Summer Bouldering League 2024

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.

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, we can try to help you find someone! 
• We 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.
• We are NOT doing bonus points for leading, but will have a separate individual awards category for lead only climbers.

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 on your league sheets.
• Remember, we are not doing bonus points for leading. The benefit to leading is that you have more terrain to climb on. 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 their 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, not all 3 of your climbs are likely to be at or above your target grade. Put another way, if you consistently are sending climbs above your target grade, then you should have set your target grade higher - and you can expect that in the end your score will be adjusted to reflect this.

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 my target grade is 5.11 and I climb a 5.11- I'll get 90 points for that climb. But if I climb a 5.12- (which is 2 +/- grades above 5.11) I get 120 points.

Points Per Send Based on Climber Target Grade

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, check in at the front desk and they will update your google sheet for that week. 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). Also have your witness (probably your climbing partner), enter their initials next to that. 

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.