The Candy Stripes Eliminator event is back for a third year at this Saturday’s Owen Chapman Cup surf carnival with cash prizes to be won.
It’s a gut-busting surf event in which competitors race off against each other and the clock. Get too far behind and you’re eliminated. There are six non-stop classic surf lifesaving events tied together by the Eliminator’s relentless stop watch.

Finish within 60 seconds of the leg winner through the first five events of the Eliminator and you make the start line for the next leg. The rest of the field have a further 30-second window to start the next event and continue in the race from catch-up territory. Get further behind and the Eliminator steps in and you’re gone!
It all begins with a mass swim which starts at the buoy line to reach the beach and ends five events later with just three survivors battling off in a beach flags contest for the Eliminator title.

It’s the feature event at the end of the day to wrap up the Owen Chapman carnival.