🎉 BOULDERFEST IS COMING TO MINNEAPOLIS🎉
Join us for an electric, all-day community celebration featuring a youth and adult climbing competition, entertainment, music, raffles, open finals, and community connection. It’s open to everyone, and the competition is perfect for all climbers—from beginners to experts.

**Read on for info on Pricing, Format, and Rules**

PRICING

This registration page is for our Open Qualifier, Recreational, Intermediate, and Advanced Divisions on Friday, November Saturday, November 9th from 7:30-9:30am.

Early Bird pricing $65 until October 17th
Regular pricing $75 until November 7th
Day of pricing $80

Register by October 17th to guarantee your competitor t-shirt size.


FORMAT & RULES

Recreational, Intermediate, and Advanced Divisions - competitors will receive one scorecard and be allowed to climb up to 30 boulders in their chosen division. For every boulder "topped" and recorded by a volunteer judge, the competitor will receive one raffle ticket for our Community Comp Raffle at 5:30pm on Saturday, November 9th.

Open Division - competitors must qualify Friday Night, November 8th. Top 6 scores in each division will be invited back to climb in Open Finals at 7:30pm Saturday, November 9th. Qualifier round rules listed below. Top 3 winners in each division will be awarded cash prizes; 1st = $1000, 2nd = $500, 3rd = $250.

FRIDAY NIGHT
Check-in: 5:00PM-5:45PM
Rules Meeting: 5:45PM
Climb: 6:00PM-9:00PM

SATURDAY SESSION 1
Check-in: 9:00AM-9:45AM
Rules Meeting: 9:45AM
Climb: 10:00AM-1:00PM

SATURDAY SESSION 2
Check-in: 1:00PM-1:45PM
Rules Meeting: 1:45PM
Climb: 2:00PM-5:00PM

RAFFLE - REC, INT, & ADV
All Recreational, Intermediate, and Advanced competitors are entered into our Community Comp Raffle at 5:30PM, Saturday, November 9th. This year, Open competitors who don't make finals will also earn raffle tickets!

For competitors who wish to register for our Youth & Family Round, please visit this page: https://www.sweatpals.com/minneapolis-boulderfest-youth-and-family-round

To volunteer, please visit this page: https://www.sweatpals.com/volunteer-registration-mpls-boulderfest-2024


BOULDERFEST

WHAT'S HAPPENING
1️⃣ COMMUNITY COMP 🧗
Boulderfest is an all-levels climbing competition. Whether you’ve been climbing for years, or it’s your first ever comp, you’ll find something fun and challenging for you to climb. The routes are the absolute best of what Bouldering Project and our setting team have to offer.

2️⃣ PRIZES 🎁
Everyone who competes in the Youth/Family, Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced divisions has a chance to win awesome prizes. Each boulder topped = one entry. We have incredible prizes, valued at over $10k, from our sponsors and local brands, and the raffle is always a blast.

3️⃣ OPEN CATEGORY FINALS 🏆
This year our finals will have 3 categories: Gender Non-Conforming, Women, and Men. Boulderfest weekend culminates in an electric Open Finals competition on Saturday evening. Strong climbers and incredible athletes compete to claim the title of Boulderfest ’24 champion. The winners take home the $5K+ cash purse and bragging rights.

Each division must have a minimum of 6 participants by Sunday, November 3rd or we will cancel that division.

Open Qualification Round is Friday Night, Nov 8th.

4️⃣ ALL DAY PARTY 🎉
The day kicks off with our community competition and is followed by a whole day of activities. Our Vendor Village, all-day food trucks, post-climb beer, live DJ and Open Finals, make the day one giant party you won’t want to miss!

5️⃣ VENDOR VILLAGE 🛍️
When you’re not climbing, hang out in our Vendor Village where you’ll find great products, beverages, and games. 



HOW TO SELECT YOUR CATEGORY:
Community Comp Sessions: 
- Youth/Family: All circuits
- Recreational: Yellow, Red, Green circuits 
- Intermediate: Purple, Orange, Black circuits 
- Advanced: Black, Blue, Pink circuits
- Open: able to climb the Pink & White circuit

Competitors self-select into their respective categories during the registration process. The idea is to challenge yourself!

When trying your absolute hardest, if you are able to top 10 boulders in the highest color available in that category in one climbing session, you should compete at the next level up.

See the example below:
Example: “I generally climb purples/oranges/blacks. I can flash most oranges.”

When trying your hardest, are you able to complete 10 black boulders in one climbing session?
   We recommend the Advanced Category.

When trying your hardest, is the Black category overall still challenging, meaning you can’t send 10 black boulders in one climbing session?
   We recommend the Intermediate Category.

OPEN QUALIFIER FORMAT:
- 3 gender categories: Gender Non-Conforming, Women, Men
- 30 Blue, Pink, and White circuit boulders will be assigned point values in order of difficulty
- 8 attempts allowed per boulder
- Top 10 boulders will be scored
- Open Qualifier boulders will be scored by volunteer judges. 
- Top 6 from each category will go in to Saturday's Open Finals, 7:30pm; isolation opens 5:45pm Saturday
- $5K+ Cash Purse

Questions? Reach out to wriver@boulderingproject.com


Rock climbing

Minneapolis Boulderfest 2024 - Open, Advanced, Intermediate, and Recreational

Saturday, Session 2 Recreational Division; max 100 competitors Intermediate: Purple, Orange, Black circuits See details below about how to pick your division!

Top Gender Non-Conforming, Female, and Male competitors compete for $5K+ cash purse.

Qualifiers: Climbers will have 30 blue, pink, white boulders available to climb, each assigned a point value. Top ten scores counted. Top 6 competitors from Friday's Qualifiers in each category will compete in Open Finals on Saturday, November 9th at 7:30pm. 

Each division must have a minimum of 6 participants by end of day Sunday, November 3rd or we will cancel that division.

Saturday, Session 1 Recreational Division Advanced: Black, Blue, Pink circuits See details below about how to pick your division!

In 2024, we are opening an additional Intermediate Session, our most popular division! With a max of 100 competitors, Intermediate climbers will compete for raffle tickets for our Saturday evening Community Round raffle! Intermediate: Purple, Orange, Black circuits See details below about how to pick your division!

Saturday, Session 1 Intermediate Division; max 100 competitors
Intermediate: Purple, Orange, Black circuits
See details below about how to pick your division!

Saturday, Session 1 Recreational Division Recreational: Yellow, Red, Green circuits See details below about how to pick your division!

Saturday, Session 2 Recreational Division Advanced: Black, Blue, Pink circuits See details below about how to pick your division!

Saturday, Session 2 Recreational Division
Recreational: Yellow, Red, Green circuits 
See details below about how to pick your division!