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2015 Thrash & Dangle Fest
April 18, 2015 Presented by the Phoenix Rock Gym The comp was limited to the first 100 people, where we actually had 96 competitors total. Also 90 Sponsors total. WOW!!! $45.00 to enter Categories: Thrashers: (Elite) cash prizes Male and female, 1st $250, 2nd $150, 3rd $100 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 offered to the competitors through a thsirt order option. Side Events: - Balance Beam ( Will Hoppe 4.41 seconds ) - Blindfold Route ( Erik Misiak 12.50 seconds ) - Blacksmith Route (not a timed event, just raffle ticket gained ) - Lord Of The Rings (Jesse Novotny 13.57 seconds ) - Rope Climb ( Three Ball Rope Race Challenge )(Eric Ebele won ) - Two Person Route (Ryan Wurm/Evan Yatabe 27.06 seconds) - Spinner Route ( Nicholas Oxentenko 18.98 seconds ) - Four Peaks Obstacle Course ( Clay Gordon 15.86 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: ( Jesse Novotny ) Oldest - Golden Piton ( Robert Morfin - age 58 ) Youngest - ( Piper McGourin - age 7 ) Lowest score - ( Alec Lezcand ) Karabin Climbing Museum items guess - Actual 550 PRG wooden nickels - ( Eric Ebele guessed 545 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 - Jeremy Cox - Ian Renteria - Tarek Firzli - Wes Miller - Marty Karabin (side events) 129 boulder problems set Sponsor booths at the Fest: - Team Rock Phenoms - Three Ball Climbing - Thrive Climbing - Kind Bar - Gringo Star - Hands That Care - OSS Physical Therapy - Kill Cliff Recovery Drink - NYR Organics Singing the National Anthem - Katherine Martin Ribbon Girl - Jazzy Diab Catered food - Hungry Howies Pizza Massage - Hands That Care 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 - Thrive Climbing - Three Ball Climbing - ENIX Holds - Dark Star Climbing - Gringo Star - Four Peaks Brewery 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 - Joe Czerwinski, age 40 Female - Hannah Tolson, age 17 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!!! |
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T&D 2015 COMP NOTES:
The 2015 T&D comp was totally awesome!!! -The cash prize for the Elite competitors was increased $50 each place. So now $250 for first place, $150 for second place, and $100 for third place. - New for this 2015 comp is the Three Ball Ninja Monkey Course. A totally awesome Ninja Warrior type set up located in the Hueco canyon and traversing left through the small roof to the Hueco overhang wall. Up and down climbing through the small |
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roof using stationary holds and swinging hanging ball holds all finalizing on a 16” hanging sphere hold made by Three Ball Climbing. The route had a flash number and redpoint number for those that finished the route. Also the route had three bonus raffle tickets available which were awarded the further on the route the competitor made it to.
- Added Lord Of The Rings Side Event. Super fun challenge where the foot hold was a continuous 10’ rail. Only 4 climbing holds to climb with. The challenge was that the route required the climber to move a series of quickdraws from one ring bolt to another while traversing the route one direction, then return back on the route moving the quickdraws back to their original ring bolt position. Time stopped when all ring bolts were clipped and both hands were on the finish hold (which was also the starting hold). So traverse left 10’ then traverse back going right for 10’ and moving 7 quickdraws while doing it. Fastest time scored with this new event was 13.57 seconds. For added fun the rings on the bolts sat flat to the wall making it harder to clip quickly, old style oval carabiners were used for the quickdraws and the dog bone webbing was a open loop which was not sewn tight so the carabiner could accidentally rotate out of position. Good fun!!!
- The rope route for 2015 was a Three Ball Climbing challenge. I don’t remember exactly what the discipline was for the challenge.
- The Spinner Route was on a auto belay system. We dropped the half way bonus raffle ticket, so now the competitor had to make it to the finish hold to get the raffle ticket. We heard a lot of screams as the climbers got pitched off of the sudden spinning holds and the slight fall before the auto belay device caught firmly.
- I finally figured out how to coarseset the Two Person Route perfectly forcing the two climbers to rely on each other while climbing the route. The center holds became low angle slopers which were bad for hands but great for foot holds. The climbers would hold hands and pull on each other to get through the crux of the event. Remember that the comp was only three hours long so the harder the side event routes were the less climbers would be able to get onto the routes without a long wait. If each climber took 5 minutes to climb the route, that is only 36 climbers having a chance at the route, and there were close to 100 competitors at each of the T&D events. So the design for the side events had to be more forgiving than absolute to allow more climbers to get onto them and through them quicker. After a few T&D events, the veterans of this T&D competition knew that the best strategy for this type of comp was to start on the side events and finish on the boulder problems.
