Asia Pacific Tree Climbing Championship: organiser, entry route, team size and results page
The Asia Pacific regional final of the ISA climbing program: where the 2027 edition is held, the team of up to eight a chapter may send, the two kinds of guest climber, and the results files from 2012 on.
Checked against the sources at the bottom of this page on October 9, 2026. Rules, fees and pay change: the source has the last word.
This page reports what the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) says on the APTCC pages of its ITCC site. The other regional finals and the world final are in the table of championships, and the world final has its own page.
What it is and when it is held
The APTCC is one of four ISA regional finals, with the European, Latin American and North American events. ISA describes it as a chance for working arborists in the Asia Pacific region to show and swap climbing techniques, equipment and safe work practice, and to give the profession public exposure in the region. The page says the event is managed by the APTCC Operations Committee, and the winners represent the Asia Pacific region at the annual International Tree Climbing Championship.
The APTCC page lists the 2027 edition for April 30 to May 2, 2027, in Auckland, New Zealand. It also carries score files for the 2026 edition: men's and women's scores ranked, and men's and women's event winners.
The committee
The committee page gives the purpose of the event as promoting safe working practices, showing improvements and new techniques and equipment, and giving industry recognition to the Asia Pacific public. It lists a committee chair, a head judge, a head technician, a technician assistant and an operations liaison, with the place and country of each. This site does not repeat the names.
How a chapter sends climbers
The competitor information page sets out the terms for nominations. ISA sends an invitation to each eligible chapter asking for its recommended team, and the chapter's tree climbing championship chair must approve the submission.
- Team size. Each Asia Pacific chapter or associate organisation may send up to eight competitors, five men and three women.
- Chapter placing. The representatives must have placed in the top five at the chapter competition in the current year or the two years before it.
- Membership. A competitor represents a chapter or associate organisation in the region, and is an ISA member or a member of a recognised chapter or associate organisation before acceptance.
- No solo applications. The page says no competitor may apply for the APTCC without the approval of their chapter's climbing chair.
- Champions. The current APTCC champions already have a place and do not count as part of their chapter's team.
Guest climbers
Asia Pacific ISA members whose country has no ISA chapter, or whose organisation holds no climbing competition, may enter as guests if they placed in the top five at another country's competition. International guests are members of chapters outside the region whose chapter verifies a top five placing in the current year. There are at most five international guests, no more than three of them men, chosen by who applies first. International guests compete in the preliminary events only and do not advance to the Masters' Challenge. All guests pre-register and pay before the event, and no application is taken on the day. The committee may also invite extra climbers when places are vacant.
Rules and results
The page says the APTCC follows the most current ITCC rule book, and that everyone involved is responsible for reading it. The committee may add rulings and change any event for safety. The ISA results page lists event results for 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2023 to 2025, and the competitor page keeps lists of competitors for 2012 to 2017. Those files name people, so this site links to them: see the APTCC results page and the APTCC page.