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Welcome to Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
We're just getting right
down to business because
the action on the field
just ended 30 minutes ago
and we are here to talk about it.
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we're going to jump into
the north america west
semis and the oceana semis
we're going to start with
north america west since it
just ended and everybody
that's in the chat is
already talking about
colton olivia kelsey hattie
all those people tutor all
those people and so we're
going to talk about all of
it I have a I have a thing
in my notes where I have
the good the bad and the
ugly but you can talk about
I'm going to open it up to
you guys first and then
I'll fill in whatever you
guys don't say okay so
let's talk about the good
from the weekend things
that you were impressed with
First for me was Colton's
finish on event one.
I was completely shocked.
Yeah, I agree.
I did not expect a top five finish there.
Even from Pat,
I was very happy to see him
get back into that final heat.
I didn't expect him having a
top five for a long-distance run as well.
So both of those were very
solid performances to start with.
Especially from the second heat with Pat.
Right.
And not having everybody
there to push him.
He had a great finish to get
back up in there.
For sure.
Well, he had...
ibarra was in that heat with
him right uh I think so
somebody was right behind
him so he had and who ended
up up there I feel like so
little did we know yeah so
aaron frazier is already
jumping in hot and heavy I
think the biggest story of
the weekend is the other
semis that gained a spot no
way olivia colton tudor
don't belong at the games I
think here's the issue
We are getting a deeper
field of well-rounded athletes.
And either you have to have
home runs or you need to be
very well-rounded.
And even if you have home runs,
because Olivia won two events.
Oldest Upanix won two events.
And neither one of them are
going to the CrossFit Games.
Tudor Magna.
And Colton.
Sorry, Colton won two, Olivia won two,
and Uldis, yes.
There's three people that
now have won two events.
Yeah.
So it is a more well-rounded field now.
There are people that you
have never heard of that
are coming to play,
and they're taking spots
from the people that we've
known for a long time.
Chris Ibarra, Hattie Cano.
Kyra.
Kyra.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, at the end of the day,
I think most of the vets, you know,
performed as expected.
Like there wasn't that many
rookies that were able to break through.
But the ones that did really
caught my eye.
All that being said,
there's no way South
America should have three
and eight years should have three.
agree like in that vein yes
if Asia would have gotten
the two and we had the
extra one here for the for
like I think most people
would be happy and say it
was a more correct field
yeah so Carolyn what's a
good thing you had
I thought there was amazing performances.
I thought Olivia on the
snatch was incredible.
It was unbelievable to watch.
I don't know that anyone
beats that in the East.
I'm not sure, but that's just,
it was crazy.
So dominant.
Yeah.
Adrian said that that was
offensive and I literally
is like no better word for that.
Like it was, it was an insane performance.
Yeah.
Jamie, Jamie literally texts me.
Did she, did she skip a bar?
i felt like I missed four
reps in there like like I
was like did the judge only
count two on the four what
happened like all of it and
I don't know like I missed
her loading her bar and
hitting the first of the
265 or the 175 I was like
what what the heck she's
done like I didn't realize
she was that far ahead of
was it kelsey and her heat
in that one yeah and like
next thing I know she's
done I'm like what just
happened and then they
interviewed danny after and
she said when I heard that
that time well she's got it
Yeah.
You're not, you're not touching that.
I don't think anyone's touching that.
I think that one, um,
people will talk about
Colton's touch and go,
but I think what Tudor did
on that last event was more
impressive to me.
Um,
although Colton's touch and go was
super impressive.
Um, and I think I yelled when I saw it,
I was like, Oh my God.
Um,
but the way Tudor finished that last
event was incredible as well.
Um,
I didn't expect that.
I thought he was, you know,
missing a little juice on
his handstand walk event on
his snatch during the day.
Like I was expecting just a
little bit more.
Like there were,
there's three good events for him today,
like home run events.
And I thought that he, I mean,
at the end of the day,
he did miss out on a few
opportunities today to,
to take a spot because.
Speaking of that,
let me ask you this on the
handstand walk.
He came out flying as fast
as Cole Grishaber did as well.
hit that line, got the no rep,
and it seemed like he slowed down a gear.
Did you notice that as well?
I actually felt like he went
– I thought he went a little too panicky,
and I was like, whoa,
settle down because we
don't need another mistake
like that or you doing something dumb,
like rein it in.
It's just unfortunate.
Yeah, to me,
it looked like he geared it
down a little bit after that first round.
And maybe he just was tired.
Maybe another row just made
him more tired.
I don't know, but it just seemed, yeah.
But he was not jittery on the last event.
No.
No,
he sent the bike unbroken on the ring
muscle-ups,
and those lunges looked like nothing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The kid has all the talent.
And I just,
my heart aches for him because
when Jamie and I talked to him last week,
like we said, you know,
we've picked you to win.
And he's like, oh, you're the only people.
Like he's so down on himself
at this point with
everybody beating on him.
Like he needs a win.
And maybe that last event is
what he needs to get him
over the hump to go further.
Yeah.
I'm going to switch this to the cooler.
There we go.
Hey.
Yeah, probably my other one was, yeah,
I guess that was it.
That was it for me.
Colton's Touching Girl and
Tudor's World Record in Event 6.
I really don't know if
that's going to be touched.
I'm excited to see somebody
like Dalen try.
But, man.
Carolyn sends out guns out at 8 p.m.
I know.
I just haven't changed.
I need to shower still.
Anything else good?
For me,
Hattie being first going into the
final day was awesome.
And it's funny because on
every other broadcast, she's unknown.
Nobody knows.
Yeah.
You've had her on so much.
We did a whole series this year.
A whole series with her training in Bali.
Like a whole series.
I think at the end of the weekend, I think,
or on the broadcast,
Lauren Killough was like,
I can't wait to learn more about her.
And in my head, I was like, well,
we have plenty on Clydesdale.
Just sent the hair on my neck up again.
That I wanted to just...
Um, everybody,
can we pronounce her name correctly?
Patty Cano, not Kanye, not Haiti,
Patty Cano.
I think, uh, Cole Sager, you know,
punching 11 in a row, you know,
just smooth weekend.
Um, I mean, just to do it that long,
right.
And, and still qualify.
And this is the third time
he's come from an outside
position and made his way into, uh,
know a qualifying position
on the last workout like
he's just has that in him
to to suffer on that last
workout and just do enough
uh kenneth hit one of mine
james sprague went from a
bubble athlete to a
contender he looked
confident yeah it it's like
it literally last year he
was a bubble athlete and
this year there was no doubt
No doubt he belongs.
But you know what's crazy?
I think we didn't talk about
Justin like all weekend,
and Justin did Justin things,
didn't win anything, consistency,
and he wins the weekend.
But like how many times did
the broadcast even mention
him all weekend?
Like nothing.
And he goes out.
It was hard to see on the broadcast,
but you could tell there
was a different demeanor.
There was like the lightness
that Justin had at the ranch in 2020,
the joking around, the giving high fives,
the not being standoffish.
I think we're seeing another
Justin coming into the games this year.
The one we saw back in 2021.
I was happy to see him one.
He needs that.
I think it's just going to
make the men's field even
more interesting going into the games.
Because Pat, I mean,
Pat had a bad day today
with a couple events.
But now that Justin's back winning, like,
you know, you start looking at Ricky's.
I mean, we'll talk about Oceana soon,
but Ricky's back and got
the East coming next week and.
Um, you know, James is,
is looking good too in the
West and Brent and Pat and Justin,
like there's never looked, uh,
better and deeper.
Um, I'm super excited for that.
And I went to pick the East for tonight.
Good Lord.
Like it's not even possible down to 11.
Yeah.
James W. says, the mullet, the goatee,
the whole is greater than
the sum of its parts.
It can't be argued.
Justin is back.
That's funny.
The goatee looked good.
Looked a little snidely whiplash,
like he was coming after
the Canadian Mounties.
If you get that old reference.
No.
You don't?
Dudley,
you write the cartoon back in the day?
Oh, man.
Come on.
Man, am I old.
I had a couple more goods
that I just want to throw out there,
and you guys can jump in.
I thought Caitlin Bernardin
was really good in the first three events,
and then she got out of her skis,
and the rest of the weekend
kind of went away.
Because we're going to hit
the broadcast in other ways,
but the remote cameras on
the rig were awesome.
that they could get the
shots from above from the
rig without having a
cameraman all up in
people's business under the rig.
I thought that was a great addition.
Tetlo PRing the last bar
twice to finish was really awesome.
