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Surfcomp Is Now Live In The App Store & It’s FREE!

With the launch of the competitive surfing calendar for 2017 in full swing, in keeping with the timely kick off for North Narrabeen Boardriders Club’s first monthly competition in February, Surfcomp has finally made it to the App Store.

All competitors can download and login to register, view heat draw, push notices, lives scores, leaderboard upates and much more – all with a secure access code. Guests can login to view contests at any time.

Surfcomp Our Mission

Our original plan was to produce the best mobile app that would transform the way competitive surfing events are run for all Australian boardriders clubs, and in keeping with our mission, we are making Surfcomp a free download for any registered boardriders club in Australia.

With such a wealth of natural talent on tap, the Australian breeding ground for surfing champions holds the key to maintaining our country as the top nation in the professional competitive surfing for generations to come. Coupled with a more streamlined local boardriders competitive arena, we see the future for our athletes is brighter than ever.

To get your club going with Surfcomp, we have taken away all objections.

Firstly it’s not expensive – it is FREE!

Secondly you don’t need to outlay any additional coin to get up and running – start with a basic 4 iPhones setup – and you are away.

We have removed the hassle of “onboarding” your club – a simple spreadsheet with competitors organised in divisions, ranked top to bottom, email and mobile – supplied to us and essentially your club is ready to go. We provide email support, video tutorials to get you going quick smart.

Not only does Surfcomp not cost you a cent, we have a generous sponsorship program for qualifying clubs, that will even help you make money for your club – so what are you waiting for?

Get Surfcomp and solidify the future of your club with the industry’s best surf-tech today!

Interview With Designer: Greg Gillespie

Photo: Mike surfphotosofyou.com – Greg Gillespie- NN – March 2015

The concept of finding a better way to run a local boardriders surfing competition really hit home late one Sunday in February of 2014…

It had been a long day at the beach, organising the first monthly contest for North Narrabeen Boardriders Club for 2014. The event kicked off in the usual fashion with the hussle and bussle of summer enthusiasm, with all the gromm’s chompin’ at the bit to get out there and carve it up.

The only difference for me, was my posting to the position of joint Contest Director with Dave Wood and Don Bronsveld, a fairly major promotion up from Head Judge, a position I had been awarded in previous years.

I thought that organising the event from a judging point of view took up a lot of time and energy, but it was purely nothing when compared to the chaotic mayhem of trying organise fair and seeded heats that everyone was happy with. There was an endless stream of requests to change my heat, change my rash vest because I am in back to back heats and I need to have the same colour on. Mix ups on the master sheet which became out of sync with the whiteboard that was the unfortunate result of all the demanding changes.

Wow, 25 years in the club and I thought I was doing my share of the work, just assisting with the judging responsibilities, man was I wrong. The role of contest director was one of intense pressure from whoa to go, even with two other blokes to help me out.

That night after returning home to rest my weary head, I lay down for a good night’s sleep, only to be woken at about 2am with the notion that there must be an app for this.

You’ve probably heard that expression, “there’s an app for that”, just like me, so I began to try and make sense of how an app could solve the whole list of repetitive tasks with our monthly contests.

Arising the next morning, I was determined to find that app. So out with the iPad at breky and off I dove into a bunch of searches. After quite some time and frustration, I reached the conclusion that there was no app out there that I could find that would do the job. After a couple of days scratching around the internet, it seemed that my idea was not yet a reality in any place I was looking.

With this realisation, that the app was not invented yet, I decided that the only remedy to this, was to start designing up something that would do the job myself.

Fast forward a couple of months of design mockups and revisions, and after a bunch of meetings with Jeremy Raper the NN Club President, a few user feedback sessions, testing on the beach and a general “hey what do you think of this?” approaches to several of the key members of the NN club, I was left with an overwhelming, “when can we have this?” response from one and sundry.

Probably the first person to ask if this would be ready for next month, was Twighty, our avid pointscore and rankings director of as many years as I can recall. Poor chap has been taking all the heat results and finals, to task with a spreadsheet, often times with entries missing or incorrect on the master sheets he has been supplied with. This much to the dismay of upset competitors who have chewed his ear off over the years. When I told him, it was just a concept at this point, his joy turned to resignation to the fact, he would crunching numbers for some time yet.

So with designs in check, it was off to find a developer for my idea, and some funding…