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Happy Memorial Day to everyone.
Hope you're having a great day.
Good to be with you.
Let's get after it.
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It's lunch time!
What is going on, everybody?
Hope you are having a great Memorial Day
weekend.
I know I did.
It's been full of anniversary celebrations
and hanging out and just kind of relaxing,
getting caught up on some stuff and still
have a full day in which to get
a lot of that done.
So with that,
hope you're having a great day.
Can't wait to talk to you all.
Let's get into it a little bit.
So I know the cowboy isn't here,
but he's here in spirit.
And hold on before we get to that.
John asked me a question.
John Jenkins says morning said last night
you were headed to syndicate.
When is the best time of the day
to come find you and just say hi
and thank you for the shows.
Well, I'm going to be there Friday,
Saturday, and Sunday,
so I'll be available all those days.
In the past,
I would generally bury myself in the media
room,
try to get content from the athletes.
I'm going to try out some new stuff
this year.
And I'm going to pace myself a little
bit.
So I'm going to try to be out
and about a lot more than I used
to be in the past.
So I'll try to be around for people.
You can come find me any of those
days.
But I will be in the media pits
for some of it.
I'll probably be in the athlete lounge for
some of it,
and I'm going to try to get out
and about into Vendor Village,
into the whole scene,
and maybe even the stands for a little
bit.
So just try to find me,
hook up with me,
and I'm going to try to go live
from the Syndicate Crown on Friday because
we're heading down.
Most of the way Thursday night.
And then we're going to finish up the
drive Friday morning.
And, yeah.
And then check in,
get all of our credentials and all that
stuff.
So, yeah, should be fun.
Can't wait to meet anybody who's there.
Ed puts it great.
John,
look for the guy with the jazzy hands.
I'll just be doing this all day.
Uh, Kenneth, the lab says,
just start yelling lunchtime and see what
happens.
Yeah.
That's a good thing too.
Uh, and a shoop says,
this is my third year at syndicate.
Hope to meet you there.
Yeah.
Come find me.
Come find me.
I would love to meet all of y'all.
So with that, um,
Corey sent me this thing on Instagram and
it just sparked a memory for me.
So I'm going to play it for you.
There was a guy back part of CrossFit
media in the early days,
and this is going to introduce you to
him and kind of the way that he
went about media.
And I loved it so much.
And I miss him in the CrossFit media.
He worked for CrossFit and I'm going to
share my screen now.
and let you guys see if you remember
who this guy is.
Nothing wasn't better back in the days.
I get that.
But I do like one eleven games.
Maybe it's not my favorite games.
However,
one person I do miss is this dude
up here, Ben Hollinghouse.
I thought he was hilarious.
Probably the funniest dude or dude for
that matter that's ever held a microphone
in front of the faces of the athletes.
I sort of miss him.
If you haven't seen some of the stuff
he did, go back and watch it.
You can probably find it online.
Just wear some floaties or something.
We're here with Julie Fouché.
She didn't bother to dress up for the
interview.
Was there any chafing involved?
Not that I noticed.
Do you think the fact that you did
it faster than the other athletes helped
you win this event?
Did you see any starfish?
No, I caught a couple stingrays.
I stung them,
so they got out of the way.
Shit on moves, boss.
Yeah.
Looks like,
I don't know if Becky was doing the
workout or she was playing sand
volleyball.
I actually saw a jellyfish.
You did?
I skimmed it with my hand.
I thought I was going to have to
take a timeout, but it didn't bite me.
Did you push it towards one of the
other athletes?
Tell us about the sand.
You seem to like it.
You've got it all over you.
I do.
I do.
And I run on it all the time
in Omaha, Nebraska.
Because of all the beaches in Nebraska.
What's your plan going into the next
event?
Just hang on for that L-sit.
What letter sit would you like to do?
An I. Okay.
And I sit?
Okay, yeah, is your head the dot?
Yes.
