adidas Rockstars 2013 Live

adidas Rockstars 2013 Live

Tune in here Saturday, September 14th at 1:15 PM EDT to catch Finals of the 2013 adidas Rockstars live from the Porsche Arena in Stuttgart, Germany.

A solid field including the likes of Sachi Amma, Nalle Hukkataival, Chris Webb-Parsons, Alex Puccio, Akiyo Noguchi and Shauna Coxsey will be competing in a unique format that starts with a two boulder final round, with the top three climbers from each gender at that point moving on to a third problem.  The top two climbers after the third problem will compete in one last “super final” round where they climb simultaneously on identical problems with the first climber to reach the top getting the victory.

Update – When I wrote this post yesterday I didn’t realize there was still a semi-final round to be had so the list of people above is not entirely accurate. In fact, none of the men I mentioned made it to finals. Oops! Here are the finalists:

2013 adidas Rockstars Finalists
Men’s Finalists Women’s Finalists
  1. Rustam Gelmanov
  2. Jernej Kruder
  3. Sean McColl
  4. Gabriele Moroni
  5. Jorg Verhoeven
  6. Dmitrii Sharafutdinov
  1. Alex Puccio
  2. Akiyo Noguchi
  3. Juliane Wurm
  4. Mina Markovic
  5. Petra Klingler
  6. Shauna Coxsey

Posted In: Adidas Rock Stars, Bouldering

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26 Responses to adidas Rockstars 2013 Live

  1. OBdizzy September 13, 2013 at 2:07 pm #

    What just happened to my ears?!

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  2. Jordan September 13, 2013 at 6:07 pm #

    Worst song the world has ever known.

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    • chris September 14, 2013 at 8:08 am #

      It’s like they thought to themselves ‘I want, like, Nickelback, only worse.’

      Turns out there is such a thing.

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  3. Narc September 14, 2013 at 10:59 am #

    I guess it pays to only view this from a computer with no speakers #winning

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  4. Narc September 14, 2013 at 11:01 am #

    Oops. I found a computer with sound…

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  5. Berg September 14, 2013 at 11:24 am #

    why are they doing this. what did climbing ever do to them. stop it.

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    • Berg September 14, 2013 at 12:07 pm #

      yup time to yell at the fb page

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  6. Narc September 14, 2013 at 11:25 am #

    Lots of buffering and bad music

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  7. Sean September 14, 2013 at 11:34 am #

    I think Adidas just tricked us into watching a terrible concert by telling us there will be climbing. Where is the climbing?!?! Stop this terrible music!! Ahhh!

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  8. Doug Lipinski September 14, 2013 at 11:36 am #

    This is unbearable. Feel like sending a tweet when the climbing starts?

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    • Narc September 14, 2013 at 11:37 am #

      Sure, you tweet at me when it starts

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      • Doug Lipinski September 14, 2013 at 11:38 am #

        Well done. Turnabout is fair play. But seriously, no one should have to listen to this.

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        • Narc September 14, 2013 at 11:43 am #

          I can’t get the stream to work for more than a minute at at time right now before it buffers endlessly

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          • Doug Lipinski September 14, 2013 at 11:48 am #

            Me either, and thank god for that.

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  9. PK September 14, 2013 at 12:35 pm #

    What’s going on with the stream? Keeps on skipping 30 seconds and so forward all the time? This is from London, UK

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    • Narc September 14, 2013 at 12:37 pm #

      Same here in the US

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  10. PK September 14, 2013 at 12:41 pm #

    Ridiculous. I thought Adidas was quite the large company with appropriate resources. Next time they ought to contract Lt11 over to do as good a job as they have done with the US comps the past year. This is just stupid.

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  11. bradski September 14, 2013 at 1:02 pm #

    Worst stream ever.

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  12. Markku September 14, 2013 at 1:42 pm #

    This screenshot pretty much sums up my watching experience 🙁 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3401190/adidas_rockstars_2013.png

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    • Narc September 14, 2013 at 1:43 pm #

      Yup

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    • BJohhnyB September 14, 2013 at 2:01 pm #

      Erm.. you are quite lucky you are not seeing this..

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  13. Sean September 14, 2013 at 1:50 pm #

    We need LT11 to do this broadcast! This sucks Adidas, get out of climbing!!

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    • Narc September 14, 2013 at 2:05 pm #

      Doesn’t matter who you are if you don’t have the proper bandwidth

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  14. Doug Lipinski September 14, 2013 at 2:43 pm #

    This whole comp has been kind of a disaster. Terrible streaming. Terrible music. Too many flashes of M1. No tops or bonus on M2. Too many men with an exact tie after qualifier. And after final problem. Rush to set M super-final that would be decided based on awkward start. Advancing to M final decided by Jernej being taller than Sean and able to reach bonus with no hope of moving from that position. W final too hard and neither woman can top. Women called off with no winner yet and men sent out. At this point they’re just making up procedures for how to decide the winner.

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    • Narc September 14, 2013 at 2:55 pm #

      Glad I went to get an oil change instead

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  15. SB September 14, 2013 at 4:56 pm #

    This competition made me appreciate the IFSC Boulder World Cup organization. Not that I did not like the BWC before, but this event made it glaringly clear how well organized everything is.

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