Griffin Colapinto

And he's a glitch cone wrangler who can create drama and, and punch through whatever this wave throws at him.

I'm expecting him to manhandle Pitts out there and just huck some crazy futuristic tail high off-axis rotations that's going to make a Colapinto win undeniable.

He's up against three goofs, which I just think that's a...

So it seems like a real disadvantage at this wave.

Like name a team this sort of like with this much variety, this much creativity.

They've got everyone from Huey Vaughn and Miller Coco Brown to Mikey Feb and Looney Slab and it's just all over the show.

Griffin Colapinto, you name it, Mason Ho.

It's just the team.

That's a quarterfinal.

In the next one, we are going to see Griffin Colapinto against Philippe Toledo.

That's fucked.

Pass.

Let's go.

Edit team.

On the men's side, tier A currently, Griffin Colapinto, Leonardo Firavonti is my tier A.

Did have Kanoa.

So down but not out.

And I think the good things that can come out of these conversations, you saw this with Griffin Colapinto a couple years ago when he made his title run.

These pros watch this stuff, right? They watch the media.

They take it in.

Now, the place is incredible.

I got a winner for you, and this is a very obvious choice.

I'm going to go Griffin Colapinto from day one.

I think, you know, that wave he got where he got barreled and then did a 10-foot back five, like... griff was on it he's the now what the winningest surfer ever in portugal uh with three event event wins there um i felt like uh on opening day it was pretty clear that griff was gonna win this contest Yeah, he was amazing.

And I'd say a really good case for that is just if you look at the semifinalists, they're the ones who get Portugal.

Gabriel Medina, Italo Ferreira, Griffin Colapinto, Yogi Adora.

It doesn't really get better than that for a semifinal bracket.

And Portugal is the perfect location to be like, if you are one of those guys that you just named, you're an all-rounder.

Yeah, he's got a bit of time.

He'll go rest up.

My tier A on the men's side went Griffin Colapinto and Italo Ferreira.

I'm pretty stoked with that.

The teams that we know.

That are going, we have for the men, we have on Team USA, we have Griffin Colapinto, Cole Hauschman, Jake Marshall on the men's side.

On the women's side, we have Carissa Moore, Gabrielle O'Brien, Sawyer Lindblad.

For Brazil, we have Iago Dora, Italo Ferreira, Miguel Pupo.

A lot of love down on the beach here right now.

And what about this guy? Colapinto, the three-peat in Portugal.

No one's ever done it before.

No one has surfed this place with this much success in competition.

crazy final went down.

In order to get us there, we'll check out the men's bracket and see what went down for our two finalists.

Gabriel Medina and Griffin Colapinto.

And in terms of talent out here, we often identify this is a way where anyone can do well.

But it's almost like those stance, like the people that.

Griffin Colapinto.

Right, like they're.

But, you know, like Craig Anderson and, you know, Victor Bernardo and some of these.

Some incredible surfing.

So there was overlapping heats for men and women.

Griffin Colapinto, I'd say the top contender right now.

Yago as well.

So I'm going Samuel as well.

All right, so whoever wins in that round will obviously advance to round two, where they have waiting for them Leo Firavanti, Gabriel Medina, Italo Ferreira, Kanoa Igarashi, Yago Dora, Ethan Ewing, Miguel Pupo, Griffin Colapinto.

Stace, so it's time for us to make some overall picks in this event.

Who's your overdog? We'll go men first.

Tier A.

I've gone Griffin Colapinto.

Yep.

Italo Ferreira.

And that's where I landed.

Who have you got?

So men's, Griffin Colapinto, Yago Dora, times two on Yago.

That probably won't change.

Could be anything.

Eden Woolla, a Griffin Colapinto, you know? Like, there's some stories-

There we go

... that are gonna develop.