And you want to keep your life private. OK, hello. I got nervous. They were live. Welcome back. It's been a while for me. Guys held down the Fort. Tyler, you happy not to be hosting right now? I I figured it out the second week. I think the second week we were fine, the second week we were fine. I was that first week. I don't. Know first week I was so pissed off. Yeah, Austin, it was a fucking well, Eric, we made it past 30 seconds. It was a mess. We were in California.
It was seven and and Taylor and Bryson running around behind me. I had been at the I'd been in California all of an hour and we were trying to do this show and I was not prepared and John was upset. You'll have that on the big dumps. Yeah. Who is who is that guy? Yeah, it's been a little bit, little bit, but actually the most important guest right now. Austin Hatfield games rookie qualified this past weekend. Welcome to the show. Thanks for having me.
We need a, we need some cheer. We need how does how does it? Yeah, we need a we need a sound bite. How does it feel? Awesome. Feels good. Some relief. Were you scared at work for? Something. After the snap, Slatter. No, I know I could do good enough on that last workout. Actually did a lot better than I did and got a little bit of a no Rep at the end and didn't stand dumbbells all the way up so I had to come back. Yeah, I saw that. I want to go back though.
When the workouts were released, what was your initial reaction like? Did anything change when you saw the workouts? Like, these are kind of in my wheelhouse. Yeah, I had a lot of people reach out to me and they were like, these are right up your alley. Like you're this is this is a good competition for you. I thought the same thing too. Yeah. And did you, are you one of those athletes that test all of those things are? You. Yeah, we. Did you test all? I don't.
Like it, but we do it. Because Ariel Lowen said that her her husband Dylan said that she didn't test any of them. She just wants to do it once and not do it. Yes and no. I feel like there's some of them you need to test and then some of them that may be the ones that hurt the worst. You don't want to test those. You don't know how how that feels.
Yeah, there's been a lot of comparisons obviously with you and Colton. Did you watch the North America West and and watch Colton and kind of get some sense of maybe how you guys would perform because you seem to, you guys seem to perform pretty similar when you do the do the, the. Workout. Yes and no. I mean, yeah, we are, I guess some of the shorter athletes people would say. You're 565. 7. 560 you got you got a few inches on. Them five seven with boots on.
No, I'm 5/8, I'm 5, eight with boots. Yeah. So how was training coming into Knoxville? I mean, were you feeling good? Confident. Feeling healthy, confident, going in with a coach this time going all you know, all in nutrition, training, having a coach, not going in there last year, you know, just blind and more of a less of a rookie. Who do you have? A main coach? A main head coach. Yeah, Jake Namchev at Mayhem. OK. Did you go to that athlete camp? See you. He's still there, Austin.
He doesn't want to speak on the athlete camp. I understand secrets. You know, Dang it, Tyler I. Wonder where he went? I think Hiller. Was he there when you were there? We can't. We can't. Hear you, Austin. Check your audio. Check your audio. He, he, he was just fooling with the the settings a minute ago. You can't hear us. He can hear. US, yeah. Go to. Go to settings, go to. OK. Yeah. Yeah, I guess. John Young the the the expert.
Let me help you out here. Let me help you out with this technology. This technology I'm experienced. How about now? No your your ear buds are are not working. If you get onto the settings at the bottom you can take the ear buds and just turn it to probably your phone. That's all right, man. You want to keep your life private. At least we didn't give him admin rights so you can. Is it working now? Kill the entire. There you go. I didn't have to do that the
first time. Did you go to that athlete camp that I think Leahy and Hiller were there? That was it. So it was the one previous to that one. Yeah. OK. How much they? Didn't weigh too many. They didn't weigh too many box steps at that athlete camp. He made a good. I went, I think I went, it was either after and I went for quarter finals and then afterwards I went to the we did a mock semi finals. So we went through like the whole thing and I think that might have been afterwards.
OK. So you've been you. You have been frequenting down there, Yeah. I will be there a whole lot more now since I've made the games. Really. Yeah. How often you plan to train down there because it's like, I mean, you got, you have a job and and you have your own affiliate, right? No, not anymore. You sold your affiliate. Yep. Why'd you do that? It was just kind of a weird timing that it just happened all. At this. Time. It had been playing for a little bit.
