Sunday dawned heat and sunny with a slight breeze, and the longest exercise of the weekend kicked off the ultimate day of the staff competitors on the 2025 TYR WZA Miami.
The groups had been reseeded as the ladies entered the TYR Area to get the motion began. Right here’s what went down.
Occasion 4: Race To The High
For Time:
1 as much as 10 reps of:
- rope climbs
- field leap overs, 36/30-inches, all 3 athletes, alternating
- cleans, 255 / 175 kilos
Time Cap: 16 minutes
The Girls
With the 1-up-to-10 rep scheme, athletes can’t go too laborious too early if they need an opportunity at a strong time — you might be solely midway by means of the exercise when you full the spherical of seven.
- Blacklisted’s Dawgs (Brooke Thomas, Amanda Fischer, and Madison Jefferson) got here out robust within the first warmth, with Fischer flying solo on the barbell the complete approach, taking the warmth win at 14:46.
Because the occasion progressed, it grew to become obvious that the keys to success had been environment friendly transitions, particularly early on, and having not less than one staff member who might do touch-and-go cleans because the reps elevated.
- Each Mayhem Baywatch (Zoe Jones, Molly McGrandy, and Stevie Dellinger) and Group Kriger (Ragnhild Seim, Oda Lundekvam, and Vår Thurmann-Moe) executed this plan to the T within the third warmth, battling it out on the ultimate 10 cleans into a photograph end.
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The ultimate warmth introduced out a few of the heavy lifters, with Swedish Home Mafia (Lena Richter, Emelie Lundberg, and Emma Tall) and Group NUSA (Astrid Tind, Mia Furu, Frederikke Mollerup) preventing for the occasion win.
- Group NUSA saved sufficient within the tank for the ultimate spherical of cleans, with Tind holding on for an enormous chunk of reps. They gained the occasion, and Tind’s coming-out social gathering this weekend is greater than solidified.
When requested about transitioning from particular person to staff competitors by sideline reporter Bella Martin, Tind replied:
- “I feel that was a simple transition as I’m used to being on a staff, so that is extra my jam. I actually loved it,” she stated.
The Males
The lads realized by watching the ladies full Occasion 4, because the quickest groups’ transitions appeared crisp.
- Within the first warmth, it was Group Wod9 (Adam McAdams, Hayden Jaco, and Tim DeAraujo) and the One Minute Males (Owen Bernstein, Mateus Ferro, and Zachary Gibbon) battling till the tip, with proficiency on the heavy barbell integral to their success.
Group Tonka X Comradery, led by Nick Mathew donning his signature crop high, annihilated the heavy cleans, with he and Brandon Schipper splitting the ultimate 10 reps to snag the brand new time to beat within the third warmth (Greek athlete Alex Kotoulas is the staff’s third member).
The groups within the ultimate warmth did a unbelievable job taking part in to the power of their staff members, with athletes like Gui Malheiros, Jack Farlow, and Chandler Smith doing most, if not all, of the cleans.
- Close to the tip of the occasion, it grew to become a four-horse race between the PJ’s (Jeff Adler, Pat Vellner, and Jayson Hopper), the Sculpted Students (Farlow, Benoît Boulanger, and Tudor Magda), Mayhem Tres Leches (Malheiros, Jorge Fernandez, and Saxon Panchik), and The Boys (Smith, Noah Ohlsen, and Travis Mayer).
Mayhem Tres Leches received to the bar first within the ultimate spherical and snuck out the win over the PJs.
Occasion 4 Outcomes
- Group NUSA (12:53.72) | Mayhem Tres Leches (11:24.75)
- Swedish Home Mafia (12:00.39) | PJ’s (11:28.45)
- Group XND (12:43.89) | Sculpted Students (11:29.63)
Occasion 5: 3334
The groups headed to the Reign Sandbox to tackle Occasion 5.
3-3-3-4 Minute Rounds
Every spherical buy-in:
- At identical time – 60 VELITES heavy dubs | 500-meter/400-meter Assault row | 400-meter Assault run
With the remaining time full:
- 60 synchro single-arm dumbbell thrusters, 70/50 kilos
- 40 synchro single-arm dumbbell snatches, 70/50 kilos
- 20 synchro single-arm satan’s press + thruster, 70/50 kilos
Time Cap: 13 minutes
The Girls
After Occasion 4, the women walked into the Reign Sandbox with the leaderboard all jumbled.
