Each year the community eagerly awaits the start of the waiting period and the anticipating builds the further into the period the event goes. It came down to the wire in 2025 with the event called on for the last waiting weekend in the regular waiting period. Like a football game in the fourth quarter event director Chris Keet and his crew made a hail Mary pass that landed in a perfect touch down on Valentines Day weekend.

Two weeks before the weekend the swell models were calling for little to now surf and south winds, but one week out it was clear there would be a significant storm with heavy rainfall followed by a solid combination of swells. Like a cliff hanger the variables that could not be controlled all had to allign in order to create a Classic weekend.

The storm had to be strong enough to create the swell which means heavy rain. But, the rain couldn't been too heavy. The clearing winds and swell needed to come the day before the event to wash away run off, and then fade so that the surf would become clean. Everything alligned in the exact chronology and Saturday January 15 dawned with well overhead, clean, consistent surf and it just improved from there. The magic and energy of the Rincon and the community that calls her coastline home unfolded with many a Cinderella story within the fabric of the event as dreams came true.

This truly local event featured legends and heroes such as Shaun Tomson, Dane Reynolds, all of which was captured on the live webcast with commentary that was raw, real and unfiltered.