OK. But now, yeah, I have just training and rabbits to focus on now. Can you? Can you do rabbits mobile? You can I guess. Or go figure out I saw in your stories you just had some bunnies that were born. We have a lot. What What do you do You have like a website you sell the. Bunnies you go to. Stores I contract to like Tractor Supply, Royal King Feed, companies like that. Oh, OK. All right. They buy rabbits. Where do they sell them? In the stores.
Just in the store. Don't ask me what they do with them. I just don't I. Guess I've never seen rabbits at tractor. Supply, they have them. They have rural kings in Kentucky and and they sell. They'll sell. My main my main one is is rural king. Yeah. I've I haven't sold a lot to anybody else, but in the past I did. Yeah, I go. I got one of Colton's teeny weenies. I have to get one of Hatfield's bunnies there. You ought to start doing bougie rabbits. That's a good idea.
Well, I'll tell you what, if you can't find his rabbits at Royal Cream, you can find my wife's Hatfield humpers at Mustard C Crochet Company. OK, go go find it on Instagram. OK, and get you a Hatfield Humper. We're. Probably going to bring some at the games and hopefully sell some. You better get her cranking them out now. Yeah, I was a dude. She had arthritis after Colton's pigs came out. So I I. So do you, I'm guessing you like training in May mayhem.
How often do you plan on being there? Like what's? What's the plan now? Just no set plan, but I just definitely spend more time there. Like maybe weeks at a time, I go up there and train for a full week, come back, train here, maybe do that a little bit. What do you take from there? What is like what is the benefits of going there? I'm sure there are benefits, but like from your from your point of view. Coaching, they have high level coaches. I have just. Eyes on you. Eyes on you.
You have, you know, competition, working out by yourself. You know, I push myself as hard as I can when I'm alone, but then when you, you know, you get with some other people like live competition and stuff, you're going to go harder. Yeah, you you had a coach there this time? I don't. Did you have a coach at semi finals last year? Nope. What was the benefit like of having a coach there with you this year? Just confidence, keeping me on track, warming up, keeping it serious business.
And he told you to stay with Adler on the 1st Rep of the run workout. No, he he knows I can run, so we weren't really worried. About that. That surprised the living shit out of me. I just thought this dude lives in Beckley. You can't run anywhere without running uphill. He don't run. Listen, Austin, everybody in the chat was like, he's coming out way too hot. He's so retarded right now. And I'm like, guys, just wait,
just calm down and then. Had to prove, had to prove everybody that could run was hearing a lot of hearing a lot of crap about that. Did you run in high school like? I played soccer. Oh, soccer. OK, OK, OK. Yeah, so I've always been, I've had a running background. Was there any moment throughout the weekend where you had any doubt like going into an event, coming out of it, like, you know, how, how does that, how is that mindset and thought kind of throughout the weekend?
How did it flow? You know, and especially when you go from A1 event on Friday to on Saturday, I mean, that Saturday night you have three events coming up. That's pretty big, you know, mover on on the leaderboard. Confidence all the way through. I mean, I had one bad workout I feel like that I didn't perform to what I can do. 23rd place on Event 3. Coming out of that one, I did a lot better in training. Just didn't perform to the level
I know I could do on that one. But I know I had three. The box was a little bit wider, Box was pretty big, but I just think I may came out too slow, couldn't catch up, just came out at the wrong pace. But no. And I had three more events that I was pretty good at, so I wasn't worried about getting behind. Now you, I feel like you're pretty comfortable.
What most people don't understand don't get Austin and I don't and I get it. So don't not no, you would no, I mean everybody's dad, everybody doubts him and I don't know why the is that you finished in in 8th, 7th or 8th place like you made it comfortably. You were never on the bubble about not to make it so comfortably with the top guys in North America East, which we all can agree is the hardest region. Like there's five of those guys are top ten guys and you made it
comfortably underperforming. You know what I mean? Like not to your what you expected yourself to do and you made it comfortably to the games. And most people don't understand that. That's a dangerous man. And yeah. Definitely underperformed, got a couple no reps on my snatch so that work out definitely that was my slowest time by almost a minute testing that one. It's OK, I'm the only person who looked dumb after that, no worries.
