In case there isn't enough other climbing to watch this weekend, Dock Masters is currently underway in Utrecht. Lots of strong climbers are competing, including Staša Gejo, Chloé Caulier, Jessy Pilz, Katja Debevec, Micka Mawem, Hannes van Duysen, ... Qualifications and semifinals are already done, and the finals are tomorrow.

Startlist and results

Semifinals livestream

Finals livestream - Sunday January 26, 19:00 local time

Mejdi just published video about Les Grips, which was held in France in December and wasn't streamed. It's in French, but there are English subtitles, the editing is awesome too. Pretty high quality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QKvABTgtAY

The British Boulder Championships start today and it'll be q big one. Toby Roberts, Hamish McArthur, Maximillian Milne, Dayan Akhtar, Jack MacDougall, Sam Butterworth, Louis Parkinson, Erin Mcneice, Holly Toothill, Loise Flockhart, Zoe Peetermans and others are on the start list (full start list including times for the first climb).

Live streamed on BMC YouTube channel (including qualifications) and Olympics website

Schedule (GMT +0):

Saturday 25.1 at 10:00 Qualifications (U17 stream and Senior stream)

Sunday 26.1 at 9:00 Semi-finals for U17

Sunday 26.1 at 11:30 Semi-finals for Seniors

Sunday 26.1 at 17:00 Finals for U17

Sunday 26.1 at 18:30 Finals for Seniors

My time

Comp page with all information

Results will be available here, I don't think there are live results available

The ice climbing continues on Friday and Saturday in Saas-Fee in Switzerland. No other parking garage has ever seen such an awesome event. Semi-final of lead and finals of lead and speed will be broadcasted on YouTube with Matt Groom's commentary.

Schedule (Local Time (GMT +9)):

Lead Qualification Women Friday 24.1 08:00
Speed Qualification Men Friday 24.1 9:15
Lead Qualification Men Friday 24.1 12:00
Speed Qualification Women Friday 24.1 14:45
Speed Final Women then Men Friday 24.1 20:00
Lead Semi-Finals Saturday 25.1 11:00
Lead Finals Saturday 25.1 19:00

Your time

More info on iceclimbing.sport

Results and registrations here

Chat channel

Hi

I'm looking for moderators for /r/SpeedClimbing

If anyone wants to grow the community hit me up!

I didn't see a post about this year's competition so I thought I'd make one.

Official website (Japanese)

List of climbers (Kanji/hiragana)

Schedule (all times JST):

• Qualifying: Sat 1st, 10:30-16:30
• Semi finals: Sun 2nd, 9:00-11:15
• Women's finals: Sun 2nd, 14:15-15:45
• Men's finals: Sun 2nd, 16:45-18:15

Will be livestreamed on YouTube (no regional restrictions, but probably only finals): https://www.youtube.com/c/JMACompetitionTV

I listen to the circle up podcast and in the latest episode (episode 45) Kyra Condie mentions in passing Brooke taking a year off comp climbing to climb outdoors but I couldn’t find anything about it online. Anyone know about this? I can also provide a screenshot of the transcript if people want :)

Edit: it’s mentioned about 21 minutes into the episode which is on Spotify for anyone curious

New season of deadly weapon world cup is starting on Saturday in Korea. Semi-final of lead and finals of lead and speed will be broadcasted on YouTube with Matt Groom's commentary.

Local Time (GMT +9)

Lead Qualifications Saturday 11.1 09:00
Speed Qualifications Saturday 11.1 16:00
Speed Finals Saturday 11.1 18:00
Lead Semi-Finals Sunday 12.1 08:30
Lead Finals Sunday 12.1 14:30

Your time

More info on iceclimbing.sport

Results and registrations here

P.S. Screw reddit's tables. Haven't worked for me one single time.

Obviously the Darts championships have been in the news this week, with the grand prize set at a huge £500,000 ($620,000) with the total prize pot at £2,500,000 ($3,105,000). Not bad for winning six games of darts in the champions case! By contrast I believe the absolute top prize at a climbing world cup is around £2300 ($2900)?

Now obviously the main thing is darts is actually broadcast, makes headline news, and does get higher viewing figures (3.68 million watching the final in uk). Its still not exactly the most popular sport in the world but clearly this is enough to build those prize pots.

Given the growth of climbing, and the dynamic/visual nature of the sport I could definitely see a future where climbing attracts at least half the viewers of darts. Not to bash on darts, it's enjoyable and satisfying to watch but not the most dynamic of sports! The IFSC streams can attract 0.75m and that's actual participating climbers seeking out the content - with most broadcast sports the bulk of spectators don't even participate!). I have met plenty of non-climbers who do know the likes of Alex Honnold or Magnus Mitbo, so I could see a fair few watching the sport if televised (again I'll happily watch the darts or tennis - playing not so much!).

But I suppose the question is what is actually being done to get climbing broadcast and where this gap lies (with the IFSC? with national broadcasters?). In the UK none of the main broadcasters show any of the world cups - the BBC barely covers the sport (Toby had a brief 5minutes on the front page for winning olympic gold!), yet certain "classic" sports (darts/cricket/golf) will receive huge amounts of coverage regardless of if a brit wins!

