+" could have received more RP bonus than a Nation receiving a "B+" in the media rankings, for different reasons). It is designed to be a general impression of media from an in-character point of view.)

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(http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=500762)

The Daily Quak
Quakmybush's Longest Running Daily Newspaper
Surfers Continue To Dissapoint

The NS Surfing Tour continued yesterday in Vilita with the Tiones Lumber Open. The three Quakmybushian surfers continued to only run in the middle of the pack. Boris Adamopoulos was the top surfer, finishing 19th. Igor Vladimirovič Uspenskij finished near his season average, in 48th. Bringing up the rear for the Quakmybushian surfers was Dale González in 70th place. The team sits in 21st place with 10.52 points. While individually the surfers sit 43rd (Igor Vladimirovič Uspenskij), 63rd (Dale González), and 70th (Boris Adamopoulos). Also, so called "experts" have given us a D in our coverage of the Surf Tour, we do believe that this is untrue, here at the Daily Quak we try as hard as we can to bring you all of the important news in Quakmybush.

The entire Funnia Lan team were sitting with the Funnia Lan ambassador to Vilita Maxwell Drimes in the bar of their hotel surrounded by a cloud of "gloom".

"They gave us a "C", a f***** C for our media coverage" groaned Funnia Lan GAME-TV'S James Fraser.

"And how are they judging it? " added Marc Farer from SPORTS NEWS. "have you seen one real piece of journalism from any of our competitors? and some dont even have a free press!"

"yes" added the ambassador, "and you go to jail if the dictatorship disagrees with your press[/I]"

"um guys" interjected Mark de Corio (Funnia Lan's best surfer) "You' ve forgotten that we are RS at this tournament. Shell's cloud of gloom is catching."

Shelley Stevens started out of her own world; "i ve go to do better"

James Fraser added: "we ve all got to do better"


"Right", said the ambassador "heres what we need to do...."

The three members of the Quakmybush surf team were walking down the beach, Boris Adamopoulos then said "Guys we really, really need to improve, were 25th in the team standings, and look who is ahead of us, those dirty Bedistani, those jackasses from Geisenfried who wrecked Sorley in the AOMC, and Edoniakistanbabweagua, christ that almost has more letters than your name Igor."

"Heh...., ya we really do need to improve, if we dont they might take these really sharp looking shorts away from us...., and then we would be naked, and I for one dont wanna see that." Dale González replied.

"Well, if we dont improvw we should maybe think of a new training strategy, after the next event if we dont do well, I say we re-think are strategy." Igor said.

"Ya." the other too said.

With that the surfers hit the water to practice.

Harley was thrilled. He'd just scored the best-ever finish for Liverpool England so far to date in the NSSurf tour of Vilita, with an impressive 15th placed finish. He revelled in the glory; in two days he'd be named new Prime Minister of Liverpool England, given that Thomas Douglas had offered to resign and Parliament had accepted the resignation unanimously. He was jolted from daydreamland by a reporter.

"Mr. Prime Minister-designate! Congratulations! Jim Holliday, Liverpool England Sports Radio Folenisa. Few words?"

"Yes, I'd be glad".

"The best-ever result for a Liverpool England surfer so far, congratulations. You must be mighty pleased."

"Darn right, I am. I'm thrilled; today was a good day for me, for the country. We're putting the country on the international surfing map."

"Do you think that if you continue to do well, the three regions [in Liverpool England which ban surfing in waves over 12 ft] will repeal their laws?"

"That is, of course, up to the regional governments. But we'd like to see that happen, yes."

"Who's "we", DPM? The federal government?"

"No, I mean all surfers in Liverpool England."

"Speaking of the federal government, Parliament today unanimously accepted the resignation of Thomas Douglas as Prime Minister of Liverpool England, effective Monday. You're obviously PM-designate, as DPM. But while you're overseas, what'll happen?"

"I've already appointed my Cabinet and have submitted it to Parliament for voting. PM Douglas will stay on as interim PM until either I return, or Parliament approves my Cabinet, from when my new deputy will take over as interim."

"Thanks for your time, sir, good luck."

Trish: 41st again Shurc, not bad for a one-man-band team although Jeruselem are still one of worst surfing nations.
Shurc: At least we aren't a non-surfing nation now. I'm doing my bit for the cause and having fun at taxpayers expense.
Trish: Your result didn't actually improve much or neither did the scoring.
Shurc: I never said I was the best surfer, far from it. At least I'm here doing a job, babe.

Trish: Any plans for the next tournament.
Shurc: I'm trying to get sponsor who isn't JGN. Hard work if you're not playing soccer or cycling.
Trish: JGN isn't provding much sponsorship either. I'm not even a proper reporter.
Shurc: There's nothing wrong with you. You're not that KOOL chick, but there's only one Rachel Kool. Be yourself.

Trish: Any companies in mind.
Shurc: I think maybe one of those alcoholic drink sellers or surf gear sellers. Goes well with girls in bikinis and guys getting themselves thrown around in waves like dolls.
Trish: Well, that's logical. Say, maybe a casino.
Shurc: Only one Casino in Jeruselem, I'll try them too. Good thinking Trish.

Trish: See you tonight.
Shurc: I'll be there, I maybe a bad surfer but Shurc knows how to party.

"Well that went pretty well." Kl-Slt commented to the other two surfers.

"Yeah for you two wankers, anyways," responded Z-Boy.

"Alright so you were off today, but still as a country a 4th and a 6th is pretty danged good."

"Yeah."

"Come on now Z-Boy. I was happy for you guys when you took 1st and 2nd last time. You're still top 16 as far as the overall standings, you'll have some other successes."

"Yeah that's true."

"Not to mention the endorsements and Taihenna, I think things are going fine."

"Good point."

Just then Al-Va chimed in, "seeing I'm doing this to the surfing tour with consecutive top fours, if there was a skateboarding tour it would just be over."

"Word up. You were awesome today. We have a fly crew." added Kl-Slt.

"Did you see the media rankings? Apparently the Vilitans just got so used to seeing the Az-cz media everywhere they assumed they were here," joked Z-Boy.

"Yeah, it's a little strange we aren't getting much coverage here. I've heard that we've been on a Thin Country of Sports, but the Az-cz scroll's devoted almost no space to us. They gave a special writer to follow that loser Rk-Mrs, but nothing on us. What's up with that?" complained Kl-Slt.

Just then Z-Boy got a call on his cellphone. "What's that babe? You've got a dinner meeting arranged with the people from Meaty Joe's? Alright I'll catch you there." He then turned to the other Az-czzers "Yo guys. I gotta dash. I gotta important meeting to get to."

"No problem Z-Boy. We'll catch you later." Kl-Slt told him.

"I hear there's a half pipe in this town. I'm gonna go grind some while I've got a chance before we move on to the next town. Later." With that Al-Va headed off.

Kathren wasn't a happy person after the competition. Not only did she finish last of the three, again, but Skeeter actually qualified for the finals.

Blue walked into the room and sighed. "Ugh, that guy is going crazy, I think."

"Why is that, exactly?" Kathren said, looking mildly upset with herself.

"Oh, he's running all over the damn town looking for something humiliating for you to do."

"Ahhh, I'm sure a classy individual such as him will have no problem with that." She said, laughing.

"Oh god, you didn't do something else to him, did you?"

"Well, I might have something planned."

"Ugh, you're going to drive that poor guy mad." Blue said, yawning and turning on the TV.

"Pfft. He'll be so hyper and excited he'll fall asleep in a ditch somewhere, forget about it, and I'll keep tormenting him."

"Ugh, no wonder all the guys in Casari are nuts over the foriegn chicks."

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Kristen said, blinking.

"Well, let's look at some examples:

"There is, of course, Meia Winter, Deputy Premier. Last time she was in the news is because she took a stance on hooliganism after attempting to bum rush the field, on her own, from a luxury box four stories up.

Coach of the national team, Vivica Hill. Supposedly runs a secret research lab that blows out the power grid in the western Tyrellian suburbs twice a week. Has advocated the use of physical attacks against other teams' personal areas at more than one occasion. And has a freakish enjoyment of dance music.

Olympics and Ylompics organizer Lucia Roberts. Spent a lot of time screaming at people working for her. Passed off a test batch of medals made out of aluminum because she didn't have anything else to do with them. Addressed complaints with the general response 'shut the hell up, I bet you're on the crack.' Clearly, all of these women are not insane in the least."

"So there's a few eccentric Casaran females. I'm sure there's some rational ones out there too."

"And now we have you. A surfer who forced a man to wear shellfish from his man-nipples."

"You think people would be lined up waiting for dates, huh?" Kathren said, biting a fingernail.

"That or running away as fast as possible."

"Well, or that."

"Hey honey, these are the people who are arranging the Meaty Joe's commercials, just answer their questions and the commercial should be ready to shoot tomorrow or the next day." Taihenna explained to Z-Boy.

"Alright." Z-Boy replied.

"This is Mr. Vazaro Mealura and this is Mrs. Tiaza Weaui."

"Nice to meet you both."

"Wow, you're even more handsome in person" Weaui began.

Vazaro interrupted her. "We've got some questions for you. First have you ever eaten at a Meaty Joe's?"

"Just once. It was pretty good."

"Really, what did you have?"

"The sea urchin pizza and the baked jellyfish lasagna."

"Really? Those are two of our more exotic items" exclaimed Weaui a bit suprised.

"Well I'm one of the more exotic people you'll meet."

"Great" Vazaro continued, "what other seafood do you like?"

"Everything really."

"Excellent. Would you be willing to wear Meaty Joe's shorts in the commercial?"

"Sure, why not. Could I keep them after the commercial?"

"Of course," Weaui jumped in, "if you'd wear them around regularly that'd be great."

"Well young man, it sounds like you'll be a fine spokesman. We just wanted to know some details for the filming. When is convenient to film the piece?"

"The sooner the better. We're on the move a lot so I don't have much more time here. And I'd like to get it in the can before I go on the road again."

"Alright we'll film it tomorrow."

<Next day>

Z-Boy is sitting at a table in a Meaty Joe's. A waitress walks up to him.

"Here's your sea urchin pizza sir."

Z-Boy chomps into a slice and then turns to the camera.

"When I'm in the mood for heading out to a restaurant, I often like to go out for seafood. As a man of the surf I find there's nothing better than food from the sea. And it's hard to find a better place to get it that Meaty Joe's. Whether it's exotic dishes like my favorite sea urchin pizza, or more standard fair like shrimp scampi anyone can find something to their liking at Meaty Joe's."

<Cuts to footage of Z-Boy out on the waves>

Voiceover: Z-Boy is just about the only spectacular thing in the ocean you won't find on a Meaty Joe's menu. Come on down and check us out.

"Why aren't they reporting on the surfing back home?"

"Because we suck at it, Kenny."

"We're not that bad at it!"

"Kenny, you did only come here for the holiday, didn't you?"

"No, the publicity! Surely there's some publicity to be had for being the worst surfer on the tour?"

"There probably is, but it's not good."

"There's no such thing as bad publicity, Bobby. Anyway, you're not doing much better, are you?"

"Well, I can't actually surf, either. I just fool about a bit. Gets a few extra punters in."

"What I don't understand is the whole concept of the sport. I mean, how the hell do you stay on these things?"

"I haven't got a clue. Why don't we ask Winston?"

"Because he sucks too?"

"At least he can stand up on one of these boaty things. He even broke into the top fifty at one event!"

"Maybe we should just get some practice in?"

"Sounds like a plan. Let's head down to the beach."

"OK. Let's take a few beers, too."

- - - - -

Three hours later...

"...and you see, that's how I scored the winner against... whoever they were."

"Oh, Kenny. You've got some tales about your football days."

"And you've got some about your... whatever it is you do days."

"So why are we here again?"

"Well, it started off when God made the world, and..."

"No, no, no. On this here beach?"

"To get drunk and waste the night away. You can't say it hasn't been fun!"

"So why have we got our plastic boaty things with us?"

"Can't remember."

"Damn. Another beer?"

"Why not!"

“Listen, I was busy with other stuff and couldn’t make the conference”, said Aki.

Issac Pana’o, adjusted his Aloha shirt, the one with the day-glo yellow and black pineapples, and said, “You have a contractual agreement to meet with the media after every Tour event. You didn’t make the last one. Unless there was an “act of god”, like getting struck by lightening, or getting eaten by a shark, there’s no excuse for not being where you’re supposed to be. As such, you will be penalized 10,000 Tikis for your actions”

“It was only one time! Its so unfair! You all are a bunch of bastards!”, Aki said, with tears welling up in her eyes. “I can’t afford that kind of fine! You know that!”

“Not my problem. You knew what the consequences of your actions would be, and still, you chose to ignore them. Don’t turn on the waterworks for me, wahini! I know they’re really crocodile tears. And trust me, I’ve seen much better than you with this routine.”, said Issac.

“I promise that I won’t miss another conference again! Just don’ take the money I’ve earned away! I need it!”, said Aki.

“Yes, that takes me to another point. Because of your shenanigans in the bars and clubs, you are going to have a curfew of 2200 hours, every night, starting tonight”, said Issac.

“What! I’m a grown woman – and that’s crap”, yelled Aki, her face turning red.

Issac countered, “It may be crap, but you signed the contract, allowing the designated KBISA representative, me, to enforce any actions to protect the integrity of the KBI. You, miss, are a little too, shall we say, “free spirited”, and are going to have to calm down a bit – and focus on the tour.”

“What do you mean ‘free spirited’? I just like a good time and I don’t need a prison guard!”

“Let me tell you why you do. Remember the fight you go into with the three girls in Lonngeylin? The episode when you took off your shirt and later said you ‘forgot’ you didn’t have a bikini top on? In Crosaibi, when the local media had full color shots of you passed out behind a Dumpster the morning after you went ‘partying’? At Turoki Isle, when you went out on the waves and threw up during your second run?”, countered Issac.

“I can explain…”, said Aki.

“No you can’t. We both know this is just the tip of the mountain - I don't feel like going over the rest. From now on, you're on a short leash. One wrong move, one accident, one “mistake” and you will not only be pulled from the NS Tour, but you’ll be banned from competition in the KBISA. You’ll be lucky if you can go snowboarding in Nan Gorgwaith! So you better clean up your act”, said Issac.

Aki’s tears started to well up as Issac left. “By the way, good luck tomorrow”, he said, with a tinge of sarcasm.

"Wow, Becs you really hit the waves great. You could of easily won this time had those judges been abit more enthusiatic about your final run. Anyways, you're a champion in my book."

"Thanks Hess, it feels good to actaully have a good performance. After three horrible go arounds, it felt good to make the final sixteen. Maybe next time we can both do it?"

"Yeah babe, we can do that. But first, food!"

"When was the last time you ate?"

"Umm... I think those peanuts on the trip over from home."

"My god girl, you're going to die if you don't get some food in you!"

"Like ok, lets go somewhere then."

"I heard that the local resturaunt has some good pizza."

"Only if they have salsa to put on it."

"I'll take some in my purse, let's go girl."

Hello and Kia Ora. This is Angus Pakeha of the Napieria News Network, here on location in Alikki-Corra, in sunny Vilita. Behind me you can see the lush Tivali Jungle, home to the graceful and deadly Vilitan jungle Cat. But as beautiful as the islands of Vilita are, it's what's bordering their land that we concern ourself with today.

Vilita is home to some of the best surfing available, with fifteen prime venues, so it is easy to see why Vilita was chosen as the home of the inaugural tour of Surf NationStates.

Napieria has sent two of our finest surfers to compete in this event, and we've managed to catch up with them on the beach, taking a rare break from their rigorous training to speak with us today.

First, we have Cameron "Te Taniwha" Takimoana, who hails from the town of Kouranui, where he uses his surfing skills to help with his family's oyster diving business.

Secondly, no stranger to the publis, is Tangaroa MacMurray, known to his fans as Tango. Tango hails from Kilmahew City, and is the two-time winner of Napieria's National surf event.

The two of them have done quite well here. After four events, Napieria is 16th out of 35 nations entering the competition, and Tango is ranked 26th, Cameron at 31st, out of 89 surfers.

Cameron, Tango, thanks for being here. What's the hardest part of being here? We'll start with you, Tango.

Well, it's this guy right here. He wakes me up before the sun to make sure we can train as hard and as long as possible to do as well as we can. He's relentless.

Interesting. Cameron?

For me, the hardest part is being so far from my friends and family, everything I know, really. I'm farther away from home than I've ever been, and I have everyone counting on me to do well.

A lot of pressure. I don't imagine, with that much pressure, that you've had much time to enjoy the scenery here.

Not really. I've been working very hard to do well in this competition. I have seen some lovely beaches and some wonderful ocean views, though.

Tango, you have quite a reputation as a partier. have you had a chance to sample some of Vilita's night-life?

Not really, Angus. Cameron here has been making me train pretty constantly over the past few days. Before that, I did get to see some of Vilita's scenery and beautiful... wildlife.

I'll bet you did, Tango.

Tell me, who's your biggest competition here in Vilita? Cameron?

Clearly, Romulus Kahani'i is a force to be reckoned with, having scored in the top ten of all four events. He's got a beatifully well-rounded approach to surfing.

Interesting. Tango?

Romulus is certainly a contender, but I think we're each our own biggest competitor. I think sometimes, you've got to clear your mind of all concerns and worries, and just get out there and have fun. If you score big, you score big, and that's great. But if you don't score well, at least you had fun.

Well said. Thank you boys for taking the time to talk with us today. All of Napieria is behind you, following your progress, and we wish you the best of luck in the rest of the events.

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The Tiones Lumber Open saw some familiar faces near the top of the standings, but a new champion wearing the gold. After barely making the cut for the knockout stage, with the 15th best score of the 16 finalists, Andossa Se Mitrin Vega's Rome Callabarro stole the show in Yeaddin, not topping the charts until the final round where he was the better of two evils, both surfers clearly feeling the tension of their first championship run. Bainbridge Islands' Romulus Kahani'i, currently the top ranked surfer in the world, was left wondering what could have been as he had to settle for the bronze medal.

The surfers arrived early at Morata Point in hopes of getting familiarized with the surroundings and the unique scoreline where the shores meet and the waves seemingly break in all directions. But the only familiarity most surfers were able to acquire was with their rain coats as the storms were heavy, delaying the action for two whole days before the waters were finally cleared for competition. A tricky place to surf on the best of days, the residual stormsurge only increased the difficulty of pinpointing the ocean's great waves. Coming up from underneath themselves, most surfers spent their time just trying to figure out how to stay on top of their board as the unpredictable waves crashed around them.



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5 :: Surf Morata Valley (Morata Point, Vilita)



1) Api Kiko - Bainbridge Islands[7.01 - 5.23 - 6.16 (6.13)] [5.34] [6] [6.6] [6.82]
2) Viiker Surf - Vilita[5.99 - 7.15 - 5.89 (6.34)] [6.14] [5.79] [7.11] [6.58]
3) Kl-Slt - Az-Cz[6.6 - 6.87 - 6.99 (6.82)] [5.87] [5.78] [6.02]




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TOUR OF VILITA :: NATIONAL STANDINGS
NATION NAME G - S - B POINTS
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1 Vilita 1 - 2 - 0 [28.35]
2 Bainbridge Islands 2 - 0 - 1 [27.33]
3 Az-Cz 1 - 1 - 1 [24.12]
4 Geisenfried 0 - 1 - 1 [23.65]
5 Edoniakistanbabweagua 0 - 0 - 0 [20.12]



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And Introducing: The National Media Ratings!

The National Media rankings are being introduced and will continue to be posted along with the standings and results following each event. The National Media rankings are determined by a panel of expert analysts as to which nations show the most dedicated coverage of the tournament relative to the other nations involved, including but not limited to the categories of Media Quality and Frequency of Coverage.

TOUR OF VILITA :: MEDIA RATINGS
NATION NAME Grade
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Az-Cz A+
Bainbridge Islands A
Casari A
Liverpool England A
Vilita B+
Napieria B+
Rejistania B+
System Karela B
Geisenfried B
Tocapa B


**(Please note, that this is not designed to be a ranking of the RP Bonus a nation has accumulated during the tournament. It most certainly is not (As far as a Nation receiving a "C+" could have received more RP bonus than a Nation receiving a "B+" in the media rankings, for different reasons). It is designed to be a general impression of media from an in-character point of view.)

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Boris, Igor and Dale walked down the beach. "Boris you did friggin awsome!!" Dale said. "You finished in 6th place, thats the best that any of us have ever finished."

"Ya, I found it almost impossible to stay on my board, those waves were fucking huge!" Igor said. "I ended up finishing 63rd, my worst finish."

"Bah, dont worry about it, I ended up 32nd." Dale said "If we can just continue yo improve a bit at a time we might win one by the end of the year."

"We moved up a tonne in the team standings, we are up to 14th, only a little behind the next group of teams." Boris said.

"Seems like those goddamn "experts" still hate our media, now they are at a D." Igor said.

"Boris..., dude your up too like 30th in the standings!" Dale said

"Son of a bitch he is!, Dale your in 55th." Igor said

"Igor your up to 48th." Boris added.

"Well we should go do some more practicing" Boris said.

and off they went

Surf Morata Valley

Beach, Point Morata, Vilita
Fedor Fersas swore under his breath. He thought he was going to do a lot better, and he had seriously underestimated the strength of his opponent surfers. He should have been happy that he had come almost thirty places ahead of his partner, Jenk Rasta [who had come in 73rd], but it didn't pall him one bit. Jenk was coming up from behind, putting his board in the sand, and walking brisky towards Fedor. Jenk caught up in a short while and place his hand on Fedor's shoulder, "Hey, good job bro!"

Fedor smiled a bit and said, "Yea fuckin' right fool, those guys tore me up." And he was speaking a bit less than truthfully, given that some of the others had done incredibly better than he had. His eyes showed it.

Jenk shrugged, "Whatever man, we'll do better in the next tourny. I mean, check me out. I got seventy-third, man! You can't fuck up more than I could." Jenk laughed and then went on, "Shit, but lookin' on the bright side bro, at least I didn't get ninety-first, like fuckin' Kenny Sanderson."

"True that dude," Fedor chuckled. He turned around, and Jenk followed his steps, and they both gazed at the Vilitan beaches, looking at all the spectators go into the water now that the tournament here was done for the day. It was beautiful. Perhaps not as beautiful as the beaches of Corza - at least when there was peace in the Empire - but nonetheless beautiful. A Vilitan destroyer and a tanker could be seen in the horizon, and the others were playing in the sand or strolling through the coastline. Fedor said, "Next tourny, man, we're going to have to rock."

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/Macabees/Personal/beach.jpg

Fedor shook the thoughts away from his head and looked over to the other Macabee, "Hey man, you wanna go get somethin' to drink?"

"Yea sure, bro."

They both went for their boards, took them out of the sand, and began walking up the beach and towards the boardwalk. It was just like a typical tourism beach, with burger shacks and drink stands up and down the boardwalk, and beautiful women dotting the area. Most of the girls were walking in bikinis, and the majority of these single strap, and the others were in short shorts - any man's dreams. It was hard to think about surfing when you were looking at the hotties walking up and down the place - or so thought Jenk and Fedor. Jenk turned and said, "Shit, I wouldn't mind staying here a bit more." He winked his right eye.

Fedor laughed, "No shit man."

"Man that wipeout killed me," sighed Z-Boy.

"Yeah it was tough out there today." replied Kl-Slt

"You sure nailed it though. Third place is a good result in this weather."

"Yep we've now all got a medal for ourselves."

"Yeah, but only Al-Va's gotten a gold."

"Yeah, I knocked you down right good." laughed Al-Va

"Still, we're doing quite well as a team. Third place overall and three medalists is pretty danged good." added Kl-Slt

"Yeah, but we're all behind multiple Viltans and multiple Bainbridge Islanders. And despite my popularity, I'm way back in 17th. Between the judges and the weather I haven't gotten it going," complained Z-Boy.

"Don't worry about it. You have as much talent and creativity as anybody in the field. When you find the right event, you'll nail it."

Just then Z-Boys phone rang.

"You got all three of us an interview on Sports Extreme? Let me check with the guys." "Taihenna's got us an interview on a pretty major Vilitan sports show you interested?"

Both Al-va and Kl-Slt confirmed.

"Alright, we're in babe. Just tell us how to get there."

Shabe Sugiyo: Welcome to Sports Extreme. I'm your host Shabe Sugiyo. We have a very special present for you tonight. Joining me are the entire Az-cz surfing team. Good evening gentlemen. Please introduce yourselves.

Kl-Slt: I'm Kl-Slt.

Al-Va: I'm Al-Va.

Z-Boy: I'm the one and only Z-Boy.

Shabe: I understand that surfing isn't that big in Az-cz. How did you all get involved with it.

Z-Boy: I was raised basically in the water. I'm comfortable with all water sports, so surfing just slid into that.

Al-Va: Well really I'm a skateboarder, but sometimes boarders like to hit the waves, so we've got that as well.

Kl-Slt: Some of my friends from my junior high kleptodance team convinced me to give it a try. I did and loved it and have been stuck ever since.

Shabe: Before coming here what were you doing?

Al-Va: I grew marijuana for the government.

Z-Boy: I ran my own surfing school and board shop. In fact the boards we're using are Z-Boy originals.

Kl-Slt: I worked for the public recreation department as a sports instructor, including surfing.

Shabe: How's the surfing being recieved back in Az-cz?

Kl-Slt: So-so. People are watching but it's not that popular. There's a lot of sports to compete with and we're not that high up the list.

Shabe: What's your impression of Vilita?

Z-Boy: Top notch. Everything's been great.

Al-Va: It's nice. The food's good, the eye candy's great and there's plenty of places to board.

Shabe: You guys are the most popular foreign team and Z-Boy is the most popular foreign surfer. Why do you think that is?

Kl-Slt: I think the fact that we're one of the strongest team helps.

Z-Boy: And we've got better style than the rest of the teams. Plus we're damned good looking.

Al-Va: And we're gnomes. The intrigue of that has earned us a lot of extra fans, I think.

Shabe: At recent events there's been a group of fans called the "Z-Girls". Tell us about that.

Al-Va: Ther just Z-Boy's female fans.

Z-Boy: But I think Al-Va and Kl-Slt also have fans in there. Just Z-Girls is a fly name is all. They root for all the Az-czzers.

Shabe: Z-Boy, we hear you're dating a Vilitan. Is that true?

Z-Boy: Yep.

Shabe: Tell us about her.

Z-Boy: Nope.

Shabe: And you two?

Al-Va: I'm playing it loose and free for now. Although a reporter like you could change a guys mind.

<Shabe blushes>

Kl-Slt: I'm not the kind of guy to play around. But I'm not certain if I can commit to Vilita long term. So now I'm just concentrating on my surfing.

Shabe: What would you each describe as your biggest strengths?

Kl-Slt: Consistency. I don't get rattled and can handle various conditions.

Z-Boy: Awesomeness. I've got moves that no one else can match and can do things no one else can. I've barely scratched the surface of what I can do.

Al-Va: Calmness. I'm a boarder. That's some tough stuff. And way more dangerous too. So I don't ever get stressed about the tour.

Shabe: And your weaknesses?

Z-Boy: Conservative Vilitan Judges.

<Audience and Shabe laugh>

Seriously. But other than that it's making mistakes. Sometimes I make mistakes when I try too hard to do something awesome. I hate taking the simple route.

Al-Va: Lack of instincts. I think Z-Boy and Kl-Slt usually know what to do without thinking where as my instincts are for pavement so it's not as natural for me.

Kl-Slt: Consistency. What keeps me in good shape also holds me back. I don't have the moves Z-Boy does. When he's on I can't stop him.

Shabe: What do you have to do to move up the rankings?

Kl-Slt: It's hard to say. We're surfing well. We've got good moves. I think we just need better luck. I don't think either Bainbridge Islands or Vilita is much better than us. They've just had better runs. I'm not worried.

Shabe: Alright. Final thoughts gentlemen.

Kl-Slt: We really appreciate the support from the Vilitan public and hope they continue to cheer us on.

Al-Va: Vilita's doing a great job running this tour. Hopefully they'll get a skateboarding tour up and running as well.

Z-Boy to paraphrase a famous Az-cz musical, "I've got rhythm, I've got sweet moves, I've got my gal who could ask for anything more?"

Api Kiko stuns the crowd with 1st at the Surf Morata Valley

Morata Point, Vilita (HSB) – Api Kiki, the Pele Wahini (bad girl) of the Kingdom of the Bainbridge Islands Surf Authority, was the first woman to take first place in international competition. She made a series of brilliant runs, and using a “goofy foot” stance, she canted her board fins, allowing her better handling on the rails, and propelling her to the win.
“I was in a funk for the past few days, but after the rain cleared, and seeing the sun, I was rejunivated. When I got in to the water, it seemed like I knew what each wave was going to do, and what I was going to do on it! I’m thrilled about my performance!”, she said, attending the post-competition interview.
King Rom was quoted as saying, “I’m really proud on her performance – seeing her ride waves out there was pure beauty, brah.” He placed fifth in the Morata Valley, and was able to keep his overall first place standing.
The KBISA has also maintained its second place standing in the overall team competition. “Our surfers are demonstrating what consistent practice and rest will do for a good performance”, said Issac Pana’o, from the KBISA.

"How'd it go, Kenny?"

"Fell off."

"Again!"

"You sound surprised."

"I shouldn't really, should I?"

"No. So that's five out of five, now."

"What is?"

"My last place finishes! But, in some odd twist of fate, I'm still somehow not ranked worst on the tour, just for managing to turn up for all five events!"

"But... you suck!"

"I know!"

"You are by far the worst surfer I've ever seen!"

"I know!"

"So why do you persist?"

"Free holiday. You know what governing bodies of minor sports are like back home."

"I guess."

"So did you do any better today?"

"Six ahead of you, mate. So that would be a rather obvious 'no'."

"Ah well. Hey, have you seen Winston?"

"Not for a while. Apparently he's gone to practice. Says he's actually quite enjoying all this surfing malarkey and is going to try to take it all seriously."

"Blimey!"

"He made the top fifty again! For the second time!"

"WOW! He might even come close to winning an event by... oooh, the sixth tour!"

"You think he's gonna stick around that long?"

"I think it's a possibility. He's enjoying it, yeah?"

"Yeah."

"And he's got more talent than the two of us put together!"

"Well, most people do, but yeah."

"Still, a tropical holiday... shall we make the most of it?"

"See you by the pool in ten minutes?"

"Sorted!"

- - - - -

Taken from winstonmanfriday.scv

Things went better for me in Morata Valley, where I managed to push my way into forty-fourth. Even better, I'm back into the top fifty in the rankings! I'm really getting into this surfing thing now, despite not really getting it at first. I'm starting to make friends with some of the other competitors, and I can see myself doing this for a while in the long run.

Kenny Sanderson and Bobby Billy, Schiavonia's other two on the tour, really don't seem as into it, though. They're always in the last few places, they never put any practice in. I don't even know why they bother turning up. Probably just for the grant money they get from the Schiavone government, I'd say.

Meanwhile, Schiavonia have managed a D grade in the media rankings, although I have no idea how. There is not one member of the Schiavone media covering the tour, so it can't be how good they are, while we have two of the worst "surfers" in the world representing us, so it can't be for that, either. Personally, I'm puzzled.

Well, it's off to Alikki-Corra for round six, and I'm improving all the time. I'll catch up with you all after that one, and hopefully I'll get my first placing in the top thirty-five.

Ta-rah,

Winston.

Trish: Shurc, oh my God. 7TH ... that's just amazing.
Shurc: Thank you, but that's why Jeruselem put Shurc here. I'm the man!

Trish: 41st and then, 7th. You had the style today, all style.
Shurc: Oh yeah, I might not be gifted with technical knowledge but I can put on the style. That's Shurc, because there's only one Shurc.

Trish: You were just out there pulling off those moves and looking hot.
Shurc: Oh yeah, it's all for the chicks, and the judges.

Trish: Err, you single? You know what I mean?
Shurc: I'm no angel, but no permanent girlfriend. I move around a lot, girls don't like me moving around. You got something in mind?

Trish: Well, reporters aren't supposed to date the people they report you know.
Shurc: Well, Harry Kool married Rachel Goldstein who was a reporter and still is. She's hot as we all know but I don't have such problems. Girls are girls, I don't complain when they want me.

Trish: OK then. Could we give it try? Maybe more than just dinners and partying.
Shurc: I'll do what you like eh? I'm no prude, just dirty minded surfer.

Trish: OK, let's do the proper interview and sneak off privately.
Shurc: Sounds good to me, I'm so happy today. One day I might even win something.

Trish: Oh yeah, today you were great. Got me rather excited.
Shurc: Hey, that's my job. Surfers are supposed to do that. What about the other guys out there?

Trish: They were good but I don't a relationship with them will work. I live in Jeruselem and don't want to move away.
Shurc: Girl, if you like moving about I'm the man. All I need to do is earn more money and I can afford a permament girlfriend.

The door flew open.

"Cameron! Te Taniwha! DUDE!"

Cameron poked his head out of his bathroom door, still brushing his teeth.

"donf choo knock?"

"Dude! You broke the top ten!"

"mm-hmm."

"This is cause for MAJOR celebration. Get dressed... I'm taking you partying."

Cameron shook his head, and receded into the bathroom. Emerging a moment later, sans toothbrush, he shrugged "I'd really rather go and train some more."

"Cam... you need to party... I need to train."

"I disagree. I don't need to party." he smiled.

Tango nodded. "You know what? Fine. We had a deal, we'd train, and if that didn't work, we'd do it my way. It's obviously working, at least for you."

"Tango... I'm certain your scores will improve."

Tango shook his head. "This ain't about me. You broke the top ten, dude. we'll go and train. But we are celebrating when we get back to Napieria."

"Okay."

“I did it! I topped the field!”, screamed Api, as she ran towards her girlfriends.

“Sistah, I knew you could do it – now you hav’ta come party wit us!”, said Kina, jumping with her.

Api responded, “I, uh, I’m sorry, I can’t.”

“Wat you mean you can’t?! You da first woman who won a tourny! You have’ta celebrate! C’mon!”, egged Kina. “You know we have a good time, and we find some cute guys, yeah?”

“That jerk, Issac, said that if he caught me fooling around past 2200, he’d can me! I can’t afford to leave here if I do get busted!”, said Api.

Kilia, her other friend, had an idea… “Hey, what if we pull a fast one on the old fat ass? You make sure he sees you go in your room, and I’ll sneak in, take your place, and when you’re done, you come back, and he’ll never know.”

“You sure? I mean, he may be a jerk, but he’s pretty sharp.”, said Api.

“Yeah, yeah, don’t worry about it, eh? Just get ready, and I’ll take care of the rest!”

Api finally relented, “Oh, OK! I’ll go!”

…

Later that night, Kilia heard a knock on Api’s door.

“Who is it?”, asked Kilia, trying to sound like Api.

“It’s Issac. You don’t sound so good. Are you OK?”

“Yeah, I’m OK. Just tired!”, said Kilia, masking her voice in a pillow.

“Alright… just wanted to congratulate you, eh?”, said Issac.

“Thanks!”, said Kilia.

“Well, I’m off. By the way…”, said Issac, “Tell Api she off the tour – I’m sure she already knows.”

"AH FUCK!" is what was heard by Igor and Boris heard. They both rushed over to see their 3rd teamate, Dale González laying on the beach, bleeding.

"What happened? Igor asked.

"I must have got bit by something, is it bad." Dale replied.

"Well, it doesnt look too bad, but we should probably get you to a hospital just in case." Boris said.

"Dude, the next event starts soon, screw the hospital just get me a band-aid, I'll be fine." Dale said.

"Alright, just make sure the band-aid is on really good, or else you could get some fucking manky shit. I've had it before, and it's awful, just awful." Igor said.

Dale put on the band-aid, and the three team members went to the van and away the went.

Crete leads the way for Misrantis

Misrantian surfer Crete Ptolomaios opened up the inagural Tour of Vilita with a very impressive opening run. Crete had one of the best scores on the first round, and only needed to keep up his magnificent form to advance to the Quarter Finals. However, his score of 5.24 was only good enough for 11th overall, but still was an impressive debut as the first Misrantian to advance from the qualifying stage on the Tour. Crete very nearly duplicated the feat at Crosaibi Coast, but fell just shy by four positions, finishing in 20th place. Things would only get worse, after a 27th place finish at Surf Sile - Ptolomaios has finished 52nd and 70th in the last two tournaments, and is in desperate need of a good finish to boost his confidence.

