News
Points & Ranking updates
Points system: all points are on the thousands system. Currently, the senior bouldering ranking is on the hundreds system and will be switched over to the same points that are used for other categories.
Points system for senior ranking this year: Bouldering ranking will be top local plus provincials. Lead ranking will be provincials only.
Points system for youth ranking: Both lead and bouldering will be the scores of one less than the number of locals plus provincials. For example, currently, there are 3 bouldering locals scheduled, so 2 will be used for ranking.
Reminder: comp registration deadline approaching
Reminder: the Youth Local Bouldering Competition @ ARQ closes on Friday at Midnight. Head over to the ACA membership portal to register your spot.
Volunteer Lead Belayers Needed
If you are interested in volunteering to belay for Senior Lead Provincials at the University of Alberta on November 11, 2023 please email climbing@ualberta.ca. Please note experience is REQUIRED!
Volunteer signup for ARQ local is now open
We’re excited to announce that the volunteer signup for the ARQ local competition is now open. Check out the event page for that and other event details as it becomes available. Thank you to everyone for providing our athletes with an opportunity to compete. These events couldn’t happen without you amazing volunteers.
ACA Sr Provincial Lead Registration Now Open
Registration is open for the ACA Senior Lead Provincial Championship. We also updated the event page, so keep an eye on that for updates to the location and format. Register at the ACA Member Site.
Note that there is now an option for Single Event membership and event registration. This is a discounted ACA membership for those who are attending a single senior provincial event. Youth athletes competing in Senior events will require a full ACA membership for the youth season.
Single competition ACA membership for the Senior season
The ACA board has approved an alternate single competition ACA membership for the Senior season. This membership will cost $15 and will be good for the competition it is purchased for. The single competition membership will be available for each of the Sr Bouldering Provincials and Sr Lead Provincials at this time. The features/limitations of the single competition membership are as follows:
- Competition points will be tracked
- Athlete's purchasing a single competition membership will not be eligible to attend Nationals
- Applies to Senior season events only
- If an athlete holding a single competition membership decides to attend Nationals, a full $90 ACA membership will be required to be purchased.
- ACA waiver must be signed
- Youth athletes competing in Senior events will require a full ACA membership fior the youth season
Sign up for Senior Boulder or Lead Provincials using the single competition membership will require a sign up for the single ACA membership option and use the competition sign up labeled as Single ACA Membership. Sign up link is located below. If you don't have an account you will have to create one.
https://member.albertaclimbing.org/login
ACA Sr Provincial Bouldering Registration Now Open
Registration is open for the ACA Senior Bouldering Provincial Championship. We also updated the event page, so keep an eye on that for updates to the location and format. Register at the ACA Member Site.
The season schedule has been updated
We have a new batch of updates to the season schedule. We’ve added some more events, adjusted the categories for some existing events, and determined the locations for some others. We’ll add the CEC events later this week for visibility. Note that the event details (specific gyms, dates & times, registration details, etc) will be updated as soon as we can share it. We’ll leave the tentative flags up for a few weeks. Thanks to our host gyms for all of your dedication to the sport and support of our athletes!
Registration is open for the ARQ Youth Local Bouldering Comp
Check out the event page to see updated registration details. The categories have been updated: it will be open to Junior, A, and B athletes (the Senior category has been removed). The event has also been confirmed as a 1-day competition, on Saturday October 28th 2023. Athletes will require a new ACA waiver for the season.
ACA seeking Athlete Reps
The ACA board relies on the input of it's athlete representatives to help make decisions that affect all our athletes. Our current athlete representatives, Alyssa Weber and Mark Derksen, are looking to retire from the ACA board. Therefore, we are looking for two new athlete representatives, one to represent climbers in female categories, and one to represent climbers in male categories.
If you're passionate about competition climbing and would like to help drive the ACA to better competition climbing across the ACA, please complete and submit this expression of interest form. We want to hear from you! Preference would be for 18 and older, but exceptions for younger athletes may be considered. Must have competition climbing experience.
If you have questions or comments, feel free to reach out to communications@albertaclimbing.org
Non-ACA Event @ Confluence Climbing in Golden BC
This is not an ACA sanctioned event.
Confluence Climbing in Golden BC reached to share that they are hosting a “scramble” style bouldering competition Sunday Oct 1! There will be 30 problems. Problem #1 will be the easiest and #30 will be the most difficult. Harder problems score higher.
Categories: Juniors, Advanced, Open, and Masters. Prizes will be awarded to the highest scoring male and female in each category.
Registration deadline is Sept 24.
The competition fee is $30 for all climbers.
https://confluenceclimbing.com/comp1/
Season Schedule Updates
We’ve added a monthly calendar to the Season Schedule page. Scroll past the upcoming events.
We also put a few holiday blocks into the calendar (December 2023 and March 2024). These are dates that the ACA will not be scheduling events.
Tentative 2023 / 2024 event dates are being published
Hi Everyone! We’re excited to kick off the 2023 / 2024 season. The ACA is working out the details of the upcoming events, and have published some of the dates and locations. The events are not finalized yet, so consider them tentative for now. We don’t have definitive locations for all events (marked as TBD). We’re also working to add more events.
We will include CEC and non-ACA events in the season schedule later.
New for this year: we’re going to include a few blackout dates that won’t have any events scheduled.
Stay tuned to this website and our social media accounts for updates.
CEC blog post about their finances
Cross posting an interesting article from Climbing Escalade Canada describing their finances. It’s an interesting read for those wondering how much the national organization spends to run competitions.
https://climbingcanada.ca/ed-blog-4-can-cec-provide-more-transparency-regarding-its-financial-situation/
New season, new look
Well this is exciting! As you can tell, we’ve overhauled our website. The season schedule is front centre, and the events have everything you need to know about a competition. News posts will be more frequent. More pictures, more videos. And for the first time ever, we’re going to be running a Discord server to allow athletes, coaches, ACA officials, volunteers, and spectators to discuss competition details in real-time. Stay tuned for more details, we have a lot planned this season.
Provincial bouldering photos are posted!
Heads up climbing fans! We had an amazing photographer share their photos from the provincial bouldering competition last weekend. Congratulations and thanks to all of our athletes, organizers, volunteers, parents, setters, gym staff, and coaches!