And then I had Colton's
touch and go where the bar
came down sideways and he
still pulled it off.
Yeah.
When he brought that down, I was like,
Oh no, you are not.
Like, I was like,
there's no way you're getting this.
Oh my gosh.
And Bruce is right.
Abigail Doman had an incredible weekend,
a very Justin like weekend.
Yep.
She didn't win a thing.
She was just consistent
throughout the weekend,
did her thing and ended up
on top at the end of the week.
I didn't know in terms of
running capacity.
I didn't think that she was
going to be a top four or five.
And then that first event,
she did super well there.
So it looks like she has a
lot of strengths.
And, yeah,
she's looking to have a good
season this year.
I agree with you.
I think they tried to get
some monitor shots while they're on.
But it's –
I know I've been in that
situation like when I was
filming Rudy or Jamie for documentaries.
You don't want to get in their way.
And it's tough.
The monitor's not that easy to see.
Yeah.
So...
Kenneth Lapp,
great weekend for Trista Smith.
It really was.
For her being 18 years old,
first time in the elite.
Well, she competed last year in the semis,
but still was a teen athlete last year.
Coming out and having a shot
on the last event.
Pretty awesome.
Yeah.
All right.
So then we go to the bad.
Who wants to start the bad?
It was empty.
I had that in the ugly.
Yeah, okay.
I don't know.
I thought it was going to
get more packed as Saturday
went on and Sunday, especially today,
and it still didn't look
like there was many fans.
The atmosphere wasn't that loud.
So that part was disappointing.
I know California can be
busy and there's other things going on,
but
I don't know if it's a lack
of promotion or what's
going on or because we have the games.
North America just has a lot
of other events that they get to see.
I'm not sure,
but there's something that
needs to get figured out
because you look at Oceania
and Europe and you'll see
South America this upcoming week.
And it's crazy.
It's packed.
It's loud.
The atmosphere is unbelievable.
Oh, it's a holiday.
It's a holiday weekend.
I forgot for you guys.
The other thing is,
but so what's holiday weekend.
It's in a city where there
are other things to do.
You could make it your vacation,
but they always put it in.
Yeah.
There's other things to do in LA,
but it's also a horrible
traffic town and the,
and it's just so expensive.
Exactly.
Expensive to get there.
They need to find more
affordable locations and,
Because, I mean, I tried to get there,
and the plane tickets were
just unreasonable.
Yeah, it needs to be,
it needs to just be a more
central location.
And maybe the fact that we
have two of them splits the viewership.
I don't know.
Maybe there needs to be one
80-person one with just all
of North America,
and it needs to be in the
center of the United States.
I don't know.
Yeah, I think California's too expensive.
Yeah,
I forgot about the long weekend for
you guys.
Maybe put it on either week one or three.
Cheaper for flights, everything.
Larry Young said,
looking at the stands for the first time,
I was like,
your gym travels for regionals
makes a difference.
We've talked about that on this show.
When we lost regionals and
the ability for your gym to
drive to a local comp,
it made a big difference.
And I agree.
I think they should not
schedule on Memorial Day weekend.
But I think what happens is
they wait till the last
minute to try to find these venues.
And then they're stuck with just,
there were more people in
Pasadena last year in the
shopping center than there
were at this iconic location across town.
Yeah.
Agreed?
Like you were there.
I agree.
It was sad.
It kind of surprises me.
Like I thought,
cause I thought both semis
last year were fairly well attended.
The stands were pretty packed.
I completely didn't expect.
And one of them was on Memorial weekend.
So like,
we can't say that that is the reason,
but East was the Memorial last time.
And maybe that's a function
of being a little bit
cheaper of the two locations
so it was more feasible so
bruce says people enjoy the
games not the semis if you
enjoy the games more than
the semis you don't you're
not a fan of the sport in
its deepest sense there's
way more to do at semis
there's way more access to
the athletes and the
tension is so much higher
because there are so many
people's goal just to make
the games when you get to
the games you have two
heats of people just happy to be there
And everybody is competing
on these weekends.
John Gonzalez says, as an event organizer,
I can tell you they got a
sick deal on that venue
because it was Memorial Day weekend.
There you go.
So we're doing it because it's cheap,
not because it's what's
best for the sport.
Yeah.
So my other question to you
is we've cut back from 60 to 40.
And 40 or 38 to 30, right?
On teams or are teams the same?
30 on teams.
30 teams, I think.
Yeah.
Okay.
So 20 less athletes there.
That's 20 less families to be there.
Does that make a difference?
More shots of having local
heroes out on the floor?
I don't know.
One of my,
one of my bads was that like here at West,
like the bottom 10 were
pretty inconsequential.
Um,
So there,
there is a point where too much
is too much, but that's where, when I say,
I feel like there should
just be one field of 80 in North America,
you're going to get better, a better,
well-rounded set of athletes,
as opposed to seeing these 10.
I don't think you're going
to see that bottom 10
situation at North America East.
Yeah, I don't think so either.
But like,
it seemed like the quarterfinals
didn't like weed out some
people that like didn't
have as much handstand
walking capacity or
snatching and just kind of
like the basic higher skills.
I was surprised to see in
such a bigger region like
North America or even
Australia or Australia, Oceania, that.
The bottom had a big gap between the top,
let's say two heats and
then the bottom two heats.
Yeah.
Interesting.
Something way a while ago
about West coast classic in
Vegas was awesome.
And it was,
it was packed because Vegas is
easy and cheap to get to.
And there are deals on
hotels all the time because
people want you to come and gamble.
And so I would hope the West
would go back to Vegas.
I think that's the ultimate
place for you to have that
Western semifinal because it is cheap,
it's easy to get to,
and the stands were packed.
And that was – COVID was
still happening when that was there,
and it was packed.
Yeah.
um I'll just finish up with
this it's not easy to throw
in any event in california
because it's so expensive
I'm in a new jersey and to
rent an expo center for
three days runs me like 30
to 40 k semis would imagine
I would imagine is a lost
leader for them yeah
they've said that a lot um
and then the thing in
europe that we can't match
is all the countries
Like, we just, we can't,
it's like an Olympic event
there because you get to go
root for your native person.
And that brings a level of
intensity that we can't emulate here.
So.
Any other bad other than the
lack of people?
Ken's, Will Leahy's injury.
Yeah.
I hate to see anybody get hurt.
Yep.
Along that lines, I think Colton and Tudor,
you know,
we had high hopes for both of
them going into the weekend.
Not great outcomes for them.
And Sydney McElishan,
we've been following her
for a couple years.
I just, I don't know what's up.
Like, she has all the talent in the world.
You know,
you saw the change in running
over the last year, and it just didn't,
like,
translate on the floor until the
last two events, right?
Yeah, the last two events,
she looked like herself,
had some good top 10,
almost top five finishes,
maybe close to top five finishes.
And some of the events I
thought she was going to do better,
I just seemed like it just
wasn't her weekend.
Because there were good
events for her this weekend.
For sure.
My last bad is that if you
guys weren't watching the
simulcast on the spin,
my very own co-host, Jamie Latimer,
got into a fight with John Young,
and now there's beef.
I didn't get into a fight with him.
I just was commenting,
and then I got called out.
You know me.
Wait, what happened?
So let me set the stage.
So they were talking about
how the East field and the
West field are not equal
and that there are people
that didn't make it in the
East that could make it in the West.
Jamie piped up and said,
I'm one of those people
that would have made it in the West,
didn't make it in the East.
And John Young came back and said, well,
do you want to be Jamie
Hygieia and just finish
last in every event?
Yes.
Well, I'm going to defend my friend.
Jamie Latimer and Jamie
Hygieia are completely
different athletes.
Completely different.
And they would have finished
way different in events in the West.
I would put Jamie Latimer's
fitness up against any
woman in the world.
She is just,
her engine is Sam Briggs-esque.
And she would have killed that run.
Well,
I think I would have been a lot like
this Caitlin Bernadine.
Yeah, you would have started hot.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
I'm not saying I would have
done exceptional there,
but like John made a comment, like he, if,
if he would have shown up,
he would have at least had
like a home run and like made, you know,
but like, I just would have been last,
last, last.
And I just was, I, you know me,
I don't want to like,
I'm not a toot my own horn person.
So like,
I just let him talk and it is what it is.
He tested the workouts,
like not on the same order,
not on the same, probably transition, um,
I remember he said that he
tested the last one and he
gripped the dumbbells with his grips.
