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Lead and top rope

Lead and top rope share the same core job: set up categories and routes, make sure judges score the right athlete in the right order, then review results before publishing. This page covers the lead-specific flow.

Set up the lead competition

Create a lead competition from the admin dashboard. Add your categories and give each one a cutline — the number of athletes who advance from qualification to the final. Lead uses a fixed number of routes: two in qualification and one in the final. Set the judge passcode here too, so your judges can reach the scoring page without needing an account.

Route consistency

Do not change route assignments after import. GripRank expects exactly two routes for qualification and one for the final.

Lead setup Lead import

Judging by height / hold

Lead scoring is straightforward: athletes are ranked by the highest hold they controlled. For each climb, the judge records the hold number and whether the athlete controlled it or only reached for it (a “plus”). A top beats every other hold.

Hold Number

The highest hold the athlete controlled. The higher the hold, the better the placing.

Plus vs Clean

A tied hold is broken by the plus indicator. Plus always ranks higher than clean at the same height.

Top

Controls the final hold. Ranks above every other hold, plus or clean.

On the judge page, select the round, then the route, then the athlete. Enter the hold number and toggle plus or clean. Submit the score.

Athlete order

Confirm the climbing order before the first athlete steps up. Judges score in the order they enter — mismatches here cascade through the leaderboard.

Lead judge

Rounds and advancing

Lead competitions run two rounds: qualification and final. Qualifiers use two routes per category. The final uses one route.

1Review the chief view to confirm all judges have submitted scores for every athlete in the qualifier.
2Check for missing entries or tied ranks that need head-judge verification.
3Click Advance to finals on the chief page. The category switches over to the final round.
4GripRank auto-publishes the final startlist based on the qualifier cutline.

Missing entries

The advance button will refuse to run if any qualification scores are still missing. Fill the gaps on the judge page first, then try again.

Lead chief

Results, scorecards, and exports

Navigate to the category results page to verify the final leaderboard. Qualifiers are ranked by adding together each athlete's placing on the two qualification routes. Tied totals are broken by combined tops then names.

Scorecards

Use the scorecards view to print or save as PDF — the page opens the browser's print dialog. Export CSV or JSON data for external federation reporting.

Refresh the results page before publishing. Confirm the top athletes match the head judge's verbal confirmation. Once published, the final startlist and results are locked.

Lead scorecards Lead export