Bisect the Boulder qually duration

Last year there was 120 male competing in the Munich Bouldering qualification. That meant that although two groups were used, the qualification lasted almost six hours as the athletes are allowed to spend five minutes on each of the five problems with five minutes rest in between. Besides being a marathon for all the volunteers the condition, due to temperature and humidity changes, could be changed.

By using four minutes intervals, as in both the semi and the final, you will save one hour but my suggestion is actually to reduce to three minutes as this would mean a total of almost 3.5 hours instead of six hours. As a matter of a fact, even if we increase to six minutes rest in between, we are still well below four hours duration. Furthermore, if we start on all five boulders at the same time and have six minutes rest, the total time will be three hours.

This would actually also mean that the setters would just need to set five boulders instead of ten, which also would save cost talking about building walls. Add to that also that the five boulders do not need to be set so straight up and so close to each other as it would have been for ten boulders.

Alternatively, adding a sixth boulder would increase fairness and could in fact save time as 54 guys would be finished in just 2 hours and 42 minutes. Furthermore, using two zones and a point scoring system, as have been presented before, I think is the most important subject when talking about fairness and action for both the athletes and the spectators.