Calendar and Points System

2015 SA Climbing Series Calendar

The calendar of events in the 2015 SA Climbing Series is almost finalised, and it looks like it will be a full year!  The draft calendar is below.  There might be some movement in the dates to accommodate the National Rope and Boulder Titles.

UPDATE: 21/5/2015 - Updated Round 5 to be State Bouldering Titles, and Round 9 moved from Sun 8th Nov to Sat 7th Nov. 

UPDATE 2: 21/5/2015 - Round 7 moved from 11th Oct to 27th Sep due to date-clash.

Round	Competition	Venue	Date
1	Boulder	ABC	15th March
2	Rope	VRC	3rd May
3	Boulder	VRC	14th June
4	Boulder	ABC	12th July
5*	Boulder	VRC	26th July
6	Boulder	VRC	6th Sep
7	Boulder	ABC	27th Sep
8	Rope	VRC	25th Oct
9	Boulder	Southern Boulder	7th Nov

It is planned that Round 2 will also be the SA Rope Titles, and a qualifier for the National Rope Titles.  

* The SA Bouldering Titles (and qualifier for the National's) will be Round 5.

Immediately following Round 9, at Southern Boulder, there will be the Series Awards presentation and end of Series celebration.

Series Points System

Competitors (who are Sports Climbing SA members) will earn points towards the SA Climbing Series at all the events listed in the calendar above.  Points will be allocated on your outright finish position, with Open competitors ranked first, followed by all other competitors (ie. Intermediate, Masters and Juniors).  There will be separate Male and Female rankings.  Points for each finish position are:

Place	Points		Place	Points		Place	Points
1	100		16	30		31	15
2	80		17	29		32	14
3	65		18	28		33	13
4	55		19	27		34	12
5	51		20	26		35	11
6	47		21	25		36	10
7	44		22	24		37	9
8	41		23	23		38	8
9	38		24	22		39	7
10	36		25	21		40	6
11	35		26	20		41	5
12	34		27	19		42	4
13	33		28	18		43	3
14	32		29	17		44	2
15	31		30	16		45+	1

 
Your best 7 results count towards your Series points (so you can drop 2 Rounds).

The above system allows competitors to move up from Junior, Intermediate or Masters into Open and they keep the points they have earned so far.  However, a masters competitor will NOT earn points towards the Masters Series Category for an event if they enter Open for that event.  This also applies for Juniors and Intermediates.

There will be Open, Masters, Junior and Intermediate category Series awards at the end of the year.

Master and Juniors wanting to qualify for the Nationals will need to qualify in the category they are qualify for at the State Titles event.  So for example, some Masters competitors may enter the Open category for some events, but they will enter Masters in order to qualify for the Masters category at the Nationals.