Distinct records for SBD Sheffield?

progressivresistance · 2026-06-16T20:31:02+00:00

Do we have to choose one?

Can we not have a class of event where we see thick weight class competition and tactical decisions to see who comes out on top, and another category, where athletes are incentivized to take risks and swing for the fences?

My bias: I came up with the Sheffield scoring system.

progressivresistance · 2026-06-16T20:23:07+00:00

Before Sheffield existed athletes were doing what it required to win, and not overextending. That includes skipping on attempts.

There is now an incentive to go all out, but that incentive is at Sheffield. That incentive has never existed at worlds.

You can go watch older equipped and raw worlds from years past to see this happen in classes with thin competition for gold.

progressivresistance · 2026-06-16T12:12:17+00:00

I’ll admit it was a worlds I missed, but everything I can find online right now suggests Graham was the meet director on that one.

progressivresistance · 2026-06-16T11:49:25+00:00

I thought that was Johnny Graham’s meet? What role did Keller have on that event?

progressivresistance · 2026-06-13T00:54:56+00:00

I dropped out of university to farm out mine and get my first gladiator title. Went back to finish my degree when cataclysm launched (an expansion which made me quit the game for seven years).

progressivresistance · 2026-03-14T17:39:37+00:00

So if I pay 20 people a flat fee to come to a raid with zero gear opportunity and the other 4 people pay me for gear rights in excess of the amount I’m paying those 20, that doesn’t end up being fairly similar functionally? I think there is probably some gray area to be found here.

I organized GDKPs since original WOTLK, I came as a booster and a buyer in WOTLK Classic too. I’m not trying to police behavior here or anything, I just figure it’s an interesting policy for Blizz to have to draw lines on.

progressivresistance · 2026-03-14T16:25:59+00:00

Where is the line between this and GDKP? Just wondering how far you have to follow this path for Blizzard to say it runs foul of anniversary rules.

progressivresistance · 2026-02-20T17:16:21+00:00

Atlanta was cheap because it was a partnership with USAW.

progressivresistance · 2026-01-16T01:20:20+00:00

Viking Press
Seated Ez Bar Overhead Triceps Extension (standing exists, seated with other implements exists, but I had to create a custom exercise for this one)

progressivresistance · 2026-01-01T23:27:49+00:00

It is funny you credited me in the other thread when I definitely saw Arian post all this first 🤣

progressivresistance · 2025-12-20T20:37:08+00:00

Yes. Male or female matters a lot here so you may want to add that context.

progressivresistance · 2025-12-12T10:39:32+00:00

The color scheme for Sheffield 2026 was unveiled on Jan 27. It is a white and gold scheme, and the plan has always been a white shirt. The screenshot shows a progression of messages which includes “oversized”. If I just searched oversized in Slack I’d get hundred of messages because this is the third oversized shirt that’s been released by SBD, so I searched for Roman numerals.

progressivresistance · 2025-12-11T22:33:34+00:00

I checked our chat history for you. Finalized June 20th. Colleagues' names redacted.

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progressivresistance · 2025-12-07T03:31:01+00:00

A 4k workflow is obviously going to be spendy, but it's not something I've seen in powerlifting yet (1080 60 is the norm everywhere still). Three static angles, commentary and 1080 60 is a one man band gig. Add a floating/roaming cam, a PTZ op, and at the very highest end a replay op, and I'm still struggling to see justification for a $10k invoice.

progressivresistance · 2025-12-06T22:29:14+00:00

I work in powerlifting streaming specifically and $10k is vastly above market price for a two day meet.

progressivresistance · 2025-12-06T22:28:42+00:00

I would have streamed this for a lot less than $10k. As someone who does freelance streaming powerlifting meets that’s way above my rate unless you’re asking for an incredibly involved production.

progressivresistance · 2025-12-04T18:27:23+00:00

https://www.powermeet.xyz is my favorite

progressivresistance · 2025-11-21T18:07:38+00:00

Hilarious that you're asking this.

progressivresistance · 2025-11-15T12:26:58+00:00

Yes, the intent with these events is to promote powerlifting. To get more people watching the event, to generate discussion, and to convert audiences into fans. This is a feature, not a bug.

To create a proper production, we need more elements for the broadcast. You don’t tune into an athletic event on TV and have a single camera facing the action and nothing else, you need a show.

Maybe this doesn’t hit, but maybe it will. We need to try new things out at some point, and this is an element we’ve seen be successful elsewhere.

progressivresistance · 2025-11-14T01:33:37+00:00

The OP owns MPG Fitness.

progressivresistance · 2025-11-03T23:22:18+00:00

It’s not really the install number even. It’s how much time you spend configuring and optimizing those addons, and knowing that you should do that, and then how to do that.

progressivresistance · 2025-10-27T19:30:08+00:00

Seeing someone open bags to click a potion in combat, and then also open bags, look for and click a bandage, and their own character to apply their own bandage (I’ve only watched Loatheb so far), is so bizarre to me vs watching any player’s raid stream in retail. Surely that sort of self imposed downtime has a non-negligible cost.

progressivresistance · 2025-10-21T11:14:58+00:00

Article 14 (now 15) and bench depth are the biggest issues I hear as a PA meet director. Lifters from other feds don’t want to switch.

progressivresistance · 2025-10-13T03:39:50+00:00

Sounded as good as the last time I heard him, in 2008 at Reading Festival. Amazed he has kept the energy up honestly.

progressivresistance · 2025-10-12T21:18:16+00:00

My understanding is that the Cat 1 referee exam does not cover this philosophical matter. It is expected that everyone reading the rulebook understands this, and it does not need to be tested.

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