The Bermuda BodyBuilding and Fitness Federation’s Annual Night of Champions celebrates its thirtieth anniversary at the Fairmont Southampton today.

The men’s category consists of bodybuilding, men’s physique and classic physique and the women’s bikini, bikini wellness, figure and women’s physique.

The men’s classic physique and women’s bikini wellness are two new additions the championship this year.

Melissa Smith, of Body Fit Ltd, is the only defending champion among this year’s field. Last year she walked away with the national women’s physique title at the first attempt after beating out the likes of Susan Rebello, the three-times national women’s bodybuilding champion and Central American and Caribbean Bodybuilding and Fitness Championships winner.

Pre-judging starts at 10am and showtime at 7pm in the Mid-Ocean Amphitheatre. Admission is $25 to attend prejudging and $65 in advance and/or $75 at the door for the show. Doors open for showtime at 6pm.

Since its inception the Annual Night of Champions has steadily grown in stature and Mark Simmons, the BBBFF president, anticipates that trend to continue this year.

“It’s going to be a high quality show,” Simmons said. “Tickets have been going great and we expect to have at least 400 people there, and so there will be more people watching at night.

“The structure of the show will be slightly different. Before we gave out awards for each category one by one but it’s not going to be like that this year.

“Now you come out, do your stuff and then the next class comes out and once the previous class is tabulated they come back out and get their award. It flows like that.”

Darrem Charles, a multiple winner at the International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness professional level, will make an appearance on stage as the guest poser.

Tickets are available at Evolutions, Magnum Powerforce Gym, Positive Results, Sports “R” US, Studio One, The Athletic Club and Ultimate Fitness Club.