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2010 Thrash & Dangle Fest
April 10, 2010 Presented by the Phoenix Rock Gym and AZ Cliff Hanger The comp was limited to the first 100 people, where we actually had 105 competitors total. Also 61 Sponsors total. $30.00 to enter Categories: Thrashers: (Elite) cash prizes Male and female, 1st $200, 2nd $100, 3rd $50 Danglers (Age) mfg prizes Age breakdown: male and female, 0-10, 11-14, 15-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50+ 3 hour competition: 6pm - 9pm Saturday Award ceremony: 9pm - 10pm Top 7 boulder problems for score Competitors receive competitor packets filled with tons of coupons, stickers and mfg schwag when they first register for the comp on comp day. T-Shirts were made but just for the comp staff. Side Events: - Balance Beam ( Jacob Bunyard 5.56 seconds ) - Blindfold ( Sean Shelton 16.53 seconds ) - One Arm Climbing ( Evelyn Turcotte 18.67 seconds ) - Rope climb ( Sean Shelton 12.31 seconds ) - Two Person ( Pat Maclane/Sierra Blair Coyle 15.12 seconds ) All competitors gain raffle tickets for completing the side events. Fastest time for each side event received a prize and sometimes a trophy. Side Event raffles only included the competitors that entered that individual side event. Other prizes: First to sign up: ( Connie Vekre ) Oldest - Golden Piton ( Laurie Lundquist ) Youngest - ( Rilie Cox ) Worst score - ( Rilie Cox ) Comp Director and Artwork - Marty Karabin Sponsors - Marty Karabin and Robert Olson Master of Ceremonies - Robert Olson Prize distribution - Justin Wagner, Erin Orwig, Malcolm Person Music energy - Giorgio Mosesso Volunteers - Erin Orwig Course setters: - Justin Wagner (lead course setter) - Marty Karabin (side events) - William Haeberle - Paul Phelps - Jeremy Cox - Robert Olson Sponsor booths at the Fest: - Three Ball Climbing Holds - Emma’s Custom Chalkbags Massage tables - Affordable Laser & Skin Catered food - Boulders On Broadway Raffle boulder problem sponsors: - Kronik (V0-) - So ill Holds (V0+) - Planetary Holds (V2) - Three Ball Climbing (V4) - Uprox Holds (V5) - Contact Climbing (V6) Only the climbers that complete the sponsored boulder problems get into that individual raffle. T-Shirts and ribbons made by MK Productions Media flyers made by MK Productions Score card and graphs made by Justin Wagner Metal plates as gifts to sponsors made by Paul Diefenderfer Cash Pad Raffle - 1/2 monies and crash pad goes to the raffle ticket winner, 1/2 monies goes to the Access Fund. This raffle is allowed for everybody who attended the comp, not just the competitors. $ ............... received total - divided by 2 Shout out for as many crash pads as we can get from people. Climbmax gym highball pads. Milk crates podium used for three step award ceremony. Ribbon girl (Gravity). Best overall score: Male - Zak Farmer, age 26 Female - Sierra Blair Coyle, age 16 For the award ceremony tons of hats, chalk bags, stickers, shirts etc were thrown out to the competitors. |
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- Dropped the Speed route side event. The Speed route was tough to manage since the climbers were faster climbing the route than the belayers could keep up with. The Speed route was usually set as a 5.10 technical route to slow the climbers speed down.
- Dropped the Spinner Route side event. The Spinner Route is a great side event, but just didn’t have room to put it in the comp for this year.
- Dropped the Slackline side event . The Slackline was short going across the back of the gym in the beginner blue canyon. The competition needed more room for boulder problems to spread out the climbers and thin out the two main bouldering areas from getting over packed with climbers. So boulder problems were also set on the east wall of the beginner blue canyon. The Balance Beam is located in the Yellow canyon.
- Dropped the prize for the heaviest climber.
- All of the prizes that came from the sponsors were not entirely free. The Phoenix Rock Gym donated a few thousand dollars to purchase prizes for many of the prize categories. The T&D comp was not designed to make money. The comp was designed for the community to have a place every year to get together for a fun festival of climbing. Many rock gyms in AZ sponsored the T&D events every year.
- I don’t have info of the final amount that the Cash Pad raffle raised. Usually it topped out around $500.00
- Dropped the Spinner Route side event. The Spinner Route is a great side event, but just didn’t have room to put it in the comp for this year.
- Dropped the Slackline side event . The Slackline was short going across the back of the gym in the beginner blue canyon. The competition needed more room for boulder problems to spread out the climbers and thin out the two main bouldering areas from getting over packed with climbers. So boulder problems were also set on the east wall of the beginner blue canyon. The Balance Beam is located in the Yellow canyon.
- Dropped the prize for the heaviest climber.
- All of the prizes that came from the sponsors were not entirely free. The Phoenix Rock Gym donated a few thousand dollars to purchase prizes for many of the prize categories. The T&D comp was not designed to make money. The comp was designed for the community to have a place every year to get together for a fun festival of climbing. Many rock gyms in AZ sponsored the T&D events every year.
- I don’t have info of the final amount that the Cash Pad raffle raised. Usually it topped out around $500.00
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The fabric for the ribbons had to be tough so I found that fabrics made for outdoor patio furniture worked the best. I came across this wavey gold fabric that was perfect for the ribbons. For this years ribbon art I created the ribbon design having a women category and men category. Ribbon art by Marty. Ribbons screen printed by Express Screen Printing, and eyelets were installed by Marty and Jeremy. Gold masonry string used for ribbon hangers.
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For me the t-shirt design challenge needs to have certain elements showing that anybody who looks at the t-shirt will see that it obviously has to do with rock climbing. The PRG wordage is needed, the PRG logo, the comp date, and a male and female both on the shirt. On this design I like how one of the spotters is chillin' having his hands in his pant pockets. The shirts say "staff" since they were originally designed for the staff to be wearing them and the overall amount of the shirts were yellow in color. The every day PRG staff shirts are colored yellow.
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Many thanks again to the sponsors!!!
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2010 T&D comp flyer that was included in each competitor packet.