Some interesting tidbits:
1. Jim Manion is the only judge who picked Padilla to win the whole contest (One point off a perfect score). He also picked him as winning the posedown (an extra point).
2. Domini Certo (a USA judge) had Padilla tied with Hubert Metz (who got 11th) and Johnny Fuller (8th) and Bannout (9th) and Tinnerino (7th). Where was this judge coming from?
3. Manion had Padilla win the "General Assessment" round and the "Free Posing" round, but had Franco win the "Compulsory Posing" round.
4. Winston Roberts and Sven-Ole Thorsen had Dickerson winning the whole thing with a perfect score.
5. Franco Fassi of Italy and Doug Evans of Wales had Columbu winning the whole thing with a perfect score.
6. Dominic Certo had Platz winning with a perfect score.
7. Jacques Blommurt had Roy Callendar winning the whole thing, just one point off a perfect score.
8. The posedown was useless. Everyone gave their posedown point to whomever they had already voted as the winner of all the previous rounds. It changed ZERO places.
Could the judging have been more all over the place?!
1981 Mr. O Judging Sheets for top 6 final score:
1- FRANCO COLUMBU: 296
2- CHRIS DICKERSON: 291
3- TOM PLATZ: 290
4- ROY CALLENDER: 286
5-DANNY PADILLA: 282
6- JUSUP WILKOSZ: 270
THE INTERESTING POINT THAT AFTER THE FIRST ROUND, ALL TOP 3.... COLUMBU, DICKERSON & PLATZ WERE TIED WITH 96 POINTS .....IT SEEM THE JUDGES HAD DIFFICULTLY TRYING TO FIND THE WINNER THAT NIGHT.