IFBB PRO professional player is a very recognized identity in the domestic bodybuilding circle. In the eyes of many people, a professional card represents a high level of training.
IFBB's competitions involving professional card qualifications always receive a lot of attention. Every subtle change often represents the trend of global professional competitions in the future.
However, an embarrassing little news broke out yesterday.
At the just-concluded 2020 NPC UNIVERSE bodybuilding competition, 124 professional cards were issued at once, and some groups and even all contestants got professional cards.
IFBB Bodybuilding Professional Card is bad?
Just looking at the information circulating in China, it is really bad. The main problem is that the number of cards issued by is "huge" , and the contestant "wins" .
But when I briefly checked the information, I found that the version circulating in China had incomplete information and errors in details.
Let’s first say “win”
“A competition level, all contestants will get professional cards”. This statement that “wins by participating in the competition” is not appropriate.
I downloaded the final report card of the competition on npcnortheast, which marked the score rankings and card-taking situations of each group. In the competitions of all levels of fitness ladies, no phenomenon of getting card-taking for the entire level was found.
green part is the situation where people in each group are qualified to get the card
rarely get the card in the entire group. It appears in the 50-year-old/60-year-old group, and only one person signs up. It is completely understandable that there are few participants in this level of veterans, so it is naturally the first to get the card at the level.
But another problem that has been criticized "large number of cards issuing", which is a fact.
However, according to the information I have consulted, the organizer does not think there is any problem with this. He even specially issued 130 professional cards in the publicity, as the biggest feature of this competition, and encourages everyone to participate because of "issuing more cards".
I roughly counted the number of contestants’ license plates. From actual observation, the number of participants in this competition exceeded 500. 500 people will get 130 professional cards, and about 1/4 of them will get a professional card. This ratio is very high based on the issuance of domestic competitions, but it has not reached the point of "winning in a lie". You still need at least more than 75% of the contestants.
So I think the professional card is not bad yet.
The main reason for issuing too many cards this time is that the competition group division is relatively detailed, there are many groups, and each group is ranked in the top 1-2, which adds up to a lot.
For example, men's body fitness, they are divided into 8 categories according to their height, and there are 16 cards at this moment. At the same time, it is divided into master groups over 35 years old, master groups over 40 years old, master groups over 50 years old, master groups over 60 years old, etc.
Just the female body type, this category includes more than a dozen levels, involving dozens of professional cards,
groups so many that I can't figure it out. Anyway, in the end, more than 50 groups were subdivided.
is not so much a competition for the audience, but a competition for the players. It uses a large number of professional cards to attract everyone to participate, and what earns is the players' money.
The registration fee for this game is $250. If it is overdue, the registration fee is $500. In the entire competition, not counting the income from sponsors, the revenue from tickets for athletes alone exceeded 1 million yuan for (the audience, athletes’ families, and even coaches and assistants to enter the backcourt will have to be calculated extra money).
The highest point of the poster is conspicuous, "openly" and it says that there are 130 professional cards for the competition
What should I do if the professional card is really bad?
Have you ever thought that card issuing cards may always be like this. We just wishfully think it is very rare. We think that high-end professional cards are actually not as expensive as we imagined. The organizer doesn't seem to care about the risk of too many professional cards and being bullish.
I have been checking myself for a long time, and I also ask my friends abroad. I have not found the specific number of people who are on the list of professional cards. The number I can find is that the members of IFBB currently cover 199 countries and regions around the world. Each year, a total of 6,000 related competitions are held worldwide. You can also predict how many cards can be issued here.
From the perspective of the organizer, the number of professional leagues has many members. Doesn’t it mean that the association is strong enough and the scale of holding competitions in the future will be larger? Why refuse to issue professional cards to people with a certain level?
Sometimes you can hold a few games a day
In the past, professional leagues were almost not promoted and developed in the Chinese market. They gave a few cards in a game, and they could only give the strongest people. It seems that if you get the card, you must be the strongest people. Although there is a sudden increase now, compared with the number of domestic athletes, it still requires absolute strength to grab a professional card.
So can we run over to play such low-difficulty matches and grab their quota?
Sorry, they played behind closed doors. The registration instructions clearly state that citizenship certificate must be provided.
IFBB changed from the initial personal dream to the capital business.
The famous Joe Wade and his brother Ben Wade, the brothers, have a great love for bodybuilding. Through decades of hard work, they have cultivated super bodybuilding superstars such as Schwarzenegger and Ronnie Coulman , making IFBB the dream of a generation.
Fitness dreams are eternal, but the length of human life is limited.
Gradually, professional managers under capital command began to replace the "creators of these dreams" and perform operations with a strong business atmosphere for capital.
In recent years, the acquisition of American gossip media giant AMI, the division of IFBB, the resale of the Olympia competition, and various management news have fully reflected the characteristics of capital's profit-seeking. This is no longer the IFBB that was 50 years ago.
I prefer to call him "IFBB Co., Ltd.".
At present, "IFBB Co., Ltd." is undergoing a clear external expansion strategy. In China alone, the number of athletes who get the card has changed from a few years ago to a few dozen now.
Many people feel sorry for seeing this. They think such a wonderful competition is like doing business?
Brothers wake up, isn’t it? It’s obviously a business that is just like a competition?
In fact, whether a card is worth a lot has nothing to do with the athlete's own strength. Many athletes are leading strengths in the industry, even if they get professional cards, they are not strong enough, and it is difficult for them to convince the public.
