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You know you've made it when the Good Year blimp shows up. The Nike U.S. Open of Surfing is a spectacle like no other. More than half a million people have poured through Surf City this week -- the same number attended Woodstock in 1969. And judging by MGMT's outfits on the soundstage and all the freaks wandering around, dazed, smelling bad and wearing nothing, not much has changed.

Actually a lot's changed, all these people are here for a frickin' surf contest ... sort of. Somewhere between all of the four-wheeled Coastal Carnage and shrieking banks, maybe a little lost behind the Hurley 4D brand experience and Red Bull Energy Station, there's some very 21st century surfing going on.

The quarterfinal matchups were decided in playful three- to four-foot peaks this morning, and lets put it like this, you couldn't have drawn them up any better:

Quarterfinal 1: Dusty Payne vs. Tanner Gudauskas A result at the Open keeps Payne on tour, a result for Gudauskas may get him back on tour. To a point, both 20-somethings' competitive careers hang in the balance. But they know that, just look at how they've been surfing. They've been dominating. Gudauskas bested Slater the other day, and Payne's won every heat he's surfed thus far. All told, not a bad opening act for the day.

This is a world tour final. Both Slater and Burrow have been at the top of their game all week. Maybe Slater's looking at this as a possible $100,000 swan song, maybe it's just the competitor in him coming out, but his surfing has been as sharp as ever. And for Burrow, this is a chance to prove he's still relevant. As the youth brigade has come crashing through the gates, all of a sudden the West Australian is the elder classman. Put it like this way, Evan Geiselman was four years old during Burrow's rookie year. Nevertheless, even if the swell drops out and this turns into a shorebreak shootout, it'll be good.

Quarterfinal 3: Dane Reynolds vs. Kolohe Andino This is like Darth Vader against Luke Skywalker, or Bruce Lee versus Chuck Norris. The two California sensations have already met twice in this event. Reynolds has got him both times, and Andino had a full day of surfing today -- facing off against John Florence three times (winning two). The 17-year-old will probably bounce back, and fatigue probably won't be an issue, but you never know. If the waves are small and it's all about sticking something big on the inside Andino may have the advantage. But then we're talking about Dane Reynolds, anything's possible -- and he certainly seems unhindered by injury.

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Of course, just because Varod has dropped these names doesn’t mean the actors are signed on or set in stone — again, there has been no official confirmation from Lionsgate yet. But if there’s truth to the report, you can count us as fully on board for the incoming Norris-Travolta-JCVD trifecta, and equally excited about returns for Schwarzenegger and Willis. Fingers crossed that this latest rumor pans out!

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