T&D 2012

2012 Thrash & Dangle Fest
April 21, 2012

Presented by the Phoenix Rock Gym
The comp was limited to the first 100 people, where we actually had 106 competitors total.
Also 104 Sponsors total. WOW!!!!!
$45.00 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 ( Silas Sprout 5.88 seconds )
- Blindfold ( Eric Ebele 13.78 seconds )
- Rope Climb ( Eric Ebele 10.09 seconds )
- Two Person ( Patrick Maclane/Sierra Blair Coyle 11.96 seconds )
- Blacksmith Route (Patrick Maclane 6.15 seconds )
- Four Peaks Obstacle Course (Aiden Marin 22.64 seconds)
All competitors gain raffle tickets for attempting 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: ( Michael Farrar )
Oldest - Golden Piton ( Larry Reinmuth, age 59 )
Youngest - ( Ella Fisher, age 5 )
Lowest score - ( Samantha Lampner )
Karabin Climbing Museum items guess -
Actual 632 Tnuts- (Garth Price guessed 628 items )

Comp Director and Artwork - Marty Karabin
Comp Director and Master of Ceremonies - Robert Olson
Prizes - Robert Olson
- Marty Karabin
- Justin Wagner
- Erin Orwig
- Gravity
Music energy - Just-Ian Entertainment

Course setters:
- Justin Wagner (lead course setter)
- Joe Czerwinski (Lead course setter )
- Marty Karabin (side events)
- Jeremy Cox
- Harison Frawley
- Robert Olson
105 boulder problems set

Sponsor booths at the Fest:
- Team Rock Phenoms
- Massage by Amber
- Emma’s Custom Chalkbags
- Vitamin Water

Singing the National Anthem - Simona Olson
Ribbon Girl - Katherine Martin
Massage tables - Amber Massage (Amber Puzzi)
Catered food - Hungry Howies Pizza

T-Shirts and ribbons made by MK Productions
Media flyers made by MK Productions
Score card and graphs made by Justin Wagner
Wood Awards made by Paul Diefenderfer given to every First Place winner.

Raffle boulder problem sponsors:
- Zen Lizard Systems ( 5.9 )
- Three Ball Climbing ( V0+ )
- So ill Holds ( V2 )
- Planetary Climbing ( V3 )
- Red Bull ( 5.6 ) TR
- Evolv Shoes ( 5.10- ) TR
Only the climbers that complete the sponsored boulder problems get into that individual raffle.

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.
Ribbon Girl hands out ribbons to the winners at the award ceremony
Milk crates podium used for three step award ceremony.

Best overall score:
Male - Minko Nikolov, age 24
Female - Sierra Blair Coyle, age 18

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

Tori Robinette playing on the Four Peaks Obstacle Course. 2012 T&D Fest.

2012 T&D Scorecard made by Justin Wagner
Planetary Climbing

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T&D 2012 COMP NOTES:
The 2012 T&D comp was totally awesome!!!
- We added new Side Events: The Four Peaks Obstacle Course!!! The obstacle course was built in and took up the entire Yellow Exit canyon in the gym. Competitors were challenged with rope swings, a balance beam, zig zagging in and out and over and under 12 Four Peaks beer kegs, some easy climbing, and the ropes spider web crawl to the big finish hold on the floor. All of this challenge and still the fastest time came to a impressive 22.64 seconds. So much fun!!! Props to Malcolm Person for directing the competitors through this event during the comp!

2012 T&D art, throphies, stuff

2012 T&D photos

But for additional fun, once the competitor finished the Four Peaks Obstacle Course the competitor was handed a large dice (die - single) to roll and see how many more raffle tickets were awarded for getting through the obstacle course. The dice was a blow up beach ball type of thing. However for the awards ceremony we had to have a alternate prize for the event since if a kid won the prize which included alcohol items, if the parent of the kid was not present, or the parents didn’t drink alcohol, the Four Peaks prize was raffled off to a secondary competitor that could accept the Four Peaks grand prize.
- The Balance Beam also had a dice roll for extra raffle tickets to all who completed the side event.
- The Red Bull raffle route was a 30’ rope climb of 75 awesome animals and bizarre artistic shaped climbing holds.
- The Evolv shoes route was a 30’ roped climb where the climbing holds were actually the used Evolv rental shoes that were no longer in use at the Phoenix Rock Gym. The competitors climbed the shoes! I drilled a larger hole in the sole of the shoes for the bolt and large washer so the shoes could be bolted to the wall, and a additional large screw with washer for the shoes if needed. The route was really cool where competitors at times untied some of the laces making the route harder for the following competitors.
- We added the Karabin Climbing Museum items Guess Jar. The jar was filled with climbing wall Tnuts and the competitors guessed how many items were in the jar. Write your guess in the provided box on the scorecard. The museum jar was on a shelf attached to the climbing wall where competitors could turn the jar but could not lift it. For further fun, within the center of the jar out of view I hid a Four Peaks beer bottle so when it came to revealing the winner during the awards ceremony, we first opened the Tnuts jar and pulled out the beer bottle receiving a “Boo” from the crowd. Then Robert and I shared the beer while laughing.
- Dropped the One Arm Climbing Side Event
- Dropped the Spinner Route Side Event
- Dropped the Crab Walk Side Event
- We had a highball bouldering area set and completed as planned for the competition. Unfortunately the day before the comp, as we arrived at Climbmax Climbing Gym to pick up the larger crash pads that were previously okayed by the gym owner, I guess a shift of ownership occurred and we were surprisingly denied the use of the pads. So suddenly all of the preset boulder comp problems for the highball area had to be reworked since we had no safety padding for the problems. This mess was thrown into our laps the day before the comp. It became a very exhaustive long evening for everybody that was finalizing the comp routes since the final 105 boulder problems alignment info was needed to be able to number all of the individual boulder problem starts.
- The comp entry price was raised from $30.00 to $45.00.
- The comp requirement of top 7 boulder problems for score, was changed to top 5 boulder problems for score.
- The sponsor raffle problems were all lower rated problems so more competitors could get into the raffles.
- 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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Prize info sheet showing how many different bouldering prizes were needed for the competitor divisions. This does not include all of the sponsor route prizes and side event prizes, etc.

For the 2012 T&D I created a bunch of awesome trophies which were given to the side event winners.

For the 2012 T&D comp I wanted to have a bigger ribbon design than the previous years but the problem was that the bigger the ribbon, the more thicker the triangle fold was where the eyelet was punched into the triangle ribbon top. So I came up with a new idea of using a straw to hold the integrity of the ribbon to be flat, and placing the knot of the yellow masonry string within the straw. The sewing had to be perfect so the straw could tightly fit into the ribbon top. Ribbons were all cut out by hand. - MK Productions Of Course! Ribbons printed by Express Screen Printing.

Every First Place winner received a wood plaque that was made by Paul Diefenderfer. Paul created a branding iron of the PRG logo and burned the logo onto the wood. Then attached PRG T&D wordage on white fiber paper.

T-shirt art instruction page for the screen printer

T&D 2012 T-shirt art and t-shirts. For 2012 I tried to outdo myself with the design showing it was all about climbing. This design even has a locking carabiner and rope, and very cool climbing character hanging off of the PRG logo. For the front of the shirt I did not include the "Staff" wordage, and I was looking for something different like having a shield type design hang off of the shoulder. Shirts printed by Express Screen Printing. I did print a few black t-shirts with white ink that came out totally awesome!!!