Where is it? Australia, Newcastle (East Coast)
What is it? The first Men and Women’s WQS 6 star contest of the year.
Waiting Period: February 18th – 24th
Wave conditions: Sloppy
Wind: Light onshore
Standout results: Euros Frederico Morais, Maxime Huscenot and Vincent Duvignac all made it through their first heats, as well as Tahitian Mat Hiquily.
For heat scores see below.

Burton Toyota Pro Round of 144
Heat 1: Matt Lewis Hewitt (NZ) 12.50, Beyrick De Vries (Zaf) 11.50, Corey Ziems (Aus) 10.40, Guillermo Satt (Chl) 8.07
Heat 2: Hiroto Ohhara (Jpn) 12.00, Steven Sawyer (Zaf) 11.46, Ty Watson (Aus) 10.34, Eric Geiselman (USA) 9.10
Heat 3: Oney Anwar (Ind) 16.33, Bino Lopes (Bra) 12.33, Blake Thornton (Aus) 12.17, Nick Vasicek (Aus) 8.13
Heat 4: Billy Stairmand (NZ) 14.83, Michael Powell (USA) 11.27, Soli Bailey (Aus) 8.80, Taishi Kawabata (Jpn) 7.44
Heat 5: Nobuyuki Osawa (13.77), Jesse Adam (Aus) 11.93, Balaram Stack (USA) 9.90, Rafael Teixeira (Bra)
Heat 6: Santiago Muniz (Arg) 16, Kalani David (Haw) 9.9, Ricardo Christie (NZ) 9.36, Rikiya Kitada (Jpn) 4.77
Heat 7: Frederico Morais (Ptg) 16.04, Maxime Huscenot ( France), Carlo Zapata (Per) 11.2, Borja Agote (Euk) 6.57
Heat 8: Caio Ibelli (Bra) 16, Jeremy Johnston (USA) 11.94, Andre Teixeira (Bra) 9.04, Tim Macdonald (Aus) 5.79
Heat 9: Peterson Chrisanto (Bra) 13.66, Cahill Bell-Waren (Aus) 12.93, Yujiro Tsuji (Jpn) 9.03, Nathan Webster (Aus) 9
Heat 10: Davey Cathels (Aus) 17.10, Ian Gouveia (Bra) 10.6, Luan Carvalho (Bra) 9.9, Todd Rosewall (Aus) 8.06
Heat 11: Thomas Woods (Aus) 13.86, Krystian Kymerson (Bra) 13.8, Jose Ferreira (Ptg) 12.33, Takumi Nakamura Jpn (9.27)
Heat 12: Vincent Duvignac (Fra) 14.94, Teppie Tajima (Jpn) 12.4, Dave Reardon-Smith (Aus) 9.97, Sid Guimaraes (Bra) 9.74
Heat 13: Stu Kennedy (Aus) 12.16, Jordin Watson (Aus) 11.60, Jackson Baker (Aus) 10.66, Kenta Hayashi (Jpn)
Heat 14: Garrett Parkes (Aus) 15.16, Dale Lovelock (Aus) 11.73, Luel Felipe (Bra) 10.70, James Wood (Aus) 9.77
Heat 15: Lucas Silveira (Bra) 8.6, Leandro Usuna (Arg) 8.43, Akito Komuku (Jpn) 7.17, Ryan Bignold (Aus) 4.56
Heat 16: Marco Fernandez (Bra) 14.50, Shaun Joubert (Zaf) 12, David Van Zyl (Zaf) 10.07, Jaymes Triglone (Aus)
Heat 17: Michael Dunphy (USA) 13.34, Jerome Forrest (Aus) 11.34, Chris Michalak (Aus) 10.16, Steve Pierson (PYF) 9.5
Heat 18: Mateia Hiquily (PYF) 13.87, Enrique Ariitu (PYF) 11.43, Vasco Ribeiro (PRT) 11.20, Chris Foster (AUS) 10.20

Hunter Ports Women’s Classic Round of 60
Heat 1: Tatiana Weston-Webb (Haw) 15.15, Dominic Barona (Ecu) 10.00, Bruna Schmitz (Bra) 8.03, Frankie Harrer (Usa) 7.70
Heat 2: Eden Putland (Aus) 12.33, Naomi Stevic (Aus) 10.07, Faye Zoetmulder (Zaf), Minami Takechi (Jpn) 5.30
Heat 3: Quincy Davis (USA) 15, Bethany Hamilton (Haw), Holly-Sue Coffey (Aus) 10.10, Alisha Gonsalves (USA) 9.37
Heat 4: Keely Andrew (Aus) 13.64, Codie Klein (Aus) 11.60, Erica Hosseini (USA) 9.20, Anne Cecile (Fra) 7.5
Heat 5: Bronte Macaulay (Aus) 14.80, Brodie Doyle (Aus), Skye Burgess (Aus), Carina Duarte (6.54)
Heat 6: Mikaela Greene (Aus) 13.40, Joanne Dennison (GBR) 6.07, Jordan Hundley (USA) 6.04, Cali McDonagh (Aus) 5.70