| ASP prepares new ranking for the Dream Tour and WQS events |
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| Written by Editor at SurferToday.com |
| Tuesday, 29 December 2009 14:24 |
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Beginning in 2010, ASP International will activate a One Ranking structure for the men’s ASP Dream Tour and the ASP World Qualifying Series (WQS). The concept of the ASP One Ranking structure is to make both the ASP-sanctioned World Tour and Qualifying Series events contribute to a surfer’s year-end rating. The ASP One Ranking structure will be the primary means for determining if a surfer is eligible to compete in ASP World Tour events and the highly-rated ASP Qualifying events. Surfers will start to accumulate their respective ASP One Ranking points from the start of the 2010 season. However, the first season will be a bridge year to allow ASP to ensure that points are correct across all events and the changeover times onto the ASP World Tour are finalized. Below is a brief summary of the ASP One Ranking System and how the crowning of the ASP World Champion will work. We have begun with 2011, as it is the first full year season of operation. ASP One Rankings from 2011: · A surfer’s ASP ranking is determined by their best eight results from 2010. These results can come from any ASP event. The ASP World Champion will be determined by counting only results from ASP World Tour events. Each year, a new ASP World Title race will start and surfers can only win by counting their best eight results from ASP World Tour events. The rationale behind this is to ensure that the surfers competing for the prestigious ASP World Title are all competing at a level playing field and not chasing points in ASP Qualifying events at the end of the season, ASP Bridge Year in 2010: 2010 will act as a bridge year for the transformation into the ASP One Ranking structure. ASP One Ranking points will start accumulating from the first ASP-sanctioned event of 2010 – the ASP 1-Star Movistar Pro Peru from January 15 – 17, 2010. The ASP Top 45 (the Top 27 from the 2009 ASP World Tour, the Top 15 from the 2009 ASP WQS and three wildcards) will commence 2010 as they have in the past, with the first ASP World Tour event at the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast. After the fifth ASP World Tour event (the Billabong Pro Teahupoo), the field will be reduced to the Top 32 from the 45 who qualified for the start of the 2010 season. After the final ASP World Tour event of 2010 (the Billabong Pipe Masters), the ASP will determine the Top 32 surfers for the 2011 ASP World Tour. ASP International has built in a safety net to guarantee the number of surfers that comprise the 2011 ASP Top 32 – 22 from the ASP World Tour events and 10 from the ASP One Rankings events.
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