OSU College Climbing Comp

Post by **hoss** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:01 am

Ohio State University is hosting their first intercollegiate climbing competition. It's this Saturday (19th - prelims) and Sunday (20th - finals). UK has already registered a team. Up to five students per college may register. It's 20 bucks and they let you camp out in a field or stay in the dorms. Competitors receive a free t-shirt.

Post by **kafish2** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 4:19 am

out of curiosity, who is on the UK team?

Post by **longlegsrule** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:47 am

i'd like to know too...not that I'd probably know any of them anyways...

Post by **sendit** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:36 pm

If not mistaken, I believe it's J-center dudes.

Post by **hoss** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:49 am

Yeah it's team Johnson Center. Greg Rueff, Rob Cardosi, Dev Ranjan, Johan Dorfling, Chris Frayer, and Jeremy Stich. They let us register 6 people. Some people from UL need to sign up so we can dominate you.

Post by **kafish2** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:02 am

cool, i know most of them so i hope you all go and dominate but most importantly have some fun. good luck.

Post by **pigsteak** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:43 am

why is having fun more noble than kicking their ass? I say go to win....cause winning is fun, so you therefore get both prizes.

Post by **kafish2** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:06 am

i don't believe anyones said having fun is more noble. However i did say it was more important. Kicking ass can be all well and good but if it becomes the goal fun can be lost and then whats the point in climbing. Trust me, you can kick ass at things and still not derive joy from it, winning is not necissarily fun. Now if you can kick ass and derive joy at the same time then go for it.

Post by **pigsteak** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:54 pm

so having fun is more important? wow, how times have changed. and winning is not necessairly fun. please cite me an example where winning is not fun..as long as you play by the rules, then winning is always fun. have you ever seen the booty first place gets? ever seen the chalk ball losers get?

Post by **longlegsrule** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 4:41 pm

pigsteak wrote:so having fun is more important? wow, how times have changed. and winning is not necessairly fun. please cite me an example where winning is not fun..as long as you play by the rules, then winning is always fun. have you ever seen the booty first place gets? ever seen the chalk ball losers get?

I beg to differ...I won first in beginner last weekend at Miami and it was NOT fun...the people were fun and being there and having a camera in my face everytime I turned around was (even though the problems weren't all that great) but winning first wasn't exactly fun...I sandbagged so bad cause I climbed awful...and wasn't even going to turn in my score card...if I had worked hard I would've felt better about winning....but I played by the rules
and you wanna know what we won? a plate...painted pretty...but what am I supposed to do with it...it's bigger than my head....I got a chalkbag too...but sad...the door prizes ended up being way better than the place prizes

...:::DISCLAIMER:::...to those who are offended byt this post (i.e. Miami people in particular) sorry