Big wave watchers are ready. The waiting period for the Mavericks Surf Contest is officially today and continues through March 31.
Contest organizers announced this week that action sports network FUEL TV will showcase Mavericks in the first high-definition live surfing webcast at www.fuel.tv/maverickssurf.
In addition to over the Internet, the HD webcast will be simulcast at AT&T Park in San Francisco. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the gate.
MySpace, the giant social network, will webcast the contest in standard definition at www.myspace.com/maverickssurf. The 2008 webcast was the largest in MySpace history with more than 1 million viewers.
Beginning at 8 a.m. on contest day, the free webcasts will feature all the action, live interviews with the surfers, up-to-the-minute heat results and the awards ceremony. Waves for Mavericks during contest conditions usually top 25 feet.
Mavericks Surf Ventures, the contest organizers, were able to pull together enough sponsors this month to fund the big-wave extravaganza with new sponsor Jim Beam bourbon putting Mavericks over the top.
Invited surfers - and fans - will get 24-hour notice when the contest will be held at Half Moon Bay. To sign up for an alert or find other details, go to www.maverickssurf.com.
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