It was a bit of the opposite story for Tutan Tezzam, who opened with a dissapointing 58th place finish, but improved at Surf Sile finishing just 4 places behind teamate Ptolomaios in 24th place. But the upswing was short lived, as Tezzam fell to 42nd at Surf Sile and looked to be down and out in the race to become the best Surfer in all of Misrantis. That would change in a big way at the Tiones Lumber Open, however. After scraping through by the slimmest version to the second round over Napieria's Tangaroa McMurray, Tezzam claimed the honor of having the highest finish of a Misrantian in the surf tour by posting a score of 5.62 to earn a 9th place finish, just 3 hundreths of a point from advancing to the Quarter Finals. Despite dropping to 82nd and Surf Morata Valley, Tezzam has gained serious ground on teammate Crete Ptolomaios and now sits less than half a point behind his nation mate in the individual standings.

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Bainbridge Island's Api Kiko beat out Vilitan favorite Viiker Surf in a high-performance final round to help the Islands become the first nation to secure two victories on the tour. Since their win in the opening tournament, Vilita has been a consistent threat but has been shut out in the final rounds, and the up and coming surfers from the Bainbridge Islands have pulled their nation back within nearly a point of the host nation in the NationStates Surf Tour National rankings. Kiko was also able to move within half a point of Vilita's Summer Conlin, currently the second ranked surfer in the world, while the two closed the gap on the top surfer on the tour, Kiko's teammate Romulus Kahani'i.

The surfers were relieved to arrive in Alikki-Corra, the capital of Vilita, where the media was in full force to cover the event after the ban that had shrouded Vilita's media output was lifted to allow the nation to host the Surf Tour and World Cup 31. The judges too, were of the highest quality, and with the conditions right for surfing, each competitor had the chance to show off each of their individual strengths equally.



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6 :: Capital City Open (Alikki-Corra, Vilita)



1) Al-Va - Az-Cz[5.75 - 6.54 - 6.63 (6.31)] [5.74] [5.46] [6.62] [6.98]
2) Romulus Kahani'i - Bainbridge Islands[6.49 - 6.62 - 6.03 (6.38)] [5.7] [5.5] [5.71] [4.94]
3) Kl-Slt - Az-Cz[7.08 - 7.24 - 6.08 (6.8)] [5.83] [6.16] [5.22]
4) Cameron Takimoana - Napieria[6.07 - 6.3 - 6.36 (6.24)] [5.8] [5.58]
5) Dusanbi "Sea Horse" Aburo Ngaru - Andossa Se Mitrin Vega[5.52 - 5.55 - 5.99 (5.69)] [5.88] [5.28]





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TOUR OF VILITA :: NATIONAL STANDINGS
NATION NAME G - S - B POINTS
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1 Bainbridge Islands 2 - 1 - 1 [33.30]
2 Vilita 1 - 2 - 0 [32.70]
3 Az-Cz 2 - 1 - 2 [30.76]
4 Geisenfried 0 - 1 - 1 [27.67]
5 Edoniakistanbabweagua 0 - 0 - 0 [23.41]



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And Introducing: The National Media Ratings!
TOUR OF VILITA :: MEDIA RATINGS
NATION NAME Grade
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Az-Cz A+
Bainbridge Islands A
Casari A
Liverpool England A
Jeruselem B+
Napieria B+
Rejistania B+

The National Media rankings are being introduced and will continue to be posted along with the standings and results following each event. The National Media rankings are determined by a panel of expert analysts as to which nations show the most dedicated coverage of the tournament relative to the other nations involved, including but not limited to the categories of Media Quality and Frequency of Coverage.



**(Please note, that this is not designed to be a ranking of the RP Bonus a nation has accumulated during the tournament. It most certainly is not (As far as a Nation receiving a "C+" could have received more RP bonus than a Nation receiving a "B+" in the media rankings, for different reasons). It is designed to be a general impression of media from an in-character point of view.)

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Shurc: Hey Trish, you'd doing a great job?
Trish: Me?

Shurc: Yeah, B+ is in the national media ratings.
Trish: Really? I just talk crap.

Shurc: No, I talk crap. Just ask me questions and talk the crap.
Trish: That's right. I'm just doing my job ... 21st and not much difference between you and 4th.

Shurc: Yeah, but the top 3 are just super-dudes. I wish I had some of their ability.
Trish: You do, just need some luck.

Shurc: I'm really a terrible surfer, really. I just look good.
Trish: You're not completely useless!

Shurc: True, I'm better at other things like you know ...
Trish: Oh that, yeah. You've got quick hands.

Shurc: Oh yeah, you got to get babes all excited you know. Can't leave them bored.
Trish: How do you learn, all that stuff?

Shurc: Like surfing, practice. I know - it's immoral but I'm a surfer remember. It's the lifestyle.
Trish: I see. More practice I guess.

Shurc: That's it! And it's fun too and you don't get attacked by sharks like surfing.
Trish: Sharks?

Shurc: Too many sharks in Jeruselem, that's why no one wants to surf except idiots like me.
Trish: Oh, so been bitten yet?

Shurc: Not yet. I'm still in one piece and not missing limbs.

"Why do we bother?"

"The grant money, remember?"

"Oh yeah."

"Still, nice to see that we're number one and two in the standings."

"We are?"

"We would be if they turned them the other way around."

"So I was the worst surfer out there today?"

"No, look. 90th Bobby Billy, 91st Kenny Sanderson. I came last again."

"Kenny, you don't count as a surfer?"

"Of course I do! I'm on the surfing tour, aren't I?"

"Yes, but surfers generally stand up on the board. You, on the other hand, lie on the board and hold on for dear life."

"Well if that's the criteria for a surfer, then you're not much better. You spend most of your time off the board and in the water!"

"At least I try to stand up! I'll crack it one of these days."

"Well why don't you go practice it?"

"Because I've just bought a crate of beer and I don't want to leave it unattended."

"I'll look after it for you. You go ahead and practice."

"Like I'd trust you on your own with my beer!"

- - - - -

Taken from winstonmanfriday.scv

Well folks, my aim for Alikki-Corra was to get into the top 35, but unfortunately I didn't have the best of days. I didn't even manage an average of five points, which makes this my worst performance by a considerable distance to date.

To be fair, marks were down across the board, but I didn't think that I did that badly. All that I can think of is that the reputation of my two compatriots on tour is influencing the judges. Because, let's be honest here, if I saw someone from the same nation as those two clowns, I'd think they were going to be awful before I'd even seen them.

I've tried to get them intrested in this thing, God knows I have, but they just won't join in. We're off to Arcticala next, and I just pray that the Schiavone Surfing Effect doesn't rub off on me again. I know that I'm a lot better than 66th best on tour, and I should be getting into the top thirty by now, but those two are draging me down.

Maybe I should report them to the government for wasting public money. We'll see how it goes at Arcticala Junction.

Ta-rah,

Winston.

Hello and Kia Ora! This is Angus Pakeha live from Alikki-Corra at the Inaugural NationStates Surf Tour.

Napieria has a new name in surfing, and it's Cameron "Te Taniwha" Takimoana. Yesterday, at the Capital City Open, Cameron broke the top ten for his second event in a row, finishing at slot number four. He's now ranked 11th overall. If he can hold on to this ranking, he'll advance to the next stage of the surf tour, which is open only to the top 16 scorers.

Tango MacMurray seems to be having trouble getting his legs under him, and is drifting back further in the field. The two surfers had been training together since about the third event, and while it seems to be paying off for Cameron, Tango seems to be suffering. Folks at home in Napieria are wondering if Tango's partying ways are perhaps the key to his better performances. Only time will tell.

So, from Alikki-Corra, this is a very excited Angus Pakeha wishing you and yours good surfing!

"First again. Well done Al-Va." Kl-Slt commented.

"Well, you know how it is." Al-Va replied.

"Still, to be the first person on the whole tour to get two firsts is quite an accomplishment."

"Yeah, and we all finsihed top 16."

"Yeah, I had some pretty good runs too. I'm still not getting the respect of the judges, but things are going pretty well." Z-Boy plopped in.

"But I don't get this overall scoring. We're all ahead of Vilitan chasers, but somehow they're still ahead of us." Kl-Slt replied.

"No worries, boyo. They're the old wave. Us gnomes are the future. Are results are steadily improving. We'll be on top of those rankings in no time."

(Z-Boy's phone rings)

"Hello. Who is this? Ms. Sugiyo? How did you get my number? You want to talk to Al-Va? Alright, I'll put him on."

Z-Boy hands the phone over to Al-Va.

"Hello. I'm fine. And you? You found me a sponsor? A SKATEBOARD COMPANY?!? Hot Damn. Sure I'm interested. Yeah I'll do it."

Al-Va hangs up the phone.

"Well I've got to take off and meet Ms. Sugiyo to discuss the contract and what not."

"Alright, catch you later." Kl-Slt responded.

"Yo, Kl-Slt let's head down to the Putt-Putt and get our mini golf on." asked Z-Boy.

"Alright, you're going down Z-Boy."

Michael Harley, as usual, was being bombarded with loads of questions. He sighed. Being the only policitian - no, wait - the only Head of Government of a country - on the tour, he was bound to attract attention. He let his mind wander elsewhere for a short while, then excused himself. "I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, no questions for now. There will be a joint-news conference later today with my two counterparts."

He headed back to his hotel room, obviously tired. The youngest man ever to become Prime Minister of Liverpool England, at 33 he was dashing with broad shoulders, something which surely only served to reinforce his image with the younger female voters. He picked up the phone and dialled back to Liverpool England.

"Prime Minister's office."

"Ah, good, Suzy. How's things? Has Parliament approved the Cabinet?"

"Not yet, Prime Minister Harley. Would you like to speak to Mr. Douglas?"

"No, not really, just checking in on things. Thanks."

He then dialled the room of the person to date only known as "Dedae I. Dai" (The Day I Die), so-called because he had claimed that he would not release his name until the day he died for fear of prosecution from his territorial government.

"Gareth?"

"PM Harley! Are you sure this is safe for me to go ahead with?"

"It is. I've already called for a joint-news conference. I hope you can attend."

--- Later that day ---

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is going to be awkward. On my left, as you may already know, is Kuepça Çavanoçich, also known as Keith Cavanovich. On my right, however, is someone to date only known to the press, and to the fans, and the organisers, as "Dedae I. Dai". His name is Gareth Hunter. I've spoken to him extensively over this, and the federal government will give him full immunity from any prosecution he is liable to face over breaking this ridiculous surfing law in Lox Land Island."

"We are now open for questions."

Alikki-Corra, Villita (AP) – The KBI duo, Rom & Api, have kept pace in the competition, with the King taking second place in a challenging surf, as Api climbed past Skeeter Monroe of Casari, to ninth place. With their combined scores, the KBI has managed to take the top standing in the group competition, scraping hosts Vilita by half a point.
In the overall standings, Rom holds the top spot, about four points over Al-Va from the Az-Cz, and seven points over Viiker Surf from Vilita. “Both dose braddas are real tough, and remember, out here, all it takes is a few bad runs, and you’re sucking hind pipe.” Halo (King Romulus) also said, “Api and I, we both have to keep our head in the game, and focus on waveriding. If you keep watching the boards, you just gonna watch yourself fall down the standings. I think if both of us concentrate, we’ll do OK.”
Api was unavailable for comment, as she was in a conference meeting with the KBISA regarding internal issues. An announcement was due to follow afterwards.

“What do you mean ‘I’m off the tour’! You can’t do this to me! I took first at Morata Valley, and I’m in the top ten! You’d be a fool to drop me. Anyways, what are you going to do, replace me now?”

“Actually, yes”, said Isaac. “You, for some reason, think you’re ‘bullet proof’. The board is tired of you shenanigans. Some things, some times, sure. But too many of the things you do simply cross the line. So we wanted to see how you’d comport yourself in international competition. Frankly, you’re horrible.”

“How can you say that! I’m one of the best out there…”, exclaimed Api.

Isaac said retorted, “Your performance is only part of the total sum. You’re a role model to thousands of girls back home, and…”

“I’m not a role model. That’s not my job…!”, said Api, angrily.

“Yes, you’re right, that’s not your job. Not anymore. I’ll be on a teleconference in about an hour, and we’ll finish the paperwork to have Dina Kalana be the second surfer here, instead of you. Her plane should land tomorrow.”, said Isaac.

Api sat in stunned silence. She figured that in spite of her actions, she’d never be replaced. After all, she’s the best woman surfer in the KBI, period. But they’re going to replace her.

“Api, hellooo!”, said Isaac. “You’re going to have to leave now, I have to take a call.”

Api got up, and numbly walked to the door. As she started to open it, tears well up in her eyes, as she turned the doorknob.

She started to turn around, but realizing that she had no recourse, walked through the door, her tournament over.

Halo heard some sobbing as he was getting ice for his pack – he won a good bruise after his last run when the tip of his board found his thigh. Black and blue, but at least it didn’t pierce the skin, just a 25 cm mark. He opened the door, and saw Api sitting down, crying.

“Api, you OK? Why you crying?”, said Halo, surprised to see, of all people, Api showing emotion.

She retorted, “None of your business! Leave me alone!”

“Hey, you don’ usually cry for anyone, so what happen? Why are you cryin’?”, asked Halo, as he placed his hand on her shoulder.

“I said ‘leave me alone’!”, she said, sobbing even more.

“Listen,”, said Halo, “I’m not going to leave until you tell me what’s happening”, sitting down beside her.

“I’m not going to tell you!”

Halo said, “Well, then I guess I’m going to be here for a while”, as he adjusted the ice pack on his leg.

After a minute, she broke down. “I’m kicked off the tour! I’m gone! It dosen’t matter that I’m the best woman, one of the best surfers, that I won Morata. I’m gone!”, she said crying, embracing Halo. “Its not fair, its just not fair!”

After a silent moment, Halo asked, “What are you going to do?”

“I don’t know”, she mumbled. “They won’t even pay for my ticket back. Nothing. I don’t even know where I’m going to be tomorrow. I just don’t know anything anymore”, as she started to cry again.

Rom closed his eyes for a minute, and said, hesitantly, “I have an idea. Problem is, you have to do exactly what I say, everything I say, and do everything I tell you to. If you do, I might be able to help you.”

“I’ll do it”

“You don’t know what’s involved…”, said Halo.

Api said, “Look, I’m at the bottom. I need to get back up. If you can help me, I’ll do it. Just name it.”

“OK. Go back to your room and wait for me.”, said Halo, as he got up, limping, now that his leg was numb.

Shabe introduced Al-Va to a couple of men. "This is Yabai Kanehoshii and Honma Mokaritai of the Hot Wheels company."

"Nice to meet you dudes." Al-Va responded.

"Nice to meet you too, Mr. Al-Va." Yabai replied.

Mokaritai then added, "here's what we want from you. We want you to use Hot Wheels brand skateboards, and if you bike, bicycles and also do a series of TV spots for us."

"Yeah, no problem." Al-Va answered.

"Ok, so the first spot is basically just gonna be one filming you grinding the streets of Turori in various locales with close ups of the board and your helmet and other gear all sporting the Hot Wheels logo. Ok?"

"Rad. So basically you're just paying me to skate?"

"In the first commercial yes. There are some lines."

"Ok. Fine. Anything else?"

"Look over this contract."

"Alright. Give me some time to look it over."

"Alright. We're looking forward to hearing back from you."

(Later that evening)

The three Az-cz surfers are gathered together.

"Hey guys how was the mini-golf?" Al-va asked.

Z-Boy laughed "What do you think? Of course I kicked his ass."

Kl-Slt spat back "come on now, it was only a few strokes."

"I don't know how 8 strokes on 18 holes of mini-golf counts as only a few."

"Well it's all cause of that damned Jungle Cat hole. I don't know how you got the ball in it's damned mouth the first time."

"I rule." Z-Boy followed up by giving Kl-Slt a raspberry.

"Sounds great," Alva butted in, "Anyways Z-Boy can you give Taihenna a call. I need someone to look at this contract for me."

"Alright, will do."

(The next day)

"She's looked it over," Z-Boy began "and she says it's fine."

"Alrighty, thanks for the help." Al-Va replied. "Well then I'm off to join you in the ranks of Az-czid surfers with Vilitan commercials."

(At the scene for filming his commercial)

(Various footage of Al-Va in a half pipe, skateboarding down a hill, grinding on guard rails and other skateboarding activity. Skates down a hill towards the camera then jumps off and picks up his board.)

Al-Va: You may know me as a surfer, but I'm really a skateboarder. When I get freetime from the surf tour I love to grind around the streets of Vilita. And when I'm doing that I always use my Hot Wheels board. The bearings are top notch, the special poly-plastic wheels are wicked and the board designs are far out. If you like skateboarding Hot Wheels are the only way to go.

The three Quakmybushian surfers were on their way back to their hotel, they had just participated in Capital City Open. "Dude, that injury didn't screw you up at all, you did better than the rest of us. You finished 34th" Boris said.

"Ya, I don't know how that happened, I guess the judges were feeling nice today, not sure, but my leg feels better doesnt look like I need to go to the hospital, just gotta focus and improve." Dale replied.

"Ya, I'm the one that needs to improve I did fucking horibble. 40th isnt good enough." Igor said.

"It's fine, we all finished in the top 40, with my 37th place, thats a step in the right direction, we just have to keep doing better and better each week, and eventually we might win one." Boris said.

"Ya, our team ranking went up to 14th, and we arnt that far behind the teams in front of us." Igor said.

"Our individual rankings are getting better too, Boris is in 33rd, Igor your in 48th, and I'm 52nd." Dale said.

"Our media is still doing jack-shit though, they should get off their asses and do something." Igor said.

The team drove up to their hotel and went up to their room to watch the Kleptochase review.

"And welcome back to Alikki-Corra, where it's been yet another disappointing day for the Bedistani representatives here at the Tour of Vilita, hasn't it, Bob?"

"Indeed, with Dara Tora being the only one of our three to manage an average of over five points and still not quite good enough to even make it into the top 50. And...oh, look, we have a special guest in the studio. It's Charlie Harrison! Welcome aboard, Charlie."

"Hey." Charlie didn't look particularly happy to be there.

"Well, Charlie...there's really no getting around it, your performance today was...not the best, putting you in the bottom five for the day. What went wrong?"

"Well, Ryan, to be honest my mind was not in the water. I got a call from my wife back home at about nine o'clock this morning telling me our dog was hit by a car and killed. So I've really been thinking about other things than surfing today."

"Wow, I'm sorry to hear that."

"You think you're sorry, imagine being me right now. It kinda sucks. And then I come in here and you assholes start talking about how shitty I was today. You're bastards, both of you." And with that, Charlie walked out of the studio.

Silence reigned for a few seconds, then Bob managed a weak "we'll be right back" as the show went to an unscheduled commercial break.

Food Poisoning strikes Judges Conference

Prior to heading out to Arcticala for the 7th event on the NationStates Surf Tour, the Judges of Vilita met for a conference on awarding points fairly and with equal distributions for each discipline. Unfortunately, it appears that there was something rotten in the food, and every available Vilitan judge has come down with Food Poisoning. The Vilitan Association of Surfing would like to apologize to the competitors for being unable to hold the Arcticala Event on schedule due to this unforseen illness, but would like to assure all competing nations that the event in Arcticala will take place in the next 24-48 hour period as the Judges overcome their poisoning.

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Tour favorite Api Kiko has been under pressure since taking the title at Morata Valley for breaking curfew and potentially being thrown off the tour by her team. Would her teammate and number one surfer in the tour be able to delay her axing for yet another week as the saga in the Bainbridge Islands unfolds? Would Kiko yet again prove she is worth her weight in gold as the tour rolled into Arcticala Inlet, or would the sickened tour judges throw a wrench in her style?

Despite having just gone through a course on proper judging - the judges themselves are still a bit improper having all come down with food poisoning as a result of the banquet at that very session. As a result, they are all a bit light headed and easily 'ooed' by the consistent show-off performances, while sympathizing with those who fall off trying to do such "ooooh" inspiring moves.



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7 :: Arcticala Junction Open (Arcticala, Vilita)



1) Shurc Bate - Jeruselem[7.53 - 6.52 - 6.37 (6.81)] [6.1] [5.89] [6.85] [6.97]
2) Cameron Takimoana - Napieria[5.98 - 6.86 - 7.81 (6.88)] [6.47] [6.84] [5.87] [6.91]
3) Viiker Surf - Vilita[7.29 - 6.64 - 6.5 (6.81)] [6.06] [6.02] [5.72]
4) André "Ta Mère Gagne Sa Vie Sur La Rue St-Catherine" Leonard - New Montreal States[5.72 - 7.24 - 7.38 (6.78)] [6.33] [5.98]
5) Nguyễn Thọ Tấn - Unified Capitalizt St[7.48 - 6.71 - 6.1 (6.76)] [6.3] [5.63]






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TOUR OF VILITA :: NATIONAL STANDINGS
NATION NAME G - S - B POINTS
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1 Vilita 1 - 2 - 1 [38.48]
2 Bainbridge Islands 2 - 1 - 1 [37.05]
3 Az-Cz 2 - 1 - 2 [34.91]
4 Geisenfried 0 - 1 - 1 [31.49]
5 Napieria 0 - 1 - 0 [27.1]
6 Edoniakistanbabweagua 0 - 0 - 0 [26.39]
7 Andossa Se Mitrin Vega 1 - 0 - 0 [25.61]



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And Introducing: The National Media Ratings!

The National Media rankings are being introduced and will continue to be posted along with the standings and results following each event. The National Media rankings are determined by a panel of expert analysts as to which nations show the most dedicated coverage of the tournament relative to the other nations involved, including but not limited to the categories of Media Quality and Frequency of Coverage.

TOUR OF VILITA :: MEDIA RATINGS
NATION NAME Grade
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Az-Cz A+
Bainbridge Islands A
Jeruselem A
Casari A
Rejistania B+
Napieria B+
Vilita B+
Liverpool England B+


**(Please note, that this is not designed to be a ranking of the RP Bonus a nation has accumulated during the tournament. It most certainly is not (As far as a Nation receiving a "C+" could have received more RP bonus than a Nation receiving a "B+" in the media rankings, for different reasons). It is designed to be a general impression of media from an in-character point of view.)

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Shurc: Sure thing, babe. It was your idea.
Shurc: OH YEAH, I'M THE MAN!
Girls: That was fantastic, take me!

Shurc: Calm down girls, I'm only one person. I can't sign everyone's autographs at the same time. And I can't sleep with all either, I have some surfing to do you know.
Girls: Shurc! Take Me!

<later in the day>

Shurc: Hey Trish, you look shocked.
Trish: Wow, YOU WON. But you surfed like you normally do - I don't understand?

Shurc: I think those groovy moves worked, despite me falling off.
Trish: Might be the food poisoning, they were easily influenced by flashy moves.

Shurc: That's what I'm here for, to show off. I might look like an idiot at times but that's part of my plan.
Trish: Well it worked today. You're a hero today. Those girls - they were throwing themselves at you!

Shurc: Groupies, you gotta love them. Literally ... hehe
Trish: It was hard to hold an interview with all those people want your attention too.

Shurc: Well, 15 minutes of fame. I won something even if the judges were a little ill. You have take these things when they come.
Trish: True, what next?

Shurc: More grooving! Might need to improve the Elvis moves better, but I'm not surfing in an Elvis suit.
Trish: Well, you are the first Jeruselem surfer to win something.

Shurc: Yes, and it might be last but you never know.
Trish: Let's sneak off to my room!

Shurc: Sure thing, babe. It was your idea. Can't you wait or something?
Trish: I'm all hormonal today.

Shurc: I'd better win more then? Seems get the girls too excitable.
Trish: Oh yeah, I like this job.

Hello and Kia Ora! This is Angus Pakeha live from Alikki Corra, where Cameron Takimoana has shocked us all! Cameron has come in second at the Arcticala Junction Open, raising Napieria to a rank of 5th place!

Seemingly driven by his continued success, Cameron has become a surfing machine, beginning before sunrise, and surfing well after sunset daily, in an effort to train himself and become accustomed to Vilita's particular surf conditions.

On the other end of the spectrum lies Tangaroa MacMurray. Once the darling of Napieria surfing, he has fallen to an incredible 39th place in the field. Perhaps he is psyched out by Cameron's success, perhaps he is out of condition, we don't know.

What we do know is that he was seen carousing in no less than three different Alikki-Corra nightclubs last night, and did not return to his hotel room until noon today.

While this may shock our viewers at home, those that are familiar with Tango know that he tends to surf better when he's playing the "bad boy." When he won the Napieria open, it was after spending a night, quite like this one, out on the town. Experts note that his performance earlier in the surf tour here in Vilita was better before he began training with Cameron, and then began to steadily decline.

So the questions on everyone's mind today are "Can Tango pull his performances back up?" and, if not "Can Cameron get us the win all by himself?"

In Alikki-Corra, I'm Angus Pakeha.

"Hey Bobby."

"Hi Kenny. I've heard your son's turned to Orthodoxy."

"What's that got to do with anything?"

"Nothing, just making conversation. From the tetchy reaction, I guess you came last again?"

"Actually, no. There were two behind me today."

"Really. Blimey, you don't think we might be getting somewhere?"

"I doubt it."

"Well, I better get back."

"Back where?"

"Back to the competition."

"What for?"

"Didn't you see? I'm still in!"

"Really?"

"You're definately not going to believe the next bit, then. I was best overall from the first three runs!"

"YOU! But you can't surf! How the hell did that happen?"

"I don't know, but it did, so I'm back off to go again. See ya!"

- - - - -

Taken from winstonmanfriday.scv

Oh hell. The worst thing ever happened today. Bobby Billy actually beat me. Indeed, after three runs, he was in first place. This was, of course, due to a change in the judges. But that doesn't mean I'm not a bit bitter.

I came 81st, but I'm not complaining. I was trying to put in a solid yet unspectacular performance, playing it safe as it were. But the judges didn't seem interested in that kind of thing today. They gave points to people who tried the flashy stuff instead. Even if, like BB, you haven't the slightest idea which way around a surfboard goes. (The fin goes on the bottom, Bobby.)

Still, I think I saw an official from Sport Schiavonia in the crowd today, who probably knew more about surfing than the judges do, and will have been looking at the results from other events as well as the erratic performances today to come to some sort of judgement on what should happen to Billy and Sanderson. Let's hope they get their funding taken away unless they start taking it seriously.

Ta-rah,

Winston

"Ouch Bros. Those judges truly were messed up. No way you should've lost to those guys" Z-Boy began.

"Well, I guess they just didn't like my style. I don't have all the tricks you do." Kl-Slt answered.

"Yeah, maybe but what about Al-Va? He's got style. And he looked good. Screw those judges. We're gonna all place in the top of an event I can just feel it."

Al-va than piped in, "forget man. I don't care. I'm already getting plenty of money off this tour, I'm getting more and more hooked into the skating community. I don't care if I do poorly one tournament."

"See Z-Boy. Ain't nothing to get worked up about." Kl-Slt added.

"Well Al-Va, you let's go forget about this crap with some fun family friendly entertainment." Z-Boy suggested.

"More mini golf?"

"Nah man. I hear that they've got bungee-hunting in this town."

"What the hell is bungee-hunting?" Kl-Slt asked.

"It's like bungee jumping, but from lower heights. And in the water below they've got a bunch of lobsters. Any of the lobsters that you can grab you win and they've got chefs on site who cook the things up for you."

"Wicked. I'm in. I think I can afford to not skate for one day." Al-va added.

Kl-Slt had a confused look on his face. "Where do you hear about this stuff?"

"Duh!" Z-Boy said in a mocking tone "My Vilitan girlfriend. She said that she could prolly get us a number of free runs if we did it as a publicity stunt."

"What kind of a freewheeler are you guys? You're willing to do publicity for Bungee-Hunting?"

"Yeah, dude. A little publicity for bungee-hunting isn't gonna hurt anyone. I'd never do commercials for stuff that sucks. I'm not gonna sellout and do bank commercials, but bungee-hunting's alright."

"Fine. I'm in. It'll be good for team-bonding."

"So Hess, what should we do next? We've really been sucking it up out there, and the judges have taken notice. Have you seen our scores lately? They are horrendous compared to how we started. You think we should actually try?" Rebicca says as she brushes her hair.

"Na becs, we should only go out cause of all the hunks. Have you seen all those dudes out there staring at us? It's as if they've never seen elves before. At least they are good in bed."

"Hess, some of them HAVN'T seen elves before."

"True, but stilll. You would think they wouldn't be soo taken back, we're just like them except fairer, live longer, and have pointed ears."

"Why do we have pointed ears Hess?"

"I don't know Becs. Supposedly it was supposed to help our hearing, but I wouldn't put too much hoo ha into that, for I know too many guys who don't listen for squat."

"Whatever you say Hess. Anyways, where is the next competition?"

"Hell if I know, just be sure we don't miss the taxi this time!"

"Right, well good night Hess."

"Night Becs. Lets really kick it tommorow ok?"

"Ok, night!"

Hello I'm Asahi Johogami, live from Sea Food Extreme, home of bungee-hunting for channel 7.5 news. We're here today to bring you coverage of three members of the Vilitan surf tour. Those three are the members of the Az-cz surfing squad. Before and after each members bungee-hunt we will interview them about the hunt, surfing and more.

For those of you unfamiliar with bungee-hunting here's how it works. There is a platform set up 15 meters above a small but deep pool of water. In that pool are a bunch of cuddly lobsters. The contestants are tied to a bungee cord and then dive into the pool of water. They try to grap as many lobsters as they can before the bungee pulls them back out of the water. Each contestant will get three tries.

The first contestant today is Kl-Slt.

Kl-Slt, you are known as the captain of the Az-cz team. Why is that?

"Well Z-Boy's a bit of a wild one, and Al-Va's as much a skater as he is a surfer, as I'm sure you can tell from his Hot Wheels ads. So that left me."

You currently sit sixth on the overall tour. How do you feel about that?

"Good. It's a strong spot. All three Az-czzers are in the top 10 so it's good."

What's your opinion on Bungee-Hunting?

"Z-Boy talked me into it. We'll see"

Thanks

There he goes. Let's see how he does.

Here goes his first jump. Let's see, he got one. Well done, Kl-Slt.
Jump two, another one. We're really seeing his physical prowess here. Third jump, ohhh... he came up empty handed that time. Still two lobsters will make a nice meal and it's not bad at all for a first try.

How was that?

"Pretty fun. Those lobsters are clever little buggers. I was suprised when I grabbed the first one how soft they are. You've got to wonder how they survive."

Good job, Kl-Slt.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Vilitan ecosystem cuddly lobsters secrete enzymes that make it so that travel through the water that make no animal want to attack them. That protects them from other sea creatures, so they have no natural predators. Fortunately we're land animals so we are unaffected by there secretions unless we spend significant time in the water. If we harvest them from boats, or quickly get in and out like in bungee-hunting they are catchable.

Here comes contestan number two Al-Va

You're currently the top ranked Az-czid surfer, and fourth overall Al-Va. How do you feel about that.

"I'm quite jazzed. You know that's surfing not my thing so to be doing that well is quite an accomplishment."

Explain to the audience how you ended up on the surf tour if your love is skateboarding.

"Well in Az-cz neither of them have much professional work going on. Back home I was just a marijuana grower. I figured that either way skating was just gonna be a hobby, but this way my job could be surfing and I could see new places and people."

And your thoughts on Bungee-Hunting?

"Great idea. Hopefully I can get those little guys."

Good luck

There he goes.

First jump... one lobster. Nice start. Second jump, wow, he's got two of 'em. Third jump, can it be? YES! He's brought up three lobsters. That's a total of six, a new Sea Food Extreme record. That explains how he can surf and skate so well. He justs owns extreme sports.

Wow. Six lobsters. That's quite a meal.

"Yeah, just got to find someone to share them with. I can't eat them all by myself."

I'm sure there must be some Vilitan ladies who'd love to dine with you.

"Well if they want to I'm willing."

It looks like they are adding more lobsters to the tank. Al-Va apparently took too many out.

And here comes Z-Boy.

With your top 10 finsih you vaulted into the top 10 overall.

"Yeah. I'm a little iffy on the judges, but this surf tour has been great."

Word is that you are in a serious relationship with a Vilitan.

"Yeah. Taihenna's great."

And your thoughts on the bungee-hunting?

"Taihenna clued me into it and I thought it sounded like fun, so here we are."

Here's Z-Boy's first jump.... nothing. And his second jump..... still nothing. Hmmm, he doesn't seem to be as good as the first two. Third jump, he's got one, but it looks deformed, like there's a growth on its back. No wait, that looks like a box. And Z-Boy has taken the box over to his girlfriend. And he's getting down on one knee.

"Taihenna, I love you. Will you marry me."

"Oh yes Z-Boy. I love you so much. YES YES YES!!"

Wow look at the size of that diamond. I guess being a topflight surfer and getting all sorts of sponsorships pays quite nicely.

And it seems as if we've gotten much more news than we expected with the engagement of Z-Boy and his girlfriend Taihenna Eromi.

We the undersigned wish to protest at the initial media rating given to Funnia Lan's media and its coverage of the inaugural NS Surfing Tour. We refute the assertions that Funnia Lan media is lacking in any way. We demand a re evaluation of the C rating and subsequent D ratings. We note the following:

Funnia Lan has a diverse media ownership policy
Funnia Lan has one of the highest rates of community participation in its media through community TV, newspapers and radio
Funnia Lan has a completely free media with no censorship of media
Funnia Lan has two media reps in Vilita for the event
Funnia Lan has one of the highest readerships of print media in the world
Funnia Lan has one of the highest penetrations of electronic media with 93% of households enjoying access to high speed net and 90% to cable TV
Funnia Lan enjoys rigourous media debates about political, sporting, cultural, economic and current affairs


Signed:
Journalists Union of Funnia Lan
Funnia Lan Communications Corporation
Independent Media Corporation
Community Media Funnia Lan
FREE-TV
University of Funnia Lan Media and Communications Department
Media Funnia Lan
Private Media Council of Funnia Lan
Association of Broadcasters, Funnia Lan
STAR -TV

Newsflash - Funnia Lan's National Daily

Journalists today marched to the embassy of Vilita in Mandela Street, Zone 10, Funnia Lan Cite to protest at the media policies of the nation of Vilita. Organised by the Journalists Union of Funnia Lan, marchers were joined by students from all three Universities in the capital, members of the Anarchist Association and many Quakers.

Henri Toulouse, head of the Journalist's Association explained that the march was designed to embarass the government of Vilita over its media policies which he stated "amongst the most regressive in the world".

The Anarchist Association's spokesperson Cliff Margarite noted that Funnia Lan has chosen to participate in the NS surfing tour with nations he said had "dubious opinions on many issues". He added "we the anarchist association of collectives support the rights and freedoms of all citizens to do what they {expletive deleted} well liked but needed to be accountable to themselves." He also noted that members of the Association had protested against the NS Vision Song Contest.

Students from Funnia Lan Cite Universite attempted to enter the embassy to give the ambassador a "F" grade for Vilita's media.

Game-TV which has a rep in Vilita denied that the exercise was in protest for a rating given by the event organisers for Funnia Lan's media.

Marc de Lima of Sports Funnia Lan said "a comment is not necessary in this situation. We are participating in a global event which pits us against the best surfers in the world. This is our focus" He did agree that the performance of the Funnia Lan team has been more disappointing than anticipated. The team is currently in 31st place out of a field of 37. Initial projections were for a top twelve place. This is the first time surfers from Funnia Lan have competed in any competition outside the region. First Bank Funnia Lan, sponsor of the team also declined to comment.

No one was injured in the protest march which dispersed freely at the Mandela Place Monorail station. A dozen individuals were treated by ambulance crews for heat stroke. Health Funnia Lan reminded citizens of the need to carry adequate sun protection.

There was no comment on the protest from the ambassador of Vilitia. It is understood that Presidents Calus and Dean will seek a meeting with the ambassador to discuss the situation on Friday.

Mark de Corio (Funnia Lan's best surfer) strode into the office of the Funnia Lan's ambassador to Vilita and threw a newspaper on the ambassador's desk. "is this your doing?"

"No, it isn't" , retorted the ambassador, "my individual protest to the government here is but all of this extra stuff isnt. I merely told your journalist colleagues to have a quiet word to some friends back home while I pursued official channels"

Mark stared quizzically at the ambassador. "well Shells is now even more depressed than she was. shes convinced we re about to get deported. And then on top of that Sports News have sent Marc Farer to some football match"

"yes " said the ambassador, "the baptism of fire...very exciting"
"what" said Mark "more exciting than surfing?"
the ambassador smiled his most diplomatic smile....

....meanwhile James Fraser from GAME-TV was having a surprisingly good time. Shelley Stevens who had been in a gloom for the whole tour was relaxing on the firey mix of Vilitan cocktails and the beautiful sunsets. As long as no one mentioned her ranking, they were in for a good night. This was the first time, James had realised how beautiful Shelley was.

