The reason Myseone (and several others) dropped out is because the contest was originally supposed to be four or five months away, lots of time for even the 20+% bf guys to diet down... (then Oliver took over and made it 8 weeks away)... not because they are scared to compete, far from it.
Now we have 15 competitors instead of the 40-something that pm'ed me wanting to compete, pity.
Notable lossses (ie: those interested but too far from contest shape to consider the short timescale):
-WarHorse
-Goudy
-300
-derekr
-fitt@40
-littleguns
-spacemonkeyz
...and though I wasn't supposed to say anything about it till the contest:
-sarcasm ...(this surprised even me)
The full ins and outs of it are on this thread:
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=84015.0I respect Ollie and 240's decision to run the contest the way they want to, they've been doing a great job... but in these situations hard decisions need to be made on the organisational side of things and not everyone will agree with them. Deriding those who signed up for the contest when I was running it because they've now dropped out is infantile... they thought they were signing up for a contest four months off.Very few bodybuilders would compete at their 8 weeks out condition.... except maybe, Vince G.
The Luke