1. Everyone can enter a contest. All participants are required to wear a contestant’s number on their chest or back, they are to follow the Climbing festival rules* and obey safety regulations, keep the climbing routes clean and leave the route boundaries untouched, take care of the environment and be friendly to others.
2. Contestants may attempt 100 routes with an obligatory standing-by or rope belay. Route length varies from 3 to 10 meters.
3. Contestants pass the routes on a first come first served basis. One can take unlimited attempts to complete a route. No one is allowed to attempt a route without a partner providing belay.
4. Upon starting a route contestants are required to hold a starting point for 2 seconds. A 2 second hold of a finishing point allows one to consider the route completed.
5. A route is not considered completed if a contestant:
   - returns to a starting position;
   - hasn’t demonstrated a 2 second hold of a starting or finishing point;
   - hasn’t followed specific route rules if any.
6. Upon completing a route a contestant marks his personal route register with a ballpoint pen.
7. Contestants sum up number of routes completed and report the number to a Climbing festival secretat by SMS or via the Festival web site.
8. Contestants’ results are ranked within the following groups:
   O1 - men and women (born 1959 and senior);
   O2 - men and women (born 1960 - 1964);
   O3 - men and women (born 1965 - 1969);
   A1 - men and women (born 1970 - 1974);
   A2 - men and women (born 1975 - 1979);
   A3 - men and women (born 1980 - 1984);
   B1 - men and women (born 1985 - 1989);
   B2 - men and women (born 1990 - 1992);
   B3 - men and women (born 1993 - 1995);
   C1 - boys and girls (born 1996 - 1997);
   C2 - boys and girls (born 1998 - 1999);
   C3 - boys and girls (born 2000 - 2001);
   D1 - boys and girls (born 2002 - 2003);
   D2 - boys and girls (born 2004 - 2006);
   
9. Winners within these groups and an absolute Climbing festival winner (men/ women) are those who complete the most routes** (if two or more contestants complete the same amount of routes, then the winner is the one with the most routes of high complexity). If contestants show identical figures they are assigned same ranks.

* Judges-observers are entitled to reprimand contestants, members of a Grand Jury are entitled to warn and disqualify contestants for intentional damaging of routes, disobeying safety regulations, breaching the Climbing festival rules.

**Difficulty Contest is parts of the general contest. Completion of these routes are marked by judges.