The event title is
BL Blast Off Video Challenge.

What are the Dates?
Video submissions open November 1st 2025 and entries will close November 30th 2025
Voting closes 7th December 2025
Winners announced during finals week
Eligibility – you must be 14 or under as of the 30th November 2025

How many videos can I upload?
Kids can upload as many videos as they want.

What are the rules around the videos?
Videos can be be a maximum of 1 minute in length and any duration under that. Any style of video can be uploaded. It could be edited or raw, have sound added or the live audio from the camera, it can be single wave and entered in the best wave category, a single move like a tube, Air or Wipeout. Or it could just show a heap of STOKE and whatever puts smiles on faces and puts a smile on ours could win.

Who can enter?
Blast Off events are open to boys and girls 14 years and under as of the last day of the event window and from anywhere in the world.
Blast Off is not about being the best but about being your best, and we help you to do that with the coaching advice given to every video submitted. 

It is open to all levels of surfers and the reward is being a part of a positive grom community focussed on surfing and living stoked.

How much does the video challenge cost?
$6.00 per upload in USD, and with unlimited uploads

What are the categories awarded?

The Divisions are 14s, 12s, 10s, 8s, 6s

There will be Weekly winners for most entertaining Clips of the Week.

Category winners:

• Peoples Vote Winner
• The Experts Choice
• Clayer Worst Wipe Out
• Best Tube
• Best Air
• Best Wave
• Overall ‘Best Edit’
• Best GoPro POV
• Kid who brings the STOKE awards
• A New Earth Clean Up

Final judging is done by a panel consisting of BL and some of the best young pro surfers in the world TBA.

Where do I go to enter?
Entering and submitting videos is via www.bartonlynch.com

What hashtag do I use on social media?
#blblastoff #BOVC25

What Platform is it hosted on?
www.bartonlynch.com and YouTube

When are videos uploaded?
Contestants upload videos to YouTube, then use the YouTube URL in the entry submission and we will approve videos at our earliest convenience each day.

Who are the sponsors?

Barton Lynch Pro Surfing

GoPro

Creatures of Leisure

Amazon Power Acai

SunBum

Channel Islands

Lost Surfboards

Florence X Marine

Perfect Wave Travel

Futures Fins

Shark Banz

Spy Optics

If I win how do I get my prizes?
All Prizes will be delivered by the sponsor to the winners address, and all winners will be notified by email or DM on Instagram.

Will I need to show proof of age?
Yes all prize winners will be required to provide proof of age via a screen shot emailed to info@bartonlynch.com

What is stoke?
Stoke is that feeling of joy and inspiration you receive from challenging yourself, progressing and growing.
It is the natural high you get from surfing and when we say we want to see your stoke we mean we want to feel your happiness that you get from riding waves.
Stoke is when you put a smile on other people’s faces.