[dave]

I've never seen Grimer climb but I bumped into him at the Co-Op on Eccy road once and he seemed a nice enough guy, so I know with 100% certainty that he's done Fatman.

[SA Chris]

Grimers maths was never his strong point when he scored 310 out of 300, suspicions were raised

He did say he was going to give 103.33% of effort on all the problems that day.

[Fultonius]

There's no way he could have got 310 - at that time of day the conditions would have been too humid. Impossible.

[andy_e]

I just found out his personal rute judge hasn't been climbing that long and has only recently got strong.

[remus]

The people who any same person thought would get to the final got to the final, nothing needs changing

If a hundred people in the qualifiers had a shit time because they climbed 10 problems between them Id say that's reason to at least look at changing the format a little.

Did that happen though? I know a load of the kids got low scores but there's plenty of comps just for them and it was always clear it would be set for adults. I topped 12 and perhaps could have done a couple more with better tactics but safe to say most of the ones I didn't do were far out of my league. I had a lot of fun and still had the energy for an aero session afterwards, perfect  .

Not sure as I wasn't there. Just saying that it's probably not a good idea to judge a comp only on whether the right people got in to the finals.

Probably a bit of a moot point though, seems like most people had a lot of fun so can't have been too far off the mark!

[rodma]

punters shut down in qualifying round of international climbing comp shocker 

perhaps it's time to drop the f and reinstate the m if folk are feeling hard done by

[Percy B]

CWIF qualis are a bit harder than they used to be. There are several reasons for this...and you guys have all named the most obvious ones.
It's worth considering that I use 6 world class setters for this comp and the brief for setting qualification problems is that each setter needs to create 1 hard problem, 3 medium problems and 1 easy one. I then provide a smorgasbord of new holds and volumes and set them loose. And they each set 6 hard problems and try to convince me that at least a few of them are easy really. Every bloody time. And the worst thing is that their problems are all so good in their own way that I am loathed to change them and start loosing quality by making stuff easier. We do 'de-beef' a lot of the problems, but when you start off with 30 8a's that need fixing that's a lot of de-beefing!
And the other obvious reason that Grimer struggles more nowadays is that he is old and decrepit

[dave]

You're asking em to each set 5 problems and they set 6? Motherfuckers can't even count, no wonder they can't grade.

[tomtom]

You're asking em to each set 5 problems and they set 6? Motherfuckers can't even count, no wonder they can't grade.

Yes but Percy's getting 6 for the price of 5... Cunning...

[lagerstarfish]

the other obvious reason that Grimer struggles more nowadays is that he is old and decrepit

I heard that he was shorter too

[GraemeA]

You're asking em to each set 5 problems and they set 6? Motherfuckers can't even count, no wonder they can't grade.

Not forgetting that Percy was one of the 6 setters so he disobeyed his own instructions and then tried to mislead himself.

[fatneck]

This was the first year we weren't able to attend but caught up with this over the last few evenings with the missus and we really enjoyed it. Same highlights as everyone else really!

Real question is, how did Wackers do? 

[ghisino]

... And they each set 6 hard problems and try to convince me that at least a few of them are easy really....

 

it is not hard, you just need to really crimp them (heard today)