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The 2025 CrossFit rulebook has been launched.
- There are some key adjustments for the upcoming season that athletes and Open contributors ought to know as we head into what’s shaping as much as be a really busy yr within the sport of CrossFit.
Remind Me
The discharge of this yr’s rulebook got here later than final yr however is mostly in keeping with previous seasons, making 2023 an anomaly.
CrossFit set its personal deadline for the start of Open registration, which it met.
Right here’s an inventory of when CrossFit HQ has dropped its rulebook in current historical past:
- 2025 Season: January 10, 2025
- 2024 Season: December 21, 2023
- 2023 Season: November 15, 2022
- 2022 Season: December 28, 2021
- 2021 Season: January 7, 2021
- 2020 Season: August 28, 2019*
*The Open occurred in October in 2020
- 2019 Season: January 7, 2019
What’s New in 2025?
As with each iteration of the CrossFit Video games, there are each main and minor adjustments to this season’s guidelines.
Listed here are 5 high-level takeaways. We’ll dig deeper beneath:
1. New Season Construction
The primary large change, which was introduced beforehand, is that there will probably be no extra Quarterfinals. As a substitute, athletes will progress from the Open on to Semifinals after which to the Crossfit Video games.
Most athletes who qualify for Semifinals will compete on-line through the digital, In-Affiliate Semifinals.
- Based mostly on the worldwide Open leaderboard, the highest 1%* (or a minimal of 1,200 athletes) within the Particular person males’s and ladies’s divisions will qualify to take part in Semifinals.
- All groups from the Open will probably be eligible to take part within the Staff Semifinals with an opportunity to qualify for the CrossFit Video games.
- The highest 2%** (or a minimal of 200 athletes) in every age-group division will qualify to take part within the Age-Group Semifinals.
The brand new Group Cup will take the place of Quarterfinals for 99% of athletes who select to take part. (See extra on this beneath.)
2. Digital, In-Affiliate Semifinals
The 2025 Semifinals is actually a web-based competitors, the place athletes are required to finish the exercises at an affiliate in good standing and submit a video of every exercise.
There are extra standards for in-affiliate judges throughout Semifinals. These embody the designation of a Head Decide and a secondary decide, and that each should have a present L1 or larger and have accomplished each the 2025 Judges Course and Superior Judges Course.
3. A New Approach to Qualify to the CrossFit Video games – In-Particular person Qualifying Occasions
This yr additionally sees the introduction of one other avenue to qualify to the CrossFit Video games – by way of the ten partnered CrossFit Video games qualifying events.
- In whole, 18 males and 18 ladies will qualify by way of these occasions, which occur between April and June.
4. Fewer Athletes on the Video games
For the previous 4 seasons, the CrossFit Video games roster has featured 40 males and 40 ladies. This yr’s CrossFit Video games area will embody simply 30 males and 30 ladies.
5. Prize Cash
This yr’s prize cash will probably be decided primarily based on Open registration, which has remained at $20 USD. The extra individuals who do the Open, the better the prize purse to fund every stage of competitions all through the season. (See breakdown beneath.)
- Value noting: Every Qualifying Occasion will award its personal prize cash. Northern California Traditional has introduced a $156,000 prize purse, with $85,000 going to the Elite/RX divisions.
In Appendix F of the rulebook, CrossFit gave an instance of the breakdown ought to there be 300,000 Open contributors. (Final yr, 344,396 individuals registered for the Open.)
With 300,000 Open contributors:
- The female and male winners of the CrossFit Video games would take house $367,500 every.
- Second place would obtain $73,500, and third place $58,800.
- In comparison, first place acquired $315,000, second earned $125,000, and third $85,000 final season.
On this similar instance with 300,000 Open contributors, Semifinal winners would take house $11,250, whereas second place would earn $5,400 and third $4,950. Final yr, Semifinals winners took house $10,000, whereas second place earned $7,000 and third place $5,000.
