In honor of St. Pinkerton, the patron saint of deadlifts, we're having a deadlift only competition.  :)  

Weigh-ins will be the evening before at the venue from 5pm to 7pm as well as the morning of the competition from 8am to 9:30am.  Evening weigh-ins will be actually in the shop so there's not going to be a ton of privacy...this means no stripping!  Vince's customers don't want to see you're bare, sweaty ass.  Probably.  If you're close to weight in your shorts and a shirt, I'll give you the benefit of a doubt.  

Suits, straps, knee sleeves, knee wraps are allowed on all lifts.  Chalk, too.  NO BABY POWDER!  Also, no lifting hooks.  Strongman rules, so hitching is allowed where applicable (if you can manage to hitch the frame, I'll give you 10 bonus points).  Knees and hips must be locked, wait for the down signal from the judge.  Intentional dropping of the implement will get you a zero for the event, and possibly kicked out of the contest completely.  

18" deadlift minimum starting weight is 455.  Frame deadlift minimum is 400.  

Athletes will get 3 attempts, 30 seconds per attempt.  You may try as many times as you're able within your 30 seconds.  You will NOT be given extra time to strap in, the judge will say lift and then you may strap in.  Conventional only, no sumo.  If you unsuccessful within your 30 seconds, you may take that weight again for another attempt, but you may not go down in weight.  Jumps will be no less than 20lbs for women and 50lbs for men on the first two attempts.  I'll allow smaller jumps on 3rd attempts, but we're not doing any micro jump crap.  If you do 400 on attempt 2, don't come up asking for 401.5 or something for attempt #3.