It’s funny how previous experience necessitates adding rules. Number 4 was a valuable lesson learnt from last year’s competition. That dog really tricked us.

Fortunately there were no dogs in sight this year, only security guards in white cars, trying their damnedest to look and act authoritative to a large group of builderers. This time however, we wouldn’t be duped into sticking around to wait for the cops.

31 pioneering spirits braved firmly-being-talked-to by campus cowboys to participate in this year’s buildering competition. Instead of traveling around in one large conspicuous group, we decided to break into two smaller groups. This also meant more climbing time for everyone.

Boris the Sneaky Fucking Russian (or: Boris the Poetic) led one group, and I led the other. Unfortunately I can’t say much about how the other group did, but apparently they had a blast and climbed without any confrontations.

I made the problems a little harder this year, since too many people were sending all the problems last year; however, after watching only one or two people get up the moderate Gage Pipe problem, I feared I had made a mistake.

Thankfully, by the time we hit the Law Building, most everyone was warmed up and sending.

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Kenny gets all the cool photos. North Parkade Dyno.

Not in the "official" list of problems, but a gooder nonetheless. Ard, Lower Koerner Library. Photo: Boris.