Boris Adamopoulos was walking to his rented apartment where he would meet up with Igor and Dale to do some jaming. They three has formed a band named DIB, this name used their first initials. The were a heavy metal band and were always trying to land it big. That had never happened so they took up surfing. He got home and picked up his drum sticks, he started to jam on his own when Igor walked in. "Hey" they said to each other. Igor picked up his bass and started to practice. About 20 minutes later Dale walked in. "Sorry guys, he I was umm, entertaining some ladies." he said with a laugh.

"Dude, your a fucking horndog." Igor said. Dale picked up his guitar and practiced. Then they went into playing.

"Alright boys, lets play GAATA, alright let's do it a one a two a three a" Dale said

Igor grunted the lyrics into the microphone, much to the dismay of the neighbours, except for one, by the name of Mgaval Ondorika, he was the Vilitan representative of Sun Records, a large record label. He heard the music and he loved it. He came up to the door and knocked quite a few times because the guys were still playing, when finally they heard him.

"Hello, and you are?" Boris asked.

"Hey, my name is Mgaval Ondorika I'm a representative for Sun Records." Ondorika said.

"Holy fuck, theeeeeee Sun records?" Igor asked.

"Yup, the Sun records. I heard you guys jamming and I loved it, I am going to send a email to my boss about you guys and set up an audition, are you guys from Vilita? Ondorika asked.

"Nope, we are from Quakmybush, and the bands name is DIB, and here is a phone number you can reach us at." Dale said, as he scribbled down his cell phone number on a napkin.

"Just give us a call we are here for the surfing, so we will be here for a while." Boris said.

"Will do, cya guys later." Ondorika said.

Vilitan's Capititalize on early Islander Exit

Viiker Surf recorded his second podium finish of the tour to move to second place in the individual rankings, and boost the Tropics of Vilita back atop the National Standings after the controversy surrounding the Bainbridge Islands contingent seems to have effected their surfing, with both Romulus Kahani'i and Api Kiko finishing barely within the top 16, in the 13th and 14th positions.

It was also a productive tournament for Summer Conlin who's 6th place finish also kept him in the top 3 in the individual rankings. The surfers will visit the Silver Sand's of Jlinal for the first time on the tour in the next event which will be the 8th on the tour.

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NationStates Surf Tour :: Tour of Vilita - - - Official Tournament Results
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Jeruselem's Shurc Bate surprised the field as the judges were overcoming their sickness to steal the show at the Arcticala Junction open. Would the new breed reign again in Jlinal, or would the old guard reclaim their place at the top?

Realizing that they may have slanied their perspective on the voting as a result of their sickness the previous week, the judges held an impromptu gathering to discuss the ways in which they favored consistent eccentricity the week prior, and how they should not repeat this at the Silver Sand Shores. Unfortunately, some of them seemed to take "Don't repeat that" as meaning "Consider those things less importantly." Lost in the translation of the impromptu meeting, some judges began looking down on consistence in flashiness in Jlinal.



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8 :: Silver Sand Shores (Jlinal, Vilita)



1) Fedor Fersas - The Macabees[7.73 - 6.66 - 6.4 (6.93)] [5.39] [5.33] [6.3] [7.29]
2) Cameron Takimoana - Napieria[6.63 - 7.09 - 7.28 (7)] [6.48] [5.44] [5.88] [6.86]
3) Viiker Surf - Vilita[8.74 - 6.5 - 6.73 (7.32)] [5.65] [6.39] [5.65]
4) Dusanbi "Sea Horse" Aburo Ngaru - Andossa Se Mitrin Vega[7.09 - 6.83 - 7.01 (6.98)] [5.28] [6.03]
5) Michael T.J. Harley - Liverpool England[6.75 - 7.64 - 6.03 (6.81)] [5.36] [5.2]




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TOUR OF VILITA :: NATIONAL STANDINGS
NATION NAME G - S - B POINTS
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1 Vilita 1 - 2 - 2 [44.19]
2 Bainbridge Islands 2 - 1 - 1 [39.85]
3 Az-Cz 2 - 1 - 2 [39.67]
4 Geisenfried 0 - 1 - 1 [35.17]
5 Napieria 0 - 2 - 0 [33.62]
6 Andossa Se Mitrin Vega 1 - 0 - 0 [31.07]
7 Edoniakistanbabweagua 0 - 0 - 0 [30.08]



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And Introducing: The National Media Ratings!

The National Media rankings are being introduced and will continue to be posted along with the standings and results following each event. The National Media rankings are determined by a panel of expert analysts as to which nations show the most dedicated coverage of the tournament relative to the other nations involved, including but not limited to the categories of Media Quality and Frequency of Coverage.

TOUR OF VILITA :: MEDIA RATINGS
NATION NAME Grade
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Az-Cz A+
Bainbridge Islands A
Funnia Lan A
Jeruselem A
Casari B+


**(Please note, that this is not designed to be a ranking of the RP Bonus a nation has accumulated during the tournament. It most certainly is not (As far as a Nation receiving a "C+" could have received more RP bonus than a Nation receiving a "B+" in the media rankings, for different reasons). It is designed to be a general impression of media from an in-character point of view.)

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Hello and Kia Ora! This is Angus Pakeha, here with Cameron Takimoana, to talk about his second-in-a-row second-place finish at Silver Sand Shores. Cameron, How do you feel?

I feel great, Angus. Good to see you again, by the way.

Good to see you too. Folks back home are quite excited about your performance.

Thanks. I'm glad I was able to get things together enough to come out and do my country proud.

Yes. One question on the people's mind, though, is 'Where is Tango?'

Tango is trying his hardest, but you know how these things are... sometimes you fall into a slump, and if you don't pull yourself out of it soon, you end up stuck in a rut.

He finished 57th, Cameron.

I... wow. 57th? Wow.

It's being said that it was his worst performance in competition yet. Some are saying that he feels outclassed by you.

Well, that's not fair. Tango is a world-class surfer, he's kind of an icon in Napieria. I learned a lot of the tricks and moves I'm using in this competition from training with him.

Still, his last several performances have gotten progressively worse, while you've skyrocketed into the top five.

I'm sure Tango will improve. He'd spent the last several days very stressed about doing so poorly, but last night after the competition he seemed particularly unphased. I think he's rediscovered his zone, and I think he'll come back.

But will it be in time for him to place in the top 16?

well, even though he's done poorly in the last couple events, he's still only ranked 24th. He could pull it out. There are six events left, and if he does well in them, he could climb back up, I think.

Well, we hope so. In the meantime, Napieria is proud of you, and we are cheering for you, as always.

Thanks, Angus.

Thank you, Cameron.

“Come in”, a voice said from behind the finely finished mahogany door.

Halo opened the door, and said, “Hey Isaac, do you have a moment?”

Upon looking up from the paperwork, Isaac smiled broadly, and said “I always have a moment for you, Halo! What can I do for you?”

“Well, I have a favor to ask…”

“I have an inkling about what that favor is, and the answer is ‘no’”, said Isaac, shaking his head.

“I know she’s a real pain in the ass, but she has potential!”, said Halo.

“Potential is only as good as the work that goes into it. She has no discipline, and she acts like a simple party whore. Granted, one that shred a wave like a genius, but still, she isn’t serious about her gift. She’s going to be on the next flight I can arrange out of here”, said Isaac, as he leaned back in his chair.

“Let me change your mind…”, began Halo. “I can make you an offer that you’ve wanted for a long time, and to the benefit of both of us.”

Isaac leaned forward, and said, “OK, you have my attention. Sell your idea!” Isaac smiled, as he loved a challenged, especially one that had no downside – as he saw it.

“You’ve been wanting me to more involved with the media…”, started Halo.

“Go on”, said Isaac, raising an eyebrow.

“And I really hate it. But I also realize that I need to expand the depth of my expertise. After all, I can’t surf forever. At least, professionally. That’s something the SA is dreading.”

“What’s that?”, asked Isaac.

“The day I leave professional surfing”, answered Halo. “I need a protégé. That’s where Api comes in. I’ll train her as my student.”

“Did I hear you right? You want to train Api? The woman who spit in your face last year at the Waimea Open? You know the SA has a strict doping program…”, said Isaac, feigning concern.

“Here’s the deal. I train Api, and I’ll do more interviews with the media or commentaries, or whatever. If she gets out of line, either from my training program or from her curfew, she’s gone. That simple. No down side for you. You’ve ‘given’ her a second chance, I get to teach what I know, and the SA potentially gets a replacement for me. How about it?” asked Halo.

“Its against my better judgement, but, since I like you… Yes. Deal. She steps out of line – she’s gone. Period”, said Isaac. “Good luck with your project!”, he added, chuckling under his breath.

“Isaac, thanks for the opportunity”, said Halo.

“I’ll talk to you in a week, and see if you’re still so optimistic.”

Michael Harley was lying on his bed in the hotel room. It had been a long day; despite a brief setback when he almost fell off his board doing a run he had managed to crack the top five with a 5th placed finish - the best managed by a Liverpool Englander yet. And with him being the PM, this would surely only serve to improve the reputation of surfing back in Liverpool England, and hopefully would be enough to get those dumb regional laws banning surfing repealed.

He turned on the TV, having not actually done so before during the entire tour. I wonder if they have the Sports Network..., he wondered to himself. Sports Network was the first privately-owned news network in Liverpool England, which owned Radio Sports Folenisa and the various regional branches, as well as the newly-opened TV Sports International Orean. Michael, a firm believer in private media, had welcomed the opening of the first-ever non-government-owned media outlet while he was serving as Deputy Prime Minister.

"... for the World Cup qualifiers has been done," the presenter droned on. "Liverpool England face..." Michael just left it on, and dialled back to Liverpool England.

"Prime Minister's Office," a male voice answered. That's weird, Michael thought, where is Suzy? Wait, isn't that... Tommy? "Tommy? Tommy Douglas?"

"Ah, Mike. Good news, Parliament has approved your Cabinet. Your interim Prime Minister, Jonathan Tomohiro Nagasuki, has been installed. As for me, I'm catching the next plane to Orean to give a guest lecture at a university. I heard the news. Congrats on your finish."

"Thanks, Tommy. For doing a great job as Prime Minister, and for leaving with dignity, and for the congratulations. Uh, where's Suzy?", he asked the question. Suzy Emily Harley was Michael's third cousin, and a very close friend who he asked to be his personal secretary. "Suzy's sick, Michael. It's not good, the doctors have diagnosed it as something serious I think. Don't let it affect you. She wouldn't want that. Uh, do you want to speak with Jon?"

"Wait. Sick with what? Tommy?"

"I... uh..." In CCL, Douglas looked lost. He glanced at Nagasuki, who nodded slightly. "It's early-stage bone cancer, Michael. Jon... will tell you more. I'm sorry, but I have my flight to Orean to catch. I'll catch up with you when you come to Chacor next time."

"Jon?"

"Mike. So sorry about your cousin... you two are close, I know. Rest assured I've got everything under control. You may also be delighted to have some good news, that the Lox Land authorities have given their word that Gareth Hunter won't be prosecuted when he returns. They've also started a motion within the territorial legislative branch to repeal the law banning surfing."

"Thanks for this, Jon. Tell Suzy not to give up. Do you know if they've got surgery planned?"

"Not at this moment, Mike. I've got to go now. Good luck."

Michael put the phone down, shocked. The TV droned on in the background... "-ister Michael Harley has achieved Liverpool England's best ever placing on the NS Surf Tour to date..."

EDIT:
OOC: No, for those who asked, this RP is in no way, shape or form motivated by real life. Thanks for asking.

"Nice job today Z-Boy" Kl-Slt congratulated. "I wasn't certain you'd be able to pull your head out of the smoke of your marital bliss and focus on the surfing."

Z-Boy responded "Nah man. I'm cool. The ENGAGEMENT bliss fires up the engines of the Z-Boy machine. We're Ku-El and the Gang man."

"I'm glad to see the whole team moving towards the top. But I think we need to focus back in on the surfing. We have the skills to catch Vilita and Bainbridge Islands. They're good, but I feel we're the best out here."

"Whatever man. We don't need to focus. We're good enough as is. It's those damned refs man. They're clearly playing favorites with the Vilitans. No way Viiker Surf deserved a third place today. That one trick he tried on his fourth run, he looked like an epilectic llama. That ain't a surfing move. And they still gave him a better score than you. That's wack."

"That's what I'm saying. We need to figure out what makes Vilitan judges tick."

"No we don't man. I've got my style. The fans love it. Taihenna loves it. I love it. It's good to go. Those judges can stick it."

"But Z.."

Suddenly Al-Va chimed in, "Drop it Kl-Slt. We love what you're doing for us, but the truth is you're the one most concerned about the rankings. We're having a great time and we're doing well. I don't want to be one of those teams that feels like they have to kowtow to the judges. Surfing isn't something you practice, it's something you do. When you feel like it. And right now I feel like skating. Peace."

With that Al-Va left. Then Z-Boy continued in on Kl-Slt. "See man. Look I love you bro. I'm having a great time on the tour with you and all, and when it's over I'll definitely expect you to come up and visit us in Vilisorma."

"Kl-Slt, but don't you care about win...... wait, visit you in Vilisorma? You're not going back to Az-cz?"

"No man, why would I go back to Az-cz. I'm a star here. Plus Taihenna's got mad connections, the surfing's good and the weather's nice. Why would I leave?"

"But what about your shop? Your friends? Your family?"

"What about them. My shop is just a place. You or Al-Va can have it. Or one of my assistants or someone. And I can still see my friends and family. I'm not going to the moon man. It's not that far from Vilita to Az-cz. I'll get back."

"Man. Whod've thunk it." With that Kl-Slt left.

Z-Boy thought to himself "man, dude needs to chill."

Shurc Bate after performing badly finishing 73th and his girlfiend Trish were getting a little drink when two guys who looked like Elvis approached them.

Shurc: Woah, Elvis alert!
Trish: Two of them.

Elvis 1: Hi Shurc. We're from the Elvis Presley Club. You want join our club?
Elvis 2: Yeah we like your style on the board even if you fall off.

Shurc: I have dress like that?
Elvis 2: Yes, it's what we Elvis people do.

Trish: What exactly, you guys do?
Elvis 1: We worship Elvis Presley and aim to look and act like him minus the bad parts of his personal life.

Shurc: Don't think my hair can handle all that stuff you put in it.
Elvis 1: It's alright, put enough and it goes really hard.

Trish: But do you really need those silly suits? It's really hot out there on the beach
Elvis 2: We don't always wear these, but we look better in them.

Shurc: Definitely I can't surf looking like that. I have enough trouble doing surfing like I am.
Elvis 1: Well, Elvis could kinda surf but we can't either.

Trish: Say, what about those guys there. They might be interested.
Shurc: We're surfers, not Elvis clones. I think they might be better candidates.

Elvis 1: Hey, he's got the right type of hair!
Elvis 2: Yeah, let's get them interested.

Shurc: Man, there's some weirdos on the beach sometimes.
Trish: And I thought surfers were weird. Err, what you doing with you hand.

Shurc: Not much, yet ...

Today, a triuvante panel from Sports Funnia Lan spent two hours questioning both members of Funnia Lan's surfing team. The team have now particpated in eight rounds of the tournament with no major success. The two team members Mark de Corio and Shelley Stevens are currently placed 55th and 80th respectively out of a field of 94 and the country is 32nd on the ladder of the 37 competing nations. In the Silver Sand Shores event held yesterday in Jlinal, Vilita, Mark came 19th but Shelley was placed 72nd. Shelley it must be noted narrowly beat the popular Shurc Bate from Jeruselem.

Marc de Lima of Sports Funnia Lan refused to comment on the meetings. Instead he praised the Vilitian organisers of the event, noting that "the event has been largely injury free, and provided spectators with an enjoyable and positive experience" He noted "we are handcapped by our alck of suitable surfing beaches."

It is understood that First Bank Funnia Lan met with Sports Funnia Lan prior to the meetings. The Bank has been the team's major corporate sponsor and had hoped for a top ten finish for the nation. A bank spokesman denied there had been any awkwardness in the discussions.

NEWSFLASH - Funnia Lan's Leading Daily
The Journalists Union of Funnia Lan following their organisation of a march against the Vilitan embassy noted that the nation had provided open and free media for the whole event. The Union called on Vilita to allow access by jounrnalists to all news and events in the country. They also repeated earlier demands for the cessation of harassment against journalists.

The Anarchists Association who have been most critical of the involvement of Funnia Lan in the competition declared they would continue to monitor the media of twelve "oppressive" nations

*knock, knock..... knock,knock* Jay Sertiin opened the door, and he screamed at what he came across.

"Sir, we have identified the body as Jenny Sin Kim." Officer Rich Jeet said,

"What else do we know about her?" Lead Detective George Lirt asked.

"Well, she is from Quakmybush, with her boyfriend Igor Vladimirovič Uspenskij, a surfer from Quakmybush, he is away at Vilita Surf Competition." Jeet replied.

"What is the cause of death Aaron?" Lirt asked.

"Gunshot wound to the chest, plain and simple." Corerner Aaron Huton said.

"Well let's start to investigate." Lirt said.



*to be continued*

Surf Closes in on Kahani'i

Vilita's Viiker Surf went into the Tiones Lumber Open looking for a spark. In front of his home town crowd, the Yeaddin native had high hopes of recording his first podium finish on the tour, and perhaps even bringing home the gold. but things did not quite go as expected for Viiker. It was a great day for team Vilita, has Malaiki Tovali made the final and finished as runner up, while Summer Conlin just missed out, finishing 5th in the order. But it was a miserable day for the home town hero, Viiker Surf. Needing just a 6.0 to advance to the second round, Viiker cracked under the pressure and put forward one of his worst runs of the campaign, a 5.45. Surf was left a full tenth of a point out of the second round in 22nd place, not even getting a chance to compete in the knockout stage on his home waters.

The dissapointment of watching his teammates compete instead of him clearly had an impact on the Yeaddinite, however. Surf went to Morata Point with a mission, and stormed the competition before being upstaged in the final by Bainbridge Islands' Api Kiko. Surf was the only Vilitan to make the second round at Morata Point and the result catapulted him from 11th to 3rd in the individual rankings. The tour then moved to the capital city, and Viiker Surf was on the mark once again at Alikki-Corra, advancing to the Quarter Finals before a poor run left him in 6th place. For the second straight event, Surf was the top finishing Vilitan surfer. That's when Viiker Surf set his heights a little higher. With a pair of consecutive third place podium finishes in the last two events, Surf has moved into second overall in the individual competitor rankings, being the highest ranked Vilitan surfer on the tour, and now within striking range of the worlds top rated surfer, Romulus Kahani'i, who has held a very strong hold on the top spot since first taking the position after the second event on the tour.

With the prestigious Lopinka Memorial next on the schedule, Viiker Surf will be looking to upstage Kahani'i and reclaim the title of top surfer in the world for the Tropics of Vilita.

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Tikimora Iorara & female friend Jalia Mirikali at Tiki's house in Kionao, Turori, discussing Tikimora's omissioin from the Turori World Cup 31 Squad



This is total bullcrap. Seriously. If I grew up on any other Island I'd be a super star football player. I'd be playing in the World Cup. But I had to be a Turorian. I had to be a Turorian just at the time that this lunatic Vumaou comes along and decides that it would be better to field a team full of trained monster birds then to reward those of us who have trained our whole lives for the chance to break into the National Team. When i grew up, Turori was a force to be reckoned with. We'd be in the finals of every World Cup. Then, just when its my time. We're crap and we play with birds. What kind of piss luck is that. I'm giving up footy.

Don't do that Tiki, you could always go out for the regional team, Vilita & Turori just won the AOCAF, why didn't you try out for that squad?

Because, that's just regional crap. I don't know, I regret it now, but who thought that they were actually going to let Vumaou pull this Cocoabo crap again? Damn them. I should have joined the Surf Tour.

The Surf Tour?

Yea, the NationStates Surf Tour - they're holding it in Vilita and I could have been there surfing the whole time, enjoying myself.

I know you love surfing, but do you really think you'd have been good enough to compete with them?

What! Of course I'm good enough, some chic won one of those tournaments, how good could they be.

WHAT! Tikimora Iorara! You take that back. I could beat you any place, any time with a surf board.

Yea, right, keep dreamin girl.

Fine then, I challenge you. Lets go to Vilita. Whats the next event on the tour? I know you've been following it, Lets sign up for it.

The Lopinka Memorial - but... you can't just sign up for it, you have to be entered as a team by your nation...

Yea, like you don't have contacts that can sign us up for Turori.

Well, I suppose I could give Jer at the Football Assocation a call, see if he knows what we could do.

Do it, I'll go get packed. I'm going to kick your ass in Lopinka


Tikimora picked up the phone. No answer at the other end. He put down the phone, and was about to send Jalia a message telling her that he couldn't get in touch with anyone, despite not trying terribly hard to do so. Then, the phone rang. It was his buddy Jer at the Football Association of Turori. Jer apologized for missing the call as he was taking an order for a Cocoabo Kit that someone in Cednia had wanted for their pet. Jer hung up after informing Tiki that he'd make a few phone calls, and sure enough, not an hour later, Tikimora Iorara and Jalia Mirikali were off to Vilita, signed up for the NationStates Surf Tour, Tour of Vilita representing the Island Emirate of Turori.

"Who are you?" asked the secretary.

The young man was tanned, and looked like he had been built to perfection. He was alert and had good posture. He also didn't reek of marijuana, unlike surfers from most nations and the entire nation of Spruitland. It was rumored you could get high just by breathing in that nation. "Olivier Costinha, I'm here for my appointment with Daniel Davies?"

"Hold on, just one moment."

Three hours later

"Sorry, the organizational difficulties for the World Cup have been enormous," said Davies apologetically. Costinha had fallen asleep in the chair and was startled by the man who was perhaps the most recognizable sports figure in the nation.

"Well, I called you here today Olivier because I've been watching the surfing performance relatively closely." It really ment, just a little.

"I want to help. I'm offering a full sponsorship by the FFLC and some press coverage and an organization to help promote the sport in the Alliance."

Olivier was shocked. "Well, sure sir, whatever I can do to help."

Davies blushed, and answered: "I need you to tell me everything you know about surfing. I don't know anything. It just looks really cool."

Olivier sighed, smiled, and began.

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Fedor Fersas of The Macabees shocked the field by winning the Silver Sand Shores in Jlinal, but Cameron Takimoana and Viiker Surf finished on podium yet again and cut into the individual ranking lead of Romulus Kahini'i. Could the duo make it three consecutive podium finishes, or would the King finally find his lost surfing form? The surfers headed to Lopinka for the Lopinka Memorial, remembering those lost in the horrific aftermath of the Nojika Spies affair, Consistency and Technical ability were always going to be important in this event.


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9 :: Lopinka Memorial (Lopinka, Vilita)



1) Winston Manfriday - Schiavonia[7.86 - 7.53 - 6.9 (7.43)] [6.03] [6.37] [6.87] [7.28]
2) Al-Va - Az-Cz[7.16 - 8.51 - 8.34 (8)] [6.12] [6.91] [6.49] [6.71]
3) Blue Harrelson - Casari[7.87 - 6.57 - 7.18 (7.21)] [6.14] [6.24] [6.36]
4) Z-Boy - Az-Cz[6.94 - 6.31 - 7.58 (6.94)] [6.54] [6.02][4.98]
5) Kl-Slt - Az-Cz[7.09 - 7.94 - 7.93 (7.65)] [5.85] [5.9]




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TOUR OF VILITA :: NATIONAL STANDINGS
NATION NAME G - S - B POINTS
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1 Vilita 1 - 2 - 2 [49.04]
2 Az-Cz 2 - 2 - 2 [46.91]
3 Bainbridge Islands 2 - 1 - 1 [42.78]
4 Geisenfried 0 - 1 - 1 [38.19]
5 Napieria 0 - 2 - 0 [36.61]
6 Andossa Se Mitrin Vega 1 - 0 - 0 [34.04]
7 Edoniakistanbabweagua 0 - 0 - 0 [32.98]



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And Introducing: The National Media Ratings!

The National Media rankings are being introduced and will continue to be posted along with the standings and results following each event. The National Media rankings are determined by a panel of expert analysts as to which nations show the most dedicated coverage of the tournament relative to the other nations involved, including but not limited to the categories of Media Quality and Frequency of Coverage.


TOUR OF VILITA :: MEDIA RATINGS
NATION NAME Grade
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Az-Cz A+
Bainbridge Islands A
Jeruselem A
Funnia Lan A
Napieria B+
Liverpool England B+


**(Please note, that this is not designed to be a ranking of the RP Bonus a nation has accumulated during the tournament. It most certainly is not (As far as a Nation receiving a "C+" could have received more RP bonus than a Nation receiving a "B+" in the media rankings, for different reasons). It is designed to be a general impression of media from an in-character point of view.)

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Wl-Son: I'm here today for NS-SC from Lopinka Memorial , a surfing event dedicated to the memory of fallen Vilitans. Let's see if our Az-cz surfers were able to provide a show for the Vilitans in attendance today. Let's look at the highlights.

<Cuts to video of Z-Boy>

First let's look at Z-Boy's opening run. He tried to pull off the raging manitee. He basically pulled it off, but if you see here at the end of the run his position is a little off, preventing him from getting the big score.

<Cuts to video of Al-Va>

Al-Va turned in the highest score of this high scoring tournament with his second run of the opening round. Watch his technique as he cuts through the waves. His spinning and control on the wave was impeccable. You won't see a technically better run than that anyways. Just beautiful.

<Cuts to video of Kl-Slt>

Here is Kl-Slt's second run. He didn't try any fancy tricks but his movement was simple and elegant. His technique was flawless, but just a bit boring.

<Cuts to Z-Boy>

Here on his third run of the opening round Z-Boy tried a move no one had ever seen before. He looked a bit epileptic on the board out there, but still maintained beautiful control of the board. The technique looked very difficult, and the only thing that held it back from being an 8+ score was the strangeness of the move, but it was still a good enough score to send him through to the second round along with Al-Va and Kl-Slt.

<More footage of Z-Boy>

Z-Boy put on the best run of the second round, pulling off a nice double dolphin here to move into the top 8 along with Al-Va and Kl-Slt.

<Cuts to Al-Va>

In the round of 8 all three surfers put on good runs, headlined by Al-Va's run here. Look at how effortlessly he cuts through the water and pulls off his tricks. He makes it look so easy.

Despite a good run Az-cz finally saw a surfer go out, with Kl-Slt going out in fifth place.

<Cuts to Z-Boy>

In the round of four Z-Boy tried to get over agressive, and wiped out pretty hard. But even in failure he impressed the crowd as he somehow managed to catch a cuddly lobster while he was in the water.

<Cuts to footage of Winston Manfriday>

However Winston Manfriday was the suprise of the day. Schiavonia has been a less than strong opponent up to this tournament, but Manfriday really turned it on here. Look at this run from the finals. He pulled off a beautiful jump coming out of the water that iced the tournament for him.

<Cuts back to a view of Wl-Son>

Still, a fine fine day for the Az-cz surfers, three top five finishes is the best a country has done, just beating out Geisenfried's three in the top six.

Joining us now are all three surfers to talk about the tournament.

Great job men.

Kl-Slt: Thanks Wl-Son. I think we all felt good out there today.

Wl-Son: Let's talk about the first round a bit. Al-Va how did you manage to turn in such high scores?

Al-Va: I just felt good and made good moves. I didn't try to get too fancy, which hurts us sometimes and just made solid techniques. I didn't make any mistakes and the judges rewarded.

Wl-Son: Z-Boy what was going on in that third move?

Z-Boy: That's a new move called the "cuddly lobster" I've been working on. I wanted to commemorate those loveable guys somehow and that's what I came up with.

Wl-Son: I see. When you guys are out there do you find it stressful to watch each other.

Kl-Slt: A little bit yeah. For individual reasons that their results affect the national standings, but also just as friends it's important they do well, so there is some stress in it.

Z-Boy: Not for me. I've got confidence in them and I just want to see good surfing. As the results tend to indicate my teammates are quite likely to get that for me, so I enjoy watching them.

Wl-Son: Alright. Well thanks for joining us. Good luck in the Mavaloiao Point Challenge.

Shurc: OK, Trish - now don't be scared. All you have to do is keep the board stable and your balance.
Trish: OK

<Trish tries staying on the board but falls of and get dunked>

Trish: It's too hard!
Shurc: If Shurc can do it, so can you. Now try this stance, see.

Trish: Like this?
Shurc: That's it. Just hold the stance on the board while trying to control it.
Trish: I'll try

<Trish tries staying on the board, only for a few seconds but falls of and get dunked again>

Trish: Aw, this is hard.
Shurc: Don't worry! Just practice - once you get the hang of it it's easy
Trish: I should try a few times

<Trish tries again and again - staying on a little longer everytime>

Trish: Hey, this isn't so hard.
Shurc: All you have to do is practice, practice, practice

Trish: But what about those moves?
Shurc: You need a smaller board which is less stable but more manoeuvrable.

Trish: Not for me then?
Shurc: Not yet girly, when you are really confident then you can try.

Trish: You think I can get better.
Shurc: With a little training, yes you can. Making as the pro is different matter - only the best are picked.

Trish: When I get home, I'm going buy a board and do what it takes.
Shurc: Not many beaches around where you live

Trish: There's that theme park around the corner with artificial wave machine.
Shurc: You and me go there and train, how about it.

Trish: Yeah, I want find out how to do properly.
Shurc: I may not the best around but you might be better know.

Trish: Me?
Shurc: Yeah, you picked it pretty quick.

Trish: Really? Wow.

Hello and Kia Ora! This is Angus Pakeha of the Napieria News Network. In a startling development at yesterday's Lopinka Memorial event at the Inaugural NationStates Surf Tour, Cameron Takimoana finished 28th.

Cameron had finished in second place for the two previous events.

Tango MacMurray, however, seems to be regaining his footing, and finished at 32.

This gives Napieria an overall, ranking of 5th, and Cameron and Tango rank 4th and 27th, respectively.

Cameron has been unavailable for comment, due to his rigorous training schedule, and Tangaroa has been... well, apparently he celebrated a little too raucously last night and is sleeping it off.

In any case, we're hoping Cameron and Tango can find a wave that works for them at the next couple events.

Halo found Api stirring a drink in the hotel bar, staring out towards the sunset.

“Is this seat taken?”, asked Halo.

Api looked up, startled, and answered a bit hesitantly, “Uh, no…”

Halo sat down, ordered a soda from the waiter, and said, “Well, I spoke to Isaac.”

“What did he say?”

“He said he’d give you one more change, but there’s a condition.”, continued Halo.

“There’s always conditions!”, said Api, grimacing. “What does he want?”

“Its not what he wants, its what you want, Api.”

“OK, OK, what do I have to do to say on the tour?”, retorted Api, squinting her eyes, expecting the worse.

“You’re going to be my student.”

“What?”

“You’re going to be my student.”

“And that’s going to let me stay on the tour?”, asked Api, incredulously.

“You’re going to train with me.”, said Halo.

Api breathed a sigh of relief. “Great, so we talk a bit, and I’m off the hook, excellent.”
She gave him a hug, and said, “Guess I’d better get going – I hear a party off in the distance”, smiling at him.

“Make sure you get some sleep – practice starts at 0430”, said Halo.

Api, stopped, and said, “I’m sorry, did I just hear you say 0430? Like in the morning?”
“Yes, ‘like in the morning’”.

“Stop kidding around, Halo.”

“I’m not kidding. I expect you to be up and ready at 0430 for stretching and yoga.”

Api started to argue, “Hey, I beat you last week with a top 20 finish – you were at the bottom of the list, with the losers. Don’t think you can tell me what to do!”

“As I said, its your choice. If you want to stay, you’ll practice with me and Kene. If not, you’re going home. Your curfew is still 2200, and practice starts at 0430, every day. Miss one, and you’re done.”

“That’s crap!”, shouted Api.

Halo got up, and left money for his drink on the table. “Your call. If you’re serious about surfing as a career, I’ll see you bright and early. If not, have a good trip back.”

Lopinka, Vilita (HSB) – The KBI surfers in the NS Tour performed badly at Lopinka Memorial, with Api garnering a 18th place slot, and the King dropping to the middle of the pack in this competition. “I really had a bad day today. My head wasn’t onboard. However, I’ll do better next time”, said Romulus, in an unusually long post-competition conference. “There has been some changes in how we do business within the KBI Surf Authority, but I think it will be for the best”, he said, without going into further detail.
The KBI team has dropped to third place in the overall standings, much to the chagrin of the KBISI. “There will be some changes coming, and hopefully they will be for the better”, said a spokesman for the SA.

Api stumbled out to the shoreline, her eyes blearily trying to focus in the dim light.

“Halo, where are you? I can’t see you?”, shouted Api.

Kene said, “Over here, to your left”, in a disgruntled voice.

“Oh, OK”, she said, stumbling toward the surfers who were sitting cross-legged in front of their boards.

“What are you guys doing? I thought you were going to be stretching out, or something like that”, she said, trying to steady herself against her board.

“We’re meditating, or we were, until you arrived.”, said Kene, annoyed by her presence.
Halo opened his eyes, and said, “And this is going to be the start of your first lesson. Sit down, cross your legs, and close your eyes.”

Api sat down, closed her eyes, and said, “OK, what next?”

Halo answered, “You need to start with becoming one with your environment. Concentrate on your breathing, taking deep breaths in and out, focusing only on your breathing. Begin relaxing your body, starting from your head, down to your legs. Slowly concentrate on each individual muscle, and feel the warmness penetrating your body...”

Kene giggled and Halo shot him a dirty look.

“And you’ll feel a relaxing sensation that will allow you to clear your mind.”

“ZZZZZZZ”, snored Api.

“I see she’s deep in concentration. Kene, get the bucket!”

A look of joy sprouted on Kane face. He got a bucket, filled it with cold morning beach water, ran back with a brimming container, and unceremoniously dumped on Api – who let our a blood-curdling scream.

“I told you to become one with her environment, not be oblivious to it. Anyways, let’s start again”, said Halo.

Api sighed and thought, “Man, my life going to suck.”, as she eyed the bucket warily.

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Tikimora Iorara & female friend and now NS Surf Tour teammate Jalia Mirikali at their hotel room in Lopinka, Vilita following the Lopinka Memorial.



There, are you happy now Jalia? We did it. We competed in a tournament, and you lost. You lost bad. Now come on lets go home

What! Are you kidding! Who cares if I lost.. that was so much fun! And you!... You did awesome Tiiks - how can you not be raring to go for the next tournament... you almost made the second round!

Yea, I had a lucky first run thats all. You were right, these guys are pretty good.

Pfft, their not that good - thirty three of them did worse than me!

Haha, yea you've got a good point there.

Hey!!!!! Come on now, I'm going to get better at this, you wait and see. I just had a bad day. I'll get you yet Tikimora Iorara, I'll get you yet!

Alright, fine. We'll stay. I won't be playing much football for a while anyway thanks to that damn Vumaou fellow.

How are they doing with those Cocoabo's anyway?

Pfft, they're winning and all. But they drew with Spruitland. If I was out there, I could have scored the last goal to beat Spruitland, I'm sure of it. Those birds aren't going to last.

You think those birds can surf?

What do you mean?

Well - what if you challenged a Cocoabo to a Surfing competition, and the winner got the place on the World Cup Qualifying Squad?

Yea, well theres just one problem with that.

Whats that?


Well for one, Cocoabo's don't surf, so it would be totally pointless - especially the ones on the squad, they've been trained in football their whole life. And then two, even if for some reason they did have half a clue, Vumaou would never allow it, he wants unity in his 'flock' or some kind of crap like that. Stupid fool.

Well - it was just an idea. Hey can you teach me how you did that little cool thing you did on your first run? I want to try and get a few more points in the next tournament and I think If I can do that it might help.

Yea, sure, lets head down to the beach.

Alright! Let me go get changed real quick, I'll meet you down there.

The three members of The Quakmybush Surfing team were walking down the beach after the Lopinka Memorial, Dale and Igor were laughing at Boris.\

"Stop being jerks guys." Boris said.

"But, dude it was funny, didnt help your score, but some of the ladies liked it." Dale said.

"I think you made Sanderson from Schiavonia sick or something, he finshed last, but then again, he always does." Igor said.

A group of attractive Vilitian girls walked by and started to giggle.

"See dude, I told ya, it will help you pick up the chicks, and by the look of "things" you need it" Dale said.

Igor and Dale bursted out in laughter. Then Boris wrestled them both to the sand.

"Hahaha, I bet it didnt help your balance at all." Igor said.

"Fuck off, my trunks fell down it wasnt a big deal." Boris said.

"You do half to admit it was funny." Dale said.

"Well it was, and it was something to laugh about in this season." Boris said.

"Ya, and itll help score some babes, if i havent mentioned that yet." Igor said.

"I think you may have before." Boris said.

