<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The <a href="https://www.wavepoolsurftour.com/" target="_blank">Wavepool Surf Tour</a> officially gets underway on 1 August with the Alaïa Surf Challenge at Alaïa Bay, Switzerland, the first event in a new international tour created specifically for wavepool surfing. The tour includes both online and live competition formats.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">While surfers have been competing in wavepools for decades, wavepool surfing has changed dramatically in recent years. New facilities continue to open across Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and the Americas, creating new surfing hubs and bringing the sport to places once considered far beyond surfing's traditional reach.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Wavepool Surf Tour has been created to connect those communities through competition.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Built by a team drawn from both the surfing and wavepool industries, the tour reflects the changing face of surfing and the opportunities created by a rapidly expanding global network of wavepools. It offers surfers a new way to participate, compete and measure themselves against others while remaining connected to their local wavepool communities.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There's another way to do this.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Surf. Submit. Compete.</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"We've watched wavepools grow from isolated projects into a global network of venues and surfers," said founder Mark Fessler.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Today, world-class facilities are operating across multiple continents, with more opening every year. We believe the time is right for a competition format built specifically for wavepool surfing and the people who are helping drive its growth."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Wavepool Surf Tour has been designed to be inclusive from the outset, bringing together surfers across multiple ages, disciplines and abilities within a shared competitive format. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">While the season unfolds online, it culminates at the Wavepool World Finals, where the leading surfers from every division come together for the first live event of the year and the crowning of the year's global champions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Alaïa Surf Challenge is the first event on the calendar. Additional details regarding divisions, event formats, participation opportunities and future events will be announced in the coming weeks.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For more information, visit:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.wavepoolsurftour.com" target="_blank">www.wavepoolsurftour.com</a></div><div><br /></div>