September 10th, 2011 - Fatboys AW Challenge/:55:

[Josh Handeland]

Minnesota Armsports presents the Fatboys Armwrestling Challenge! This tournament will be Fatboys Bar & Grill

Where: Fatboys Bar & Grill, 21383 Ulysses St
East Bethel, MN 55011
Time: Weigh-ins 3:00pm-4:30pm. Tournament start at 5pm.
Entry Fee: $20/arm

Weight classes:
Men's Open Right and Left: 0-165, 165-187, 187-209, 209+
Women's Open Right and Left: Open

Weight must be exact! Ex: Weighing in at 165.0 will put you in the 165 lbs. division. 165.1 and you'll be in the 187's (unless you lose the extra 0.1). There is no clothing allowance but you are allowed to strip down if needed.

100% Cash Payback as well as Trophies for the top 3 in all classes.

There will be cash boxes at this tournament - 2 $100 boxes and 2 $50 boxes. We will draw for the boxes after the tourney is over - 1st place in each class gets 5 tickets, 2nd place 3 tickets, 3rd place gets 1 ticket. Overall right and overall left hand winners get 5 tickets each.

Any questions, please call Josh Handeland at: 612-801-5612, email: [e-mail], post here or send me a PM

This tournament will be run on a USAA armwrestling table. Chalk and risers will be provided. This tournament is double elimination and is free to watch!



Rules: All elbow fouls will be called, a false start is a warning and 2 warnings equals a foul. 2 fouls is a loss. If competitors can't get a grip in 1 minute they will be set in a ref's grip. Any movement in a ref's grip is a foul. Hand off the hand peg is a warning, if a competitor takes their hand off the peg and gains position (by pushing on the table leg ect.) it will be a foul. Shoulders will be squared before the go. Competitors can't touch their arm with their shoulder or any other part of their body. Your shoulders cannot go past the center of the table.

Slipping with your hands opened, twisting your hand away to slip, or pulling your fingers out of your opponents hand is an intentional slip and will be a foul. A foul or an intentional slip in a losing position is a loss. A clean slip is a strap no matter where your hands are on the table. Losing position is referee's discrimination but if your arm is close to the pad when you intentionally slip or foul it will be a loss - slipping of fouling at 10-2 o'clock is not a loss.

1 foot must stay on the ground, thumb knuckles must be visible before the go unless both competitors say they don't care about seeing the knuckles, wrists will be straight before the go.

If both competitors arms go straight down in the center of the table and the ref's aren't sure who's side of the table the hands are on when they drop below the pin line, whoever's arm/hand is on top will be declared the winner.

We will go over the rules before the start of the tournament, they're pretty basic rules.


Any questions please post here, send me a pm, email me: [e-mail] or call me: 612-801-5612

Hope everyone can make it!



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[Josh Handeland]

There was another tournament here in 2008 that Marty O'Neil put on and the bar contacted me saying it's customers were asking when the next one would be... since this is the first year I am running this tournament there I am running open classes only, no novice classes, but if there is a good turnout and this becomes an annual event novice classes might be added in the future! I am also working on setting up a pro supermatch.

[Matt Brouse]

I'm going to plan like hell for this.

[Yosef chalbi]

I will be there This is where it all started for me 3yrs ago

[Matt Brouse]

I got nervous for a second because the Don Williams show is on the 3rd and I was thinking this was as well...

Don't scare me like that.

[Shaun Brock]

Well I hope to make this one Josh !!!! Been a busy year for us!

[Josh Handeland]

Sweet!!! Would be nice to see you again, Shawn.

[Josh Handeland]

We have one confirmed supermatch: Andrew Bieganski vs. Chris Hood right handed best 3 out of 5 Still working on another.

[Deleted]

I like the way you broke down your rules. What command will you be using? "Ready Go", "Dont move, Go"?

[Chris Hood]

Josh if you know of anyone wanting a left handed match I am game. I aint goin that far to be sore in just my right.

[Josh Handeland]

Aug 17, 2011 4:53:52 GMT -5 @andymiller said:

I like the way you broke down your rules. What command will you be using? "Ready Go", "Dont move, Go"?

Thanks! I will be using "Ready, go" until/unless WAF changes to "Don't move, go". I try to stay with WAF rules but I don't wants to specifically say I am using WAF rules because they I would have to make sure I know every rule without fail.

Aug 17, 2011 8:14:35 GMT -5 Chris Hood said:

Josh if you know of anyone wanting a left handed match I am game. I aint goin that far to be sore in just my right.

I will look but I think most of my guys just want to stick to the tourney, I can guarantee that you will get a sufficient amount of comp in the tourney tho

[Josh Handeland]

I tried hard, but was unsuccessful in setting up a big name supermatch for this tourney. Andrew Bieganski and Chris Hood are pulling right handed however.

Due to the lack of a big name supermatch, I will be having CASH BOXES. 2 $100 boxes and 2 $50 boxes. We will draw for the boxes after the tourney is over - first place in each class gets 5 tickets, 2nd place 3 tickets, 3rd place gets 1 ticket. Overall right and overall left hand winners get 5 tickets each.

[Josh Handeland]

This tournament went very well - we had armwrestlers from Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Canada!!! The only thing that went wrong was one arm break - Lance Glave, a newcomer from MN who recently dominated the left hand novice class at MN States and placed 2nd in the open that day, broke his humerus whilst puling against Rett Houdek in the left hand supers. Rett ended up winning the supers and the entire tournament. Lance stayed very calm after the incident and I was happy that Rett, Chris Hood, and a couple others knew what to do and responded quickly.

With that being said, Fatboys Bar and Grill loved the tourney and would like to run one every 3 months! Thanks to Yosef, John Grant, and Erin Meyer for assisting in refing, thanks to my parents for help with registration and for doing the brackets, and thanks to Jamie Beltz from Fatboys for letting me hold the tourney here!

One last thing before the results, Jason Remer pulled 6 classes, 3 right and 3 left, and wondered what his total win count was. He said back in the day he won 31 matches at one of Mary M's tourneys. His score this weekend was: 20 wins, 7 loses, and one bye.

And now to the results:
Total Entries: 48 States Represented: Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Texas, and Canada.


Supermatch Winner: Andrew Bieganski over Chris Hood 3-0 right. Chris Hood over Andrew 2-0 left.


Men's Open Right 0-165:
1) Yosef Chalbi
2) Jeff Ahmann
3) Tyler Trones

Men's Open Right 165-187:
1) Jason Remer
2) Jeremy Emery
3) Paul Belluz

Men's Open Right 187-209:
1) Jason Remer
2) John Grant
3) Jack Weber

Men's Open Right 209+:
1) Andrew Bieganski
2) Jason Remer
3) Rett Houdek

Women's Open Right:
1) Erin Meyer
2) Morgan Glave

Men's Open Left 0-165:
1) Yosef Chalbi
2) Dan Ondarko
3) Jeff Ahmann

Men's Open Left 165-187:
1) Paul Belluz
2) Jason Dubray
3) Jason Remer

Men's Open Left 187-209:
1) Jason Remer
2) Jack Weber
3) John Grant

Men's Open Left 209+:
1) Rett Houdek
2) Jason Remer
3) Chris Hood


Overall Right Winner: Yosef Chalbi
Overall Left Winner: Rett Houdek


Cash Box Winners ($50 each): Jason Dubray, Yosef Chalbi, and Rett Houdek