Here’s what a single $20 Open Registration would seem like, break up between the a number of award alternatives in the course of the 2025 season:
- $10 goes on to CrossFit LLC, after which the remaining $10 is break up amongst the Open, Particular person Semifinals, Particular person Video games, Affiliate Cup, Divisional Video games (Masters and Adaptive, there isn’t a prize cash for Teenagers).
| Cut up of $20 | Class | Proportion and Extra Element |
|---|---|---|
| $2.00 | Open – Affiliate Prizes | 20% – Cut up between participation and efficiency prizes paid in $2,500 Rogue Present playing cards to prime 17-18 associates per prize class per area |
| $0.50 | Open – People | 5% – High Particular person Performances (M/F; 1st-Third weekly and total) |
| $0.30 | Particular person Semifinals | 3% – Awarded to 1st by way of eleventh place. On-line Particular person Semifinals solely; not in-person CrossFit Video games Qualifying Occasions |
| $4.90 | Particular person Video games | 49% – Awarded to 1st by way of twentieth place |
| $1.00 | Affiliate Cup Video games (groups) | 10% – Awarded to 1st by way of twentieth place |
| $1.00 | Masters | 10% – Particular payouts for divisions not offered |
| $0.30 | Adaptive | 3% – Particular payouts for divisions not offered |
Notable Dates for the 2025 CrossFit Season
The CrossFit Open
- Exercise 25.1: February 27 – March 3
- Exercise 25.2: March 6 – March 10
- Exercise 25.3: March 13 – March 17
Semifinals and In-Particular person Qualifying Occasions
- Registration for Age-Group In-Affiliate Semifinals Opens: March 31
- Age-Group In-Affiliate Semifinals: April 3-6
- Registration for Staff In-Affiliate Semifinals Opens: April 7
- Staff In-Affiliate Semifinals: April 24-27
- Adaptive Semifinals: Might 8-11
- Registration for Particular person In-Affiliate Semifinals Opens: April 14
- Particular person In-Affiliate Semifinals: Might 1-4
- Particular person In-Particular person Qualifying Occasions: Early April–Early June
Particular person, Staff, and Divisional CrossFit Video games
- 2025 CrossFit Video games: August (Precise date TBA).
- 2025 Masters CrossFit Video games by Legends: Aug. 21-24
- 2025 Teenage CrossFit Video games by Pit Teen Throwdown: Aug. 21-24
- 2025 Adaptive CrossFit Video games by WheelWOD: Sept. 9-13
- Pairs Competitors by Masters Health Championships: October
A Nearer Have a look at the Particulars
The 2025 CrossFit Open
1.08 Open Registration – Area Choice
For the 2025 season, aggressive areas could have no bearing on the competitors. They’ll solely function a filter on the leaderboard.
- The seven aggressive areas from 2024 stay the identical, and there’s a full checklist of nations, states, and territories, cross-referenced by aggressive area, in Appendix C of the rulebook.
- In keeping with the rulebook, “Residency on the shut of the primary Open rating submission window will probably be used to find out an athlete’s area.”
It needs to be famous that some In-Particular person Qualifying Occasions will use aggressive areas as a requirement for registration, along with Open end and on-line qualifier outcomes. (E.g., Insurgent Renegade Video games, Syndicate Crown, and The Fittest Expertise.)
1.33 Open – Prizes
A share of every Open registration charge will probably be used to fund the prize purse for every stage of competitors all through the season.
Through the Open, Particular person athletes and associates will probably be awarded prizes.
- There will probably be weekly first-, second-, and third-place winners for each women and men, primarily based on efficiency. Moreover, there will probably be an total prize for first-, second-, and third-place women and men as soon as the leaderboard is finalized following 25.3.
The worth of every Particular person prize is set by whole Open registration and will probably be introduced on the shut of the registration interval.
- Associates will even be awarded prizes ($2500 Rogue reward playing cards) primarily based on participation and efficiency. Efficiency is predicated on Groups efficiency within the Open, and participation is predicated on whole registrations on the affiliate. The rulebook notes that CrossFit will audit the registration numbers of profitable associates to validate them previous to awards being handed out.
- Affiliate awards will go to the highest 18 associates in North America East after which the highest 17 in all different areas. CrossFit mentions that extra prizes will probably be allotted to every area as whole registrations develop.
- To be within the prime 18 within the North America East area in 2024 an affiliate would wish to have registered 156 Open athletes.
