For the second year in a row, the team behind "Matt Mayhem Bio Lost"...Lost Surfboards tops the shaper rankings!
For decades, Matt Biolos and his crew of glassers, sanders, and artists have built a cult following among surfers worldwide under the brand name Lost Surfboards. Lost Surfboards boasts a talented roster, but their track record on the Championship Tour speaks volumes.
…Lost took top honors in the WSL’s Vissla Championship Tour Shaper Rankings for the second year in a row.
…Lost's CT crew is headlined by defending World Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist Caroline Marks and world number two Griffin Colapinto. However, it's the depth of the team that allowed Matt "Mayhem" Biolos to dominate the Shaper Rankings leaderboard. …Lost earned over 220,000 points, with their closest rival Sharp Eye trailing them by 70,000 points.
Meanwhile, …Lost beat third- and fourth-place finishers Channel Islands and DHD by almost 150,000 points.
A quick glance at the WSL Championship Tour leaderboard makes it clear how Matt "Mayhem" Biolos managed it. Alongside Caroline Marks and Griffin Colapinto, we have Yago Dora at No. 6 in the world rankings, followed by Rookie of the Year Crosby Colapinto. The success of No. 15 Cole Haushmand also factored heavily into his Shaper ranking, especially his win at Bells.
On the women's side, it was the young talent that buoyed …Lost. Margaret River winner Gabriella Bryan and Rio runner-up Sawyer Lindblad both had solid breakout years, while wildcard Erin Brooks' win in Fiji undoubtedly helped propel …Lost to the top. And a special award goes to Carissa Moore, who made Matt Biolos proud with her performances on Pipe and in Tahiti despite announcing she was stepping away from tour life.
So how exactly do the WSL's Vissla CT Shaper Rankings work? Designed to celebrate and recognize the surfboard builders and craftsmen who create the equipment used by the world's best surfers, the Vissla CT Shaper Rankings are a mixed-gender ranking system that recognizes the shapers and surfboard builders who create boards for the world's best surfers. Starting with the first event of the season at Pipeline and ending with the final regular season event of the year at Cloudbreak, points are awarded to each shaper based on the results of surfers who reach the quarterfinals or higher. After that, shapers receive the same points as the surfers riding their boards. The winner is announced at the end of the regular season, before the start of the WSL Finals.
WSL and Vissla announced that the prize for the top Shaper was a day's rental of the Surf Ranch Wave Pool. For the second year in a row, Lost shared in the good fortune by treating all 60+ staff members to a day of surfing perfect waves in California's Central Valley.
