According to World Surf League rules, each year the top six in the qualifying (QS) rankings and the top 10 in the main tour (CT) rankings advance to the following season's tour.

Unlike what happens in other sports, in professional surfing, female surfers from the first division are allowed to compete in the second, that is, they can compete in the “A” and “B” divisions at the same time.

This is why every year there is a double classification, where a surfer enters through both rankings. In these cases, her CT ranking takes precedence and therefore the QS ranking is ignored, allowing the surfers who follow her to enter.

In this particular case, there was no need to wait until the end of the Maui event (last date of the women's CT) because the QS champion, Caroline Marks, is in sixth position and no one can take her out of the top 10.

This is basically known because if one adds the best possible scenario for the surfers outside the top 10, they could take her to eighth place and very difficultly to ninth, but not to eleventh.

This guarantees her the first Costa Rican in the history of the CT.