6 September 2017

Easier IFSC boulders are wanted

It is amazing to see that the route setters almost always find a good difficulty level in Bouldering. When there are complaints, it is always that the problems were too hard meaning it becomes boring for both the climbers and the spectators who want to see tops. In general this indicates that route setters should go for easier boulders and possibly IFSC should set a standard, what is the optimum difficulty level. Here is an example that, in general, would increase the enjoyment for everyone. 1. One third of the finalists respectively the ones going to the next round should make all boulders. 2. Two thirds of the competitors of each round should make at least one boulder. If the route setters had difficulty recommendations like this, surely, we would once in a while more that six guys in the semifinal topping out all boulders which is not ideal. In the Youth World's it happened once but even so, everyone was happy. The climbers, coaches and spectators are willing to take that risk of too easy boulders in order to avoid anti-climax setting where possibly 1 % of the tries made it to the top.
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