Dawn Wall - consensus on grade?

Draft of an article: In January 2015, Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson submitted the 32 pitches The Dawn Wall 9a which is the most media covered ascent in the world. Tommy Caldwell had projected it for almost seven years and the final push with Kevin took them 19 days where they both did the 9a crux pitch and top roped almost half of the other pitches. In November 2016, just seven weeks after a href="https://www.8a.nu/user/adam-ondra">Adam Ondra arrived to Yosemite for the first time, he repeated it leading all the pitches in eight days. His belayer was Pavel Blazek who reported, "We both find it quite funny - Adam never really trad climb, I've never been on multipitch climb, neither of us ever had to jug up or set the fix ropes on big wall ... The learning curve is bit steep :) :) :)" Projecting it Adam actually suggested some upgrades. In his summary report, he wrote, "I greatly underestimated the difficulty of the climbing itself. When I looked at the grades of the individual pitches and my tick list of what I was able to make throughout the years, the Dawn Wall seemed relatively easy. But Tommy and Kevin were really tough when it came to giving the grades." What seems not to be known is that at the very bottom report, Adam has reported the Dawn Wall as a 32 pitches 8c+. Marek Hajek found it and asked about the consensus grade in the 8a forum? Checking the media coverage of Ondra's ascent including 8a.nu, it seems this is new info for the media as everyone has reported it as 9a before. Adam Ondra is very well known for his honest and personal grading. As a matter of a fact, he has already since he was a young teenager given personal grades that later almost always been confirmed. He did the world's first 9a onsight but as he down graded it, Alex Megos, has the title with Estado Critico, where also 8c+ have been suggested lately. When it comes to 9a grading experiences, the 24 year old Czech is unique with 132 listed in his scorecard, excluding some 20 that he has given an 8c+ personal grade. Using Time Comparison grading, he probably thinks that, beside being somewhat inexperienced with such delicate climbing, the traverse crux pitch of The Dawn Wall did even so go down pretty fast.

I've read a lot of the media articles and interviews with Adam Ondra, but don't remember seeing a grade confirmation or suggested re-rating in a single one of them. Funny, as that is usually the first question everyone asks. I would be happy to ask him directly, but, first, the poor guy probably gets a ton of mail and my question would probably end up in the spam folder and second, I don't know his email address.I may try to shoot this question to the media contact he has on his website.

I have sent the draft article to Adam. As his opinion in regards Silence have been forwared, I do not see any importance getting the same answers once again.

Ondra has answered that he thinks the hardest pitch #14 on the Dawn Wall is 9a, so it seems the 8c+ not was just a mistake by the webmaster.