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Dawson scores Triple Crown at Luxon
Minor Princess takes 4th Overall
Luxon Beach, Grand Duchy of Ananto
August 10, 5663


Mike Dawson (above) named Greatest Living Surfer with his win in Luxon, Minor Princess Nicolette (below) does respectably

Mike Dawson, age 25 of Sulari has scored the coveted Triple Crown of Kalistani Surfing, allowing him to join the pantheon of greats. The last Triple Crown winner Karl Swanson, from Dana, who won the three major Surf Competitions at Dana, at Wilson and Luxon in 5636. Swanson's untimely death in 5640 makes Dawson the only living Triple Crown winner, and therefore the greatest living Surfer. Swanson was humble in his victory, and thanked the Kalistani Surf Association for running the circuit, as well as his manager, his sponsors and his fans. He also thanked the other surfers in the competition for such an enjoyable season, and for keeping to good sportsmanship.

Dawson grew up on the waves, and began his career in the amateur ranks of club surfing in Sulari and Dana. He won his first Sunset Competition when he was 14, and took his first Major in Dana at the age of 17. After completing his term in the NSP, Dawson went professional, accepting a sponsorship from Santa Elga Boards in Sulari, and surfing competitively in his early 20s. At the beginning, everyone paying attention to surfing in Kalistan knew that Dawson was just about to hit his stride and did he ever. Besides taking the Triple Crown, Dawson won several minor tournaments, and did surfing expositions in Luxon, Dana, Yoshimi, Dulnerstaad, and Port Swedes. He was the odds on favorite with betting agents in Sulari, and met everyone's great expectations for him. Now the reigning Kalistani Champion in Surfing, Dawson wants to become an international ambassador for the sport, and hopes to do surfing tours around the world to popularize the sport abroad.

"Internationally, we know there are some killer swells," said Dawson earlier this summer. "Likatonia, Aldegar, there's some hotspots in Dovani and Macon where wave conditions are right. It would be rad to surf all the biggest waves in the world, and after this season I am going to take some time off of competition to travel the world, and show off what we do to the rest of the planet. Surfing is not generally popular in Terra: but there are some communities here and there. I'd like to go out and meet them and really kind of immerse myself in the whole world scene."

Dawson may be a hero in the Kalistani surfing world, but another story coming out of Luxon this year is the fact that Her Highness, the Minor Princess Nicolette-Carolina Ananto-Collins. At just under 17, she wowed judges and fans alike with her stunning performances during this year's competition. "What's cool about the princess," said Dawson after the Contest, "is that she just goes for it. Sometimes there's some waves that look pretty gnarly out there, but she just waits for them to kind of pick up the pace a little and when they start to break, she's on her feet and rides the hell out of them. It's so impressive to see a girl that young with no fear. I think she's gonna do important things in this sport."

The Minor Princess took 4th over all and 2nd in the Women's Category at Luxon, finishing behind Dawson, and then her team mate on the Dah Surf & Tan team, Marta Jones-Calliendo, who places second, and Douglas Ferrell of Luxon, who finished just behind Dawson, but took third overall. "I had a wipe out, right at the end," said the Minor Princess. "I thought I heard time, and jumped off the board. That was really the biggest ride of the day, right at the end of my time period and would have been massive, but I just stupidly bailed before I hit the reef, and lost major points." Her average points per ride, however, were significantly higher than most of the other surfers in the competition, and solidified her reputation as an up and comer in the Surfing scene.

"She just has a lot of talent," said Dawson. "All the surfers on the circuit this year would turn out to watch her ride, no matter what they were doing other wise. It didn't matter... Princess is on a wave, we got the tv on watching her. Most of the time it was to watch her beat almost all of us, but we recognize our betters in this sport, and I might have the triple crown, but I have been surfing as long as she's been alive, so I see what's coming up on me in my rearview. Sometimes, we would also see her crash and burn because she's trying to do something that she probably shouldn't do, and since we all kind of adopted her as like a little sister, many of us, me too, would count the seconds til the wave rolled by and we could see her head pop up on the other side, and then we all breathed a collective sigh of relief. She might be part of royalty, but we also all know she's one of us too. Her and her cool Aunt. Surf Royalty."

The Princess said she and Mike Dawson were indeed friends on the tour this summer. "He's very professional, and he's very old," said the Minor Princess. "A lot of us will be sad to not see him next year if he takes his tour. But he said it himself: he has a wanderlust, so. Hopefully he'll come back before my last season before I go in the NSP. We'll all miss this little but important part of our friend group."

@LaModa