2014 Thrash & Dangle Fest
April 19, 2014

Presented by the Phoenix Rock Gym
The comp was limited to the first 100 people, where we actually had 112 competitors total. 
Also 94 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 5 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 ( Will Hoppe 6.29 seconds )
- Blindfold Route (not a timed event, just raffle ticket gained)
- Blacksmith route (not a timed event, just raffle ticket gained)
- Rope Climb ( Eric Ebele 12.3 seconds )
- Two Person Route (Ryan Wurm/Matt Diestelmecer 14.27 seconds)
- Spinner Route ( Eric Ebele 16.0 )
- Four Peaks Obstacle Course (Dustin Martin 17.21 seconds )
All competitors gain raffle tickets for attempting side events. Fastest time for timed side events 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: ( David Anaya )
Oldest - Golden Piton ( Jim Zahn, age 58 )
Youngest - ( Ella Fisher, age 7 )
Lowest score - ( Veronica Nellis )
Karabin Climbing Museum items guess - 
Actual 178 bolt hangers- (Michelle Abshire guessed 173 items )

Comp Director and Artwork - Marty Karabin
Comp Director and Master of Ceremonies - Robert Olson
Prizes - Robert Olson
           - Marty Karabin
           - Erin Orwig
Music energy - Justian Productions

Course setters:
- Justin Wagner (lead course setter)
- Cody Abernathy
- Katherine Martin
- Jeremy Cox
- Ian Renteria
- Megan Rowtan
- Tarek Firzli
- Erin Orwig
- Marty Karabin (side events)
123 boulder problems set

Sponsor booths at the Fest:
- Team Rock Phenoms
- Dutch Brothers Coffee
- Three Ball Climbing
- Kind Bar
- World Stretch
- Regenerous Designs
- Pete Rueck

Singing the National Anthem - Katherine Martin
Ribbon Girl - Katherine Martin
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:
- Planetary Climbing
- Zen Lizard Systems
- Three Ball Climbing
- Fit Zone
- Dutch Brothers
- ENIX
- Dark Star Climbing

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.
$ 752 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 - Jack Lester, age 22
Female - Hannah Tolson, age 16

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

Additional thanks to the staff and volunteers that helped make this T&D event totally awesome!!!
Scorecard designed by Justin Wagner
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T&D 2014 COMP NOTES:
The 2014 T&D comp was totally awesome!!!
- For the past T&D comps the competitors would write in the point values of the boulder problems they successfully climbed on the scorecard. The scores would be rechecked previous to the award ceremony. Due to some final discrepancies, the boulder problem point values were now added to the scorecard where competitors would circle the correct points they received from their climbs so there would be no mistake on the final scorecard mathematics.
- 2014 is the first year we had to enforce that the competitors had to lock in their decision if they were competing in the Elite 
or Age category. A list was posted at the start of the comp and if the competitor didn’t check the list to make sure all was correct, the competitor had to stay in the category that was posted. Which is the category we were first told by the competitor at the comp start check in time.
- This year we added the “Fit Zone Ninja Warrior course!” The route was totally awesome starting with a climbing traverse to a beam with hanging pipes. Use the pipes to get across the beam to a Bachar Ladder rope down climb, then low traverse to the finish hold. To keep the route doable for everybody, we added a 1/2 way raffle ticket point, and if the competitor reached the final hold they will receive a second raffle ticket.
- Spinner route had a 1/2 way raffle ticket and a second ticket for reaching the top.
- Rope route had a 1/2 way raffle ticket and a second ticket for reaching the top.
- 26 kegs used on Four Peaks Brewery obstacle course.
- Brought back the two person route.
- Dropped the Black and Blue route.
- Balance Beam received one raffle ticket for walking the beam with one spoon and tennis ball, and second ticket for two spoons and two tennis balls. On the final results page it was listed as 3.17 seconds for fastest time which was a mistake, actual time was 6.29 seconds. I almost matched the winning score, then I was disqualified since I snuck in double stick tape which held the tennis balls to the spoons. 
- Blindfold Side Event 30’ rope route was sponsored by Evolv.
- Dutch Brothers Side Event 30’ rope route was a 5.7 easy climb of 100 cool shape holds, climb the faces only and receive a raffle ticket.
- For the Cash Pad raffle, the winner went home with $376 plus the crash pad. The other $376 was donated to the Access Fund. Once the Cash Pad raffle winner was revealed, a few more fun items were raffled off calling out additional cash pad raffle tickets.
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2014 T&D ribbons art and ribbon made by MK Productions Of Course! Printed by Express Screen Printing.
Every first place winner received a wood plaque made by Paul Diefenderfer. Heavy grain wood triangle with branded PRG logo and PRG T&D wordage on white fiber paper. Desert Rat Forge.
T&D 2014 T-shirt art and Tshirts made by MK Productions Of Course!
​Printed by Express Screen Printing through NT Kustom.
Route Charts made by Justin Wagner - Planetary Climbing
Comp information for the competitor packets