XCEL PRO Showdown At Supers Special Award Announced

Jeffrey's Bay - The XCEL PRO Showdown At Supers would like to welcome onboard Island Pacific as a co-sponsor of their event. Island Pacific is an international software company who has always supported surfing, and the Xcel Pro event. Island Pacific have long been involved in the surf industry, and are associated with many leading surf and street brands in the USA, UK OZ, NZ and Asia.

For the 2010 edition of the Xcel Pro, Island Pacific have decided to throw in 2 special awards. The first one is for the Best Barrel Of The Contest, and the second is for the Best Junior Surfer Of The Contest. So there will be R5,000 for the surfer who gets the best barrel of the event, and R5,000 will be coming the way of the U20 surfer who performs best on the day of the event. While the invited surfers are all Supers barrel specialists, there is obviously a chance that one of the junior surfers could win both awards and walk away with a R10,000 cheque. Junior surfers who stood out last year and who will be vying for top honours again this year are Dylan Lighfoot, Steven Sawyer, Bertie Stuurman and Remi Peterson. There will still be more junior surfers added to the mix when the final invitee list is named.

"We're obviously very pleased with Island Pacific for offering these awards for our event," said Xcel's Koffie Jacobs. "Any event at Supertubes is going to be all about the barrels. As well as this, our junior surfers are our future and we need to look after them and reward them accordingly. This is a great way to get them competing at the very best of their ability."

The final list of invited surfers and the rest of the Special Awards will be announced soon and the Xcel Pro portal will be going live shortly on www.zigzag.co.za. The event will be filmed by Silver Bullet productions. DaKine, Fire Wire, Nixon, Sector 9, Von Zipper, Kustom and Island Pacific are co-sponsors, and JBU will be in charge of event safety. Red Bull is also supporting the event. The media partner is Zigzag Magazine.

All event enquiries please contact Koffie Jacobs from Xcel Wetsuits.
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