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2010 Vail Bouldering World Cup Media & Wrap-Up

Narc — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:39:52 +0000

So, I don’t know if you heard or not but there was a bouldering competition in Vail this weekend that was kind of a big deal. In case you missed it, here are the posts I had over the weekend about the Bouldering World Cup at the 2010 Teva Mountain Games:

Jon Glassberg put together a nice set of highlight videos from Finals that show pretty much every meaningful attempt on all the problems. Check ‘em out:

Bouldering World Cup 2010 • Vail, Colorado • Mens Finals from Jon Glassberg on Vimeo.

Bouldering World Cup 2010 • Vail, Colorado • Womens Finals from Jon Glassberg on Vimeo.

Here are some other medias floating around the interwebs:

Very professional looking (but not as complete as the ones shown above) highlight reels of the Men and the Women from DPM
Ben Fullteron has some images up from the Qualifying rounds with more photos from Semi-finals and Finals to come
Article about the comp in the Vail Daily News
Finals post at DPM with several nice pictures from Jackie Hueftle
Brief Daniel Woods interview with 8a.nu
Pictures of the top falls of the weekend
More great photos from Ben Fullerton
Petzl write-up with some really nice pictures

Feel free to share others sites with media that you come across in the comments and I’ll add them to the post.

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2010 Teva Mountain Games: Vail Bouldering World Cup Final Results

Narc — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 01:03:23 +0000

Some live feed is better than no live feed.

That seemed to be the consensus among the ~~700~~ 7000-odd climbing fans that were watching online as Daniel Woods and Chloé Graftiaux won the Bouldering World Cup at the 2010 Teva Mountain Games in Vail, CO.

Woods ended the drought for American men in Bouldering World Cups in decisive fashion as his 2 topouts meant he was the only male competitor to finish more than 1 problem. As is his habit of late, Woods came out and closed the show in exciting fashion by getting highpoint on Men’s #4 even though his victory had already been sealed. Well done.

Graftiaux narrowly defeated Anna Stohr in a very hotly contested women’s field that the routesetters seemed to have trouble separating all day. Over the course of Finals and Semi-finals, the top 5 finishers all completed the same number of problems and reached the same number of bonuses with only their number of attempts separating them.

Here are the final results with each competitor’s place coming into Finals in () next to their name:

Men’s Final Results	Women’s Final Results
Daniel Woods (USA) (1) Tsukuru Hori (JPN) (5) Kilian Fischhuber (AUT) (4) Jernej Kruder (SLO) (2) Francois Kaiser (FRA) (3) Wouter Jongeneenlen (NED) (6)	Chloé Graftiaux (BEL) (3) Anna Stohr (AUT) (1) Juliane Wurm (GER) (4) Alex Puccio (USA) (5) Alex Johnson (USA) (6) Maud Ansade (FRA) (2)

It will be interesting to read reaction from climbers and setters on how they felt the problems went in Finals. As an observer with an admittedly poor vantage point the Men’s problems seemed to revolve mostly around a dyno of some sort which gradually lost its excitement as all the men struggled over and over again to make the huge leap at the end of Men’s #3 and almost all the men struggled mightily to hold the swing on a long jump at the beginning of Men’s #4.

Daniel Woods going for the long move on Men’s #4

For the Women the first 2 problems went down pretty easy, and an unintended sequence on Women’s #2 that allowed a couple of the women to stem their way to the finish hold left at least some of us online spectators scratching our heads about the rules constituting control of a finish hold (apparently just touching the hold is enough?). Women’s #4 did help the comp end on an exciting note though as a send by any of the Women would have given them the victory and a couple of the women came off on the very last move.

Clip from the end of the Live Stream

As I alluded to the event was streamed live on UStream by the folks at Rock & Ice with Executive Editor Alison Osius doing commentary along the way. Overall her commentary was helpful and well prepared with the only real negative in my mind being the occasional cheer into the microphone. The feed itself was somewhat mediocre given that it was from a fixed angle off to one side of the venue which prevented the audience from seeing at least one of the Women’s problems entirely. The single angle also made it difficult to follow the action when the Men’s and Women’s problems were not right next to each other on the wall which was the case for at least half the night.