You said you're going to Mayhem. Is there anything specifically you're going to focus on? Yeah, got to get that swimming up. That's right. Did you see? You at least you can do it in a pool. You don't have to be in open water because like it's kind of guaranteed not to be in open water. I have plenty of holes I need to fill. I'm not going to say plenty, but I mean, just things from this weekend, things that I'm going to work at while I'm there that I might not have access to
anywhere else. I'm going to drill those weaknesses for sure. Yeah, I'm sure Mayhem has plenty of special toys that they have that you guys can work on. Do you have any, Have you thought of any expectations or kind of goals you want for Fort Worth? Be competitive, just show up, do what I can do, and hopefully it puts me in a good position to just, you know, push everybody.
Was there was there anybody in the semi final at any point that you were like, I'm going to take it to this guy or or intimidated by. I know you. I know you wouldn't want to admit that you're intimidated by somebody, but like. I wouldn't say intimidated, but like respect at the level that they're at, like seeing Adler and roaming and like what those guys can do. Like, I respect that, but I'm not. Afraid of it? Like who did you? They're they're a tear. They're a tear above everybody
else. But I'm I'm not afraid of them. Like I went on the. On the way, yeah. In the back, you know, warm up area where there are guys that you kind of hang out with, is it mostly the Mayhem guys or is there anybody else outside of that that you know? It was mostly the mayhem guys. But I mean, you know, you try to talk to everybody, you know, just little talks here and there. You might be warming up beside somebody you know, have a little conversation here and there.
How stoked are you to be allowed to go in the backroom or not get kicked out of that? The, the, the, the athlete room? That would be everything to me. I'd be like, yeah, I made it. I can stay in this room. Yeah. I think he would. Have made pretty cool in. The athlete room, Tyler. I know he's probably used to it, but man, I I'm living vicariously through him, I would. I would be freaking stoked. It's pretty cool back there. He's. OK. What kind of question is that?
Dude, would you not be like? No, I'd be calm, cool and collected. I'd be like, y'all ready to watch me run slow. I was just about what happened. That's what that's that's I'm about to lift heavy and run slow. I was going to be a pleasure watching you, Roman. You're home. They'd hate me, they'd hate me back there. I'd nudge Roman. I'd be like we made it. Really good. Yep, Roman would be like get this guy out of here. In Russian.
Yeah. Yeah, man, I I appreciate jumping on Congrats. Thank you. Very cool. I mean, you know, you've been on our radar for I guess maybe a year now, you know, lived up to John's rookie hill and it's going to be awesome to see you out there in Fort Worth for sure. Appreciate you. So let you get back to it and we'll we'll follow along and see how you do out there in Fort Worth. Look. Forward to getting at the games. Say yourself, did you go get dinner with us? Absolutely in Fort Worth.
After I win. After that's gonna be three years from now, Austin, come on now. That's be all right. Never know. All right, man, have a good one. Thank you. You too, buddy. Bye, Austin. Good dude. I feel like he was much more laid back on that one than he was the first one. He's. The first time. Interview. Yeah, well, last time we caught him when he was in his car, I think after you were talked about him on Rookie Hill. So yeah, he performed.
It's fun watching him throughout the weekend, which we get to shortly. But first, fewer comments. So here's a question from Eric Mack. How poorly, to no fault of their own, will the extra Oceania, South America Asia athletes do at the Games. Poor. By by his napkin math Prior finishes 18th to 20th in North America, East, West and Europe Pinero in in the Asian young even worse than the 22 to 24 Ellis in the 20s, Seminole in the 30s.
It's going to be bad. The South American men are the only group to score at the cut line of any other major semifinal. Ellis. Being in the 20s is not. I would not say that's bad. Well, I think he's saying the 20s of the semifinals, not in the games of the. Semifinals of the of North America semifinals. Yeah, I see.