I mean,
do you think we're really supposed to walk
on our hands?
I mean, we were made with legs.
What if they did, like, a max, like,
leg walk?
You kind of throw like a girl.
What?
No, I don't.
I mean, you are a girl, so.
And to be honest,
CrossFit girls are pretty tough.
They're usually better than the guys,
so it's actually kind of a compliment.
Do you ever mean mug the other athletes?
No.
Your game face, kind of intimidated.
I don't have a game face.
Look at me.
I'm smiling all the time.
Tell me your two favorite Sesame Street
characters.
Oscar the Grouch, number one,
and Cookie Monster, number two.
So that gives you a good taste of
what Ben was like back in the day.
I really miss his humor with the
interviews.
He brought a levity to everything,
and I think he's sorely missed.
I think we need more of that,
especially with the way sports media
overall is going.
with alternative broadcasts,
not taking everything so seriously,
I think bringing someone like that back
into the fold is actually what CrossFit
needs more of today.
And maybe we forgot about all of those
people who helped to make it what it
was.
I, you know, I just,
I miss him dearly.
And I do have a story,
but I'm going to,
Uh,
Helson says talking about CrossFit media
in the early days,
are we sure Armand Hammer is not CrossFit?
Uh, Helson, I, I, I don't know.
That's a great guess.
He knows so much,
so much about the history of CrossFit and
Armand is like the, the old historian of,
Little do people know that guy is
CrossFat.
Everybody's trying to figure out who
CrossFat is.
Mark Phillips,
current athletes can't name Sesame Street
characters.
Ed says, okay, fine, Scott.
I'll be that guy for Clydesdale team at
Syndicate.
There you go.
We need to bring it back.
We need to bring it back.
I wish I was that quick-witted.
I think I can be funny at times.
I don't know if I could do it
in a quick spot like he has been
doing or like he used to do.
Man, if I could,
that'd be something to dive into and bring
back that would be awesome.
Uh,
Wayne says same with the athletes
responses were candid and fun,
not so calculated like many today,
but I think it's because he caught them
off guard in the moment.
And, and because of that,
their defenses came down and then they
just leaned into it.
So, um, anyway,
I have a really funny story about Ben,
um,
I was volunteering at the twenty fourteen
regionals Central East in Cincinnati and I
was running the check in area where media
came in or CrossFit officials came in and
I just had to check and make sure
that people were on the list.
very old school, no computer,
literally a clipboard with a list of
names.
And I had to check and make sure
that they, to come in that entrance,
they were on that list.
Well,
Kiki Dixon came in through that door
because she was being the floor announcer
for the weekend.
Ben comes in right after her.
Kiki comes up and she gives me her
name and she's not on the list.
I am fairly new to kind of the
sport and broadcast of CrossFit at this
time.
And I didn't know who Kiki was.
And her name wasn't on the list.
And so I'm like, I'm sorry,
you can't come in.
Your name's not on the list.
And she got a little feisty and said,
you don't know who I am?
And I'm like, I'm sorry, I don't.
And I was strictly told that if you're
not on the list,
you can't come in this door.
And while I'm having this conversation
with Kiki, Ben is behind her.
saying,
my name better be on that damn list.
And he's throwing stuff on the ground.
And he's like throwing a tantrum about his
name better be on that list or there's
going to be hell to pay.
He's going to come in there all while
Kiki's trying to be serious about her
tantrum.
But because Ben is going off,
it's completely diffused the situation.
And it's made kind of like this funny
spectacle.
where one of the big,
what they call the black shirts,
like the head honchos of those events came
over and said,
it was an oversight on our part.
Kiki should have been on the list.
She can come in through this door.
And even when after that happened,
Ben is still throwing stuff and like,
I better be on that list.
I am CrossFit media.
I need to be on that list.
And he kept just doing it.
And the whole time I'm howling.
I can't even,
my eyes are so teared up.
I can't even look on the list to
see if he's even on there or not.