Compared to the multi-camera setup used at the recent Battle in the Bubble and the comps put on by the ne2c guys, the Teva Mountain Games World Cup live feed wasn’t nearly as advanced. Some feed is certainly better than no feed, but the aforementioned groups really raised the bar as far as live feeds are concerned in my opinion. It seems time for the World Cup at the Teva Mountain Games, to me the premier climbing comp in the U.S., to join them.

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2010 Teva Mountain Games: Vail Bouldering World Cup Semi-final Results

Narc — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:51:10 +0000

Semi-finals for the Bouldering World Cup at the 2010 Teva Mountain Games are complete with the top 6 finishers from each division moving on to finals tonight at 3:45 PM MST.

The live feed started late? just in time to see Paul Robinson fall near the last move of Men’s #3, a fall that ended up costing him a trip to finals as he wound up finishing in a disappointing 9th place. Daniel Woods looked to have things very much in control as he was the only competitor to finish all 4 problems including a very powerful Men’s #4 that he put down in short order.

For the women, Alex Puccio and Alex Johnson snuck into finals qualifying 5th and 6th respectively. The top 6 women all finished the 4 Semi-final problems though so the only thing differentiating them was the number of attempts they took to finish the problems. Time for the routesetters to bring it in finals!

Catch finals live from Vail here at 3:45 PM MST (or watch the routsetters reset the walls right now)

Men’s Semi-final Results	Women’s Semi-final Results
1. Daniel Woods (USA) 2. Jernej Kruder (SLO) 3. Francois Kaiser (FRA) 4. Kilian Fischhuber (AUT) 5. Tsukuru Hori (JPN) 6. Wouter Jongeneenlen (NED) 9. Paul Robinson (USA) 11. Magnus Midtbø (NOR) 13. Carlo Traversi (USA) 14. Rob D’Anastasio (USA) 16. Sean McColl (CAN) 18. Gabor Szekely (HUN)	1. Anna Stohr (AUT) 2. Maud Ansade (FRA) 3. Chloe Graftiaux (BEL) 4. Juliane Wurm (GER) 5. Alex Puccio (USA) 6. Alex Johnson (USA) 12. Francesca Metcalf (USA) 17. Audrey Gawrych (USA) 18. Sierra Blair-Coyle (USA)

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2010 Teva Mountain Games: Vail Bouldering World Cup Men’s Qualifier Results

Narc — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:24:02 +0000

The Men’s qualifying round of the Bouldering World Cup at the 2010 Teva Mountain Games in Vail, CO is history and some familiar names are atop the leader board heading into the Semi-final round tomorrow. You can watch the action from Vail live on Rock & Ice’s website tomorrow morning starting around 11 am MST.

Men’s Qualifier Results – Top 20 advance to Semi-finals

1. Paul Robinson (USA)
2. Jernej Kruder (SLO)
3. Daniel Woods (USA)
4. Sean McColl (CAN)
11. Rob D’Anastasio (USA)
T-18. Gabor Szekely (HUN)
T-18. Carlo Traversi (USA)
23. Adam Markert (USA)
26. Ryan Olson (USA)
30. Kyle Owen (USA)
37. Alex David Johnson (USA)
39. Ian Dory (USA)
48. Josh Levin (USA)
Julian Bautista (did not compete)

Full Results

Good luck to everyone competing tomorrow!

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2010 Teva Mountain Games: Vail Bouldering World Cup Women’s Qualifier Results

Narc — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:02:05 +0000

The Bouldering World Cup at the 2010 Teva Mountain Games in Vail, CO kicked off this morning with the women hitting the wall first. Below are the results from that round with the top 20 women returning tomorrow morning at 11 am local time for the Semi-final round of the competition. Tune in tomorrow to Rock & Ice’s website at this link for a live feed from the wall.

Women’s Qualifier Results

1. Anna Stohr (AUT)
2. Alex Puccio (USA)
3. Alex Johnson (USA)
12. Francesca Metcalf (USA)
13. Audrey Gawrych (USA)
15. Sierra Blair-Coyle (USA)
T-22. Cicada Jenerik (USA)
T- 22. Michaela Kiersch (USA)
27. Chauncenia Cox (USA)
31. Audrey Sniezek (USA)
33. Isabelle Faus (USA)
T-34. Taylor Clarkin (USA)
T-34. Amy Lipschultz

Full Results

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2010 Bouldering World Cup Vienna Results

Narc — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:10:30 +0000

The second Bouldering World Cup of the 2010 season took place last weekend in Vienna, Austria. American Alex Johnson was not able to repeat her victory at Greifensee but she did finish a very respectable 6th place.

