How scoring works
ROMP 2026
The short version
Every climb is worth the route's base points, multiplied by how you climbed it and where. Each climber on a route scores separately, so a team of four doing one route scores four times.
your points = base points × (1 + style + area bonus + route bonus)
The bonuses add together rather than multiplying, so they stay predictable: a 0.35 area and a 0.65 route bonus together double the route, they do not compound.
A real example
Achalu : Achalu West Face : Broomberg Side : Broomberg — 5.9, 4 pitches, base 21.75 points.
21.75 × (1 + 0 + 0.4 + 0.8) = 47.85 points
sport lead area route
Lead it on sight instead and the style term rises, so the same route is worth more. Top-rope it and it is worth less.
Style — how you climbed it
| Style | Effect | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Sport lead | 0% | Baseline |
| Sport top-rope | -50% | 50% of the Sport Lead |
| Sport lead/Onsight | +30% | 30% bonus of the baseline |
| Sport top-rope/Onsight | -40% | 60% of the Sport Lead |
| Trad lead | +75% | 75% bonus for Trad Lead, over the baseline |
| Trad lead/Onsight | +100% | 100% bonus for an onsight on Trad Lead, over the baseline |
A percentage of the route's base points, added to the 100% you get for climbing it at all.
Where — area bonuses
Areas further from camp, or with a harder approach, are worth more. The bonus applies to every route in the area, on top of the 100% you get for climbing it at all.
18 of 34 areas carry one, from 0% up to +50%.
How one is decided
Cheluvaraya Swamy Betta : Other Routes carries +50% — the highest here — on these:
Every area is weighed the same way. To see what a particular area is worth and why, open the routes page — each area's bonus sits beside its heading, with its own reasoning under it. The Areas sheet of an export carries all of it in one table.
Grades — what a route is worth
| Grade | Points | Grade | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.3 | 1 | 5.11b | 18 |
| 5.4 | 2 | 5.11c | 20 |
| 5.5 | 3 | 5.11d | 22 |
| 5.6 | 4 | 5.12a | 24 |
| 5.7 | 5 | 5.12b | 24 |
| 5.8 | 6 | 5.12c | 26 |
| 5.9 | 8 | 5.12d | 30 |
| 5.10a | 10 | 5.13a | 32 |
| 5.10b | 12 | 5.13b | 34 |
| 5.10c | 14 | 5.13c | 36 |
| 5.10d | 16 | 5.13d | 38 |
| 5.11a | 18 |
Boulder problems: VB 2 · V0 4 · V1 6 · V2 8 · V3 10 · V4 12 · V6 14 · V7 16 · V8 18 · V9 20 · V10 22 · V11 24 · V12 26 · V13 28 · V14 30 · V15 32 · V16 34 · V17 36
Multi-pitch routes
A multi-pitch route is worth the sum of its pitches, multiplied by 0.75 — the second climbs on top-rope, so the pair's combined effort is less than two full leads.
43 of the 250 routes here are multi-pitch.
Achalu : Achalu West Face : Broomberg Side : Sab Kuch Milega 48.00 across 3 pitches × 0.75 = 36.00 base points
Pitches also count towards your team's pitch and ascent totals: climbing a 3-pitch route counts as three pitches, and its full length towards metres climbed.
What counts
- Every climber on a route scores separately. Four people on one route is four scores, not one shared between them.
- Logging the same route twice for the same climber in the same style is refused — but a second ascent in a different style counts, because it is a different climb.
- A climb needs at least one climber. There is nothing to record for a route nobody got on.
- Projects — routes with no grade yet — are loggable and score zero.
Routes
250 routes across 34 areas. The full list, with base points already worked out, is on the routes page.