Hotter Than Chicken 2025
It’s back and registration is open NOW!
Discover the sizzling intensity of Hotter Than Chicken, a thrilling bouldering competition with a fiery twist. Unleash your taste buds as every piece of Hot Chicken (or its mouthwatering vegetarian equivalent) fuels your climbing prowess, multiplying your score.
Will this blazing feast ignite your ascent to new heights or present an exhilarating challenge? Embrace the excitement and seize your chance to compete in HTC 2025—the ultimate test awaits!
DATES
Early Bird: Registration WITH custom shirt + Swag Bag: May 25th - June 30th
Regular: Registration WITHOUT custom shirt: July 1st - July 27th
Week of: Registration WITHOUT custom shirt: July 28th - Aug 2
Comp Date: August 2nd
Prizes
First, Second and Third place in each male and female category will receive prize packages from this years sponsors!
This years sponsors include: Friction Labs, Hattie B’s, Black Diamond, Wild Country, Camp, Edelrid, Evolv, La Sportiva, Mad Rock, Petzl, and more!
SECOND HARVEST PARTNERSHIP
For each climber that registers for HTC 2025, we will be donating 20 meals to Second Harvest Food Bank!
Registration
Early Bird: $75
Regular: $85
Week of: $95
**You must register before June 30th to receive this years HTC shirt!**
CATEGORIES
Female and Male Competitors are divided based on ability and compete in one of the following divisions.
Recreational: Male | V0-v2 Female | V0-V2
Intermediate: Male | V3-V5 Female | V3-V4
Advanced: Male | V6-V8 Female | V5 - V6
Open: Male | V9+ Female | V7+
HTC BRINGS THE HEAT!
It's horrible, hilarious, fun and like nothing else you've ever experienced. After the competition, competitors enjoy a wild block party complete with games, beer, food, and music as they prepare to watch the Open Final Showdown complete with lights, a DJ, surprises and some of the best routesetting in the nation.
This event has become so iconic and fun Nashville's Mayor David Briley proclaimed the first Saturday in August "Hotter than Chicken" Day in Nashville, in perpetuity!
THE PROCLAMATION
“I, David Briley, Mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, do hereby proclaim the first Saturday in August as Hotter Than Chicken Day throughout the City of Nashville and Davidson County, and encourage all citizens to recognize and celebrate this special day of competition.”
The hottest boulder comp in the South is back and spicier than ever for year 4. Get ready to taste the fire.
Another year of the most interesting climbing competition in the country has come and gone and year three of HTC was fire! Thank you to our sponsors: Black Diamond, Walltopia, Flashed, Downtown Subaru of Nashville, Hattie Bs, Friction Labs, Evolv, Friendly Arctic, La Sportiva, Live Wild, Sterling, Scarpa, King of Pops, Trim Tab, Scott McKinney, and Swiftwick!
It's the third year of the Hotter Than Chicken Climbing Competition! To honor the occasion, the Setters locked themselves in the studio with a year's supply of Nashville Hot Chicken, promising not to come out until they had produced the hottest song in history.
Hotter Than Chicken is a standard bouldering competition with a spicy twist. For every piece of Hot Chicken (or veggie patty) you eat, you're climbing score will be multiplied. Will the hot chicken help you earn extra points or will it be detrimental to your climbing? Who knows?
JB's fed up! His routes suck and no one respects him, but that will all change after he's done creating the spiciest concoction for the sickest routes.
LAST TIME - https://youtu.be/9dF44cwYy2w Hot Chicken has taken over Nashville, the setters have been transformed into tasty tenders and JB has lost all hope. Will the good people of Nashville ever climb sick routes again?!