Women’s Finals Results

Men’s Finals Results

Akiyo Noguchi (JPN)
Momoka Oda (JPN)
Kim Jain (KOR)
Chloé Graftiaux (BEL)
Anna Stohr (AUT)
Alex Johnson (USA)

Full Results

Kilian Fischhuber (AUT)
Adam Ondra (CZE)
Alexey Rubtsov (RUS)
Stewart Watson (GBR)
Tsukuru Hori (JPN)
Matthias Muller (SUI)

Full Results

Here’s a brief video of finals:

This weekend the World Cup circuit makes its way to Vail, CO’s Teva Mountain Games for the 3rd time in as many years. With a full slate of American’s set to compete this weekend the U.S. team is looking to continue the success of the past 2 years that saw Alex Johnson win in 2008 and Alex Puccio win in 2009. The U.S. Men have put someone on the podium both years with Paul Robinson taking 3rd in 2008 and Daniel Woods finishing 2nd in 2009, but an outright win still remains the goal.

There was a time when I entertained the thought of making the trip out to Vail to see the World Cup for myself but a lack of time and sponsors paying my way money pushed that off until maybe next year. Provided there is a next year of course.

The latest issue of Rock & Ice that I’m looking at promises “video updates” from the World Cup starting on Saturday morning at 11:00 AM MST at Rock & Ice’s website as well as via your mobile phone. Whether or not that means a true live stream or just some sort of update clips remains to be seen. Tune in Saturday to find out.

A full schedule of the weekend’s events at the Teva Mountain Games can be found at the TMG Website, but here is the schedule for relevant climbing events (all times MST):

FRIDAY, JUNE 4TH

9AM — IFSC BOULDERING WORLD CUP presented by Pyramide (Female Qualifier)
2PM — IFSC BOULDERING WORLD CUP presented by Pyramide (Male Qualifier)

SATURDAY, JUNE 5TH

9AM — IFSC BOULDERING WORLD CUP presented by Pyramide (Male/Female Semi-Finals)
3:45PM — IFSC BOULDERING WORLD CUP presented by Pyramide (Male/Female Finals)

SUNDAY, JUNE 6TH

8AM — YOUTH BOULDERING COMPETITION presented by Pyramide
11AM — CITIZEN BOULDERING COMPETITION presented by Pyramide (First Wave)
2PM — CITIZEN BOULDERING COMPETITION presented by Pyramide (Second Wave)

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2009 Teva Mountain Games: Bouldering World Cup Wrap-Up

Narc — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:00:57 +0000

Apologies to those who don’t care about bouldering comps, but here is one final post about this past weekend’s World Cup Bouldering comp at the 2009 Teva Mountain Games.

In case you missed it, below are a series of ClimbingNarc.com posts that should get you caught up on how the comp developed.

I’m sure there will be more footage of the World Cup in the coming days, but in the meantime here are a couple of videos from Finals courtesy of DenverBouldering.com.

Men’s # 2

Women’s #1

Check out DenverBouldering.com for additional footage.

And here are several links from around the interwebs that pertain to the World Cup:

I’ll update the list as I find more links to share.

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2009 Teva Mountain Games: Bouldering World Cup Final Results

Narc — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:51:27 +0000

Finals of the Bouldering World Cup at the 2009 Teva Mountain Games sounded like quite the show last night by all accounts. Alex Puccio won it for the Women with a convincing 4 topouts while Jonas Baumann narrowly defeated Daniel Woods to win it for the Men. I’ll have a full wrap-up tomorrow, but in the meantime here are the final results.

Men’s Final Results (with Semi-Final ranking)

Jonas Baumann (4)
Daniel Woods (3)
Kilian Fischhuber (5)
Paul Robinson (1)
Kyle Owen (2)
Rustam Gelamanov (6)

Women’s Final Results

Alex Puccio (6)
Alex Johnson (2)
Akiyo Noguchi (3)
Anna Stöhr (1)
Jain Kim (4)
Natalija Gros (5)

Full Results

Photos: Prana Blog

In case the scoring system is confusing to you, here is my explanation from ABS Nationals:

The basic explanation of the scoring system is that there are only two holds that count on each of the problems. There is a so-called Zone or Bonus hold and the finish hold. The bonus hold is a semi-random hold, usually toward the top of the problem. Climbers get credit for controlling the bonus hold and the finish hold. The other holds literally count for nothing. The way the final scoring is done is that climbers are ranked first by # of problems they top out, then by # of attempts to top out, then by # of bonus holds followed by # of attempts to reach a bonus hold.

