2011 Thrash & Dangle Fest
April 16, 2011

Presented by the Phoenix Rock Gym.
The comp was limited to the first 100 people, where we actually had 125 competitors total. 
Also 93 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 ( Austin Nawrocki 4.44 seconds )
- Blindfold ( Michael Beyer 9.35 seconds )
- One Arm Climbing ( Michael Beyer 12.47 seconds )
- Rope Climb ( Nicholas Oxentenko 11.05 seconds )
- Two Person ( Michael Beyer / Michael Elias 12.22 seconds )
​- Spinner Route (Harison Frawley 28.46 seconds )
- Crab Walk Route (Nicholas Oxentenko 32.53 seconds )
- Blacksmith Route (Michael Beyer 7.68 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: ( John Corcoran )
Oldest - Golden Piton ( Jim Zahn )
Youngest - ( Ferrin Goldstein )
Worst score - ( Ferrin Goldstein )

Comp Director and Artwork - Marty Karabin
Sponsors - Marty Karabin and Robert Olson
Master of Ceremonies - Robert Olson
Prizes - Marty Karabin
            - Robert Olson
            - Justin Wagner
            - Erin Orwig
Music energy - Giorgio Mosesso

Course setters:
- Justin Wagner (lead course setter)
- Joe Czerwinski
- Marty Karabin (side events)
- Giorgio Mosesso
- Jeremy Cox
- Robert Olson
​147 boulder problems were set

Sponsor booths at the Fest:
- Emma’s Custom Chalkbags
- Climb X Gear
- Ape Index Climbing Gym
- Vitamin Water
​- Helix Products

Singing the National Anthem - Simona Olson
Massage tables - Amber Massage
Catered food - Boulders On Broadway

Raffle boulder problem sponsors:
- Red Bull (5.8)
- Evolv shoe’s (V0-)
- Four Peaks Brewery (V0)
- Three Ball Climbing (V1)
- So ill Holds (V4)
- Planetary 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 let us use their large pads for the highball area. Milk crates podium used for three step award ceremony. Ribbon Girl hands out ribbons to the winners at the award ceremony.

Best overall score:
Male - Minko Nikolov, age 23
Female - Kelly Birch, age 16

For the award ceremony tons of hats, chalk bags, stickers, shirts etc were thrown out to the competitors.

This 2011 T&D competition story is shown in the forum on the Mountain Projects website
PRG logo magnets. Original design made by Chris Raypole Climbing Dynamics. Letters were etched in by Marty. Recasted by William Haeberle Uprox Holds
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T&D 2011 COMP NOTES: 
The 2011 T&D comp was totally awesome!!
For this comp we added two new Side Events:
- The Crab Walk - 30’ rope climb: The climber faces outward as they climb while their back faces the wall. 
- The Blacksmith Route - 30’ rope climb: Climber climbs a route made of metal holds while wearing oven mitts. Some of the metal holds were made by Justin, some were from Marty’s personal collection of antique mining equipment, and a few were blacksmithed by Paul Diefenderfer. 
- We brought back the Spinner Route side event, by popular demand from the competitors!
​- The climbing store AZ Cliff Hanger closed in 2010 and is no longer the presenting sponsor.
- The biggest bottleneck of the competition is when the comp ends and every competitor turns in their score card and receives raffle tickets for all of the events they participated in. Simply turning in the score card will be easy, but it is the raffle tickets that take the longest time to ensure all is done correct for each competitor. My two kids James and Nicholas were a great help with this as they separated hundreds of raffle tickets that came at them like a title wave. The process still took a half hour and then the award ceremony started with calling out the winning raffle numbers for each event. This gave us time to triple check the competitors final scores to make sure the alignment was correct before bringing the winning competitors up onto the podium.  ​
- 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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T&D 2011 competitors scorecard made by
​Justin Wagner, Planetary Climbing
T&D 2011 winners list
For the T&D 2011 ribbons I found a new gold colored thick patio fabric to use. Nice and flat to get a clean screen printing on. When the ribbons were cut out the edges stayed clean and the string weve did not fall apart. Triangle fold for the top where Marty and Jeremy installed the eyelets. Gold masonry string for the ribbon hanging loop. Printed by Express Screen Printing.
T&D 2011 ribbon instructions for the printer
T&D 2011 first place metals made by Paul Diefenderfer given to every first place winner. Copper plate with white Di-cut PRG logo sticker and PRG T&D printed on white fiber paper. Desert Rat Forge.
Golden Piton and Chris Sharma signed picture
Side Event trophies made by Marty and Robert
2011 T&D trophy shelf
Spinner Route trophy made by Marty
Prize categories to be filled
T&D 2011 volunteer sign up sheet by Erin Orwig
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The challenge of the t-shirt design is to show it is a rock climbing event. The t-shirt is to show male and female, the name of the comp, the date of the comp, the PRG name and the PRG logo. For this years t-shirt design I created art that would be centered on the front of the shirt instead like the past years, being printed over a pocket area. Printed by Express Screen printing.
T-shirt instruction sheet for the printer
Route tags for the start of every boulder problem
Many thanks again to the sponsors!!!
Sponsor support and info flyer
After the comp was completed, Justin created these comp ascent charts for future reference for setting the comps.
Justin's Route Guide was placed in a few different areas of the gym to assist competitors in finding the routes. This Route Guide is ranked by point values. In the gym the problem numbers were all numbered in order, but the problem ratings were random.
Justin's Route Guide was placed in a few different areas of the gym to assist competitors in finding the routes. This Route Guide is ranked by problem number.
T&D 2011 info flyer for the competitor packets