The 2025 CrossFit Open has ended — and now, the whole prize pool comes into focus.
In complete, 235,524 athletes registered for this yr’s CrossFit Open, based mostly on reporting pulled simply after the shut of exercise 25.3. This equates to a complete prize pool of $2,355,240.
- I’ll clarify what which means for the Fittest on Earth, the Affiliate Cup Champion, and all prize winners in a second.
At an estimated $2,355,240, the 2025 Video games season prize purse is the bottom to start out a season since 2016’s $2.2 million complete, which was sponsored by Reebok.
- A caveat: The 2020 prize purse was to be over $3 million, however resulting from adjustments to the season, due partially to the pandemic, the purse ended up being $1.8M for the person competitors that occurred. It broke down as $500,000 for sixth by twentieth place and $1.3 million for first by fifth place within the in-person last in Aromas, CA.
Massive Takeaways
- Half of the $4,710,480 raised by Open registrations will go to the prize purse and half to CrossFit LLC.
- The prize purse is $2,355,240, which is the bottom for the reason that 2016 season.
- In response to Uncover Albany, there is no such thing as a incentive program for CrossFit like there was in Fort Price.
- The remaining $2,355,240 from Open registration will probably comprise the working finances for the CrossFit Video games, a considerably decrease quantity than lately.
When CrossFit introduced that it will break up Open registration and that fifty% would comprise the Video games prize purse, I wrote the following:
- “One large factor: CrossFit is betting large on group backing as they are going to now fund the prize purse for the season based mostly upon 50% of each $20 Open registration price.”
It was a giant wager.
Now, two months later, was it well worth the gamble? Did CrossFit LLC have a selection?
What Concerning the Different 50%?
Earlier than we talk about the 50% that makes up the 2025 CrossFit Video games season prize pool, let’s contact on the opposite 50% that goes to CrossFit LLC.
As a non-public firm, that cash allocation is fully as much as them, however it’s vital to notice the current previous and potential future for CrossFit.
Final week, Don Faul, CEO of CrossFit LLC, confirmed the rumors that CrossFit LLC is up for sale from Berkshire Partners.
Whereas potential, it’s unlikely that adjustments to Video games funding will happen whereas a sale is open and ongoing. Nonetheless, a possible new proprietor might purchase the corporate and sweeten the pot in the event that they selected to both add to the prize pool or improve the Video games and protection. In fact, that may rely upon the sale being finalized within the subsequent 5 months.
In earlier seasons, CrossFit LLC is estimated to have earned the next from Open registration:
Word: This calculation relies on complete registration numbers multiplied by the $20 USD Open registration price.
That is only for the Open. Within the final 4 seasons, CrossFit additionally had the Quarterfinals, which was an invitation-only second stage of competitors for the highest 10% of Open finishers from 2021 by 2023 and the highest 25% in 2024.
In these 4 seasons, CrossFit introduced in a complete of $5.67 million, which broke out to:
Word: This calculation relies on complete registration numbers multiplied by the corresponding Quarterfinal registration charges for every division.
The full quantity earned through registration this yr is $4,710,480, down from $6,869,920 for Open registration and $2,228,250 for Quarterfinals registration in calendar yr 2024.
That was over $9 million in pre-Semifinals registration charges. In 2025, that complete is all the way down to $4.71 million.
And 50% of that goes to the prize purse.
In contrast to earlier seasons, from the early 2010s by final yr, this season doesn’t have a presenting sponsor or a prize purse sponsor.
- This yr, the prize sponsor is you, the Open group.
Prize sponsorship might change between now and August when the CrossFit Video games happen in Albany, NY.
Talking of the host metropolis: In 2024, the town of Fort Price and the state of Texas, by the state’s Occasion Belief Fund Program, signed an settlement with Visit Fort Worth and CrossFit LLC to pay $773,731.00 to host the Video games in Fort Price, TX.
- The town of Fort Price would pay $106,722.00, and the state of Texas would fund $667,009.00.
The settlement, which Morning Chalk Up obtained by FOIA request, between the town of Fort Price, Go to Fort Price, and CrossFit states that the funds will go towards bills incurred from holding the ultimate occasion within the host metropolis, together with:
“Promoting and advertising and marketing promotions, Awards for the Occasion, Rental value, Emergency medical technician/ Medic companies, and Bills associated to well being screening and security protocols for the occasion.”
As of this text’s publication, the newest Texas Financial Growth & Tourism Workplace Event Trust Awarding report exhibits $0.00 paid to CrossFit and Go to Fort Price (excel report dated 2/28/25):
For 2025, Discover Albany, the tourism group that helped convey the Video games to Albany, confirmed that it isn’t conscious of incentives for internet hosting the Video games in upstate New York.