No, no, it's going to be bad. I, I think, I think like, I think we've said it before the, OR at least I, I think on the show, we've said it before, that the South American men are the only group in the smaller regions that that I think have earned their right to be at the game. They should be at the games. They they somewhat belong at the games. They're not out of place. Everybody else shouldn't be there by their own fitness merits. They're there because of where
they live. I personally think Peter Ellis is going to be fine. I think he'll be right up there with the South American, with the Italian Sousers of the world. But all the other extra spots were should would have been better going to somebody else. The games would be better if they went to somebody else do. You think it'd be that big of a difference though?
Like I know that maybe, maybe 12th, maybe 12th and North America East has a better probability of doing really well, but generally we see somebody in North America, East, West Europe in that bottom 10, right? Like are we really seeing a difference in? Yeah. But, but a lot of times they're usually just sick that weekend or something's gone wrong that weekend. And I'm not disagreeing with
you. Like let's say Tyler Christopher went to the games, 'cause that's who would be going to the games, right? Let's say, let's say, or, or Taylor. Tyler, it'd be Tyler or Taylor. I do think those guys make differences in in events, you know, yeah, they might be like, like, and I don't think Taylor would be bottom of the pole, but like, say Tyler, Tyler Cristobal might be bottom in most of the events.
But then there's going to be some squat event where that guy puts up numbers that it, it matters. Lifting events, barbell cycling events, any type of Max out event, any type of ring, not ring muscle of event. But like there's stuff he's he's good at that he will matter as far as taking away points from the top people, you know what I mean? Like there's like it will affect the Romans or the Ricky's or the Velners because he can get ahead
of those guys in some events. There is nobody in the lower tier region that we haven't already said that can affect the games like that. You know what I mean? No offense to the Asian Jung Dwan Jung, Dejuan Jung will never beat Teatumi at anything. Nobody's been in Teatumi at anything but. Laura Horvath Dewan Jung can't beat Laura Horvath and deficit strict handstand push ups. If you can't do that, you shouldn't be there.
That's a really good point. I wonder if anyone has looked into the highest placement of any event from an Asian athlete. Any event for us more than say key out. Well, OK, Sayer. Sangyung Choi has been in the teens before in an event. I actually think she got like ninth in the wall ball snatch event. Like she's been up there, unlike she got like 26 or something in the CrossFit Games before. But it's not, it's not. It's just grand scheme, Grand scheme.
You can take Sung Young Choi, 'cause that's probably the best one. That's probably, she's probably the best one that I'm going to say that doesn't matter. Roman. But she would have qualified. Either No, no, no, no, no, The best one that does not matter is what I'm saying. The one that's not not contributing to the games in any way like what I'm saying, she's probably the best one. Take 12th place in North America or in Europe or North America, East or North America or West.
Take 9th whatever like you take Kelsey Keel or who is who's the last person who missed out in Europe? Emily Lundberg. That that was that was 12th place. I thought it was somebody else. OK, we'll take Take Emily Lundberg, take Kelsey Keel, Take the last person in Annika Greer, Take those girls versus Sung Young Choi. I bet I will. Willing to bet they finish higher than Sung Young Choi is what I'm saying. Yeah, I mean. But they're like, that one's actually pretty close.
Like, I, I'm not, I don't have anything against Young joy. That one's actually pretty close. But just when you extrapolate it out, you can talk about Dajuan Jung like, like we've made it even worse. You know, you, you take any of the girls in South America, Victoria Campos take the best one. No, instead we're saying. I want to see what year old 40.
Year old roided out things that shouldn't, you know, looks real good on Instagram. We got her going to the games instead of one of these girls that has earned it way more than her. You know I I freaking soup up Monica Grier with EPO. I bet you she makes the games. What do you bet? She only needs a couple more spots in the run. Am am I the only one that wanted to see Andrea Pinero qualifying? I want damn right and I want her
to pass all the drug tests too. No, I want to see her pop is why I want her to. Go to games. And then pop after and then we never have to hear about her ever again. I love it dude. I don't think she's worth mentioning. Oh hell yeah. Stop everything. Yep. There it is, the unknown. Thank you for the $100 super chat. While I agree that the spots going to the lesser regions diminishes the game, the same argument could be rightly could rightly be made about the Olympics.