What are your thoughts? Do you think we will see a watershed moment for the sport anytime soon - or has the buzz from the Tokyo/Paris games failed to have the expected impact?

Hey guys I would really like to buy tickets for the 2025 boulder Worldcup in Bern. However, I do not know where/when to buy tickets. Could someone help?

Tnahk you very much!

I note the IFCS World Cup Calendar for 2025 doesn't have a UK event. Are there events just below the World Cup in the UK which some of the climbers from Paris 2024 are likely to compete? I've tried looking this up but my Google-fu is weak.

Family expressed some interest in watching a climbing competition. Everyone aside from myself has 0 experience with climbing. I haven't been keeping up with this season too closely so was wondering if someone could recommend which comp to watch as the best one and done.

Ideally a boulder final post Chamonix 2024 since I haven't watched any comps after that one this season. Also ideally a comp where different climbers use not so subtle different beta would be great.

Thank you anyone who takes the time to give a recommendation. Please try to avoid spoiling anything in your comments.

The latest episode of the That's Not Real Climbing podcast features a really nice interview with Oceana Mackenzie. In discussing her Paris Olympic experience we learn that she had an outbreak of shingles alongside subluxing her shoulder and having wisdom teeth coming in on the same side as all the shingles rash. This makes her performance all the more amazing. It's a really great interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVdzWBxBpo4

IFSC announced on their site that Madrid (ESP) will host lead World Cup in 2025 from 18th to 19th July and Denver (USA) will host speed WC from 31st to 1st June.

The WC in Poland will be in Krakow.

There are six boulder, six lead and six speed World Cups now.

Updated schedule:

https://preview.redd.it/5gapsx8h4h7e1.png?width=644&format=png&auto=webp&s=e05bb7566bf6548b7d8b3091161b755489f02758

Further updates will be released in the upcoming days.

Is there any live stream for the final of Les Grips this Sunday 15 ?

It sounds like IFSC is making some fairly substantial changes to international boulder competitions in 2025. The changes are discussed in this article from climbers-web.jp (I can't read Japanese so I'm going by the Google translation); have these been discussed elsewhere? Here are some key points:

• The scoring is changed from tops/zones to a points system: 25 points for a top, 10 points for a zone, -0.1 for each additional attempt. Like the Olympics, but with a single zone.
• 8 finalists instead of 6. If I'm understanding correctly, the sequencing in finals will also be like in the Olympics, with two people on two separate boulders except at the beginning and the end.

As the article points out, the new scoring system means that 0 tops, 3 zones will usually beat 1 top.

Thoughts? I guess the IFSC has decided that the Paris Olympics format was pretty successful. On the bright side, we won't be confused any more about whether World Cups have 6 or 8 finalists, haha.

Edit: thanks to u/shure-fire for pointing out this document, which has details about the IFSC's reasoning for both the changes to the boulder format and also non-changes (like keeping a single zone).

Tickets for the whole weekends are selling now https://www.climbingworldcup.cz/tickets/

It's from Friday to Sunday 6-8 June 2025

Single day tickets were sold later if I remember correctly for the last one.

Hello! I'm a rock climber and student working on a profile piece about Janja. I was wondering if any climbers or coaches / instructors who know a lot about her would be willing to chat in an interview? (Finding a way to talk to her or someone who knows her would be ideal, but not probable lol)

Any help would be great!

Master of BLoC is an invitational boulder competition sponsored by Cow Soap (⽜乳⽯鹼). Both senior and youth category athletes are invited.

Where to watch

Live-link youtube channel

Rules

Qualifications: 5 boulders, session format (2-3 waves, depending on number of climbers), 8 qualify for finals

Finals: 1-on-1 knockout tournament format

Invited Athletes

Women: Sekikawa Melody, Ai Mori, Nonoha Kume, Ai Takeuchi, Kaho Murakoshi, Nanami Nobe, Sana Ogura, Yui Suezawa, Sora Ito, Natsumi Oda, Michika Nagashima, Ren Koyamatsu, Hatsune Takeishi, Iroha Yamazaki, Natsuki Tanii, Kiki Matsuda

Men: Yuji Fujiwaki, Taiga Sakamoto, Yuta Imaizumi, Mahiro Takami, Ao Yurikusa, Rei Kawamata, Kento Yamaguchi, Haruyoshi Morimoto, Rei Sugimoto, Harel Nagamori, Eito Tamiya, Ryusei Hamada, Yusuke Sugimoto, Hayato Tsuru, Yuki Hoshi

Schedule (Japan time UTC+9)

09:10~ Women's qualifications

11:00~ Men's qualifications

14:00~ Women's finals

17:30~ Men's finals

I miss seeing Janja climb!

Anyone hear any rumors about whether she’ll participate in the IFSC circuit next year?

What has she been up to since Koper?

Someone said she was trying to climb ”Bibliographie” outdoors.

Anyone know if she sent it!? Where’s she off to next?