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We’re simply two weeks away from the beginning of the 2025 CrossFit Open and greater than midway to the submission deadline for 25.1, on Monday, March 3.
- That’s the date after we could have an entire image of the entire registrations for this yr’s Open.
Earlier than we get into what occurs from right here, a bit of housekeeping.
The every day CrossFit Open registration reporting has been working for 27 days, so it’s time to examine in. I spotted I by no means actually went into what I’m sharing and what insights it brings.
The reporting I share every day on @known_knowable on Instagram is a check-in from 4 totally different angles:
- Depend up from Day 0 to the ultimate day of the registration interval.
- Depend down from the primary day of the registration interval to the ultimate day.
- Prize purse funding.
- Whole registration by Aggressive Area.
Let’s focus at this time on “counting up” and “counting down.” I’ll tackle the opposite two after 25.1.
Depend Up
This one was requested by a follower on Instagram. It was introduced up that the countdown chart wouldn’t examine nicely since 2024 began with 20,982 registrations versus the 8,904 registrations in 2025.
- I obliged, and I just like the alternate view it offers versus the countdown model, which we are going to contact on in a bit.
At current, listed here are the final three days of numbers, when checked out from a Depend Up perspective:
| Day | 2025 | 2024 | Distinction | Diff % | 2025 Every day Progress | 2024 Every day Progress |
| 24 | 68,452 | 106,700 | -38,248 | -35.85% | 2,263 | 5,033 |
| 25 | 70,506 | 109,754 | -39,248 | -35.76% | 2,054 | 3,054 |
| 26 | 73,179 | 113,103 | -39,924 | -35.30% | 2,673 | 3,349 |
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When taking a look at these two years aspect by aspect, it’s clear that the entire registration numbers had been nicely previous the 100,000 mark at this level in 2024. We’re nonetheless not there for 2025.
- The every day Instagram story offers most of what’s proven above however doesn’t contact on the every day progress when aspect by aspect. Over the last three days, the 2024 common progress was 3,812. We’re at the moment averaging 2,230, which is a distinction of -1,482.
That is what the every day progress appears like when 2024 and 2025 are in contrast:
To this point, solely day 14 and day 21 have a complete every day progress larger than their 2024 counterpart.
| Day | 2025 | 2024 |
| 14 | 3,349 | 2,930 |
| 21 | 3,177 | 2,995 |
In the identical interval, there have been seven days wherein the entire registration — together with particular person, age teams, and adaptive — didn’t crack 2,000 whole registrations in a 24-hour interval.
| Day | 2025 | 2024 |
| 4 | 1,746 | 3,581 |
| 5 | 1,944 | 2,575 |
| 6 | 1,965 | 2,339 |
| 7 | 1,743 | 3,143 |
| 8 | 1,923 | 4,026 |
| 11 | 1,949 | 2,234 |
| 18 | 1,999 | 3,547 |
For 2024, there isn’t any single day through the registration interval earlier than 24.1 the place there have been fewer than 2,200 every day registrations.
Excluding day one, the common every day progress to date for 2025 is 2,571/day. For a similar interval in 2024, it was 3,685/day. That’s a distinction of -1,114/day.
Depend Down
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The “counting down” chart of the every day monitoring is what it feels like.
This is identical monitoring that was accomplished every day in 2024, and I see it as the very best comparability.
From my understanding, that is what CrossFit HQ makes use of as nicely, however their model has the entire years of registration on it.
- Observe: For the 2022 season, that knowledge was pulled by a distinct supply for Morning Chalk Up and doesn’t embody Adaptive or the 14-15 and 55+ Age Teams as these usually are not a part of the ‘Open divisions’ which can be from 16-54 for women and men.
This can be a higher comparability as a result of no matter when Open registration begins, which has barely totally different dates annually, the countdown at all times goes to the submission deadline of week one in all “Open Exercise XX.1.” Finally, that’s what we construct towards yearly.
- Observe: The ultimate whole is after week three of the Open is finalized. CrossFit makes use of the ultimate Open registration quantity on the finish of the 25.3 submission deadline for the prize purse calculation. We’ll hit on that later.
The registration window remains to be open after the conclusion of week one, nevertheless it’s flat compared to the opposite days.
Former CrossFit HQ workers have confirmed that they function below the understanding that the ultimate 10-14 days are when registration actually heats up.
At the moment, HQ noticed round 50% of whole registrations. A subset majority of these registrations occur from the day earlier than the primary Open announcement via the registration deadline in week one.
Here’s what 2024 appeared like within the final days across the announcement via the submission deadline:
Here’s what 15 and 10 days out appeared like for 2022 via 2024 in comparison with their finish whole:
| 2024 | 2023 | 2022* | |
| 15 Days Out | 152,773 | 137,902 | 144,171 |
| 10 Days Out | 175,019 | 163,377 | 199,470 |
| Announcement | 272,565 | 273,150 | 221,394 |
| After Deadline | 342,792 | 321,969 | 276,149 |
* – Doesn’t embody adaptive or 14-15 and 55+ age teams.
- As you’ll be able to see, exponential progress occurred in these previous couple of days, with registrations leaning increasingly into the times after the announcement in 2023 and 2024.
We’ve got kept away from any forecasting because of this.
- Observe: The Open kicks off in 16 days, however based mostly on the ‘Days Out’ from the submission deadline, we’re at the moment at 20 Days. By this time subsequent week, we must always begin to see what 15 after which 10 days out from the week one submission deadline appears like.
Let’s dive into this week’s numbers.
First, to set the desk, listed here are some fast dates and data for the 2025 Open:
- Registration began on January 15 at midday PT.
- CrossFit Open Exercise 25.1 begins on February 27 at midday PT.
- CrossFit Open Exercise 25.3 ends on March 17 at 5 p.m. PT.
That provides us 43 days through the registration interval and 18 days as soon as the Open begins.
The schedule could be discovered here, and you may register for the 2025 CrossFit Open here.
Open Report – Weekly Replace 3
We are actually 27 days into registration and 16 days till the Open 25.1 submission date. Knowledge beneath is thru day 26.
Based mostly on aggressive divisions, the present registration progress appears like this:
Based mostly on aggressive area, the present registration progress appears like this:
The registration whole is at the moment rising by a mean of round 2.57k every day after the preliminary day one whole of 8,904.
However what does that seem like in comparison with earlier years?
Throughout the identical days in 2024, the common day-over-day addition of registrations was 3.68k after the preliminary day one in all 20,982.
- The chart above, which is a year-over-year comparability chart counting all the way down to the submission date for XX.1, now has 2023 knowledge in addition to 2022. Observe: 2022 solely consists of the ‘Open’ division, not the 14-15 or 55+ age group divisions or Adaptive divisions.
As of the publishing of this text, that will equate to $731,790.00 in whole prize cash divided into the next classes:
| Video games – Particular person | $358,577.10 |
| Video games – Groups | $73,179.00 |
| Open – Particular person | $36,589.50 |
| Open – Affiliate | $146,358.00 |
| Masters Video games | $73,179.00 |
| Adaptive Video games | $21,953.70 |
| On-line Semifinal | $21,953.70 |
This can be our weekly monitor because the Open approaches and we undergo to 25.3. I will even publish every day check-ins at @known_knowable on Instagram.
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