TCA: March Madness - Mini Boulder Comp

Hey Guys

The UK's biggest (and best) bouldering wall is going to be offering all climbers an amazing opportunity to come test out the facility. Whether you are a seasoned climber eager to test his/her self on some hard boulders or have never climbed before, there will be loads happening throughout the day the is sure to keep you occupied. Plus the best bit is its all totally FREE!!!

The TCA Glasgow is an amazing facility for any climber whether beginner or advanced. I regularly train there to better my skills as a boulderer as the quality of setting and of the walls is of such a high standard. As you will read below, there will be 18 new problems to try for the day, so get yourself there to test your skills out on the wall.

Below is a write up taken from the TCA Blog.

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This coming Sunday (18th March) is going to be a really exciting one here at TCA.  We are opening our doors to all for FREE!  While the focus of the day is just coming in and enjoying the TCA facilities free of charge, we have a number of other things going on to make it all that bit more interesting.  The first of which is the mini boulder comp.

How does it work?

On the day there will 18 brand new problems falling in to the following 3 categories (i.e. 3 problems per category):

• Male & Female Beginner (climbing ability = Purple - Red Circuit: Font 3- 6b)


• Male & Female Intermediate (climbing ability = Red - Orange Circuit: Font 6b - 6c+)


• Male & Female Advanced (climbing ability = Orange - White Circuit Font 6c+ and up)

The competition will be a hybrid format of our onsight and redpoint competition formats and works like this:

• Each problem must be attempted Ground Up (i.e. starting from the beginning each time, no practicing moves) and each hold will be allocated a score.


• You can have as many goes as you wish on each problem.  You then record the highest scoring hold you get to and in how many attempts it took you to get there.


• The person with the highest score over three problems and in the fewest attempts wins.  Simple.

Which category you enter is based on your own honesty and trust but the judges do reserve the right to move people up a category if deemed appropriate.

The great news is that Ellis Brigham have also kindly donated prize vouchers for each category. So it is well worth having a go.