The database
What we hold, where it came from, and where it's being developed
Assembled from publicly available competition results and heat sheets, structured into a relational database, and verified before anything is published. The gaps are listed alongside the coverage, because a partner needs to know both.
Limits
What this database cannot do
Published here because you will find these out eventually, and it is cheaper for both of us if that happens now.
Wave-level coverage is the elite men's and women's tour at 16 venues. It is not a global database of every event at every level, and we do not describe it as one.
Wave direction, in-heat timing and priority are captured event by event, and the coverage keeps growing. Today 52% of waves carry direction and 17% carry timing. Any analysis that leans on them says so and shows its sample.
If an event is held somewhere the tour has not been, we bring method and comparable-conditions reasoning, but not a venue record. We will say which one you are getting.
A record of what happened and what it implies about form and fit. It does not forecast heats, and we do not claim credit for competitive outcomes.
Also held
A broad results archive, at a shallower grain
Separately from the wave-level database, we maintain a results archive covering the professional and amateur competitive calendar. One row per athlete per event, spanning the world tour, the qualifying series, junior tours, ISA championships and USA Surfing events.
A separate dataset at a different grain, one finish per athlete per event rather than wave-level. The two are never combined into a single figure. Archive counts verified 10 August 2026.
Want to know whether we hold what you need?
Tell us the venues, athletes or seasons that matter to your programme and we will tell you exactly what the coverage looks like, including where it does not reach.
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