Sport Climbing IFSC World Cup 2019

[phelps 7,773]

luckily I don't have all those problems to locate myself in the history books...it's well clear that I'm one of the last remaining dinosaurs...

 

oh, next Sunday I'm gonna be 45...and I feel all of them...

 

 

[heywoodu 15,308]

I'm watching the Vail boulder World Cup at the moment and I have literally never watched an event where the choice of 'music' is so insanely poor. It's (literally!) just 4 hours of monotonous 'boom boom boom boom boom boomboomboom boom boom boom boom'. Holy crap, this is shitty. I want to listen to the commentary, but man is it hard to not get incredibly nervous just because of this 'music'. The fuck man.

 

[Wumo 3,014]

  On 8/14/2019 at 2:20 PM, heywoodu said:

I'm watching the Vail boulder World Cup at the moment and I have literally never watched an event where the choice of 'music' is so insanely poor. It's (literally!) just 4 hours of monotonous 'boom boom boom boom boom boomboomboom boom boom boom boom'. Holy crap, this is shitty. I want to listen to the commentary, but man is it hard to not get incredibly nervous just because of this 'music'. The fuck man.

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I thought someone from the Netherlands would love music that goes 'boom boom' 

 

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[heywoodu 15,308]

  On 8/14/2019 at 2:30 PM, wumo26 said:

I thought someone from the Netherlands would love music that goes 'boom boom' 

 

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At least that one has some sort of a melody in it  Instead of just hours and hours of the same monotonous tone  

 

[Quasit 865]

  On 8/14/2019 at 2:20 PM, heywoodu said:

I'm watching the Vail boulder World Cup at the moment and I have literally never watched an event where the choice of 'music' is so insanely poor. It's (literally!) just 4 hours of monotonous 'boom boom boom boom boom boomboomboom boom boom boom boom'. Holy crap, this is shitty. I want to listen to the commentary, but man is it hard to not get incredibly nervous just because of this 'music'. The fuck man.

 

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There shouldn't be any music playing at most sports events in my opinion, unless it's fitting ambience.

[phelps 7,773]

  On 8/14/2019 at 2:20 PM, heywoodu said:

I'm watching the Vail boulder World Cup at the moment and I have literally never watched an event where the choice of 'music' is so insanely poor. It's (literally!) just 4 hours of monotonous 'boom boom boom boom boom boomboomboom boom boom boom boom'. Holy crap, this is shitty. I want to listen to the commentary, but man is it hard to not get incredibly nervous just because of this 'music'. The fuck man.

 

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I hope you're quite ready to go live with the world champs, as Tim Reuser has qualified for the men's Lead semis (tonight at 4 a.m. CET, the final following tomorrow at 1.25 p.m. CET)...

[heywoodu 15,308]

  On 8/14/2019 at 3:24 PM, phelps said:

 

I hope you're quite ready to go live with the world champs, as Tim Reuser has qualified for the men's Lead semis (tonight at 4 a.m. CET, the final following tomorrow at 1.25 p.m. CET)...

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Not yet, still got Villars, Chamonix and Briançon to go (that's three times lead and two times speed) before starting with the World Championships  (after finishing Vail, where I've got two boulders to watch)

 

I like watching things in order so I avoid spoilers

[Olympian1010 8,065]

  On 8/14/2019 at 2:31 PM, Quasit said:

There shouldn't be any music playing at most sports events in my opinion, unless it's fitting ambience.

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As an athlete I personally loved competing with background music. Especially as an Endurance athlete, it was nice to able to take my mind off the pain.

 

As an athlete I preferred an empty stadium with background music, to a stadium full spectators.

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[heywoodu 15,308]

  On 8/14/2019 at 4:09 PM, Olympian1010 said:

As an athlete I personally loved competing with background music. Especially as an Endurance athlete, it was nice to able to take my mind off the pain.

 

As an athlete I preferred an empty stadium with background music, to a stadium full spectators.

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I guess those times you competed in front of 70.000 fans were intimidating.

[heywoodu 15,308]

I'm surprised at how piss-poor the IFSC graphics are during the competition, mostly in boulder and lead. How hard can it be to, for example, simply show one's result after their attempt and update the current standings? In lead for example they're only showing a ranking after 4 of 8 finalists and that's it, to follow who's in which position you'd actually have to write along.