no one said ND was all that bright 
after all, here is a guy who claims to be so knowledgable yet cannot understand the simple concept that the judges look at sevral attributes at once when judging.
He always tries to imply that "striations aren't important because Munzer never won anything" or "taper is not very important since Brian Buchanan never became Mr. O." etc etc
Of course, he does this to try and downplay Ronnie's many many strengths.
and of course, everyone on this board save for one or two is smart enough to see right through ND's bizzaro arguments.
Wrong , wrong and more wrong I alone have said the judges look for muscular bulk , muscular desnity , balance & proportion and shape and conditioning , I've been saying this since day one
I always maintained striations aren't deal breakers you have , you've stated that Ronnie has more than Yates so this is a clear advantage and its not , just like vascularity isn't a clear cut advantage , these mean nothing when you have bitch-tits ( see Ronnie 98/99 ) Dorian has striations but as you claim not as many as Ronnie and judges look at that
Same with V-taper that you're under this delusion that the guy with the best taper with all things being equal will win and its NOT true its simply not true , Shawn Ray had among the worse latspreads and still managed to beat many a men without it , same with Flex who beat Ronnie even though his taper was so much superior , and none of Ronnie's supposed ' advantages ' apply to Dorian Yates , they just don't Dorian never won because he was like Ronnie , he won because he was Dorian , without the taper , without the extra striations without the quadsweep , Dorian won because of his strenghts and not Ronnies and 15 out of 17 wins with just 2 places I'd say it worked well for him.
