When the pkra was taken over my virgin and their partners everyone was pretty optimistic that it was going to progress the sport of kiteboarding and make it more of a spectacle. So a season later with no live stream, poor organisation, the IKA issue and every event cancelled since Germany it has been a pretty conclusive fail. Anyone in the loop about why all the events were cancelled and what is going to happen next year?

It's an absolute shemozzle!

Fallout from this mess is there will be a few riders who may have been climbing the ranks, who will have to make serious decisions about following the tour from now on.

These kids are pushing themselves hard, on borrowed time with injury waiting around the corner, and and if its parents footing the bills, reins will be tightened.

Glory days are done and dusted.

That sucks!

This might sound really stupid and I honestly have no idea, but did anyone win? Who is the 2015 World Champ?

According to IKA - Liam Whaley and Karolina Winkowska are the World champions.

According to VKWC - Liam and Gisela are tour champions.

The whole thing was a shmozzle that's for sure.
If you have a look at the silly version of a Dingle they created (especially in the womens draw) you will see why the results are as they are. Riders pointed this out all year, from the very first event but it was never amended.

Gisela didn't actually beat Karolina all year, nor in the last 8 events, Karolina won the most events, and although scoring the second highest heat in both of the events she didn't win Karolina never got a chance to better her result because there was no second chance round, as such 3rd and 4th places basically had walk throughs... If they had followed the WSL dingle, riders would have been seeded in further rounds and even had another second chance round and this situation never would have existed.

The mens draw wasn't any better, although with more good riders it kind of evened it out a bit, but they still missed the all important seedings and another second chance round. With the womens draw the problem was magnified because of having too few riders in the draw and the fact you basically only had 3 people who ever looked like winning it.

tbranse said..
How **** it must be for Whaley to get the title this way...he deserves it imo as he was hands down the best rider this year.

Yeah, crappy situation for him, really not the best way for it to turn out. He was for sure in the top two, however I wouldn't personally say he rode better than Christophe Tack, but that's a story for another time.

Us, the riders have not been paid prize money for last 2 events.Total outstanding is over EUR110.000.It does not look like they are going to pay us at all.

Bebe is insane. The kid certainly has great talent. As far as I can tell he also has a good temperament. He seems humble and chilled which is refreshing. Something I don't really get from some of the top men riders. Youri and Pastor come across pretty well too.

Back on Bebe flying further than everyone else. Could this be he uses RPMs which just keep pulling and pulling after the load and pop?

I like bebe too. His style looks effortless and I love how easily he manages to get two subtle grabs in. Would like to see him ride in the flesh. Youri is a powerhouse and I thought Liam was a standout in Perth last season. I predicted he would win this year.

Shame everything went pear shaped. Hope all is sorted for next year. It's nice to have a good tour to follow.

All eyes on Pipe at the mo! Luv it when it comes down to the last event.. And the Mcgregor/Aldo title on the line tomorrow