18 November 2010
New quality news policy
Following forum thoughts from Carlo Traversi and Michele Caminati, 8a will also consider quality while selecting which ascents to publish. Normally, we report 8B+ and 9a for males and 8A and 8b+ for females.
In the future, we will also report lower grades when the ascent has been recorded with the highest quality rating, i.e. a "recommended ascent". If the ascent is reported with just two quality stars, one grade higher than listed above is needed for the news to get published...and the same goes for Chipped ascents.
In the long run, we might exclude ascents with just one star from the scorecard ranking for the hard core guys.
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