"Let's go watch the soccer game." Dale said.

"Hey Hess, how ya feeling after that amazing go in the tournament the other day?"

"I'm totally psyched for this upcoming tournament. Getting into the top sixteen again really did wonders for my confidence girl. I tell you Becs, it was an absolutely amazing feeling, like after drinking a glass of Travesian wine."

Rebicca gasps as her counterpart lips her licks while thinking of how to get back into the top sixteen.

"You know Becs, we both need to pull out the tricks this next time around. To have us both get into the top sixteen would do wonders for the ESF."

"But Hess, arn't the Marauders making a name for the ESF out in the World Cup? Will anyone really care how two crazy aides are doing in some silly surf tournament in a place that no one in the ESF really cares about?"

"Of course Becs. Not only does the ESF need footballing success, but success in all the other fields possible also. Sure the World Cup might be the biggest compeition in the world, and sure no one in the ESF will really care all too much, but other countries will, and that alone should be reward enough for us. Now come, let us go get some food in us before every place around here closes down. Stupid mortals..."

Olivier Costinho was with Jordan Hillier and Kapa Hoganopolis. They were in a coastal beach in Portugal, and were sitting on the boat dock ready to take a small private boat out to Madeira, were they were to promote the surfing sport. Daniel Davies had sent his representative, some Jenas guy, out to meet them when they arrived. They were going to give a little orientation talk and then do a little demonstration. Costinha had grown up there and was eager to get back. They had a few days where they were flying up and down the coast to give talks about surfing, and would leave to return to Vilita for the next event.

"Dude, you look exhausted," said Kapa to Costinha.

He chuckled, "No kidding. Dude, we can't keep doing this and flying back and forth. I mean, look how well I did at Lopinka."

"Heh. I think we're getting a good response, though eh?" asked Jordan with his distinctly Canadian accent. An oddity in the sport, Jordan had gone to uni in Porto, and had taken up the sport there. "I mean, we got quite a crowd, and Madeira is a good place to introduce the sport to."

Olivier nodded. “Yeah. Well, here's the boat!" he pointed out to the water. There was a camera crew on board, with Nelson Turly, a sports reporter from the Ebbie. He sighed as the boat approached the dock, and the three surfers boarded and they begant there interview. Fame, wasn't exactly suiting Olivier.

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For the second consecutive event, the favorites were upset in the final round. One of the top surfers in the current individual rankings, the skateboarding wave hopper Al-Va just couldn't cope with... of all things... a Schiavonian. Notorious for being at the bottom of the barrell week after week, Team Schiavonia is not typically known for their competitive prowess on the waves. That is, two of the three members of the team. But the inconsistent performances of Winston Manfriday have often been overshadowed by the more consistent abysmal performances of Kenny Sanderson and Bobby Billy. Overshadowed no more was Manfriday as he stunned Al-Va and prevented the Az-Czzer from recording an unprecedented third tournament victory.

The surfers had a short flight, or paddle as a few ambitious surfers opted for, accross the cove from Lopinka to Mavaloiao Point on the tip of Turoki Isle for the Mavaloiao Point Challenge, the 10th event of the 14 tournament first-half of the tour. Things were getting tense, as just four events remained before the first major tournament of the campaign, and the midway point in the tour, where the first half champions would be crowned and the ranking-influenced second half would begin. The fans in Mavaloiao were slightly partial to the ability of some surfers to regularly perform different maneuvers in their program, and the thin beach left little room between the supporters and the judges, meaning the fans often chatted with the judges between runs about what they thought was good, or bad about the previous competitor.


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10 :: Mavaloiao Point Challenge (Turoki Isle, Vilita)


1) Z-Boy - Az-Cz[5.39 - 8.61 - 8.8 (7.6)] [8.29] [6.4] [7.39] [6.86]
2) Al-Va - Az-Cz[5.82 - 6.83 - 7.77 (6.81)] [5.16] [6.09] [6.18] [6.57]
3) Api Kiko - Bainbridge Islands[7.64 - 7.32 - 7.14 (7.37)] [6.95] [6.38] [5.71]
4) Hess Marl - Elves Security Forces[6.46 - 7.53 - 7.23 (7.07)] [5.95] [6.12][5.29]
5) Leif Sultra - Dorian and Sonya[6.46 - 7.35 - 7.43 (7.08)] [5.99] [5.92]




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TOUR OF VILITA :: NATIONAL STANDINGS
NATION NAME G - S - B POINTS
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1 Az-Cz 3 - 3 - 2 [54.54]
2 Vilita 1 - 2 - 2 [54.18]
3 Bainbridge Islands 2 - 1 - 2 [48.71]
4 Geisenfried 0 - 1 - 1 [42.06]
5 Napieria 0 - 2 - 0 [40.27]
6 Andossa Se Mitrin Vega 1 - 0 - 0 [36.89]
7 Edoniakistanbabweagua 0 - 0 - 0 [35.80]


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And Introducing: The National Media Ratings!

The National Media rankings are being introduced and will continue to be posted along with the standings and results following each event. The National Media rankings are determined by a panel of expert analysts as to which nations show the most dedicated coverage of the tournament relative to the other nations involved, including but not limited to the categories of Media Quality and Frequency of Coverage.


TOUR OF VILITA :: MEDIA RATINGS
NATION NAME Grade
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Az-Cz A+
Bainbridge Islands A
Jeruselem A
Funnia Lan A
Napieria B+
Liverpool England B+
Casari B+
Rejistania B+


**(Please note, that this is not designed to be a ranking of the RP Bonus a nation has accumulated during the tournament. It most certainly is not (As far as a Nation receiving a "C+" could have received more RP bonus than a Nation receiving a "B+" in the media rankings, for different reasons). It is designed to be a general impression of media from an in-character point of view.)

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"Oh, there is no way in hell I am doing this." Skeeter said, standing at the base of the statue. "That thing is like fifteen feet tall. I'll fall and break my ass."

Kathren, however, was having little to no sympathy for Skeeter's plight. "Look, I don't give a damn how tall it is. You better to god do it. There's plenty of more painful places to put a lobster, and I can always get another."

Skeeter looked to Blue for some like of clemency, but there was none to be found. "Man, don't even try it."

Skeeter sighed, forlorn to his fate. Looking around to see if anyone was watching directly, he quickly pulled off his shirt. "Oh, I hate you guys." he mumbled, kicking off his shoes before dropping his pants and underwear. Before anyone could cry out about the naked man, be began his ascent to the peak.

The first of a few screams had rang out before Skeeter had gotten his balance on the top, naked as the day he was born. "Damnit, this thing is hot!"

Kathren sighed. "No excuses, damnit! Do the crane!"

Skeeter closed his eyes and felt his soul die a little bit inside.

"Oh, oh! Sing 'I'm a little teapot' too!"

--

Unfortunately, Kathren wasn't put in the same cell as Blue and Skeeter. But as she was only across the hall, it didn't inhibit any sort of purposeful conversation.

"It was sure nice of them to give you your clothes back." Kathren said, sitting in a near-identical pose to Skeeter and Blue across the hall.

"Sure was." Skeeter replied.

"That was funny, you know."

"Yeah, I know."

Blue shook his head. "Wasn't that police car nice? A lot nicer than the crapboxes Casaran cops drive around."

"No kidding, the last cop car at home I was in had half the back seat missing." Kathren said.

"You think that would affect the car somehow."

"Apparently not."

The three sat in silence for a good fifteen minutes until the cops finally let them out again.

"You know, maybe we need a new bet." Blue said as they began walking down the street.

Skeeter and Kathren nodded. "Yeah, I don't think we can let our records get much longer." Skeeter said.

"Plus I don't think we can beat 'naked on a statue' for a forfeit." Kathren said as they approached the car.

"Oh, damn, is that a parking ticket?"

"Man we were awesome today" Z-Boy started.

"No doubt. When I'm the worst in 8th place, you know it was a fine day." Kl-Slt continued."

"Well it helped that the crowd was right on top of the judges. Being by far the most popular team in the field really helped. You could hear the crowd encouraging the judges to give us high scores."

"Yeah no doubt. Fan support can definitely be huge in something like this."

"So me and Taihenna are probably gonna get married during the break between the first and second halves of the tour."

"You think you can get everything ready that quickly, bro?" Al-Va booted in.

"No sweat man. Taihenna's already going crazy getting the things set up. The thought is we'd do the wedding at the start of the break, then go on our honeymoon and then have the party with all the surfers to celebrate and then head back for the second half of these season. I might miss the opening tournament of the second half, but it's no big deal I think."

"Well, just make sure you figure it out. We won't stop you from missing as many events as you like, but we just overtook Vilita for the top of the standings, so we'd like to maintain that." Kl-Slt informed them.

"We overtook the home dudes?! That rules. We need to keep kicking ass and salt this thing away. That's what we should do."

"Definitely."

"Well I've got to run, I've got to meet Taihenna before heading out to film my commercial for Revolution Shades. Ciao bros."

"I'm out too man. Catch you later." With that Al-Va took off as well.

Kl-Slt thought to himself "I wish I was naturally as good as those two, but I'm not, so I guess it's back to work" as he headed back to the beach to start practice.

"Yipppeee" screamed Shelley Stevens from the top of the highest mountain in Mavaloiao Point, just outside the restuarant where she had enjoyed a candlelit dinner with James Fraser (reporter from GAME-TV). Funnia Lan at least had improved their standings and she was in love.
Now Funnia Lan was inching up the tables in the competition although she still sucked.

Z-Boy: So what you want me to do is put on the shades and this suit and act like I'm shopping in the swank part of town.

Jereo Kiawala (Employee of Revolution Shades): Yep.

Z-Boy: I won't do it.

Kiawala: You'll do it. You signed a contract to do it.

Z-Boy: Oh I intend to honor my contract. I ain't no squelching punk. But you'd have to be daft to film me like that. It's not my style and it ain't what my fans want to see. I'm popular for my looks to be sure, but also for my freewheeling attitude. Nobody's gonna believe such a fake commercial.

Kiawala: You have a better idea then?

Z-Boy: Yes. First off you've got to have clothes that flatter my muscles but are casual. A clean white tanktop and some surf shorts. Then instead of having me walking through a shopping district, you make it seem like I'm getting rushed by fans as I'm getting off an airplane, as if I was a Doom Beetle.

Kiwala: You know what. That's a good idea. We'll get on that.

Hello and Kia Ora! This is Angus Pakeha, live in Vilita. Cameron Takimoana seemed to have found his stride yesterday at Mavaloiao Point, finishing at 16th place, up from his previous performance. He's ranked 6th overall, and we're hoping that he rallies in the next couple of challenges. All of Napieria is rooting for you, Cameron.

Tangaroa MacMurray seems to be continuing to improve, finishing in the mid-twenties, up from his 31st place performance previously, which was up from his tour low performance of 57th place. Whatever shook his confidence early in the tour, he seems to be regaining it now. Napieria continues to watch and hope that our two favorite sons of surfing will somehow pull out a win.

The three members of the Quakmybushian surf team were celebrating one of their best results of the season at a bar in downtown Turoki. "We did awsome." Dale said. "Now it's time for me too work my magic and get some ladies." He said with confidence.

"What a tool, eh Boris." Igor said. "I think I might try and get that red-headed lady over there, she's looking damn fine." he finished.

"Alright, I'm gunna order another drink, and see what happens." Boris said. A group of Vilitian girls came over and started talking to Boris. The all regocnized him from his little "wardrobe malfunction".

"Heehee, your really cute in person." the one girl giggled. Boris ordered another drink to cope with the teasing. Igor and Dale had basically snagged their catches while Boris was still talking to the group.

"qfolen oenvirenbvi sfjf" he slurred away like a Bedistani afer 9 light beers.

Igor and Dale had to give their ladies their phone numbers, and take Boris back to their hotel. When they got back to hotel Boris puked his guts out and then went to bed. He tried to get some sleep for the next event.

Trish: Hey Shurc, I like that dress.
Shurc: Except it's got 4 digits on the price.

Trish: On my secretarial salary, I can't afford it. Even with this special reporting job, not chance.
Shurc: I can't help either, no sponsors yet.

Trish: Let's try another store.
Shurc: This one is Dazza Dallas territory, she's got two Ferraris.

<later>

Trish: Hey, what's the price on that one?
Shurc: 4 digits again.

Trish: Shurc, all the good stuff is expensive. I gotta get find a way to get money.
Shurc: Being a surfer is not the way either - I'm lucky to earn what I get.

Trish: There's a special going on the next store.
Shurc: 50% off, well let's look babe. Can't hurt at all.

Assistant: Can I help you two?
Trish: Looking for a nice dress which isn't too expensive, and not one that looks like 50's leftover either.
Shurc: Budget people we are, not by choice though.

Assistant: Well, these are last years fashions - I'll give you two for one.
Trish: They aren't too bad at all. I'm going try some.

Assistant: Say, that's that surfer dude Shurc Bate from Jeruselem right?
Trish: Yes it is.

Assistant: Tell you want, you have this new one for half price. I'm not supposed to do this - 50% off the old stock but I'll pretend some one put the wrong sticker on it.
Trish: Really?
Shurc: That's really nice of you babe.

Assistant: Take it or leave it. The boss isn't here.
Trish: Oh yeah, I'm going take it.

<later>

Trish: Woah, half price. I'm glad I took you along
Shurc: I can't surf to save my life and the chicks still come to watch anyway, don't know why.
Trish: Doesn't matter - I'm taking you to surf shop to get a new board.

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Turori World Cup Qualifying Squad Absentee-turned SurferTikimora Iorara & female friend and now NS Surf Tour teammate Jalia Mirikali in conversation after the most recent event on the NS Surf Tour.

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Take that Tiki!!!!!!

I have to admit girl, you looked pretty good out there today. Well, except for that last run!.

Hey now! I was just a little nervous and I had every right to be!

Haha, yea, that's certainly understandable. I'm pretty impressed, and you pulled off that move we worked on the other day on the very first run, I couldn't believe it.

I know! I was so excited! I can't believe I made the second round against all these good surfers. I have to admit though, you were just a few points behind me. One screw up and you would have beaten me again.

Well, it's one win for you and one win for me, Whether its first and last or 20th and 21st, a win is a win. I suppose we'll just have to stick around here and see who's really the better surfer between us, huh?

Heck yea! We're not going anywhere Teeks. This is so much fun, hey do you want to show me some more moves this week?

I don't know! If I show you anything else you may just go out and win the darn thing! I don't know If I could take that!

Ohhhhhh come on! Pwetty Pweeeeeeeeeease?

hah, of course Jals, we'll be out there. But hey, you did awesome today, I did pretty well, what do you say we go out celebrate a bit, maybe grab a bite to eat too.

Yea, thats a good idea, I'm starving! Where do you want to go?

Well theres a meaty joe's over there?

Nah, that place is so low class. Plus that Z-boy weirdo is over there showing himself off, I really don't want to have to watch that all night.


Good point. I tell you what, I'll pick the place, you go up to the room and get yourself changed. Let the Teekster take care of things.

Alrighty! See you in a few!

Olivier Costinha, after coming off a great performance putting him in the top sixteen for just the second time all tour long, he was wisked back to the Alliance to do another PR conference, this time along Lake Bekk. Kaga and Jordan hadn't flown back, but instead chose to stay in Vilita to try to improve off of their rather unispiring performances. Olivier had just finished speaking to the crowd on the beach and was paddling out in his new blue and grey shorts from 3wide Surfing.

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The waves were looking quite good today, though he was worried about the late breaks that were too close to shore. He paddled along the sea until a wave came. He startled paddling harder, and then he felt the wave begin to catch him. He got up on the board and began riding down the tunnel. He flew out the end onto the late breaking portion of the wave, snaking near the crest.

He exulted at the feelings. The wave crashed out and the crowd on the shore clapped. As he rode back in shore, people were wanting autographs and pictures, girls were swooning, and everyone wanted to see him. Fame sure felt good. Across the beach, behind the crowd, Daniel Davies had his shoes in hand and pant legs rolled up. He smiled. The guy sure deserved, he hope it didn't go to his head.

Now, he though to himself, time to get back to that hosting committee. Oh, how the world has too many hosting committees...

"Oh my Elune. We did not just do that! Did we? No, we couldn't of, it's impossible. Isn't it? Becs!!! are you even listening to me?"

"No Hess, I'm sitting here pinching myself, making sure I'm not dreaming. All these red marks tell me we did that Hess, we just kicked arss. You got fourth!!! and I made the top 16! We just funked up this tournament girl."

"Yeah darling, we just put a corkscrew into the favorites. With a few more performances like that, the boys back in the ESF won't treat us just like untalented bimbos. We'll show them that we got some skill, even if we are sex obsessed."

"Speaking of that Hess, we should go celibate the rest of the tournament. We did before the last event, and looked what happened, we nearly got a medal. Maybe we are tiring ourselves out with all those fun times."

"But then what are we going to do in between events then?"

"Easy, shop!!! Grab your purse, let's go."

Tournament Structure Reminder & Information:: Just a reminder that there will be a break in the season after the 14th event, the Invitational which is also the single most important event of the season, on the scale of the Daytona 500, The Super Bowl or the World Series. The prestige of winning the Vilitan Pipeline Invitational would be on a level just below or even equal to that of the champion of the entire Surf Tour. Due to the importance of this event, We will be experimenting with a round-by-round presentation of the scores. This means, unlike normal events where the full results are posted at once, when it comes time for the Vilitan Pipeline Invitational, Qualifying Round results will be posted on one day, then in successive days (24 hour periods) following, each successive round will be posted until the final round. Your RP's in between rounds will contribute to your surfers ability to advance in the next days scoring!

The Tour will have First & Second half champions with some prestige, but the real honors will go to the overall champions crowned at the end of the second half based on results throughout the entire Tour.




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NationStates Surf Tour :: Tour of Vilita - - - Official Tournament Results
(http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=500762)


Outlandish Az-Czzer Z-Boy finally broke into the win column at Mavaloaio Point, and helped to push his nation into first place in the National Standings over hosts Vilita who had not previously conceded that title in the history of the Surf Tour. On the opposite side of the equation however, Vilita's Viiker Surf continued an impressive streak of Top 6 finishes to top the Individual Standings, taking the top spot from King Romulus of the Bainbridge Islands who had previously built up a sizeable lead, but had struggled in competition since the controversy surrounding teammate Api Kiko, who is Surfing on the edge of her shorts, on the last of her 9 lives as far as the national committee of Bainbridge Islands is concerend.

The competitors returned to the mainland for the 11th tournament, and the excitement of the return to the mainland was evident, as many surfers were already discussing the first Invitational event of the season which was now just a few tournaments away. But there was another event to be competed first, at that was the Inlet Open, the second of the season in Arcticala. The judges had finally found their form, and judging was fairly consistent accross all disciplines for the duration of the tournament.


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11 :: Inlet Open (Arcticala, Vilita)



1) Tangaroa MacMurray - Napieria[7.32 - 7.36 - 6.51 (7.06)] [5.89] [5.38] [5.69] [7.15]
2) Api Kiko - Bainbridge Islands[7.14 - 6.12 - 7.1 (6.79)] [5.8] [5.99] [7.18] [6.98]
3) Viiker Surf - Vilita[8.61 - 6.6 - 5.85 (7.02)] [5.56] [5.16] [5.34]
4) Malaiki Tovali - Vilita[5.76 - 7.11 - 7.32 (6.73)] [5.25] [6.55][5.26]
5) Skeeter Monroe - Casari[6.28 - 7.33 - 6.71 (6.77)] [5.1] [5]





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TOUR OF VILITA :: NATIONAL STANDINGS
NATION NAME G - S - B POINTS
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1 Vilita 1 - 2 - 3 [59.97]
2 Az-Cz 3 - 3 - 2 [59.27]
3 Bainbridge Islands 2 - 2 - 2 [55.55]
4 Napieria 1 - 2 - 0 [46.74]
5 Geisenfried 0 - 1 - 1 [45.77]
6 Andossa Se Mitrin Vega 1 - 0 - 0 [39.71]
7 Edoniakistanbabweagua 0 - 0 - 0 [38.47]



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And Introducing: The National Media Ratings!

The National Media rankings are being introduced and will continue to be posted along with the standings and results following each event. The National Media rankings are determined by a panel of expert analysts as to which nations show the most dedicated coverage of the tournament relative to the other nations involved, including but not limited to the categories of Media Quality and Frequency of Coverage.


TOUR OF VILITA :: MEDIA RATINGS
NATION NAME Grade
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Az-Cz A+
Bainbridge Islands A
Jeruselem A
Casari A
Funnia Lan B+
Napieria B+
Liverpool England B+
Rejistania B+


**(Please note, that this is not designed to be a ranking of the RP Bonus a nation has accumulated during the tournament. It most certainly is not (As far as a Nation receiving a "C+" could have received more RP bonus than a Nation receiving a "B+" in the media rankings, for different reasons). It is designed to be a general impression of media from an in-character point of view.)

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Michael Harley sighed. It had not been a terribly good few events; his mind was obviously elsewhere. He picked up the phone and dialled back to Liverpool England, surprised to find that Suzy answered the call.

"Suzy? Are you okay? What are you doing at work?"

"Misdiagnosis. I'm suing the bastard. Turned out to be a minor ulcer which has been removed."

"But... but how? Who is this guy, I'll get the authorities to shut him down."

"It's a Dr. Jake Knowles. Or should that be, ex-doctor. Your lawyers have already issued him with the papers - I asked them to, knowing you'd approve. Medical malpractice."

"Indeed, indeed. Uh, have you notified [acting PM] Jon [Tomohiro Nagasuki]?"

"Yes, he's already visited the clinic himself. Their employees have been given temporary jobs here at Government House, although I'm not ruling out taking action against some of them as well."

"Great to hear you're okay, though. I presume things are going fine otherwise?"

"Well, there's the matter of that hurricane that hit Vassfforcia..."

"Oh, I heard about that. Did something like L£130 billion in damage, right? Well, get Jon to offer them aid. Also ask Mike Johns (director of the Hurricane Centre) if they're considering retirement of that name. That'll be it for now. Glad you're okay. I'll call back after the next event."

He hung up, breathed a huge sigh of relief, and fell asleep.

"Man that was crap. We really struggled today." Z-Boy complained.

"I just didn't feel that good today." Kl-Slt continued.

"Yeah you looked distracted out there."

"I think I was probably nervous."

"Nervous about what?"

"You know the Read Vil Read play we agreed to do."

"Why are you nervous man, you don't even have any lines. That's wack. Al-Va, were you nervous out there today to?"

"Nervous. No man. It's not a big deal. It's not like I have a big part or anything. I just didn't surf well. It happens sometimes." Al-Va responded.

"See Kl-Slt. Don't worry about. Look we're still in second in the team standings. We're all still in the top six. We'll have some of Al-Va's grass on the flight back to Az-cz City. Just relax man."

"You know I don't smoke that stuff man." Kl-Slt glared at Z-Boy.

"It'll help you relax. And if you don't want how bout we knock back a few brews then man. Look we had a bad day as far as the surfing goes. But we're still chill. Life is good man. You know why they want us in the play, becaue we're Az-cz national heroes man. We're celebrities. We're stars. I love you bro, but you absolutely need to relax. What's the point of getting what we've gotten out of this surfing tour if you're not enjoying the perks. Being on TV is a perk. Plus it's for charity and I'm certain it will help you meet some nice kleptodancer or something."

"Your right Z-Boy. I'm just not naturally as laid back as you two. I practice and I worry and I plan. I can't just fake it like you two can. But I've never been on TV before as anything other than me."

"Come on man, you're playing a Vilitan. You just have to walk basically. Don't worry about it."

<Z-Boy's phone rings>

"What? You're already at the airport, honey? Alright. We'll be there soon."

"Well we better get going guys. Let's jet."

Hello and Kia Ora, Surf fans! This is Angus Pakeha, reporting on what is a stunning turnaround for Tango MacMurray!

After a mid-tour slump lasting several events, Tango has found his second wind, coming in at 1st place in the Inlet Open at Arcticala! The Napierian contingent of fans was in an uproar last night, chanting "Tango's back, Tango's back" late into the night.

Tango is here with us today for a short interview. Tango, this was amazing. Some say you were back to your old form. How do you feel?

I feel great, Angus. Took me a little while to shake the stress of my first international tournament, but I just loosened up, and got out there and enjoyed myself.

Well, you did Napieria proud. But that was some slump you had there. Why do you think you had such a slump?

Well, ya never really know. It could be bad luck, could be the surf gods are mad at you, or it could just be that your head isn't in the right place. I think I may have been pretty stressed out, and perhaps a little jealous of Cameron's performances earlier in the tour.

This was your first international surf tour, so I can understand the stress. But why do you think you were jealous of Cameron?

Well... I hadn't heard of him at all before coming here, and he starts of by finishing in front of me in several events. He's really dedicated, and no-nonsense, and when he started pulling in big scores, I think it threw me off track. I tried thinking like him, instead of doing my own thing, and that was ultimately wrong for me, and it showed in my performances. Now Cameron's a great guy... if I couldn't win, there's no one else I'd want to win than him. We showed each other some tricks and gave each other some style pointers early in the tour, and he did a fantastic job keeping Napieria high in the rankings while I was in my little slump there. I'm really glad he's here in Vilita with me.

As you know, Cameron finished 27th. Last event, he finished 16th. Do you think he's in a slump like you were? Do you have any advice for him?

I don't think he's in a slump. Some days are just bad days. Cameron, just do your thing, dude. You're an awesome surfer, and it shows.

Tango, any last words for the folks at home, watching you here?

Thanks for all your support and kind words over the past several days. It's helped me a lot. I'm gonna try to stay mellow and relax, and do you all proud. Cheers!

Thank you, Tango. I'm Angus Pakeha, live from Vilita. Cheers!

OOC: If you want to know what the heck Read Vil Read is check out this link: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11854779&postcount=359

On the way back from Read Vil Read the three surfers and Taihenna we're talking.

Z-Boy: I saw the way you had your eyes on Ji-Hn, you sly dog Kl-Slt. She's well built ain't she.

<Taihenna slaps Z-Boy on the shoulder>

Z-Boy: You know I've only got eyes for you honey. You also know that nudity's common in Az-cz. I was just commenting to Kl-Slt.

Taihenna: I know, but it's just something a woman has to do.

Z-Boy: Do you guys really think we should hold a party for ALL of the surfers on the tour to celebrate our wedding?

Al-Va: Abso-freaking-lutely. I'm pretty certain you could pimp some of those contacts of yours to get free catering and what not and the whole shabam paid for. We're not talking about the wedding. That should be a small affair. But after the wedding and the honeymoon, just before the start of the second half of the schedule, we should throw a huge bash for all the surfers.

Kl-Slt: You're always telling me to relax. It'll be fun. We'll get to meet the other surfers and have a grand old time.

Taihenna: Listen to them Z. If Kl-Slt's saying to go for it it must be ok right. He's the most conversative of you three isn't he?

Z-Boy: Yeah. You're right about that. I guess we can give it a go.

Then we better get an invitation written up.

<Z-Boy and Taihenna go to the back of the plane to write up an invitation to their wedding party>

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All members of the Vilitan Surfing Tour are invited to the wedding party of Z-Boy of Az-cz and Taihenna Eromi of Vilita to be held just before the opening tournament of the second half. As we met and fell in love because of the surfing tournament this tournament is very important to us. And we want to share that warmth and happiness will all of our fellow surfers. We hope you'll be able to attend our party. Please RSVP with your name, country of affiliation and the names and numbers of any non-surfing guests you intend on bringing to the party. Guests that are not on the surfing tour, will be allowed within reason. We hope to see you soon to celebrate our joyous event.

Z-Boy and Taihenna Eromi

Viiker Surf - Malaiki Tovali - Summer Conlin - Voice - Baron O' Toole

Wow, this is kind of weird, we've never been called to the office of the minister of sports for all of Vilita before. Surely he'd be busy enough with all the other things going on to want to speak with the three of us Surfers for any reason.

Yea Viik, I don't know what the deal is, I just hope we're not in trouble or something.

The conversation paused as the three Surfers passed through security. Summer Conlin was having a conversation with the security guards. Malaiki Tovali and Viiker Surf decided to just get on the elevator without him.

What room number did it say?

Malaiki pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket. "It just says push the 'M' on the elevator"

Alright.

As quickly as they entered, the elevator had stopped. The doors opened into a room that more resembled the Jungle that was just a few miles to the North. There was a voice welcoming them into the room, but they couldn't determine where it was coming from, so they just stood there. Then, the elevator doors opened again, and Summer Conlin joined them.

The minister will be with you shortly, please be seated.

How strange, they still could not located the voice, but they were able to locate a carved bench, so they sat and waited.

After a few minutes of mostly staring at the lavish jungle decor, a figure entered from behind a curtain that hung from the branch of some sort of tree. It was Baron O'Toole, the head of all sporting affairs in the Tropics of Vilita.

Please, keep your seats boys, this won't be long. I just wanted to meet with you guys real quick and congratulate you all on your performances so far in the Surf Tour.

Thank You, Sir

Thank You

Yea, Thanks dud... erm sir.

It's alright Summer, you can call me dude if you'd like. I wish you lot the best of luck for the rest of the competition, and hopefully you can keep those Az-Czzers behind you in the standings.

Right! We'll try

Definately.

And speaking of those Az-Czzers, I've been informed that all of you have been invited to the wedding party of Z-Boy and Taihenna Eromi. I expect that all of you plan on attending?

Yes Sir, of course.

Yea, I don't see why not it sounds fun.

And you, Malaiki?

I don't know sir, I don't really like that Z-Boy fellow, he's a bit flashy for me.

Malaiki, unless you've got somewhere else to be thats been planned long in advance, I'll expect you to be there as a representative of our nation.

Yes sir.

Please, stop calling me sir, I was just like you guys once. I don't need to be reminded again that those days are behind me!

Sorry Sir... Crap! I mean... ermmm ahhhh!

It's alright. As you might expect, I've got lots to do. But all the best at the rest of the events. I'll try to make it out to one sometime soon.

We've got a tournament right here in Alikki-Corra this week, why don't you stop by then?

Summer slapped Viiker in the back of the head

Well, I'll have to see what my schedule looks like. Thanks for stopping by today.

Tangaroa walked down the beach, hoping to catch Cameron between waves. In the distance, he saw Cameron checking his board, and about to paddle back out. He yelled for him and ran.

"Cameron!"

Cameron turned, saw Tango running, and set his board down. Tango trotted up.

"Dude... this time, there's a party you've GOT to go to."

Cameron looked skeptical. "I disagree."

"No, really." Tango handed him a note. Cameron read it.

Cameron smiled, then looked serious. "Should we go? I've been keeping to myself mostly... I don't really know them..."

"Dude... Of course we go. You think there's a wedding on every surf tour? Plus, ALL the surfers have been invited. You'll look like a dope if you don't show. Besides, Z-Boy's great... And Taihenna's a Vilitan. And this is part of what the Tour's about... bringing the nations together."

"Way to sound like a public service announcement." Cameron smiled.

"So, you in?"

Cameron nodded. "I'm in."

Tango beamed. "Awesome. I'll RSVP for the both of us. Maybe there'll be a bunch of Vilitan girls there. Friends of Taihenna or whatever. You're gonna like the Vilitan girls, man."

Cameron shook his head, smiling, as Tango jogged back to the hotel.

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Z-Boy and Taihenna:

We're absolutely stoked to be invited to your wedding! It's awesome that you two have found each other, and it's awesome that you're inviting all us surfers to the big event. So count us in.

Tangaroa MacMurray
Cameron Takimoana
- The surfers from Napieria

Con-Crete performance results in Top 16

Misrantis is a proud nation. Always supportive of all of their athletes, win lose or draw. But for the athletes themselves, there is always room for improvement. It has been an up and down season for top ranked Misrantian surfer Crete Ptolomaios, but he gave the fans back home one more reason to support in Arcticala, putting together a good series of qualifying runs to result in a passage into the second round. Unfortunately, Crete's second round appearance did compare favorably with his qualifying runs, posting just the 14th strongest second round effort and ending his fight for the top spot in the tours 11th event. Crete currently sits as the highest rated Misrantian in the tour, sitting 28th in the individual standings, above teammate Tutan Tezzam who sits 48th. However, as a partnership, the two have lifted Misrantis into the top 20 in the national standings, sitting 19th with three events before the end of the first half.

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Tournament Structure Reminder & Information:: Just a reminder that there will be a break in the season after the 14th event, the Invitational which is also the single most important event of the season, on the scale of the Daytona 500, The Super Bowl or the World Series. The prestige of winning the Vilitan Pipeline Invitational would be on a level just below or even equal to that of the champion of the entire Surf Tour. Due to the importance of this event, We will be experimenting with a round-by-round presentation of the scores. This means, unlike normal events where the full results are posted at once, when it comes time for the Vilitan Pipeline Invitational, Qualifying Round results will be posted on one day, then in successive days (24 hour periods) following, each successive round will be posted until the final round. Your RP's in between rounds will contribute to your surfers ability to advance in the next days scoring!

The Tour will have First & Second half champions with some prestige, but the real honors will go to the overall champions crowned at the end of the second half based on results throughout the entire Tour.




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NationStates Surf Tour :: Tour of Vilita - - - Official Tournament Results
(http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=500762)


On the road towards the Pipeline, the Tour had one more stop, just accross the way at the Peninsula Challenge in Alikki-Corra. All the Surfers will be looking for a good finish at the peninsula to take the most amount of momentum with them into Lonngeylin. The more eccentric surfers, however, might have been a little reserved, unwilling to expose their clutch moves until they got to Lonngeylin.



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12 :: Peninsula Challenge (Alikki-Corra, Vilita)


1) Michael T.J. Harley - Liverpool England[6.16 - 6.44 - 7.6 (6.73)] [5.5] [5.68] [6.86] [7.05]
2) Kl-Slt - Az-Cz[7.33 - 8.1 - 8.06 (7.83)] [5.55] [6.43] [7.03] [6.16]
3) Al-Va - Az-Cz[6.29 - 6.84 - 7.6 (6.91)] [5.57] [5.9] [6.61]
4) Cameron Takimoana - Napieria[6.66 - 7.84 - 6.23 (6.91)] [6] [5.42][6.03]
5) Dusanbi "Sea Horse" Aburo Ngaru - Andossa Se Mitrin Vega[6.73 - 7.31 - 6.14 (6.73)] [5.72] [5.13]



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TOUR OF VILITA :: NATIONAL STANDINGS
NATION NAME G - S - B POINTS
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1 Az-Cz 3 - 4 - 3 [66.22]
2 Vilita 1 - 2 - 3 [64]
3 Bainbridge Islands 2 - 2 - 2 [59.36]
4 Napieria 1 - 2 - 0 [52.21]
5 Geisenfried 0 - 1 - 1 [50.17]
6 Andossa Se Mitrin Vega 1 - 0 - 0 [44.2]
7 Liverpool England 1 - 0 - 0 [42.05]



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And Introducing: The National Media Ratings!

The National Media rankings are being introduced and will continue to be posted along with the standings and results following each event. The National Media rankings are determined by a panel of expert analysts as to which nations show the most dedicated coverage of the tournament relative to the other nations involved, including but not limited to the categories of Media Quality and Frequency of Coverage.

TOUR OF VILITA :: MEDIA RATINGS
NATION NAME Grade
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Az-Cz A+
Bainbridge Islands A
Jeruselem A
Napieria A
Casari B+
Funnia Lan B+


**(Please note, that this is not designed to be a ranking of the RP Bonus a nation has accumulated during the tournament. It most certainly is not (As far as a Nation receiving a "C+" could have received more RP bonus than a Nation receiving a "B+" in the media rankings, for different reasons). It is designed to be a general impression of media from an in-character point of view.)

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Newsflash - Funnia Lan's Top selling daily

Funnia Lan struggles to achieve results in title.

Funnia Lan's two surfers Shelley Stevens and Mark de Corio reached 23rd and 37th positions respectively in Round 12 of the NS Surfing Challenge in Alikki-Corra, Vilita

Mark commenting on his disappointing performance (7.61 - 5.16 - 6.24 , Overall: 6.34) said "you win some, you lose some. The main thing is that Shells and I gave it a go". He noted that he had missed the 35th place occupied by Z-Boy from Az-Cz by a mere 0.02.

A spokesman for the organisers in Vilita noted that the Funnia Lan result was an improvement but still fell way behind the round qualifiers.

Analysts noted that the team had improved dramatically meetings had been held to discuss the team performance.

Marc de Lima of Sports Funnia Lan thanked the sponsor of the Team: (First Bank Funnia Lan ), paid tribute to the Team and noted that Funnia Lan would continue to "grow and develop in the future" There had been concerns that First Bank had been very unhappy with the team progress and had considered pulling out of the sponsorship arrangement.

