The 35^th Kirra teams challenge is won and done, what a fantastic weekend of Australian grass roots surfing. The event started on Friday with a welcome to country acknowledging the traditional land owners. This setup a great day of surfing with a number of Australia’s best juniors lighting up the beach Lenox Chell Avoca and Morgan Cibilic Merewether being the standout performers.

Saturday had a gale force norhterley blowing but you wouldn’t know with some exceptional surfing going down and the former world tour surfers leading way. Nathan (The Hog) Hedge from North Narrabeen narrowly edging out Joel Parkinson from Snapper Rocks into second place and the Narra boys were pumped, mean while Noosa, Angourie, Torquay and Nasa were quietly accumulating wins and heading the leader board going into Sunday.

Sunday the southerly change had kicked in with offshore conditions again. Kirra made a charge with Mick Fanning wining his heat over long time friend and fellow ex world tour surfer Danny Wills surfing for his home town of Byron Bay. Angourie who had quietly gone under the radar had a chance to seal the event if their last surfer had won his heat, but they got third opening up the event to a number of clubs. As happens on Sunday of event all heats are vital and as clubs fell away Point Lookout and Noosa stepped up, Ethan Ewing blew up with a heat score of 16.03 then Noosa’s final surfer Dean Brady had to win his and also have a combined heat of 16.5 to break the tie because both clubs would the have 5 wins 1 second and 2 thirds give both teams 27 points a requiring combined heats scores of all 8 surfers to break the tie Dean won his heat but fell short of the heat score required and Point Lookout won their first Kirra teams challenge, their previous best result was a 9th place.

On behalf of Kirra Surfriders I would like thank all teams for competing, I would also like to thank our sponsors Kirra beach hotel, Sae Group for providing the solar power, Donny Munroe for the rashies and George Donniger for his donation, also to all the helpers that make this event so special, the judges and Tappa for commentary. See everyone next year.

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Point lookout Winners 2019