Wow. Congrats on your third place Natalie. Fantastic achievement to just jump in like that.

Great to see Nathan win too. A very talented climber though there's very little to split him, Matt Cousins and Dave Barrans.

I didn't make it down there but enjoyed the live stream. It's great the BMC are covering the event like that, though not too keen on the fact it was streamed by the BBC who insist on making one register first and even want your date of birth for some bizarre reason! Needless to say, probably like most people, I just made up false details so I could watch it. Which makes me wonder why do they bother?

I thought the footage was pretty good and liked the perma live scores on the screen. Even though they constantly cocked up the position of the competitors it was relatively easy to work out who was in the lead by the scores.

The commentary was a mix of OK and annoying. They don't need convey every detail when the viewer can clearly see what is happening for themselves. I like the IFSC method of having a guest co-commentator. The co-commentators are usually highly knowledgable and so can often provide valuable insights and info rather than the often repetitive ad libs and cliches and single commentators inevitably fall into.

All in all though it looked like a good and well attended event. Will the lead nationals get similar coverage?

Any reason why only the semi’s are currently on Iplayer? Didn’t get the chance to watch yesterday and was hoping to see the final on catchup.

Yeah, what does Gaz Parry know about climbing after all... ;) I thought the commentary was pretty good, you could tell they were trying to avoid getting too bogged down in terminology for any newer viewers, and they made a good stab at building up the sense of excitement towards the end of the competition, places being decided on the very last climb obviously helped.

My favourite quote had to be "Alex Waterhouse really wears his heart on his sleeve. He's not wearing any sleeves but..."

So for me that was what I found a bit annoying. I didn't think it was a particularly exciting finish. Nathan won by Dave Barrans failing to get up something. Hannah Slaney appeared to walk up the last problem with ease. So the attempts to generate excitement came across as a bit false, a bit OTT in my view.