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MatriarX® Games

You are the weight.

The only bodyweight strength competition and scoring system built specifically for women.

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WHY THIS COMPETITION EXISTS

The reason we built it

Women's strength sports have a design problem. This is the fix.

Most strength competitions were built for a different athlete. The standards were set by men, the scoring rewards absolute output, and the formats assume a training history that most women haven't had access to. As a result, women are often judged against standards that were never designed around their physiology, training history or strengths.

MatriarX® Games was built from the opposite direction.

Every element of the competition - the events, the scoring system, the 10 week preparation structure, the performance labs - was designed specifically for women's strength development. The question we started with was not "how do we include women in an existing competition format?" It was "what does a strength competition look like when it's built for women first?"

This is what it looks like.

“The goal isn't to beat the strongest woman in the room. The goal is to leave stronger than you arrived.”

— Shimi, Founder · Bodyweight Brigade

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THE COMPETITION FORMAT

What happens on the day

One day. Maximum output. Up to three events.

MatriarX® Games is a one day, 1RM bodyweight strength competition. You choose up to three events from the competition list, you train specifically for them across 10 weeks, and on competition day you bring your best.

There are judges, a crowd, live scoring, and a leaderboard. It is a real competition. The only difference is what it's measuring.

Event categories:

Pull Strength: Chin Up, Pull Up, or Muscle Up

Leg Strength: ATG Split Squat Pistol Squat

Push Strength: Dip on Parallel Bars or Rings

Pick up to three. Bring your best

THE SCORING SYSTEM

This is the part that makes it different

Your only competitor is who you were ten weeks ago.

The scoring system at MatriarX® Games is the reason this competition exists. It was built to solve a specific problem: how do you create a strength competition where a woman training for 18 months can genuinely compete against a woman who has been training for five years?

You don't lower the bar. You measure different things.

The three scoring components

Component 01

Performance - power to weight ratio

Your result is measured as a ratio of output to bodyweight. This means a woman who weighs 58kg and a woman who weighs 82kg are competing on the same scale. Absolute load is irrelevant and relative strength is everything.

Component 02

Progress - improvement from baseline

Ten weeks before the competition you establish a baseline in your chosen events. Your score on competition day accounts for how much you improved from that baseline. The woman who added 15% to her chin up weight in 10 weeks is rewarded - regardless of where her absolute number sits on the leaderboard.

Component 03

Training age modifier

A small modifier applied to level the field between athletes with different training histories. A woman in her first competition year isn't scoring on exactly the same scale as someone who has been competing for a decade. First timers have a genuine shot at the podium.

Effort matters. Improvement matters. Showing up matters.

The scoring system is built to reflect all three.

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WHAT'S INCLUDED

The full package

$300.

Here is what that gets you.

  • 7 Performance Labs across the 10 week lead-up (clinics, workshops, baseline testing, strategy sessions)

  • Nutritional guidance for performance, recovery, and strength adaptation

  • MatriarX® Games athlete T-shirt

  • Official competition entry

  • Registration in up to 3 event categories

  • Professional photographs of all your lifts

  • Live leaderboard results and full scoring breakdown

Remote athletes: We will not be accepting remote entries for the competition this time. Can't be in Melbourne? Remote coaching (BrigadeX) is available. Ranking will be done in person.

THE 7 PERFORMANCE LABS

The 10 week lead up

You're not just entering a comp. You're preparing for one.

The 7 Performance Labs are the preparation structure that separates MatriarX® Games from a one day event you just show up to. Each lab is a focused clinic or workshop targeting a specific element of competition performance - built on Axis Theory™ principles and sequenced so that every session compounds into the next.

  • Your first testing before the competition. Lock in your numbers, see exactly how each event will be judged, and identify the form issues that could cost you on the leaderboard.

  • Learn how to make full use of your program for consistent progress.

  • Learn how to build towards your heaviest push & pull. You'll spend the cycle developing strength, practising heavier attempts and learning how to arrive at competition day feeling strong.

  • Front levers, back levers and the strength required to hold them. Learn how to identify the piece that's holding you back and focus your training where it matters most.

  • How to load your joints at their limit without wrecking them. Building the stability, control, and power that makes you better across every event - and how it carries over into everything you do in training after the competition is over.

  • Fuel strategies that don't backfire on competition day. How to eat in the 10 week lead up, the week before, and on the day itself - so that you're strong in every event.

  • How to read your own body across the training block, manage recovery intelligently, and walk into competition day fully charged. The difference between a good training block and a great competition result is usually here.

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BRIGADEX PACKAGE

For athletes who want to compete to win

BrigadeX. The 10 week program built to peak you for competition day.

Anyone can enter MatriarX® Games. The athletes who dominate it train specifically for it.

BrigadeX is the 10 week performance prep program built to improve your 1RM bodyweight lifts and some extras (levers, hand balancing) - and peak them for competition day. It's designed to work alongside the 7 Performance Labs so that every element of your preparation has the same goal.

If you're entering Games, this is how you compete to win.

Pricing: BrigadeX + MatriarX® Games

  • Face to Face: $1,180

  • Remote: $1,080

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COMPETITION details

November 28, 2026. Melbourne.

Date: Saturday 28 November 2026

Time: 8am – 1pm

Location: Melbourne (in-person)

Format: Judged competition with live scoring and leaderboard

Results: Full leaderboard announced after all events

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Past athletes

This is what it looks like on the day.

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Woman doing pull-up exercises on a pull-up bar in a gym surrounded by a group of people watching and cheering.
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A woman with short brown hair, wearing a purple athletic shirt and black shorts, is performing a hanging leg raise exercise on gymnastic rings in a gym.
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A woman performing a hanging exercise on a pull-up bar in a gym, with gymnastic rings and a padded mat beneath her.
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A woman performing a triceps dip exercise on parallel bars in a gym. She is wearing a purple shirt, black shorts, and tan shoes. There is a large sign on the wall with a bee logo and the text 'BODYWEIGHT Brigade'.
Two women, one with dark curly hair and glasses and the other with short brown hair, are smiling and laughing together indoors. Both are wearing black hoodies, and the woman with glasses has a logo on her hoodie.
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A woman in a purple t-shirt performing a pull-up exercise using a bar, in a gym or fitness setting.
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The things people actually ask.

FAQs

  • Any woman. You don't need to be a BWB member to enter MatriarX® Games. You do need to be able to perform the events to the required standards - the baseline testing lab at the start of the 10 week block is where that gets established. If you can't yet meet the standard for your chosen events, we'll tell you and help you get there.

  • Three components. Performance (your result as a power-to-weight ratio), Progress (improvement from your 10 week baseline), and a Training Age modifier that levels the field between newer and more experienced athletes. All three combine into your final score. The leaderboard reflects all three - not just who can lift the most.

  • Yes. The scoring system was specifically designed so that first-time competitors have a genuine shot at the podium. Your training age modifier means you're not being compared on the same scale as athletes with five years of competition history. Show up, put in the work across the 10 weeks, and compete against your own baseline. That's the format.

  • The competition is held in melbourne. You can choose to train under BrigadeX remotely and enter the competition face to face.

  • Games entry includes the 7 Performance Labs and competition entry. BrigadeX is an additional 10 week structured training program built specifically to peak your 1RM lifts for the competition. If you want to prepare properly, BrigadeX is how you do it.

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ENTER NOW

November 28, 2026

Enter. Train.
Find out what your body can do.

Enrolment is open now. The 10 week lead up begins well before competition day - the sooner you're in, the more of the preparation structure you have access to.

Enrol Now - $300
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Melbourne in-person and remote entries available · Women only · November 28, 2026