{"id":827,"date":"2009-02-25T14:16:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T21:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allclimbing.com\/?p=827"},"modified":"2019-04-19T14:21:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T20:21:27","slug":"bouldering-competition-formats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/bouldering-competition-formats\/","title":{"rendered":"Bouldering Competition Formats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sean McColl examines the various <a href=\"http:\/\/seanmccoll.com\/?p=109\">bouldering competition formats<\/a> and discusses how he prefers the zone format scoring system.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Another reason why I like the zone is because it rewards smarter climbers rathan than always the strongest.  I\u00e2??ve seen very strong competitors make mistakes during qualifyers and semis and as a result, they did not make finals.  To me, thats the life of a competition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In my recent post about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allclimbing.com\/archive\/2009\/02\/behind-the-scenes-at-abs-nationals\/\">ABS Nationals<\/a>, I discussed the zone scoring system and how I found it somewhat unusual especially on the problem I was judging. Sean&#8217;s post really goes into a lot of detail on the zone scoring system and it makes a little more sense to me now.<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\namzn_assoc_placement = \"adunit0\";\namzn_assoc_tracking_id = \"all_climbing-20\";\namzn_assoc_ad_mode = \"search\";\namzn_assoc_ad_type = \"smart\";\namzn_assoc_marketplace = \"amazon\";\namzn_assoc_region = \"US\";\namzn_assoc_default_search_phrase = \"bouldering\";\namzn_assoc_default_category = \"All\";\namzn_assoc_linkid = \"7258281ea6ee1e4266999238a1811621\";\namzn_assoc_design = \"in_content\";\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean McColl examines the various bouldering competition formats and discusses how he prefers the zone format scoring system. Another reason why I like the zone is because it rewards smarter climbers rathan than always the strongest. I\u00e2??ve seen very strong competitors make mistakes during qualifyers and semis and as a result, they did not make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[79,140],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jRR-dl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}