8c+/9a is a popular slash grade

I do not like slash grades as a difficulty rarely can be so accurate for the whole community. Furthermore, detailed grades just make them more important. Luckily, few climbs have slash grades but for some reason, there are relatively many graded 8c+/9a. Almost all of them were originally 9a's but which later have been subject to being downgraded due to many have set personal best on them. For some reason, other downgrades mean normally a full grade down. Escalade9 has ranked the most popular 8c+/9a and harder and interestingly, ten out of the Top-18 is currently listed as 8c+/9a. Noteworthy is also that almost all hardcore slash grades are found in Spain. Anoher interesting fact is that once the routes have been given a slash grade, they normally become less popular.