CO Regional & State Qualification

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Regional Championship Qualification

  • Climbers must compete in a minimum of 3 comps within their home region to qualify for the Regional Comp

    (climbers may compete out of their region for the experience but any out-of-region comp will not count toward Regional Comp or State Comp qualification nor will those results be included in season stats/rankings)

  • Each Region will host a Regional Comp for all climbers who have qualified with a “Boys” classification and a “Girls” classification.
  • At the conclusion of the Regional Comp, climbers will be ranked based upon their State Qualification Composite Score (SQCS). The SQCS will be computed by the following formula:
    • The best three in-region comp scores from the regular season by percent will be averaged and count as 60% of the SQCS.
    • The Regional Comp percent score will count as the remaining 40% of the SQCS.

State Championship Qualification

NEW for 2026-2027

Due to the increase in wave size with the addition of a 5th region (64 to 74 for Varsity, 80 to 96 for JV) vacated spots will no longer be filled by moving JV climbers to the Varsity wave or by moving non-qualifiers into the JV wave. At the conclusion of the final Regional Championship event, the State rosters will be frozen. The only changes to the State rosters will be due to errors discovered in ranking or scoring.

Varsity Wave Climbers

The State Varsity Comp will be split into two waves. The Boys Varsity Wave of 74 climbers and the Girls Varsity Wave of 74 climbers will be held at different times to allow all climbers ample time to complete their scorecards. The 74 climbers of each gender are not finalized until ALL REGIONS in the state have held their Regional Championship. The 74 climbers will be qualified according to the following:

  • Each region is guaranteed to send their top 10 ranked male and top 10 ranked female climbers to the State Competition based upon the SQCS. These climbers will participate in the Varsity classification
  • An additional 24 “at-large” Varsity male and 24 “at-large” Varsity female climbers will be allocated between the regions based upon participation rate.
    • The number of climbers eligible to compete at their Regional Comp for a given region by gender will be divided by the total of all statewide climbers eligible to compete at their Regional Comp by gender will determine the participation rate for the region.
    • The number computed will be converted to a percent and compared to the percent of climbers who will automatically qualify from the region (the “Guaranteed %”).
    • Regions with less than the Guaranteed % participation rate will not receive additional at-large spots.
    • Regions with more than the Guaranteed % participation rate will divide up the 24 at large spots proportional to their participation rates in order to match the number of state qualifiers from the region as closely as possible to the region participation percentage. Numbers will be rounded to nearest whole numbers and assigned to each region as the additional number of “at-large” climbers to invite to the Varsity Wave of the State Comp.
      • If the computed number of “at-large” spots granted is fewer than 24, an additional “at-large” spot will be granted to the region that is most under-represented when considering total % of climbers who qualified for their Regional vs the % of climbers being sent to State as a varsity climber. If multiple regions are equivalently most under-represented, each will receive an additional “at-large” spot even if the total will exceed 24.
      • If the computed number of “at-large” spots granted is more than 24, an “at-large” spot will be removed from the region that is most over-represented when considering total % of climbers who qualified for their Regional vs the % of climbers being sent to State as a varsity climber. If multiple regions are equivalently most over-represented, no region will lose an “at-large” spot if doing so would decrease the number of “at-large” spots below 24. Additionally, no region will have any guaranteed spots removed as a result of “at-large” adjustments.
    • “At-large” spots will be filled by the next highest ranking climbers from the region according to the SQCS who have not already been granted a spot.
    • There will be a separate computation performed for the male and female “at-large” climber spots.
  • Vacated Varsity spots, whether guaranteed or at-large, will not be filled.
JV Wave Climbers

The State JV Comp will be a single wave of 48 male and 48 female climbers. The 48 climbers of each gender will be allocated according to the following:

  • Each region is guaranteed to send their top 8 ranked male and top 8 ranked female climbers to the State Competition based upon the SQCS who have not already been invited to the Varsity classification.
  • An additional 8 “at-large” JV male and 8 “at-large” JV female climbers will be allocated between the regions based upon participation rate (as previously described for Varsity “at-large” spots).
  • Vacated JV spots, whether guaranteed or at-large, will not be filled.

Middle School Championship

Each region will hold a Middle School Regional Championship during the High School Regional Championship. There is not presently a middle school state championship competition. Middle school climbers must have competed in 3 regular season comps to qualify for the Middle School Regional Championship.