**OFFICIAL** April 1st - July 1st [2013] Fat Loss Competition [TEAM & INDIVIDUAL]

[krete77]

PLEASE READ THROUGH THIS ENTIRE THREAD THOROUGHLY, ESPECIALLY THE SUBMISSION RULES SECTION (I'M SERIOUS!) THANKS!
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Welcome everyone to the 5th installment of the Fat Loss competition. I've decided to do something a little different this time around. We are going to be having a TEAM vs TEAM based competition alongside the individual competition. This means that after all the submissions are in by the final due date, I will be dividing you up amongst two teams. Not only will you be battling for the top place individually, you will also be part of a team that will be fighting against the other team.

Anyone is welcome to join. This competition is based off of the honor system and submissions are at your honorable discretion.

[RULES]
- Please submit by March 31st at 11:59pm. This means that any submissions on April 1st at 00:01 am will be ignored. NO EXCEPTIONS.
- DEADLINE FOR ENTRY IS 11:59 p.m. on March 31st. I will not be accepting late entrants. PLEASE ENTER ON TIME! (YES I REPEATED MYSELF)
- THERE ARE NO PICTURE REQUIREMENTS.
- THERE ARE NO BODY FAT PERCENTAGE REQUIREMENTS. (Do not submit BF % please. Thanks. Seriously, don't waste your time.)

[HOW TO ENTER]
Simply send me a private message with your name, current weight and "TEAM FAT LOSS COMP" in the SUBJECT LINE ONLY. You may put whatever you like in the body but I will not read it. If you do not follow these simple rules, I will simply ignore your PM. (The proper format can be found below in the How to submit weigh in section)

[HOW TO SUBMIT WEIGH-INs]
This is the template I have setup for you to submit to me via the SUBJECT line:

[your_name] - [xxx] - TEAM FATLOSS COMP[2013]

Where:
[your_name] = your forum user name;
[xxx] = your current weight
*TEAM FATLOSS COMP = (put this at the end so I know this PM is related to this competition PLEASE ! THANKS!)

- If you do not submit to me in this format, I will simply ignore your PM.
- Please use this method to submit your initial weigh in also.

[WHEN TO SUBMIT WEIGH-INS]
All weigh-ins should be submitted to me at anytime on Sundays. This means you will be sending me a PM every SUNDAY at ANY time with your new weight in the subject. (once a week).

[HOW YOU CAN GET DROPPED PERMANENTLY]
With the flood of new members who come to the forums with great intentions of joining a competition, there are usually a lot of people who start off with great intentions but give up before they even get stared. It's human nature, and I can understand that. However, for myself, adding/deleting people nonstop becomes tedious. I'm doing this for free, and while I enjoy it, I try to streamline it as best as possible.

With that said, if you miss the first weeks submission after the initial entry, you will be dropped. PERMANENTLY. If you don't submit on the first week, you are just telling me that you don't care. Sorry but there is no exceptions. MAKE YOUR FIRST SUBMISSION!

[SPREADSHEET]
Spreadsheet will normally be updated sometime on Sunday evening, Monday morning.

Below is the link in which you can use to monitor your progress and see how you stack against other competitors.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...RTZkNEE#gid=11

COMPETITION INFO
Each week I will make a post in the thread with an update of the leaderboard, current news about the competition and anything else that seems pertinent to the discussion.

TEAM vs TEAM
So this is something that I decided would make the competition a little more interesting. I was going to divide it up into like 4 or 8 teams but I thought that will be way to much work for me, so I decided to divide it into two teams. Each team will be color coded. There will be a leaderboard stat sheet for the teams as well (right below the individual stats on the spreadsheet). I will divide the teams up as evenly as possible. However, one thing I cannot prevent is people dropping out, so I will have to balance teams out as we go on. I think after the first few weeks it should steady out, and from there, I won't make any adjustments. It will be the teams responsibility to keep each other actively involved from dropping out.

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Good luck to you all. We have a very low retention rate. So far, over the last four competitions the retention rate has been between 5% and 25% of the total entrants. Our last competition had 176 initial entrants, and only 45 remained. Do the math.

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Previous competitions:

Mar-July 2012 - http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=143578803
July-Oct 2012 - http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=146000643
Oct-Jan 2012 - http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=148413903
Jan-Apr 2013 - http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=150582223

(for your enjoyment)

[Allingham]

In, for what it's worth.

[lucksterx]

In... again >8(!

[matman1813]

In, hopefully for the last time until after a long ass bulk.

[missladyj]

In

Planning for this to be my 3rd and final comp!

[biggoron]

In. Hoping to hit 200 in this comp. gotta work my ass off though.

Good luck everyone

[FourHundred]

I think I will be in

[Osbornezo]

In

[AllApologies]

In; although I am still on dat dere maintenance and lifting for at least another month, but I plan on dropping my cals in the last week of April.

At the end of April, however, I plan on making a huge push to reach 10%.

[NocturnalEphex]

I'm in. Doing the March-June one as well and I plan to cut until at least August so it should be a pretty challenging next few months.

[Sammm94]

This is perfect!!! I did the jan competition and lost 13+ pounds..,by the end of this competition I should be done with my cut!! Thanks!

[Sidewayz8]

As defending champ (hopefully lol) I have to be in this!

[Spitfire92]

In again hoping this month will be a good month, got my diet and exercises right now, Bring on Easter.

[Vikingly]

In, aiming for 210 by the end of this! Good to see so many from the last comp stick with it.

[Mommy4812]

I'm in!

[cmrock207]

In. Haven't done one of these in a couple months. Ready to make this last push to get sub-200.

[Schnitzl]

[Osbornezo]

The 1st 2 weeks of this competition have my birthday dinner and my birthday part on week 2. Counts as my re-feed from the previous competition though

[daviddaug]

In for my first competition thread.

[krete77]

As defending champ (hopefully lol) I have to be in this!

I will make sure to mention the reigning champ before we get started.

In for my first competition thread.

Good luck my friend.

[Chrisgixxer]

I'm in!!! hope this is one will get my cut done!

[Vaylor]

Gonna start doing some cardio for this comp. Should be interesting.

[AllApologies]

Gonna start doing some cardio for this comp. Should be interesting.

Be sure to credit dmacdonal9 for those ideas. I really hate to see you plagiarize such a revolutionary routine.

[madhessian]

Have to try and stick with it this time. Hope to drop to sub 250 from the mid 290s.

[loseitall90210]

I'm in!!!

I was in the Jan competition and lost 17 pounds and counting until April 1 -why not go all the way into summer.

I'm SO close to finally getting what I want.

[Allocatee]

In again. Loving these competitions, even though I tend to go slow and steady

Thanks for putting these together Krete. You do a great job man.

[billthekill2012]

In on dis.

[krete77]

In again. Loving these competitions, even though I tend to go slow and steady

Thanks for putting these together Krete. You do a great job man.

Anytime my man, anytime..

[missladyj]

Krete, is there a specific time period when it's best to submit initial info or is now cool?

[gxi1247]

I am in on this