Summer Lead Series 2023

Urban Jungle's very own eight-week-long climbing competition.

Climbers will score points over 4 two-week-long rounds by Flashing, Topping or Zoning each of our A, B, C, and D routes. That is 16 routes throughout the competition with a maximum of 1,120 points. No one has yet achieved the maximum score. Are you up for the challenge? 

Bonus points are given for Flashing, Topping or Zoning a climb within its round. The top 6 men and women with the highest scores at the end of all four rounds go through to a "World Cup" style final (Advanced & Intermediate categories only).

This year the competition starts on Wed 25th January and will go til Tue 21st March, with finals held on Fri 24th March

Categories

Lead climbing

  • Advanced

  • Intermediate (max red-point grade 23 for male and 21 for female)

  • Youth (born in 2011 or after)

Top-rope climbing

  • Novice (max red-point grade 19)

  • Youth (born in 2011 or after)

Scoring

  • Flash 60pts

  • Top 50pts

  • Zone 20pts

+ 10 Bonus points for flashing and topping within an active round and + 5 bonus for a zone within an active round.

Each climb can only be awarded one score, meaning you can only be awarded for Flash OR Top OR Zone.

Rounds

  1. Wed 25 Jan, 5:30 pm - Wed 08 Feb, 5:29:59 pm

  2. Wed 08 Feb, 5:30 pm - Wed 22 Feb, 5:29:59 pm

  3. Wed 22 Feb, 5:30 pm - Wed 08 Mar, 5:29:59 pm

  4. Wed 08 Mar, 5:30 pm - Wed 22 Mar, 5:29:59 pm

Rounds for Top-rope categories will always start and finish a day later than for lead categories. For example, Round 1 for Tope-rope categories will go from Thu 26th January, 5:30 pm til Wed 08th February, 5:30 pm.

Cost

No competition fee.

Simply complete the climbs next time you are at Urban Jungle and log them at the front desk.

Latest ticks/sends

Full live scoreboard available here.


Win a 12 month membership

To have a chance to win…

  1. Follow Urban Jungle IRC and tag a friend in this post

  2. Take some awesome photos or videos of your fun experience at UJ

  3. Post the best ones on Instagram or Facebook during the comp

  4. And tag @UJ, a friend and include #SLS23 in all your posts

  5. Create more posts for more chances to win!

Ensure to create a post between January 25th to March 24th. Stories don’t count. 

The best post wins a 12-month membership. Say hello to climbing in 2023!


Read the full terms and conditions here.


From the previous years

Highlights from SLS 2022 Finals

2021 Podium

Advanced

Male

  1. Karl Laczko
  2. Jiri Stastny
  3. Brian Tan

Female

  1. Anna Davey
  2. Alexis Law
  3. Molly Balkwill

2022 Podium

Advanced

Male

  1. Maxim Pare
  2. Jason Liew
  3. Ruari Hopper

Female

  1. Anna Davey
  2. Mae Siah
  3. Alexis Law

Intermediate

Male

  1. Anderson Young
  2. Alex Buckley
  3. Zac Poole

Female

  1. Jaiya Marns-morris
  2. Gesa Graser
  3. Emma van Dongen