Election Results

On December 1, 2009, the SLSA ran an election for the 3 open seats on the SLSA Board of Directors. Sally LaSalle, GiavannaMarie Melody and Ashleigh Dickins joined Desirae Beaumont and Abel Halderman on the Board. We would like to thank Syx Toshi, Marianna Montenes and Kimmy Jigsaw for running for the office in the election.
Also a HUGE thank you to the directors leaving the Board: WickedV Carver and Bonheur Chenaux, as well as Robin Mapp for their hard work on making the community better for all.


The Montego competitions

On December 5th and 12th the knowhere and Doobie held last SLSA competitions in season 2 2009: Montego Longboard Epic Pro and Montego Longboard Epic Invitational. It was in fact two competitions, according to the format modification. Each of the finalists and heats runners up in the Pro competition has been invited to compete in the Invitational one against the top 20 ranked surfers. We would like to thank the hosts: counting Offcourse, Robbin Ember and the whole Montego team for letting us surf their waves, their work and support.

During the competiton the SLSA had a chance to test two innovations:
- script checker, rezzed on the beach, allowed everyone to see if they’re wearing any scripted attachments that might have created lag
- manual wave rezzing done by a judge let the competition run faster


Rocky Horror Night party

Surfers got ready for a visitor from the planet Transexual in the galaxy of Transylvania!! SLSA celebrated Rocky Horror Picture Show style with DJ Desi spinning the tunes from the popular cult classic! All danced their garters off at SLSA Archipelago! All tips went to SLSA to defray their costs.


Mele Kalikimaka, a surfer's holiday celebration

On Dec. 27, the SLSA and SurfWatch presented: Mele Kalikimaka, a surfer's holiday celebration, fundraiser for the SL Surfing Association.
All danced to the awesome tunes of DJ Ash and the beautiful performances of Tauri Tigerpaw and Kitzie Lane who donated their time and talent. All tips went to SLSA again and it was a great success. Thank you so much.
After the shows there was a mini comp with the following results:
1st place - Wilfrid DeCuir 15.50
2nd place - Bobbi Laval 15.00
3rd place - Velvetori Twine 12.00


Season 2 2009 summary

Season 2 2009 brought all of us a lot of excitement. We’ve seen some awesome actions on the waves as well as some new talents joining the community.
As a reminder, here’s the final 10 of the season:

1. Desirae Beaumont 4425 points
2. SexyBoy Oh 3530 points
3. Socks Clawtooth 2800 points
4. Colleen Brennan 2700 points
5. Wilfrid DeCuir 2425 points
6. VW Sands 2205 points
7. Sean Azambuja 2165 points
8. Sally LaSalle 2075 points
9. Kimmy Jigsaw 2045 points
10. Bobbi Laval 1915 points

Along with an individual ranking, the SLSA has been running a team one. This season the top 3 was:
1. Reef Riders 7945
2. Tai Chi 7650
3. Tsunami 6710

On December the SLSA held the end of the season ceremony, which included several presentations: season winners, novelity awards winners, the Angel Award winner (Sally LaSalle) and the new Hall of Fame inductees (Desirae Beaumont and SexyBoy Oh for their places in the final ranking, Tauri Tigerpaw and Abel Halderman nominated by surfers and voted in by the current HoF members).
After the ceremony we had a chance to take a group picture:


SLSA finances in season 2 2009

Balance at end of season 2, 2009 77,495 L
Less provision for website hosting cost 32,000L
Less provision for January sim rental 25,000L (covered mostly by the Archipelago sim donations)

Available Cash on Hand 20,495 L

Season 2, 2009 total cost 249,000 L
Made up of Prizes and payments for 5 series, and End of Season prizes.

Income was received from season and individual event sponsorships
233,700 L
Income was received from the generosity of donors and performers at Fund Raising events and Comp donation bins.
approximately 10,000 L / event
Income was received from the the generosity of donors and performers at the Archipelago sim
approximately 58,000 L
Income was received from Sub-renting a small section of the sim to the ASA.
8,000 L
Small Income was received from Clothing sales.
approximately 2000 L

## Note: As Linden Labs only saves the last 30 days of transactions, detailed finances cannot be provided as these were not saved. This year all transactions will be saved each month for more accurate financial.


We’ve got the new SLSA Hall of Fame building design contest results for you. There were four wonderful prototypes at the SLSA sim, and all members were able to cast their votes for the one they liked most.
1. Syx Toshi 28 votes
2. Paola Paulino 25 votes
3. Damiana Babcock 8 votes.
4. JudyArx Scribe 4 votes
Syx Toshi wins the contest. WTG Syx and all designers!


The off-season
Currently, in the off-season, the Board is working on a few things:
- Constitution update
- Event Rule update
- Code of Conduct update
- Financial Management plan
- Tribunal Procedure
- Surfboard standards
- Member feedback for next season
- training schedules