Another weekend, another big bouldering comp on the schedule. Just a couple of weeks after the 2010 Earth Treks Roc Comp and 3 weeks before the World Cup event at the Teva Mountain Games is this weekend’s Battle In The Bubble in Boulder, CO. After a semi-finals round at The Spot that will include 20 “Wild Cards” and a handful of select “Pro-Invitees” the finals will pit the remaining 10 climbers of each gender against each other in an innovative “elimination/1st ascent” style finals outdoors at the Boulder Reservoir.
Following in the footsteps of recent comps the finals for Battle In The Bubble will be broadcast live online at The Spot’s website beginning at 7:15 MDT Saturday night. The live stream will be produced by Sender Films.
The preliminary running order for semi-finals has been posted here with the Wild Card slots to be filled in after a qualifying round tomorrow at The Spot. Paul Robinson (ankle) and Alex Johnson (World Cup in Switzerland) are notably absent from the running order, so it will be interesting to see if anyone can step up and challenge clear favorites Daniel Woods and Alex Puccio.
This video has a few more details on the schedule for the weekend:
Battle in The Bubble @ The Boulder Res from Adam Broadbent on Vimeo.
can someone break down competitive professional climbing, how is alex johnson at the world cup in switzerland but then there is a world cup in vail? i just thought world cups were once every couple years not every couple months
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There are several world cup events each season for bouldering, sport and speed all around the world. You can see the schedule for 2010 here
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Watching BITB right now. really cool to watch minus the down time and whoever the announcer is that is clearly uncomfortable and is resorting to talking like either Bevis and/or Butthead… Need t-pee for my bunghole… etc. Not his fault though I would be uncomfortable too if i was expected to entertain for 15 minutes while they add up scores.
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Yeah not too bad thus far. The audio is off by 10-20 seconds too which doesn’t help matters. Definitely cool to be able to watch though!
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Yeah it’s awesome to be able to watch. It is kind of a spoiler when you hear that they’ve fallen before you’ve actually seen them fall… I’ll take anything though. I’m just psyched to be able to watch it!!!
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the fiance brought up an interesting point. Why wouldnt versus pick up something like this? As the fiance put it “I’d rather watch this than a tour de france from 1987 or The Bass Fishing Series.” Is this the next logical step for something like this. Versus definately seems like the right channel if there was one. Thoughts?
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I missed this, how am I supposed to record a live internet stream? They should upload the whole comp to youtube or vimeo.
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That was awesome! I think they worked the kinks out after the first round and it was smooth sailing after that. Dan Howley throws a damn good comp! Bravo to all.
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