The tour has been tinged by controversy with protest marches against host country Vilita by members of the Journalists Union of Funnia Lan.

"This is an unorthodox way of training but it seems to be working" smiled Funnia Lan's ambassador to Vilita as he strode into the resturant where Shelley Stevens (surfer) and James Fraser (reporter GAME-TV) were sitting lips locked together.
"what are you doing here ambassador?" asked James with concealed irritation.
"just checking on my young charges", smiled the ambassador genially. :Congratulations Shelley. Mind if I sit down?"
"go for it ambassador" replied Fraser through barely gritted teeth.
Ambassador pursed his lips. "any idea why Marc de Corio is continuing to perform so badly?"
Shelley replied "he s doing okay"
"Hardly. Come on, hes become a recluse shelley. Whats up?"
Shelley paused "could be hes missing his boyfriend"

"How you feeling Z-Boy? You still feeling the effects of that wipeout at the end of your second run?" Kl-slt asked his friend.

"No way man. My Boys finished 2nd and 3rd. No small little wipeout's gonna hash my buzz"

Al-Va laughed at that comment. "Small little wipeout. You bit it hard. You came up with seaweed all up in shorts."

"Yeah, and I still finished 35th. There ain't nothing to worry about. We're back on the top of the team standings. And you're making progress on the overall individual standings."

"Pretty strange that is. How can I possibly be the second best surfer in the world? I'm a skateboarder."

Kl-Slt jumped back into the conversation. "Well by the Vilitan scoring system that doesn't make any sense you're second, but you're the best out there. How many events has Viiker Surf won? Zero. And this is in his home country. No other surfer has won two events, and in fact only one other country has. No other surfer has finished in the top two even half as much as you have. So by any standard metric you're the best."

Z-Boy plopped back in "No. I'm the best surfer in the world. I just get punished for being ahead of my time. But with the right judges things ought to go my way."

"You certainly do have some awesome moves" Kl-Slt replied.

Al-Va chimed back in, "Did you guys even know that there was a prime minister in this tour."

Z-Boy looked confused. "What are you talking about?"

"The guy who won today was the Prime Minister of Liverpool England."

"Crazy."

Kl-Slt chimed in "Yeah I knew about it."

Z-Boy paused for a second and the continued on "Wait, that means there might be a foreign Prime Minister at my wedding. Speaking of which, I've got to go meet Taihenna. Catch you guys later."

"You wanna go grab some grub man?" Al-Va inquired.

"Sure." And with that the two headed off to have dinner.

Z-Boy and Taihenna meet at his hotel room to discuss wedding plans?

"Man I knew these surfing types were lazy," Taihenna complained "but you think they'd at least take the time to RSVP to what should be an awesome wedding party. They don't need to write out a nice note like the ones from Napieria did, anything will do."

"Well, what you gonna do babe? They're surfers so it'll take them some time to remember to do it. Remember drugs and alcohol are a rather common side effect. They'll probably get around to it at some point. Who else have we heard back from?"

"No one," sigh Taihenna, clearly disappointed by the response. "I've heard from some friends that the Vilitans are definitely going to come. I think the Bazalonians are going to come to, but other than that I just don't know."

"Well, there's not much we can do but wait. I'll drop hints to the surfers about how awesome a party it's going to be and you can spread the word through your friends as well. If they don't end up coming it'll be there loss, not ours."

"Good idea honey."

"How's the wedding planning coming?"

"Well look at these cloth patterns I'm looking at for the table covers. What do you think, aren't they beautiful?"

And with that the two lovebirds settled in for a long night of wedding planning.

Lonngeylin, Vilita

“Hey Tal, have you noticed how there hasn’t been any media coverage of us back home?”

“Meh. Not that we did anything spectacular. I’m what, 72nd? As a team we’re in 26th. Just as well no one closely followed what’s happened.”

“That’s not the point. I just think it’s a little odd. Remember how many interviews we did, and how many reporters there were at all the domestic tournaments? It isn’t like there’s no fan interest. I’m just surprised no one’s covering this.”

“Are you sure? We don’t have a third teammate, even though we could have had one. We didn’t any specially sponsored suits or boards or anything. I feel like no one back home really cared. And anyways it’s too late now. Only two events left before the Tour’s over. I think we dropped the ball on this international surfing thing, and I don’t see how we can get it back.”

“I think that’s a little harsh. I’ve had fun here. Waves have been good. Some of these other surfers are pretty chill people, and…”

“That’s easy for you to say, you’ve done a hell of a lot better than me most of the time here.”

“Yeah but you kicked my ass a few times. And you gotta admit we’ve been having some fun nights while we’ve been here.”

“Yeah, I guess you’re right. So, uh, were you going to go to that wedding?”

“I don’t know. I never really got a chance to talk to the Az-Cz team, but hey why not? Weddings are always fun. No reason not to go.”

“Yeah, I guess. Still, gotta surf a little bit first. Hopefully I can finish on a somewhat high note.”

Mike Harley hardly believed his ears when he heard the results. With that extra burden at home off his chest, he had been able to go out there and produce a solid display. But to win an event? This bettered his previous 5th-place best for the country. And no doubt at home was winning his party more votes for the next election. He took a few questions from reporters at the beach, before excusing himself.

The phone in his hotel room was also going off the hook. He managed to find time to speak to both Thomas Douglas and Jon Nagasuki, who had both heard about the result and congratulated him about his performance. He also got a chance to speak to Suzy, who assured him the court case against the doctor as going so well that "he already owes all his former patients' families L£5000 a month".

He saw that he had new messages, including a wedding invitation. He called the room, only to get the answering machine. "Hello? This is Michael Harley, part of the Liverpool England delegation. I've just received your invitation. All three of us would be delighted to be there. Congratulations, and see you at the next event." Satisfied, he put the phone down.

It had been a long day, and he was physically tired. However, he didn't feel like sleeping yet. Then again, he couldn't go out clubbing because he was the Prime Minister of Liverpool England. Sighing, he lay down and drifted off to sleep...

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Lonngeylin Prepares for Surfing Elite

The Inagural NationStates Surfing Tour started in Lonngeylin, Vilita, and the first half of the tour is going to end there too. After the conclusion of the Peninsula Challenge in Alikki-Corra, the surfers made the short trip over to Lonngeylin to begin preparation for Surf Week, the most exciting time of the year in the Surfing Community, culminating in the biggest event on the surfing calendar, the Vilitan Pipeline Invitational.

The surfers have been practicing for the past couple of days and signing autographs for the locals. The competition really starts to heat up tomorrow with the warm up event, the Lonngeylin Point Open, the last chance for all of the surfers to test their skills competitively before the Pipeline. It seems that the Open is going to be a great chance for the relatively unknown surfers to make a name for themselves before the Invitational, as a good run in the Open is sure to catch the eye of all of the media outlets and sponsors on hand to witness the invitational just two days following.

Vilita's Viiker Surf is the hot surfer on the tour at the moment, with 8 consecutive finishes inside the top 10, helping the Yeaddin native rebound from a slow start to take over as the tour's top individual performer, though by a slim margin in the overall standings relative to Az-Czzer Al-Va, the only surfer to have recorded two tournament victories so far. Al-Va is also tops in the podium count, finishing in the top 3 five times, one more than leader Surf's four. Early season leader Romulus Kahani'i of Bainbridge Islands has fallen to third individually, and has been in a bit of a slump lately. It will be crucial for Kahani'i to produce a good run in the Open to get some momentum before the big Invitational.

The incredible performances of the Az-Cz surfers has allowed them to leapfrog hosts Vilita in the National Standings, but there is still plenty of opportunity for the Vilitans to steal the first-half title from the foreigners with good runs in Lonngeylin. The Bainbridge Islands still have an outside chance in third place, but Napieria in fourth and Geisenfried in fifth will have to shoot for the Overall title, as the first half title is not within reasonable reach.

The excitement is building in Lonngeylin and it is sure to be an incredible competition.

Hello and Kia Ora! this is Angus Pakeha, live from Alikki-corra, where the NationStates Surf Tour is gearing up for the Pipeline Invitational.

Cameron Takimoana finished in a stunning 4th place at the Peninsula Challenge, demonstrating once again why he was chosen to represent Napieria in this tour.

Tangaroa MacMurray slipped back to 36th place. When asked why he did so poorly, he stated that he "just didn't want to show them everything, right before the Invitational."

Now, near the end of the tour, Napieria is ranked in fourth place, and Cameron and Tango will be shooting for the Overall title in the Invitational.

In other big news, it appears that the Surf Tour is bringing nations together in more than one way... Our surf team has reported to us that they, and in fact all the surfers, have been invited to the wedding of Z-boy, one of the Az-Cz surfers with Taihenna, a Vilitan national. We'll have an exclusive interview with Cameron and Tango after the event to get their impressions.

That's all for now from Alikki-corra. I'm Angus Pakeha. Good Night.

"Dude, how can you just like.... stand there?" Jessie asked Kyle.

"Ah, my friend, it is more than just standing there, you have to believe in the Zen master, and believe in your self." Kyle replied.

"Dude, you are full of shit." Jessie replied.

"I maybe, but I believe it is helping my self, you must believe in thy self and thy elders." Kyle said.

"Dude, you freak me out, first it looks like you walk on water and now your talking about beliving in the Zen Master, like what the hell. What could be next?" Jessie asked.

"You tell me." Kyle said. Kyle quit meditating, and then picked up a bug, he then proceeded to wat it.

"EWWWWWWWWWWW That's rank!" Jessie screamed.

"Got ya." Kyle said with a smirk. "C'mon, we have to go to the next event, its important."

"Fine, just no more big eating." Jessie said.

"Ok" Kyle said. He emptied his pockets of what looked like hundreds of bugs, and then got into the van.

The Quakmybush surfing team pulled up in their van to Lonngeylin. "Holy shit! Look at all these sponsers, THQ, VillaVong, and so many more, dude we have to get one of these!." Igor said.

"Ya, that would be sweet, but Boris dude, you gotta be careful, don't want another "wardrobe malfunction" to happen, you might end up as the spokesperson for Viagara" Dale said with a laugh.

"Priceless man, just priceless." Igor said, almost bursting out with laughter.

"Can it, assholes!." Boris said. A lady walked up with some buisiness cards.

"Hi, I'm Betty Applebaum. I'm a representative for VillaVong Inc, I am sure you three have heard about our company. Well, we are offering you guys some sponsership IF you all finish within the top 50 at this event. Deal?

"Sounds good to us!" Igor said.

"Well, I will talk to you later." Betty said.

"Dude, wouldn't that be sweet, we would be loaded." Boris said.

"Ya, it would be." Dale added.

"Would all surfers report to registration, the event is about to begin." a voice over the intercom said.

"Let's do it" Igor said. The team went over to registration and got ready for the biggest event of the year.

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Tikimora Iorara & female friend and now NS Surf Tour teammate Jalia Mirikali at a friends house in Lonngeylin, Vilita prior to the big Surf Week in Lonngeylin.



Hey check it out, we got a letter. Thats cool

Who is it from?

It says "Z-Boy" on it

Ohhh, that's the surfer from Az-Cz that has all the neat tricks

Oh right! The one with the Meaty Joes shorts, right?

Yea thats the one, whats the letter say?

All members of the Vilitan Surfing Tour are invited to the wedding party of Z-Boy of Az-cz and Taihenna Eromi of Vilita to be held just before the opening tournament of the second half. As we met and fell in love because of the surfing tournament this tournament is very important to us. And we want to share that warmth and happiness will all of our fellow surfers. We hope you'll be able to attend our party. Please RSVP with your name, country of affiliation and the names and numbers of any non-surfing guests you intend on bringing to the party. Guests that are not on the surfing tour, will be allowed within reason. We hope to see you soon to celebrate our joyous event.

Z-Boy and Taihenna Eromi


Awww thats awesome, they are getting married.

Wow! I Love Weddings!!!!! Lets go Tiks, we've got to go to this thing, we can dance and have fun and everything it will be great!

But don't you want to go back to Turori after the invitational?

Well we can still go back, but we can go to the wedding too!

Don't tell me you're thinking about returning for the second half of the tour...

Why not! I'm having a blast out here and I know you are too. Come on, its not so bad.

I know but..

But what!

I duno, it's almost like we're together, we've been spending so much time together lately.

Oh Tiks, grow up, we're just buds right, we're cool. Come on, how often do you get a chance to do something like this every week

I know. I don't know, its hard to explain

What is?

Nothing Jals, We can go to the Wedding, definately, if that's what you want to do.

Aww come on Tiks, if you want to go back to Turori we can just go back.

No, No, No! I want to go to the wedding, Like you said, it will be lots of fun, there can be dancing, and stuff, you know.

Yea! I know! It'll be great. I'll write them a letter back telling them we'll be there!

Why not just tell Z-Boy when you see him at the beach?

Pfft, this is a ladies thing Tiks, you wouldn't understand. Z-Boy probably doesn't care much who comes and who doesn't, I'm sure Tahienna is handling all of that, and I'd like to write her a letter!

The two elves are seated in front of a small stauette of a female elf in medival armor, sitting on their knees, and chanting softly with an circlet of candles providing the only light in the room.

"Elune
To whose principals do we learn
The life of whom we are bound to live
You are the one who shaped us
Who gives us the desire to thrive
You provide when needed
And strip when neccassary.

You are more than what you appear
You were once one of us
One of the lowly mortal beings
But you lived the pure and divine way
You provided an example for all to follow
And those who granted you your divinity allowed you the promise
That if any of us are able to live a replica of your life
To be granted that same divinity that you now have
To live the life among the Unspoken Ones
In the fields of the Grey Havens
Thus we now give our prayer
And request your aid in our endavors
So that we may one day be as you."

The growing amount of smoke clears, and the two women blow out the candles, and examine their bodies new silver glow, the sign of gifts bestowed from the goddess Elune.

The Surfing Federation of the Lowland Clans had been a huge success across the nation. With the war coming, people were looking for a way to get there minds off of the impending chaos. People were showing up by the thousands at beaches all across the Lowland Clans, and showing up early. Getting a good feel for the waves, and learning what is was like to surf. The community was growing exponentially, and there were rumors that there would be a local tour organizing soon. All of this made Olivier Costinha's heart swim in the clouds, but unfortunately, there was already a cry that his involvement with SFLC was distracting him from his efforts to get into the Pipeline Invitational. He left the Lowland Clans early to prepare in Lonngeylin for the Invitational. The warmup was today, but Olivier was up early to run.

There were a couple of trucks unloading their equipment at the beach, and people were getting ready for the warmup tournament. The waves were fresh, and the sun was just beginning to rise. The water felt cold, and made his hair stand on end. He paddled out and began to get a feel for the waves. HE was out there for about two hours before the judges showed up and he had to clear the water. He didn't push himself very hard, but he had a good feel for the beach. Daniel Davies was here on a two-day vacation and was ready to wish him, Kaga and Jordan well. They had traded places in the top 16, and they hoped that they would all be able to finish at least in the special top 32 round that was planned for the invitational. They hadn't done so well, but then again, who knows how well they could do?

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NationStates Surf Tour :: Tour of Vilita - - - Official Tournament Results
(http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=500762)


After days of practicing in the Lonngeylin waters, Surf Week began with the Lonngeylin Point Open, the pre-invitational showdown that would be the last chance for the surfers to taste competitive action before the biggest event of the season, the Vilitan Pipeline Invitational. All the surfers were throwing caution into the win, and whipping out their best moves, trying to sign the last minute sponsor deal that could see them through the highly-covered Invitational with the most amount of air time. Some riders saw their hopes of being in the spotlight dashed by wipe outs, while others came out of the blue to make names for themselves at the best possible time, just days before the biggest event on the surfing calendar.

As for the Vilitan Pipeline Invitational, the event will begin on Thursday real life time. The first round (All three runs) will be posted on Thursday, at which point the top surfers will advance to the knockout stage of the competition, with the rest being eliminated. It will not be easy to qualify for the knockouts, so make sure you get your RPs in before Thursday. Following the posting of the Qualifying Round, each successive round will be posted no less than 24 hours following, meaning there will be at least a 24 hour period between posting of round results where you can RP, and have your RP contribute to your surfers performances in the next round, unlike all previous events which have been posted as a whole at once.


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13 :: Lonngeylin Point Open (Lonngeylin, Vilita)


1) Simon "Simo" Turks - Bazalonia[7.32 - 5.63 - 6.95 (6.63)] [6.56] [5.57] [6.62] [6.48]
2) Tikimora Iorara - Turori[7.04 - 6.63 - 6.57 (6.75)] [5.58] [5.57] [6.52] [6.3]
3) Tangaroa MacMurray - Napieria[6.7 - 6.78 - 6.4 (6.63)] [5.85] [6.87] [5.71]
4) Al-Va - Az-Cz[6.84 - 7.02 - 6.65 (6.84)] [5.45] [6.34][5.25]
5) Malaiki Tovali - Vilita[6.44 - 7.72 - 6.63 (6.93)] [6.34] [5.38]




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TOUR OF VILITA :: NATIONAL STANDINGS
NATION NAME G - S - B POINTS
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1 Az-Cz 3 - 4 - 3 [72.14]
2 Vilita 1 - 2 - 3 [68.95]
3 Bainbridge Islands 2 - 2 - 2 [63.08]
4 Napieria 1 - 2 - 1 [57.72]
5 Geisenfried 0 - 1 - 1 [52.84]
6 Bazalonia 1 - 0 - 1 [46.52]
7 Andossa Se Mitrin Vega 1 - 0 - 0 [46.10]



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And Introducing: The National Media Ratings!

The National Media rankings are being introduced and will continue to be posted along with the standings and results following each event. The National Media rankings are determined by a panel of expert analysts as to which nations show the most dedicated coverage of the tournament relative to the other nations involved, including but not limited to the categories of Media Quality and Frequency of Coverage.

TOUR OF VILITA :: MEDIA RATINGS
NATION NAME Grade
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Az-Cz A+
Bainbridge Islands A
Jeruselem A
Napieria A
Funnia Lan B+
Casari B+
Vilita B+
Liverpool England B+



**(Please note, that this is not designed to be a ranking of the RP Bonus a nation has accumulated during the tournament. It most certainly is not (As far as a Nation receiving a "C+" could have received more RP bonus than a Nation receiving a "B+" in the media rankings, for different reasons). It is designed to be a general impression of media from an in-character point of view.)

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Wl-Son: I'm here today live from the Lonngeylin Point Open, the next to last event of the first half of the surf tour season. Up to this point in the season the Az-cz team has been very strong, with Al-Va in second, Kl-Slt in fourth, and Z-Boy in sixth, with the team in first place overall. But today something strange is going on. All of the surfers have assembled except for the Az-cz team. The team's entrance into the tournament has been confirmed, but there has been no sign of the team and nobody has heard from them either.

What's that? I can hear sounds in the distance. They seem to be getting closer. It sounds like a helicopter. Look, over there. It is a helicopter. No five helicopters. Five helicopters are flying down the beach. There are five pink helicopters flying down the beach. And they seem to be landing down the beach. What's going on?

They've turned off the engine. I think I hear music. Yes definitely music. Holy crap. It's the new Az-cz hit Double Dolphin Disco. And one of the choppers is opening up. And here comes what looks like an army of people. They're running down the beach. What garish costumes they're wearing. The top ooks like Az-cz soccer kit tops, and the bottoms look like, well, oh Z-Boy's famous Meaty Joe's shorts.

http://3wideracing.com/3wide/sites/ao/sports/kits/surf/az-czmeatysurf.gif

They also seem to be wearing Revolution Shades and Surfasaurus flip-flops. And they're running into the fan section. Now the other helicopters are opening up and fans are pouring out. More and more fans are coming from the helicopters. The rest of the competitors look totally dazed.

<Pans to Kraig Kaltenbach who looks totally shocked.>

All of the helicopters seem to be empty now, but there's still no sign of the Az-cz surf team. No doubt these helicopters are related to the team, but what's going on? Wait. The music has stopped. Now different music is starting. It's the Az-cz national anthem. And the three surfers have exited the fifth helicopter. They're strutting down the beach carrying their boards and wearing the same clothes as the fans, minus the top. Wow what an entrance. It looks like the team has really decided to get inside the heads of their opponents.

Alright, let's watch some of the runs from the first round:

The first competitor out is Greg "Odie" Oswald from Bazalonia. Ouch. That was not a first run. You could see that he was discombobulated. Drawing the first spot was bad luck.

Next up is our very own Z-Boy, let's see how he does today. Wow look at those moves. He's trying an inferno. Oh he's hit it beautifully and the crowd goes wild.

We've now got an interview with a couple of girls in the Az-cz fan setup.

Wl-Son: So you girls are big Az-cz fans?

Girl 1: Absolutely
Girl 2: No doubt. Those gnomes are the coolest guys out here. Plus they're absolutely hunktastic.

Wl-Son: So who's your favorite?

Girl 1: Z-Boy. Definitely too bad he's off the market.
Girl 2: Yeah Z-Boy's alright, but Al-Va's where it's at. Gorgeous and he's gonna win the surf tour.

Wl-Son: What did you think of participating in today's event?

Girl 2: It was awesome. I'll remember it for a long time.
Girl 1: Word. It was a blast. I just wished we could have been chosen for the chopper they were on.

Wl-Son: Alright back to the surfing.



Here's Malaiki Tovali's second run. He's handling his board well, very smooth lines, came off the wave nicely. That'll post him a solid score. Very nice run for the home crowd, although still behind Z-Boy.

Al-Va's second run. He's taken a good line. He's hitting the wave well. It looks like he's trying the manatee. Almost hit it but a slight stumble there will cost him a bit. But still a nice run.

Kl-Slt's third run now. Very nice line. Doesn't look like he's trying anything fancy, just a very solid set of moves. That ought to post a nice score.

Z-Boy's third run. His first two runs were beautiful. Let's see if he can post a strong third run to move into the next round well. He's taken a line a bit off. He's trying a double dolphin. Ummmm.... not so good. Not a complete botch, but he didn't really capture the beauty of the Double Dolphin there.

So after the opening round, all three Az-cz surfers have advanced. The biggest suprise of the day was the winner of the last event Hurley slipping well down the ranks. He looked well out of sorts on all three runs and couldn't regroup. You'd think Prime Ministers are used to spectacles, but he apparently wasn't.

Wl-Son: In between rounds, we've managed to find Z-Boy to talk to us. Z-Boy tell us about the entrance. Who's idea was it?

Z-Boy: Believe it or not it was Kl-Slt's idea. He checked the rules and found out that everything was ok and then made the plans. e figured it would be good for everyone. We make some money and get some publicity, plus some psychological warfare. The fans get a wild show. The surf tour gets a bunch of exposure which helps all surfers. Now we're interested to see how they respond.

Wl-Son: Do you think it's affecting your surfing today?

Z-Boy: Maybe. I think it took a bunch out of us. I ran well on adrenaline for my first two runs but my energy was down for the third one. Hopefully I'll get things going again next round.

Wl-Son: Good luck in the next round.

First up in this round is Simon "Simo" Turks, a suprise in the round of 16. Wow look at his moves very solid. That's a nice way to start.

Next up is Malaiki Tovali, he's the forgotten Vilitan, but still very good. Wow he's also put up a nice run. Although the scores are down, it looks like the judges have gotten stricter this round.

Z-Boy's run. He's trying to pop the starburst. Ooh no he's fallen off his board. That really hurts. Two great first runs but now he's probably out.

Well Z-Boy failed to make it through finishing last of the sixteen, but Kl-Slt and Al-Va both made it through. After the round of 16 finished we found Kl-Slt to talk to us.

Wl-Son: So it was your idea to do that entrance?

Kl-Slt: Yes sir. I thought it up and set it all up.

Wl-Son: How did you keep it quiet?

Kl-Slt: It wasn't too hard. The fans we were able to assemble this morning pretty easily so the only people who needed to be secretive were the three of us and the heads of Meaty Joe's, Revolution Shades and Surfasaurus.

Wl-Son: Are you pleased with the results?

Kl-Slt: Absolutely. It's taken a toll on our surfing today, but the long term benefit outweighs what we've lost today. And we still have a minimum of two top eights and another top 16.

Here's Al-Va's run from the quarterfinals. He's found a very nice wave. He's hitting the crest. He gives his board some cute spins. Not an overwhelming run, but ought to be enough for the semis.

And here's Kl-Slt's run. He looks a little off. Nothing much happening. He'll need to try a trick to survive. But he doesn't just stays casual and finishes out his run.

Now on the semis.

Al-Va's run. Good start. He's riding the wave well. He tries to get a big score. And his timing is just off on the one and a half killer whale. That will make it tough.

We're now down to the final surfer. Tikimora Iorara a suprise from nearby Turori has posted a 6.3. It's now up to Simon Turks from Bazalonia. Let's watch. He's going into his run. He's got a nice flow. He's looking solid. He's trying a spin-flip sort of maneuver. Very nice. But a little unstable on the landing. Is it enough? Who's the winner. The judges say 6.48.

Well that does it for today's coverage. A strange day here in Lonngeylin. The early activities really seemed to take their toll on the top flight competitors, allowing a couple of unknowns through to the finals. We'll find out how wise of a decision it was on the part of the Az-czzers in the next tournament, the final one of the season. Good night from Vilita.

Shurc Bate and Trish, JGN reporter in hot tub

Trish: Top 10 Shurc, I think you're getting better.
Shurc: Well, if I didn't muff the last ride I might have had the chance to win you know. Let's see what's on TV. The day's been far too long.

Trish: Err, you can't use a remote in water. Not a normal one!
Shurc: That's one is water-proof, girly. I'll show ya.

<TV turns on, Dazza Dallas is on TV>

Trish: Why is it, everytime you turn on the TV she appears?
Shurc: No idea, but I'm not complaining at all.

Trish: She's your dream girl right?
Shurc: Oh yes, but I surf and well I will never get to meet her in person. I'm lousy at football. Even 5 year old kids can beat me.

Trish: What else is on?
Shurc: Well, let's see (flips channels)

Trish: Surfing channel, looks good. Those guys are good! You should maybe try to get one those TV shows and make some money.
Shurc: Me? They think I'm an idiot - a surfer from Jeruselem where are no real waves.

Trish: Come on, you can do that. All you have to do is find some surfer friends!
Shurc: In Jeruselem? All the surfers I know at idiots who can't really surf, it's depressing.

Trish: I got it, make a guest appearance on THE FOOTBALL LIFE.
Shurc: A surfer? I suppose they put a cyclist as a host so it's all possible. And I get to meet Dazza, hey - that's a plan.

Trish: All we need is some big surfing news - like you winning again or something.
Shurc: If I win this tour yes, but I don't think so. I'm not a champ like Ricky Pointy Stick.

Trish: We need some ideas.
Shurc: Yeah, and I'm not person to ask. Too drugged out early in life. I think I'll just stick to trying to win for now or try at least.

Trish: Hey, dirt bike riding is on.
Shurc: Woah, that's a stack - like my surfing.

Hello and Kia Ora! This is Angus Pakeha, in Alikki-Corra. Well, Tango MacMurray said he was saving his best stuff for later, and he sure showed his stuff last night, pulling ahead of top-ranked surfer, Az-Czzer Al-Va, to finish in the number three slot.

Napieria has certainly put in a respectable showing here in the NationStates surf tour. Tango MacMurray is currently ranked 11th, and Cameron Takimoana is ranked 7th, ensuring both surfers a spot in the Invitational, along with such surfing luminaries as Romulus Kahani'i from the Bainbridge Islands, Summer Conlin and Viiker Surf from here in Vilita, and all three of the Az-Cz contingent, Al-Va, Kl-Slt, and Z-Boy.

Going into the Invitational, both Tango and Cameron will have to be in top form. Those are some serious surfers they'll be up against, and the pool of competitors will be much smaller. At this point, failure will mean elimination from the competition, so if Tango and Cameron were stressed out before, they're certainly going to be feeling the strain now.

We've checked up on both Cameron and Tango over the past 24 hours, and they both look calm to this reporter. Cameron Takimoana is going through his daily training routine... perhaps I should say ritual... with a zen-like calm. Very focussed, very determined. He has what the old campaigners call "the thousand-yard stare".

And there's no stress evident in Tango, who has been seen partying hard in Alikki-Corra's most prestigious nightclubs. Detractors who suggest that Tango should be focussed more on the competition... well, they don't know Tango very well. Tango has, historically, always performed better after a night of revelry. He's said in the past that he surfs best when it's fun for him, and he's certainly been having a great deal of fun over the past several days.

The surfers look like they're in top shape, and with any luck, maybe they'll win this thing. I'm Angus Pakeha, wishing Tango and Cameron good luck.

The Daily Quak
Surfer Profile #1:Igor Vladimirovič Uspenskij

Date of Birth: May 1st 1978
Age: 28
Height: 6"2
Weight: 224 lbs
Regular or Goofy: Regular
Sponsor: VillaVong
Igor grew up in a middle class family in Revena. He was always trained for soccer and was once a very hot prospect for the National Team. Igor began surfing at age 15. He started to surf because his dream of playing for the National Soccer team were shattered when he did some knee damage. He is the largest member of the and also the most controversial. He is rumoured to star in a sex-tape involving his girlfriend. Also, his so called "potty mouth" gets him into a lot of trouble. He is one of 5 people in the world to have said all words not fit for television. What is different about this one is that he said them all in one interview. He is a huge soccer fan, as well as an auto racing nut. His goal for the season is a top five finish in one event.

Simo was ecstatic.... "WARRGGGHHHH" he yelled after coming up on the beach. "HOOP-YA!" as he came up to Bread and Odie on the beach as they where watching.

"Who's the man... Who's the man!" said Simo as he was doing a little Robot dance on the sand infront of his friends, compatriates and competitors.

"Hehe.. Obviously not you." said Bread.

"Yeah, if you dance like that you must be some sort of flightless bird." commented Odie

"Haha, yeah. Flapping your arms about but doin' nothing." added Bread a big smile on both of Odies and Bread faces.

"Pfft. You're just Jealous." said Simo.

"Nah, seriously man. Congrats. Though you have to admit Z-Boy was the favourite for this tournament pity he had a wipe-out. Bad luck." said Bread.

"Yeah, Seriously congrats how did you reckon you did it?" said Odie..

"Hehe you know me, a show-off. And these cool new board shorts from 3-wide are helping me too." said Simo showing off his board shorts.

http://www.3wideracing.com/3wide/sites/ao/sports/kits/surf/bazaloniasurf.gif


"Uh, dude, we all have those and them pretty much from day 1 on the surfing tour and we are wearing them now." scoffed Bread..

"Dude.. what are you on? I hope it's legal here in Vilita because I know it would be illegal back home. Seriously dude.Lay off the wacky tabaccy or whatever." said Odie

"Huh, you just saying that because you haven't tried it yourself. Anyway... I did not just win. I made sure that I could win... You know that Z-Boy wipe out... I managed to snuck something on it to make it unbalanced. He so was not used to it and with the surf the way it was. Dude.. Bam.. out of the race." ranted Simo.

"Okay... that's it your going cold turkey as your friends (and competitors) it's our duty. Sorry man it's for your own good." said Odie as Bread picked up his board and whacked Simo over the back of his head with it.

They started carrying him back to his hotel. IF anyone asked any questions they replied "He just got a bit over-exicted about his win and fainted. We're talking him back to his hotel room." which was infact what they were doing.

As the two women enter their hotel rooms after their exaughsting, but gratifying runs in the latest events, the odd silver glow begins to take a further hold on the two.

"Hess, do you honestly think she heard us, and bestowed us with gifts?"

"How else do you explain this odd silver outlining Becs? I've heard of this happening before, the last time was four years ago when the Marauders where qualifying. I was watching the game with General Duke when Rick Cuellar turned silver in injury time, and went a scored two out of this world goals to give the team a victory. People had said that Elune blessed that team, so if that were true, then great things might be ahead for us Bec."

"Ahead you say? Hess, you were in the top six. If you could of just swayed the judges a little more, you could of easily gotten our first podium for our beloved country. Hess, we are going to rock this party."

"Agreed Becs, but we need to formulate some rational responce to the growing suspicions of us turning silver. I didn't really read the rules that well, but I'm pretty sure that recieving unwordly powers from deities is not allowed. And even if it is, I don't want it getting out, or else people wouldn't leave us alone, always asking for favors and trying to get us to get Elune to bless them."

"Hrmm, how about it's a new body lotion we're using and it doesn't mix well with this foriegn water? I mean, there are many different chemicals in the water from here, than that of our homeland, so it would pursuade many of the curious observers."

"Sound enough. By the way, do you know what these are?"

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v637/chellote/esfsurf.gif

"Oh, those are the new official surf shorts the ESC ordered us. Appearntly we have some viewers, and they complained about us not having proper gear, so the ESC ordered some from some company here in the AO. Anyways, let's go to bed, we need the rest after what's happened today."

Z-Boy: Man that ruled. Did you see Winston Manfriday as we were strutting down the beach. I think he nearly wet himself.

Al-Va: Yeah word up. Who cares about the results that was a freaking blast. Flying in helicopters, making a grand entrance. Those are the kinds of perks I like out of my stardom.

Kl-Slt: I just hope it worked. We need to go out and put those Vilitans away in the invitational. We can't afford to have them coming back on us in this last touranment.

Z-Boy: Relax, they're toast. We've got a big lead on them and they're mentally weak. Not all Vilitans, but these ones. Come on now, I fell off my board, and we were all tired from the stunt, and they still lost ground on us. I think we've put the fear of Gnome in them. Plus Taihenna's giving me pointers on the surf here. We're golden.

Al-Va: And I've moved into first place overall. Look their time is done. Just relax Kl-Slt.

Kl-Slt: You guys are making a mistake to write off the Vilitans, this is their surf tour after all.

Z-Boy: Did you see pretty boy Viiker Surf? He looked like he was going to cry as the helicopters flew by. Nah. They're done. Forget about it. Let's just get ready to celebrate our first half championship and a wedding.

Kl-Slt: I dunno. I'm gonna go get some more practice runs in.

Z-Boy: Alright you do that captain. We're gonna head down to Meaty Joe's and get some grub. Later dude.

"Alright guys, this is the big tournament. We need to impress that lady from Villavong. We all need top 50s." Boris said.

"Ya, c'mon guys, this will be out ticket to the big times, movie roles, endorsements, and hell, even groupies." Igor said.

"I know we can do it guys, and Boris, make sure your fancy shorts are on well enough." Dale said.

"Shut the Hell Up!" Boris yelled.

"Heh, look at that billboard." Igor said. The guys looked up at a banner that advertised the teams shorts.

http://www.3wideracing.com/3wide/sites/ao/sports/kits/surf/quakmybushsurf.gif
Underneath the banner read. "Dress like a pro! Buy your Surf Shorts at 3wide.com!"

"That's weird. Well, c'mon boys, we have like 15 minutes until the event starts." Boris said.

"Let's do the Hasslehoff" Igor said.

"The Hasslehoff?" Dale asked.

"Did you never see the T.V. show Baywatch?" Igor asked

"Can't say I have." Dale replied.

"Well the main character was played by a guy named David Hasslehoff, and he always grabbed his surfboard and ran in slow motion, it was cool. So, I've decided we are going to do the Hasslehoff." Igor explained

"I guess." Dale said. The guys started to do the Hasslehoff. They all ran in slow motion, all the women in the crowd looked at them and laughed. When all of a sudden. "Owwwwwwwwwwwwwww!"

"What happened?" Boris asked.

"I stepped on a rock and twisted my ankle on the way down. Son of a bitch that hurt." Dale said.

"Oops, maybe we shouldn't have done the Hasslehoff." Igor said

"Maybe is right." Dale said.

"Are you okay for the competition?." Boris asked

"I should be fine, c'mon let's go, and NO! Hasslehoff." Dale said.

"Okay, okay c'mon let's go get that sweet sponsorship deal!." Boris said.

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NationStates Surf Tour :: Tour of Vilita - - - Official Tournament Standings
(http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=500762)


After strutting their stuff for 13 regular tournaments, the Surfers were ready for the biggest event on the Surfing calendar. Surf Week in Vilita had begun and Lonngeylin was the spot that held the action. The Vilitan Pipeline Invitational was set to kick off with the first run of the qualifying round. Unlike other events on the first half of the tour, an additional round has been added to the Pipeline, so the 98 Surfers entered into the event will be fighting for one of the 32 places in the second round of competition.

After the third qualifying run, the field will be cut to 32 where the standard top-half advance knockout system will be in place. Scores for each round will be at minimum of 24 hour intervals, allowing media (RP) representation between individual runs for the first time in the tournament. This is the first tournament of the season where your media (RP) can influence the results during the course of the event. If your surfer is outside the top 32, they may need your support, but watch out, those that are already in the top 32 still need two solid runs to stay there before the knockout stage begins. The judges for the competition are the finest in the world, and all Surfers are being scored farly based on the judging guidelines handed out at the beginning of the tour.