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2009 Teva Mountain Games: Bouldering World Cup Semi-Final Results

Narc — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:04:31 +0000

Don’t call it a comeback, but Paul Robinson recovered from an off day yesterday to finish all 4 qualifier problems during the Semi-Finals of the World Cup going on in Vail. Right behind him are fellow Americans Kyle Owen and Daniel Woods. Here is the rankings of top six Men going into this evening’s finals:

Men’s Semi-Final results

Paul Robinson
Kyle Owen
Daniel Woods
Jonas Baumann
Kilian Fischhuber
Rustam Gelamanov

On the Women’s side defending champ Alex Johnson qualified for finals in 2nd with fellow American Alex Puccio making it in 6th place.

Women’s Semi-Final results

Anna Stöhr
Alex Johnson
Akiyo Noguchi
Jain Kim
Natalija Gros
Alex Puccio

Full Results

Watch @Petzl_NA and @UCMAG for coverage of Finals at 3:45 local time.

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2009 Teva Mountain Games: Bouldering World Cup Day 1 Media

Narc — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:39:09 +0000

The first round of the Bouldering World Cup at the 2009 Teva Mountain Games is history and 40 climbers will return to climb today, 20 for the Men and 20 for the Women. There will be a Semi-final round at 11 am today which will pare both fields down to the final 6 who will come back to compete at 3:45 in Finals.

While there is still no live stream of the event, coverage by people in the crowd of the first day was much improved over last year. The updates on twitter were fast and furious and several people in attendance have now posted updates about the day.

Urban Climber Mag has a nice video posted on their facebook page that features interviews with Alex Johnson, Lisa Rands, Scott Mechler and Kynan Waggoner. Petzl North America has a brief write-up that includes some photos of the day’s action from John Evans. And finally, Adam McKenzie of DenverBouldering.com captured a lot of video from the first day that he has started posting both to his website and youtube. Below are a couple that he has posted so far, but be sure to check his sites for more updates.

Daniel Woods flashing Men’s #3 which features the now patented JE Double Dyno to pinches

Various Men on Men’s #1

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2009 Teva Mountain Games: Bouldering World Cup Men’s Qualifier Results

Narc — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:20:20 +0000

The Men’s qualifier is in the books at the Bouldering World Cup at the 2009 Teva Mountain Games. The Men appear to have brought their A-games (or the problems were relatively easy) as 14 of the Men were able to top each of the 5 qualifiers compared with just 3 for the Women.

Flashing all 5 problems and leading the pack are World Cup regulars Kilian Fischhuber and Gabriele Moroni who are tied for first with 4 others including local favorite Daniel Woods. Following that group are big names like Nalle Hukkataival (8th place) and Carlo Traversi (16th) as well as relative newcomers Kyle Owen (10th) and Julian Bautista (20th).

Somewhat surprisingly, last year’s 3rd place finisher and Climbingnarc.com favorite Paul Robinson looks like he struggled a bit on problems 3 and 4. He narrowly made it into finals qualifying in 17th place.

Full results from the Men’s Qualifiers

In case the scoring system is confusing to you, here is my explanation from ABS Nationals:

The basic explanation of the scoring system is that there are only two holds that count on each of the problems. There is a so-called Zone or Bonus hold and the finish hold. The bonus hold is a semi-random hold, usually toward the top of the problem. Climbers get credit for controlling the bonus hold and the finish hold. The other holds literally count for nothing. The way the final scoring is done is that climbers are ranked first by # of problems they top out, then by # of attempts to top out, then by # of bonus holds followed by # of attempts to reach a bonus hold.

2009 Teva Mountain Games: Bouldering World Cup Men’s Qualifier Results from ClimbingNarc.com

2009 Teva Mountain Games: Bouldering World Cup Women’s Qualifier Results

Narc — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:28:27 +0000

No real surprises after the first round of the Women’s portion of the Bouldering World Cup at the 2009 Teva Mountain Games. Alex Johnson is in first place after flashing all 5 qualifiers with Anna Stöhr close on her heals. It looks like the defending champ is off to a good start.

