Setting the Comp

August's VauxComp! I had been waiting to set a VauxComp since Vaux opened. I normally set the FunComp part of this, but now I had the chance to set in the "Big Boys" comp - I say big boys comp, it's just graded V0-V10+ instead of the FunComp being V0-V5/6, anyone can try and it's great fun! You never know, you could win something cool or do a lot better than you think!

Myself and Tom 'the speed machine' Randall, starting at 8am with putting the volumes on. Personally I'm really flexible setting around volumes that are already placed, but struggle deciding where to put volumes when given a large choice and have a lot of ideas. We both begin with some cool ideas, from weird diving board dynos to some other techy stuff. I set just under half the blocs from V0-V8 while he sets some of the harder ones due to experience placing the occasional jam in here and there on the harder stuff. Still managed to finish 35 blocs by 2pm though leaving about 2-3 hours of "forerunning" (Testing and Tweaking) to give the final draft of all the problems!




5pm hits and its time to open up the comp wall to the public, which had already been warming up on Tom's 25 bloc FunComp he had set the day before. Annoyingly there was a tube strike, causing a lack of customers and me having to leave by 6pm, just to get back home, so I couldn't watch the whole thing and everyone falling off our problems. Watching the first hour was pretty fun, seeing Louis Parkinson fall of one of my dynamic V5's (highlight of the night - sorry Louis), Nathan Whaley and other squad members also struggling on some of the other problems. Was pretty cool to see some of the other customers trying out the V6 partial replica of 'King of Limbs' (8b+).

 

All in all, a great set which gave back some awesome feedback, with customers enjoying the problems and the rest of the evening with free pizza and cheap beers. Congrats to those who won and to those that got the points and places they were looking for! Hopefully will set another VauxComp in the near future as I really enjoyed setting and watching the psyched customers. Maybe next time I'll get to stay and watch for a bit longer!