Challenge of the Week # 20 - The Challenge of the Month

It's the 20th Challenge of the Week! Celebration must occur by having a challenge of the Month as a challenge of the week.

This challenge of the week can be a setting game for you and your setting buddies! It's a great way to learn how make small tweaks to change the difficulty of your routes.

Depending how often you set, this challenge/game can be run over a single week or multiple weeks.

Here's how it works:

Each person sets a V0. During the next scheduled set, instead of taking down the route, make as few changes as possible to increase the grade of the route by one. Keep repeating this procedure until you can no longer reasonably increase the grade (at some point, you'll have to change everything or maybe you'll have too many advanced routes. 

If you are playing it as a game, here is how points work:

You want to have as few points as possible. It's like golf, but more fun. Decide which grade you should all stop at before starting as well as how frequently you will make changes to increase the grade.  

Every new-ish set you are allowed to make one change without accumulating a point. Additional changes are scored as follows:

Rotations: 1 point

Moving or removing a hold: 2 points

Adding a hold: 3 points

Missing the grade: 5 points

If you want you can play for money or food or both. 

Tips: 

Use directional holds

Don't start a game with too many people or the balance of routes in your gym will get way off

Get feedback between each set from climbers

Because there will be similarities between each set, ask different people to try your routes. Muscle memory is a thing and it's important to make sure that routes aren't accidentally sandbagged. 

Alternate Versions:

Start at a high grade and go down to zero

Rotate Routes between setters so that you change a different route each week!

Happy Setting!