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For organizer we do not have any annual or single time fees to participate to the world of UNITED STRONGMEN®. We just have some standards you to fill to be our national or international partner:

1. Liability:  You must brove that your organization (company, society or association) is working under the laws in the country of origin. The proofs are:

>valid business ID or similar registry number.
>a document from the officials in the origin country that your organization don´t have any unpaid taxes, restrictions in business acts etc. 
>a truthful report about the officials in the organization (chairman, government, owners).



All information is classified and will be used only to check and prove the liability of the organizing members of UNITED STRONGMEN®. This information is needed to be sure, who are our main partners when building up global contracts with the sponsors.

2. Drugs: You must commit to anti-drug work with our standards - no one, who is suffering any kind of doping penalty from any trusted organization (WADA members) in the world can not participate in your competitions, which are organized together with UNITED STRONGMEN® or the competition is having a sponsor, which is forwarded from UNITED STRONGMEN®.

3. Respect: You must respect the competitors in your country and organization:
>All info about how and where to qualify to international competitions must be published in at least via UNITED STRONGMEN® no later than 4 months prior the date of the
  qualification contest.
>The qualifying system must support national championchips or in international organizations the country qualification must be held in one time. In both systems the winner
  is the first to qualify, and next is the second etc. No wild cards allowed. 
>The safety of the competitors, spectators and officials must be the first priorite when selecting the events and weights.
>You also commit to support the expansion of the classes is strongman competitions (Open, Masters +40 yrs, Lightweight under 105kg and Women).
>The qualification contest must always be the class nationals.
>Masters can compete in Open class, but you should not allow competitors under 18 yrs. to participate in national or international level strongman competitions (in that level the weights are too high for young people who are still in growing age).
>All national and international competitions must have money prices for each competition class.
>As a respect to the sponsors you are committed to produce us photos and other material from the competitions we have supported.



So, if you find the above mentioned standards 1,2,3 acceptable you are free to contact us via email or via visitor form. We will send you the questionnaire to find out more about your organizations ability, skills etc.

Note, that UNITED STRONGMEN® is free to join - no annual fees, no single time fees and no restrictions to co-operate with other governments, too. If we support your organization or competition with international sponsor agreement we will take a commission on it, but otherwise there is no costs to join UNITED STRONGMEN®.

4. Co-operation: If you are the organizer for UNITED STRONGMEN® contest, we do not take any kind of licence etc. fees from you - the other way around - we support you by informing people via our e-mailings, webpage and facebook. And the last, but not the least we are trying to locate international sponsors for our organizers. The only rule for organizer is, that you will have to qualify to be our member-organizer via mentioned terms, you have to announce the competition date, events and other possible material minimum of four months in advance. And you must of course adjust fair, liable sportmanship.
As a UNITED STRONGMEN® World Championships organizer you must fill also the competition standards mentioned in the World championships section.

Our purpose is to widen the opportunities for co-operation world wide in strength sports. We also provide support to the new organizers in terms of counceling etc. and we are looking international marketing co-operators to assist our members also financially.
Why we do this? Yes, organizing is a business but we see that our business is in locating international co-operation and supporting the organizers to have even major competitions without fees, licence payments, profits form their own sponsor money/ticket incoms. We are helping each organizer to have more feasible budgets to organize more competitions, adjust better prizes to the competitors and also having a profit for themselves about the biggest work done for the competition said.

 
In the photo UNITED STRONGMEN® founder Jyrki Rantanen lifting atlas stone in USA year 2000. © Jyrki Rantanen