Vertigo Virtual Rally

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In these times of virtual everything, we thought we'd get in on the gees with a virtual Rock Rally! Based on the proven success of the best rock rally ever - The Boven Rock Rally - a handicap system attempts to level the playing fields across the grade range. Here's how the scoring works:

The sport and boulder grades are tabled out-of-sync (as someone remarked: "is anything <5 even bouldering") and the corresponding ROW numbers used to calculate the points (this was an attempt to reach parity across the two grade systems)

• Handicap: [(your hardest ever REDPOINT) + (your hardest ever FLASH) + (your hardest REDPOINT in the last 2years) + (your hardest FLASH in the last 2years)] divide by 4
• Every route or boulder, regardless of grade, has a 7-point value before handicap and bonus'
• 2 point bonus if it's Onsight/FLASH or Trad
• Points = 7 minus the difference between your handicap and the grade plus bonus.

Prizes will be awarded monthly and quarterly:

• Hardest SEND 
• Most Routes Climbed
• Highest Accumulated Score

This is an honesty based comp, so try to keep it honest and lighthearted guys

Example: 
Hardest boulder: 8A (row 19)
Hardest boulder flash: 7C (row 17)
Hardest boulder in last 5yr: 7A+ (row 14)
Hardest boulder flash in last 5yr: 6B (row 9)

Handicap = (19+17+14+9)/4 = 15 (rounded)

If boulder 6A+ (row 8) then the points: 7-(15-8) = 0
However if you FLASH 6A+ there's the extra 2 bonus points