In reply to Robert Durran:
Obviously you are joking, however, have you touched the holds (ahem), I say holds. I've seen 8C and 8C+ problems and they generally made sense. Kpote left me astonished anyone could use any of the features to gain the lip. Kameyama's ascent makes sense. He is quite petite and suits the nature of the features. Kameyama has been quietly knocking off plenty of hard problems the last few years in fairly short time and is a credible repeat. I do agree that bigger names repeating or better still, failing on these hard problems is needed before the rest of us can make sense of it all. I couldn't imagine anyone over 6ft doing this or anyone with larger than average fingers.
The move into the undercut is quite frankly ridiculous in that his right hand is on what can only be called a dink in the rock and his toe on a crease. The fact he maintains tension gets my vote. The accuracy is also quite amazing and that hold he uses as an intermediate before hitting the lip, well that's facing down.
Is it 9A? Like the rest of us, what do I know? I'd say Nalle is probably a good contender, based on his height and the fact he is possibly the strongest climber in the world when it comes to straight down pulling.
I'll bet two things. One, is that we will wait some time before those repeats hit the UKC news pages and two, is that if Charles's problem gets downgraded, it will only be to 8C+. I suspect it won't.