It varies year by year, depending upon how many host nations are willing to put the money up. But there is a max of 8 and a minimum of 3. This year there are 7 plus a World Championships. If there are more than 5 rounds you can drop one score. 5 rounds or less then all scores count.
All in all a pretty good event I thought, particularly for a first time. If a poor third world country with little history of climbing like India can stage something this good surely Britain should be able to at least equal it. What are we waiting for? I didn't care for the co-commentor much who seemed to be trying to big up the event at every opportunity and having him for both the semis and the final was too much. It gave the impression he did not have much confidence in the comp, when in fact it all seemed very good. I thought we might have had Shauna co-commentating for the final - a rare chance when she's not in the final. Also there was the usual lack of coordination between film crew and commentators. Surely this could be sorted in a variety of ways without too much difficulty. The most impressive thing for me was the two Japanese men doing the running problem first try. I'm guessing their team must have trained that kind of thing a fair bit. Great to see Miho finally get a gold too. She's been very consistent over the past few years so well deserved and surely someone to watch in the future.
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