Zicatela,Thirsday 4th October – Hawaiian Jeff Hubbard has won the IBA TURBO ZICATELA PRO 2012 in flawless 6-8 foot surf at Puerto Escondido today. Hubbard defeated 6x World Champion Guilherme Tamega (BRA) with a high flying air roll and deep barrels in the final to claim his second Zicatela Pro title. Congrats Jeff !
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From the IBA press release: The 2 x World Champion fell victim in the non-elimination Round 4 of the event, but taking the longer road to the final did not slow down the hungry Hawaiian. Hubbard took down Australian super talent Mitch Rawlins in Round 6 this morning and managed to keep his momentum, topping Magno Passos (BRA) in the quarterfinals and current World Champion Pierre-Louis Costes in the semifinal.
Guilherme Tamega was looking strong thought the event, defeating an inform Mark McCarthy (ZAF) in the quarterfinal and current ratings leader Dave Winchester (AUS) in the semifinal, but could not match Hubbard’s aerial antics in the final. Today Tamega bagged his third 2nd place finish of 2012, making it clear that he is hungry for a seventh world title.
Winchester’s 3rd place finish has helped him improve on his current points, but with the other three semifinalists also drastically improving on their points, the world title race has heated up between the top four seeds and will be decided at the Encanto World Series in Puerto Rico or possibly the final event of 2012, the Fronton Pro scheduled for 7-16th December in the Canary Islands.
The updated GSS rankings after event 6 of 8 (best 5 results)
1- Dave Winchester 8380
2- Guilherme Tamega 7380
3- Pierre Louis Costes 7250
4- Jeff Hubbard 7240
5- Mitch Rawlins 6400
6- Mark McCarthy 6400
7- Ben Player 6020
8- Jared Houston 5740
9- Mike Stewart 5520
10- Andrew Lester 5340
11- Amaury Lavernhe 5240
12- Magno Passos 5140
13- Alex Uranga 4980
14- Uri Valadao 4820
15- Dave Hubbard 4590
16- Sam Bennett 4580
The next IBA GSS event is the Encanto World Series featuring Women, DK and Mens Grand Slams at Middle beach in Puerto Rico from the 2nd-13th of November.
