Comments on: Behind the Scenes at ABS Nationals https://allclimbing.com/behind-the-scenes-at-abs-nationals/ Everything climbing and the outdoors. Fri, 19 Apr 2019 20:22:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Top Posts on All Climbing from Feb 2009 â?? All Climbing https://allclimbing.com/behind-the-scenes-at-abs-nationals/#comment-746 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:00:57 +0000 http://www.allclimbing.com/?p=746#comment-746 […] Behind the Scenes at ABS Nationals Posted on Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 in Bouldering This past Friday I had the opportunity to volunteer at the ABS Nationals. I’m not sure how they picked people for the various positions (pretty sure it was random), but I ended up being the judge for the first problem in the men’s open qualifiers.I mainly wanted to volunteer for two reasons. First, I wanted meet more local climbers. Second, I was interested in seeing some of the inner workings of a national climbing competition. […]

]]> By: Bouldering Competition Formats â?? All Climbing https://allclimbing.com/behind-the-scenes-at-abs-nationals/#comment-745 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:21:28 +0000 http://www.allclimbing.com/?p=746#comment-745 […] my recent post about ABS Nationals, I discussed the zone scoring system and how I found it somewhat unusual especially on the problem […]

]]> By: Quick Sends - 2/20/09 â?? All Climbing https://allclimbing.com/behind-the-scenes-at-abs-nationals/#comment-744 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:37:21 +0000 http://www.allclimbing.com/?p=746#comment-744 […] wrap-ups of the ABS Nationals from ClimbingNarc, Paul Robinson, Sean McColl, Jon Glassberg, Pimpin and Crimpin, Momentum Video, […]

]]> By: The Adventure Channel https://allclimbing.com/behind-the-scenes-at-abs-nationals/#comment-743 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:59:31 +0000 http://www.allclimbing.com/?p=746#comment-743 Nice report.

]]> By: Ryan Wanger https://allclimbing.com/behind-the-scenes-at-abs-nationals/#comment-742 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:18:46 +0000 http://www.allclimbing.com/?p=746#comment-742 It seems as though offering free spot membership for volunteering would guarantee that they’d only get interest from climbers. Although, they’d need something else for people who are already members…

]]> By: Narc https://allclimbing.com/behind-the-scenes-at-abs-nationals/#comment-741 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:59:43 +0000 http://www.allclimbing.com/?p=746#comment-741 I think they had a big raffle last year on the last day for volunteers but I could be remembering wrong.

I agree that working 3 shifts to get a ticket isn’t going to get anyone to volunteer.

]]> By: Tom Markiewicz https://allclimbing.com/behind-the-scenes-at-abs-nationals/#comment-740 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:54:40 +0000 http://www.allclimbing.com/?p=746#comment-740 Yep, it was actually one of the parents that I was referring to in the post. I think they could easily get more volunteers if they just thought outside the box a bit. How about some free swag? It wouldn’t even had to be big stuff. Or maybe a volunteer after-party with some free beer and the opportunity to mingle with organizers, other volunteers, and some climbers? But three shifts (over 20 hours of work) for a $20 ticket and a t-shirt rules out most people.

]]> By: Narc https://allclimbing.com/behind-the-scenes-at-abs-nationals/#comment-739 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:40:18 +0000 http://www.allclimbing.com/?p=746#comment-739 The experience level of the volunteers is a recurring problem that I have noticed at many comps. Despite the huge number of climbers in the Boulder area it seems like they have had a hard time getting volunteers which is too bad. I saw a lot of parents volunteering Saturday despite already having paid huge amounts of money to be at the comp in the first place.

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