But I miss that dude tremendously.
He sat down with us for lunch.
I got him and Bill Grundler ate lunch
with me that first ever year I
volunteered.
And they were so much fun and so
relaxed and so cool.
And I truly, sincerely miss this dude.
And I think that's the kind of guy
we need to be
to have back in the sport doing things
like this.
Man,
I wish I could figure all that out
and somehow bring that back because I
think it would make, one,
make some great content.
Two,
because he was so over the top with
these interviews,
and you can see in the picture,
he was doing this on ESPN.
All of this was in an ESPN polo
with an ESPN mic doing all that stuff.
And yeah, sorely, sorely miss that dude.
Ortega says,
that's what I tell people when they don't
let me into different areas.
Do you know who I am?
Yeah.
It actually made me remember an old Tiger
Woods story where he was trying to get
into a place, wasn't on the list,
and said, don't you know who I am?
I'm Tiger Woods.
And the person came back and said,
I don't care if you're the Lion King.
You're not on the list.
Kenneth DeLapp said, Rolo before Rolo.
Yeah,
this guy didn't do like social media
content.
Like it was all saved for like CrossFit
media.
He made videos.
He did interviews.
He did a ton of content back in
the day that was so cool.
So, so fun.
So effervescent.
It just was light and didn't take
everything so damn seriously all the time.
So.
Anyway, just a good memory.
Thanking the cowboy for sending that to me
this morning.
So, man,
the weather here keeps changing so much.
Allergies are so bad.
My throat is getting so dry doing these
shows.
I think I need to put a humidifier
down here or something.
Anyway.
I did want to talk a little bit
about the weekend.
I've watched some content.
I want to say, like,
I think the main storyline from the
weekend that's getting overlooked is Ellie
and Bailey.
Ellie and Bailey,
after going through so much,
Ellie with the back injury,
Bailey with the heart stuff,
and if anybody can sympathize with Bailey,
it's me.
When your heart's not working right,
you just don't feel good a lot of
the time, a lot of the time.
And for him a year later to come
in, finish top three,
punch his ticket to the CrossFit Games,
I think that's an amazing story.
And I know he has his own YouTube
stuff,
and I hope that he documents this well,
because I think it's one of the best
comeback stories we've seen in CrossFit in
some time.
And on the flip side, you have Ellie,
who, like,
I was at those games that she was
hurt,
and she looked like a shell of herself
fighting through that back injury.
And right after that,
she had to take a step away.
She had to run,
do triathlons and run different events and
do high rocks and all of that kind
of stuff.
The fight she had to give to make
it all the way back to here and
now get to go to the CrossFit Games
is nothing short of miraculous.
And I think it's getting lost in the
shuffle of it all because Justin didn't
make it.
Let's be honest.
Justin has so many more attempts to make
it to the games.
Not so many more.
He has online.
He's been doing well online all year.
Why wouldn't that be a valid opportunity
for him?
Once he gets back or maybe he does
it over there.
Carolyn kind of proposed that last night.
I think that the true drama was these
two people that were down and out coming
like true Rocky stories coming back from
basically questioning whether they would
ever be able to compete again to
where they're now going back to the games.
And I see Wayne saying it would make
a great road to the games.
And Ortega is kind of right.
The only way it makes sense as a
story is if he had footage through that
struggle and then to the games.
Same with Ellie.
Ellie.
If there was footage,
like we have footage from the games of
her trying to battle through that back
injury before she withdrew.
But if you had footage of her over
the last couple years fighting through
that, making her back stronger,
figuring out what to do,
all of that stuff,
it would make a great,
great story if we had the footage from
that.
It'd be interesting to know if like
Justin's media guy was doing something
like that.
Because it'd be awesome to see that.
And I know Bailey was starting to put
out stuff when he found out about his
heart condition.
If he did some footage over that time
and had someone put that together as a
documentary,
that would be really cool to watch.
Really cool to watch.
