{"id":153698,"date":"2019-10-30T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T03:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=153698"},"modified":"2019-10-30T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T03:38:00","slug":"surfing-the-mavericks-contest-is-back-and-guaranteed-to-run-in-2019-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=153698","title":{"rendered":"Surfing &#8211; The Mavericks Contest Is Back and Guaranteed to Run in 2019-2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the host venue of a big wave contest, Mavericks has been dormant for nearly four years now. In fact, in the 20 years between Flea Virostko\u2019s inaugural <em>Mavericks Invitational<\/em> win, Nic Lamb\u2019s 2016 <em>Titans of Mavericks<\/em> win (the last time a contest was held) and today, Mavs has run just 10 times \u2014 a higher average than <em>The Eddie,\u00a0<\/em>for comparison\u2019s sake. But through name changes, permit disputes, and a failed attempt by the WSL to revive the contest on its Big Wave World Tour, Mavericks has had its fair share of speed bumps. Just over a month ago, the WSL axed the wave from the tour without ever running the event during its two years of ownership, and Mavs seemed all but dead from an \u201cofficial\u201d competitive surfing standpoint.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, that changed\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinertia.com\/surf\/the-mavericks-contest-is-back-and-is-guaranteed-to-run-in-2019-2020-heres-how\/?fbclid=IwAR0-V0Taf6EIcqsX86mUJmIiszFePegxi3Mnfc7re5fHwjkRA0fCoM-2VTM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the host venue of a big wave contest, Mavericks has been dormant for nearly four years now. In fact, in the 20 years between Flea Virostko\u2019s inaugural Mavericks Invitational win, Nic Lamb\u2019s 2016 Titans of Mavericks win (the last time a contest was held) and today, Mavs has run just 10 times \u2014 a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153699,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153698\/revisions\/153699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}