Jay Cloutier, Uncover Albany’s Sports activities Commissioner, instructed the Morning Chalk Up, “Uncover Albany shouldn’t be conscious of any incentives being supplied to CrossFit for internet hosting [the 2025 CrossFit Games] in our Vacation spot.”
- He continued: “The Group at giant, by the LOC (native organizing committee), is working arduous to rally current service assets to give attention to guaranteeing a secure, profitable Video games and facilitating the local people’s enjoyment of the video games with out interruption to the traditional ongoing actions inside our vibrant group.”
Whereas there was no presenting sponsor like Reebok or NOBULL in 2024, CrossFit introduced that attire sponsors GORUCK and Northern Spirit would fund the prize purse.
If the Video games is with out funding from the host metropolis, a prize purse sponsor, and is now utilizing 50% Open registration funding for the prize purse, the place would the cash come from to host the Finals of the CrossFit Video games season?
That is the gamble.
With 50% of Open registration going to CrossFit LLC, this pot of cash will probably fund the CrossFit Video games, together with contributions from the eleven sponsors presently listed as occasion companions, together with Rogue Health and america Border Patrol.
CrossFit has, nevertheless, moved some funding allocations off their books for 2025 and added an extra alternative within the Community Cup for all of the group to fund the Video games.
The opposite qualifying parts of competitors for the Particular person and Workforce divisions transfer on-line or are being hosted by In-Particular person Occasion organizers. Dave Castro said on his Week in Review (3/17/25) that the Group Cup registration won’t go towards prizes however will fund the Video games and “all the pieces else we do.”
- “For the Group Cup,” Castro stated, “that cash isn’t going to prizes like [the Open]. That’s simply serving to facilitate and placed on all the opposite issues and the Video games basically and all the pieces else we do.”
Is $2.35M sufficient base to placed on “the final word proving grounds for the Fittest on Earth”?
The 50% Prize Pool
The opposite gamble by CrossFit was placing out hypothetical numbers.
There was no requirement to do that, and it might have athletes questioning why they had been instructed a prize quantity that wouldn’t come to be.
- We even noticed Dave Castro’s Instagram post calculating what the prize purse can be and stating 250,000 registrants is “extra life like, hope it’s increased than that.”
It didn’t hit. This was the large wager that went to the below.
In Appendix F: Prize Money Distribution, HQ calculated the division prize purses for the 2025 season by utilizing 300,000 hypothetical members for example.
With 64,476 fewer registrants, it seems the rulebook will should be up to date, and quantities that had been said in January must be edited all the way down to align with actuality in March.
Based mostly on Open registration, right here is the prize purse breakdown:
Word: Earlier than we get too far into it, all calculations are based mostly on Appendix F within the 2025 CrossFit Video games Rulebook. The CrossFit Video games crew will finalize and formally announce them.
Particular person – CrossFit Video games Prizes
The CrossFit Video games Particular person competitors may have a complete prize purse of $1,154,067.60 to crown the Fittest on Earth. The lads’s and girls’s divisions may have matching complete prizes of $577,033.80, with $288,516.90 going to the Fittest on Earth and $57,703.38 and $46,162.70 going to second and third place.
First place by twentieth place for the People will appear like this:
| Placement | 2025 | 2024 | YoY Distinction |
| 1st | $288,516.90 | $315,000 | -$26,483.10 |
| 2nd | $57,703.38 | $125,000 | -$67,296.62 |
| third | $46,162.70 | $85,000 | -$38,837.30 |
| 4th | $40,392.37 | $60,000 | -$19,607.63 |
| fifth | $20,196.18 | $45,000 | -$24,803.82 |
| sixth | $15,579.91 | $40,000 | -$24,420.09 |
| seventh | $14,425.85 | $35,000 | -$20,574.15 |
| eighth | $12,694.74 | $32,000 | -$19,305.26 |
| ninth | $12,117.71 | $29,000 | -$16,882.29 |
| tenth | $11,540.68 | $26,000 | -$14,459.32 |
| eleventh | $9,809.57 | $20,000 | -$10,190.43 |
| twelfth | $8,655.51 | $18,000 | -$9,344.49 |
| thirteenth | $6,924.41 | $15,000 | -$8,075.59 |
| 14th | $6,347.37 | $14,000 | -$7,652.63 |
| fifteenth | $5,770.34 | $13,000 | -$7,229.66 |
| sixteenth | $5,193.30 | $12,000 | -$6,806.70 |
| seventeenth | $4,616.27 | $11,000 | -$6,383.73 |
| 18th | $4,039.24 | $10,000 | -$5,960.76 |
| nineteenth | $3,462.20 | $9,000 | -$5,537.80 |
| twentieth | $2,885.17 | $8,000 | -$5,114.83 |
| twenty first | $0.00 | $7,000 | -$7,000.00 |
| twenty second | $0.00 | $6,750 | -$6,750.00 |
| twenty third | $0.00 | $6,500 | -$6,500.00 |
| twenty fourth | $0.00 | $6,250 | -$6,250.00 |
| twenty fifth | $0.00 | $6,000 | -$6,000.00 |
| twenty sixth | $0.00 | $5,750 | -$5,750.00 |
| twenty seventh | $0.00 | $5,500 | -$5,500.00 |
| twenty eighth | $0.00 | $5,250 | -$5,250.00 |
| twenty ninth | $0.00 | $5,000 | -$5,000.00 |
| thirtieth | $0.00 | $4,750 | -$4,750.00 |
Workforce – CrossFit Video games Prizes
For the Affiliate Cup Championship (Groups Division), the profitable affiliate will obtain $70,657.20,, and second and third place will obtain $47,104.80 and $35,328.60, respectively.
