President's Bulletin:
Updated 23rd August 2026
The next PAA WARZONE is Crusader Carnage in the Swindon area (see events calendar) on 19th September with the finals the following month in Birmingham. The Road Warrior Warzone belt is going home with someone. Bogdan Badiu is currently top of the leaderboard, Callum Rice is 2nd with Atom Bomb Tom Atherton & Chopper Karl Crosby (pictured above) in joint third. Seasoned Road Warrior Chris Rimmer is just behind them. There are still 48 points available which could thwart their plans. Could you be the one to stop those top 5 from following the 2025 champion Reuben Hughes onto victory highway? And if not you - who?
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Congratulations to Mateusz Matuszczak who has been to Poland & gained a place at the Arnold Classic in Ohio next March by winning silver in the open weight category at under 95kg. Mateusz told me when he won the left at the Panthers warzone in February that he was after the belt. Will we see him at Swindon & Birmingham fighting to be the 2026 champion?
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This part of the bulletin is for those who applied to Arm wrestling id early: Caglayan Ari, Chaz Dunn, Agy Gorzynska, Alan Milne, Marc Sidney, Mark Newman, Anthony Scott, Satin Violet, Steve Long. If you know them please ask them to read this.
There was a problem & no way to access the applications. I had to set up a new federation profile different from the original that was listed as gb. Ours is PAA UK. To compete in Euros, World's or other international comps follow these instructions:
Open you profile.
Change your status to amateur.
Select PAA UK from the federation menu.
It will want a photo & driving licence scan for birthday & id/citizenship proof. Passport if I dont already know you've been here 5 years.
At my end I click confirm.
Then click tournaments & enter your categories. Again l will confirm these my end.
Then change your profile again to pro to allow you to compete. Same scans again. I confirm.
The platform charges a licence fee of £10.33 a year. I think this can be paid in cash in Japan or by clicking the button at the bottom of screen. This is separate from anything lm involved in on your behalf.
Hope this makes sense. Mark Waldon, Tom Mitchell have done all this successfully having had the original problem & it is solved.
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Armgods Wales have the card published for 12th September - you could watch it live or from behind the sofa via livestream on their website www.armgods.com or their app. They've also added a warzone on the morning before the evening show. They have asked me to share this link for entries: https://www.armgods.com/warzone-competition . Enquiries to them, not me please.
See you down the road.