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Gun Show 2012 Pro Final Result
Everyone already knows, but here’re the official Top 6 Pro Open Final Results from The Gun Show.
Men
1. Ben Hoberg
2. Matty Hong
3. Rob D’Anastasio
4. Michael O’Rourke
5. Garrett Gregor
6. Alex David Johnson
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Women
1. Nina Williams
2. Megan Mascarenas
3. Margo Hayes
4. Tiffany Hensley
5. Chauncey Carroll
6. Laurel Todd
These are only from the single-problem open final. Main comp and pro qualifier results are different and are reflected on the result pages linked to below. Pro finalists are made up of the top 6 scoring females and males from the main comp, so often youth girls will make it into the women’s open final. We do not have a score sheet that shows the combined results.
http://www.thespotgym.com/CompScores/gunshowadultresultsREVISED.pdf
http://www.thespotgym.com/CompScores/gunshowyouthresultsREVISED.pdf
Gun Show Adult Photos from Katrin Bell
Photographer Katrin Bell also took some great shots of the Adult Session.
Ian Dory on Open 7
You can see a bunch on our Facebook Page here:
The Spot Gun Show 2012 Adult Session, Pull-Up Contest, Raffle, Pro Finals By Katrin Bell
Tiffany Hensley for the women and Michael O’Rourke for the men in finals
To see the full run or purchase a print, check out her gallery here:
The Gun Show- Adult Comp – katrinbell’s Photos
Open 2 and Advanced 5
Pull-Up Contest!
Gun Show photos and results on Rock and Ice.com
We are proud to share a short article written by Rock and Ice that shows off some photos of The Gun Show. Click the screen shot below to read it. Thanks Rock and Ice!
More Gun Show photos from Katrin Bell
Spot Team Climber Emily on The Dojo
Photographer Katrin Bell has set up an online gallery where you can view and, if you wish, purchase images from The Gun Show. There are a bunch of good ones – check it out here:
Michael O’Rourke in Gun Show Finals
Michael O’Rourke nearly finishing the Men’s Open Final
The Gun Show 2012! – 1st photos
Team ABC dunking Coach Ryan at The Gun Show
The first photos of the 2012 Gun Show are in, check them out on facebook here (you don’t have to be a facebook member to see them):
Spot Team Climber Emily atop the Dojo | Katrin Bell
More photos on the way, including more from the Adult Event and pro finals!
Many of the photos are by photographer Katrin Bell who just moved here from Florida. We think she did an amazing job, and you can check out her website here - Katrin Bell Photography – Fine Art With Photography
Katrin will be putting up an online gallery soon where you can order blown-up prints if you’d like any from this event.
Margo Hayes of Team ABC Boulder on O4. Margo made pro finals! | Katrin Bell
More photos and results coming soon!
SBS 8 Comp 1 – The Gun Show!
The Gun Show!
This weekend SBS 8 kicks off with The Gun Show!
The Gun Show is ABS Sanctioned, so you can earn points for Nationals!
SBS comps are great for everyone, 10 problems are set for each category: youth, rec, int, advanced, and open. Top 6 men and women will compete in a single onsight pro final.
3 hr redpoint climbing sessions, so it’s just like a day at the gym, but with all new problems and great comp energy.
Youth sessions in the am, adults 5-8 pm
We feed you for FREE with the La Sportiva BBQ, Avery Beer, and Mix 1
Pull-up Contest!
Huge raffle!
Remember Pro Finals 2010?
Pre-register to make your life easier on comp day. Also you can find answers to any questions you might have at this link.
See you at The Spot!
The Gun Show | The Spot Bouldering Gym & Climbing School | Boulder, CO
The Gun Show 2011! Photos + Run Down + Results. Hurray!
All photos by and copyright Jay Droeger. Click on the photos for bigger versions. If you want to share any please give Jay photo credit and link back here. Thanks!
More Dunk Tank
Near the end of the youth comp and running through the beginning of the adult comp we ran the Dunk Tank as a fundraiser for the Spot Youth Team. Throwing balls cost $5 for 3 throws and various athletes, coaches, and Spot employees sat in the hot seat and waited to see if they'd stay dry. No one did. Here, Climbing School Director Brett Merlin watches the ball flying straight towards the dunk button. He's screwed.
A few of the younger kids (and a couple teenagers too--I'm talking to you Dallas Milburn) took it upon themselves to run up and hit the button with their hand when they couldn't do it with the ball.
At least it was a hot day so the dunkees seemed to be having fun. Spot Head Coach David Garcia emerging from his most recent plunge.
Andrew Clinkingbeard holding down the Dunk Tank. Nice sombrero. He needed it--it was hot out there!
The Youth Session
After some early-on excitement the youth portion of the comp settled down and seemed to go extremely well. As usual the kids climbed impressively. Here Spot team member Jack is using good technique and is about to succeed on Advanced 8.
Spot team member Katy giving it on a steep Intermediate problem.
Spot Comp Team member Zach Groenwald succeeding on the technical and punishing O2. It was cool to watch the older kids, especially the strong older boys, struggle on this Fontainebleau-esuqe technique problem set by Carlo Traversi. Even here Zach isn't quite done, he needs to stabilize off his heel hook (many used a toe) to match the flat finish hold without barn-dooring off the wall.
A BRC Team Member crushing the top of this difficult Advanced problem.
Spot Comp Team Member Isaac Moctezuma found a creative bypass for the extremely difficult cross on this Open problem. He dynoed from the start hold to double-catch a sloper.
