Hardcore Bodybuilding Challenge - Preliminary Round

Contest Details - NxLabs® Hardcore Bodybuilding Challenge

NxLabs is offering participants a chance to register and track their progress in different categories against competitors from around the world. Three challenges are taking place in early 2009:

The NxLabs Hardcore Bodybuilding Challenge is easy to enter if you are up to the task. Enter the contest with some basic information, set some realistic goals, submit your photos, track your progress and get your friends, family and most likely new fans to vote for you. Random prizes and a grand prize of an Endorsement Contract with NxLabs® and a trip to the 2010 Arnolds will be awarded. The challenge has three rounds of Judging. There is one presentation round at Prejudging (Preliminary) and another presentation round at the Semi-finals. The Finals are then judged by the NxLabs® advisory/athlete panel.

Preliminary Round 1: All mandatory poses

(based on total online votes for user profile)

  • Preliminary Round – the longest round, from January 15th, 2009 to June 15th, 2009.  Competitors enter and get votes in this portion. Entry can occur at any point during this timeframe - participants are not limited to enter on or before January 15th, 2009. The top 20 vote getters become semi-finalists. All competitor profiles will stay on the site for the course of the challenge and for an undetermined period thereafter. Visitors can continue voting for any competitor to be counted towards the People’s Choice Award.

Semi-final Round 2: All mandatory poses

(top five selected, finalist based on online votes)

  • Semi-finals – from June 16th, 2009 to August 15th, 2009 the top 20 vote getters from the Preliminary round can post more images, and even videos of themselves to gain favor from the judges and their fans. This round is judged based on online votes and a final 5 are chosen.

Final Round 3: Posedown!

(finalists only, winner based on NxLabs Judging Team decision, and People’s Choice award via online votes)

  • The Finals – August 29th, 2009 - at this stage the 5 finalists submit a video of their final poses to be used as a virtual Posedown. The judges then choose a winner from the 5 finalists and that person is promoted on the site as the winner! This final round is judged by the NxLabs® advisory/athlete panel to select the grand prize winner(s).

Goal Setting

You set goals to help you focus and improve your training as well as give voters something to measure your performance against. They can be set as body goals in weight, size etc or in performance goals like lift weights and training program goals. You can also provide additional content with your stories, experiences and achievements in your personal blog entries. All available through your competition dashboard.

Mandatory Poses

Photos of these poses are required to win the competition. There is advice on how to take a good competition photo in the NxLabs blog. For full competition requirements please check out the full rules and regulations.

  • Front Double Bicep
  • Front Lat Spread
  • Side Chest
  • Rear Double Bicep
  • Rear Lat Spread
  • Side Tricep
  • Abdominal & Thigh
  • Most Muscular

Posedown

Each athlete will submit a free pose routine set to music via video to appear on the website on a date to be set. The Posedown will not be less than 30 seconds and no more than 60 seconds. This round is judged by the NxLabs® advisory/athlete panel to select the grand prize winner(s). This round is largely for the athletes to have a little fun and for the entertainment of the audience.

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