And it's like, well, I mean,
if you got a better score
because you gripped the dumbbells,
you gripped the dumbbells.
It's just hard to compare
when you're at home.
It's like every time that
the games happen or any
semifinals and people are like, oh,
I would have gotten this score here.
It's like, well, you didn't.
It's not the same comparison.
It's hard to compare.
I think the East and the
West field are a lot
different in their strength.
Let's say for the woman,
I think the woman on the
West have a lot more heavy
hitters than the East.
I think the East are more well-rounded,
less, less specialists.
If I were to say in terms of
the people that are in the field,
like there's a lot of home run people.
They were like fighting for spots, right?
That's just my opinion.
But I'm going to defend my friend,
and she is not Jamie Hagia.
Jamie is incredible.
I love Jamie.
She's incredible,
but they're completely
different athletes.
Yeah, they're not the same athletes.
They're completely different
athletes in what they're
good at and what they're not good at.
So to compare the two was
just an uneducated response.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean,
we had completely different leading,
like leading up,
like through open in quarters.
Like I was doing well,
even amongst worldwide.
Like.
Yeah.
You were in the top 40, weren't you?
At some point, like, like worldwide.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I mean, but I would, it's, I have like,
we just know my strength.
She'll never admit it.
Strength is my weakness.
I'm aware.
I do think I'm, I'm pretty fit though.
Like, I think I can, I don't,
I don't ever get much of an
opportunity to showcase it.
Like that, you know,
I feel like I'm better in person.
I don't get that opportunity very often.
She's still the only female
to try to kill Taylor.
Yeah.
And that's saying something.
Yeah.
That was not the best
workout to attempt to kill him in.
Um, but.
Well, no,
the box overs were taller than your head.
Yeah.
Gave it a go.
All right.
So now we go to the ugly.
And one we already touched
on were the crowds.
So I have three more.
Okay.
I mean, for me, it's like always coverage.
Really tough to see the storyline.
But just, yeah, coverage in general.
I think it's been talked about.
I mean, especially like the last event,
like, yeah, okay.
We want to see the winners or whatever,
but we want to see the cut line people.
So show more of the field so
that you can see,
cause we could barely see
Colton and Cole for a while.
And it's like, no,
I want to see the people
like looking to get their
spot to the games.
Yeah.
I agree.
After being at the,
all the semis for the last
couple of years,
it really hurt me to watch
the broadcast and not be
able to see what I wanted to see.
When you're used to looking
at the floor and looking at
the story you want to know about,
free will is awesome.
The broadcast really,
really sucked for me.
The other thing I'm going to
say is with all due respect,
get your facts right.
Like you have people in the wrong camps.
You have people like doing the wrong jobs.
You're calling people in
their lanes the wrong name.
Like, just get the facts right.
Yeah.
That's what – that really
was upsetting me.
And then I don't know how
Mike Arsenault did it,
but he – to tackle the
Hamburglar and steal his shirt for today.
Was that – is –
northern spirit french was
that like their or are they
italian I don't know but I
felt like that was their
like theme shirt for their
I don't know I don't know
where they came from it was
crazy I would that was wild
that shirt was wrong it was
yeah I was waiting for me
to put the face paint on and start miming
I did like the kits that
Northern Spirit gave the
judges and everything.
I think that's a huge win
because for so many years,
making it to the semifinals is huge,
and I think a lot of the
athletes to get that kit is pretty cool.
So I think that's a good
that we could add that
Northern Spirit gave.
Well, and a lot of people,
their goal is to make semis
and to have a kit that they
get to frame up with or –
get to wear in the gym,
the show they've made semis.
Like that's a super cool thing.
And I,
and I thought they came out really well.
I don't know what they feel
like or whatever, but,
and then I thought it was cool.
Like, um, Olivia Kirsten or war,
Chris Ibera's Jersey out on the,
on the floor.
I don't know if you guys saw that.
I did see that.
Cause they both trained with a Heppner.
Oh, Oh, that's awesome.
So I thought that was pretty cool too.
so yeah I'm not going to
talk specific names but our
text was blown up today
with that so the other
thing that I'm going to say
is ugly is cutting the berm
run I disagree
I think it's a different event.
I think you want to make sure that, like,
if they're running 1,200 meters and it's,
like,
the time cap is going to be all messed up,
like, you want to make sure that, like,
I get it's a different semifinal,
but you still want to make
sure people are going to the games with,
like, a similar event.
They don't need the berm run.
Like,
we got to get rid of the whole history.
Like, we already have the tennis stadium.
Like, I think get over it.
You just want to draw spectators,
and that draws spectators.
It wasn't.
Soccer field and take the
400 off the flat piece.
Instead of going around the soccer field,
go across the soccer field.
Sure.
I still think it needs to be
pretty close to 800.
Like if it's going to start,
like if people are going to
start getting just to add the berm,
like I don't agree with that.
Cause they came in the tunnel,
made a left and went down
around the back end of the
soccer stadium.
Cut that piece off.
They just don't think for spectators.
I get what you're saying.
It should be close to 800.
I'm not saying get rid of the history.
I'm just saying they're
already in the tennis
stadium and doing stuff.
You don't have to use the
berm in the rummet if they
can just use the stairs or
something else.
If it's going to add that much distance,
and it was going to add 400
meters every single round
for five rounds...
That's not the same workout anymore.
That's really not.
The weightlifters would have
a chance to make up time,
but now you're adding even
more of the workout to the run.
I don't think it's fair.
I just don't think it would be fair.
Yeah, I agree.
Yes, get rid of history.
We keep doing it with everything else,
and you guys tell us to get over it.
Stop living in the past.
You were the first one that says, you know,
stop living in the past and stuff.
And you want to add, you know,
another 400 times five.
You want to add another 2K
of running to the workout.
I didn't say I wanted to add 2K.
I said figure out another
way to make it work.
I guess they could have
started maybe somewhere else,
but I don't know.
I don't know how to make it work.
It just doesn't seem like
they think things through.
I thought it was fine.
The camera they use during downtime,
nobody ever sits behind the rig.
So you have an empty stadium
to begin with.
Yeah.
So why show the empty part
of the stadium on every downtime,
put the camera behind the
rig showing this,
the start finish line where
people are actually sitting.
And it looks like there's at
least a few people in the stadium.
Or play commercials.
Like let's try to fund.
Yeah.
Maybe someone will pay to
have a commercial run during the time.
That's a novel concept.
make some of your money back.
Yeah.
Promote CrossFit.
Yeah.
All that stuff.
But like,
I'm sure that there are companies
that would love to get onto
a stream with hundreds of
thousands of people in a
very niche market.
Yeah.
Uh,
John Gonzalez says,
promote Clydesdale during that time.
We take all of that.
L1s.
Well, they were doing the 20% off.
No affiliate promotion.
Yeah.
They would name like Go Ruck
and Northern Spirit during the broadcast.
Why not run a commercial?
Right.
Yeah.
It just makes sense.
But even that,
when you're setting up and
getting ready to go and you
have that one shot,
make the one shot where the
freaking crowd is so it
doesn't look so bad.
It's just perception.
Yep.
Okay,
so I'm going to go through the who's
in and who's out quickly as
soon as I find my mouse here.
All right,
so on the women's side in North
America West,
we have first place Abigail Domet,
Alex Kazan, Ariel Loewen, Hattie Kenyo,
Emily Rolfe, Danny Spiegel,
Bethany Flores, and I said it last week,
never count that woman out.
She could have six broken
legs and a broken back,
and she's still going to make the games.
And Kyra Milligan.
Cool.
Bethany?
Yeah.
Every year I count her out for injury,
and every year she makes it.
If she was healthy, she's so fit.
She made that snatch ladder look easy.
She smashed it in 2021.
she had like,
she probably just needed that
confidence to just hit that weight again,
which she did on her
Instagram story or maybe a
post this week.
So that probably just, you know,
helped get the confidence
before the competition to
know that she can do it.
Cause sometimes with those back injuries,
like it's like breaking the,
that wall barrier.
That's like, you know,
you're protecting yourself constantly.
Even though you could be like,
I don't know what she's going through.
She could be somewhat.
Okay.
But she's still scared to,
get to that point where she
could injure herself.
So I'm not surprised that she made it.
She's so good.
On the men's side,
we have Justin Medeiros who
took the championship.
We have Brent Fikowski, James Sprague,
Pat Fellner, Sam Quant, Chris Ibarra,
Brandon Luckett, Cole Sager,
and Cole Grease Sabre.
Chris Ibarra, people are saying,
who is he?
