This year, Spring Fling Comp Thing is a floral enduro comp celebrating the tenacity and growth of Vancouver Island plant life as we make our way from winter to spring. Each climb is weighted the exact same for a reason: while grade can be a reasonably useful benchmark for progress, it shouldn’t be the only one. Showing up and trying your hardest is a reward worth reaping. At the end of the day, we’re all just trying to get up on the wall on our own terms.

*T-shirt with registration when you sign up by 5PM on March 20th!

What you will need:
❀ Your friends! You will be competing in teams of 4. We will have different teams—with charming flower names—that you will be assigned to if you aren’t able to find a team. This is a great opportunity to meet awesome people and learn from a variety of styles and skills.

What you will do:
Project—then hopefully send—the new climbs set each week. You can top rope or lead climb the routes. Both are weighted the same.

How it’s scored:
❀ Each send is worth one (1) point. A send is a climb done from start to finish, no takes.
❀ New routes come up each week. You can repeat them the following weeks for additional points.
❀ May 2nd is Finals Day. You will have a chance to climb all 40 routes for an additional 40 points.
❀ Bonus points can be accrued by doing side tasks found throughout the scoring guide, so make sure to read your scorecard carefully!

What to expect:
❀ Week 1: 10 routes will be set. Try and send as many as you can. Each send is worth 1 point. By the end of the week, record your score out of 10.
❀ Week 2: 10 new routes will be set for you to try and send; in addition, you can now go back to try and resend the first 10 routes from Week 1 for a total of 20 possible points in Week 2.
❀ Week 3: 10 new routes, but go back and resend as much as you can from Week 1 and 2, for 30 possible points this week.
❀ Week 4: 10 new routes, but go back and resend as much as you can from Week 1 and 2 and 3, for 40 possible points this week.
❀ Finals Day (May 2nd): One-day only suffer fest. Try to send all 40 routes from all four weeks in a single day for 40 additional points.

Submitting Scores:
On May 2nd, come in any time from 8AM to 8PM for one last chance at sending all 40 routes for an additional point each. We will celebrate Finals Day with vendors and booths, food, and a coffee stand set up at the gym to help you stave off the ever-encroaching endurance pump. Be prepared to get crafty as we’ll have a table to design your comp shirt with some lovely handmade flower stamps!