MI Grassroots 2026 - PopUpComp 3

Join us for a day filled with excitement, camaraderie, and the thrill of conquering fresh new problems and routes. These are fun, friendly beginner/intermediate competitions, and should be used as an intro to competition climbing and a feeder into the Youth Climbing Series.

Note: If you placed in the Top 3 in your youth category in the 2025 YCS, or are a current member of the Irish Youth Squad or Irish Youth Team, you are NOT eligible to compete in this competition.

• There will be a limited number of places available for the competition. This is a self-judged competition.
• Parents must enter their child into the competition via the Eventbrite portal; there is no Eventbrite fee to enter the competition.
• The child must be registered at the wall, check-in to the wall as normal, and the normal entry fee to the wall must be paid for the child.
• The child must be supervised by their own parent at all times in the centre.
• If the parent is belaying, the parent must be registered at the wall and check-in to the wall as normal.

• Entry closes: Thur 9th July at 11pm. Late entries cannot be accepted.

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• This is a self judged competition; and all parents and children are expected to support each other in judging throughout the day. There will be a judging brief provided just before the competition starts.
• You will receive your scorecard at the reception desk when you check-in at the climbing wall.
• Please bring your own equipment (climbing shoes, chalk bag, harness, belay device etc.) or hire it from the wall. Top ropes will be set up for competing.

• Belaying is done by: parents of a competing child, a parent of another competing child, or by climbing wall instructors who will be there to assist in belaying if needed.
• The parent belaying must have previously been signed off by the climbing wall staff as safe to top rope belay, and they must have checked-in to the wall on the morning of the competition with their competing child.
• Those parents who are signed off to belay can top rope belay their own children, and, with the permission of another parent - they can belay that other parents child in the competition.

Please contact the centre well in advance of the competition if you have any queries regarding registrations or belaying etc.

These times may change up until and on the day of the competition.

• Check in: 10am – 10.40am
• Briefing (for judging/competitors): 10.45am
• Climbing: 11am – 4pm
• Please try to arrive to the climbing wall for 10am as this will speed things up for staff

• Scorecards must be handed into the desk no later than 10mins after the end of climbing time otherwise your score will not be counted.
• Results are via email: Approx 5.30pm. If your child is finished climbing early in the day and you need to shoot on; that’s no problem as the results are announced later that evening via an email to parents.

• Top Rope routes: 6a - 7b
• By entering the competition via Eventbrite; the child, parent and belaying parent all agree to the information above and agree that they have read and understood the competition

Children will compete in the 2026 YCS age categories shown below.

If you have any queries regarding the competition please contact: [email protected]