We interviewed him two years ago.
You can go check that out.
He was part of our semifinal
series a couple years ago.
What a vast improvement from
a couple years ago.
Totally working on strength.
He was a gymnast,
kind of came from that background,
and now the heavy stuff did
not slow him down at all.
Yeah.
The other thing that popped in here,
sad to see Rebecca Fusile.
Yeah.
When she hit that last snatch,
I actually shed a tear.
Like,
because I knew that had to mean
something to her.
And all the work she's done.
Her placing on event two was
incredible to me.
It was another... Big Becca.
Yeah, like...
just kind of like Colton's
run event went like fifth
place or whatever,
like her placing and that shocked me.
And I was like, Holy cow.
She's yeah.
I thought I really liked at the end when,
you know,
they were showing the girls in
the stands and she stood up
the whole time and clapped
for her competitors.
And I think that's very respectful.
It's hard to be in that moment.
Like, you know,
she already knew she was out,
but you still, you know,
it's still hurtful,
like being in that position
and just to stand up and
clap for every single person that made it,
um, it's not easy to do.
And, and she was the only one to do it.
I thought that was, um, you know, cool.
Yeah.
And another huge shout out for us.
He captures is the one who
caught all of our photos
from the weekend that you
see used in all of our leaderboard stuff.
Make sure you go to his Instagram.
He's put up pictures all weekend long,
killed it all weekend long.
um and I just got a message
from that he put up the
podium pictures for us to
go ahead and put those out
so uh he captures go check
his stuff out he's awesome
and really appreciate him
doing that for us this
weekend um so oceana let's
start with the women any
shockers there um not really I mean
I put Van Zyl in my heat one pick,
but I don't know.
I just kind of threw her in there,
kind of going down the list.
Um, so I,
I'm not really surprised that she
didn't make it.
I,
I think if I would have sat and thought
about it,
I probably wouldn't have picked her.
I had Georgia prior one out
and I've talked about her a lot.
I don't know if I've talked
about her on here with you a lot,
but like,
I know like Patrick Clark gets on,
he and I are in the chat,
usually bringing her up
when people are talking about that region,
that region.
And like, she's such an incredible mover.
I'm so excited that she
punched her ticket.
I was surprised for vanzilla.
I thought she looked off.
I don't know if she's coming
off an injury or anything like that,
that I don't know about.
Um, I thought she was going to get a spot.
Uh,
I thought some of the events were
lining up good for her.
Um, she just didn't seem like herself,
I guess this weekend.
I think it's,
it's starting to get to where
it's not a surprise that
she's not making it anymore.
And that's sad.
Um,
it's every year it's just missed
because of something.
Um,
maddie sturt was I can't
believe she lost in the end
she was so consistent on
the front end and and then
gracie walton taking the
lead over her um daisy
mcdonald she's the big
surprise for me um I
actually had georgia pryor
in my heat one as the
qualifier um but the daisy
mcdonald was a big surprise yeah
yeah I had I had prior to
just I just had caitlyn
benzell instead of daisy me
too but that's what happens
in a small region when the
depth isn't there it's kind
of like gee right like you
can win almost all the
workouts you have one bad
workout and then she lost
her first place for maddie
sturt um because she was
the most dominant like
overall she just uh her
snatch wasn't as strong so
But I think it lines up that
she could have a good games
performance because she
looked good in everything else.
Yeah, she looked great.
Yeah.
On the men's side,
I think there was a big shock.
Bailey Martin beating Jay
Crouch was a shock to me.
He looked good.
Those three guys were fun to watch.
Yeah.
But Bailey really...
shocked me because I thought
there was a gap between
ricky and jay and then him
and he's still like very
good and he looked great
yeah I think I actually had
jay crouch beating ricky in
the semi because I thought
jay had been making
incremental increases in his fitness
over the last year and a
half and he kept showing it
at the games last year at
Rogue very consistently and
then for Bailey to beat him
and uh and not be that far
behind Ricky was really
impressive that's going to
be a fun region to watch
for a long time and then
Peter Ellis is so young
And I actually picked those
four in my heat one app.
I think, I think me too.
He made me cry.
His interview at the end.
I teared up when he teared up,
like he was just crying.
I was like, Oh, that's so cute.
Cause you know how like,
you know how hard it is to make it.
So it's just like, yeah.
Just seeing someone get
emotional about making it.
I was like, yep.
And what's her face?
Is it Bella, her name?
Like you could see in her
eyes that she was even like teary eyed.
And that happened to me when
Hattie got interviewed at
the end of Northwest.
When she started to cry, I started to cry.
I just I've hung out with her all year.
And for this to happen is
just so freaking awesome.
I've been on cloud nine all day today.
All weekend, for that matter.
I did have a question for you.
Everybody's talking about
how awesome the broadcast was in Oceania.
And it was great.
They do eight-lane heats.
It makes it so much easier to watch.
I didn't realize that until
you see it and you're kind
of noticing it.
It's much easier to see the full floor
even when they're kind of
honing in than a 10 person heat.
Is that something that we
should look at going
forward for broadcast, especially?
Yeah, I don't know.
I guess it's possible.
I didn't even notice that like they, it's,
it didn't necessarily seem
longer to me watching that.
Cause there's always an extra heat.
There's five heats that way.
And I don't,
I didn't feel like it was
longer when I was watching those.
Well, I'll be honest.
I watched them in the
morning when I woke up,
and I fast-forwarded
through the first couple heats.
Yeah,
I don't know that we want to be
adding heats.
I think as a competitor,
the bigger the heat,
the more you know where you
are in the race.
As a spectator,
I don't think you want to
watch as many heats.
As a broadcaster and as
someone who's looking to
know the athletes better, sure.
But I think I would rather
have more people to just know –
To have more people racing
against me and just know where I am.
And I don't want to watch
five heats of things.
Yeah.
They're just person.
Yeah.
North America.
I could watch six heats.
I did it last year and I
enjoyed every bit of it.
Me too.
But I could not do that in Oceana.
I did not know 20 through 40.
Correct.
That was tough.
I mean, it's like the masters, right?
when you have all the different age groups,
it's like rewatching the
same workout for so many.
Oh,
she under brought to walk the rock star
show again, flames flying lights.
The dancers were back.
Yep.
Why can't that ever be done here?
Why not treat it like the
big event it is in the season?
I think we'd have to have a
certain venue that it's at
every year like they do
that is set up for that.
That stuff is there.
That's where it is every year.
But you can bring
flamethrower things in from
somewhere else.
That happens at every rock concert.
Maybe not in California.
Probably a rule against it there.
I mean, Vegas does that all the time.
Then maybe we need to go to Vegas.
Yeah.
Uh,
John Gonzalez says what's cool about
Oceana is the vibe.
You can feel the vibe
through the stream and you really can.
It, it was great.
Every, every bit of it.
Any other thoughts about Oceana?
No, I missed day one or two, whatever.
Like I didn't see anything
with that Zach Thomas coverage.
So was there any like update on that?
On what?
I'm sorry.
Zach Thomas withdrawing.
I did not get any update on that.
I was reading this comment.
Oceana semis, regionals,
and whatever it will be,
has been amazing since I've
watched Gantz in 2013.
Thing is,
I don't think CrossFit is booming here.
I just think we want to
support our friends.
Valid point.
So I disagree with Vi.
I was at West Coast Classic in Vegas.
I don't think it was empty.
But it was COVID.
It was still COVID at that point.
And the lower bowl was pretty full.
I didn't even see the lower
bowl a quarter full at this one.
Linda Jerry says, yes, he's okay.
He came to spectate on the
last day and cheers competitors.
That's your Zach Thomas update.
Thank you.
And that was a cardiac event, right?
Yes.
Okay.
Took me a minute to remember
that seems like three weeks ago now.
Oh, yeah,
he said he had it happen like
twice or something before,
but not to the extent that
it happened during event number one.
So I'm sure that was a very scary thing.
Wow, that's crazy.
So let's take them now.
Let's cap that.
And we've got one more week
of semis to go.
Okay.
We've got Carolyn Prevo up
next weekend in Knoxville,
Tennessee in the North America East,
trying to get her bid for
how many would this be?
Sorry,
the spin cycle of my dishwasher is
going on right now.
Qualifying would be my fifth,
but actually going to the
games would be my fourth
because I lost my spot in 2020.
Fourth time officially.
Are you prepped?
Are you ready?
Have you tested?
Feels like I've been testing
different parts of the
workouts and intervals of
the workouts for the past month.
