{"id":11544,"date":"2009-11-11T15:05:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T23:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11544"},"modified":"2009-11-11T15:38:24","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T23:38:24","slug":"vans-buys-a-1-million-triple-crown-purse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11544","title":{"rendered":"Vans Buys A $1 Million Triple Crown Purse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/dr-evil.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/dr-evil.jpg','popup','width=510,height=411,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/dr-evil-tm.jpg\" height=\"161\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Dr-Evil\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.triplecrownofsurfing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing<\/a><\/strong> will this year award a prize purse of $1 million. But don&#8217;t get too excited. It&#8217;s not a winner take all. It&#8217;s just the total prize money of the six contests (three mens, three womens) all added up, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.honoluluadvertiser.com\/article\/20091110\/SPORTS10\/911100363\/Triple+Crown++purse+at++1+million\" target=\"_blank\">Honolulu Advertiser<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The men&#8217;s Triple Crown will feature events at Hale&#8217;iwa Ali&#8217;i Beach, Sunset Beach and the Banzai Pipeline. The women&#8217;s Triple Crown will feature events at Hale&#8217;iwa Ali&#8217;i Beach, Sunset Beach and Honolua Bay, Maui. . . The six contests will award a total of $875,000 in prize money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But then Vans threw in another $175,000 to knock it right over the top. Triple Crown organizer <strong>Randy Rarick<\/strong> is apparently amazed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It really is amazing, considering we don&#8217;t have a gate for paid attendance to help bring in money,&#8221; Rarick said. &#8220;It&#8217;s one of the better shows on earth and people get to watch for free. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s nice to see the surfers get rewarded like this.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe someday the winner of Pipeline will take home a cool million all by themselves. We can hope. Stay tuned to Triplecrownofsurfing.com for all the action. It all starts tomorrow with the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.triplecrownofsurfing.com\/reefblog\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Reef Hawaiian Pro 2009<\/a><\/strong> from Haleiwa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.honoluluadvertiser.com\/article\/20091110\/SPORTS10\/911100363\/Triple+Crown++purse+at++1+million\" target=\"_blank\">Honolulu Advertiser<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing will this year award a prize purse of $1 million. But don&#8217;t get too excited. It&#8217;s not a winner take all. It&#8217;s just the total prize money of the six contests (three mens, three womens) all added up, according to a story in the Honolulu Advertiser. The men&#8217;s Triple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11544"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11544"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11554,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11544\/revisions\/11554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}