Frequently Asked Questions

• A team is a minimum of 8 women/girls on a team (no less).

• When registering a team during regular Team Registrations (starting October 27), team sizes can have more than 8 members per team

Yes, we’re only allowing 15 teams to register during Early Bird registration.

Early Bird team rosters are due by March 1, 2027. Keep in mind if you purchase an Early Bird team you are pre-paying for 8 athletes to be on your team. You are welcome to add individually registered athletes to your Early Bird team up until April 18, 2027. If you opt to add an individually registered athlete to your team to comprise one of your minimum 8 athletes, no refund will be given for the individual registration.

Team Captains will be provided instructions on how to complete their Early Bird team roster upon checkout.

Yes. If you would like to register multiple teams, we will reduce the cost of additional teams to $1,400. Email the Women’s Barbell Classic Committee before July 31, 2026 at 5pm at wbc-ia@raisethebarinitiative.com to receive a promo code to use at checkout. Sharing of the code does not guarantee being able to register multiple teams due to the limited number of teams for sale. The same Registration Requirements apply as outlined above.

Yes, you will have the opportunity to add WBC individual registered lifters to your team Early Bird Team. Email wbc-ia@raisethebarinitiative.com the following information of new lifters joining your team (note, they must already be registered for the WBC to be eligible to join your team):

• First and Last Name

• Phone Number

• Email Address

Deadline to make updates to your team is April 18, 2027, 5pm. You are allowed to update the contact information and age division, weight class or competition of an existing register lifter; to designate another existing member of your team as the team captain; or update your team name. Substitutions and transfers or teammates are not permitted unless your team was registered as part of the Early Bird Registration.

WBC Committee reserves the right to evaluate the lifter changes and determine if the changes suggest a substitution which would forfeit the lifter.

That depends on when you registered your team:

Did you register as an Early Bird Team? If so, the answer is yes. You have the ability to substitute in a new person on your team whether they have already individually registered for the event or not. Deadline to make edits to your team is April 18, 2027 at 5pm. Email wbc-ia@raisethebarinitiative.com and provide the name of the original lifter and all relevant lifting information for the replacement lifter. Note that WBC is not responsible for financial transactions between substitutes as the team captain provided the original total payment. Payment transactions will occur between the lifters. Refunds are not an option.

Did you register as a regular team? If so, the answer is no. Lifter substitutions for individual and team registration outside of Early Bird Team Registration will not be allowed.

WBC uses the DOTS+Age scoring system. It is a mathematical coefficient that measures each lifter’s relative strength by comparing the total weight lifted to their bodyweight and age. The team score is created by adding the top 8 individual DOTS/Age scores - the highest combined total wins. Note that if a person on your team competes in bench press or deadlift only, their DOTS/Age score will typically be lower than someone who competes in both lifts (push/pull).

The team captain's responsibility is to be the primary point person between the team and WBC. They will receive all team communications from WBC and it is their responsibility to communicate those updates to the team, as well as to communicate updates to the WBC Committee in regards to roster changes prior to the event.