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Started 6 months ago by smokeNmirrors
Latest reply from jackalope

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smokeNmirrors
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Inflation seems to abound these days, everything is going up in price. How much does your gym charge for a local competition and what do you provide for that cost?

For example, our black light competition includes: A.65 new competition routes B.black light environment C.T-shirt D.some sort of raffle prize to every participant, and E.Trophies to top finishers. We charge $35 for the comp fee. We tend to make little to no money on the event and a lot of people volunteer their time so it's hard to justify a profit. Does our cost per the event seem to be of good value to you? Or are you guys charging more and providing less?

I see the Spot charges $35 for their comps, which look like quite the production. (shout out to the Spot Blog, cool to read what's going on at a gym in the geographical heart of US climbing!)

Posted 6 months ago #
Cranky
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We are charging $35 in advance and $40 day of. We will have about 140 problems, dyno comp, and open final problems on our lead wall. The setting is being shared by 7 people for the citizen's and 2 people concentration on finals. We also spent $1500 on holds and received many more from sponsoring companies. The setting is expensive and I do not know if it will make a profit in the end but the members love the comp. and I think all gyms need to run some sort of comp even if they take a small loss. Then again it's not my money.

Hope it helps.

Cranky

Posted 6 months ago #
Kaleb Thomas
Member

We charge around 35$ for our comps as well,

We cant be spending as much as you guys, for our rockfall competition we set 40 boulder problems and 40 routes and have 3 long finals route, we usually order a 1000$ worth of holds, have a killer line up of DJ's and every competitor gets pizza and a t-shirt. All the prizes and usually some other holds come from sponsorship.

The only difference is we are in a smaller city so we are lucky if we get 50 people at the most

Seems like 35 is the standard, I know Tour De Bloc charges 45$ per person but each one of those comps is a massive production.

Posted 6 months ago #
JC
Member

We also charge $35 normally and $40 for late registration. We run an on-campus university gym and we will strip the wall and set all new routes. We normally get around 35 people as well, but this year I expect us to get in excess of 50 competitors. We have well over $4k in prizes and advertised at all of the gyms in our state and already have 35 and we're still a week out. To cover the cost of shirts and new tape we needed 28 competitors, setters and belayers are all volunteers (how our gym is always operated).

Each competitor will get a shirt, a coupon to the local gear shop, a magazine, and lunch. It's top rope with a lead climbing "main event." In the spring we do a bouldering competition that is very similar.

Posted 6 months ago #
smokeNmirrors
Member

Hey thanks guys, $35 seems like a good barometer and it seems like some of you are providing even more!

Posted 6 months ago #
jackalope
Member

Actually Psychedelia is the most expensive comp to run and to attend in the annual 4-comp Spot Bouldering Series. $35/compete, $15/spectate, all spectators and competitors get fed, beered (or soda-ed or watered), one free raffle ticket, and free participation or spectating of whatever special events we are running. For example, at Psychedelia, besides the generally unique atmosphere of the gym, we had a pro DJ (Dirtmonkey--hope you like dubstep!), fire dancers, a trapeze act, a costume contest that was open to all, tacos, Avery beer, other drinks, free Mix 1 (protein drink thing), a pro finals to spectate (one problem/gender, top 6 men and women, always a good time), and 41 new boulder problems--several of which included special features. Click this link: http://spotsettingblog.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/psychedelia-2011-wrap-up-and-results-a-bunch-of-photos/ for more on that.

Spot comp pricing varies by comp and can be lowered by buying a season or multi-comp package that will also come with a season t-shirt. All comps run in two sessions, youth in the morning and adult in the afternoon, and spectating the youth comp is free but spectating the adult comp costs a little $. Youth competitors can spectate the adult session for free.

The next comp, Highlines and Highballs (highline slackline contest + food, music, pro finals, huge raffle) will be $30 to compete and $10 to spectate.

The first comp of the season, The Gun Show, was an ABS comp so it was $30 for non-ABS members or $25 for ABS members (b/c of $5 ABS comp non-member per-competitor fee) or $10 to spectate. It included a bbq, beer, music, a huge raffle, pro finals, a pull-up contest, and the youth team hired a dunk tank that we dunked the pros in as a fundraiser--http://spotsettingblog.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/the-gun-show-2011-photos-run-down-results-hurray/)

The last comp of the season, the Gladiator Final, will include gladiator jousting for all interested parties as well as the standard accoutrements at Spot events of food, music, beverages, pro finals, and tons of schwag/raffle.

That might be TMI but basically we try to give a lot for the money.

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