XXXIIIrd AGGTELEK CUP CLIMBING FESTIVAL 2006 – HUNGARY
08. 18-20. 2006

Basic rules of the Aggtelek Cup:
After one qualifying route on real rock with additional artificial holds, the bests will continue in the final, all is on sight.

Categories:
male - A,
male - B,
female - B.

Modus of the Kids Climbing Competition:
It consists of difficulty climbing on real rock with additional artificial holds, boulder climbing on artificial wall and one speed route on real rock again, as follows:

Categories:
children born in 1993-94      C - youngster - male/female,
children born in 1995-96      D -  kids 1      - male/female,
children born in 1997-99      E  - kids 2      - male/female.

Rules:

Difficulty climb:

Qualifying round 2 routes to be climbed on rock in all categories, flash.
Half of the competitors gets into the final, but at least three of them.
Final: 1 route to be climbed on rock, on sight; with superfinal, if necessary and shared first place thereafter.
Time limits will be announced during the technical meeting.
Climbers of category C will lead; category D and E will climb top-rope.
If the number of those who climbed TOP in both qualifying rounds is more than half of the competitors of a given category, the larger group will participate in the final.
The first 3 place winner of the category C will be qualified to the adults competition.

Boulder:

All together 6 boulder problems have to be solved, with section (bonus) points during completion of the route.
More detailed information will be announced during the technical meeting.

Speed:

There will be one longer route have to be climbed with top-rope.

Program:

Friday, 08. 18. 2006
12:00 - Arriving, registration for the Kids Climbing Competition of Aggtelek;
15:30 – End of the registration, technical meeting;
16:00 – Difficulty qualification rounds for categories C, D, E;
16:30 – Boulder competition for adults (same rules as in Kids Competition);
20:00 – Climbing movies, music, beer.

Saturday, 08. 19. 2006
07:30 – Registration for the adults competition;
08:15 – Official opening ceremony, end of the registration;
08:30 - Closing of the difficulty isolation for the categories B, C/female, D and E;
09:00 – Final for the Kids Competition, followed by the qualifying round for the cat. B;
12:00 – Boulder competition for the cat. D and E;
12:30 - Closing of the isolation for the categories A and C/male;
13:00  - Final for the cat. C/male and qualifying round for the cat. A;
15:00 – Boulder competition for the category C;
16:30 – Speed climbing for adults;
17:30 – Stair running competition, coke box climbing, classical music in the world famous
            cave concert hall, slide-show, dance-party.

Sunday, 08. 20. 2006
08:30 - Closing of the isolation;
09:00 - Finals;
11:00 – Speed climbing for the cat. C, D and E.
15:00 - Awarding ceremony.

Registration:
Registration can be done on the spot (next to the entrance of the Aggtelek cave).

Competition fee:
Pre-registration - € 8.00, or HUF 2006 (to be paid at the registration), not later than
08.11. 2006, with a free form e-mail to meteora@t-online.hu,
after that: € 12.00, or HUF 3200.

Accommodation:
Camping Baradla, in tents (free of charge for the competitors and their parents, during the competition), or in bungallows;
3759 Aggtelek, Baradla oldal 1.
tel: (+36) 48/503-005
fax: (+36) 48/503-001
http://www.anp.hu/

Access:
Budapest-Füzesabony / motorway M3 + Ózd / highway No 25 + Aggtelek;
Budapest – Miskolc / motorway M3 + Kazincbarcika / highway No 26 + Aggtelek.

Other programs:
cave concert, guided tours in the cave.

Information and pre-registration:
herakles@herakles.hu
Gábor Táborosi
+36/20-9235385

According to the weather conditions the program of the competition is subject to change.