I don't like it, but it's probably the right call for long term growth. Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope. Because the way we had this when we had the last chance qualifier was perfect. What we should have done back then is gave all the major regions all the spots, basically North America, East, West and Europe probably and Oceana their their selections. The other ones, they have their own semi finals and they qualify to go to the last chance qualifier and there you would
qualify to go to the games. I think there needs to be an intermediary step for those regions. They're just not there yet. Like we have to stop. It'd be like I don't know, it'd be like, hey, five random like guys from Pensacola beach brawl. Y'all get to go to the games it. Doesn't. Make any sense? Matt Day doesn't the Olympics have minimum requirements. They do, but they also have limitations on how many athletes like say in weightlifting can come from China, right?
And so it's not always the best 10 athletes who qualify for a weight class because there's different requirements and how you rank within your your country and who you send and such. So it's not always the best. That's why that's how we get like Eddie the Eagle. I don't know if y'all know that guy, but this guy who can't swim, but he's the best. Nobody can swim in Ethiopia and he can't. He can doggy paddle and he they sent him to the Olympics and he can't swim.
Nick, I am not the unknown, mainly because I probably wouldn't dump $300 to Savant at any time, so that would that would count me out. The unknown needs his own sound, like when he when he comes in, he needs his own. He needs like a like. I don't think I have a good one like. A Friday the 13th like. Right. Yeah, no, I got. The bass, the bass one I the best one I got. Clip that, clip that. What do you got? Hot like a hurricane? The first I got right now.
That's right, I asked Ben if I could buy a sound board and he's like, no, we're probably good. That's why 'cause I would just be freaking hitting buttons all. Night hammering the buttons. Who is who is the swimmer? Then there's a swimmer. There's a swimmer. Eddie the they said Eddie the Eagle was a ski jumper. There was a swimmer guy that couldn't swim that was at the Olympics. If if y'all in the chatter so intelligent on Eddie the Eagle, Come on y'all, y'all know who I'm talking about?
I don't know what country he was from, but there was a guy who could not swim that they they sent to the Olympics 'cause they had nobody else. We have no idea, so that's a good point. I know no chick is pulling that name unless it's Melanie. Unless it's Melanie. Yeah. What if we do that? What if? What if the unknown, like if the unknown sends $100, like we ran and we'd be like, that's the Thunderbolt baby right there. Like just just random.
Like as soon as we see it, as soon as we see it, that's what we say. We got a We already have a sound clip for that one. Yeah, we, we can do that one. Where was it? I saw, Yeah, we had, we had a big, a big day a couple days ago, 6000 followers. So thank you to everybody who has subscribed. If you haven't, go ahead and subscribe. Hit that button. That is helpful. Another comment here from Sezi Yu.
Thank you John and Travis for the commentary and coverage of the spin cast, especially over the final week of semi finals. Travis has certainly been a great addition to the team. He did great. He did really good. Yeah, I'm out there in Yellowstone and I see it. I'm like, why don't you guys throw it on the on this channel? Might get a bit more viewers. Yeah, no, I think we got like over 400 at one point, like. What was it? What was it hanging out on Travis's channel?
How many we? Got I think we got the 60 I think. We got the shit on, not to shit on Travis. No, no, I know, but. Like, you know, we were there at one point. Yeah, we were. It's not. Like I'd have any on my channel either we went to my channel, it'd be less than 60. No, everybody that stepped in while I was hanging out with all the bears in Yellowstone. Travis. Murdered it, man. He did. Great. Yeah. No, it was.
It was crazy good. Yeah. Yeah, I would give Travis five stars on the weekly show last week. So yeah, you guys had a pretty good show. I was I, I listened. We had three and a half hour. One just got out of hand, man. All of the live commentary ones. Yeah. Yeah, let's see. It's at Kevin Doyle. John, you have Hatfield in and Taylor out. You are on crack. Must be good crack I guess. Must be that good crack man, Really. Nailed it. And then last one at Crew Jones.