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14 :: Vilitan Pipeline Invitational (Lonngeylin, Vilita)

Current Leaderboard after 1 of 3 Qualifying Runs (Top 32 Advance)

1) Z-Boy - Az-Cz -- -- [7.8 - 0 - 0 (2.6)]
2) Mark de Corio - Funnia Lan -- -- [7.67 - 0 - 0 (2.56)]
3) Tangaroa MacMurray - Napieria -- -- [7.65 - 0 - 0 (2.55)]
4) Viiker Surf - Vilita -- -- [7.59 - 0 - 0 (2.53)]
5) Boris Adamopoulos - Quakmybush -- -- [7.08 - 0 - 0 (2.36)]
6) Romulus Kahani'i - Bainbridge Islands -- -- [7.06 - 0 - 0 (2.35)]
7) Kl-Slt - Az-Cz -- -- [7.06 - 0 - 0 (2.35)]
8) Api Kiko - Bainbridge Islands -- -- [6.98 - 0 - 0 (2.33)]
9) Zeus Ribero - Spruitland -- -- [6.93 - 0 - 0 (2.31)]
10) Crete Ptolomaios - Misrantis -- -- [6.87 - 0 - 0 (2.29)]
11) John Spencer Mark II - Reanimated States -- -- [6.87 - 0 - 0 (2.29)]
12) Kuepça Çavanoçich - Liverpool England -- -- [6.74 - 0 - 0 (2.25)]
13) Jalia Mirikali - Turori -- -- [6.71 - 0 - 0 (2.24)]
14) Dusanbi "Sea Horse" Aburo Ngaru - Andossa Se Mitrin Vega -- -- [6.67 - 0 - 0 (2.22)]
15) Tutan Tezzam - Misrantis -- -- [6.64 - 0 - 0 (2.21)]
16) Luther 'Lute' Artz - Geisenfried -- -- [6.63 - 0 - 0 (2.21)]
17) Malaiki Tovali - Vilita -- -- [6.63 - 0 - 0 (2.21)]
18) Jenk Rasta - The Macabees -- -- [6.62 - 0 - 0 (2.21)]
19) Summer Conlin - Vilita -- -- [6.53 - 0 - 0 (2.18)]
20) Jordan Hillier - The Lowland Clans -- -- [6.5 - 0 - 0 (2.17)]
21) Dara Tora - Bedistan -- -- [6.48 - 0 - 0 (2.16)]
22) Blue Harrelson - Casari -- -- [6.48 - 0 - 0 (2.16)]
23) Gareth Hunter - Liverpool England -- -- [6.46 - 0 - 0 (2.15)]
24) André "Ta Mère Gagne Sa Vie Sur La Rue St-Catherine" Leonard - New Montreal States -- -- [6.45 - 0 - 0 (2.15)]
25) Hess Marl - Elves Security Forces -- -- [6.44 - 0 - 0 (2.15)]
26) Shelley Stevens - Funnia Lan -- -- [6.4 - 0 - 0 (2.13)]
27) Ha--e "Koleni'sis" Ketemi--l - Rejistania -- -- [6.4 - 0 - 0 (2.13)]
28) Mahina Haare - The Resurgent Dream -- -- [6.37 - 0 - 0 (2.12)]
29) Natalia "Gnat" Kumchakta - Andossa Se Mitrin Vega -- -- [6.37 - 0 - 0 (2.12)]
30) Kolby "Chic" Chirkoff - Dorian and Sonya -- -- [6.32 - 0 - 0 (2.11)]
31) Shurc Bate - Jeruselem -- -- [6.3 - 0 - 0 (2.1)]
32) Tiburon "Big Shark" Maja - Edoniakistanbabweagua -- -- [6.27 - 0 - 0 (2.09)]

33) Luc De Blaezer - Spruitland -- -- [6.26 - 0 - 0 (2.09)]
34) Arianda "Crush" Ellissedil - Dorian and Sonya -- -- [6.26 - 0 - 0 (2.09)]
35) Rebicca Suetur - Elves Security Forces -- -- [6.24 - 0 - 0 (2.08)]
36) Kathren Rosario - Casari -- -- [6.2 - 0 - 0 (2.07)]
37) Igor Vladimirovič Uspenskij - Quakmybush -- -- [6.17 - 0 - 0 (2.06)]
38) Sūl Byūŋ-gye - Unified Capitalizt St -- -- [6.16 - 0 - 0 (2.05)]
39) Olivier "Le Tigre" Dumont - Nedalia -- -- [6.16 - 0 - 0 (2.05)]
40) Dr. Tara Helg - Reanimated States -- -- [6.16 - 0 - 0 (2.05)]
41) Michael T.J. Harley - Liverpool England -- -- [6.13 - 0 - 0 (2.04)]
42) Jules "Calisse" St-Antoine - New Montreal States -- -- [6.1 - 0 - 0 (2.03)]
43) Ian "Cloudbreak" Carroll - Nueva Ganja -- -- [6.1 - 0 - 0 (2.03)]
44) Edward Teach - The Islands of Qutar -- -- [6.1 - 0 - 0 (2.03)]
45) Jessie Reynolds - Toranat -- -- [6.07 - 0 - 0 (2.02)]
46) Leif Sultra - Dorian and Sonya -- -- [6.02 - 0 - 0 (2.01)]
47) Roman "Rome" Callabarro - Andossa Se Mitrin Vega -- -- [6.01 - 0 - 0 (2)]
48) Waihaoroi Guwabe - The Resurgent Dream -- -- [5.99 - 0 - 0 (2)]
49) Skeeter Monroe - Casari -- -- [5.99 - 0 - 0 (2)]
50) Kelvin "Green Meanie" Henderson - The Mushroom Kingship -- -- [5.97 - 0 - 0 (1.99)]
51) Bart "Crash" Garrison - Nedalia -- -- [5.97 - 0 - 0 (1.99)]
52) Fedor Fersas - The Macabees -- -- [5.96 - 0 - 0 (1.99)]
53) Caonabo' "Lusca" de los Barrio Rojo - Edoniakistanbabweagua -- -- [5.96 - 0 - 0 (1.99)]
54) Howie "Off The Lip" Arenas - Nueva Ganja -- -- [5.96 - 0 - 0 (1.99)]
55) Liqa Tameq - System Karela -- -- [5.92 - 0 - 0 (1.97)]
56) Kapa Hoganopolis - The Lowland Clans -- -- [5.92 - 0 - 0 (1.97)]
57) Nguyễn Thọ Tấn - Unified Capitalizt St -- -- [5.9 - 0 - 0 (1.97)]
58) Nena--o "Neneriva" Sa--la - Rejistania -- -- [5.9 - 0 - 0 (1.97)]
59) Brandon Wolf - Fmjphoenix -- -- [5.88 - 0 - 0 (1.96)]
60) Kraig Kaltenbach - Geisenfried -- -- [5.85 - 0 - 0 (1.95)]
61) Stacii Arosst - Tocapa -- -- [5.83 - 0 - 0 (1.94)]
62) John Rackham - The Islands of Qutar -- -- [5.83 - 0 - 0 (1.94)]
63) Dale González - Quakmybush -- -- [5.83 - 0 - 0 (1.94)]
64) Amia Vann - Tocapa -- -- [5.82 - 0 - 0 (1.94)]
65) Lima Roose - Pablicosta -- -- [5.75 - 0 - 0 (1.92)]
66) Tikimora Iorara - Turori -- -- [5.75 - 0 - 0 (1.92)]
67) Sigrid Planck - Spruitland -- -- [5.75 - 0 - 0 (1.92)]
68) Anacaona Mabi' - Edoniakistanbabweagua -- -- [5.75 - 0 - 0 (1.92)]
69) Tomasz Cimoszewicz - Unified Capitalizt St -- -- [5.7 - 0 - 0 (1.9)]
70) Ahmad "Mokhtar" Za'eem - Nedalia -- -- [5.65 - 0 - 0 (1.88)]
71) Cameron Takimoana - Napieria -- -- [5.64 - 0 - 0 (1.88)]
72) Kip Kal Meshanye - Milchama -- -- [5.64 - 0 - 0 (1.88)]
73) Winston Manfriday - Schiavonia -- -- [5.64 - 0 - 0 (1.88)]
74) Doro "Sike" Vexora - Rejistania -- -- [5.6 - 0 - 0 (1.87)]
75) William Moody - The Islands of Qutar -- -- [5.58 - 0 - 0 (1.86)]
76) Olivier Costinha - The Lowland Clans -- -- [5.55 - 0 - 0 (1.85)]
77) Barker "Bread" Farlelle - Bazalonia -- -- [5.51 - 0 - 0 (1.84)]
78) Al-Va - Az-Cz -- -- [5.5 - 0 - 0 (1.83)]
79) Kyle Mitchell - Toranat -- -- [5.43 - 0 - 0 (1.81)]
80) Raynard 'Ray' Wechsler - Geisenfried -- -- [5.31 - 0 - 0 (1.77)]
81) Simon "Simo" Turks - Bazalonia -- -- [5.26 - 0 - 0 (1.75)]
82) Jared Justings - Fmjphoenix -- -- [5.23 - 0 - 0 (1.74)]
83) Greg "Odie" Oswald - Bazalonia -- -- [5.21 - 0 - 0 (1.74)]
84) Charlie Harrison - Bedistan -- -- [5.2 - 0 - 0 (1.73)]
85) Victoria Mann - Bedistan -- -- [5.19 - 0 - 0 (1.73)]
86) Koops Lee - The Mushroom Kingship -- -- [5.16 - 0 - 0 (1.72)]
87) Talia Kellen - Aurendia -- -- [5.14 - 0 - 0 (1.71)]
88) Kim Andrews - Fmjphoenix -- -- [5.11 - 0 - 0 (1.7)]
89) Tommy "Green Room" Slater - Nueva Ganja -- -- [5.06 - 0 - 0 (1.69)]
90) Marcel "Ostie" Legault - New Montreal States -- -- [5.05 - 0 - 0 (1.68)]
91) Hank Galland - Pablicosta -- -- [4.81 - 0 - 0 (1.6)]
92) Bobby Billy - Schiavonia -- -- [4.8 - 0 - 0 (1.6)]
93) Mark Loili - Aurendia -- -- [4.72 - 0 - 0 (1.57)]
94) Matt Kett - Milchama -- -- [4.5 - 0 - 0 (1.5)]
95) Kenny Sanderson - Schiavonia -- -- [4.42 - 0 - 0 (1.47)]
96) S.L. "Charlie" longostiris 3 - Reanimated States -- -- [4.28 - 0 - 0 (1.43)]
97) Marcus Johnson - Milchama -- -- [4.2 - 0 - 0 (1.4)]
98) Tarkin Pateng- Blim- Psycho- Sim Ketak- Ohg - Divensi -- -- [4.01 - 0 - 0 (1.34)]



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Tikimora Iorara & female friend and now NS Surf Tour teammate Jalia Mirikali on the beach in Lonngeylin, Vilita during the Vilitan Pipeline Invitational



Hey! Good job jals! Nice runl

Wooooooo! That felt good! You may have the sponsor - but I'm sitting in the top 32!!!

Yea, well I still did a heck of a lot better than that fool Simo Turks that beat me yesterday!

Oh man Tiks, I don't know how you lost - I was so excited! I thought you were going to win!

I know. I thought I had it, it was so close! I don't think those Vilitan judges liked me very much.

Oh come on Tiks, you know thats not true.


Yea, I know, but still, it would have been nice to win. It's almost more dissapointing to make the final and lose than to just get knocked out in the final 8 or something.

Yea, Yea big shot Mr. finalist who knows how it feels and what not. So are they going to give you new shorts with their logo on it?

Yea, they said they would be here before the end of my Qualifying runs. It's going to be pretty embarassing if they show up with new shorts for me and I get knocked out in the qualifying round though.

Oh Tiks, you know you'll fight back. You just finished second for goodness sakes! You're a tournament finalist and now you've got a sponsor for the tour! Which reminds me, we're coming back for the second half now, aren't we?

Yes, yes, it's in the contract, we'll be back for the second half.

Yay! I'm so excited!

Well don't get ahead of yourself Jals, you've got a good run in, keep it up this is a big tournament. Stay in it and get a good finish before the mid-season break.

Yea, good idea. Concentrate on now and don't worry about later. I don't know what I was thinking. How long until the next run?

Not sure, want to go grab a bite to eat? I've got to do a little autograph thingy before the second run and I want to eat something before then.

Autographs! Tiks! You're a stud! That sounds so cool!

Well, you can come with if you'd like

What, and watch you signing autographs like some sort of movie star?

It'll only be for a few minutes, its just at the sponsors tent, its not a public thing. I'm sure they'd be thrilled to meet you, especially after that run you put up in the first round.

Really? You think so?

I know so babe, I know so.

Babe?

Whatever *starts jogging away*

Did you just call me Babe? Tikimora! Get back here!!! *runs after*

<Between rounds the three Gnomes are sitting around playing Kleptocards (BS)."

Z-Boy: 2 2s. Man you were really crap out there today Al-Va.

Al-Va: 3 3s.

Kl-Slt: Challenge. (Sees 3 3s) Crap. You got dealt 3 3s. You lucky bastard.

Al-Va: No luck about sitting in 78th or wherever the hell it is that I sit. Was my line really that bad?

Kl-Slt: A 4. No, It wasn't great but it was better than 78th.

Z-Boy: Word. These Vilitan judges are out to get us. 2 5s

Al-Va: How so?

Z-Boy: Come on. Only 7.8 with that run. I hit a double dolphin comboed into a flying swordfish. No one else on tour could do anything like that.

Al-Va: A 6s. Yeah maybe your right. Still I've got to improve to get back in the top 32. Missing the top 32 of this would be killer.

Kl-Slt: Yeah definitely. 2 7s.

Al-Va: Challenge. (Sees a 5 and 9) Liar.

Announcer: All competitors please return to positions for the second round.

Kl-Slt: Well I guess we need to get going.

Bread was the last Bazalonian to come out of the water, Odie and Simo were waiting for him at a nearby Cafe the 'Java Wave'

"Yo, guys." said Bread

"Heya." said Simo and Odie taking in a cool Iced Coffee at an outdoor table. "We've got you an Iced Chocolate." added Odie

"Thanks, how much?" asked Bread offering to pay for the Iced Chocolate.

"Don't worry about it, we hooked up with the waitress, we are going to go on a date with her and a friend of her's."

Bread rolled his eyes, "Well, at least the old Simo is back." said bread

"Yeah I don't know what got into me. Anyway have a seat." suggested Simo

"Don't mind if I do." said Bread as he at down on a chair... A noise as if built up gas was coming out of his rectum was heard by Bread as he sat down.

"Oh, very mature, guys. Anyway. I got better runs than you two dorks." replied Bread to their immature prank.

"Yeah, what did you get Mr Matture Fun Spoiler?" said Odie in a mocking voice

"5.51, .25 better than the best of you guys." retorted Bread

"Okay, well how long do we have to the next leg?" asked Odie

Simo looked at his watch and replied "about 20 minutes"

"Well, we better hurry up and finish or we won't be there in time." said Bread who scoffed down his Iced Chocolate and then left with his 2 friends running for the beach.

About a second later the waitress yelled.. "Hey you forgot to pay!" which was not heard by Bread or the others as they where already too far away.

"Remember what I told you, Cameron... surfing is zen. When you're on the wave, you are the wave."

Cameron considered this, and nodded serenely.

"You need to put all other thoughts out of your head, and just be free."

Tango walked with Cameron back to their boards.

"The fact that we've gotten this far is an amazing accomplishment. You've done everyone at home proud. Now, you're just surfing for you. That's really all the advice I've got."

"Thanks, Tango."

"No problem, man. Now if you'll excuse me, I think I see some adoring fans who want my autograph..." Tango grinned, and strolled offf down the beach.

Waiting for the second run, the three Liverpool England surfers decided to take a nice stroll down the beach and talk football.

"So, Keith (Kuepça Çavanoçich), what're your thoughts on our team? We managed to beat Delesa away today, 2-1."

"Well, Gareth [Hunter]... the team has what, 64 goals for in 15 games? That's very impressive, over five goals a game."

"Uh, not quite, Keith, 64 divided by 15 only gives, uh... 4.27, my friend."

"Well, you get my point. Thomas Lunson's transformed this team into something amazing. They did well last time out in...uh..."

"Schiavonia and... uh..."

"You two have horrible memories. Schiavonia and Qutar hosted World Cup 30. We finished third."

"Of course you'd remember! You're the Prime Minister!"

All three burst into laughter.

"Anyhow, we've already qualified for the finals. That's good."

"Yes, it is. Adam Tsai's doing a brilliant job of captaining this team. And the goalkeeper... Adam Carrero... just three more qualifying games, and that's his international career. He obviously wants to do the best he can."

"Yeah, that's true."

"All competitors please return to positions for the second round."

"Aww, crud. Well, good luck for the next run, guys."

"Yeah, you too Keith, and Mike."

"I sure will need it," Harley joked, as they hurried back to the main competition area.

"Guys, I'm so sorry, it was my ankle." Dale said. He was the only Quakmybushian surfer to not make the top 50.

"It's okay, maybe the sponsors will understand." Boris said.

"I hope so, those sponsorship deals are sweet." Igor said.

"Would all remaining competitors make it over to the sign in area." a booming voice said over the intercom.

"Well, I got to go guys, wish me luck." Boris said. As Boris left the lady from Villavong came up.

"Hey guys, I see Boris did well, as did you Igor, but Dale, what happened?" Vanessa asked.

"Well, as we were walking over to the start of the first round I stepped on a large rock and twisted my ankle. Please sponsor us." Dale said bluntly.

"Well, I really want to but I'm not sure we can." she said.

"Please." Igor said.

"Well, if Boris can get a top 10, we will for sure, anything else we will review and see if you guys are the right fit for us." she replied.

"Thank you so much, Boris won't let you down, he is an amazing surfer." Dale said.

"Well, I hope for your sake he is." she said.

"Okay, we are off to watch, bye." Igor said.

"Now, Ladies and gentleman, the first surfer of the competition." that booming voice said once again.

"I hope he does it." Dale said.

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After strutting their stuff for 13 regular tournaments, the Surfers were ready for the biggest event on the Surfing calendar. Surf Week in Vilita had begun and Lonngeylin was the spot that held the action. The Vilitan Pipeline Invitational was set to kick off with the first run of the qualifying round. Unlike other events on the first half of the tour, an additional round has been added to the Pipeline, so the 98 Surfers entered into the event will be fighting for one of the 32 places in the second round of competition.

After the third qualifying run, the field will be cut to 32 where the standard top-half advance knockout system will be in place. Scores for each round will be at minimum of 24 hour intervals, allowing media (RP) representation between individual runs for the first time in the tournament. This is the first tournament of the season where your media (RP) can influence the results during the course of the event. If your surfer is outside the top 32, they may need your support, but watch out, those that are already in the top 32 still need two solid runs to stay there before the knockout stage begins. The judges for the competition are the finest in the world, and all Surfers are being scored farly based on the judging guidelines handed out at the beginning of the tour.


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14 :: Vilitan Pipeline Invitational (Lonngeylin, Vilita)

Current Leaderboard after 2 of 3 Qualifying Runs (Top 32 Advance)

1) Z-Boy - Az-Cz -- -- [7.8 - 8.55 - 0 (5.45)]
2) Boris Adamopoulos - Quakmybush -- -- [7.08 - 7.77 - 0 (4.95)]
3) Kl-Slt - Az-Cz -- -- [7.06 - 7.53 - 0 (4.86)]
4) Romulus Kahani'i - Bainbridge Islands -- -- [7.06 - 7.1 - 0 (4.72)]
5) Tangaroa MacMurray - Napieria -- -- [7.65 - 6.31 - 0 (4.65)]
6) Viiker Surf - Vilita -- -- [7.59 - 6.13 - 0 (4.57)]
7) Cameron Takimoana - Napieria -- -- [5.64 - 7.9 - 0 (4.51)]
8) Api Kiko - Bainbridge Islands -- -- [6.98 - 6.43 - 0 (4.47)]
9) Mark de Corio - Funnia Lan -- -- [7.67 - 5.7 - 0 (4.46)]
10) Jalia Mirikali - Turori -- -- [6.71 - 6.61 - 0 (4.44)]
11) Dara Tora - Bedistan -- -- [6.48 - 6.8 - 0 (4.43)]
12) Tiburon "Big Shark" Maja - Edoniakistanbabweagua -- -- [6.27 - 6.96 - 0 (4.41)]
13) Malaiki Tovali - Vilita -- -- [6.63 - 6.51 - 0 (4.38)]
14) Rebicca Suetur - Elves Security Forces -- -- [6.24 - 6.85 - 0 (4.36)]
15) Tutan Tezzam - Misrantis -- -- [6.64 - 6.41 - 0 (4.35)]
16) Gareth Hunter - Liverpool England -- -- [6.46 - 6.57 - 0 (4.34)]
17) Skeeter Monroe - Casari -- -- [5.99 - 6.97 - 0 (4.32)]
18) Dale González - Quakmybush -- -- [5.83 - 7.13 - 0 (4.32)]
19) Summer Conlin - Vilita -- -- [6.53 - 6.43 - 0 (4.32)]
20) Bobby Billy - Schiavonia -- -- [4.8 - 7.97 - 0 (4.26)]
21) Olivier "Le Tigre" Dumont - Nedalia -- -- [6.16 - 6.61 - 0 (4.26)]
22) Blue Harrelson - Casari -- -- [6.48 - 6.24 - 0 (4.24)]
23) Hess Marl - Elves Security Forces -- -- [6.44 - 6.25 - 0 (4.23)]
24) André "Ta Mère Gagne Sa Vie Sur La Rue St-Catherine" Leonard - New Montreal States -- -- [6.45 - 6.24 - 0 (4.23)]
25) Brandon Wolf - Fmjphoenix -- -- [5.88 - 6.79 - 0 (4.22)]
26) Jordan Hillier - The Lowland Clans -- -- [6.5 - 6.16 - 0 (4.22)]
27) Caonabo' "Lusca" de los Barrio Rojo - Edoniakistanbabweagua -- -- [5.96 - 6.63 - 0 (4.2)]
28) Raynard 'Ray' Wechsler - Geisenfried -- -- [5.31 - 7.27 - 0 (4.19)]
29) Kyle Mitchell - Toranat -- -- [5.43 - 7.12 - 0 (4.18)]
30) Luther 'Lute' Artz - Geisenfried -- -- [6.63 - 5.92 - 0 (4.18)]
31) Zeus Ribero - Spruitland -- -- [6.93 - 5.55 - 0 (4.16)]
32) Jenk Rasta - The Macabees -- -- [6.62 - 5.86 - 0 (4.16)]
33) Ha--e "Koleni'sis" Ketemi--l - Rejistania -- -- [6.4 - 6.07 - 0 (4.16)]
34) Al-Va - Az-Cz -- -- [5.5 - 6.97 - 0 (4.16)]
35) Shurc Bate - Jeruselem -- -- [6.3 - 6.14 - 0 (4.15)]
36) Arianda "Crush" Ellissedil - Dorian and Sonya -- -- [6.26 - 6.16 - 0 (4.14)]
37) Tomasz Cimoszewicz - Unified Capitalizt St -- -- [5.7 - 6.71 - 0 (4.14)]
38) Olivier Costinha - The Lowland Clans -- -- [5.55 - 6.83 - 0 (4.13)]
39) Amia Vann - Tocapa -- -- [5.82 - 6.54 - 0 (4.12)]
40) John Spencer Mark II - Reanimated States -- -- [6.87 - 5.49 - 0 (4.12)]
41) Shelley Stevens - Funnia Lan -- -- [6.4 - 5.91 - 0 (4.1)]
42) Kolby "Chic" Chirkoff - Dorian and Sonya -- -- [6.32 - 5.96 - 0 (4.09)]
43) Nena--o "Neneriva" Sa--la - Rejistania -- -- [5.9 - 6.3 - 0 (4.07)]
44) Kelvin "Green Meanie" Henderson - The Mushroom Kingship -- -- [5.97 - 6.21 - 0 (4.06)]
45) Roman "Rome" Callabarro - Andossa Se Mitrin Vega -- -- [6.01 - 6.16 - 0 (4.06)]
46) Kuepça Çavanoçich - Liverpool England -- -- [6.74 - 5.41 - 0 (4.05)]
47) Crete Ptolomaios - Misrantis -- -- [6.87 - 5.27 - 0 (4.05)]
48) Kapa Hoganopolis - The Lowland Clans -- -- [5.92 - 6.22 - 0 (4.05)]
49) Tikimora Iorara - Turori -- -- [5.75 - 6.38 - 0 (4.04)]
50) Kathren Rosario - Casari -- -- [6.2 - 5.89 - 0 (4.03)]
51) Fedor Fersas - The Macabees -- -- [5.96 - 6.11 - 0 (4.02)]
52) Liqa Tameq - System Karela -- -- [5.92 - 6.14 - 0 (4.02)]
53) Igor Vladimirovič Uspenskij - Quakmybush -- -- [6.17 - 5.87 - 0 (4.01)]
54) Jules "Calisse" St-Antoine - New Montreal States -- -- [6.1 - 5.94 - 0 (4.01)]
55) Kraig Kaltenbach - Geisenfried -- -- [5.85 - 6.13 - 0 (3.99)]
56) Anacaona Mabi' - Edoniakistanbabweagua -- -- [5.75 - 6.22 - 0 (3.99)]
57) Leif Sultra - Dorian and Sonya -- -- [6.02 - 5.91 - 0 (3.98)]
58) Edward Teach - The Islands of Qutar -- -- [6.1 - 5.83 - 0 (3.98)]
59) Waihaoroi Guwabe - The Resurgent Dream -- -- [5.99 - 5.91 - 0 (3.97)]
60) Sūl Byūŋ-gye - Unified Capitalizt St -- -- [6.16 - 5.71 - 0 (3.96)]
61) Dusanbi "Sea Horse" Aburo Ngaru - Andossa Se Mitrin Vega -- -- [6.67 - 5.2 - 0 (3.96)]
62) Natalia "Gnat" Kumchakta - Andossa Se Mitrin Vega -- -- [6.37 - 5.5 - 0 (3.96)]
63) Kip Kal Meshanye - Milchama -- -- [5.64 - 6.19 - 0 (3.94)]
64) John Rackham - The Islands of Qutar -- -- [5.83 - 5.98 - 0 (3.94)]
65) Michael T.J. Harley - Liverpool England -- -- [6.13 - 5.66 - 0 (3.93)]
66) Dr. Tara Helg - Reanimated States -- -- [6.16 - 5.56 - 0 (3.91)]
67) Luc De Blaezer - Spruitland -- -- [6.26 - 5.44 - 0 (3.9)]
68) Howie "Off The Lip" Arenas - Nueva Ganja -- -- [5.96 - 5.73 - 0 (3.9)]
69) William Moody - The Islands of Qutar -- -- [5.58 - 6.07 - 0 (3.88)]
70) Victoria Mann - Bedistan -- -- [5.19 - 6.44 - 0 (3.88)]
71) Tommy "Green Room" Slater - Nueva Ganja -- -- [5.06 - 6.56 - 0 (3.87)]
72) Stacii Arosst - Tocapa -- -- [5.83 - 5.73 - 0 (3.85)]
73) Barker "Bread" Farlelle - Bazalonia -- -- [5.51 - 6.04 - 0 (3.85)]
74) Mahina Haare - The Resurgent Dream -- -- [6.37 - 5.17 - 0 (3.85)]
75) Nguyễn Thọ Tấn - Unified Capitalizt St -- -- [5.9 - 5.63 - 0 (3.84)]
76) Bart "Crash" Garrison - Nedalia -- -- [5.97 - 5.53 - 0 (3.83)]
77) Sigrid Planck - Spruitland -- -- [5.75 - 5.72 - 0 (3.82)]
78) Jared Justings - Fmjphoenix -- -- [5.23 - 6.24 - 0 (3.82)]
79) Doro "Sike" Vexora - Rejistania -- -- [5.6 - 5.85 - 0 (3.82)]
80) Simon "Simo" Turks - Bazalonia -- -- [5.26 - 6.17 - 0 (3.81)]
81) Ahmad "Mokhtar" Za'eem - Nedalia -- -- [5.65 - 5.74 - 0 (3.8)]
82) Ian "Cloudbreak" Carroll - Nueva Ganja -- -- [6.1 - 5.2 - 0 (3.77)]
83) Jessie Reynolds - Toranat -- -- [6.07 - 5.18 - 0 (3.75)]
84) Winston Manfriday - Schiavonia -- -- [5.64 - 5.43 - 0 (3.69)]
85) Charlie Harrison - Bedistan -- -- [5.2 - 5.75 - 0 (3.65)]
86) Hank Galland - Pablicosta -- -- [4.81 - 6.02 - 0 (3.61)]
87) Lima Roose - Pablicosta -- -- [5.75 - 5.06 - 0 (3.6)]
88) Talia Kellen - Aurendia -- -- [5.14 - 5.67 - 0 (3.6)]
89) Kim Andrews - Fmjphoenix -- -- [5.11 - 5.67 - 0 (3.59)]
90) Tarkin Pateng- Blim- Psycho- Sim Ketak- Ohg - Divensi -- -- [4.01 - 6.61 - 0 (3.54)]
91) Mark Loili - Aurendia -- -- [4.72 - 5.63 - 0 (3.45)]
92) Koops Lee - The Mushroom Kingship -- -- [5.16 - 5.01 - 0 (3.39)]
93) Greg "Odie" Oswald - Bazalonia -- -- [5.21 - 4.88 - 0 (3.36)]
94) Marcel "Ostie" Legault - New Montreal States -- -- [5.05 - 4.7 - 0 (3.25)]
95) Matt Kett - Milchama -- -- [4.5 - 5 - 0 (3.17)]
96) Kenny Sanderson - Schiavonia -- -- [4.42 - 4.93 - 0 (3.12)]
97) S.L. "Charlie" longostiris 3 - Reanimated States -- -- [4.28 - 5.02 - 0 (3.1)]
98) Marcus Johnson - Milchama -- -- [4.2 - 4.49 - 0 (2.9)]



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This time Simo was the last one to finish as he walked up to Odie and Bread they where argueing about something..

"So I twisted the truth, what harm does it do?" protested Odie

"Okay well let's see what what harm it does... Firstly, hard working people do not get their money, secondly we were in the Bazalonian Boardshorts so it's going to be easy for them to find us, third the harm it will do to the international reputation of Bazalonia, 4thly I have no idea what the police will do to us when they catch us and 5th.. We might get deported for this and not be able to finish the tournament!" ranted Bread

"Okay, Okay.. Well what should we do then?" asked Odie

Bread noticed Simo who was starting to back away and pretend he didn't know them, which considering the boardshorts they had on and a number of other factors would be extremely hard to do.

"Hey, where are you going. Mister Let's Get Bread In Trouble. Come over here."

"Bread but we did pay them, before." said Simo trying to weasle his way out.

"Uh, nah you didn't I did." said Bread... "I just happened to bump into the waitress from Java Wave, and she told me to come and pay the bill. It was embarrising. So you know what I did. I went and payed for your drinks. You guys owe me 4 Baz's"

"Okay, well, no harm no foul, right?"

"Didn't you hear what I said to Odie before... It did harm. Now I'm going to take you to and apologise to the owner and so will you. Got It?"

Simo sighs as he replied ... "Okay" in a half-hearted manner.

The three Bazalonians made there way to the Java Wave. "I'm sorry, my friends had told me that the bill had been taken care of. And they have something to say to you."

"I'm sorry, it won't happen again." said Simo

"yeah, Um, sorry." said Odie

"That's alright, but make sure it doesn't happen again. alright?"

"Yes sir." Odie and Simo said..

"Good. Now Vamouse" said the owner

"Now isn't that better?" said Bread as they walked away

"Yeah." said Odie

"I suppose." replied Simo.. good we've got our next wave to think about and alot of points to make up.

The three Gnomes had some take out Meaty Joe's delivered and were sitting around during the lunch break discussing the opening two runs.

Kl-Slt: Focus Z-Boy. You can't afford to give back the points you've accumulated so far with a bad run next time out.

Z-Boy: Dude, I know. I'm chill. Did you see that last run. I totally feel it today. That's by far the best run so far. The moves are working great. I've even got something new ready to bust out next run.

Al-Va: Nice.

Kl-Slt: How do you develop new moves. I never see you out practicing.

Z-Boy: Dude I practice all the time. But it's not all in the water and it's not necessarily with you. You don't think something like the double dolphin comes through group think or standard stuff. No man. It's inspiration man. You're lame-o practices can't recreate that.

Kl-Slt: That's true. I need to get stability. Anyways Al-Va, stay focused out there.

Al-Va: Man, I'll be ok too. You don't think I rose to the top of the standings by being a scrub. I can make up two spots in my final run. No problem. We're all good.

Kl-Slt: Glad you're confident.

Al-Va: Man these winged octopi are good.

Kl-Slt: Yeah they're good but most life in Vilita is pretty messed up.

Al-Va: Yeah, the women are off the hook too.

Kl-Slt: Yeah well chat them up after your run.

Al-Va: I wasn't gonna do nothing. Not now anyways.

Kl-Slt: Good. I don't think we have much longer. Anything we need to discuss before we go back out there.

Al-Va: I'm good.

Z-Boy: Not about the surfing, but you guys did remember to get your tuxes measured right?

Both: Yep.

"Hi everyone, I'm John Johnson with the Alliance Broadcasting Network Sports, here in Lonngelyn, Vilita attending the Vilitan Pipeline Ivitational. The SFLC has been doing a huge promotional run in the Alliance for this trip, and it looks right now as if all three of the Clan surfers just might make it through. Jordan Hillier had two magnificent runs that will put him in the top 32, however did drop after his second run, but still is on target to qualify. Olivier Costinha however, after a failr disastrous first run that has caused a bit of controversy after an examination of Olivier's board, but he took off after his second qualifying run, and will need to keep up his performance to crack the top 32, which is incredibly tight at the moment. Kapa Hoganopolis had a terrible first run, and might be on the outside looking in at the moment because of the first run, but right now it's really looking like it'll be a tight race. The fans have shown up with surprising force, and we estimate about a hundred Clan fans with the colours on them, but this really should be a boost to the surfers here at Lonngelyn Beach. We'll be back later with more news after the hour."

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"Well guys, you're doing alright. The cut of the waves has been changing, I think the sand bars might be moving a bit, but the wind is pretty heavy, so watch out for that," said Daniel Davies, here on a short vacation away from organizing the World Cup, and had become the team's de facto surfing coach, as they still didn't have one officially. They were looking at getting one for the second half of the tour, but they hadn't found one that really stuck to the team. Chemistry was really important to the team and they had really grown to like each other as the Vilitan tour went on.

Costinha nodded, wondering about the slice in the board that he found after the run. He didn't remember hitting anything sharp enough to make that gash, but it wasn't there went he paddled, he would've noticed, but the board failed him when he stood up and ended up doing in his first run, but he managed to get a half decent score anyways. He needed a good score on this run, and as they called the surfers to prep for the last qualifying run, he was ready to give it.

Viiker Surf, Malaiki Tovali, Summer Conlin & Tutan Tezzam sat in the private Team Vilita section of the beach, having some beverages before their third qualifying runs.


Hey Malaiki, you had first run out there, plenty of time to study the other competitors, what did you think?

Well Viik, I thought you looked horrible, and Summer may as well quit now and start modeling or something.

Shut up Mally!

Well, at least I looked alright!

Yea, you actually looked pretty good out there toots. Just get another run just like your first two and you'll be in there just fine. So really Mally, what did you think out there?

Well, Z-Boy is ridiculous. I thought he was going to get a 9, but it seems the judges are a little more picky here this week. It just seems to me like he's untouchable. He's got so many great moves that he just makes look so easy... i mean he did a flip for goodness sakes. A flip! Then he landed on his wet board and kept on surfing. What does he have duck feet or something?

I think it's his low center of gravity!

*chuckles all around*

Nah, seriously though, if Z-Boy was untouchable, he'd be leading the standings. He's not even the best surfer from his own nation. He puts up great runs, sure, but when he tries to do stupid things - and screws up... It knocks him right out of the tournament, because he doesn't have the same technicals for the judges to look for if he doesn't land a big show off stunt.

Yea, I see what you're saying, but he hasn't really screwed up yet here, so for the moment he's looking top notch.

How about those ruzzies from Quakmybush? Where the heck did they come from?

hah! I don't know. They said Boris Ada-whatever-apisser over the loud speaker from Quakmybush and I went to the fridge and got a sandwich and drink. By the time I got back he was all celebrating and stuff - good run apparently, high seven I think, but I missed it. They had another lad do well too, Gonzales or something. Perhaps they came to play who knows.