- Blindfold Route now has mid way raffle ticket added, and top for second raffle ticket. This was to get more competitors onto the side event.
- Balance beam has one or two spoons with tennis balls bonus to gain two raffle tickets.
- We finally dialed in our system at the end of the comp getting the correct raffle tickets to the competitors and separating the tickets to the proper ticket jars. Overall each competitor had a opportunity to gain raffle tickets through sponsor boulder problems, through Side Events, and sponsored routes. So besides tallying up and triple checking final competitor scores, the raffle tickets gained had to go correctly into many different separate jars. Basically we had a dozen or more Nalgene water bottles which worked great for this task. About 8 PRG staff people were helping the competitors as they turned in their score cards. Two staff people were on the computer just entering scores from the score card. It was a crazy chaotic process but every year we got it done! The Cash Pad raffle was a separate thing where the tickets were always its own special color separate from all of the other raffle ticket colors used in the comp.
- Added Lord Of The Rings Side Event. Super fun challenge where the foot hold was a continuous 10’ rail. Only 4 climbing holds to climb with. The challenge was that the route required the climber to move a series of quickdraws from one ring bolt to another while traversing the route one direction, then return back on the route moving the quickdraws back to their original ring bolt position. Time stopped when all ring bolts were clipped and both hands were on the finish hold (which was also the starting hold). So traverse left 10’ then traverse back going right for 10’ and moving 7 quickdraws while doing it. Fastest time scored with this new event was 13.57 seconds. For added fun the rings on the bolts sat flat to the wall making it harder to clip quickly, old style oval carabiners were used for the quickdraws and the dog bone webbing was a open loop which was not sewn tight so the carabiner could accidentally rotate out of position. Good fun!!!
- The rope route for 2015 was a Three Ball Climbing challenge. I don’t remember exactly what the discipline was for the challenge.
- The Spinner Route was on a auto belay system. We dropped the half way bonus raffle ticket, so now the competitor had to make it to the finish hold to get the raffle ticket. We heard a lot of screams as the climbers got pitched off of the sudden spinning holds and the slight fall before the auto belay device caught firmly.
- I finally figured out how to coarseset the Two Person Route perfectly forcing the two climbers to rely on each other while climbing the route. The center holds became low angle slopers which were bad for hands but great for foot holds. The climbers would hold hands and pull on each other to get through the crux of the event. Remember that the comp was only three hours long so the harder the side event routes were the less climbers would be able to get onto the routes without a long wait. If each climber took 5 minutes to climb the route, that is only 36 climbers having a chance at the route, and there were close to 100 competitors at each of the T&D events. So the design for the side events had to be more forgiving than absolute to allow more climbers to get onto them and through them quicker. After a few T&D events, the veterans of this T&D competition knew that the best strategy for this type of comp was to start on the side events and finish on the boulder problems.
- Blindfold Route now has mid way raffle ticket added, and top for second raffle ticket. This was to get more competitors onto the side event.
- Balance beam has one or two spoons with tennis balls bonus to gain two raffle tickets.
- We finally dialed in our system at the end of the comp getting the correct raffle tickets to the competitors and separating the tickets to the proper ticket jars. Overall each competitor had a opportunity to gain raffle tickets through sponsor boulder problems, through Side Events, and sponsored routes. So besides tallying up and triple checking final competitor scores, the raffle tickets gained had to go correctly into many different separate jars. Basically we had a dozen or more Nalgene water bottles which worked great for this task. About 8 PRG staff people were helping the competitors as they turned in their score cards. Two staff people were on the computer just entering scores from the score card. It was a crazy chaotic process but every year we got it done! The Cash Pad raffle was a separate thing where the tickets were always its own special color separate from all of the other raffle ticket colors used in the comp.
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T&D 2015 scorecard front and back. Scorecard designed by Justin Wagner, Planetary Holds.
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T&D 2015 comp t-shirt art and t-shirt. Design by MK Productions Of Course.
Printed by Express Screen Printing through NT Kustom.
Printed by Express Screen Printing through NT Kustom.
This year we offered for competitors to purchase comp t-shirts, and they could choose from many different colors.
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T&D 2015 ribbons art and ribbons. For the 2015 ribbons I wanted to create the best ribbon design yet which included having the most cuts with scissors to create its unique shape. Designed 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.
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Route Guide by problem number
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Route Guide by point values
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-- Route guides made by Justin Wagner --
T&D 2015 competitor packet info page
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T&D 2015 Sponsors page.
Many thanks again to all of the sponsors!!! |