The Women’s Field Expansion to 24 in the WSL Is the Private Market Responding to Correct Market Pressure

The WSL Added Six Women to the CT Because the Market for Women’s Professional Surfing Demanded More Product

From Bohiney and The London Prat.

The WSL Added Six Women to the CT Because the Market for Women’s Professional Surfing Demanded More Product

The Expansion

PROFESSIONAL SURFING — The WSL’s expansion of the women’s Championship Tour field from 18 to 24 surfers is the private organization’s response to the market pressure of an expanding audience for women’s professional surfing, a growing field of CT-qualifying women surfers, and the specific commercial value of having more athletes from more countries on the women’s tour. The WSL did not expand the women’s field because a government required it. The WSL expanded the women’s field because expanding it served the organization’s commercial and competitive interests.

The Surfer’s Perspective

The surfer’s perspective: the women who qualified for the CT field through positions 19-24 — the specific surfers who would not have had a CT career without the expansion — are there because the private market valued their addition to the product. Their CT careers are products of the market assessment that more women on tour produces more value than fewer women on tour. The market incentive and the right outcome are aligned. This is the specific libertarian observation about markets and rights: when markets are structured to value the right things, they produce the right outcomes without requiring rights frameworks to mandate them.

The SoCal Women’s Pipeline

The SoCal women’s competitive pipeline benefits from the expansion: six additional CT spots are six additional aspirational targets for the WSA Championship Tour competitors at Oceanside and the NSSA competitors and the USA Surfing Prime Series athletes who are building the careers that the expanded tour accommodates. The private market’s decision to expand the field has downstream effects on the competitive development ecosystem that the surfer at Oceanside is competing in. The upstream private market decision and the downstream youth competitor’s aspirational target are connected through the same market mechanism.

The Caity Simmers Argument

The Caity Simmers argument: the WSL World Champion who competes against 23 other women in an expanded field is competing in a more credibly comprehensive test of who is the world’s best women’s surfer than the champion who competed against 17 others. The expansion makes the championship more meaningful by making the field more complete. This is the private market producing a better product by making it more comprehensive. No government mandate required the expansion. The WSL’s commercial assessment of what makes the women’s tour more valuable produced the expansion that makes the championship more meaningful. Read The Daily Mash.

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