James Webb, who previoulsy has done three 8C+', has done his 27th 8C, Virgo which is a FA in Tahoe. "Lost in Space proj. Really sick pitbul that packs a punch. Unsure on the grade. Could be easier? Finger is on the mend! What he means by that is explained in his Insta. "After leaving Rocklands with a finger injury I’ve been struggling to heal up and stay strong. Recently though I found an amazing project here in Tahoe that was ultra comfy for the left hand." In the 8a ranking game, Jimmy is #1.

Cathy Wagner has added two 8a's and a very impressive 2nd go ascent of Guernica 8a+ in Rodellar to her scorecard. In total the 54-year-old has now done 736 routes 8a and harder out of which one third 2nd go.

Gabri Moroni, reports on his Insta that he has made the FA of The Party is Here. (c) Paolo Sortiri "Then, after 8 days of work, when nothing seems to work anymore, on my 4th try of the day and pretty bad conditions, I fought my way up, managed to stick the move I fell countless times and kept it together! Another great moment I will hardly forget..."

By looking at the starting list for Inzai this weekend, we can see that actually many of the best Europeans have chosen to not take part. There are currently 11 Europeans in the Top-20 ranking and as a matter of a fact only four of them will participate. Checking the same Top-20 list, we can see that only four athletes will have taken part in all six events. This means when it comes to the Combined ranking, many not so strong climbers have a golden oppurtunity to get a very good result that could put them high on the overall Lead as well as the Combined ranking. It should be mentioned that in regards the women, it is much better. Most of the best will participate in Xiamen.

The last World Cup of 2019 will take place in Inzai this weekend. Tomoa Narasaki and Janja Garnbret have secured their titles. The result is based on the two best ranking results among the once having done at least two comps in the three disciplines, i.e the relative ranking results. 1. Tomoa Narasaki 1 728 - Janja Garnbret 195 2. Adam Ondra 2 072 - Akiyo Noguchi 3 456 3. Jakob Schubert 27 720 - Jessica Pilz 12 420 4. Kai Harada 34 020 - Lucka Rakovec 144 256 5. Kokoro Fujii 84 700 - Miho Nonaka 201 600 6. Sean McColl 182 400 - YueTong Zhang 205 620 7. YuFei Pan 215 040 - Julia Chanourdie 285 120 8. William Bosi 429 624 - Ai Mori 440 154 Complete results Before Xiamen, Ondra was not listed as he had not scored two results in each discipline. In practice, this means that almost all got a worse calculated score as soon all his six Top-2 results were added to the ranking. It is impossible to speculate further who has the best chance to become #3 after Adam Ondra or who will make it to Toulouse.

Kai Harada, Boulder World Champion in Innsbruck, is last out on the final route that looked too easy as three had topped before him. It seems he is on cruise mood until he falls as he could not hold the top jug. If he had topped he had won but now he did not even get a medal. Furthermore, if Kai had won he would have been the favorite to win overall as he just needed to be #6 the next weekend to overtake Adam, who will not compete. Instead, Adam secured the overall title although just participating in three events out of which he won all. (c) Eddie Fowke 1. Adam Ondra CZE Top 2. Taisei Homma JPN Top 3. Tomoa Narasaki JPN Top

Three tops and three girls falling from the last hold, including Janja Garnbret, and at the end Chaehyeon Seo (15) got her fourth straight victory, on countback, and secured the overall title. The 15-year-old topped all four route with ease as it looked. Talking about the Olympics, Seo has not participated in any Boulder WC's so her only possibility to make it will be through the Asian Combined Championship. Including also all the Tops and ties in both the semis and quallies, the route setting must have the worst separation since IFSC started with World Cups in 1989. Both coaches and athletes are using the word scandal to describe what they just witnessed. (c) Eddie Fowke 1. Chaehyon Seo KOR Top 2. Akiyo Noguchi JPN Top 3. Jain Kim KOR Top Complete results