I've helped stage and organize enough wakesurf contest to know what a pain they are. I've also attended enough contests to know what's good and bad about them. I've attended small grassroots events in the midwest and every World Wakesurf Championship since the second coming of that event. I've even had the Sheriff try and stop one of the events we organized due to permits not being transferred between departments.
So when I say that the 2010 World Wakesurf Championships overcame ALL the odds to be the biggest, badest most successful contest in wakesurf history, I know what I'm talking about. From early on, the contest had lost it's momentum because Centurion had cancelled the WWSC from the year before. That by itself should have doomed the 2010 WWSC, but the folks at Towanza stepped up to the plate and accepted that challenge. At the event itself you couldn't even THINK of more stuff that could have gone wrong and the contest still proved to be the biggest and best. On the morning of the finals, wind and rain literally knocked every banner and sign down and washed crazy debris into the river where the boats were running.
