From: Chris Mauro
So Kelly Slater hasn't won his 11th world title just yet. Turns out a glitch in the rankings software threw the whole tour for a loop. The ASP owns up.
Consider two representations of two very big waves, below. The first is a photograph of Mike Parsons at Cortes Bank. The second is a video of Garrett McNamara near Nazare, Portugal. Now take out some measuring tape and make the distance of one foot between your hands. That's the amount, according to the Billabong XXL committee, that McNamara's wave is bigger than Parsons's wave.