First place by twentieth place for the groups will appear like this:
| Placement | 2025 | 2024 | YoY Distinction |
| 1st | $70,657.20 | $100,000 | -$29,342.80 |
| 2nd | $47,104.80 | $75,000 | -$27,895.20 |
| third | $35,328.60 | $45,000 | -$9,671.40 |
| 4th | $16,486.68 | $30,000 | -$13,513.32 |
| fifth | $8,243.34 | $25,000 | -$16,756.66 |
| sixth | $6,359.15 | $15,000 | -$8,640.85 |
| seventh | $5,888.10 | $12,000 | -$6,111.90 |
| eighth | $5,181.53 | $9,000 | -$3,818.47 |
| ninth | $4,946.00 | $6,000 | -$1,054.00 |
| tenth | $4,710.48 | $3,000 | $1,710.48 |
| eleventh | $4,003.91 | $0 | $4,003.91 |
| twelfth | $3,532.86 | $0 | $3,532.86 |
| thirteenth | $2,826.29 | $0 | $2,826.29 |
| 14th | $2,590.76 | $0 | $2,590.76 |
| fifteenth | $2,355.24 | $0 | $2,355.24 |
| sixteenth | $2,119.72 | $0 | $2,119.72 |
| seventeenth | $1,884.19 | $0 | $1,884.19 |
| 18th | $1,648.67 | $0 | $1,648.67 |
| nineteenth | $1,413.14 | $0 | $1,413.14 |
| twentieth | $1,177.62 | $0 | $1,177.62 |
Associates Prize Purse (New for 2025)
New this yr, Crossfit can also be awarding prizes for the highest associates within the type of Rogue Health reward playing cards, every of which is $2,500.
Participation relies on complete registrations by 25.3 in every competitors area, and efficiency relies on the top-performing affiliate groups in every competitors area. An affiliate can not win each participation and efficiency prizes.
The full allocation appears to be like to be:
- The highest 94 taking part associates every get a $2,500 Rogue Health reward card.
- The highest 94 efficiency associates every get a $2,500 Rogue Health reward card.
The full allocation is unfold over the seven aggressive areas with round 13-14 winners in every area: North America East, North America West, Europe, South America, Oceania, Asia, and Africa.
Open Prize Purse
Total Finishers – $58,881.00
- 1st Place – $14,720.25
- 2nd Place – $8,832.15
- third Place – $5,888.10
Particular person Weekly Performances – $58,881.00
- 1st Place – $4,906.75
- 2nd Place – $2,944.05
- third Place – $2,747.78
In-Affiliate (On-line) Semifinal
- 1st Place – $8,832.15
- 2nd Place – $4,239.43
- third Place – $3,886.15
- 4th Place – $3,532.86
- fifth Place – $3,179.57
- sixth Place – $2,826.29
- seventh Place – $2,473.00
- eighth Place – $2,119.72
- ninth Place – $1,766.43
- tenth Place – $1,413.14
- eleventh Place – $1,059.86
Masters and Adaptive Prize Purse
Presently, CrossFit, Legends, and WheelWOD haven’t launched the breakdown of prize cash allocation for first by third in every of their divisions.
Their complete allocation based mostly on registration on the time of the 25.3 submission deadline is:
- Masters – $235,524.00
- Adaptive – $70,657.20
Prize pool allocation calculation supplied by Fran Lung Analytics.
Open Report – Weekly Replace 8
The info beneath is updated by the submission deadline of Week 3 on March 17 at 8:10 p.m. ET.
Based mostly on Age Group Divisions
Based mostly on Aggressive Area
Previous 4 Years – Worm Chart
- 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 information in addition to 2022. Word: 2022 solely consists of the ‘Open’ division, not the 14-15 or 55+ age group divisions or Adaptive divisions.
We may have another Open Report subsequent week, which can give attention to 5 the explanation why the group didn’t register for the 2025 Open.
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