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SURF: Queens of Queens win Red Bull Wave Party event

Red Bull Wave Party con­test of­fers up a touch of Mardi Gras in Waikiki

Honolulu Star-Ad­ver­tiser in­ter­view while still in Hulk Ho­gan char­ac­ter. “We’re all chil­dren of the ’80s, and we love our­selves some WWF! And we came up with Gnarl Ma­nia!”

The same crew called them­selves the Gnarly No­mads last year and won the in­au­gu­ral con­test with its “Ore­gon Trail” en­try, net­ting its six mem­bers a free trip to Las Ve­gas.

Hun­singer said he didn’t even know what the top prize was this year.

Hun­singer said he didn’t even know what the top prize was this year.

“We don’t think about the prize; we just fight for glo­reeee,” he growled, still in Hulk mode.

Gnarl Ma­nia wasn’t the only team to not be able to surf a wave with its ves­sel.

Also fail­ing to score points in the wave cat­e­gory was Shark Bait, a crew of Tiki Grill and Bar em­ploy­ees who dressed them­selves up as the seven-mem­ber crew from the old TV show “Gil­li­gan’s Is­land.”

Also fail­ing to score points in the wave cat­e­gory was Shark Bait, a crew of Tiki Grill and Bar em­ploy­ees who dressed them­selves up as the seven-mem­ber crew from the old TV show “Gil­li­gan’s Is­land.”

Barista/mer­chan­diser Mariah White, also known as Mary Ann, said the Gil­li­gan theme seemed like it would be a good fit.

Barista/mer­chan­diser Mariah White, also known as Mary Ann, said the Gil­li­gan theme seemed like it would be a good fit.

“They left from Honolulu for a three-hour tour,” she said. “I just thought it would be a good con­cept.”

Bar­tenders Kevin Prior and Rick Perez, also known as Gil­li­gan and Skip­per, re­spec­tively, de­signed the raft­like ves­sel.

Alas, at the end of the day, nei­ther Gnarl Ma­nia or Shark Bait won.

The cham­pi­onship went to Queens of Queens, com­prised of vol­un­teers from the non­profit Sus­tain­able Coast­lines Hawaii, which fo­cuses on re­duc­ing waste and is best known for its week­end beach cleanup ef­forts.

While the or­ga­ni­za­tion has a se­ri­ous mes­sage, Sun­day was about pay­ing homage to the col­or­ful his­tory of Queen’s Surf and “try­ing to catch the best waves that we could,” said Kahi Pacarro, leader of the cross­dress­ing crew and Sus­tain­able Coast­lines ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor.

Team mem­ber Roscoe “The Wizard” Fowler, a con­struc­tion worker by day, picked up scrap wood from con­struc­tion sites and pieced them to­gether with sin­gle-use plas­tic wa­ter bot­tles “for buoy­ancy” to come up with this year’s win­ning wa­ter­craft, Pacarro said.

Team mem­ber Roscoe “The Wizard” Fowler, a con­struc­tion worker by day, picked up scrap wood from con­struc­tion sites and pieced them to­gether with sin­gle-use plas­tic wa­ter bot­tles “for buoy­ancy” to come up with this year’s win­ning wa­ter­craft, Pacarro said.

The top prize this year is the op­por­tu­nity to sky­dive with the renowned, squir­rel-suited Red Bull sky­div­ing team. While most of the Queens of Queens team is look­ing for­ward to it, “two of the guys are scared out of their minds.”

The big­ger win­ners, how­ever, may have been the Red Bull folks whose hash­tag #RBPar­tyWave be­came the fifth most tweeted topic in Hawaii early Sun­day af­ter­noon as de­ter­mined by the na­tional sur­vey­ing group Trend­ing Topics USA.