Official Rules

The rules of the competition are listed below. Please post any disputes to
the comments so they can be resolved.

• Each contestant will contribute $50 in order to participate.
• Each contestant will be measured on the official scale at the beginning of the competition to determine their initial body fat percentage.
• A contestant's 8 week competition period will commence immediately after the initial weighing takes place.
• Once the 8 week period is over, the contestants will again be weighed on
  the official scale as close as possible to the time of day when they were originally weighed to determine their finishing body fat percentage.
• As not all contestants will weigh in at the same time, the competition as a whole will only be deemed complete once 8 weeks has elapsed from when the final contestant was weighed.
• The winner of the competition will be the contestant who loses the largest amount of their body fat during the span of the competition.
• Each contestant will have their body fat loss calculated according to the following equation: ( initial % - final % ) / initial %
  • e.g. if Contestant A goes from 30% to 24% over the course of the competition, their final score would be 0.2 (or a loss of 20% of their body fat)
• The contestant who loses the most body fat will be rewarded with the pool of money collected from all contestants at the outset of the competition
• In the case of a tie, the pot will be split evenly between winners.