Welcome to the Musclemania World Championships! Now celebrating its 15th Anniversary, it has become the leader among natural bodybuilding events. With exclusive, international television coverage by ESPN International, TSN RDS Canada, Sky Sport Britain, Star Sport Asia and other worldwide networks, Musclemania is more recognized than any other natural contest worldwide. And with this popularity, Musclemania continues to expand throughout the world with sanctioned regional and international events this year.

HISTORY

Musclemania began in 1991 as bodybuilding’s first and only tour of world class level staged competitions. Early on, Musclemania took a bold and challenging step forward by declaring that this exciting event would become a natural event. It would soon become America’s most popular natural bodybuilding competition.

Past Champions represent some of the industry’s most respected natural athletes, among them including:

JUDGING AND PERFORMANCES

At the prejudging all contestants will be equally and fairly judged within their division and classes. This will include (1) an initial line-up, (2) mandatory poses and comparisons and (3) selected grouping comparisons. The process is rigorous and demanding, but with the sole intention of selecting who deserves to be a Musclemania Superbody Finalist and Champion.

Musclemania judging criteria is based upon four, equally scored categories:
   • Symmetry 30%;
   • Muscle Mass 30%;
   • Condition 30%;
   • Posing Presentation 10% (Top 5 Finalists Only)

At the Finals all contestants will be introduced to the audience and participate in a Class Posedown. The Top 5 Finalists in each Division and/or Class will perform their individual posing routines. Routines are limited to 90 seconds.

Musclemania is known to be a world class stage event. This reputation is earned, in part, due to state-of-art audio system, provided by Digital Dolby. It is recommended that you take advantage of this available technology by having your music edited and dubbed by an audio technician. Only CD-R disc music will be accepted (do not use CD-RW discs). Music may NOT be provided on cassette.

AMATEUR QUALIFICATIONS

Events on the Musclemania World Tour are open to any amateur natural bodybuilder. Whether you have past or present bodybuilding federation affiliations, are an independent athlete or a first timer, we invite you to compete against the best natural bodybuilders from throughout America and the world. There are divisions and weight classes for all bodybuilders including Open Men & Women, Novice, Masters, Grand Masters, Junior and Mixed Pairs.

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFYING SHOWS

The Musclemania Professional Division is an exclusive event to qualified natural bodybuilders. To qualify, one or more of the following prerequisites must be achieved:

• All Open Men Division Weight Class Winners at Musclemania World (in Hollywood);
• All Open Men Division Weight Class Winners at Musclemania Universe (in Miami);
• All Open Men Division Weight Class Winners at Musclemania Superbody (in New York);
• Overall winner at Musclemania Atlantic;
• Overall winner at Musclemania New York;
• Overall winner at Musclemania Texas;
• Overall winner at selected Musclemania World Tour events (Asia, Australia, Canada, Central America, Eastern Europe, Europe, Italy, Latino and Mexico; and/or
• By special invitation of the Musclemania Judging Committee.

Prizes awarded are a combination of cash and/or merchandise at the promoters discretion. Musclemania reserves the right to disqualify or deny entry to any contestant for any reason including, but not limited to, unsportsmanlike conduct, dangerous athletic skills and/or tardiness to any scheduled event or function.

DIVISIONS

Open Men	Bantamweight Lightweight Middleweight Lightheavyweight Heavyweight	Up to 145 lbs. Up to 165 lbs. Up to 185 lbs. Up to 200 lbs. Over 200 lbs.
Novice Men	Lightweight Heavyweight	Up to 180 lbs. Over 180 lbs.
Junior Men	Lightweight Heavyweight (22 years of age & younger)	Up to 175 lbs. Over 175 lbs.
Open Women	One Division
Mixed Pairs	One Division (Men / Women Couples)
Masters	Over 40 Years of Age
Grand Masters	Over 60 Years of Age
Professional	One Division (Prequalified or invitation required)