Mission Cliffs Climbing Competition

Long story short: on my last trip to San Francisco for work, I brought my climbing shoes and entered a friendly little climbing competition. I entered the Men’s Intermediate division (v3-v5, middle of three divisions). I placed 22 of 69 people. Not bad for my first-ever comp, and being a little out of shape.But here’s the weird part. If I had instead chosen to enter the Men’s Advanced, my total score of 19,280 would have put me in 17th place in that division. Huh? Shouldn’t they average out the scores and then divide?

I don’t get it.That’ll teach me to be an underachiever. Yes, I should be in the Men’s Advanced group. Yes, I can fly a plane. Yes, I can perform open heart surgery.