Semifinals
2.02 Semifinals – Judging and Video Necessities
Particular person and Age-Group divisions will probably be required to submit movies of all exercises after they submit their scores.
- Movies should be submitted through a publicly viewable YouTube hyperlink/URL. No different video internet hosting platforms or codecs will probably be accepted. CrossFit notes that if a video is about to non-public or is blocked or eliminated due to copyright points, it might end in a zero-score penalty.
2.01 Semifinals
The second stage of the CrossFit Video games season is now Semifinals. Based mostly on the worldwide Open rank, the highest 1%* (or a minimal of 1,200 athletes) within the Particular person males’s and ladies’s divisions will qualify to take part in Semifinals.
- Particular person and Age-Group athletes MUST full the exercises at a CrossFit affiliate and MUST submit scores with movies for every exercise.
- Groups MUST full the exercises at a CrossFit affiliate. So long as the workforce completes the exercises collectively, they’ll full them at a special affiliate than the one they characterize.
Age-Group athletes, 16-54, are eligible to compete within the Particular person Semifinals ought to they qualify primarily based on the Particular person males’s and ladies’s worldwide leaderboards. They could additionally compete on a workforce in the course of the Staff Semifinal in the event that they have been listed on the workforce roster in the course of the Open.
CrossFit will present rating submission directions and occasion particulars main as much as and all through the competitors.
2.02 Semifinals – CrossFit Affiliate and Head Decide Requirement
All athletes (Particular person, Age Group, and Groups) which have registered for Semifinals MUST full the exercises at a CrossFit affiliate in good standing.
With a purpose to host Semifinals, the CrossFit affiliate might want to assign a Head Decide to supervise the competitors.
The necessities for a Head Decide are:
- Maintain an lively CrossFit Stage 1 credential (or larger).
- Full the 2025 Judges Course.
- Full the Superior Judges Course.
The Head Decide should be on-site and launched in every athlete’s video throughout every exercise of the competitors.
- It’s the duty of the Head Decide to uphold the necessities and requirements of the competitors, together with evaluation of ultimate scores submitted by every athlete of their affiliate.
2.05 Semifinals – Choosing a Semifinal competitors roster – Groups
Through the registration course of for Semifinals, groups might want to declare their Competitors Staff roster.
- Staff managers can solely choose eligible athletes (see Part 1.13 for eligibility guidelines) from their Open workforce roster to maneuver ahead on the Competitors Staff roster.
A Competitors Staff roster will encompass:
- A most of 6 athletes: 3 males | 3 ladies.
- A minimal of 4 athletes: 2 males | 2 ladies.
These athletes will characterize the workforce for the Semifinal. Athletes within the Particular person and Age-Group divisions are eligible to be a member of a Competitors Staff roster.
Any athlete who has certified and chooses to compete within the Particular person Semifinal is eligible to be listed on the Competitors Staff roster ought to they select to compete in each divisions.
- As soon as the members of the workforce have been chosen by the workforce supervisor, the Competitors Staff roster is locked for the Semifinal. Solely the athletes on the Competitors Staff Roster will probably be eligible to compete for the workforce in the course of the Semifinal.
2.07 Semifinals – Judging and Video Requirement
Along with the Head Decide talked about in 2.02, all athletes (particular person, age group, and groups) should use a second registered flooring decide throughout every exercise who holds the next:
- Maintain an lively CrossFit Stage 1 credential (or larger).
- Full the 2025 Judges Course.
- Full the Superior Judges Course.
Each the Head Decide and the Ground Decide will must be named within the rating submission.
- Because it reads, these can’t be the identical particular person however two separate judges.
For Particular person and Age Group athletes, ALL WORKOUTS are REQUIRED to be submitted with a publicly viewable YouTube hyperlink/URL.
- No different video internet hosting platforms or codecs will probably be accepted.
For groups, the rulebook notes that movies are usually not required at rating submission however could also be requested to submit movies of their efficiency.
2.08 Semifinals – Occasion Format
Particular person, Age-Group, and Staff athletes will compete in a sequence of exercises all through their competitions.
