Surfers Battle for Championship Tour

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‘It sucks, man’: World Surf League’s dreaded cut claims its final unlucky victims

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Connor O'Leary and Liam O'Brien battle for a place on the World Surf League’s Championship Tour.

O’Leary scored the wave of the heat, while OBrien nailed one of the best turns of the entire day with a stabbing hook.

The cut has been among the most controversial of a series of changes to the WSL introduced by tour authorities in an attempt to garner greater casual interest.

The WSL have unveiled major format changes for 2026 including an end to the cut, an expanded female field and a return to the overall points total method for determining the Champions Tour winner.

The cut will be replaced by a late-season mini-cut with the field slimming for two final events before the entire field returns for the final event, at Pipeline in Hawaii .

WSL commissioner Jessi Miley-Dyer says returning Pipeline to its traditional role as the end-of-season event was a decisive factor.

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