Tomasz Oleksy about boulder setting 2018

Tomasz Oleksy, one of the most experienced IFSC route setter who has won five WCs in Speed and two in Boulder, shares some interesting thoughts in regards the upcoming season. How do you deal with bigger gap in between the athletes and also much higher number of participants? In my opinion it's really the same deal. For us is important to make selection specially in qually round. We try to set problems with the level that athletes on 18th-20th position in the ranking can climb two problems out of five. Sometimes it is harder and sometimes it is easier. It's very important to not have any tie places. The numbers of athletes is not important for me. The only bad thing is that you have less time for setting and to deal with some changes. Any thoughts in regards the new format focusing more on zones? This year zones are much more important then before. This means it should be bit harder to get zones in generally. We will see how it works? More not so strong will possibly suffer with zero zones. In regards volumes and parkour, what do you see in the future? I think parkur is one of modern styles and very attractive for watching and already athletes start to understand. For route setting is very hard to adjust and you spend more time for setting but at the end is cool and for the selection it works very well. For the future I see maybe more bigger shapes, same profile of the wall for two groups for the qually round. It will be good to have new stuff for screwing holds nobody have seen before, bigger team for setting and more testers. That means we need better logistic plane and spend more money at the end hehe :)