- All rating submission deadlines should be met, and there will probably be no exceptions for late scores.
The competitors will happen over the course of 1 weekend wherein athletes might want to carry out exercises and submit scores. Scores won’t populate on the general public leaderboard till after the shut of the competitors window.
The 2025 Semifinals dates are:
- Age Teams: Thursday, April 3, at 12 p.m. PT till Sunday, April 6, at 5 p.m. PT.
- Groups: Thursday, April 24, at 12 p.m. PT till Sunday, April 27, at 5 p.m. PT.
- People: Thursday, Might 1, at 12 p.m. PT till Sunday, Might 4, at 5 p.m. PT.
The precise variety of exercises to be accomplished will probably be launched previous to the competitors.
All scores will stay hidden from the general public leaderboard till after the competitors has concluded. As soon as the competitors has concluded, the evaluation interval would happen the place all movies, for People and Age Teams, will probably be publicly obtainable for evaluation and penalties could also be assessed.
- For extra data on video evaluation and the penalties course of take a look at sections 2.10A by way of 2.12 in addition to Appendix D & E; we extremely counsel all competing athletes learn these sections of the rulebook in full and evaluation them together with your coach and decide.
2.13 Semifinals – Leaderboard Finalization
Leaderboards won’t be ultimate till after the evaluation course of is full. Solely after this time will athletes know if they’re advancing to the following stage of competitors. CrossFit will make an announcement when every leaderboard is ultimate.
- The Age-Group leaderboard will probably be ultimate no later than April 21, 2025.
- The Staff leaderboard will probably be ultimate no later than Might 2, 2025.
- The Particular person leaderboard will probably be ultimate no later than Might 19, 2025.
Be aware: Within the case of People who’re planning to compete each within the In-Affiliate (on-line) Semifinal and in In-Particular person Qualifying Occasions, there are two in-person Qualifying Occasions—French Throwdown and TFX Invitational—that might happen after the In-Affiliate Semifinal weekend however earlier than the leaderboard could also be finalized.
2.14 Semifinals – Staff Development
In contrast to earlier years, just one workforce per affiliate can advance to the CrossFit Video games.
- If an affiliate has a couple of workforce that finishes in a qualifying place, CrossFit will invite the following eligible workforce on the leaderboard.
- Any workforce who advances could have the chance to substitute any athlete who competed for the affiliate in the course of the Staff Semifinals.
If an affiliate had a number of groups compete in Semifinals, they’ll rework their Video games competitors roster with any of the athletes from any of their groups.
2025 CrossFit Video games Qualifying Occasions
3.01-3.02 – CrossFit Video games Qualifying Occasion
An extra possibility for particular person women and men to qualify for the CrossFit Video games will probably be by way of a choose variety of Partnered CrossFit Video games Qualifying Occasions.
Qualifying occasions are accountable to program and administer their very own competitions.
- These competitions might invite athletes and embody qualifying rounds or different standards at their discretion.
Athletes who earn a ticket to the Crossfit Video games by way of a Qualifying Occasion should even have positioned throughout the prime 1% of the Open to advance.
- Every Qualifying Occasion will ship a minimum of one man and one girl to the CrossFit Video games.
There are presently 10 Qualifying Occasions within the 2025 CrossFit Video games season and 18 CrossFit Video games tickets obtainable by way of this pathway.
If an athlete finishes in a qualifying place in a number of competitions, they are going to retain their Video games invitation from the primary competitors from which they certified.
- Their rank will probably be handed over in subsequent competitions (On-line Semifinals OR Stay Occasions) and the Video games invitation given to the following in line (i.e., backfilled). This course of will repeat if the second-place finisher has earned a Video games invitation and so forth.
Every Qualifying Occasion will award its personal prize cash.
Group Cup
4.01, 4.02, 4.03 – Group Cup
After the Open, all opponents could have the prospect to compete in a brand new competitors: The Group Cup.
- Anybody who submits scores within the Open will mechanically be given a “stage” primarily based on their efficiency, of which there are 10.
Athletes who select to compete within the Group Cup will then compete in opposition to others of an analogous stage—there will probably be 5 completely different tiers, two ranges every, in the course of the Group Cup—decided in the course of the Open.
