I can’t believe I’m getting involved…

First off Dave, sorry we won’t see you. One of the reasons I coughed up the bucks for the plane ride was to hang with the crew from out east I don’t get to see that much.

I’m actually on the fence on this one as well. I’ve organized events where we go and get sponsorship from outside the ‘established’ sponsors, even going so far as to have a title sponsor for the event away from the sanctioned sponsors. I know Seth and Zoe and I guarantee they saw this as a way to help out the Edmonton crew (holds) and a way to increase the positive experience of this event. I don’t think this was meant as a shot at Friction, the hold companies all know how hard it is to make it.

That being said I can understand why people are upset, if this makes it harder to get sponsors for the tour and was done without the knowledge/permission of Luigi then that sucks. He’s put in countless hours and has had to deal with lots of crap over the years.

I just want to say thanks to Alex, thanks to Luigi, thanks to all the sponsors who in the end are just trying to help out this sport. I appreciate it. You guys are doing what few of us are willing to do or capable of doing.

Looking forward to a great weekend and I for one can’t wait to sample a Jody masterpiece. Actually I’m looking forward to not making finals and getting a chance to maybe, possibly, hopefully work with the legend himself.

it’s been said before, there is a certain joy to being 11th, and getting to forerun the finals….  or at least, not fall off of them in front of whole bunch of people.

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check your head.

11th… that’s pretty optimistic there Slopey. This is a boulder comp isn’t it? Last I checked they don’t put holds with lips on them in boulder comps.

Lookin’ forward to harassing you in person.

slopers/Terry:

A well balanced and amusing post.

Give a little love to those outdated shapes, competitors.

While you’re crushing them.

Good luck, all.

Finally, lets get this thread back on track. Qualifiers today were AWESOME by the way!!!  I can’t believe how well set the problems were. It’s like each problem had it’s own character, one was super slopey, another was really compressed, and one problem just made you want to scream but you couldn’t because all you could do was hold your breath. LOVE IT!