Each year, Bodybuilder Hubby adds something to the bodybuilding contest to make it even better. Last year it was video screens: one out front for the audience to see the competitors more closely, and another in the back so that the competitors could watch the other classes on stage. It went over really well, and the same company will be setting it up again this year too.
For this year, we have several new things, most noticeably the added “Bikini” division, for which we’ve had 22 competitors register. (We’re up to 115 competitors total!)
We’ve got a couple other changes that I think the competitors will be happy about:
Competitor Line-Up Now On-Line
We get lots of questions from competitors about what order the classes will compete and about how many people are in each class. So this morning Bodybuilder Hubby suggested posting the line-up on the contest website. Which I did.
There’s no reason not to let everyone know. It’s not like we try to keep it a secret until the last minute. And it could help competitors mentally prepare for when they’ll be on-stage.
The only problem is that there will possibly be changes, and we don’t want anyone to be upset if the order now on-line isn’t exactly how things turn out. It will probably change.
The biggest reason will be due to the height and weight measurements taken at registration. There are usually at least one or two bodybuilders whose weight on the day of contest bumps them to another weight class.
And, on occasion (but for reasons I’d can’t begin to understand), we get Figure competitors who tell us they are one height, but then - when they are measured at registration - are another height. Seriously, why wouldn’t a person just know what height she is? Who knows, but a different height might mean being moved to a different height class. Thus, a change in the line-up.
We hope that the line-up on Saturday will be the same from morning to evening. It can be really confusing if it changes. But sometimes the judges might decide that for some reason it would work better a different way, so a change it made. We’ll do what we can to make sure everyone is aware.
But for now competitors can at least get an idea of how things will go.
Bodybuilding Routines
Another new thing that I’m happy about is that this year EVERY bodybuilding competitor will get to do his or her routine to music at the evening show.
Bodybuilder Hubby competed in a contest earlier this month where he got this idea.
Instead of taking the time to have the competitors in a bodybuilding class all line up on stage together to be introduced and do poses, instead, each competitor will come on stage one at a time, be introduced and get to do their routine.
Then the top five will come out together for awards.
This way, every bodybuilder gets his or her moment to shine and show off for the family and friends who come to watch.
As a side note, after just under thirty hours of work, the contest programs were sent off to the printer yesterday. Then one page was resent this morning after I discovered a mistake in the numbering for the Figure Masters class. (Should be fixed now. Whew!)
I noticed as I was flipping through the pages that we have one Figure competitor’s body used in five different images in the program. She should get some special award just for that, I think. I wonder if she’ll recognize herself since four of the pictures don’t include a head.
That sounds unnecessarily creepy, doesn’t it?
Today and tomorrow I’ll be working on judges’ packets and notebooks, labels for goodie bags and other random contest prep. And trying to catch up a little on the work for my actual job that I got behind on while doing the program.
Oh, and I’ll be putting together the notebook for the MC with all the competitor bios and thank-you’s to be read at the contest. So, competitors, if there’s someone you forgot to thank, go add it to your application today, because after tomorrow night it will be much harder to make changes. Though if you say please and bring me a Starbucks grande non-fat latte, I’ll change whatever you want. J
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