Mejcup, or long live the Fair Play!
Just like every year, MEJCUP competition was held at the turn of November and December. This year's novelty were fittingly designed qualification boulders. Unfortunately, when there were dozens of climbers at once, it was quite brutal. It was Péťa's first time at Mejcup. She managed to climb up to one half at one boulder so we hope there will be a finished top next year :-)
There was some information confusion: Those who wanted to visit Fléda club in the evening had to turn in a piece of paper at the place. So I made a trip there between the qualifications and the finals. For the next time, I would suggest someone else might actually bring the results in there and the racers might just use their IDs to get in.
I found that I was advancing from the 6th place, which was quite a relief. To be honest, I didn't like women's finals very much, the boulders were not special at all and they had to rebuild the final boulder twice before the final round which was a little weird. Péťa Růžičková won. She used her heel at the first attempt. Nelly had no more attempts to get better score so she ended up the second.
As for the rules, no one ever knew what was going on... The viewers were confused but the worst thing was that the racers were assigned different boulders which provoked some mass disturbances. Anyway, there was men's finals as well, We were waiting in isolation for our turn which, to my surprise, was not coming. It was a little stressing, quick changing of clothes and here we went to the set. I was carrying on well before I hit the fourth boulder where I was eliminated by Matěj Švub. I did send it but Matěj had fewer previous bad attempts so I was out.
As for the rules, no one ever knew what was going on... The viewers were confused but the worst thing was that the racers were assigned different boulders which provoked some mass disturbances. Anyway, there was men's finals as well, We were waiting in isolation for our turn which, to my surprise, was not coming. It was a little stressing, quick changing of clothes and here we went to the set. I was carrying on well before I hit the fourth boulder where I was eliminated by Matěj Švub. I did send it but Matěj had fewer previous bad attempts so I was out.
There was a strange rule of a single attempt at the last boulder (featuring climbing up the sphere). Martin was hurt by that because he honestly decided to give up (without being asked by the judges) because he touched the nut. I believe it didn't help him at all but he simply didn't pay enough attention so he was out too. What can I say, just bad luck. Paradoxially, Martin ended up the third despite having done four boulders (compared to Matěj's three). Therefore, Matěj was the second and Adam was a confident winner. All in all, I would like to give Martin a Fair play award. If only everyone played that fair...