see, this is what I mean.
if you take that word for word, that means that the judges do NOT consider:
-vascularity
- glutes
-striations
-thigh sweep
-waist size
-taper
which is really naive if you think that none of this stuff matters to the judges.
How OLD are these critera? from the 1970's??
This is the 2000's! ALL of this stuff is considered now.
That citeria my friend if off the I.F.B.B. website and its 2006

waist size with ho-hum shapped abdominals , lagging behind Dorian in terms of crisp muscularity in the serattus/intercostles/obliques , what the sense? Ronnie has a narrower waist , Yet it can't compare with Yates' midsection
Vascularity you always grasp at straws with this one , this is NOT going to shift a contest in anyone favor
Glutes - Ronnie may have more striations on his , but Yates' isn't lacking them maybe if Dorian didn't have any at all this would make a difference but it doesn't and they're oddly shapped and overdeveloped
Quad Sweep - Ronnie does have a better sweep to his quads but whats the sense when you have poor lower=leg balance & now calves
Taper - again you're under this delusion that the guy with the best taper is an automatic winner its NOT Yates at his best has a very good taper , not as good as Ronnies but this isn't a deal-maker/breaker
These are all minscule or imagined edges that pale in comparision to density , thickness , balance , and haing calvess and NO gnyo .
You're behind the 8 ball on this one kid.