YCCF- 2026

Date: June 13–14, 2026

This year, the Youth Color Climbing Festival will once again take place at our climbing center in June.

The YCCF is a fun climbing competition for young climbers all around the world. The YCCF is designed to give teenagers and kids the opportunity to gain more competition experience and bring different nationalities together. In qualification there will be 6 competition routes waiting in each category for the athletes to test their levels. In finals 2 routes are waiting to be topped. Several side events will complement the competition.

General Rules

• Only parents/coaches/federations are allowed to register the athletes.
• Each athlete needs his own certified climbing equipment.
•  At the registration athletes must show their passport!
• All athletes need a liability waiver signed by their parent!
• A health certificate is required by every athlete (not older than 1 year) (see
  attachments)
• Important: Field of play: ONLY athletes do have access, NO parents or coaches!
  All climbers will be belayed by our belayer-team!

Categories

• U13 – teenagers born 2014/2015
• U15 – teenagers born 2012/2013

Starter fee

• 45,- EUR (paid within the registration process)
• 60,- EUR for late registration (paid in cash at the Sportcafe Imst)
• every athlete gets an evolv shirt for free!

Program

Friday, 12th June 2026

• 04.00 p.m. – 08.00 p.m. Registration at the Sportcafe/Kletterzentrum Imst

Saturday, 13th June 2026

• 08.00 a.m. Climbing gym opens
• 08.30 a.m. Competition start
• 01.00 p.m. – 02.00 p.m. Break (no climbing!)
• 07.00 p.m. Climbing gym and the outdoor wall will be closed – Result list in
  the Sportcafe and on the outdoor wall

Sunday, 14th June 2026

• 08.00 a.m. Climbing gym opens
• NO Forerunning of the routes. There will be videos.
• 08.45 a.m. – 02.00 p.m. Start of the second part of the competition – Final of the twenty
• best climbers on two routes in each category
• 03.00 p.m. Award ceremony (or “Super-Final” if necessary)

Format

Saturday (qualification)

• 6 routes
• Starting order (U13 in the morning, U15 in the afternoon)
• Colored routes – only the holds with the correct color count! (e.g. red route – only red holds/footholds count)
• Only one attempt for each route!
• It´s allowed to watch other climbers (Flash)
• No forerunner or video on Saturday
• Number of holds will be added up (No “+”!) – Only the last held hold will be counted!
• The 20 best climbers from each category will start in the finals on Sunday.
• Climbing time: 4 minutes / route (with more than 60 athletes per category)
  5 minutes / route (with less than 60 athletes per category)
• Judges take care of the results

Important: Field of play: ONLY athletes do have access, NO parents or coaches! All climbers will be belayed by our belayer-team!

Sunday (finals):

• Final of the 20 best climbers from each category on two routes
• Starting order for each route on Sunday
• NO Forerunning of the routes. There will be videos.

All climbers will be belayed by our belayer-team

Registration

• Registration here: Registration
  (In case you have problems with the registration please contact the “Austria Climbing” Team directly: E-Mail: data@austriaclimbing.com)
• If you do not have a user account in the Austria Climbing data base already, please create a user and person/athlete here: create user
• In case an Athlete is colorblind or has difficulties seeing colors, this must be stated in the comment section when registering.
• Registration until: 2nd June 2026
• Maximum of 80 athletes in each category