But I think those are the best stories
from the weekend, the two of them.
followed closely by hannah black who some
would argue two years ago was a
one-dimensional strong athlete who had a
lot of holes and i know that the
competition in africa wasn't the best
competition in the world but she didn't
finish any lower than fourth nine events
no lower than fourth
when every one of her competitors had a
bad finish at some point during the
weekend she did not how she'll finish at
the games i don't know but knowing that
she is closing the gap on those holes
and she does have a couple home runs
it makes her like a fun watch to
see what the hell she's going to do
at the games
i got to interview her on her first
semi-final first event it was that sled
drag on the piece of paper with the
run and all that and she had won
her heat and i interviewed her right after
After that,
we actually had her on the show a
couple times.
She's such a fun, nice, polite girl.
But she's funny too.
She's really funny.
And I think that she could be a
superstar in the future of this space if
she keeps putting in this work.
Lupe says,
Ellie's comeback is proof in the pudding
that CrossFit and repeated doing it isn't
the magic bullet people blindly say, blah,
blah, time and modal domains, blah, blah,
think it is.
I think you cannot apply the theory of
CrossFit on a elite level athlete, right?
Elite level athletes in every sport do it
at a level that makes it more risky
and more chance of injury.
The average CrossFitter going to the gym,
if they do the workouts with smarts and
are...
strategic about it and do their one day
a week their one hour a day five
days a week i think you're going to
be fine it's only when we let our
egos get in the way and we push
ourselves beyond the limit uh repeated
times do we put ourselves out there for
um a risk of injury and all the
times i got injured it was away from
the crossfit gym
Elite level CrossFit athlete is not for
health.
Agreed.
One hundred percent.
Elite level football is not for health,
but going out and throwing the football
around with your kids can add to your
health.
What pro athletes and elite athletes do is
extreme.
And we have to remember that.
We can't apply what they do to what
we do every day in the gym.
That's just nonsense.
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Yeah, Ortega.
I know you're a vet.
A lot of my friends are vets.
And it's cool what Thirdsy's doing by
supporting them through ValorFit.
So.
Kipping it real,
Tyson Bajent didn't even understand or
comprehend the elite athletes doing
multiple Metcons in a day in Hiller's new
video.
Yeah, I think I agree.
Tyson uses CrossFit to stay in shape for
football.
And so he's not doing eight sessions a
day, six sessions a day,
six hours a day.
But ask him how many hours a day
he spends on football.
I think that's where the connection could
be because I've heard him say like during
training camp,
he goes to the facility at like six,
seven in the morning and he leaves at
like seven, eight o'clock at night.
So he does understand the commitment it
takes to be an elite athlete.
So anyway, Lupe says,
forgot to say it last night,
but Tyson also mentioned he stays away
from CrossFit during the season.
What we were talking about last night was
the girls unfiltered talking about not
doing other sports while they are now
competing in CrossFit.
I was making the argument that I think
that that is bad for the body,
bad for the mind, bad for the soul.
My example of Tyson wasn't doing CrossFit
during football season,
but playing hoops or...
doing other fitness like activities,
I think you have to get a,
I think you have to get away from
your job and do other things to get
your mind off of that,
to help you mentally get through, um,
whatever it is you're trying to accomplish
whether it be crossfit football soccer
golf whatever you have to take steps away
from that at times just to clear the
mind clear the soul and get be able
to give a hundred percent when you come
back to it yeah um the other the
last thing i really wanted to address
And I know people in the comments come
after me because of my thoughts on the
broadcast and different things like that.
And Jamie and I have argued for a
very long time that the broadcast shows
the leader most of the time
does a one shot on that leader so
you can't really see what's going on.
And then once they finish,
there's footage of them rolling around on
the floor or celebrating or doing whatever
while other things are going on on the
floor.
I was watching F-One yesterday.
And Kimi Antonelli was winning the race,
and he was battling with his teammate,
George Russell.