Sure seems like it. Looks like the Bainbridge Islands are back in form, Romulus is up there and so is Api. Nothing big from Api just a couple of solid runs but they've been a bit short lately and now they are looking better.

Yea they are, and on the other side of the swing is Al-Va. I mean, it was a bit..

Shush! Lets not tempt fate Mally.

What do you guys think about Crete?

Your teammate?

Yea, Crete's a little dejected about the 5.27 in the second run. I was kind of hoping to bring some pointers back, I feel real bad.

Yea, it was a pretty poor run really. Same thing happened to that oddly named felly from Liverpool England. Great first run, terrible second run. Really they just need to get it together and put another run like the first on the board, or they'll just be going home early

The Bazalonian's have been real bad.

Yea, that lad from the Tuur who finished runner up in the open isn't doing so hot either, but his little girlfriend is flying

Are they together?

I don't know, It's hard to tell, they are always together, but never do anything that would clearly throw them in the pot. What about that chic from the ESF, Hess

What about her?

Is she with anyone?

What, do you want to mack it with an elf, Toots?

Hey now, I was just asking!

Surrrrre. Come on lets go get ready, they're about to post the order for the third round runs.

"Holy fuck Boris! How did you get into second?" Igor asked.

"I'm not exactly sure." Boris said

"Well, I'm in the top 32 now as well!" Dale said quite excitedly.

"And I'm somehow out of the top 50." Igor said.

"Dude, you are in 53rd you can catch up." Dale said.

"Ya, and two of us in the final 32 would be probably good enough for that sponsorship anyways." Boris said.

"Well, we will have to see." Igor said.

"Well, if we all go out there an have a good time I'm sure it will all work out." Dale said.

"Well I hope so. If I don't screw up I should at least be in the final 32. You two have to work a bit harder at it." Boris said.

"Ya, I know, I should be able to get top 50." Igor said. "Maybe if I'm luck I'll get top 32, you never know." he finished.

"I think I will get top 50, if not top 32, I am already sitting in the top 32, so if I preform a bit better than average I'll be in there." Dale said.

"Would all surfers please make it to the competition area, the third qualifying run is about to begin." a voice said over the intercom.

"No Hasslehoff!." Dale yelled.

"Fine!" Igor said.

"Well boys, this is it. I wish you guys all the luck in the world." Boris said. The team made its way over to the competition area for the biggest runs of their lives.

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NationStates Surf Tour :: Tour of Vilita - - - Official Tournament Standings
(http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=500762)


After strutting their stuff for 13 regular tournaments, the Surfers were ready for the biggest event on the Surfing calendar. Surf Week in Vilita had begun and Lonngeylin was the spot that held the action. The Vilitan Pipeline Invitational was set to kick off with the first run of the qualifying round. Unlike other events on the first half of the tour, an additional round has been added to the Pipeline, so the 98 Surfers entered into the event will be fighting for one of the 32 places in the second round of competition. This is the first tournament of the season where your media (RP) can influence the results during the course of the event.

Todays results are the final run of the qualification round. The top 32 based on the average of their qualifying runs will advance to the Round of 32 which will be in knockout format, with each surfer completing one run, and the top 16 runs will earn competitors a place in the Round of 16. The tournament will continue in a top-half advance format until just one surfer, the champion, remains. Those surfers not in the top 32 after the qualification round have been eliminated from competition.


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14 :: Vilitan Pipeline Invitational (Lonngeylin, Vilita)

Current Leaderboard after 3 of 3 Qualifying Runs (Top 32 Advance)

1) Z-Boy - Az-Cz -- -- [7.8 - 8.55 - 6.84 (7.73)]
2) Kl-Slt - Az-Cz -- -- [7.06 - 7.53 - 7.25 (7.28)]
3) Tangaroa MacMurray - Napieria -- -- [7.65 - 6.31 - 7.1 (7.02)]
4) Boris Adamopoulos - Quakmybush -- -- [7.08 - 7.77 - 5.92 (6.92)]
5) Romulus Kahani'i - Bainbridge Islands -- -- [7.06 - 7.1 - 6.49 (6.88)]
6) Dale González - Quakmybush -- -- [5.83 - 7.13 - 7.57 (6.84)]
7) Mark de Corio - Funnia Lan -- -- [7.67 - 5.7 - 6.97 (6.78)]
8) Api Kiko - Bainbridge Islands -- -- [6.98 - 6.43 - 6.7 (6.7)]
9) Gareth Hunter - Liverpool England -- -- [6.46 - 6.57 - 6.4 (6.48)]
10) Tiburon "Big Shark" Maja - Edoniakistanbabweagua -- -- [6.27 - 6.96 - 6.1 (6.44)]
11) Viiker Surf - Vilita -- -- [7.59 - 6.13 - 5.56 (6.43)]
12) Malaiki Tovali - Vilita -- -- [6.63 - 6.51 - 6.14 (6.43)]
13) Cameron Takimoana - Napieria -- -- [5.64 - 7.9 - 5.73 (6.42)]
14) Al-Va - Az-Cz -- -- [5.5 - 6.97 - 6.78 (6.42)]
15) Jordan Hillier - The Lowland Clans -- -- [6.5 - 6.16 - 6.58 (6.41)]
16) Zeus Ribero - Spruitland -- -- [6.93 - 5.55 - 6.74 (6.41)]
17) Summer Conlin - Vilita -- -- [6.53 - 6.43 - 6.18 (6.38)]
18) Bobby Billy - Schiavonia -- -- [4.8 - 7.97 - 6.34 (6.37)]
19) Jalia Mirikali - Turori -- -- [6.71 - 6.61 - 5.75 (6.36)]
20) Barker "Bread" Farlelle - Bazalonia -- -- [5.51 - 6.04 - 7.38 (6.31)]
21) Tomasz Cimoszewicz - Unified Capitalizt St -- -- [5.7 - 6.71 - 6.41 (6.27)]
22) Arianda "Crush" Ellissedil - Dorian and Sonya -- -- [6.26 - 6.16 - 6.39 (6.27)]
23) Blue Harrelson - Casari -- -- [6.48 - 6.24 - 6.08 (6.27)]
24) Hess Marl - Elves Security Forces -- -- [6.44 - 6.25 - 6.08 (6.26)]
25) Kuepça Çavanoçich - Liverpool England -- -- [6.74 - 5.41 - 6.62 (6.26)]
26) Tutan Tezzam - Misrantis -- -- [6.64 - 6.41 - 5.7 (6.25)]
27) Kathren Rosario - Casari -- -- [6.2 - 5.89 - 6.66 (6.25)]
28) André "Ta Mère Gagne Sa Vie Sur La Rue St-Catherine" Leonard - New Montreal States -- -- [6.45 - 6.24 - 6.04 (6.24)]
29) Doro "Sike" Vexora - Rejistania -- -- [5.6 - 5.85 - 7.27 (6.24)]
30) Shurc Bate - Jeruselem -- -- [6.3 - 6.14 - 6.27 (6.24)]
31) Dara Tora - Bedistan -- -- [6.48 - 6.8 - 5.41 (6.23)]
32) Kapa Hoganopolis - The Lowland Clans -- -- [5.92 - 6.22 - 6.51 (6.22)]

--Eliminated from Competition--
33) Crete Ptolomaios - Misrantis -- -- [6.87 - 5.27 - 6.49 (6.21)]
34) Brandon Wolf - Fmjphoenix -- -- [5.88 - 6.79 - 5.95 (6.21)]
35) Igor Vladimirovič Uspenskij - Quakmybush -- -- [6.17 - 5.87 - 6.57 (6.2)]
36) Luther 'Lute' Artz - Geisenfried -- -- [6.63 - 5.92 - 6.06 (6.2)]
37) Skeeter Monroe - Casari -- -- [5.99 - 6.97 - 5.61 (6.19)]
38) Jenk Rasta - The Macabees -- -- [6.62 - 5.86 - 6.08 (6.19)]
39) Olivier "Le Tigre" Dumont - Nedalia -- -- [6.16 - 6.61 - 5.7 (6.16)]
40) Kraig Kaltenbach - Geisenfried -- -- [5.85 - 6.13 - 6.47 (6.15)]
41) Rebicca Suetur - Elves Security Forces -- -- [6.24 - 6.85 - 5.34 (6.14)]
42) Mahina Haare - The Resurgent Dream -- -- [6.37 - 5.17 - 6.88 (6.14)]
43) Ha--e "Koleni'sis" Ketemi--l - Rejistania -- -- [6.4 - 6.07 - 5.92 (6.13)]
44) Sūl Byūŋ-gye - Unified Capitalizt St -- -- [6.16 - 5.71 - 6.5 (6.12)]
45) Kolby "Chic" Chirkoff - Dorian and Sonya -- -- [6.32 - 5.96 - 6.05 (6.11)]
46) Natalia "Gnat" Kumchakta - Andossa Se Mitrin Vega -- -- [6.37 - 5.5 - 6.42 (6.1)]
47) Caonabo' "Lusca" de los Barrio Rojo - Edoniakistanbabweagua -- -- [5.96 - 6.63 - 5.65 (6.08)]
48) Liqa Tameq - System Karela -- -- [5.92 - 6.14 - 6.08 (6.05)]
49) Stacii Arosst - Tocapa -- -- [5.83 - 5.73 - 6.56 (6.04)]
50) Shelley Stevens - Funnia Lan -- -- [6.4 - 5.91 - 5.79 (6.03)]
51) Tikimora Iorara - Turori -- -- [5.75 - 6.38 - 5.96 (6.03)]
52) Fedor Fersas - The Macabees -- -- [5.96 - 6.11 - 6.01 (6.03)]
53) John Rackham - The Islands of Qutar -- -- [5.83 - 5.98 - 6.23 (6.01)]
54) Jules "Calisse" St-Antoine - New Montreal States -- -- [6.1 - 5.94 - 5.98 (6.01)]
55) Edward Teach - The Islands of Qutar -- -- [6.1 - 5.83 - 6.09 (6.01)]
56) Kip Kal Meshanye - Milchama -- -- [5.64 - 6.19 - 6.13 (5.99)]
57) William Moody - The Islands of Qutar -- -- [5.58 - 6.07 - 6.25 (5.97)]
58) Dusanbi "Sea Horse" Aburo Ngaru - Andossa Se Mitrin Vega -- -- [6.67 - 5.2 - 5.98 (5.95)]
59) Kelvin "Green Meanie" Henderson - The Mushroom Kingship -- -- [5.97 - 6.21 - 5.66 (5.95)]
60) Michael T.J. Harley - Liverpool England -- -- [6.13 - 5.66 - 6.03 (5.94)]
61) Simon "Simo" Turks - Bazalonia -- -- [5.26 - 6.17 - 6.38 (5.94)]
62) Olivier Costinha - The Lowland Clans -- -- [5.55 - 6.83 - 5.42 (5.93)]
63) Nena--o "Neneriva" Sa--la - Rejistania -- -- [5.9 - 6.3 - 5.54 (5.91)]
64) Hank Galland - Pablicosta -- -- [4.81 - 6.02 - 6.9 (5.91)]
65) Sigrid Planck - Spruitland -- -- [5.75 - 5.72 - 6.25 (5.91)]
66) Anacaona Mabi' - Edoniakistanbabweagua -- -- [5.75 - 6.22 - 5.73 (5.9)]
67) Waihaoroi Guwabe - The Resurgent Dream -- -- [5.99 - 5.91 - 5.79 (5.9)]
68) Raynard 'Ray' Wechsler - Geisenfried -- -- [5.31 - 7.27 - 5.11 (5.9)]
69) Roman "Rome" Callabarro - Andossa Se Mitrin Vega -- -- [6.01 - 6.16 - 5.51 (5.89)]
70) John Spencer Mark II - Reanimated States -- -- [6.87 - 5.49 - 5.3 (5.89)]
71) Nguyễn Thọ Tấn - Unified Capitalizt St -- -- [5.9 - 5.63 - 6.08 (5.87)]
72) Amia Vann - Tocapa -- -- [5.82 - 6.54 - 5.23 (5.86)]
73) Kim Andrews - Fmjphoenix -- -- [5.11 - 5.67 - 6.75 (5.84)]
74) Ahmad "Mokhtar" Za'eem - Nedalia -- -- [5.65 - 5.74 - 6.13 (5.84)]
75) Victoria Mann - Bedistan -- -- [5.19 - 6.44 - 5.86 (5.83)]
76) Lima Roose - Pablicosta -- -- [5.75 - 5.06 - 6.63 (5.81)]
77) Leif Sultra - Dorian and Sonya -- -- [6.02 - 5.91 - 5.44 (5.79)]
78) Tommy "Green Room" Slater - Nueva Ganja -- -- [5.06 - 6.56 - 5.72 (5.78)]
79) Bart "Crash" Garrison - Nedalia -- -- [5.97 - 5.53 - 5.81 (5.77)]
80) Kyle Mitchell - Toranat -- -- [5.43 - 7.12 - 4.69 (5.75)]
81) Talia Kellen - Aurendia -- -- [5.14 - 5.67 - 6.42 (5.74)]
82) Luc De Blaezer - Spruitland -- -- [6.26 - 5.44 - 5.51 (5.74)]
83) Winston Manfriday - Schiavonia -- -- [5.64 - 5.43 - 6.08 (5.72)]
84) Jessie Reynolds - Toranat -- -- [6.07 - 5.18 - 5.75 (5.67)]
85) Ian "Cloudbreak" Carroll - Nueva Ganja -- -- [6.1 - 5.2 - 5.68 (5.66)]
86) Jared Justings - Fmjphoenix -- -- [5.23 - 6.24 - 5.31 (5.59)]
87) Howie "Off The Lip" Arenas - Nueva Ganja -- -- [5.96 - 5.73 - 4.76 (5.48)]
88) Charlie Harrison - Bedistan -- -- [5.2 - 5.75 - 5.41 (5.45)]
89) Dr. Tara Helg - Reanimated States -- -- [6.16 - 5.56 - 4.62 (5.45)]
90) Marcel "Ostie" Legault - New Montreal States -- -- [5.05 - 4.7 - 6.54 (5.43)]
91) Mark Loili - Aurendia -- -- [4.72 - 5.63 - 5.91 (5.42)]
92) Greg "Odie" Oswald - Bazalonia -- -- [5.21 - 4.88 - 5.92 (5.34)]
93) Koops Lee - The Mushroom Kingship -- -- [5.16 - 5.01 - 5.47 (5.21)]
94) S.L. "Charlie" longostiris 3 - Reanimated States -- -- [4.28 - 5.02 - 5.77 (5.02)]
95) Tarkin Pateng- Blim- Psycho- Sim Ketak- Ohg - Divensi -- -- [4.01 - 6.61 - 4.25 (4.96)]
96) Kenny Sanderson - Schiavonia -- -- [4.42 - 4.93 - 4.77 (4.71)]
97) Matt Kett - Milchama -- -- [4.5 - 5 - 4.25 (4.58)]
98) Marcus Johnson - Milchama -- -- [4.2 - 4.49 - 4.82 (4.5)]



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Hello and Kia Ora! I'm Angus Pakeha, reporting from Alikki-Corra in Vilita.

Napieria is still in the game, here at the Inaugural NationStates Surf Tour, after the first round of eliminations.

32 surfers were eliminated today, but Tango MacMurray and Cameron Takimoana were not among them. Both of our Napierian surfers managed to get into the top half, with Tango completing two third-place runs.

The competition only gets harder from here, however, as each round is an elimination round, and any slip could cost someone the tour.

And the competition is fierce. Also in the Top 32 are Vilita's Viiker Surf and Summer Conlin, Az-Cz's Z-Boy and Al-Va, and Bainbridge Island's Romulus Kahani'i, all of whom have been consistent top-scorers in the tour.

But it looks like Tango and Cameron are both in top form going into eliminations, so it could be anyone's game.

"See man, I told you I'd be fine. Most of these guys out here just aren't threats. No way they're gonna hold me down. One bad run's not gonna stop me." Al-Va laughed after the qualifying runs had been finished.

"Yeah, well run bad run will do you in now. You ought to remember that too Z-Boy." Kl-Slt advised the other two.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah I know. But I've been running super hot. My worst run so far is better than average for all but six of the surfers. There's nothing to worry about." Z-Boy answered.

"Where's Taihenna today, Z-Boy?" asked Al-Va

Z-Boy quickly answered "she had some business in the morning. She'll be out here for the late run and tomorrow's rounds."

"Man our fans are freaking awesome. I can't believe they choreographed a dance that made use of the designs of both the Az-cz and Meaty Joe's shorts."

"Yeah, last night I got a call from Meaty Joe's actually. Sales are way up since I've started doing ads for them. So I'm about to comped big time. And you two are about to be brought in if you're interested."

"Sweet."

Kl-Slt jumped back into the conversation "Just don't forget why we're here."

Z-Boy shot back "why's that man?"

"To win."

"There's more to life than winning these surfing contests. Look I want to win, but it's not the end of the world dog. We're surfers man. If we wanted to be competitive squareheads we'd've gone into Capture the Flag man. Or that baseball sport. Surfing is art man. You'll never really be as popular as us or as happy as us until you get that man. Relax."

<A voice from the speakers>

"All surfers back to positions for the second round."

Al-Va then said "Come on guys. Let's enjoy these next runs."

"What!? I totally did better then that!" Igor screamed as he got out of the water. "That is total bull!" he went on. He then went up to the judges table and spit at them.

"Dude, dude, settle. We're all in the top 50, I smell a sponsorship deal." Boris said.

"O, ya I forgot about that." Igor said with a laugh.

"Dude, we all did awesome it shows that we are a good team" Dale said.

"Ah shit!" Igor yelled.

"What?" Boris asked.

"Well the soccer team beat Starblaydia 4-1." Igor said.

"Yay! that means we must have qualified." Dale said.

"You didn't let me finish. We lost on the third tie-breaker, the third one, man that sucks!" Igor said.

"Damn." the other two surfers said.

"Ya, that sucks, out first ever failed qualifying attempt." Igor said.

"O Well, no everyone can focus on us." Dale said.

"Exactly!" Boris said. "It's about time those government jerks paid a bit of attention to us." he continued.

"Meh, I was happy with being forgotten about, less weight on my shoulders." Dale said.

"You two should get going. The next run starts soon, do good, and do screw up. O ya, and since the soccer isn't on T.V. everyone will be watching." Igor said with a laugh. With that Dale and Boris went of with their boards and get ready for the first knockout run.

Simo and Odie where on the beach cheering on Bread... they had lost their chances to make it into the top 32 but Bread still had a chance. He was going really well. Bread had very good fundamentals and showed some spark and just pretty much performed extremely well. Nothing as Fancy as Z-Boy or Simo would do but still good solid moves that he and the people watching him enjoyed.

Bread came in and listened to the results... a 7.38 was announced.

Bread was over the moon surely he was able to get into the top 32 now...

Simo and Odie rushed up and congratulated him giving appropriate high-fives in which Bread decidely to cooly dodge them. Bread was at the moment the man... only a few people (includiing Z-Boy) had managed to score a higher ran. but anyway that was neither here nore there he had to worry about the next leg which the 32 would be cullled down to half.

He was just glad to get into the top 32 but he had a chance to get into the top 16... any further really would most likely be a pipedream. He only waited to see what the surfing would be like.

However Odie and Simo lived life to the full the days they had off... They went to a bar and partied late into the night and into the early morning. Hwever when they woke up the next day. Not only had they got a hangover... but Odie had an explained ring on his wedding finger... however there was no 'wife' to be seen.

Tomasz Cimoszewicz hit the power button on his Magical Camera of RP™ and opened up the Vilitan newspaper that had been sitting in his room for the past few days. Purely coincidentally, the headline in the sports section was about the surfing tournament. One sentence of the article caught his eye—“The judges for the competition are the finest in the world, and all Surfers are being scored farly based on the judging guidelines handed out at the beginning of the tour.” Cimoszewicz’s first thought recorded by the magical camera was, “Cool! I’m a Surfer, with a capital S!” Upon re-reading the sentence, he thought, “Hah, ‘finest in the world.’ We’ll see about that.” He opened up a portable safe that he had brought, pulled out a small block of silver, put it in a box, looked up the name and address of one of the judges, addressed the package, and sent it. Then he sat down, turned on his TV, switched it to ATSN. He thought, “Why the slani hell would anyone want to watch the Rorysville Geometers play hockey?” and threw the magical camera out of the window.

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After strutting their stuff for 13 regular tournaments, the Surfers were ready for the biggest event on the Surfing calendar. Surf Week in Vilita had begun and Lonngeylin was the spot that held the action. The Vilitan Pipeline Invitational was set to kick off with the first run of the qualifying round. Unlike other events on the first half of the tour, an additional round has been added to the Pipeline, so the 98 Surfers entered into the event will be fighting for one of the 32 places in the second round of competition. This is the first tournament of the season where your media (RP) can influence the results during the course of the event.

Todays results are part of the knockout stage of the competition. The results from previous rounds are ignored, and each surfer gets one run to impress the judges. The top half of the scores advance, the bottom half go home. The tournament will continue in a top-half advance format until just one surfer, the champion, remains. Those surfers not in the top 32 after the qualification round have been eliminated from competition.


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14 :: Vilitan Pipeline Invitational (Lonngeylin, Vilita)

Leaderboard after Round of 32 (Top 16 Advance)
1) Hess Marl - Elves Security Forces -- -- [6.44 - 6.25 - 6.08 (6.26)] [6.44]
2) Barker "Bread" Farlelle - Bazalonia -- -- [5.51 - 6.04 - 7.38 (6.31)] [6.42]
3) Kuepça Çavanoçich - Liverpool England -- -- [6.74 - 5.41 - 6.62 (6.26)] [6.19]
4) Tangaroa MacMurray - Napieria -- -- [7.65 - 6.31 - 7.1 (7.02)] [6.18]
5) Romulus Kahani'i - Bainbridge Islands -- -- [7.06 - 7.1 - 6.49 (6.88)] [6.13]
6) Viiker Surf - Vilita -- -- [7.59 - 6.13 - 5.56 (6.43)] [6.12]
7) Kl-Slt - Az-Cz -- -- [7.06 - 7.53 - 7.25 (7.28)] [6.12]
8) Boris Adamopoulos - Quakmybush -- -- [7.08 - 7.77 - 5.92 (6.92)] [5.89]
9) Dale González - Quakmybush -- -- [5.83 - 7.13 - 7.57 (6.84)] [5.85]
10) Summer Conlin - Vilita -- -- [6.53 - 6.43 - 6.18 (6.38)] [5.74]
11) Tomasz Cimoszewicz - Unified Capitalizt St -- -- [5.7 - 6.71 - 6.41 (6.27)] [5.73]
12) Gareth Hunter - Liverpool England -- -- [6.46 - 6.57 - 6.4 (6.48)] [5.73]
13) Blue Harrelson - Casari -- -- [6.48 - 6.24 - 6.08 (6.27)] [5.71]
14) Jordan Hillier - The Lowland Clans -- -- [6.5 - 6.16 - 6.58 (6.41)] [5.67]
15) Al-Va - Az-Cz -- -- [5.5 - 6.97 - 6.78 (6.42)] [5.67]
16) Z-Boy - Az-Cz -- -- [7.8 - 8.55 - 6.84 (7.73)] [5.65]

-- Eliminated from Competition --

17) Tutan Tezzam - Misrantis -- -- [6.64 - 6.41 - 5.7 (6.25)] [5.58]
18) Kathren Rosario - Casari -- -- [6.2 - 5.89 - 6.66 (6.25)] [5.57]
19) Tiburon "Big Shark" Maja - Edoniakistanbabweagua -- -- [6.27 - 6.96 - 6.1 (6.44)] [5.55]
20) Cameron Takimoana - Napieria -- -- [5.64 - 7.9 - 5.73 (6.42)] [5.48]
21) Api Kiko - Bainbridge Islands -- -- [6.98 - 6.43 - 6.7 (6.7)] [5.42]
22) Doro "Sike" Vexora - Rejistania -- -- [5.6 - 5.85 - 7.27 (6.24)] [5.4]
23) Shurc Bate - Jeruselem -- -- [6.3 - 6.14 - 6.27 (6.24)] [5.2]
24) Jalia Mirikali - Turori -- -- [6.71 - 6.61 - 5.75 (6.36)] [5]
25) Malaiki Tovali - Vilita -- -- [6.63 - 6.51 - 6.14 (6.43)] [4.97]
26) Dara Tora - Bedistan -- -- [6.48 - 6.8 - 5.41 (6.23)] [4.85]
27) Zeus Ribero - Spruitland -- -- [6.93 - 5.55 - 6.74 (6.41)] [4.82]
28) André "Ta Mère Gagne Sa Vie Sur La Rue St-Catherine" Leonard - New Montreal States -- -- [6.45 - 6.24 - 6.04 (6.24)] [4.8]
29) Arianda "Crush" Ellissedil - Dorian and Sonya -- -- [6.26 - 6.16 - 6.39 (6.27)] [4.76]
30) Mark de Corio - Funnia Lan -- -- [7.67 - 5.7 - 6.97 (6.78)] [4.73]
31) Bobby Billy - Schiavonia -- -- [4.8 - 7.97 - 6.34 (6.37)] [4.57]
32) Kapa Hoganopolis - The Lowland Clans -- -- [5.92 - 6.22 - 6.51 (6.22)] [4.55]



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Hello and Kia Ora, surf fans! This is Angus Pakeha, and with me is Cameron Takimoana.

After the second elimination, Cameron Takimoana is coming home. Cameron surprised Napieria and the world at large during this surf tour with his skill level and dedication, often surfing well past sunset in an effort to train for these events, and indeed, when Tango MacMurray seemed to have slipped into a slump, you kept Napieria pretty high in the rankings. So Cameron, what are your post-tour impressions?

Well, first, thank you for having me on.

It's our pleasure.

so, I thought the tour, especially for me, went very well. Better than expected, actually. You know, I'm not... I don't consider myself a professional surfer. This was my first surf competition.

That's amazing.

So when I was selected to come on this tour, I was more than a little surprised. I was completely out of my element.

But you did very well.

I have Tango to thank for that. We trained together, showed each other some moves, some tricks and stuff. but mostly, he kept me grounded. Even when the tour wasn't going so well for him, he was there for me, so I really have to give him all my thanks, and wish him the very best of luck in the coming rounds.

We all wish him luck.

The other surfers were pretty amazing. Their moves on the water were something else. I was constantly intimidated, especially by the Vilitans and the Az-Czzers, to name a couple. And off the waves, it was not very different. Most of these guys are class acts.

You were pretty driven to succeed in this tour. If I may ask... why do you think you didn't win?

That's a fair question. Well, honestly, although I'm a pretty good surfer, the others were simply better. I'm sure there's also a luck factor at play. I just wish I could have done better.

But, you did come in second at Silver Sands and Arcticala. That's a couple nice small awards for the folks back home.

Yes.

So, are you going straight home, then, or are you going to stick around and cheer on Tango?

Oh, I'm going to stick around and see how well Tango does. Also, there's a wedding to go to.

That's right, Az-Cz surfer Z-Boy is marrying a Vilitan named Taihenna, and he's invited all the surfers to the event. So, no sour grapes that you were eliminated and he was not?

None at all. I wish him and Taihenna the best.

That's great. Thank you for being with us, Cameron, and congratulations on your excellent tour performance. Will we see you in future surf events?

I don't know. We'll see.

Well, we hope so. that's all for now. Stay tuned, Napieria, and find out how well Tango does in the remainder of the NationStates Surf Tour.

"Dammit. I told you guys if you didn't focus you'd be in trouble." Kl-Slt grunted at the other two Az-czid surfers.

"Whatever. We made it through to tomorrow's runs didn't we?" Z-Boy shot back.

"Yeah. And who's the number one surfer on the tour? Let's see last time I checked I was." Al-Va angrily replied to Kl-Slt. "I don't need you to hold my hand through the tournament. Yes I've put up a couple of bad runs, but I'm still going."

"Dude, no worries. We'll head back to the hotel and chill out, catch some Zs and we'll be back up running tomorrow. And anyways, look at who's left. We can definitely still move on to the top 8."

"Yeah, I mean no offense but Hess Marl, that "Bread" guy from Bazalonia and Kuepça Çavanoçich. Not exactly the best. Of course the two best Vilitans and the King are still around but Api Kiko and Shurc Bate dropped out."

"As well as Cameron Takimona, or whatever his name is, and all of the Geisenfrieders. Come on now. There's no need to worry."

Kl-Slt calmed down. "Yeah you guys are right. You got the job done."

"Yeah dude. I didn't even pull out any of my good tricks that run. We'll be fine."

Al-Va slid back into the conversation. "What do you guys wanna do tonight?"

Kl-Slt answered "I've heard we got drawn into Vilita for the World Cup. I'd like to check out the draw and see what the situation is."

Al-Va look shocked. "Yeah that's right. I'm expecting Kz-Kz to call me tonight. He said he'd let me know if they got drawn into the Vilita region. I told him if they did I'd organize a party for us guys, Taihenna, some other surf babes of course, and maybe some of the other surfers. Probably after the third match."

Kl-Slt "Sweet, just make certain it doesn't interfere with the wedding stuff. Taihenna would kill us all if it did."

All three burst into laughter.

After the laughter subsided Al-Va spoke up. "Yo dudes, let's go get our nosh on."

With that the three headed off.

Igor walks up to Dale and Boris who are doing some kind of weird hanshake. "Awsome Job guys!" he said.

"Thanks, we both did awsome, births into the next round, its pretty sweet." Boris said.

"Ya, it is" Dale said.

"Well, while you two were surfing I was talking to the sponsorship lady and she said that she will have a contract ready for us soon." Igor said.

"That's awsome!" Dale said.

"Did you get any details?" Boris asked.

"Well, we get all of our boards, shorts and other gear paid for, along with limos to all events." Igor said.

"Awsome!" Dale said again.

"Any word on salary?" Boris asked.

"Nothing yet but I'm sure a good finish by both of you guys would make that said salary a bit bigger." Igor said.

"Ya, that probably would help." Dale said.

"Would the remaining surfers please report to the competition area, the next runs are about to begin." A voice over the speaker system said

"Well, off we go." Boris said.

"Good luck you two." Igor said.

"Thanks." Dale said. The two Quakmybushian surfers then walked over to the competition area and got ready for the next run.

Bread just couldn't believe it, he took first place after his run. A Score of 6.42 not his most impresive score but certainly one that could very well take him to the lead. The only thing there was one more person to go...

Simo and Odie where there sitting next to Bread barracking for Hess Marl from ESF to fall off her board with statements like "A Bazalope could do a better barrel roll than that." "You look like Odie's mother... all ugly." was one from from Simo that immediately got a "hey" and a slap from Odie. "Okay, well you not look like her but you certainly don't surf like her either." "Yea... Um Simo... She doesn't surf... " "Well, yeah this guy is worse than her, even though she doesn't surf."

"That does not make sense." added Bread who was just there confident of his entry into the top 16 and that really all that mattered. And any way Hess Marl was coming in... her score... 6.44

"Hahaha.. 2 hundreths. I knew it was close but I didn't think it was that close." said Bread.

In the end it didn't really matter which position you got as long as your scores were good enough to get you into the top 16. Now Bread had one more day. One chance to get into the top 8. His mates and teammates where there for the moment they weren't competitors and they reveled in each others success and usually made fun of each others losses but they were the closest of friends.

Viiker Surf, Malaiki Tovali, Summer Conlin & Tutan Tezzam returned to the private Team Vilita tent on the beach after the Round of 32.


I duno Toots, that was close. I can't believe what happened. That damn Z-Boy, his run was crap he should have had a 3 and you should have been in there. I don't know what those judges were watching.

Well, its okay. I know I could have done better, and hey, 17th is not so bad!

Better than 25th, thats for sure!

Well maybe you'd finish a little higher if you didn't belly flop onto the board midway through the run!

*chuckles all around*

Pfft. So I screwed up. It was a killer run up until then though!

Eh, it wasn't bad. We've got to finish in the top 8 Viiks, we have to do whatever we can to keep the Az-Czzers out of the next round or we'll lose the first half title.

I didn't know we could still catch them...

Yea, I don't know about catching them, but lets get in the top 8 anyway, huh Summer?.

That's the spirit!

Yea. Top 8. Lets do this.

Yea, me and Tuts will be back here cheering for you lads.

Yea right, you guys will probably be gone minutes after we go to check the running order

Well, perhaps, but we'll consider staying thats for sure!

Thanks guys, it means a lot *rolls eyes*

So are you guys going to that wedding thing?

Yes. Thanks to damn Baron O'Toole

Whats the Baron have to do wit hit?

Eh, they want good representation of Vilita there or some crap.

Mind if I tag along? I don't think Crete's going.

Sure, don't see why not, pass me some Viliade will you?

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After strutting their stuff for 13 regular tournaments, the Surfers were ready for the biggest event on the Surfing calendar. Surf Week in Vilita had begun and Lonngeylin was the spot that held the action. The Vilitan Pipeline Invitational was set to kick off with the first run of the qualifying round. Unlike other events on the first half of the tour, an additional round has been added to the Pipeline, so the 98 Surfers entered into the event will be fighting for one of the 32 places in the second round of competition. This is the first tournament of the season where your media (RP) can influence the results during the course of the event.

Todays results are part of the knockout stage of the competition. The results from previous rounds are ignored, and each surfer gets one run to impress the judges. The top half of the scores advance, the bottom half go home. The tournament will continue in a top-half advance format until just one surfer, the champion, remains. Those surfers not in the top 32 after the qualification round have been eliminated from competition.


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14 :: Vilitan Pipeline Invitational (Lonngeylin, Vilita)

Leaderboard after Round of 16 (Top 8 Advance)


1) Kl-Slt - Az-Cz -- -- [7.06 - 7.53 - 7.25 (7.28)] [6.12] [6.44]
2) Tangaroa MacMurray - Napieria -- -- [7.65 - 6.31 - 7.1 (7.02)] [6.18] [6.4]
3) Kuepça Çavanoçich - Liverpool England -- -- [6.74 - 5.41 - 6.62 (6.26)] [6.19] [6.28]
4) Al-Va - Az-Cz -- -- [5.5 - 6.97 - 6.78 (6.42)] [5.67] [6.25]
5) Barker "Bread" Farlelle - Bazalonia -- -- [5.51 - 6.04 - 7.38 (6.31)] [6.42] [5.79]
6) Romulus Kahani'i - Bainbridge Islands -- -- [7.06 - 7.1 - 6.49 (6.88)] [6.13] [5.68]
7) Viiker Surf - Vilita -- -- [7.59 - 6.13 - 5.56 (6.43)] [6.12] [5.58]
8) Dale González - Quakmybush -- -- [5.83 - 7.13 - 7.57 (6.84)] [5.85] [5.56]

-- Eliminated from Event --

9) Boris Adamopoulos - Quakmybush -- -- [7.08 - 7.77 - 5.92 (6.92)] [5.89] [5.49]
10) Tomasz Cimoszewicz - Unified Capitalizt St -- -- [5.7 - 6.71 - 6.41 (6.27)] [5.73] [5.48]
11) Hess Marl - Elves Security Forces -- -- [6.44 - 6.25 - 6.08 (6.26)] [6.44] [5.41]
12) Z-Boy - Az-Cz -- -- [7.8 - 8.55 - 6.84 (7.73)] [5.65] [5.22]
13) Blue Harrelson - Casari -- -- [6.48 - 6.24 - 6.08 (6.27)] [5.71] [4.91]
14) Gareth Hunter - Liverpool England -- -- [6.46 - 6.57 - 6.4 (6.48)] [5.73] [4.77]
15) Summer Conlin - Vilita -- -- [6.53 - 6.43 - 6.18 (6.38)] [5.74] [4.56]
16) Jordan Hillier - The Lowland Clans -- -- [6.5 - 6.16 - 6.58 (6.41)] [5.67] [4.15]





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Despite being eliminated with a poor run Z-Boy looked quite happy at the end of the round of 16. "Well done guys, 1st and 4th puts us quite nicely in shape for the last runs."

Al-Va responded "Certainly does. Too bad about you going out though."

"Yeah, but honestly 12th's still pretty good. And we're the only country to put two into the last 8. There's too much good stuff going on right now to let it get me down."

Kl-Slt joined back in happily "True. Hopefully we'll finish out strongly and bring home the team title for the first half of the surf tour. We're basically there already, but one of us making the last four ought to lock it down."

Z-Boy "Yep. Not to put any pressure on you Al-Va, but that overall title is also well in reach."

Kl-Slt "Yeah, if you can just hang with Viiker Surf you can take it. That would be awesome."

