Bouldering Top Trumps (Read 10963 times)

SA Chris · December 02, 2004, 07:59:16 am

Quote from: "a dense loner"

not to be confused with the fu manchu ratings compared to dracula with the horror top trumps

Didnt the Horror Top Trumps have a Fear Factor? Maybe that should be included?

Dave Flanagan · December 02, 2004, 10:10:30 am

They will be finished next week hopefully.

ian h · December 21, 2004, 09:58:57 pm

Quote from: "Dave Flanagan"

They will be finished next week hopefully.

how are the trumps going ?

Dave Flanagan · December 22, 2004, 11:43:17 am

Quote from: "ian h"

Quote from: "Dave Flanagan"
They will be finished next week hopefully.

how are the trumps going ?

ok heres what I have done so far. I have got some photos fom the web without permission - so apologies if they are yours (I will get rid of them if you want)

Can anyone fill in any blanks correct any stuff?

dave · December 22, 2004, 11:54:20 am

WSS
Grade 7b+
Power 4
Stamina 4
Technique 11
Bold 5

DrWong · December 22, 2004, 12:11:57 pm

Nice work! I don't know if you have decided to drop the steepness bit but there's a typo in the word 'degrees'

It would make an awesome wall chart too.

AndyR · December 22, 2004, 02:28:51 pm

Quote from: "Dave Flanagan"

Can anyone fill in any blanks correct any stuff?

Shurely Careless Torque should be cranked up to 10 for all categories?
How does the Rails (V2?) have the same power rating as CT?
Plural of 'foot' is 'feet'.......

dave · December 22, 2004, 02:40:22 pm

why would CT be 10 for stamina?

Dave Flanagan · December 22, 2004, 02:42:24 pm

Quote from: "AndyR"

Quote from: "Dave Flanagan"

Can anyone fill in any blanks correct any stuff?

Shurely Careless Torque should be cranked up to 10 for all categories?
How does the Rails (V2?) have the same power rating as CT?
Plural of 'foot' is 'feet'.......

Each of the ratings is of course relative to the grade. Otherwise the bigger grades would win all the time.

AndyR · December 22, 2004, 02:50:24 pm

Quote from: "dave"

why would CT be 10 for stamina?

Errr, dunno - looked quite pumpy?

AndyR · December 22, 2004, 02:55:36 pm

Quote from: "Dave Flanagan"

Quote from: "AndyR"
Quote from: "Dave Flanagan"

Can anyone fill in any blanks correct any stuff?

Shurely Careless Torque should be cranked up to 10 for all categories?
How does the Rails (V2?) have the same power rating as CT?
Plural of 'foot' is 'feet'.......

Each of the ratings is of course relative to the grade. Otherwise the bigger grades would win all the time.

Really? I always thought that was the beauty of top trumps - even though you had a weedy little minesweeper that was about 1/100th the weight of the USS Nimitz, you could always win on something cheeky, like, first year of service, or no. of mortar launchers......

Same thing here - although some weedy 5+ won't beat a 7b+, you can always out-gun it on 'year first climbed*' or 'boldness'.

*I'm assuming that an older problem will beat a more recent one??

dave · December 22, 2004, 02:55:46 pm

seriously though, i would have thought the high stamina scores would be reserved for long problems like say staminaband, easyrider-into-chipshopbrawl, anaesthesia, barrel traverse etc.

AndyR · December 22, 2004, 02:59:07 pm

Quote from: "dave"

seriously though, i would have thought the high stamina scores would be reserved for long problems like say staminaband, easyrider-into-chipshopbrawl, anaesthesia, barrel traverse etc.

Yep, fair point - it could do with a good honest traverse.

And a decent hard problem that requires very little technique at all - i.e. power 10, technique 1. Any suggestions?

tommytwotone · December 22, 2004, 03:43:25 pm

buckstone dyno?

it's only a big jump twixt two big holds innit?

dave · December 22, 2004, 03:49:25 pm

theres a fair bit of tech in buckstone. georges wall dyno going str8 to the break is more like just pulling fucking hard and fast, minimal technique. must be some more.

c.j.d. · January 08, 2005, 02:07:26 pm

I would disagree entirely with the 'no technique' thing - there 's more than just pulling when it comes to moves like that - timing, precision, power, contact etc - new thread to discuss? I think so!

r-man · December 23, 2005, 04:12:14 pm

Hey, did you ever finish these top trumps? Just wundrin like, cos they were looking good...

cowboyhat · January 03, 2006, 06:57:16 pm

About 6? years ago Miles and everyones favourite climbing celebrity BH made a set of climber top trumps. They used mags and The Power etc for reference plus there own experience of witnessing wads. It was pretty fun.

Problems or routes is a better idea though as its more easily quantifiable, ironic that BH didn't spot that...

Nibile · January 04, 2006, 11:47:15 am

whats this thread about?
im f****ing curious, but cant open the linkz

cowboyhat · January 04, 2006, 11:53:15 am

Bouldering Top Trumps

Nibile · January 04, 2006, 12:09:00 pm

ahh, right.

Bonjoy · January 04, 2006, 12:13:33 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Trumps

Nibile · January 04, 2006, 12:25:33 pm

cheers!!!!

now the question:
is this just to talk on the net or is there a plan to release real cards fo' play? sounds fucking nice, being at the pub after a three hour session, with friends, having beers and playing boulders.

Nibile · January 04, 2006, 12:26:54 pm

that said, something comes to my mind that id like to discuss in a proper thread, if you like.

Dave Flanagan · January 04, 2006, 01:16:47 pm

Quote from: "Nibile"

cheers!!!!

now the question:
is this just to talk on the net or is there a plan to release real cards fo' play? sounds fucking nice, being at the pub after a three hour session, with friends, having beers and playing boulders.

My plan is make a big JPEG which you can print and cut (careful now) out.