Wilderbeast
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Kai looked too puffy. He was lacking a lot of detail. I was hoping he'd improve from pre-judging night, but he didn't.
I disagree. He did seem to improve, and the press covering the event also noticed in person that Kai got much much better for the night show. The IFBB has supposedly stopped "scoring" the night show. Pre-judging is supposed to now determine the placings, but you can tell that when it is close at pre-judging that the night show improvements/changes of competitors that are close makes a difference in the final placings.
For example, Phil seemed to have Jay during the pre-judging, or it was VERY close, and then Jay came back looking fuller and better for the night show and edged him out for first (IF Jay came back to the night show looking the same or worse than pre-judging I believe that Phil would be Mr. Olympia). I haven't seen the judges scorecards, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was a split decision and Phil got a lot of first place votes.
Back to Kai; he looked much better at the night show than he did in the pre-judging BUT he was already out of the top 5-6 after pre-judging. There is alot of speculation that the physique changes from pre-judging and the night show really only get noticed or taken into account for placings for the top 5-6.
I was extremely dissapointed with Kai's performance and final placing. No one is going to be more dissapointed than Kai himself; with that said I would be shocked if he didn't come back and win the Arnold again next year and get back into the top 5 at next year's Olympia.
BEAST