24 August 2014

Different starting times and more scoring holds needed

Over the years, several improvements for the boulder format have been forwarded. One problem from the last Boulder World Championship was that several times both the female and the male started to climb at the same time, which made the live stream spectators missed half the action. Would it not be easy to let the male and female start every second minute or so? In the qualification, almost half of the 195 athletes did not top out any of the five boulders. To be #55 in the world out of 112 male is pretty amazing but when the results say 0t 3b7, it seems not so impressive. Would it not be better to increase the number of bonus holds to say three and call the points instead? In such case the #55 could have scored possible 12 points out of 15. The #79, which is still impressive, did get 0t 1b1, which sounds really lame and we do not know if he was close to the top or getting more bonuses. Maybe he got 9 out of 15 points. Further more, the today result did not say explain if they were close to get one more top advancing 20-50 positions. The best option would be to have three scoring holds, including one which you actually get if you just touches the last hold, for every boulder. This would make it much more interesting to check the results and the guys getting a good ranking result but not topping any boulders, could more proudly tell the result to their friends.
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