Event Details

The first official etnies GvR Surf will determine which stance is supreme, at least for the next year. Will the Goofies take the title first? The Goofy starting five is looking pretty dominant, but the list of Regular qualifiers is super strong.

This one-of-a-kind surfing event matches up the goofy foot surfers up against their regular foot counterparts in an action-packed contest format. Some of the world’s best surfers are already committed, and the swell is coming in just in time! Oceanside Pier is the spot—we’d love to see you there. etnies GvR is free for all to attend!

Saturday, October 20: GvR Qualifiers, MxPx, and the etnies GvR Party, presented by Lost Energy Drink and New Era.
First round heats run from 8am to 1pm, and second round heats go from 1:20 to 4pm. MxPx plays at 5pm, and the party at the Flying Bridge goes from 9pm to 1am!

Sunday October 21: GvR Main Event and Finals:

Main Event Heats run from 9am to 12noon, and the 30-minute Finals Heats—one for Regular and one for Goofy—begin at 12:30 and 1pm, with awards immediately following.

GvR CONTEST

Surfing Magazine’s Evan Slater is the Team Captain for the Regular team while TransWorld Surf’s Chris Coté is Team Captain for the Goofy team. Each Team Captain picks five surfers to pre-qualify for their Team. These five pre-qualified surfers—the Starting Five– will go straight into the etnies GvR Main Event on Sunday.

On Saturday, qualifiers for the rest of the Goofy and Regular Teams take place. The Goofy and Regular surfers will compete in the Saturday heats to make the cut of eight for each Team. Then two Wild Card surfers will be chosen by the Team Captains to round out the ten surfers who will join the five pre-chosen surfers. These fifteen surfers comprise each Team for the Finals on Sunday.

For Sunday’s Main Event, the Team Captains create three heats from the fifteen surfers—five surfers each heat. A coin toss will determine which team goes first, and the heats will alternate between Teams, with 30-minute sessions for each heat. For the Finals, the Team Captains will choose which five surfers from the Main Event will surf. The Team Captains can choose these surfers based on scores, potential, or a combination—basically however they see fit. The team captains want their team to win, so it is up to them to put their best team in the water for the 30-minute Finals Heat. Also, Team Captains may substitute surfers at any time during the Finals Heat. After the Finals, the Captain of the winning team will name an MVP, who will receive an additional $1000.

PRIZE PURSE BREAKDOWNS

Total GvR Purse: $50,000 Total

• Surfing Magazine and Transworld Surf each pick 5 pre-qualified Surfers for their team who advance directly to the GvR Main Event—the “starting five.” Each of these surfers automatically receives $1,000. TOTAL - $10,000
• Each surfer on the losing team receives $750 x 15 Surfers. TOTAL - $11,250
• MVP of the winning team (voted by Team Captain/Team) receives $1,000. TOTAL - $1,000
• The winning team receives $27,750 as follows:

1st place surfer = $8,000
2nd place surfer = $4,500
3rd place surfer = $2,000
4th place surfer = $1,750
5th place surfer = $1,500
6th through 15th = $1,000 each = $10,000

CHILL TIME AT GvR: BAND SCHEDULE

Saturday, October 20: Oceanside Bandshell: MxPx plays at 5pm. This show is free, open to the public. Bring your friends!

Who’d a thought 15 years ago that a three piece punk rock band from Bremerton, WA would be one of today’s most recognizable trio’s in the music industry. Flash back to the early 90s and you’d find MxPx’s Mike Herrera (bass/vocals), Tom Wisniewski (guitar/vocals) and Yuri Ruley (drums) wearing out their Descendents and NOFX cassettes, breaking into the industry on Seattle based indie label, Tooth & Nail.

Bring us back to 2006…MxPx is still making music together, and they are still wearing out their NOFX and Descendents cassettes. Marking their growth and loyalty, the band has teamed up with their first label, Tooth & Nail for the sole release of the deluxe-edition, Let it Happen, the 1998 rarities compilation that marked MxPx’s move from Seattle indie-label stardom to the great wide open of popular music.

True to form, they’re pulling out all the stops the second time around: Besides the original 32 tracks, the deluxe edition of Let it Happen features three new studio tunes produced by longtime band associate Aaron Sprinkle (Anberlin, Emery, Mae), three original demos from MxPx’s salad days, and a bonus DVD videography compiling 12 music videos from throughout the band’s history. Factor in the new artwork—which finds the band’s “Pokinatcha Punk” mascot rocking Herrera’s Ernie Ball bass—and the exclusive photos, and Let it Happen isn’t just a deluxe-edition reissue; it’s a veritable time capsule from the biggest pop-punk export in Pacific Northwest history.

