JUDE, YOU SAID >>>> "It all depends on the judges or where the show is held. We had a physique guy compete in a local show here and didn't make top 5. One or 2 weeks later goes to the Team Universe and wins his class and over all. Goes to show how the judges have trouble with it."
JUDE, I wasn’t there at either contest so I can’t provide an intelligent response but such ‘things’ are possible for a good number of reasons which don’t make any decision an impossibility or even questionable..
As you so stated ……. it could be possible that the judges had "trouble" deciding on the outcome.
It’s good to see that you did not mention ‘fixed’ or ‘cheating’!
As stated earlier a good number of physique contestants have the same trouble when deciding …. Should I enter the physiqe or should I enter the bodybuilding?”
That ‘trouble’ was pretty damn evident at the most recent Cal championships when the guy who did not do too well in the physique line-up could have ‘possibly’ won the overall bodybuilding title.
And as stated earlier, I ‘think’ there’s still a fine line between both events that cause problems for the judges ….. and the contestants as well.
BUT ,,,, trouble on the Judges’ part does not mean cheating on the judges’ part.
This may sound STUPID in an attempt to make it SIMPLE.,,,,
BUT …. Thr judging of any BB or physique event is simply a matter of comparisons among the contenders on that stage. There is not some ideal type of physique that a winner has to look like.
The winner simply has to look better that the other competitors on that stage.
If they all look pretty ‘bad’, then the best of the pretty bad contender will be the victor.
Then at the contest the following month, the guy who placed 4th in the ‘pretty bad group’ , may look pretty good when compared to this new lineup of guys ….. so he gets a 1st place vote from this new ‘line-up’ of judges.
Hence ... "QUITE A JUMP" as BIKINI so eloquently stated!
In a nutshell …. It’s all relative and simply a matter of comparisons … which very often isn’t really simple at all …. Especially in regards to this new physique division where too much muscle can possibly kick you out of the ball-park.