But I'm as ready as I can be.
What are you most looking forward to?
Just trying to be consistent all weekend.
Like I don't see myself
having like home runs and I
don't see myself having bottom finishes.
I feel like I've been
visualizing good things
happening on each event and
just trying to maximize my points.
And I feel like I know what
type of athlete I'll be
there and who I'll be.
fighting against for points
and um yeah I mean I feel
like I'm not going to be
surprised because I I've
been prepared and I know
where like where I'll stand
ready for it uh john
gonzalez says do you think
north america east will be
as empty as west I don't
think it'll be as empty um
but knoxville has never
been a great draw that's true
It has never been a huge drop,
but they're doing a
community event this time,
and I'm anxious to see what
that brings to the table.
So there is an individual
competition one day,
there's a duo competition another day,
and there's three-person
teams on the other day,
all happening around the venue.
And if you participate in that competition,
you get free tickets to the event.
So I'm hoping that that
draws some people in.
Um,
and it's a cool venue because it's
there it's elevated seating.
So there's nobody standing
in front of you.
It's easy to get a good lay
of the land and the floor.
Um, and so again, I,
I want to pound this home.
If you've never been to a semifinal,
that is the time to go watch this sport.
It is much better at
semifinals than it ever is at the games.
Um, it is,
and if you want to meet athletes,
you're going to meet them at semis.
That's just the point blank
bluntness of it all.
So with that, please go.
Go root on to Carolyn next week.
She needs all the cheer squad she can get.
to get her to the games.
So now is that time that we
pick who we think is going
to go to the CrossFit Games
from North America East.
We'll start with the men
where Carolyn can participate.
We are not going to make her
participate on the women's
side and call out the
people she is going to beat
to go to the games.
So I will let Jamie go first for the men.
Okay.
And do you have these in order or not?
Um...
Ish.
Yeah, I guess.
Close.
Okay.
I do too.
Okay.
I have Adler, Pepper, Kronikov, Hopper,
Hatfield, Spencer, I think I put first,
then Travis Mayer, Luke Parker, Saxon,
Taylor Self, Will Morad,
and Tyler Christofo getting...
right on that, not making it again.
I have Adler, Pepper, Hopper,
Saxon Pancheck, Roman Krennikoff,
Jack Farlow, Spencer Pancheck,
Travis Mayer, Sam Cornway, Luke Parker,
and Taylor Self with Austin
Hatfield on the outside looking.
Dang, bold take.
Do you think he's going to
be too similar to Colton?
I just watched it play out.
I know.
Colton is fitter than he is.
And that was in a lesser division,
lesser region than the East.
Yeah.
Yeah, I might have to rethink that.
I don't know.
I'm trying to go through my
shot caller picks to see
where I think people are
going to pull more points.
Carolyn, your picks.
Jeff, Dallin, Roman, Hopper, Travis Mayer,
Saxon, Jack, Farlow, Cornoy, Vigneault.
I think this sets up well
for Vigneault with a bigger guy.
Taylor Self and Austin Hadfield.
I have Will Morad just on
the outside for right now
until I reflect a little
bit more on my picks.
Yeah.
I'm telling you,
you look at the next people
I didn't even mention on mine.
I'm like,
any one of those could be in here.
Yeah, there's so many people.
There are.
Yeah,
because I think Farlow could do
incredible.
Like, I mean, you guys both picked them.
But I also feel like you've
got Luke Parker,
who's a similar kind of athlete.
Alex Caron.
Yeah, that's what I was going to say,
Carolyn.
Luke Parker, Spencer.
Alex Caron, if his pec holds out.
I just don't know where he is.
If he can get through those muscle-ups,
he goes to the games, I think.
I just don't know if he can.
Lynn is asking,
you all have Taylor even
though that snatch event?
I don't think it's that.
It's squatting.
I don't think the nature of that one.
It'd be like if he had to do
a shit ton of pit.
I actually think workout two
is going to be tougher for
him to manage than that snatch event.
I'm not...
But then he has great double
unders and really good toes to bars.
Very good toes to bars.
Because his grip strength is really good.
Yeah.
And his upper body pulling is really good.
So can he – I think he's
fine going unbroken on those squats.
I don't think it's as heavy
as it could be.
So I think he'll be okay.
I have him just getting in
because he's willing to die for points.
I think he's going to do
good in the last event.
Like when he needs to do
good in the last event, he's,
he's one of the best in the
world at the ring muscle ups.
So I think he can take a
chance going fast on the
bike and still getting through those.
Now, I don't know if the knee,
if lunging like I,
that's the other question for me is,
is lunging at all something
that he was slow to come back to?
He does a lot of box step
overs and stuff like that.
I think in his programming.
So you would think that the
lunging would be a strong,
and he does a lot of like
dumbbell step ups.
So I feel like his grip
strength would be good for the dumbbells.
Yes.
So Kenneth says, so it's a big,
strong person bias semis.
I don't think so.
I think you have to have a fitness level.
You can't be tutor.
right?
Tudor killed the back half of this semi,
but because he didn't do
well in the front half,
he didn't make it.
Or Olivia.
Correct.
But I think,
but I think this level with that, I, yeah,
I think,
I think if you're a gymnast
specialist and a weightlifting specialist,
the weightlifting
specialist has more opportunities,
like a strong person to
stay relevant all weekend.
I think if you're efficient,
you stay in a better shape.
For sure.
I mean, if you're just fit overall,
that's the point.
Like you look at a Hattie Cano,
who she's not the biggest
athlete in the world,
but she is efficient at those snatches.
She's efficient at all of her movements.
And it just played out where
over the course of the weekend,
her thirds, her fifths, her fourths,
all led to her making the CrossFit Games.
So it's not necessarily big person.
It's who has the best
efficiency of movement.
And if you are bigger,
it's going to help you on the bike.
It's going to help you on the row.
It's going to help you lift some weight.
I just think that there's
more opportunities for a bigger person.
If you're smaller,
you need to be very well-rounded.
That's the thing.
You can have big holes as a
big person and be on the cut line.
Huge holes as a big person, strong person,
be on the cut line.
If you're smaller,
you need to be fit overall.
That's my observation.
And Hattie is fit overall.
She's well balanced.
Here's my hot take.
I think other than Jeff Adler,
Saxon Pancheck has the best
chance to win this regional.
Because he is extremely fit.
He has all the efficiencies of movement.
He's going to Justin Medeiros this thing.
And at the end of the weekend,
you're going to be like, oh gosh,
there's Saxon.
And everybody forgot about
him because he got hurt last year.
There's a lot of really
well-rounded athletes in the East.
So that's why I think it's
going to be very close.
Yeah.
Next week is like so unpredictable,
like crazy.
So now we're going to go to the women.
Do you want to go first?
You want me to go first, Jamie?
You can go first.
Okay.
So I have, I think Tia's going to make it.
Yeah.
Maybe.
These are in order.
Tia, Alexis Raptus, Emma Lawson,
Danielle Branden,
Paige Semenza, Annika Greer,
Amanda Barnhart, Haley Adams,
Carolyn Prevost, Caroline Stanley,
Fisa Goffey,
and Shelby Neal on the
outside looking in.
I have Neal on the outside too.
And Brooke Wells not making it.
Okay.
Just not confident in her shoulder.
Yeah,
I am struggling with both her and Amanda,
to be honest.
And I probably will rethink
this list at a later date.
But right now I have Tia, Emma, Alexis,
Danielle, Haley, Annika, Fi, Paige,
Brooke, Carolyn.
And who's on the outside?
Shelby on the outside?
That leaves Amanda Barnhart
right on the outside.
OK, but you have Shelby out, too.
I have.
Yep.
Basically, I go Shelby, Neil, the Hiller,
Ellie Hiller.
I feel like she could do
really well at a few of these events,
like kind of like Caitlin.
I don't know how she's going
to shake out the weekend.
Like,
I think she could I think she could
be top three in event one.
She's, I mean, she's a,
she's one of those longer,
she likes the long workouts.
Yeah.
I just talked to her last week and I,
I didn't get the sense, right?
Like I didn't, like,
I don't get the sense she
feels she's making it.
So I guess.
Yeah.
Well, I don't,
I don't think she will make it,
but I think she might be kind of close.
Maybe not.
Maybe she'll be.
Guardi.
Guardi Sanchez says Amanda
Barnhart is going.
If she's recovered, I think she goes.
For me,
I need to look at some things
between her and Brooke Wells.
I think with one of them,
the shoulder may not.
