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Re: Climbing and dumping not winning?

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Originally Posted by Zebra_Fact_Man View Post
How many more teams do you think would have attempted the 30pt climb (and/or perfected it) if the "climb in succession" rule had not existed?
[In other words, how many more teams would have climbed if they would have been allowed to grab on to something higher and pulled up.]

I personally feel like this is the single rule that makes the whole climb process so hard to complete.
Everybody and their little brother would have probably thought seriously about it. I'd put it at half the teams would attempt it; of those, half would actually succeed at the 30-point level. The rest, and a fair amount of other teams, would end up at 20. The 10-point hang would probably be almost worthless.

Think about it: 2000, 2004, and 2010 have all had hanging, with no contact with the support structure. Teams have those years to reference. But when you include the climbing in sequence, all three of those years are now out the window--you can still get ideas, but they're a lot harder to pull off (particularly with the "detach and winch" variety of hangers from 2004).
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