Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards 2011 Nominees

BILLABONG XXL BIG WAVE EVENT HONORS GREATEST RIDES OF YEAR AT FRIDAY NIGHT’S AWARD PARTY IN ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA; ELEVENTH ANNUAL CEREMONY FEATURES GIANT SURF, $130,000 IN PRIZES AND A TELEVISION SHOW FROM FUEL NEWPORT BEACH, CA -- (April 27, 2011) -- In just 24 hours over 2,200 surf industry VIPs will begin arriving for Friday night’s Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards. It’s an Oscars-style ceremony at the Grove Theater in Anaheim, California paying tribute to the greatest big wave accomplishments during the past year. The invitation-only event brings the elite of the surfing world to a red carpet gala with a star-studded array of nominees and presenters. With entries from far flung places as Tasmania, Ireland, and Fiji this year’s crop of nominees has some of the biggest tubes and worst wipeouts of recent memory. Fuel TV will broadcast the event on Sunday at 9PM Eastern Time and 6PM Pacific Time as a two-day tape delay. Tuesday night the XXL judging panel ga