Other American Women moving on to Saturday’s Semi-Final round are Alex Puccio (4th place), Lizzy Asher (12th), Tiffany Hensley (18th) and Lisa Rands (20th). Props to Rands who at 34 (roughly) is the oldest competitor in the comp, some 14 odd years older than Johnson.

Full results from the Women’s Qualifiers

There is a solid stream of updates from the Men’s qualifiers that you can follow on Twitter from @ClimbingMag and @UCMag and @Petzl_NA.

In case the scoring system is confusing to you, here is my explanation from ABS Nationals:

The basic explanation of the scoring system is that there are only two holds that count on each of the problems. There is a so-called Zone or Bonus hold and the finish hold. The bonus hold is a semi-random hold, usually toward the top of the problem. Climbers get credit for controlling the bonus hold and the finish hold. The other holds literally count for nothing. The way the final scoring is done is that climbers are ranked first by # of problems they top out, then by # of attempts to top out, then by # of bonus holds followed by # of attempts to reach a bonus hold.

2009 Teva Mountain Games: Bouldering World Cup Women’s Qualifier Results from ClimbingNarc.com

2009 Bouldering World Cup At Teva Mountain Games Begins Today

Narc — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:57:17 +0000

The International bouldering circuit returns to American soil today with the kick-off of the Bouldering World Cup at the Teva Mountain Games in Vail, CO. Last year’s event was highlighted by Alex Johnson taking it down for the women and Paul Robinson finishing third for the men. Unfortunately the weekend forecast looks sub-optimal for outdoor bouldering. Let’s hope that changes.

It will be very interesting to see how the U.S. team fares this year. Can they build on the success of last year and put more climbers on the podium? Based on the team we have (listed below) it looks promising, but World Cup events are notoriously difficult, especially for first time participants.

Here are the U.S. team members for both the men and the women:

U.S. Men

Daniel Woods
Carlo Traversi
Ryan Roden
Paul Robinson
Julian Bautista
Kyle Owen
Jonny Goicoechea
Maxim Zolotukhin
Adam Markert
Garrett Gregor

Other notable men competing are returning champ Kilian Fischhuber, Nalle Hukkataival and Andre Di Felice.

U.S. Women

Elizabeth Asher
Emily Harrington
Sydney McNair
Lisa Rands
Alex Johnson
Audrey Gawrych
Tiffany Hensley
Chauncenia Cox
Francesca Metcalf
Alex Puccio
Charlotte Jouett-Bosley
Kate McGinnis

Other notable females competing are Anna Stohr, Melissa LaCasse and Andrea Szekely who apparently hasn’t been born yet.

There is no official way for you to follow the event live (sigh), but at least a few people will be getting their twitter on live from Vail. Follow:

Urban Climber Mag
Boulder Diaries
SoIll Holds
Petzl NA
Wig
Climbing Mag
B3Bouldering
Flannery Shay-Nemirow

I’ll update this list as I notice others providing useful updates. Good luck to everyone competing!

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2008 Vail Bouldering World Cup Media

Narc — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:08:42 +0000

Media from this past weekend’s Bouldering World Cup event at the Teva Mountain Games is starting to trickle in. Check out LVMRock.com for footage from finals including Kilian Fischhuber’s impressive flash of the last finals problem as well as Alex Johnson doing her thing.

Here a few additional videos from DenverBouldering.com of Chris Sharma climbing in the Semis:

Also at DenverBouldering.com are pictures from the Citizen’s comp as well as additional videos.

More footage to come later this week at MVM.

I will update this post as additonal media becomes available so check back often.

Update: Mike Doyle has pictures

Update 2: Routesetter has a full recap

Update 3: Videos at Active.com

Update 4: “Interview” with Alex Johnson

Update 5: Pictures from pimpinandcrimpin

Update 6: Pictures of Petzl athletes taken by John Evans

Update 7: Pictures of the 1st place women’s medal(s)

Update 8: Video at the TMG Site

2008 Vail Bouldering World Cup Media from ClimbingNarc.com

Alex Johnson Wins 2008 Bouldering World Cup In Vail

Narc — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:09:26 +0000

The Midwest’s own Alex Johnson took the top spot at the World Cup Bouldering event in Vail, CO this past weekend. Paul Robinson was the top Male U.S. finisher in 3rd place. Full Results: Men / Women. More details later this week.