It’s only fitting that Tooth & Nail Records, which originally released Let it Happen in 1998, is back onboard for the re-release. MxPx and Tooth & Nail both got their start within a year and only 20 miles from each other—MxPx forming in 1992, Tooth & Nail launching a year later. —But more famously, they first crossed paths at an MxPx gig in Herrera’s parents’ back yard. That show, which Herrera remembers as “terrible—I blew out my voice just from practicing for it,” nonetheless marked the beginning of a long relationship, from which MxPx built their name.

“It’s been great coming back to Tooth & Nail, because we as a band are in a different place, and they as a label are in a different place than when we last worked together,” Herrera says. “We did [the 2002 career retrospective] Ten Years and Running with them, but we were still under contract to A&M at the time. Now, we’re not under contract with anybody—which, if you know anything about the business of being in a band, is a great position to be in. We’re on a record-by-record basis with anybody we work with, and that’s a great thing, to finally have that sort of independence, that autonomy.”

Fans who bought the original version of Let it Happen (currently approaching Gold status in the U.S.) will remember all three albums the band has released through Tooth & Nail: 1994’s scrappy, fan-favorite debut Pokinatcha, 1995’s Teenage Politics, and 1996’s Life in General (recently voted by Alternative Press magazine’s editors as one of the 10 best punk albums of 1996).

After building a steady discography through Tooth & Nail and after their indie deal expired, the band decided to take a leap up by inking down a major-label deal with A&M. In 2005, their contractual obligations to A&M complete, MxPx made one of their toughest band decisions yet, they left A&M, and decided to continue as free agents. For all the years MxPx had spent operating as a punk band, it was the most punk-rock business move they’d ever made. To keep the momentum going they headlined the 2005 Warped Tour formally reintroducing them to a world that was more than ready.

While MxPx have released close to two-dozen EPs, live discs, retrospectives and 7-inch singles over the years, Let it Happen will always be the collection that stands out most for the band: not only because it marks the end of one era, but because it kicks open the door to another one. “It’s funny, because time just flies by when you’re in a band for over 10 years. You experience so much together that the day-to-day starts becoming a little more normal, a little less exciting,” Herrera says. “But to look back at the photos in this CD, I’m reminded that we really had a lot of good times.” He laughs. “Don’t get me wrong: We still have a lot of great times, but I’m gonna have to wait another 10 years to look back on the photos from today to realize it.”

DIRECTIONS TO GVR!

From all points north and south of Oceanside:
 Take Interstate 5 to Oceanside, exit Mission Blvd and turn west, towards the beach. Stay on Mission Blvd until it dead-ends at Pacific St. The Pier and Bandshell are straight ahead.

PARKING INFO

Parking is available throughout downtown Oceanside on the street, as well as in public and private lots. Oceanside Pier and the Oceanside Bandshell, where MxPx is playing, are at the beach where Mission Blvd dead-ends at the ocean.

HOTEL INFO

Comfort Suites Marina Oceanside
888 N. Coast Hwy., Oceanside, CA
(760) 722-8880
119.99 per night
1 Mile from pier

La Quinta Inn Oceanside
937 N Coast Hwy, Oceanside, CA
(760) 722-4235
$103.20 per night 2 queen beds
1 mile from pier

Best Western-Oceanside
1680 Oceanside Blvd, Oceanside, CA
(760) 722-1821
$71.10 for 2 double beds per night
1 mile from pier

Days Inn Oceanside: Oceanside
1501 Carmelo Dr., Oceanside, CA
(760) 722-7661
$72.25 King room, $80.75 2 queen beds per night rate
1.5 miles from pier

Best Western Marty’s Valley Inn
3240 E Mission Avenue US Oceanside, CA
760-757-7700
$95.00, 2 doubles per night
3 miles from pier

Ramada Inn
1440 Mission Blvd, Oceanside, CA
(760) 967-4100
$70.00 for 2 queens per night

Oceanside Marina Suites
2008 Harbor Drive North Oceanside, CA
760-722-1561 / 800-252-2033
2 miles from pier, on Marina