You got to remember those
ring muscles are going to
be pretty important in that event.
And if either of them break too many times,
it could be a place someone sneaks in.
There's so much change up in
that sixth event, in all these semis.
So Dennis O'Leary says,
I think Haley Adams will surprise.
It's just an unknown.
These are great workouts for Haley.
I have her top three.
The only reason I backed her
down was the snatch ladder.
I can see that.
I actually think her lifting is,
I think she might be
stronger than we remember.
And I think she's going to
surprise us in the snatch ladder.
And she's going to do
incredible this weekend,
this coming weekend.
Jasmine Edwards,
first half of the events
are test fitness and speed
while the second half test
strength and precision.
Sure.
But there's still like
handstand walking and
there's still muscle-ups
and there's still,
I think it's a good balance test.
And then Peter Benoit,
what's the over-under on MO1 TIA2?
For the games, that's what I have picked.
For this, too few of events,
it's going to be TIA.
Yeah, I agree.
Event six didn't go to plan
for 95% of the ladies in
the West compared to
training and testing.
That's from Tristan Patrick,
who just watched Hattie Kenyo,
his athlete,
punch her ticket to the CrossFit Games,
but bobble on the last event.
That would have been an
event I would have thought
she would have done quite a
bit better in than comparatively, so.
Linda Jerry says you're all
missing Erica follow.
She's the indie rookie.
I think we'll make it.
I have her written down.
So I had her there and
removed her and I'm going
to keep that close to my vest.
Why?
All right.
Uh, okay.
So now we'll go to South
America and make those
picks where Carolyn can join us again.
Okay.
So she doesn't talk bad
about her competitors.
So we'll let Carolyn go
first since she had to sit out.
Let's go women.
Women first there.
South America.
How many spots do they get?
Three.
Women first.
Oh, boy.
They get three spots.
Okay.
Campos.
Julia Cato.
I think it's Cato.
You just finished the spin cycle?
Yeah.
Okay.
And I just randomly picked Fusuma.
Okay.
The third one I have, I mean, I,
I don't know.
I've never seen the name.
jamie okay I have campos kit
kato and I actually think
that pinheiro like could
make it I kind of hope she
does is that a masters yes
so I have the same thing as
you hoping that pinheiro
has to get drug tested yeah
like send her okay that's
why that's why I recognize
the name she'll actually
she's gonna have to get if
she's in the top five
they're gonna drug test her
And I think she will be.
But I think some of these
events suit up very well for her.
She's good at ring muscle-ups.
She's good at squat snatches.
I mean, she's incredibly strong.
So, I don't know.
Alexis Tester.
Selfishly,
I hope she goes individual so
that she's not in my bracket.
Yeah.
Garty Sanchez says, Emma won is crazy.
Tia barely lost to Laura at Rogue.
And after that,
Emma was behind them by a mile.
It's been a year.
Emma is, what, 19 years old?
Tia hasn't been on the floor in a year.
There's a lot of unknowns.
And everybody just assuming
Tia is going to be the
exact same athlete she was
two years ago is, I think,
playing gambling a lot on that.
lex also said nobody wants
to say it but I will tester
we've said it we've said it
we want her tested all
right I think louisa
marquez will round out that
top five then we have the men okay
I'll go first.
Okay.
Gee first, Kalen Souza second,
and Heike Savani third.
Augustin Riquelme on the
outside looking in.
Okay.
I did Gee, Augustin, Savani,
and then Kalen looking in.
I have Gee, Kalen, and Riquelme.
Okay.
I think Lex makes a great point.
We don't even know the
athletes in South America
to say they need three spots.
Agreed.
Yes.
Agreed.
It's ridiculous.
We would rather have
Kersetter and Tudor and whoever.
I would put Guy on the outside.
He always has a hole.
Normally I would, but with the third spot,
I don't see how he doesn't get in.
I agree.
And I think these,
I think these will line up
pretty well for him.
He should do well in the
double under with the front squad.
He's very strong.
He's got great ring muscles.
I don't see any huge besides
maybe the run.
Yeah,
but he'll kill the jerk part of that.
And right.
We all know Campos is good,
but I think South American
leaderboard is going to be
shaken this year because of the way the,
The events are the events are this year.
I don't know.
The best,
the best person out of South America,
if we all agree is Victoria
Campos wouldn't make the
games in the east.
And yet they get three spots.
That's the crime.
Would she,
would she even have made the
semifinals in the east?
I do not have those numbers,
and I don't want to speak out of turn.
No comment.
She's got really good ring muscles.
She does have good ring muscles.
Not I know.
Really good ring muscles.
But it is clear cut.
When you look at the people
you have to leave off in the East,
she would not even qualify for
the east at all with 11
positions right yeah she'd
be lucky to finish top 20
for sure it's not a dig on
her it's just a fact of
yeah I don't know how they
got three that's crazy all
right africa are we doing
africa I didn't even do
that one but they only they
only get one right correct
Give me your one and two.
Give me your first out.
Keelan.
Yep.
Same.
Same.
I'll go Ruan Duvene.
Yep.
That's why I first out.
Okay.
In Africa.
Okay.
I don't know how to say her last name.
I'm picking her first.
I'm going Monique Schmidt.
Okay.
Because I can say it.
Gemma Burke.
Okay.
There we go.
I have Gemma Rader first out.
That's why we're the best
analysts in the business.
Right there.
Did Lex beat you on Shot Caller this week?
Now that there's like 17 of them,
she probably beat me in all of them.
This is the problem.
This is my problem with Shot Caller.
I said this to Jamie this
weekend I think I know
something that other people
don't know so I go for the
long shot and then I pay
for it like event one in
the west I thought Emily
White would pull it off she
always does good and run
lift events I didn't
realize that Emily White is
not as good this year as
she was last year
yeah I uh she's another one
I had close to the top line
instead of making the safe
pick that's what I do and
so I am done with that I'm
just gonna make the safe
pick that I think is
correct and stop playing
these games yeah so that's
that's my problem because
I'm tired of losing to lex all the time
so I have a quick question
for event four the
handstand walk row who is
who's like top notch in the
east men wise I'm
struggling to pick them at
uh for event one no event
four the hands yeah who's
gonna do well in event four
hand checks are great on their hands
For the men.
Yeah.
For the men.
I'm struggling with my heat one pick.
Sam is very fast on his hands.
I know that.
I don't know if he has the
power output on the rower.
Cause I think the rower has
a big factor in it.
Which, so I'm kind of guessing pepper.
Cause I think he's quite
fast on his hands and he will,
but I also feel like, I think like,
I think Luke Parker is good
on his hands and will row fast.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I'm struggling with that one.
That's like my one east heat
one shot color that I'm struggling with.
So it makes the game so much
fun and the east is going
to be harder than any of the other ones.
Hopper too, maybe.
Yeah.
Because it's just a straight race.
If there were obstacles,
I'd take Saxon every day of the week.
But straight run, I don't know.
On the women's side, it's pretty easy.
Yeah, that's what I'm going to ask.
It's just the one.
Carolyn, get to work.
Getting that dub.
Picking myself for every event.
Train to Live says,
we all know DB is winning
that one for the women.
That's just, she's just a freak with that.
Like there's, I think Lydia fish will,
well, she's fast on her hands.
I don't know how fast she'll row, but I,
but I think she'll be up
there in that event.
Who's that?
Lydia fish.
Okay.
Um, yeah.
So that's our previews for next week.
I think I'm going to Knoxville.
to cheer on carolyn to get
some content to broadcast
live from there jamie's
gonna run the man the ship
from home or she's gonna
find a way to get there I'm
gonna try my hardest
whether if I drive thursday
night through the night or
how long is that for you
like eight hours just over
if she just drive to me
then I could drive the rest
of the way I have to be
here thursday though
Like I, I can't go as soon as you,
but I can try to be there by Friday.
I got to teach Wednesday
morning and then I'm
getting on the flight.
I'm taking a half day.
I didn't want to take a full day.
And then do you have to
teach Monday morning like previous years?
No, I'm actually,
I didn't find a flight late
enough on Sunday.
So I was going to miss my
day on Monday anyways.
So I'm going to teach on Tuesday.
Okay.
We're going to finish up the
show with a couple things
that happened this week.
The first is I made another
appearance around the whiteboard.
Carolyn was supposed to take
out Colton early, but because she didn't,
I lost by half a point to Colton Mertens.
But after what happened this weekend,
I'm glad he got a win.
Too soon, Scott.
Too soon.
