The male semifinal turned out to be a very close game with 16 out of the 26 athletes falling within three holds. Strangely enough the last starters got in general worse results and the commentators said it might be due to worse condition as the heat was building up. Stefano Ghislofi was #22 and Adam Ondra was last into the final with a tied fifth position with six other guys. Last out, somewhat saving the show, was Domen Skofic and he made the highpoint. Complete results (c) Vladek Zumr Interestingly, Japan got their best male Lead performance ever with three guys making it to the final. Other then that, Austria and Czech Republic got two through. It should be noticed that if any of the six ties are also tied for a podium position, the faster climber will be ranked the highest.

Jakob Schubert, World Champion in 2012, gets his second title ahead of his home crowd in Innsbruck. Adam Ondra reached the same hold but was ranked second due to worse result in the semi. The route was spectacular in 3D style but these two seemed to be in control all the way. Alex Megos did also master all the early technical difficulties falling three moves below. Complete results. (c) Johann Groder - Innsbruck2018.com Interesting is that no climber used more than 3.40 minutes before they did fall. Further more, it seemed on the replay that Ondra did fell due to hold 37 was partly blocked meaning he did not hit the sweet spot on the hold. ", I felt really strong in the finals and I was really angry when when I fell because I did not feel very tired at that moment. "

Giuliano Cameronihas had a great summer in Rocklands and the ticklist is long including two 8C's, FA of The Smile (c) Oliver Krueger and the third ascent of Black Eagle. The Swizz is the new #1 in the 8a ranking game. More great pics and videos on his Insta. "I found this amazing wall two years ago together with Sam Ometz. The rock is perfect and the crux holds design an emoji on the wall, with a small crimp for the mouth and two rounded slopers for the eyes. I tried it for the first time this season, but the first session went super bad and I couldn’t do any of the hard moves. So I moved on, psyched to climb on other boulders. After a few weeks I went back with good conditions and surprisingly the crux moves felt way better than before! I needed two more days to do the hardest move (a dynamic lock off from the crimp to the right eye) and four more to send the whole boulder. In the last week it became a real mental battle because I kept falling off the last move, which revolves around a delicate friction depending sloper. When I finally held the lip an immense joy surrounded me: the battle was over and the boulder was done! I feel that I improved a lot from this experience, and the boulder itself taught me a lot about climbing in general. Few months later I’m still psyched to have done a contender for the best problem in the world! Now it’s time to move on, projects await!..."

Although the semifinal route was nice, it was way too easy. At the end, when the four favorites climbed and topped, there was almost no excitement and the spectators were quite retracted. Further more another four got 44+ and there will be ten doing the final at 19.00. This means that the World Championship podium could be decided who climbs the fastest if there are ties among the Top-3 in the final. In fact it could have been eleven girls into the final but Lucka Rakovec (17) stood on a bolt. Anyhow Slovenia did get two into the final as did Japan and Austria. One big problem is that there are no watch visible in the screen so it will be hard to follow who is climbing faster. Other than that, the live-streaming was at it's best also including a digital map showing who is in the lead etc. Complete results