{"id":22762,"date":"2011-04-19T09:41:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T16:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22762"},"modified":"2011-04-19T09:54:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T16:54:23","slug":"barracuda-networks-drops-mavericks-sponsorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22762","title":{"rendered":"Barracuda Networks Drops Mavericks Sponsorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110418__ssmt0419mavericks1_GALLERY.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110418__ssmt0419mavericks1_GALLERY.jpg','popup','width=400,height=253,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\/2011\/04\/20110418__ssmt0419mavericks1_GALLERY-tm.jpg\" height=\"126\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"20110418  Ssmt0419Mavericks~1 Gallery\" \/><\/a>Haggling over the Mavericks big wave contest is continuing even though there was no contest this year, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/news\/ci_17875918\">San Jose Mercury News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Sponsor <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barracudanetworks.com\/ns\/?L=en\" target=\"_blank\">Barracuda Networks<\/a><\/strong> decided to pull out of the event even though they had reportedly agreed to a three-year deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Barracuda Networks has decided to redirect our efforts and attention to other projects. We wish everyone involved in the event in the future the very best,&#8221; company Executive Vice President <strong>Michael Perone<\/strong> said in a statement. Barracuda had agreed to a three-year sponsorship deal for the contest with the surfers, but no contracts were signed. Surfable winter waves never materialized this year, so the contest was called off.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Jay Moriarity&#8217;s<\/strong> family has also requested that his name be removed from the contest going forward.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everybody seems to be making money off Jay&#8217;s name,&#8221; said <strong>Doug Moriarity<\/strong>, Jay&#8217;s father. &#8220;It sounds like it&#8217;s just becoming a big business again &#8212; Barracuda was saying the surfers can&#8217;t run it, they don&#8217;t have the experience.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What would you expect from a company named after a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barracuda\"><strong>voracious, opportunistic predator that relies on surprise and short bursts of speed to overtake their prey<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221; Sounds like it&#8217;s time to screw the prize money and take the whole thing back underground.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/news\/ci_17875918\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Mercury News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haggling over the Mavericks big wave contest is continuing even though there was no contest this year, according to a story in the San Jose Mercury News. Sponsor Barracuda Networks decided to pull out of the event even though they had reportedly agreed to a three-year deal. &#8220;Barracuda Networks has decided to redirect our efforts [&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":[6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22762"}],"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=22762"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22764,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22762\/revisions\/22764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}