Challenge: Knot Identification at Crossfit Games

[knot4u]

See video at 1:04:

http://youtu.be/CI2k6ynuBq8

What knot is that?  Whatever it is, it's good enough to hold guys swinging and climbing on the rope.

[knot4u]

I'm thinking it's a Girth with ends whipped together.

[SS369]

I'm thinking it's a Girth with ends whipped together.

I captured a few stills and enlarged them best I could and I believe that the ropes are attached by a spliced eye that is Girth hitched.

SS

[knot4u]

It's probably the safest and simplest route to go. You just need one guy who knows what he's doing, and you can have unskilled workers put the ropes up there. After the splicing is complete, it's fairly idiot proof.

[Dan_Lehman]

I didn't get a good look, but concur in Scott's conclusion
and Knot4U's reasoning.

Can we see what sort of splice it is --maybe a quick,
tuck-full-rope-into-other?!  That would make sense,
over some more involved per-strand splicing.

--dl*
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[SS369]

The captured stills are large and very grainy and when reduced they are much worse. So I am attaching  a commercial picture capture from the net. It shows the eye splice well enough.

SS