This Wednesday we had our first winter bouldering competition. 21 people turned up to compete in 4 different categories (beginner and advanced male and female). 2 hours to attempt close to 30 routes. The walls were pretty busy after we started with everyone trying all kinds of problems. Most people started at the beginning and worked their way to the harder routes, while others started harder and worked their way to the easier routes. The harder problems tended to gain small crowds attempting them. A large overhanging dyno did just this with everyone getting behind the climber attempting it. The community feeling was definitely there, despite the competition between people help was always around for analysing routes or help when on the route. Various people managed to send pretty hard routes, with V2 sends not uncommon and some V3's sent by a few people. The results were close in all groups, with some places separated by just 1 or two points. The full results are available at http://www.facebook.com/groups/lusu.climbing/doc/10150462298692346/ . I will just say congratulations to the winners of each category:
Ladies Beginner
1) Nikki Perrin - 122
Ladies Advanced
1) Amy Rose - 140
Men’s Beginner
1) Benjamin Tanner - 207
Men’s Advanced
1) Joshua Eilbeck – 267
All these scores are perfectly respectable and 1st was closely fought in all cases. To the people who didn’t get a ‘podium’, be proud of your effort and keep improving.
Everyone did well and put in a lot of effort, hopefully there will be a visible improvement when you look at your score sheet in the Varsity against DMU next semester.
See y’all later :)
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