If AMI is in trouble, is the OLYMPIA in trouble?

[LuciusFox]

We did have it.  Here is Hawaii it is a patty over rice covered with gravy and sometimes an egg.  It's called a Loco Moco.

 I didn't really talk to any competitors.  If you are serious though, it sounds like an interesting dish. I think you must be joking

[Insider Z]

The VIP "party" sucked....

and no, there wasn't any "full course" meal served...it was a buffet style set up with chicken, potato, salad, pasta, fish, etc....just what you're looking to eat after dieting for 14 weeks with the same foods...

If I were running the VIP party, I'd have some damn pizza's, wings, finger foods, deserts, etc.

Ehm...
Chick, don't get me wrong but VIP party is done for the super fans, who pay a lot of money for that, to get the chance to have diner with their idols.
It isn't meant to fullfill the carbo dreams of the athletes.
Olympia, or other contests, post shows are not promoted to feed starving people also 'cause, at the Olympia in particular, athletes already receive daily food allowance.

Insider Z

[bmacsys]

did you have spam too?

Spam is big on the islands.

[Adam Empire]

Spam is big on the islands.

And my inbox.

[trebor]

Ron,

What are you smoking?

The Mr. Olympia has been on a downhill slide since Wayne left.  Instead of the premier bodybuilding event of the year, it is now being used to provide life support to three women's events that cannot stand on their own.  So Friday night you have the Olympia judging sharing time with the women's bodybuilding and fitness finals.  How much time and attention do you think will be gien to the men's judging.  If you thought last year was bad, just wait until you see the abbreviated judging this year, and that is after you have had to sit through three or four hours of the women's show.

On Saturday instead of bis and tris it will be Tand A for a good part of the evening.  Maybe they will cut the men's posing even further than they did last year to make room for the Challenge Round.

By the way, I have already purchased my tickets, but keep asking myself why.  Maybe I am hoping for a miracle.

[240 is Back]

If I were running the VIP party, I'd have some damn pizza's, wings, finger foods, deserts, etc.

So basically, your precontest diet, then?

[LifterChick]

So basically, your precontest diet, then?

Now that is funny or maybe its because I  have been drinking
 

[TooPowerful4u]

So basically, your precontest diet, then?

OK i think Bob Chick is definatly a cool guy in person, but i cant help but laugh at that, that was fawkin funny LMAO

[onlyme]

I didn't really talk to any competitors.  If you are serious though, it sounds like an interesting dish. I think you must be joking

I know you didn;t and yes I am serious.   Loco Moco is very popular here. The food was donated and we had allot.  Enough to feed 70 BB's and crew. And Spam is the Hawaiian Steak

[LuciusFox]

I know you didn;t and yes I am serious.   Loco Moco is very popular here. The food was donated and we had allot.  Enough to feed 70 BB's and crew. And Spam is the Hawaiian Steak

 I heard that about Spam, but sheesh! It takes all kinds, I guess.

[Ron]

OK, as said in the other thread, the Orleans Arena has the listing for the Olympia Weekend and you can buy tickets there as we speak. It is there, so we can stop harping on I didn’t see the ‘Get Tickets’ button, etc.

Chick - the VIP party is not for you. It is for the fans who come there to see some of the favorite bodybuilders who support the industry. Chicken, salmon, potato, salads, pasta is just what is needed after a long hard day. But your request for pizzas, wings, finger foods, and desserts will be noted. In fact, we should all file a petition that there should be pizza there. We will call it the AfterContest Chick Pizza.  Oh yes, there should be hamburgers too, and for me, Orange Chicken...

As for what I am smoking.. sadly not much at all. And again, your wonderful complaints, albiet just complaints, still do not stray from the focus at the Olympia, like it or not, is the premier bodybuilding event in the world. You may not like some aspects of it, but many come and will come again.

Now, how about giving some serious constructive criticism as to what you would like to make the Olympia Weekend a much more satisfying for you and fans. (Don’t say change the hotel or the expo area because that is already a done deal). 

[Crusher]

<<As for what I am smoking.. sadly not much at all. And again, your wonderful complaints, albiet just complaints, still do not stray from the focus at the Olympia, like it or not, is the premier bodybuilding event in the world. You may not like some aspects of it, but many come and will come again.

Now, how about giving some serious constructive criticism as to what you would like to make the Olympia Weekend a much more satisfying for you and fans. (Don’t say change the hotel or the expo area because that is already a done deal).>>

Come on Ron.  Your transparent pandering to AMI/Olympia is as shameful as it is abhorrent, or tat the very least an indication that you must be smoking crack.  The Olympia WAS the premier BB event.  It is no longer.  It sucks.  It's a waste of money to attend, and if it continues on this way much longer NO ONE will go. 

Constructive criticism?  Go to the NOC instead.  A weekend in NYC is just as good as a weekend in Vegas.  Maybe better.  And the show will not be put on by rank amateurs.