Well, if you watch,
and I know you didn't
because you had stuff going on this week.
Kiefer actually said in that
episode that Colton would
not make the games and
would be sitting in drug
testing hoping someone
popped at the end of the weekend.
Oh.
And who knew that that was
actually foreshadowing what
actually did happen.
And Kyra gets the last spot for him too.
That's a double.
Yep.
Yeah, it was a good episode.
It was tied after every
round by a three-way tie.
And then the last round,
Colton won by a half point.
Yeah, that was a good show.
A lot of good takes.
I'll tell you this, though.
Doing it almost three weeks
in a row because I was in
the last group to go regular semifinals,
finals three weeks in a row,
that's a lot of stress and research.
And Carolyn, who has done it twice,
should know it's a lot, isn't it?
But it's fun.
But three weeks in a row was
almost too much.
But it was fun.
And then the last thing we
have on the list is Dave Castro's.
We can review where he talked about media.
And that was put into our notes by Lex.
So the only thing that I
know that happened on that
episode is that he
responded to Andrew Hiller
and him not getting his
credentials for any of the semifinals.
And the reason why he didn't,
because all he does is post
negative things about CrossFit HQ.
and challenged Andrew to
make a video of positive
takes on CrossFit HQ,
which Andrew did put
together a clip of 12 shows
where he was somewhat
positive about CrossFit HQ.
A few of them were stretches, I think.
Very small little positives.
My take on the whole thing, though,
is that
when we,
when I'm going to try to say this calmly,
when we look at personal
vendettas against other
media or against the media
that are covering your sport,
you're doing nothing but
hurting your sport by shutting him out.
He's still going to produce content.
He's not going to stop.
And all it's doing is
fanning the flames to come at you more.
If you invite him to semis,
he'd be busy going around
getting interviews and
stuff like he did last year
and not posting about all this stuff.
And he is the second largest
media company in the business.
And I said this on Around the Whiteboard.
It'd be like the NFL saying, CBS,
we don't want your business.
We don't want you covering what we do.
And we're willing to give up
a third of our ratings.
No professional sport is going to do that.
And there are networks that
say bad things about the NFL.
There's networks that say
bad things about the NHL.
It used to be a famous
Canadian broadcaster who
would just bash the NHL forever.
And they never stopped him
from coming or stopped.
They would hire him because
people would watch him.
Talk about Don Cherry?
That's who I'm talking about.
I mean, he eventually got fired,
but... Right,
but... Some of his takes
that were across the line,
so he eventually... How
many... When he was like 80, right?
So he was around a long time
before the firing.
That's all I'm saying.
CrossFit needs to start
reaching out to third-party media,
not alienating third-party media.
They need to use them.
And share their stuff on their page.
Yes.
Like it's already,
it's already done for the
work is done for them.
So use,
use the content that you like from
the third party.
You don't have to grab
everything from the third party,
but the stuff that is promoting, you know,
what the good stuff that's
happening in the space,
that's the stuff that you share.
And if you don't like the stuff,
then you don't share that part.
Let me use this as an example.
How many people were in the
crowd at West coast classic?
Six.
So I did all these
interviews leading up to
semifinals with all these
athletes that were going to
be there to get to know them.
I tagged West Coast Classic
in every single one of
those with the reels after
it was done and worked my
ass off to make sure I had
a reel out from every
interview that went to West
Coast Classic before West
Coast Classic came out.
How many of those got shared
by either West Coast Classic or CrossFit?
That's a missed opportunity
by West Coast though,
because those are great
little reels and just get
to know the athletes.
Like they, they did a couple, you know,
past stuff from syndicate.
They like featured a few athletes,
but like those interviews
and those reels are really well done.
Yeah.
I mean, I work hard on those and,
and I'm not the only person
doing things like that.
I'm just using that as an example.
Other people do things like that.
It's just a share.
I'm tagging them.
All they have to do is share
it to their story.
That's it.
And they, and they don't even do that.
And we're here trying to help them.
And what do we get in return?
Two weeks notice that we're
approved for media
credentials to get to the
place and no shares.
It's ridiculous.
Were they mad at you for calling them out?
And they're like,
we're not sharing his stuff.
Well, like when I called them out,
they were very apologetic.
They sent me an email saying,
how can we rectify this?
You're of course you're approved, blah,
blah, blah.
But that didn't make the
plane ticket any cheaper.
Right?
Yeah.
You,
Yeah,
you rectify it by sending a plane ticket,
I guess, is the option there.
Like, I didn't know I have time.
If you share my stuff,
then maybe my viewership
goes up a little bit.
And then it's easier for me
to come cover you even more.
And now we're working in
tandem instead of working
against each other.
Like and subscribe.
Ah, so that's, that's the part of,
that's the part of old
school CrossFit that I get
really upset about that we
need to get rid of.
That's the history we need to get rid of.
Yeah.
I agree.
I think, I think that's a.
trending problem with with
dave especially vi kind of
says it here this was my
thought when I was
listening I listened to the
dave right before because I
told you I hadn't but so I
went and listened um and vi
says other people have
reported being shut out
blacklisted by dave for
ticking him off I think
this decision was pretty in
line with his behavior in
the past I think I think
CrossFit in general seems to
be just a bunch of yes men
and things just keep going.
The bad things aren't
obviously not getting...
talked about and fixed they
just I think they just have
a bunch of yes men around
them and so you what you're
telling us as media is
don't say any bad things
about us don't criticize us
because you're not going to
cover it you're we're not
letting you into anything
that's what that telling
hillar you're not welcome
tells every other media
space you better get in
line that's not good no
Well, on another take, well,
let's go here first.
Jasmine Edwards says you got
to shake things up to get a result.
I think she meant hit Hiller.
Miller speaks on things that are tough,
but may come across,
may not come across easy,
but CrossFit listens.
And do they listen?
This is my,
the people they listen to are
the unsilent minority.
Like the age group
semifinals having to not
start until a Friday because people work.
If you are serious about
competing in age group
semis and you want to go to the games,
you will find a way to get
those workouts done.
Just because three people
bitched about it doesn't
mean you change it for everybody.
Yeah.
So there's that let's okay.
I'm tired of ranting tonight.
So, uh, John Gonzalez, if,
is there an athlete you
guys think in North America
East who will surprise
everyone that you did not
mention in your qualifying spots?
Probably.
I just don't know enough about her,
but I think, I mean,
that that'll be the surprise.
I think Jamie's right.
I think Ellie Hiller could surprise,
especially the first day, first two days.
Yeah, I don't know.
No comment.
On the men's side,
I think everybody's been
talking about Austin Hatfield.
I'd have to look at the leaderboard.
What about Benoit Boulanger?
You know what?
I did think about him.
I don't know.
He's training with Jeff all the time.
He's training with Carolyn.
That's true.
I think he'll be close to the cut line.
I don't know enough about him, but...
I'm telling you that cut
line could go to 20th and
we'd still be like, it's like Jerry,
I think Draystrom could
have a exceptional semis.
I think,
I think Seth Stovall's incredibly fit.
Like, yeah,
I'm just trying to think of
people that don't have that, that name,
like behind them,
like some of the others.
Yeah, not, I, let me open up the list.
Yeah, I only wrote down so many.
I think Alex Caron is a
sleeper because of what
he's been through.
I think you can never count
out Jack Rosema.
I was just going to say him.
Yeah.
But just like the Tetlo
Mertens Hatfield thing we talked about,
he's similar in stature,
but I think he's a little bit stronger.
So I would go with like Jack Rosen.
I think that would be my
sleeper pick out of this list.
And he was,
he was right on the cut line last year.
That's a good pick.
Yeah.
So there's so many, like there's like,
it's like 20 people
fighting for 11 spots.
Really?
Yeah.
Even more probably like it's
just going to depend on
what kind of weekend people have.
Uh, how do you think?
How do you,
you didn't have Christa fell in, did you?
Do you have him like even close?
I'm always ruined for him.
I feel like he just needs,
he just needs to shot.
Yeah.
i talked to will morad last
week last friday I think
he's really wants to try to
be the first duo to do
games both masters and
elite I think he just wants
to be the first yeah victor
hopper is a big guy no but
he's super fit and he moves
very well yeah yes he moves very well so
and one more ad always seems
to find a way I agree
that's why I have him there
just like cole sager yeah
kim and cole sager are that
cockroach you just can't
get rid of and when it
comes to announce who's
going to the games they're
the last name mentioned
like he's going to do well
in that running workout
right away I think he has a
really good snatch doesn't he yeah
he's going to do great in
the muscle up the last
event he's just he he kills
a bike that he gets to do
that twice he's got he's a
good handstand walker isn't
he well he's great at
handstand push-ups yeah I
don't know how that
translates fast on his
hands his shoulder
endurance must be pretty darn good
Ken.
