With the swell dropping faster than expected, it turns out there was no Pipe Masters yesterday after all yesterday. The contest director Marty Thomas is now expecting a new swell to start filling in tonight and will be back tomorrow morning (tonight for Europe) to make another call for a possible start to Round 3.”

In the meantime, Surfing magazine put this edit together of Backdoor last Saturday. Yep, the day before the waiting period kicked off was firing and Triple Crown contender Jérémy Flores, among many others, was on it.

UPCOMING BILLABONG PIPE MASTERS ROUND 3 MATCH UPS:

Heat 1: Taj Burrow (AUS) vs. Yadin Nicol (AUS)
Heat 2: C.J. Hobgood (USA) vs. Fredrick Patacchia (HAW)
Heat 3: Julian Wilson (AUS) vs. Patrick Gudauskas (USA)
Heat 4: Nat Young (USA) vs. Bede Durbidge (AUS)
Heat 5: John John Florence (HAW) vs. Gabriel Medina (BRA)
Heat 6: Mick Fanning (AUS) vs. Kaimana Jaquias (HAW)
Heat 7: Josh Kerr (AUS) vs. Miguel Pupo (BRA)
Heat 8: Adriano de Souza (BRA) vs. Sebastian Zietz (HAW)
Heat 9: Kelly Slater (USA) vs. Mitch Crews (AUS)
Heat 10: Kai Otton (AUS) vs. Adam Melling (AUS)
Heat 11: Michel Bourez (PYF) vs. Jeremy Flores (FRA)
Heat 12: Joel Parkinson (AUS) vs. Dusty Payne (HAW)