MI Grassroots Pop Up Summer Series

Mountaineering Ireland, in collaboration with Lucy Mitchell, Awesome Walls Cork, Boulderworld Belfast, the Dublin Climbing Centre and Suas Climbing Centre are inviting young climbers to take part in these free!!! friendly grassroots competitions for both social bouldering and top rope climbing. 

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

These competitions will pop up around the country over the summer months, and each competition day will focus solely on bouldering or top-roping.

• Children in the 2026 YCS age categories.
  
• Beginner to Lower Intermediate level climbers :  (Climbers placed in Top 3 in the 2025 Youth Climbing Series and current members of the Irish Youth and Development Squad or Irish Youth Team, are NOT eligible to compete in this competition)
• Residents of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
• Male and female climbers. 
• Climbers who are motivated, willing to push themselves, encouraging to those around them and are respectful of the hosting walls and volunteers.
• Entrants must be a current members of Mountaineering Ireland at the time of entering the competition.
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• Parents must enter their child into the competition via the Eventbrite portal; it is free to enter the competition. Please use the parents email address in the entry form.
• There will be a limit of 80 competitors per competition day.
• The child and parent each check-in to the wall as normal, and each pay the standard admission to the climbing wall.
• The child must be supervised by their own parent at all times in the centre.
• The child and parent must both be registered users of the climbing centre (Awesome Walls: Dublin or Cork)and both child and parent must have met the unsupervised entry/registration criteria. Both child and parent should have been in either centre within the last year from the date of the competition otherwise they may need to fill in forms again or do another belay test. If you have any queries regarding this, please contact Awesome Walls directly. **New users of the climbing centre may require an Induction and/or belay test before completing registration. Please contact the centre well in advance of the competition if you have any queries regarding this**
• The child must be a current member of MI at the time of entering and competing in the competition.
• Entry closes: Wed 20th May at 11pm. Late entries cannot be accepted.

• 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.
• These are friendly, stand alone pop-up competitions; there are no prizes, podiums or medals.

Belaying

• Belaying is done by parents only.
• 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.

• 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 Rules