Take twenty-two teams consisting of four men and two women add twenty boulder problems ranging from technical slab problems to horrifically powerful roof problems and finally mix with the Bendcrete dyno contest and you have the perfect ingredients for a very entertaining competition. As usual with these events, roomers of foreign supper star entries had circulating for weeks before the event but alas it was not to be. However, the field contained the usual homegrown talent all drafted in by their sponsors and climbing walls for the status of becoming the 'Team Bouldering Masters'.

Scarpa looked odds on favourites to take home the title but the unusual nature of the problems proved a great leveller. Despite both Malcolm Smith and Andrew Earl out performing everybody by a clear ten points coming second and first respectively it was only sufficient for third place. The Prana team came a close second thanks to an awesome effort by Gemma Powell who won the individual women's competition and Ben Bransby, Adam Dewhurst and Miles Gibson scoring over 140 points each. Team consistency was the name of this game and The Foundry proved to be the measure of all the other teams thanks to an impressive 161 points from Steve McClure and high scores from all the other team members. Credit must go to the Edge Climbing Centre for hosting the event and especially Percy Bishton and his team for setting some very challenging problems, nice one.

*Click here to view video clip of Malcolm Smith competing (1.6 MB). ~

Click here to view the final team results.