Official IFBB/NPC score cards, read as decisions rather than results. On a card each number is a sum of judge placings, so lower is better — and a margin is measured in judge placings, not points on a board. A 1-point margin means the panel split. A 0 means they tied on the card and a tiebreak decided the title.
Every contest in the archive where the winner took it by 2 judge placings or fewer. Sorted tightest first.
The same read, restricted to the Olympia — where the margins matter most and the cards are hardest to argue with.
Athletes scored better in finals than at prejudging — the round where a placing is won back. Only cards whose two rounds are on the same scale are eligible (see the note below).
The other direction: led at prejudging, lost ground when it counted.
Coverage. 6917 of 7974 results on CalloutIQ carry official card numbers (87%), across 377 contest-divisions. Everything above is drawn only from those — a contest with no transcribed card cannot appear here, however close it was.
Margins don't compare across panels. A margin is judge placings, and panels differ in size. On a 3-judge card a unanimous win scores 3 against 6 — a margin of 3 is a sweep, not a close call, and it's the most common outcome in the whole table. That's why "closest" cuts at 2: it has to mean the judges disagreed, not that the number was small.
Why some finals rounds are excluded. Judge placings are conserved across a full field, so a card's prejudging and finals sums must balance. Where they don't, the two rounds were scored on different scales and the difference isn't movement at all — it's a unit conversion. Those divisions are left out rather than shown: every Fitness card fails this (its finals carry a routine round), as does the 2019 Arnold Classic Men's Open. Athletes who missed finals are excluded too — the card gives that whole group one shared finals number, which would otherwise read as a huge phantom comeback.
Not an IFBB reading. These are CalloutIQ's own derivations from published cards. We don't adjudicate results, and a tie broken on the card is the IFBB's call, not ours — we only surface that it happened. Every row links to the contest so the numbers can be checked against the source.