Not one of the groups within the first warmth completed the exercise, with Group 5 Guys clocking eight reps within the ultimate set of 20 to depart the competitors flooring with the rating to beat.
- The leaderboard might be reseeded heading into the ultimate occasion, so groups went particularly laborious within the sand.
British Frog Squad (Lucy Campbell, Jennifer Muir, and Tayla Howe) and Tres Leches (Jessi Smith, Aimee Cringle, and Anikha Greer) accomplished their ultimate buy-ins first, placing them barely forward and getting them to the satan’s presses and thrusters first.
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No staff completed the exercise, and it may very well be a winner-take-all all heading into the ultimate occasion.
The Males
With solely two heats on this occasion, there was a whole lot of racing. The time cap was aggressive, with just one staff – Group GOWOD (Justin Medeiros, Jayson Hopper, and Willy Georges)
– finishing the occasion.
- The Maritime Boyz and Make America Match once more battled for essentially the most reps within the first warmth.
As the ultimate warmth started, The Boys and Tres Leches entered the Reign Sandbox tied in factors, and solely 20 factors separated the highest 5 groups.
- Group GOWOD was the primary staff to the satan’s press + thrusters, managing to get a rep within the ultimate three-minute time area. They put the pedal down within the first interval and had been the one staff to complete the occasion.
Using teamwork, Justin Medeiros defined to Bella Martin how they completed the occasion:
- “We simply actually performed to one another’s strengths…man it felt actually good to be the one staff to step on that end line,” he stated
Occasion 5 Outcomes
- British Frog Squad (cap+386) | Group GOWOD (12:56.54)
- Tres Leches (cap+385) | The Boys (cap+392)
- Reebok Crew (cap+385) | PJ’s (cap+392)
Occasion 6: The Trio Triplet
It’s a detailed struggle for the rostrum as the ladies took the ground.
Relyte Salt Baes had a 12-point lead over Swedish Home Mafia, with Yeti Outkasts and Group NUSA shut behind.
For Time:
- 150 ping-pong wall balls, 30/20 kilos
- 75 synchro toes-to-bar, 2 athletes
- 150-foot worm lunge
Time Cap: 12 minutes
The Girls
This occasion was all about teamwork with crisp transitions and execution in the course of the wall balls and toes to bar, establishing groups with a slight lead as they went into the worm lunge.
- It was an thrilling race to the end within the third warmth, with three groups going step for step on the lunges — the British Frog Squad got here away with the warmth win.
With 21 factors separating first from fourth place, the ultimate warmth might come all the way down to seconds.
- Group Kriger received to the rig first, but it surely was Relyte Salt Baes who picked up the worm first.
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Yeti Outkasts shortly took the lead on the lunges, in the end taking the occasion win, and Group NUSA did all the pieces they might to make a run on the podium, ending second within the warmth.
The Males
Like the women, the fellows had zero points with the wall balls, with most groups simply finishing 150 as a staff unbroken.
Most groups selected to do units of ten on the toes to bar earlier than subbing in a teammate.
- Within the third warmth, CrossFit 1124 constructed a lead in the course of the lunge, and after a elaborate shoulder swap on the turnaround level, they faltered barely however nonetheless pulled out a warmth win.
With a number of groups in earlier heats posting quick occasions, there may very well be some groups taking part in spoiler for the rostrum, with first by means of fourth place solely separated by 12 factors heading into the ultimate warmth.
- Mayhem Tres Leches jumped up on the pull-up bar first, however the cycle charge of Group GOWOD allowed them to realize some floor. Nonetheless, it got here all the way down to a race on the finish, with groups lunging shortly throughout the ground.
Mayhem Tres Leches, Group GOWOD, and The Boys had been step-for-step till a expensive no-rep prompted the Mayhem staff to drop the worm.
The staff historical past of The Boys got here into play as they took benefit and pulled out the occasion win.
Chandler Smith summed up his emotions in a post-event interview:
- “No secret, we’re getting outdated…I by no means would have imagined again then, once I was a Lieutenant within the Military, that I might nonetheless be competing now or that I might nonetheless be aggressive, or I might have the possibility to make reminiscences with dudes nearly as good as these of us in entrance of a crowd nearly as good as this.”
Occasion 6 Outcomes
- The Boys (8:16.08) | Yeti Outkasts (8:43.53)
- Mayhem Tres Leches (8:22.66) | Group Nusa (8:46.84)
- Group GOWOD (8:24.41) | Group Nubymi (8:56.78)
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