Winter 2025 Sport League
Join us for our first climbing league of 2025!
Our climbing leagues are all about having fun, and are tailored to YOUR personal climbing ability! Whether you are a 5.9 climber, or a 5.12 climber, everyone has the chance to compete to win!
League Rules & Details
The Overview
Each week, you will be scored on your top 3 climbs. Both you and your teammate's top 3 climbs will combine for a total team score each week, and your total league score will be your 4 highest scoring weeks plus your finals score.
Team Formation
- Teams of 2 | Sign up with a partner! You will get a team score, which is the sum of both individual's scores.
- If you don't have someone to climb with, there will be a league partner board up in the gym starting Sunday, January 5th, for you to find a partner. If the start of league rolls around and you still haven't linked up with with anyone, we will pair you up with another climber.
- We will assume you usually will climb with your partner, but it really doesn't matter for scoring purposes. If you need another pal to belay you some sessions, that is a-okay.
Setting a Climbing Style and Target Grade
Each week you'll be scored on the top 3 climbs you send. You get points for each climb based on your target grade and climbing style selected when you sign up.
Selecting your Climbing Style:
- Choose between Lead or Top Rope (TR). We will be doing separate individual award categories for TR and Lead!
- If you choose Lead, you will only be able to score climbs that you send on lead.
- If you choose TR, you can score climbs that you send on lead or TR, but there are no bonus points for leading.
Selecting your Target Grade:
- This should be the highest rated climb that you typically send on a day of climbing at the gym, according to the Climbing Style you select.
- We encourage you to set an aspirational goal! Keep in mind that your target grade should be difficult for you, but doable. You should not be able to hit your target grade on every climb you score.
Scoring
- To receive points for a route you must send it cleanly without any takes. If you fall, then you must lower to the ground before starting again for it to count towards your score.
- Remember, we are not doing bonus points for leading. Push yourself as you see fit!
- You may "second" a route in the lead-only terrain and get points for that climb.
- You may re-climb a route during league for points two times, however, you will not get the 10 point "unique climb" bonus on your second climb.
- Your team score is the total points between you and your partner.
- Everyone gets 1 drop week - the week with your lowest (or no) score
Your personal score each week will be the sum of the 3 hardest climbs you send clean. Keep in mind that if you set your target grade accurately, your climbs are not all likely to be at or above your target grade. If you consistently are sending climbs above your target grade, then you should have set your target grade higher. We will be evaluating scores after you have 3 weeks of scores to assess if your target grade needs to be bumped up or down.
As you enter the routes on your scoresheet we'll give you the score you receive for each climb based on that target grade. If you climb a route at your target grade you get 100 points. Each grade above or below your target grade changes your score by 10 points. For example, if your target grade is 5.11 and you climb a 5.11-, you will get 90 points for that climb. If you climb a 5.12- (which is 2 +/- grades above 5.11), you will get 120 points.
Points Per Send Based on Climber Target Grade
| Points | 5.7 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 5.10- | 5.10 | 5.10+ | 5.11- | 5.11 | 5.11+ | 5.12- | 5.12 | 5.12+ | 5.13- | 5.13 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5.5 | 5.6 | 5.7 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 5.10- | 5.10 | 5.10+ | 5.11- | 5.11 | ||||
| 1 | 5.5 | 5.6 | 5.7 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 5.10- | 5.10 | 5.10+ | 5.11- | 5.11 | 5.11+ | |||
| 1 | 5.5 | 5.6 | 5.7 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 5.10- | 5.10 | 5.10+ | 5.11- | 5.11 | 5.11+ | 5.12- | ||
| 70 | 5.5 | 5.6 | 5.7 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 5.10- | 5.10 | 5.10+ | 5.11- | 5.11 | 5.11+ | 5.12- | 5.12 | |
| 80 | 5.5 | 5.6 | 5.7 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 5.10- | 5.10 | 5.10+ | 5.11- | 5.11 | 5.11+ | 5.12- | 5.12 | 5.12+ |
| 90 | 5.6 | 5.7 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 5.10- | 5.10 | 5.10+ | 5.11- | 5.11 | 5.11+ | 5.12- | 5.12 | 5.12+ | 5.13- |
| 100 | 5.7 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 5.10- | 5.10 | 5.10+ | 5.11- | 5.11 | 5.11+ | 5.12- | 5.12 | 5.12+ | 5.13- | 5.13 |
| 110 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 5.10- | 5.10 | 5.10+ | 5.11- | 5.11 | 5.11+ | 5.12- | 5.12 | 5.12+ | 5.13- | 5.13 | 5.13+ |
| 120 | 5.9 | 5.10- | 5.10 | 5.10+ | 5.11- | 5.11 | 5.11+ | 5.12- | 5.12 | 5.12+ | 5.13- | 5.13 | 5.13+ | 5.14- |
| 130 | 5.10- | 5.10 | 5.10+ | 5.11- | 5.11 | 5.11+ | 5.12- | 5.12 | 5.12+ | 5.13- | 5.13 | 5.13+ | 5.14- | |
| 140 | 5.10 | 5.10+ | 5.11- | 5.11 | 5.11+ | 5.12- | 5.12 | 5.12+ | 5.13- | 5.13 | 5.13+ | 5.14- |
Getting Bumped:
- After Week 3 and after Week 5 of league, we'll evaluate what grades you actually climbed determine what your real target grade should have been and recalculate all of your scores based on that new target grade. We'll basically throw out your outlying highest and lowest grades and set the target grade one or two +/- grades above middle grades you climbed. If you hit your target, your score will stay the same. If you climbed well above or below your target grade, we will adjust your score accordingly. We will do our best not to bump you unless you are climbing well above or below your target grade.