George Russell's car died during the race,
so Kimi Antonelli is in the lead,
and he's in the lead by like, fifteen,
twenty seconds, which in F-One is a mile.
He was so far in the lead,
the broadcast didn't stop showing him
because the fights for place were
happening at four or five and two, three.
And so the broadcast completely shift
focus to those people fighting for
positions and fighting for points.
Because at one point,
unless his car died on him,
it was inevitable that Kimmy was going to
win the race.
So I found it very refreshing that F-One
went to the people behind because the race
was more dramatic at that.
And they focused their attention where the
races were back in the lineup and not
so much the leader because it was
inevitable, right?
So why watch the same guy drive around
the track over and over again with nobody
around him when you can go back in
and watch some head-dead races lit back in
the race?
CrossFit never does that.
Or the media teams that cover,
they always stick with the leader,
even if it becomes inevitable.
And I'm not saying completely forget about
the leader.
But you have other cameras around.
Show some other stuff.
I think that's a piece that's missing.
I think another piece that's missing on
the CrossFit side is WFP came up with
a finish line cam,
just like the NFL has an end zone
cam, like in the pylon,
right at the line.
And that way,
you have that thing running all the time.
So if there's a close race at the
finish line, you not only can show that,
you can show instant replays of that,
of them crossing the line to see who
beat who.
Shanna says,
it's so much fun playing other sports
sometimes, but you do have to be careful.
Yeah,
I'm not saying throw caution to the wind.
And if you heard me last night,
I said that you don't want to be
Ricky Garrard jumping a mountain bike off
of a ramp.
Like that was beyond the realm of safety.
But playing a pickup game of basketball
where you and the people around you know
that you're trying not to get hurt,
you're just there to have fun,
I think is okay.
Um, Kenneth Dilap,
I agree with your thoughts,
but I still like to trigger you.
Of course.
Um, Kenneth says,
you think a big part is due to
the majority of comps outsourcing the
coverage can or should HQ have a homegrown
coverage team?
I think HQ learned that a home grown
coverage team was too expensive.
And that's where we are in this world
of CrossFit.
Everything is about the bottom line,
the bottom dollar.
And I think that's what a lot of
their decisions are based on.
Avera says,
I cannot believe how much I have enjoyed
watching Mayhem, French Throwdown,
and Torian this year.
All the bitching about how screwed up the
season is.
Not from where I sit as a fan
of competitive fitness.
So I still think that this season is
screwed up and doesn't make a lot of
sense.
And I'm not going to back off that
statement.
It doesn't mean that I don't enjoy
watching the events.
I enjoy them for what they are.
But could you imagine the drama if Justin
got to pick one place and it was
Torian and he didn't get his ticket and
he's not going to the games?
The content around that,
the story around that would be wild.
Wild.
And those stories happened all the time.
And then the next year you have the
redemption story.
Can they come back?
Can they make it?
It just creates a dramatic storyline that
makes sense.
Now you have...
Emily Rolfe going to three different
events.
You have Olivia Kerstetter going to two
different events.
You have Justin with a last chance at
the online semifinal.
How dramatic is that?
Um, Shanna says,
how hard is it hard to,
too costly to have a split screen one
on the main floor and a small one
showing individual people i know matt
souza pulled it off and i know they
don't have the budget of like hamilton
roads so i think it's doable um but
i don't i don't think torian ever used
a split screen the entire weekend uh jody
wants to know do i think justin will
go to the games
Yes.
I think he'll be there to cheer on
Ellie.
No, I'm just kidding.
I do think he's going to qualify through
the online semifinal.
So many of the big names have qualified.
There's, what,
seven spots available at the online?
And Roman and Dallin and Jason and...
James and all those people have already
qualified.
So they're out of the mix for the
online semifinal.
So I think he has a very good
shot at making it at the online semifinal.
LMAO.
Damn, Scott.
I know it was right there.
