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The first heat of day 4 of the Surf City El Salvador ALAS Latin Pro had the world title at stake. Lucas Madrid faced local Bryan Pérez, if he won he would be champion, if he lost Juninho Urcia would take the laurels, all this based on the ranking published by ALAS until yesterday.

After a very good exchange of waves and maneuvers, which included a tube from Lucas and an aerial from Bryan, the jury narrowly decided that the winner of the series was Bryan Pérez.

In that scenario, the Latin champion was immediately Juninho Urcia who, according to the ranking published by ALAS, reached the 8700 points that Lucas Madrid was close to, since with a fifth in El Salvador he added 8526.

DUKE immediately published the news that Urcia was champion and even did an interview with the surfer in which he spoke with joy about the title he had won.

According to DUKE, two complaints were filed: The judgment in the series against Pérez and the fact that Urcia had not been present in Puerto Escondido for his series.

On social media, Juninho's brother, John, complained from the Uruguayan federation, the Uruguayan Surf Union.

Hours later the claims were processed. The complaints were not accepted, even though there was more than one person who agreed that the Madrid tube was worth much more than the Pérez aerial tube.

The fact that Urcia did not show up for his round 4 series in Puerto Escondido did take place. He was given the score not as if it were a tie of 17 but 24, 2190 points which made the difference.

With this, at 18:30 ALAS updated the ranking and at 19:30 published the note that consecrated Lucas Madrid as champion.

Only then did DUKE publish the note that declared Madrid the champion.

From the end of that series at 7:20 in the morning until the claims were processed, Urcia was the Latin champion, not officially but technically. After the scores were changed, he was no longer the champion.