Google Sheets
Each participant will receive a link to their own personal online Google Sheet for tracking their climbs. Paper scorecards will be available, but please only use them if you don't have a way to use the Google Sheet. Each week you come in to climb for league, activate the respective weekly scoresheet in Google Sheets. If you have any questions, ask the desk staff to show you how to use that. After you climb a route you'll enter the number of the route (from the start tag). You also need to put the initials of a witness (most likely your climbing partner) in order for your score to show up in your scoresheet.
Your sheet will also show you the routes your partner has logged, and their score.
Team scores will be pulled together each week on Monday and a leaderboard will be posted here on this webpage and on the blackboards in the gym.
Still unsure about league? Let's dispel some myths!
- "I don't climb hard enough to do league": FALSE! Sport League is scaled to your personal climbing ability! Whether you regularly lead 5.12s, or top-rope 5.8s and 5.9s, scoring is based upon your personal max climbing grade. Plus, all climbs up in the gym are part of league, so you are not limited to certain "specific" climbs; there will always be climbs available within your ability level. See more about how we score league below!
- "League happens specific days and times that I can't make": FALSE! For sport league, you can climb ANY time, ANY day, every week. Pick the times that work best for you. You also get one drop week, so if you miss a whole week of climbing, don't sweat it! Even if you can't make the specific finals sessions, there will be an opportunity to climb for finals during the morning of the finals sessions (you'll just miss the food and drinks!)
- "I don't have anyone to climb with, so I can't participate": FALSE! We can help you find a partner! There will be a specific league partner board in the gym to help folks pair up into teams. Even if you do have a climbing partner but your schedules differ, you can always climb with another person to get your scores in. You are not restricted to climbing only with your league partner.
FAQ
Finals Format
League Finals are on TENTATIVELY scheduled for Thursday, March 6th, 4-10 PM, Friday, March 7th, 4-10 PM and/or Saturday, March 8th from 3-8 PM. We will be selected two of these dates ASAP as the final session dates.
Finals session sign up will open during the first week of Sport League. You will pick ONE finals day and get your climbs in on that day.
Finals Climbing Details:
- There will be 7-9 finals climbs that are all progressive routes: each route will start off easier, and get harder as you climb up the wall. For example, the easiest climb will start at 5.7 and end around 5.9, and the hardest climb will start at 5.12-/5.12 and end at 5.12+.
- All finals climbs are flash format: you will get one attempt per finals climb.
- Every climb will have 8 zones. You will get points for the highest zone you achieve on your single attempt of each climb.
- Because we have so many league participants, you will receive a scorecard with the three finals climbs you may attempt. These 3 climbs will be centered around your target grade.
- In additional to the 3 finals climbs you can get points on, there will opportunity to score bonus points on up to 5 additional climbs around the gym, plus bonus points for dressing up in a costume related to your team's theme!
- We will have pizza from Slyce, beer from Odell (21+ participants), and NA sodas/beverages available during both finals sessions.
- The league merch item will be available for pick up during each final day.
- Awards will be available the day after the second session after we tally up all the scores and announce the winners.
Award Categories:
- Top 3 teams overall
- Top 3 individuals overall for Lead and TR categories
- Individual with the most recorded climbs
- Best team name (crowd voted during finals week)
League Partners
League Archives
Find all the results and photos from our past bouldering and sport leagues here!
Past Sport Leagues
Fall 2024
Winter 2024
Summer 2023
Winter 2022
Spring 2018
Fall 2017