I opened the show with,
we need to bring more levity and more
funny.
And so there it is.
There it is.
Justin still does not have tickets to the
game.
Online does not guarantee anything.
I know,
but when you take away all the people
who have already qualified and how well
Justin did online in quarters and the
open, I think he's going to be fine.
Maybe he won't.
Maybe he won't, but who knows?
Yeah,
the main problem with the season is people
being allowed to compete how many times
they want.
Like Kyra punched her ticket on her third
attempt.
Yeah, I do think that's a problem.
I think it takes away storylines.
It doesn't mean that we're not getting the
fittest to the games.
It doesn't mean that people that don't
deserve it are making it to the games.
What I do know is it's not as
dramatic and the storylines are not there.
AstroServe,
Torian didn't even have an insert for Time
to Beat.
They're a sports broadcast where they even
have a live leaderboard going while the
events are going.
Yeah,
Torian didn't have any of the graphics.
Now,
I've been told that those graphics are
extremely, extremely expensive.
But French Throwdown did it better than
anybody.
They had to work out above the
leaderboard.
They had the leaderboard.
And then the leaderboard filled down the
side as people finished.
I cannot say enough good things about the
broadcast at French Throwdown.
For a twenty lane floor,
they did a really nice job.
But directing where the cameras go on a
twenty lane floor had to be
had to be so crazy.
I can't even imagine.
If he doesn't,
then he doesn't deserve to be there.
Pretty clear cut.
Yeah, Mark, you sound like...
Drago in Rocky if he doesn't if he
dies he dies Yes graphics like that are
expensive
So Scott,
you believe if athletes can only compete
at one live semifinal event,
the current format is solid.
I don't understand the question and I
don't understand why both can't.
I do not like the current season
structure.
It's what we have.
It's what is in front of the athletes.
It's what they get to do,
and they are able to do whatever they
want.
And I can still watch and enjoy it
for what it is.
Do I like it?
No.
I think you should get one shot.
That is what every other sport does.
This...
We have to make everybody happy is not
good for drama in sports.
For the fittest, it's very low stakes,
and that's a bad sports story.
You're right.
I think what's happening now is the
athletes are going for the experiences
because it's open to go to multiple
locations.
Why not experience what you can
experience?
But I don't think that that brings drama
to the spectator watching.
It's great for them to be able to
go here, go there.
If I'm Kyra,
I got to go to Mayhem,
compete at Mayhem's gym.
I got to go out west.
I got to compete in the Del Mar
fairgrounds.
And then I got to go to Australia.
I've had an amazing experience.
But what does that do for the drama
for the spectator?
I don't think it does a whole lot.
Unless you're a massive Kyra fan who gets
to see her compete three times.
Got to make money to keep the sport
around?
I don't understand.
Kenneth,
I think that by making the storyline of
the season more dramatic brings more eyes
to the table,
and that's how you make more money.
Right now, there's no drama anymore.
There are no stakes.
Now,
as we get to the end of the
semifinals and there's no alternative,
it's getting more and more dramatic.
But the first few we've had aren't that
dramatic.
Joseph Ramirez says that's the way you
should bring back regionals.
You don't qualify in your region.
There's always next year.
See,
that's kind of like what I grew up
with in sports.
You're in a division.
You compete in that division.
And either you win and move on to
the playoffs or you get a wild card
to the playoffs.
And then you get one shot from that
spot forward.
That's it.
Avera says,
so athletes can compete at only one
semifinal event and either eliminate
online semifinal or reduce number of
online spots to one or two.
That has been my proposal.
And my man, Justin Kotler,
happy anniversary, brother.
Current season structure is an
abomination.
Can't blame the athletes as CrossFit
created and perpetuated this mess.
It is.
It is an abomination.
I felt like at one point they were
moving in a direction,
like we've talked about, Justin,
of what WFP is doing with a point
system.
You either have to do one and done
or a point system, not both.
