Third Date of Costa Rica Surf Competition to Kick-Off Contetst Within a Contest
Antonio Pilurzu, head of Costa Rica’s Federacion de Surf (FS) , announced today that the third date of the 2005-06 Circuito Nacional de Surf (CNS) will take place this weekend, January 7 and 8 at Playa Hermosa (Puntarenas province).

Called Copa Mango, the tournament is the first of three dates sponsored by the Costa Rican chain Mango Skate & Surf Shop, and begins each day on the beach in front of The Backyard at 6 a.m. For this 3-star contest, inscriptions will take place Friday, January 6, between 5 and 7 p.m., at the Mango Surf Shop in Jaco. (The price is ¢6.000 for this date only, with 6.000 to register for the entire year if you did not pay the annual fee at a previous contest.)

For the 6th edition of the CNS, the FS have included the Copa Mango tournament; it is composed of three Circuito dates, including this first one in Playa Hermosa, followed February 11 and 13 in Playa Dominical and finishing the trifecta March 4 and 5 in Playa Nosara.

“Together with adding the results to the general points of CNS contest, we will make a separate ranking for the results of the three dates of the Copa,” explained Pilurzu of the contest-within-a-contest. “We have made all this effort and organized this form as an extra incentive to the new generation of surfers to assure even more champions, including a winner for the Copa Mango.”

The international sponsors for Copa Mango are Red Bull, Quiksilver, Roxy, Billabong, and Freestyle. Costa Rica’s sponsors are: Mango Surf & Skate, Tamarindo Vista Villas, Cala Luna Hotel & Villas, Hacienda Pinilla Beach Resort & Residential Community, The Backyard, Chuck’s W.O.W. Surf Shop, Shifi Surf Shots, Liquid Solutions, Bevy Media Corp, Fischer Bros Surfboard Designs, Banzaii, Carton, Teletica 7, 911 La Radio and Surfos Magazine.