Gabriela Bryan and Yago Dora lead the World Surf League Championship Tour rankings with three events left, and the World Titles are decided at the Lexus Pipe Masters on Oahu, December 8 to 20, 2026. We have no World Title market we can source and date, so this page quotes no price.
Where the World Title race stands
The rankings below are the WSL’s own, published after the Lexus Trestles Pro, the ninth and last regular-season stop, on September 18, 2026.
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| Rank | Men | Points | Women | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yago Dora (Brazil) | 42,780 | Gabriela Bryan (Hawaii) | 42,865 |
| 2 | Leonardo Fioravanti (Italy) | 40,015 | Carissa Moore (Hawaii) | 42,320 |
| 3 | Italo Ferreira (Brazil) | 39,930 | Sawyer Lindblad (United States) | 40,055 |
| 4 | Miguel Pupo (Brazil) | 39,450 | Molly Picklum (Australia) | 38,950 |
| 5 | Gabriel Medina (Brazil) | 35,410 | Erin Brooks (Canada) | 38,000 |
The women’s race is the tighter one. Bryan leads Moore by 545 points, while Dora’s lead over Fioravanti is 2,765.
Brooks is the surfer moving fastest. She won Trestles for her third straight Championship Tour win, which puts her with Stephanie Gilmore (2008) and Carissa Moore (2014 to 2015) in the WSL’s record book. She scored 1,000 or 2,000 points at each of the first six stops, then 10,000 at each of the last three, and now sits fifth. Pupo won Trestles on the men’s side, his second win of the season after Bells Beach in April, and moved to fourth.
How the rest of the season works
Two postseason events come before Pipeline, with a reduced field:
- MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal: Supertubos, Peniche, October 16 to 25
- Philippines Pro: Cloud 9, Siargao Island, October 31 to November 10
- Lexus Pipe Masters: Banzai Pipeline, Oahu, December 8 to 20
Under the format the WSL published for this season, 22 men and 14 women qualify for the postseason, each event adds two wildcards, and the full Championship Tour fields return for Pipeline. Pipe Masters pays 15,000 points, one and a half times a standard event, and a surfer’s best nine results from the 12 stops decide the World Title. The one-day WSL Finals that decided the 2025 titles is gone. The title goes to whoever tops the season rankings after Pipeline.
That makes Pipeline the swing event. A win there pays 5,000 more points than a standard win, more than the 4,865 points that separate Bryan in first from Brooks in fifth.
The last World Title, as the record
Molly Picklum and Yago Dora won the 2025 World Titles at the Lexus WSL Finals at Cloudbreak, Fiji, on September 2, 2025. Both went into the Finals as the top seed. Dora beat Griffin Colapinto in his title match, and Picklum beat Caroline Marks, the 2023 world champion, in a best-of-three.
That was the last WSL Finals. Dora is back on top of the men’s rankings this season, and Picklum sits fourth, 3,915 points behind Bryan.
Betting on the World Title
A World Title price is the market’s estimate of each surfer’s chance, written as a payout. At +250 the implied chance is 28.6%; at +1000 it is 9.1%. A futures bet is worth making only when you rate a surfer’s chance higher than the price does. With Pipeline worth 15,000 points, check how each contender has done in heavy barrels: Teahupo’o and Cloudbreak are the two such stops already surfed this season, and Brooks won both.
Compare books with our sportsbook reviews, and our handicapper site reviews cover the paid-picks services. We update this page after Portugal on October 25, after the Philippines on November 10, and when the champions are crowned at Pipeline.