- The competitors will contain three exercises and should be accomplished between Monday, June 9, and Sunday, June 15.
The registration charge to take part is $30.
Gender Classification Coverage
9.01 Gender Classification
For 2019 by way of 2024, the CrossFit Video games rulebook contained a “Transgender Coverage” that allowed an athlete to pick out a gender apart from that assigned at delivery after they registered to compete within the Open.
That coverage has now been changed by the “Gender Classification Coverage” that reads:
- “All athletes are welcome to take part in CrossFit Video games occasions. Nevertheless, to take care of equity and the integrity of the competitors, athletes should compete within the division comparable to their gender assigned at delivery.”
Drug Testing Coverage
1.03, 3.03, 5.18, and eight.01 – Drug Testing Coverage
The Drug Testing Policy is talked about by way of the rulebook with callouts within the Open, Semifinals, Qualifying Occasions, and the Video games.
In every case, CrossFit reiterates that each one People, Groups, Age Teams, and Adaptive athletes are topic to drug testing, particularly these that could be awarded prize cash and qualify to the CrossFit Video games or Divisional Video games.
- For the Qualifying Occasions, CrossFit states that “whereas the Qualifying Occasions are unbiased, CrossFit will conduct drug testing at these occasions as drug testing is required for any particular person athlete to advance to the Video games whatever the path that they might select to get there.”
In part 5.18, CrossFit goes additional into the drug testing that may happen on the CrossFit Video games for Particular person athletes and Staff athletes in addition to for Age-Group athletes on the Divisional Video games.
- Particular person, Age-Group, and Staff athletes will probably be topic to drug testing at any time in the course of the competitors.
Athletes chosen for drug testing will probably be notified by Athlete Management personnel.
The next athletes will probably be chosen for drug testing on the finish of the competitors:
- High 5 total particular person women and men.
- High 5 total groups, all members.
- High 5 total Masters athletes, women and men, in every division.
All athletes are topic to drug testing at any time, however the prime 5 particular person women and men, all members of the highest 5 groups and the highest 5 within the Masters throughout all males’s and ladies’s divisions will probably be examined for positive.
Within the sections of the rulebook about prize cash, CrossFit notes that drug testing should be accomplished earlier than prize cash can be issued.
Nevertheless, the rulebook seems to state that not all athletes and groups inside a rating of receiving prize cash will probably be topic to required testing on the finish of Video games competitors.
- Whereas the highest 5 athletes are required to be examined, the highest 20 for People and Groups are proven to be within the cash for the Video games.
The Appendices
Appendix D: On-line/In-Affiliate Competitors Tips
With portion of the Video games season occurring nearly, CrossFit has added a set of “On-line/In-Affiliate Competitors Tips”
These pointers embody:
- Setup Consideration: A top level view of how athletes are to arrange their exercise areas to offer enough area for motion.
- Video Submission Necessities: A top level view of any video submission violations that may end in a rating of 0.
- Penalties: CrossFit has included an in depth part outlining attainable athlete errors and the penalties that may end result, together with each main and minor penalties.
- Video Submission Finest Practices: A top level view of finest practices for athletes when contemplating their digicam setups for video submissions.
- Weight Conversions: A top level view of normal weight conversions from kilos to kilograms for use for all on-line competitions. It was additionally famous that the checklist was not exhaustive and that if a weight was not listed beneath and appeared within the on-line competitors format, CrossFit would come with it within the motion requirements.
Appendix E: Public Evaluate Tips – Particular person and Age-Group Semifinals
New to the 2025 season is a public evaluation course of. “As a part of the web Semifinal evaluation course of for the Particular person and Age-Group divisions, movies of all exercise performances will probably be made public on the leaderboard,” in accordance with the rulebook.
These pointers embody:
- Necessities for public evaluation and evaluation choices: A top level view of the necessities if an individual want to evaluation public movies and the evaluation choices.
- Timeline: The time interval wherein public evaluation will be executed and when movies will probably be reviewed.
- CrossFit Video games inside evaluation: The timeline and particulars for when HQ will evaluation movies and provides penalties.
Extra CrossFit Information
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