He's not the biggest guy for the row,
though.
Now you're comparing Jamie
Higia and myself.
You're just being John Young, Ken.
Same, same.
Really different.
Maura did not retire Bruce.
We haven't had a master's athlete qualify,
right?
Nope.
Nope.
So is Will.
Will's the last chance.
I guess there's no,
there's one master female.
Pinero.
No, no, no.
And I guess, yes, she could.
In the East for the females.
And then she'll pop and it'll all be over.
She did.
What was the one that,
that one crash happened?
Oh, Kloots.
Yeah.
I don't think she has shot.
No, I know,
but I'm saying that there's not
many that are in the field yet.
Yep, Carolyn Kloots.
Yeah,
Will told me last week he's not retiring.
He's going to keep competing
until he can't anymore.
Until the wheels fall off.
Ride that, boss.
And he's back with TTT and
feels like a new lease on life.
Did you see the TTTs moving?
They're merging or something, right?
So forever,
one half of the building was
Travis Mayer's affiliate,
United Performance,
and the other half was TTT,
the competitive piece.
They're merging into one company.
They were in the same building?
They were.
Okay, this only makes sense.
Yeah.
But now they're moving to a new location.
Oh, and a new location.
Yeah,
remodeling that and merging as a
business.
Cool.
Good on them.
I think it's going to be awesome.
They've got a lot of
athletes in the last year.
They have.
I've interviewed a lot of
people who are TTT athletes.
I was shocked.
Yep.
And Travis Mayer actually is
coaching an athlete for the
first time in Kirinapoli.
Oh, I did not know that.
Yeah.
She was actually born and
raised in Alpharetta and
has known Travis her whole life.
And she just wanted a coach
that she trusted and knew.
And Travis eventually wants to be a coach.
And so he took her on with
the stipulation that he had
to be able to get to his kids, his wife,
all those things.
And so, yeah.
It sounds like that has
helped Alexis a ton having Kira there.
Yeah.
She said her and Alexis in
the last three months have
become super tight.
Yeah.
So... Yeah,
they're supposed to be having
renovated bathrooms at the new facility.
So... And hopefully we'll
have Travis on the show soon.
He did commit to kind of coming on, so...
yeah it's been it's funny
the semi-final series
people who I didn't get a
chance to ask have been
reaching out to me and
saying hey can I come on
after semis or can I come
on so uh so yeah I actually
asked travis but he was
busy this week so yeah got
something going on next
weekend or something
But yeah.
All right.
I think anybody else got anything?
Go do Murph.
I did half Murph today.
Oh, good.
Yeah.
And I wanted to make sure I
was recovered if I went to Knoxville.
Yeah.
I did.
We did it yesterday.
We,
we've always done it on Monday and do
like a barbecue at the gym
and we wanted to shut down.
So we did it Saturday
morning with the barbecue
yesterday and it was nice.
I'm glad that it's done.
I think I'm the least sore
I've ever been from Murph.
I partitioned.
I, I've like never partitioned Murph.
I was like,
I'm going to be hurting tomorrow.
So Alex wants to know when
Carolyn's coming on for the
semifinal series.
I don't know what I would
even ask her because I
always ask her stuff on here.
Yeah.
We're good.
And then Kenneth says,
bearded Scott is always upset.
Great riffs when Scott does have a beard.
Did you do half Murph with a partner or?
just did it myself I had a
beautiful morning today
it's supposed to rain
tonight and tomorrow so I
got it in when I could um
plus I needed to be outside
I just needed to
What's your scaling for the pull-ups?
Did you do at home or did you go to?
So I scaled.
I did it at home.
I biked.
I actually biked a mile
front and back and did it
half the middle.
And I did it with ring rows
and then push-ups and squats.
Oh, you have a set of rings at home.
Nice.
I do.
i do yeah and I did I
started full push-ups and
then I went to knee
push-ups about halfway
through they went away hard
yeah they go away for all
of us yeah so all right
well hey harley mom says
great show uh wood or
plastic rings I have wood
rings I actually bought like
It seems almost 10 years ago now.
I bought a Charlie package from Rogue.
Oh.
So it comes with like an Ohio bar.
Yep.
Set of 45s, 35s, 25s, 10s.
Rings.
Does it come with a wall ball?
Yep.
Wall ball, kettlebell.
Yeah, it was a nice little cool kit,
and I've had it on.
And then last week,
I get a message from Andrew Sten,
who I haven't seen in here lately,
but that Rogue was moving
out of their original location,
and any equipment left behind was free.
Yes.
And I was in it.
So Rogue's original location
on Steel something Drive.
Like where their store is?
Not their new warehouse?
Not the new warehouse, the old, old store.
They were using it as a warehouse.
So they put on Facebook or something, hey,
we're all moved out.
All the equipment that's
still here is free.
Come and get it.
I'm about to drive to Ohio.
I almost asked you to go
over there for me.
I couldn't get out of training to go.
If you don't get there within the hour,
it's all gone.
Yeah, there's no way it's still there.
Oh, there's no way.
No, I was like considering I'm three,
three hours away.
I was considering getting
the car and I was like, I won't make it.
If Scott can't make it, we're screwed.
Yeah.
The,
the garage sales they used to have
where they would just
discount everything like an hour.
It looked like, I mean, it was,
everything was gone.
Yeah.
I would have hauled ass down there.
Andrew said they gave a two hour window.
That was it.
That's like Christmas and
birthday and every... And
it's literally a few
minutes from my house.
Oh, my gosh.
When you posted that you were in training,
I was so upset.
I was like, I need to go back.
I would have left.
Midwad, I'm going.
Well, this was training for work.
Still.
The job that comes from...
Bathroom break.
Yeah.
That's a long bathroom break.
Judy Reed said,
our gym went and everything was gone.
Grandview got it all.
CrossFit Grandview is
literally like half a block away.
So they went and grabbed
everything and didn't leave
anything for anyone else?
That's how it works.
And for people who don't
know the history of Rogue,
CrossFit Grandview used to
be Rogue CrossFit.
It was Bill Henniger's affiliate.
When he started Rogue,
he sold the affiliate off,
but he wanted to keep the name.
So he made them change the
name and it became CrossFit Grandview.
And that's why they're only
a half a block apart.
Now Rogue's a crosstown.
Yeah, their new warehouse is huge.
Huge.
It's a whole city block.
I still think it was so cool
to do a rope climb in the
middle of an aisle and go
over and under the logs.
That's still super cool.
Well, when they did the first rogue,
it was there in the warehouse.
This is their new one.
Right.
That's what I'm saying.
The first Rogue Invitational.
That's where it was.
The first part of the day
was outside in what is now
the parking lot.
It used to be grass.
And then the second part of
the day was in the warehouse.
It was so cool.
So cool.
And then 17.3,
17. whatever open
announcement was in the warehouse.
And then they did.
Don't they have a brand new one?
That's where it was.
It was just being billed at that time.
And then 22.2 or 3 was in
the showroom of the new facility.
That's when Saxon went
against Justin and Laura
went against Emma.
I'm trying to picture it.
i was I was at all of them
that's why I know andrew
said their newest um
warehouses in their
european location true uh
who is the latest rogue
athlete after agent uh
ariel lowen she's got a cool t-shirt
she does very smart of her
to not have like her name
on it and stuff because
just like people just want
to buy a shirt and it's
like the line looks great
um like it's just like an
easy shirt to to buy it
where I just think it's
good marketing it's just
perfect yeah I actually
bought one they're really
cool I think lex did too
what she has is mine
anyways so yeah true 50 50.
All right.
With that, we'll let everybody go.
We've got a big week ahead.
I'm going to Knoxville.
I'll just say it now.
I'll be there,
and we'll do some stuff from there.
Hopefully, Jamie can join me.
If not,
we'll have her man the center from home,
and we'll do some shows.
And now we're getting a
squabble going on in the chat.
With that, thank you, everybody,
for being here.
This was a great time.
Chat was on fire tonight.
And we will see everybody
next time on the Clydesdale Media Friday.
Nope.
Sunday night CrossFit talk.
That's what we are tonight.
I hope it's a great Sunday, guys.
There we go.
Great Sunday.
Bye, guys.
Bye.