Stone Age comp, Nov. 1

The weather for the day was fairly iffy, so rather than chance getting rained on, we headed for the Stone Age gym competition in CT. We attended the comp at this gym last year and remembered that although the scene was a little to competitive ("the Mothers" situation is how we refer to anxious and stress inducing parents at competitions) they set pretty fun problems.
Being that it was the day after Halloween, the attendance was a little thin, maybe 25-30 competitors. However, as expected, the problems were very fun to work and were varied in style and wall angle, which makes for a great competition.

Luke and JP are both freshmen and are in the Youth B category. They were praying for at least two more competitors in their age group so that full points would be awarded from the ABS (a national ranking system). There did happen to be five in the category at the comp, but only three turned in their score cards, so it was not considered a 'full' category. Both guys found some advanced problems to send as well as some intermediate and finished first and second, respectively. Luke beat JP by just 10 points (the difference of one fall over the course of the afternoon).

I was excited to start the day off with a few sends of some advanced slopper problems. This sparked a great day for me and I went on to win the Advanced category and finish with the third highest score for the day (Open category is above Advanced).

Next weekend, the Rhode Island competition starts early Sunday morning, so we will travel out Saturday night and stay about an hour away, giving us an extra 2-3 hours to sleep.