We are some bastardized thing in the
middle at this point.
And it's half-assed and it's...
Again,
I enjoy watching the athletes compete,
so I'm going to watch anyway,
but you're never going to bring in casual
fans doing that.
The problem with regionals is simple,
according to Castro, too expensive.
you can still use third-party event
coordinators to put on events.
And if there's higher stakes at those
events, more people will come.
You're actually helping the event
coordinators by making it a higher stakes
event.
Right now,
we all are just meh about going to
the events because they're going to
compete here,
they're going to compete there.
Who knows where they're going to punch
their ticket?
They're competing at six different events.
Make it high stakes.
The only place you're going to get to
see Alex Kazan is at this event.
So you better go now or you're going
to have to go to the games.
Okay.
Who will be the Justin story of the
coming weekend?
Someone big will miss out.
Again, Wayne,
I think we're making too big of a
deal out of Justin not making it because
he has another shot.
The true storyline is Bailey Martin coming
back and Ellie coming back and Hannah
Black putting in the work to get more
well-rounded.
Justin only becomes a storyline if he
fails to get one of the seven spots
online.
That's the problem.
Just Vermeer,
should Ellie have been there in the first
place?
I can't say should or should not because
the way this season is structured,
she followed the rules as they were
written.
She did what she needed to do.
So in this season format, she was invited,
she got to participate,
and she punched her ticket.
Um, Accu black dragon.
The fact is this doesn't matter what
happens this year or next or the next,
because every year the structure changes.
It's crazy how the athletes put up with
this year after year.
They don't have another shot.
They don't have another option.
Nobody has stepped up.
Nobody has stepped up to be better than
this.
um it's a strange sport still imagine
seeing lebron and messi only two times per
season uh justin says he could have two
more shots if he wanted i guarantee if
he wanted he could fly back and do
norcal this upcoming weekend and then also
do online semis it's wild
Yeah,
I just think logistics are preventing him
from that, not the invite from NorCal.
So the whole based off quarterfinal scores
sort of didn't end up being completely
true.
No.
No.
No,
the minute it didn't become true the
minute they invited people to the first
few semifinals before the quarterfinals
even happened.
Wayne says that would be a really bad
look for whichever event allowed it.
It's been allowed the whole season, Wayne.
It's been allowed the whole season.
People came in and got invites based on
last year, not this year.
The invites are happening.
What makes a difference if it happens at
the end of the season or the beginning
of the season?
It's still an invite based on nothing you
did this year.
And Justin's right.
By inviting someone,
you get that major draw last minute for
people to come in and helps their ticket
sales.
Kipping says,
I promise you there are three events right
now calling Justin's phone and I know
confirmed one of them.
It's going to be a wild week.
We got three events this weekend.
We got NorCal.
We got Syndicate Crown.
And we got the Mad Fitness Festival.
NorCal's getting two tickets.
Syndicate's getting three.
I think Mad is getting... I don't know.
Probably at least two.
All three have pretty stacked fields.
It's the last live weekend to get a
ticket.
And then it goes to the online semis.
And I'm with Shannon on this one.
I just want to have the same season
structure from year to year,
but not this one.
And everybody's saying three at mad.
That's what I thought it was.
But then I held my tongue for a
second because I didn't know a hundred
percent.
But with that,
it's been a great discussion, guys.
I'm going to get back to my Memorial
Day festivities of cleaning out my garage
and organizing it.
Hope you guys have a great rest of
your day.
Vera says, but Scott,
if you take all the top athletes,
I wonder how many actually competed in
more than one in-person event.
I suspect most only competed in one live
event.
I think you'd be surprised if you counted
it up.
With that,
hope you guys have a great rest your
day.
Happy Memorial Day.
Don't forget why we're here,
who sacrificed for us to be here,
and go do your stuff now.
With that, have a great rest your day.
See you soon.
Bye, guys.
You wouldn't wait to get to the editing
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I'm already jazzy.
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