Adult Comp
Crimp Chimps' Amanda the Panda spotting the extremely difficult Open 9.
Women's open 3rd place winner Flannery Shay-Nemirow on A10 during the adult comp.
Women Masters
1. Claudia Williams
Women Rec
1. Jade Sevelow
Men Rec
1. Malcolm Oliver
Women Intermediate
1. Coury Pitt
2. Beth Letourneau
Men Intermediate
1. Kevin Doolittle
2. Garrett Adler
Women Advanced
1. Emily Lewellen
2. Wendy Bradley (in the score sheet below she’s mistakenly listed in Open)
3. Jessica Franco
Men Advanced
1. Jeffrey Stroud
2. Jason Copeland
3. Ian Achey
Click here for Adult Full Results
Other Stuff
Ian Achey of La Sportiva grilling burgers at the La Sportiva & Native BBQ
4 year old Cedar Pidgeon sporting her custom Verve pants on her way to 15 pull-ups in the Gun Show pull-up contest (with a little help from Frank Mendez). Photo by Keith North.
Part of the crowd sitting for the raffle. We gave away a TON of stuff--shoes, gear, clothes, sunglasses, crimp chimps chalk bags...it was awesome!
Brett about to raffle off the coveted Angry Birds Crimp Chimps chalkpot. It even made noise!
Women’s Open Finals
Jesse Youngwerth styling the rose move on the women's final.
Canadian bouldering super star Thomasina Pidgeon (she's done multiple V12s outside!) misread the sequence and used an extreme (and extremely impressive) lock-off off a foothold above both handholds she was using.
Nina Williams of Fort Collins has been on a tear lately, climbing impressively outside and in. At the Gun Show she won the adult comp, qualifying for finals in 2nd and flashing, meaning if 1st place qualifier (who earned her scores during the youth session) Megan flashed as well Nina would end up in second. That is exactly what happened. Here Nina is sticking the cross that is the hardest and scariest move on the problem.
13 year-old Megan Mascarenas qualified in first and because she flashed the final she won the comp. It was her first open final at an adult event. Last year she qualified several times but was not ready to compete until this year. Nice job Megan!
Women’s Pro Finals Results:
1. Megan Mascarenas
2. Nina Williams
3. Flannery Shay-Nemirow (also flashed)
4. Tyler Youngwerth (sent 2nd go)
5. Jesse Youngwerth
6. Thomasina Pidgeon
Men’s Open Finals
First place qualifier Alex Manikowski working his way through the bottom of the finals problem.
Tim Rose was visiting from Pennsylvania and put in a wonderful showing, qualifying in 3rd and ending up in 2nd.
"5.14, V14 Matty Hong" getting a bit tangled in the sequence in the middle of the final. He qualified in 2nd but ended up a bit farther down the list after some apparent confusion about which way his feet should be going. He eventually figured it out but was too tired to stick the alligator out left (Michael O'Rourke is on it below).
Surprise winner Michael O'Rourke eked into finals in a 6th place tie with Ryan Sewell and then went on to pull one of the most impressive campus moves I've ever seen off the Teknik Tufa in the middle of this novelty-hold strewn final. Nobody was able to stick the bear-claw deadpoint at the top of the problem and send, but Michael's manhandling of the beginning of the climb earned him first place. Notice he's climbing in socks. We can only hope this trend isn't catching.
Men’s Pro Final Results:
1. Michael O’Rourke
2. Tim Rose
3. Chase Cazedessus
4. Alex Manikowski
5. Matty Hong
6. Ryan Sewell (it was his birthday!)
Wrap-up wrap-up:
And that was all she wrote for the 2011 Gun Show. 50 new problems, lots of competitors, spectators, grilling, beer, schwag, raffle prizes, pull-ups, dunking, chalking, and cranking made for a great start to SBS 7. See you at Psychedelia on October 22nd!
Gun Show! + Dunk Tank Round 1 Photos
The Gun Show is entering it’s second round with the adult climbing session about 1 hour in and the kids session over. There’s still plenty of time to come on down and try out the 50 new problems we set, enjoy the La Sportiva & Native Bar-b-que, enter the pull-up contest, listen to DJ Dirt Monkey, watch Pro Finals, and drink Avery beer!
The dunk tank has been a hit and will run into the first couple of hours of the adult session. $5 donated to the youth team gets you 3 balls to try and dunk whichever unlucky sap is stuck on the chair. So far today we’ve dunked Spot Events Coordinator Andrew Clinkingbeard, Spot Climbing School Director Brett Merlin, Spot coaches David Garcia, Shannon Forsman, and Adam Broadbent, BRC coach Chris Wall, ABC coach Robyn Erbesfield, Movement coaches Jon Cardwell, Chelsea Rude, and Taylor Nystrom, and a bunch of other folks. The weather is nice and warm, so come on down and throw some balls at Vail Athletic Club coach and Team USA member Adam Markert or one of the other folks who’ll be sitting pretty this evening.
Spot coach Shannon Forsman getting invited to the Dunk Tank
Shannon still resisting her turn.
Robyn Erbesfield
Jon Cardwell
Chris Wall
Gun Show Setting Has Begun
Tonight we stripped the Dojo and the Beach. Tomorrow we’re setting ‘em, but the rest of the gym is still open for your climbing pleasure. Tomorrow night around 9 we’re gonna start dropping walls, but as usual there should be some left to climb on until regular closing time at 11pm. Fun! Jon and Johnny are both unavailable for this comp, but luckily Donell is able to help us out. Get psyched!
So how hard are the open finals gonna be?
This hard!
