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FINAL RESULTS: World Dog Surfing Championships: BEST WAVES Competition

The 2nd Annual World Dog Surfing Championships: BEST WAVES Competition recently took place, a broadcast event with surf dogs competing with their top videos for the title of Best Waves of the Year. Thank you to all of our great judges, including pro surfer Nique Miller!

SMALL DOG SURFING HEAT

  1. Carson
  2. Delilah
  3. Petey

MEDIUM DOG SURFING HEAT

  1. Tristan
  2. mimi
  3. Coda

LARGE / VERY LARGE DOG SURFING HEAT

  1. Rothstein
  2. Charlie
  3. Koa

DOG / DOG TANDEM SURFING HEAT

  1. Charlie & Carson
  2. Tied: Koa & Charlie, Samson & Delilah, Team Coda

DOG / HUMAN TANDEM SURFING HEAT

  1. Team Skyler & Rothstein
  2. Satomi & Coda
  3. Team Carson

TOP BEST WAVES SURF DOG

  1. Rothstein
  2. Tristan
  3. Charlie

BEST WAVES PHOTO AWARDS:

BEST SURF DOG PHOTO

  1. Satomi & Coda
  2. Tristan
  3. Minnie Mau

BEST DOG BEACH FASHION PHOTO 

  1. Petey
  2. Coda
  3. Ridley

BEST FETCH

Coda – Winner

Ridley – Runner-up

More information at www.SurfDogChampionships.com

World Dog Surfing Championships Livestream Hybrid Event Make Sports History

The World Dog Surfing Championships and TasteTV thank all of the fantastic dog surfers (and humans) who took part in the 2020 Livestream Hybrid Event. To our knowledge no other sports has ever attempted to organize and produce an event that utilizes the video and tech capabilities of Zoom to broadcast a live competition via livestream from multiple locations and multiple teams.

This was an historic, first-of-its-kind event, including both the heats live-streamed directly from various beaches across North America, as well as featuring recorded video from 2020. Realtime viewers and aficionados of the sport watching on Facebook Live numbered in the several thousand, and the amount of fans continues to grow daily as they watch and share the video replay of the event on Facebook.

Because of the unique nature of the Championships and the scarcity of live sports events at this time, enjoyment of the dog surfing event was extremely high.  A side effect was that judging was an unexpected challenge due to the great coordinated efforts of all of the surf dogs.

Teddy and Derby at the World Dog Surfing Championships

Below are the final results:

VIDEO HEATS

Highlight Reels
1 Carson
2 Charlie (tie)
2 Delilah (tie)
2 Flofy Tiny Surfer (tie)
2 Rothstein (tie)
2 Samson & Delilah Tandem (tie)

Small Dog Video
1 Carson (tie)
1 Flofy Tiny Surfer (tie)
1 Rusty (tie)
1 Tristan (tie)

Large Dog Video
1 Faith (tie)
1 Koa (tie)

Very Large Dog Video
1 Charlie Surfs up
2 Lily Lilo the Lab
3 Beezel

Tandem Dog Video
1 Brandy, Derby, Carson, Faith, Flofy, Rusty, Tristan
2 Rusty and Faith

Tandem Human/Dog Video
1 Koa and Oak (uncontested)

Fetch-Frisbee Video
1 Lani
2 Bamboo & Bobby Ellis

LIVE HEATS (LIVESTREAMED)

Small Dog Heat 1: LIVE
1 Carson
2 Delilah
3 Samson
4 Ziggy

Medium Dog: LIVE
1 Cherie
2 Tristan

Large Dog: LIVE
1 Faith the Surfing Pitbull (tie)
1 Rothstein (tie)

Very Large Dog: LIVE
1 Charlie Surfs Up
2 Derby
3 Teddy

Tandem Dogs Heat 1: LIVE
1 Derby & Teddy
2 Rusty & Faith
3 Samson & Delilah

Tandem Human/Dog: LIVE
2 Bamboo & Bobby Ellis (tie)
1 Derby & Kentucky
2 Quadruple tandem/Koa & Oak (tie)

WATCH THE CHAMPIONSHIPS REPLAY HERE ON FACEBOOK LIVE

Hounds Rule at the World Dog Surfing Championships

 

The competition was fierce, the waves unpredictable, the breaching whales in the background a bit distracting, and thousands of fans enjoyed the 2nd Annual World Dog Surfing Championships in Pacifica near San Francisco, where over 3 dozen amateurs and top dog surfers participated in the event.

THE FINAL RESULTS:

OBE Small Surf Dogs Award

  1. Gidget
  2. Sampson
  3. Lucy

Medium Surf Dogs Award

  1. Abbey
  2. Cherie
  3. Tristan

WOODROW WEAR Large Surf Dogs Award

  1. Skyler
  2. Teddy
  3. Derby

Tandem Surf Dogs Award

  1. Teddy and Derby
  2. The Spaniels (aka “The Littles”)
  3. Tristan and Bean

 

Tandem Human/Dog Award

  1. Sklyer/Homer Henard
  2. Dayton and Roxy
  3. Ryan Augenstein and 2Scoops

Top Surf Dogs Award

  1. Abbie
  2. Sampson
  3. Teddy

 

Other awards were presented for the Top Ball-Fetch-in-Water Competition presented by Goughnuts and the Dog Beach Fashion Competition presented by Pet Renu.