Just then Z-Boy's beautiful fiancee Taihenna came bounding down the beach.
"What's this somekind of team meeting?"

Z-Boy grabbed his love and play tackled her in the sand, "Yeah babe, why?"

"They've just posted the order for the next set of runs, Viiker's up second, Kl-Slt goes off fourth and Al-Va, you go off seventh."

Kl-Slt shifted back into coach mode "Nice. You'll know what you have to do. My advice would be to focus on the overall tour and less on this race. If Surf is out by the time you go I'd just focus on posting a solid score."

Al-Va laughed at that suggestion "Man. You're going to make some lucky lady insane some day man. You'll make a great father cause everything we'll be taken care of, but maybe a vanilla husband. Where's the excitement. I wanna win this event bro. What better way to end the first half than winning the tournament?"

Taihenna smiled at him and said "Just don't risk you're face doing it. Remember the wedding's just over a week away and I want all my honey's ushers looking sharp for the wedding. I don't want your facial bruises on our wedding photos."

Z-Boy chuckled to himself and then started in "What I think she meant to say was, 'Good luck out there. You can do it. You're the cock of the block.' Right, babe?"

"No, I meant what I said. My wedding is more important than this tournament, even if it's the biggest one on the tour." None of the Az-czzers, even Z-Boy, could quite interpret how much her comment was a joke and how much was serious.

Al-Va then changed the subject "So about the soccer party I was thinking..."

Just then he was interrupted by the announcers announcing the start of the next round. "Will the eight remaining surfers return to their positions."

"Alright. I'll discuss it with you guys later." Al-Va and Kl-Slt then proceeded to head down to the starting spots.

Taihenna turned to Z-Boy and said "Well honey, let's go make some noise."

Hello and Kia Ora, this is Angus Pakeha of the Napieria News Network, reporting from Alikki-Corra. I'm here at the NationStates Surf Tour, where, after the most recent eliminations, the leaderboard looks like a veritable who's who of surfing.

There's Al-Va, Viiker Surf, Romulus Kahani'i and others, including our own Tango MacMurray, who finished 2nd.

There are just 8 surfers left in the tour at this point, meaning there are only 3 competitions left until they crown a champion.

Everyone still in the competition is a strong threat at this point for Tango, but he seems to be taking it in stride.

And let's look at the field. There were two big surprises in the eliminations today, those of Z-Boy, the offbeat Az-Cz surfer who made news with his engagement to a Vilitan woman he met on the tour, and Summer Conlin, the Vilitan who was a favorite early on in the tour.

But all eyes in Napieria are on our own Tango MacMurray.

"Dammit!" Boris said as the judges revealed Barker "Bread" Farlelle of 5.79. "I'm out." Boris added.

"Dude, that sucks but at least you were the first one out, and you didn't get your ass kicked." Dale said.

"Ya, I guess." Boris said. As Boris was saying this the final member of the Quakmybushian surf team.

"Yo Dale, that was a awesome run. Tough luck to you Boris."

"Thanks." Dale said.

"Any word on the sponsorship deal?" Boris asked.

"Well, we have it guaranteed now. But Dale can make it better and better if he does better in the tournament." Igor said

"How much better?" Dale asked

"Oh... about H75,000 better." Igor said.

"Sweet.... Dale, do your best man, it's already a good deal." Boris said.

"No pressure eh?" Dale said with a laugh

"None at all man." Igor said

"Ya dude, we already have the contract which is all that matters." Boris said.

"I know, Igor anything else other then the cash bonus?" Dale asked

"Well if you make it to the next round you would be on the cover of NationStates Surfer 07." Igor said.

"Lucky" Boris said

"That is awesome I always play that game. To be on the cover of that game would be amazing." Dale said.

"Would the remaining eight surfers please report to the competition area, the next round is about to begin." A voice said over the speakers.

"Well Dale, good luck." Igor said.

"And remember NationStates Surfer 07." Boris said

"Alright guys, cya later."

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Surfing Elite cut to 8


The Vilitan Pipeline Invitational in Lonngeylin, Vilita has been a great success so far, with todays competition ending with the Round of 16, where the top 8 surfers advance to tomorrows Quarter Final round, while the bottom 8 surfers were sent packing for their mid-tour breaks a day early.

The Pipeline is the final event for surfers in the first half. Many surfers will be returning home, but others indeed will be staying in Vilita for the exciting marriage of Az-Cz surfer Z-Boy and his newfound Vilitan love, Taihenna. Z-Boy himself can now focus on his big occasion, having been knocked out of the tours most prestigious event in the Round of 16, after long having been circled as one of the favorites to make it to the final round. Z-boy posted some big runs early in the Qualifying, but was unable to duplicate such performances in the knockouts, barely advancing to the Round of 16 before being eliminated in the 12th position.

Only one Vilitan, Yeaddin's Viiker Surf, advanced to the Quarter Finals, though all three Vilitan surfers qualified for the first cut, the round of 32. Surf was joined by Summer Conlin in the Round of 16, but the only Vilitan to win an event so far on the tour, Conlin having won the opening event of the season, was left dissapointed in the Round of 16.

Surf will be surfing for the First Half's individual title in the final stages of competition against Az-Cz's Al-Va who has also advanced with teammate and leader Kl-Slt. The surprise of the round has to be Quakmybush's Dale Gonzales, sneaking in the 8th place to join Bazalonia's Barker "Bread" Farlelle and Liverpool Engand's Kuepça Çavanoçich as the underdog trio looking to steal a spot from the top ranked surfers in the Semi Finals. Tangaroa MacMurray and Romulus Kahani'i of Napieria and the Bainbridge Islands, respectively, will look to gain some momentum going into the second half by putting their name on the biggest trophy in surfing. Both surfers have enjoyed up and down seasons, with Kahani'i holding the individual lead for most of the early stages of the first half, before being unseated by Surf and Al-Va as the first half came to a close.

All in all, an exciting Quarter Final is sure to take place tomorrow in Lonngeylin.

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NationStates Surf Tour :: Tour of Vilita - - - Official Tournament Standings
(http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=500762)


After strutting their stuff for 13 regular tournaments, the Surfers were ready for the biggest event on the Surfing calendar. Surf Week in Vilita had begun and Lonngeylin was the spot that held the action. The Vilitan Pipeline Invitational was set to kick off with the first run of the qualifying round. Unlike other events on the first half of the tour, an additional round has been added to the Pipeline, so the 98 Surfers entered into the event will be fighting for one of the 32 places in the second round of competition. This is the first tournament of the season where your media (RP) can influence the results during the course of the event.

Todays results are part of the knockout stage of the competition. The results from previous rounds are ignored, and each surfer gets one run to impress the judges. The top half of the scores advance, the bottom half go home. The tournament will continue in a top-half advance format until just one surfer, the champion, remains. Those surfers not in the top 32 after the qualification round have been eliminated from competition.


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14 :: Vilitan Pipeline Invitational (Lonngeylin, Vilita)

Leaderboard after Quarter Finals (Top 4 Advance)

1) Romulus Kahani'i - Bainbridge Islands -- -- [7.06 - 7.1 - 6.49 (6.88)] [6.13] [5.68] [6.24]
2) Viiker Surf - Vilita -- -- [7.59 - 6.13 - 5.56 (6.43)] [6.12] [5.58] [6.08]
3) Al-Va - Az-Cz -- -- [5.5 - 6.97 - 6.78 (6.42)] [5.67] [6.25] [6.06]
4) Tangaroa MacMurray - Napieria -- -- [7.65 - 6.31 - 7.1 (7.02)] [6.18] [6.4] [5.47]

-- Eliminated from Event --

5) Dale González - Quakmybush -- -- [5.83 - 7.13 - 7.57 (6.84)] [5.85] [5.56] [5.45]
6) Kl-Slt - Az-Cz -- -- [7.06 - 7.53 - 7.25 (7.28)] [6.12] [6.44] [5.25]
7) Kuepça Çavanoçich - Liverpool England -- -- [6.74 - 5.41 - 6.62 (6.26)] [6.19] [6.28] [5.13]
8) Barker "Bread" Farlelle - Bazalonia -- -- [5.51 - 6.04 - 7.38 (6.31)] [6.42] [5.79] [5.01]







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Hello and Kia Ora! This is Angus Pakeha, live in Alikki Corra, where the Inaugural NationStates Surf Tour is down to four.

Perhaps the four.

Romulus Kahani'i. Viiker Surf. Al-Va. And rounding out the list at the number four spot, our own Tangaroa MacMurray.

Competition is sure to be fierce in the next event, as each of these four surfers wants nothing less than that final trophy. With us today is Cameron Takimoana, himself a former competitor in this event, who has stayed behind to cheer on Tango. Cameron, what are your impressions?

Angus, I think you're absolutely right about the competition being fierce. Romulus, Viiker, Al-Va... these are names we've seen at or near the top of the leaderboards since the first event.

Absolutely, though Romulus, like Tango, has had an up and down tour.

He has. But he's also a very solid surfer.

What did you think of the last event?

I think Tango was definitely showing some of his best stuff. He was out there, enjoying himself on the waves, which is when he's at his best. Of course, at this stage of the tour, absolutely every surfer is putting on an amazing show.

I couldn't agree more. What do you think Tango's chances are, going into the next elimination?

Fifty-fifty. He's just as good as those other guys. At this stage, a lot depends on luck... but if you ask me, Tango is a very lucky guy when his head's in the right place. I think he has even odds.

There you have it. Napieria can only watch and wait, and wish Tangaroa MacMurray the very best of luck.

Taihenna turned to Z-Boy just after the quarterfinal runs had been completed. "My friends just texted me to tell me that all Al-Va has to do to lock up the individual surfer title is beat Surf this round. Even if they are both knocked out or both go to the finals, if Al-Va finishes ahead of Surf than Al-Va will be the champion of the first half. You think we should tell him."

Z-Boy looked askance at her. "Absolutely not, honey. That's not how me and Al-Va think."

Kl-Slt, who had come over after being eliminated, nodded in agreement. "I might like to know that sort of thing, but I think for Al-Va it's best to let him focus on clean runs, rather than the competition. Anyways we ought to go down the beach to talk to him."

The three walked down the beach and Z-Boy spoke first. "Huge run Al-Va. You've put the team title out of reach."

Al-Va looked back suprised "Really? For Sure?"

Kl-Slt confirmed it. "Yeah. We had a three point lead coming into the tournament. There's no way to make that up in just one extra run. We've won."

Z-Boy continued on. "So now you can just blow the doors open on the tournament. There's no pressure on you. Just go out there and show 'em your tricks. There ain't nobody out here on the beach who can touch us. Make us proud."

Al-Va "Hot damned. Who knew our ragtag crew would be so succesful out here in Vilita. A team title, all of us easily within the top ten, maybe in the top 5, plus we've added a great fourth member in your gal Taihenna. Man Vilita sure does treat us right."

Taihenna chuckled at that. "We sure do love you Gnomes out here. We seem to channel good luck your way. How else to explain the 2-1 win over Casari?"

The four of them all had a good laugh about that.

"Well I'm sure to get called back soon, so I'm gonna get back in position." With that Al-Va headed down to the start spot for the remaining four competitors.

The other three walked back to the stands. When they got there Z-Boy turned to the other two and said "I don't think poor Surf stands a chance."

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Final Four set for Showdown


The biggest event in surfing, the Vilitan Pipeline Invitational, has been cut down to its final four surfers. Some surprise package surfers had slipped into the top 8, with representatives from Quakmybush, Liverpool England and Bazalonia competing side by side with the best in the world. But the story books would end in the Quarter Finals for Dale Gonzalez, Kuepça Çavanoçich and Barker "Bread" Farlelle, as well as Kl-Slt from Az-Cz who were unable to crack the top four to advance to the semi-finals.

Those who did crack the Top 4, however, reads a who's who of the NationStates Surfing Tour. With one representative each from the top 4 ranked Surfing Nations, the All-Star class of surfers in the final four is virtually unrivaled previously, and is a fitting conclusion to the first half of the Inagural Surfing Tour. Only Tangaroa MacMurray of Napieria has not at one point been ranked as the #1 surfer in the world from amongst the Semi-Finalists, but the up and down surfer has shown flashes of brilliance, including one tournament victory, that show "Tango" is ready to challenge for that position as the tour re-starts for the upcoming second half.

But current leaders Al-Va and Viiker Surf will have something to say about that. One event has now turned into just one single run to crown the first half's individual champion. Trailing Al-Va by the slimmest of margins entering the event, Surf must advance to the final to stand any chance of stealing back the first half title from is Az-Czzer rival, and in turn hope that either Romulus Kahani'i of the Bainbridge Islands or Napieria's MacMurray beats out Al-Va to take the other place in the final showdown. Any other result would virtually clinch the first half's individual title for the Az-Cz surfer.

All eyes will be on Lonngeylin for the conclusion of the greatest event in surfing, with the all-star lineup fighting not only for the prestigious victory in the Pipeline Invitational, but also for tour supremacy as first half champions.

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NationStates Surf Tour :: Tour of Vilita - - - Official Tournament Standings
(http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=500762)


After strutting their stuff for 13 regular tournaments, the Surfers were ready for the biggest event on the Surfing calendar. Surf Week in Vilita had begun and Lonngeylin was the spot that held the action. The Vilitan Pipeline Invitational was set to kick off with the first run of the qualifying round. Unlike other events on the first half of the tour, an additional round has been added to the Pipeline, so the 98 Surfers entered into the event will be fighting for one of the 32 places in the second round of competition. This is the first tournament of the season where your media (RP) can influence the results during the course of the event.

Todays results are part of the knockout stage of the competition. The results from previous rounds are ignored, and each surfer gets one run to impress the judges. The top half of the scores advance, the bottom half go home. The tournament will continue in a top-half advance format until just one surfer, the champion, remains. Those surfers not in the top 32 after the qualification round have been eliminated from competition.


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14 :: Vilitan Pipeline Invitational (Lonngeylin, Vilita)

Leaderboard after Semi Finals (Top 2 Advance)
1) Romulus Kahani'i - Bainbridge Islands -- -- [7.06 - 7.1 - 6.49 (6.88)] [6.13] [5.68] [6.24] [7.52]
2) Viiker Surf - Vilita -- -- [7.59 - 6.13 - 5.56 (6.43)] [6.12] [5.58] [6.08] [7.19]

-- Eliminated from Event --

3) Tangaroa MacMurray - Napieria -- -- [7.65 - 6.31 - 7.1 (7.02)] [6.18] [6.4] [5.47] [6.72]
4) Al-Va - Az-Cz -- -- [5.5 - 6.97 - 6.78 (6.42)] [5.67] [6.25] [6.06] [6.6]






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Hello and Kia Ora, this is Angus Pakeha, reporting from Alikki-Corra, where Tangaroa MacMurray has been eliminated from the Inaugural NationStates Surf Tour.

The final two consists of Vilita's Viiker Surf and Bainbridge Island's Romulus Kahani'i, both top surfers.

We have Tango here with us today to answer a few questions for us. Hello, Tango, how are you?

I'm good, and you, Angus?

I'm well. So, Any feelings on being eliminated?

Well, I did my best, and I got into the final four, and that's pretty good. I have no hard feelings toward any of the other surfers... everyone was here to do the same thing, and that's win.

What are you going to do now?

I'm gonna hang around and see how the last competition plays out. I'm gonna go to a wedding, then I think I'm heading home for a bit, relax before the next competition.

You're planning to compete again?

Absolutely.

Well, there you have it folks. Eliminated from the competition, maybe, but not from the sport. We'll be back to report on the final results as they happen. For Napieria News Network, I'm Angus Pakeha.

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Kahani'i Back in King's form


After a dominating start to the season, Bainbridge Islands 'King' Romulus Kahani'i hit a slump that took him out of many experts predictions coming into the biggest event of the tour, the Vilitan Pipeline Invitational. But Romulus has posted the top run in both the Quarter and Semi-Final rounds to advance to the one-run final round against Vilita's own Viiker Surf.

The two fought off fierce challenges from another pair of surfing's elite, Napieria's Tangaroa MacMurray and Az-Czzer Al-Va who finished 3rd and 4th respectively. It will be just the second final round appearance of the tour for Viiker Surf, though, even if he does not come out victorious, the Vilitan surfer could take home the individual first half title with a strong run with the elimination of current leader Al-Va in the semi-final stage.

Kahani'i on the other hand, still ranked third in the world, will be making his third final round appearance of the 14 event first-half and will be looking to record his second victory, a feat so far only achieved by two-time winner Al-Va. Kahani'i will also clinch 3rd place in the individual standings and team standings for his nation with his final round appearance, clinching the top 4 spots in the standings for the big four surfing nations, Az-Cz, Vilita, Bainbridge Islands and Napieria, setting the bar high for other nations to attempt to duplicate these nations first half success as the second half begins in the near future.

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NationStates Surf Tour :: Tour of Vilita - - - Official Tournament Standings
(http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=500762)


After strutting their stuff for 13 regular tournaments, the Surfers were ready for the biggest event on the Surfing calendar. Surf Week in Vilita had begun and Lonngeylin was the spot that held the action. The Vilitan Pipeline Invitational was set to kick off with the first run of the qualifying round. Unlike other events on the first half of the tour, an additional round has been added to the Pipeline, so the 98 Surfers entered into the event will be fighting for one of the 32 places in the second round of competition. This is the first tournament of the season where your media (RP) can influence the results during the course of the event.

Todays results are part of the knockout stage of the competition. The results from previous rounds are ignored, and each surfer gets one run to impress the judges. The top half of the scores advance, the bottom half go home. The tournament will continue in a top-half advance format until just one surfer, the champion, remains. Those surfers not in the top 32 after the qualification round have been eliminated from competition.


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14 :: Vilitan Pipeline Invitational (Lonngeylin, Vilita)

Leaderboard after Final Round


1) Viiker Surf - Vilita -- -- [7.59 - 6.13 - 5.56 (6.43)] [6.12] [5.58] [6.08] [7.19] [7.33]
2) Romulus Kahani'i - Bainbridge Islands -- -- [7.06 - 7.1 - 6.49 (6.88)] [6.13] [5.68] [6.24] [7.52] [7.26]




TOUR OF VILITA :: NATIONAL STANDINGS (First Half - FINAL)
NATION NAME G - S - B POINTS
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1 Az-Cz 3 - 4 - 3 [79.12]
2 Vilita 2 - 2 - 3 [76.47]
3 Bainbridge Islands 2 - 3 - 2 [70.75]
4 Napieria 1 - 2 - 2 [64.50]
5 Geisenfried 0 - 1 - 1 [55.74]
6 Bazalonia 1 - 0 - 1 [51.70]
7 Liverpool England 1 - 0 - 0 [49.97]
8 Casari 0 - 0 - 1 [49.45]
9 Edoniakistanbabweagua 0 - 0 - 0 [49.19]
10 Andossa Se Mitrin Vega 1 - 0 - 0 [48.85]


TOUR OF VILITA :: INDIVIDUAL STANDINGS (First Half - FINAL)
# SURFER NAME G - S - B POINTS (NATION)
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1 Viiker Surf 1 - 1 - 3 [65.68] (Vilita)
2 Al-Va 2 - 2 - 1 [64.78] (Az-Cz)
3 Romulus Kahani'i 1 - 2 - 1 [61.96] (Bainbridge Islands)
4 Kl-Slt 0 - 1 - 2 [59.57] (Az-Cz)
5 Z-Boy 1 - 1 - 0 [56.63] (Az-Cz)
6 Api Kiko 1 - 1 - 1 [54.69] (Bainbridge Islands)
7 Cameron Takimoana 0 - 2 - 0 [53.50] (Napieria)
8 Summer Conlin 1 - 0 - 0 [52.18] (Vilita)
9 Tangaroa MacMurray 1 - 0 - 2 [49.16] (Napieria)
10 Raynard 'Ray' Wechsler 0 - 0 - 1 [47.67] (Geisenfried)


TOUR OF VILITA :: MEDIA RATINGS (First Half - FINAL)
NATION NAME Grade
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Az-Cz A+
Bainbridge Islands A
Jeruselem A
Napieria A
Vilita B+
Funnia Lan B+
Casari B+
Liverpool England B+
Rejistania B
The Macabees B



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Click Here to Visit the Scores thread for Full Standings.
(http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=500762)

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Second-Half Details
(Updates from Original Post on Page 1)




Note: You may Sign Up for this event at ANY TIME! - Visit the Signup Thread
Do not hesitate if you would like to be a part of this tour, even if you have missed an individual tournament. You can still easily achieve a decent standing and rank for the second half of this tour and the next tour by beginning your participation now instead of later. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=499393)


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Team & Individual Standings

For the second half of the competition, there will be new sets of standings available. There will be the Second Half Standings, which will be calculated identically to the standings that were released after each event in the first half of the tour. These standings will be inclusive only of second half events, so all competitors currently have the same amount of Second Half Standings points (0). Additionally, the Tour Standings will use the same scoring system, but will be cumulative from the start of the tour, inclusive of all events from the first half of the tour.


How to Enter:

If you have not yet signed up for the NS Surf Tour in Vilita, please visit the official Signup Thread (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=499393) and submit your competitors there. The following is a list of nations who have been confirmed as signing up for the tour and submitting their nations representatives on the tour.


Andossa Se Mitrin Vega
Aurendia
Az-Cz
Bainbridge Islands
Bazalonia
Bedistan
Casari
Dorian and Sonya
Dumania
Edoniakistanbabweagua
Elves Security Forces
Fmjphoenix
Funnia Lan
Geisenfried
Jeruselem
Liverpool England
Misrantis
Napieria
Nedalia
New Montreal States
Nueva Ganja
Pablicosta
Quakmybush
Reanimated States
Rejistania
Schiavonia
Spruitland
System Karela
The Islands of Qutar
The Lowland Clans
The Macabees
The Mushroom Kingship
The Resurgent Dream
Tocapa
Toranat
Turori
Unified Capitalizt States
Vilita



If your nation does not appear in the list above, AND! A nation who has submitted their roster in the Signup Thread (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=499393) after you have submitted yours does appear in the list, then please return to the Signup Thread (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=499393) to declare this fact, or contact Vilita. The RP thread is not the place for matters regarding to signups! Thanks.



Second-Half Tour Venues ( As signified by the Map Above )
15 - Press National Challenge [Crosaibi, Vilita]
16 - Kiiara-Torra Open [Kiiara, Vilita]
17 - Vilaye Energy Drink Invitational [Vilisorma, Vilita]
18 - Castle Point Open [Yeaddin, Vilita]
19 - Surf Turori [Cednia Beach, Turori]
20 - Turoki Isle Open [Turoki Isle, Vilita]
21 - Marine Coast Invitational [Crosaibi, Vilita]
22 - 3wide Designs Challenge [Lonngeylin, Vilita]
23 - Arcticala Electrical Open [Arcticala, Vilita]
24 - The Ramzi Academy Open [Jlinal, Vilita]
25 - TGM Challenge [Lopinka, Vilita]
26 - Turoki Challenge [Turoki Isle, Vilita]
27 - Vilitan Cove Challenge [Alikki-Corra, Vilita]
28 - Lonngeylin Surfers Invitational [Lonngeylin, Vilita]


The Types of Events:

Open - An open (Or a Non-Specified event Type) is a standard event, which allows unranked surfers to compete at any time so long as they sign up before the event.
Challenge - A Challenge holds fractionally more prestige than an Open due to increased media attention and preparation by the venue
Invitational - An invitational is the highest level of tournament with the most prestige going to the winner. The Vilitan Pipeline Invitational is the most prestigious event on the tour, and is the only Invitational in the first half of the schedule. New signups will be accepted throughout the duration of the tour, however a surfer will not be allowed to compete in an invitational if they have not first surfed in an Open or a Challenge.
Sponsorable Events - Events with a title highlighted in red are seeking sponsorship. Any reputable and interested company or organization from your nation can apply to sponsor one of these events through RP. Sponsored events still follow the guidelines of the three different event types, though are simply available for a name change. Events in italics have already been sponsored by a Vilitan company

"Alright, so we were ok during the first half of the tournament. But that was before we were blessed!!!! Now that we are starting to come into these gifts, we should be able to tear through the field. Don't you think so Hess? You're looking awfully glum over there."

"Well Becs, it's just that I really don't know what this is for. What is the purpose in it all? So what if we win, who is really going to care? How is it going to do anything for our lives once we get back home? It all seems hopelessly pointless from here."

"Don't talk like that Becs. Once people see that Elune has granted us her blessings, I'm sure that we will be treated much better than just easy hook ups. Or... we could not return to the ESF. I mean, what is there to go back to there?"

"Our families for one thing. We just can't abondon them over this silly surf competition Becs, it just isn't right. We have an obligation to return home even if the conditions aren't as they should be."

"I suppose your right Hess, but you might want to consider it if you really are that down. A change in life style might just be what you need now after centuries of living, and this place isn't too shabby. Sure they are humans, but at least they have alot more beaches than home..."

Surf Tour opens Sponsorship Door


Throughout the first half of the Inaugural NationStates Surf Tour, corporate sponsorships within the tour were limited to individual player endorsements, while teams, venues and events were obligated to remain sponsor free, with the one exception being the Tiones Lumber Open in Yeaddin. This has all changed, however, with the announcement by the organizing committee that individual event sponsorships would be allowed for tournaments on the schedule for the second half. While some tournaments have been protected against corporate intervention, 10 of the venues have been given clearance to entertain offers from potential sponsors from Vilitan and foreign companies.

There was little surprise when the major players in Vilitan sponsorship quickly jumped at the opportunity, with 3wide Designs snagging their hometown event in Lonngeylin, The Press National their home event in Crosaibi and the Arcticala Electrical company doing the same for the lone Arcticala based event in the final 14. While not a major corporate presence, former Vilitan National Team star Jurgen Ramzi took the opportunity to advertise his Football Training Academy for Central Defensive Midfielders to young surfing fans around the world. But, it was the acquisition to the rights of sponsorship for the Vilisorma Invitational that caught the attention of both the Surfing and Business world.

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The Vilisorma Beverage Company shocked everyone by outbidding all of their major corporate companions to become the only corporation to get their name on an Invitational for the Inaugural Surfing Tour of Vilita. In a bid to enhance the image of its brand new Energy Drink, "Vilaye", the Vilisorma Beverage Company spent double their annual advertising budget for the rights in a huge gamble that many in the corporate sector will be keeping a close watch on. Vilaye, an unproven Energy Drink fresh onto the market is hoping to be the Saviour for the struggling beverage company. With the decline of the major local sporting clubs carrying Vilisorma's standard beverage line to viewers across Atlantian Oceania, the declining company was in need of a new target arena, and will certainly be hoping they've found it in the NationStates Surf Tour, and the Vilaye Energy Drink Invitational.

The Kiiara-Torra, Castle Point, Turoki Isle, Lopinka and Turoki events are still seeking sponsorship, and interested companies can begin applying for the title sponsorship role for these competitions at this time.

After the incident at their party the three surfers and Taihenna were very shaken. They didn't know what to do. A few days later they had gathered to talk things through.

Taihenna asked "What should we do? Do you think we should push the wedding back?"

Al-Va jumped in "No. You shouldn't. We've got to celebrate. We all could use something to get our minds off of this."

Kl-Slt added, "Plus all the arrangements have been made."

Z-Boy concurred. "There's nothing to worry about honey. It was one bitter Casaran fan. It was very unfortunate, but Zax-Im's gonna be ok. I still love you and I still want to do this."

Taihenna then replied, "Ok, then you'll have to explain the tradition to me again."

Z-Boy explained it to her. "The three of you need to fly back to Az-cz to my parents house. Now normally you'd be expected to break in by yourself and take something you want to wear at the wedding. But since you're not an Az-czzer Al-Va's going to do it for you. He'll wear a camera and you'll tell him what to nab."

"And why do I have to do this?"

"It's an Az-cz tradition. I'm supposed to do it too, but can't cause you're not Az-czid and your family wouldn't understand. But it's a tradition. I'm suring you know the saying, 'Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue'. Well we add a second part to that 'Something pink, something sntiched, something green, something stitched.' So you better sure as heck snitch something."

"Alright, alright. I'll do it."

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<Two days later>

Kl-Slt, Al-Va and Taihenna are sitting in a van outside Z-Boy's house.

Kl-Slt "So does everyone remember their code names. I'm The Professor, you're Silver Fox Al-Va, and your spice Taihenna. Ok."

Al-Va, laughed out loud. "Alright professor. Where do you come up with this stuff?"

"Let's get this show on the road."

Al-Va popped out of the car and scooted over to the house. He then climbed his way up to the second floor where he checked for anyone inside than popped open a window.

"This is the professor to Silver Fox. You hear me?"

Al-Va whispered "Fine professor."

"I don't think anyone's here now. What do you want spice?"

"I think I want a picture of Z-Boy as a child. See if you can find one of those. " Taihenna said into her microphone.

Al-Va then asked "Any ideas where to find that professor?"

"They've probably got an attic, no? Try to find that."

Al-Va then popped his head out into the hallway. No one was around. He looked around for a bit. He couldn't find any attics in the hallway. He though to himself to try to find a master bedroom. He looked around a bit and found what he thought might be it. He opened the door and indeed it was the master bedroom. He surveyed the room and saw a number of dressers and a closet.

"Where to professor?"

"Check that little dresser drawer."

Al-Va popped it open. Inside he found a number of oblong shaped objects and some women's underwear. Al-Va was amused by the activeness of Z-Boy's mother, but in reality wasn't that suprised. "No I don't think that's what we're looking for." he teased Kl-Slt.

"Try the other drawers."

He did but didn't find anything of interest. So he proceeded to the closet. He opened it up and on a top shelf he saw a shoebox. So he got that down. He rifled through it and didn't see anything that interested him, but he heard Taihenna say, "Wait. That's it. Get it."

"What's it?"

"That Pink Doom Bug broach. It's beautiful. That's what I want. I'll borrow a picture of Z-Boy from his mother and that'll be my borrowed item. But that broach is great. Get it and get out."

And with that Al-Va made his way back out of the house and they were gone, back on their way to Vilita.

YES YES AWA WERE THE WORDS SAID BY THE TWO DUMANIAN CONTENDERS THAT WERE CHOSEN FOR THE INAGURAL EDITION SURF TOUR. THEY ARE BOTH CHARGED UP AND ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THERE FIRST INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT. THEY ARE THE FIRST ATHLETES FROM DUMANIA TO EVER COMPETE ON THE INTERNATIONAL PLATFORM

DIE VOLKSBLAD
THURSDAY SPORTS EDITION

TGM PRESS RELEASE;

Dear Surfing Nations of the World;

The Garbage Men (TGM) have finally sealed a Sponsorship Deal for the Lopinka Challenge with the organisers of the Surfing Tour and the tournament.

There is no more beautiful spot on earth than on a pristine beach, however it is well known that polution of both the water and waste that is left behind spoils it for everyone. And this is why we have decided to Sponsor this tournament. Here at TGM we care about your waste all kinds of it, but most importantly we care about the environment and the people.

With the services provided by TGM you will never have to worry about dealing with Rubbish, Landfill and the very nasty surprises that can happen when it leeches into the ground water supply.

May you all surf in waters made clean by TGM

The day had finally arrived. Z-Boy and Taihenna were going to be joined together as one. Both members of the happy couple had gotten all of their traditional items together. Taihenna had her stolen doom bug broach and her borrowed picture of Z-Boy. Z-Boy had on his national team boxer shorts on and both were ready to get married.

The ceremony itself was rather small. Just a few relatives, the other surfers and a few close friends. No one from Z-Boy's sponsorships or people from work were there. They had found a nice little garden where they were to be married and were quite pleased with that.

The ceremony went off without a hitch. Most of the children for the ceremony, the ring bearer and flower girl and so on were from Taihenna's relatives. None of them managed to make any of the cute mistakes little children often make and everything went off quite smoothly. The vows were definitely interesting. First they each recited the prepared standard vows, than they had their own written vows. Z-Boy read his first.

"Taihenna, I've pulled off the ultimate double dolphin of life. Finding a woman as wonderful as you to spend my life with is a gift more than any man deserves. You alone have made this Vilitan country a true home for me. Your support guidance and love set me a soar and carry me to heights greater than I could ever reach on my own. The sight of your face sets doom bugs a patter in my heart and I am truly blessed to call you my wife."

Then Taihenna read hers. "If you told me as a child that I would marry a gnome I would've had no idea what you were talking about. But if you told me that I would find a prince, one who is handsome and charming and strong and warm and loving and protects me and takes care of me, I would've been absolutely happy. And I've found that prince, and I am absoutely happy. The package wasn't in the form I was expecting but to find someone like you is all I could hope for. I love you Z-Boy and look forward to spending the rest of our lives together."

The crowd was very moved by the prepared vows. And many in the audience were reduced to tears. But there were still many happy things to occur. Shabe Sugiyo, the Vilitan television reporter had come as Al-Va's date and caught the boquet, and Al-Va himself caught Taihenna's garter belt. One could only wonder if they would be next. Truly a joyous day was had by all and a wonderful union had been created.

SURFER 1

NAME: JOHANNES ZACHARIAS STTEPHANUS PENNELLS (STEPHEN PENNELL PENNELLS)
AGE: 16 YEARS
HEIGHT: 6"0
WEIGHT: 75KG
CITY OF ORIGEN: BLOEMFONTEIN
SCHOOL: FICHARDTPARK HIGHSCHOOL
ACHIEVEMENTS IN SURFING: -2003 CID NATIONAL CHAMPION
-2004 CID NATIONAL CHAMPION
-2005 CID NATIONAL CHAMPION
-2006 QUALIFIED FOR THE INAGURAL EDITION
SURFING TOURNAMENT

This guy is the most experienced surfer to come out of dumania for like ever. he is the only dumanian surfer to win the national title 3 times in a row. he is the local joker of our team and likes to throw a few pranks at other countries competeters.

One of these pranks happened during our flight to vilita. when whe were like i dont know how many miles in the air but that isn't the point. the point is he tripped one of the flight addendents and she fell face first into the pie that one of the passengers where eating.

So these characteristics will make him one of the top contenders for the tournament and whe as a nation are wishing him and his teamate goodluck and whe want to tell them that whe are very proud of them

SURFER 2

NAME: GERTHARDUS PRINSLOO (GERTO PRINSLOO)
AGE: 16 YEARS
HEIGHT: 5"4
WEIGHT: 65KG
CITY OF ORIGEN: BLOEMFONTEIN
HIGHSCHOOL: FICHARDTPARK HIGHSCHOOL
ACHIEVEMENTS IN SURFING: -2006 CID NATIONAL CHAMPION

This guy has a great personality which makes him a great surfer and that is why he took the title away from stephen pennells his long time buddy. he is the junior in the team and also the second person ever to compete internationaly

In a interview with sabc he said " this is the greatest honour i have ever had the priviledge to recieve and i will not let our country go down because a prinsloo doesn't go down without a fight"

CID is a local skating and surf companie that has made some surprise upcomings on the world seen. This company has been in bussines from about 2003 and has become dumanias most productive sports companies in the world

DIE VOLKSBLAD
THURSDAY ISSUE

The Az-cz and Vilitan reading foundations would likely to jointly sponsor the Castle Point Open. After the smashing success of the Read Vil Read performance we would like to continue to promote reading as a healthy and fun activity, to be done alongside things like surfing and other sports. We hope that the surf tour organizers recognize the importance of reading and will grant us sponsorships right to the Castle Point Open at a discounted rate. As we are simple non-profit organizations we don't have huge budgets, so we ask for help from the surf tour in arranging such an event.

After a short honeymoon off to see the world-renowned forest of Errinundera. Of course they also partook in some of the other joys of newlyweds. However now they were back in Vilita and they were busy preparing the major party that was to be held. Of course Al-Va and Kl-Slt helped and the majority of work was done by the sponsoring companies of Meaty Joe's Seafood Shack, Revolution Shades, and Turoki Isle Produce, but the newlyweds still wanted to make sure everything was done in a manner to their liking.

They had the musicians arranged, a nice dance floor, buffets serving both Vilitan and Az-czid cuisine, a massive ice sculpture of themselves, a recreated wedding cake, some nice balcony space, and even a small boat set up to cruise around the small lake they were neighboring. And of course, after what happened during the world cup, significant but inobtrusive security presence. They wanted to make sure that they and all the other surfers had a wonderful time at their party.

Indeed everything was truly top notch. They truly hoped the other surfers enjoyed themselves and had a wonderful time at their party. They were lookin g forward to get to know the other surfers much better. They even tried to get word out to the new surfers from Dumania. Although they were a bit young for the party, they had made sure to provide non-alcholic beverages for the younger members of the tour, as well as more relaxed spaces to hang out, if the more adult areas couldn't hold their interest.

Now all that was left was to wait for the other surfers to show up.