I made my way down to the first round of the National Cup Series, at Basecamp Wanaka, with Sam Fraser, the 2011 Opens National Champion. The drive down was amazing however the competition turnout was poor.
The route setting was surprisingly soft for this comp as I topped out all 4 of my qualification climbs and on 3 of the climbs I managed to clip the last clip several moves before the end. I ended up 3rd in the Open Male Lead Category losing to Sam and Josiah who both topped the climb which ended up being a good test run for the new rule of deciding the winner on time instead of holding a super final. After some smart comments by Sam at the Opens prize giving the setters up'd their game for the U18 and Junior Finals making sure none of us topped our climbs. In the speed climbing me and Josiah ended up in the final for Opens, which happened at every round last year, this year he beat me meaning he clean sweeped every category he entered.
The National Cup Series has been sponsored by Sterling Ropes and Black Diamond this year meaning every comp there will be a rope given away as well as some Black Diamond prize packs, also the winners of their age group this year will win a prize from Sterling Ropes or Black Diamond so hopefully this will motivate people to enter all of the later rounds in the series.While down in Wanaka I also found that my time of 4.7 on the Clip'nClimb speed wall had been broken to a new time of 4.4 but I didn't get the chance to jump on the wall and try reclaim my record.
Results
Open Male Lead: 3rd
Junior (u20) Male Lead: 2nd
Open Male Speed: 2nd
Junior (u20) Male Speed: 1st
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