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2008 U.S. Bouldering World Cup Qualifiers Results

Narc — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:43:41 +0000

The 1st round of the Bouldering World Cup at the Teva Mountain Games concluded yesterday. Paul Robinson is in 1st place for the men and Alex Johnson qualified 1st for the Women. Full results: men / women (Top 20 moved on to today). Good luck in Semis & Finals today!

2008 U.S. Bouldering World Cup Qualifiers Results from ClimbingNarc.com

Countdown To 2008 Bouldering World Cup In Vail

Narc — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:07:28 +0000

Two weeks from today, internationally sanctioned competition climbing will make its return to U.S. soil at the Teva Mountain Games. It seems like just yesterday we were at ABS Nationals in Boulder watching people qualify!

As the comp nears, it is interesting to take a peek at the list of registered climbers to get an idea of how the field is shaping up. The focus will undoubtedly be on the American contingent and how they stack up against the experienced European field. Familiar U.S. powerhouses with prior World Cup experience like Daniel Woods, Chris Sharma and Lisa Rands will be joined by newcomers Paul Robinson, Alex Puccio and Alex Johnson among a growing list of other aspiring Americans. Here is the full list:

American Bouldering World Cup Team

as of 5/23/08

Lizzy Asher	Daniel Woods
Lisa Rands	Grady Bagwell
Tiffany Hensley	Tyler Haack
Kate McGinnis	Chris Sharma
Charlotte Jouett	Paul Robinson
Alex Puccio	Ryan Olson
Angela Payne	Joe Czerwinski
Alex Johnson	Chase Franklin
Audrey Gawrych	Carlo Traversi
Portia Menlove	Mark Hobson
Kasia Pietras	Kyle Owen
	Matt Bosley

The comp should be exciting on several fronts. It will give America the chance to showcase our talents on the routesetting front as well as our climbing. Daniel Woods proved with his recent 3rd place finish at the World Cup event in Austria that he can contend for the top spot. Hopefully other Americans on both the male and female side can join him on the podium in Vail. Given the caliber of competition that will probably be tough though.

Best of luck to everyone obviously, but particular well wishes to Climbingnarc.com participants Ryan Olson and Paul Robinson! Also, big ups to recent Midwest youth climbers Alex Johnson, Kasia Pietras, Grady Bagwell and Tyler Haack who will all be competing!

Anyone have thoughts or predictions on how the U.S. is going to fare??

For more World Cup Info, check out these links:

Official IFSC Itinerary
Teva Mountain Games Climbing Site
Teva Mountain Games World Cup Site – lists how various American climbers qualified
Routesetter.com has the inside scoop on how the comp walls will be taking shape
Jamie Emerson, who will be one of the few Americans involved in setting for the comp, will undoubtedly have more first hand information as the comp draws near as well.

Stay Tuned!

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Bouldering World Cup Coming to U.S.

Narc — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:01:49 +0000

Via B3Bouldering, we have news that a World Cup event will be held on U.S. soil for the first time in almost 20 years. It was announced yesterday that there will be a Bouldering World Cup event at the 2008 Teva Mountain Games June 4-8 in Vail, CO. More information on the event as well as information on how to qualify can be found at the USA Climbing website. It looks like the ABS Nationals coming up in February just became a whole lot more important.

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Teva Mountain Games 2007

Narc — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:28:00 +0000

Here are the results from this year’s bouldering contest…basically a repeat of last year. Wade David has the goods on the photos.

1 Daniel Woods 1 Alex Puccio
2 Paul Robinson 2 Paige Claassen
3 Robby D’Anastasio 3 Angie Payne
4 Charles Fryberger 4 Laura Griffiths
5 Sean McColl 5 Natasha Barnes
6 Ryan Olson 6 Tomoko Ogawa
7 Nick Sherman 7 Lizzy Asher
8 Ty Landman 8 Emily Harrington
9 Ethan Pringle 9 Gabby Bigras-Masse
10 Brian Antheunisse 10 Shannon Forsman
10 Zach Lerner 10 Sydney McNair
10 Mike Feinberg 12 Amanda Sutton
13 Ryan Roden 12 Stephanie Foster
14 Marshal German 14 Jena Lupia
15 Ben Schmitt 14 Sarah Marvez

Teva Mountain Games 2007 from ClimbingNarc.com