You all are dissing Brian Friends picking Devin Kim third is quite ironic. Should we all roll the tapes last year if you predicting Hopper to win the CrossFit Games? Me. So finishing top three. First off, Tyler is the only one that predicted Hopper to go top three. I might have gotten badgered into saying that could be the highest of his potential at that year, but I know I never said that. And the games is way, way different than semi finals. Hopper's gotten 7th before.
It's not it's not. It is like outrageous, but it's not nearly as outrageous as somebody who's never done something individual before and saying she's going to be third place in the semi final next. I can't wait to get into my philosophy on picks later in best analysts question mark because I found the perfect analogy for this. OK, all right, all right. Brings us to week three-week
recap. North America East sent 11 men, eleven women and then South America sent three men in with three women, including our 41 year old masters athlete in South America. Tyler, you were at West Coast Classic and Syndicate Crown. How? How did Syndicate Crown compare to Carson? Syndicate was it felt like a real ball game, like the you're in like a basic. It feels like you're in the, the movie Miracle with the, the, the, the old hockey movie.
Like it's super dark and it's, it's pretty dark in there. It's like you can tell it was constructed probably in the 60s or 70s, but like it feels like a basketball gym. I mean it's where the the females play. Like a like a like a Duke, Like Duke. Yes, yes, it was just like that. It's dark, it's cold. It's it's a weird vibe, but it's like it gets so loud in there and then like, yeah, like how many were more were there? I don't know that it was that much more, but the the
environment was so much better. And then also the best athletes in the world, we're all in one place. I mean, minus like Ricky and a couple others, like they were all there. And you know, there's something about the East Coast athletes. Like, I mean, Roman is now an East, East Coast athlete, but like Dallin and Jason willing to like chum it up with each other and like talk a little shit on the field. Like that was amazing. Carson was just like, it was a great feeling, but it felt like
a it felt like a vacation. It didn't feel like. This is. Well, it was dude. It was only like, I don't even think half. It was probably a third I. Think it looked full? It. Looked full. It was full. It was funny, 'cause they roped off the top section. That was the mistake that they had made in 21 or 22 is that they let people just go into the top section. Well, this time Wilson roped
off. He was like, I want to keep everybody down and to the point to where people just started going up there anyway, 'cause there was nowhere to sit. And Wilson was like, yeah, let him go. Like if we have to have overflow, we have to have overflow. So that was amazing. Problem to have. Yeah, yes. He was like perfect. So he did. It was the little details. Yeah, way more swagger. That's that's a good way of saying it. West Coast felt great, man. It, but it felt like very chill.
It did not feel like this is the most important part of the season. You're it's life or death right now. Yeah, Nick. Nick wasn't in Knoxville, so that's true. They did have that against it. But it felt both of them felt great, but but just there was a it felt like March Madness a little bit in at at Syndicate. So. Do you think that the the OR the tennis stadium has just had too many seats or that there's there's no way they're going to sell that many tickets? That was the same amount of
people. I mean, yeah, I don't think they were ever going to sell the amount of tickets they needed to to make that place look full. Kathy, I know you guys don't really rate Oceana, but the Vibratorian shits all over the other semi finals. Oh, I don't. I don't. Think Kathy Torian has the greatest environment out of all of the regions? We said that a couple shows ago. Yeah. I mean, when you compare Torian to North America West, it was
ridiculous. But like, Torian's bigger than the Syndicate. At least it looks bigger than the Syndicate. And they look like all everybody is all about it the whole entire time. The athletes are about it, the announcers are about it, the crowd is about it. Like everybody is for forging elite fitness. And we're all like trying to celebrate these animals, you know what I mean? Going at it and it's I would 100% agree Kathy Torian is number one as far as crowd environment goes.
I think I think Torian also has a better community feel than. Not ma'am, but it's like, it's like they take pride for having that environment. You know what? I mean, I think the same is for South America. I mean, those fans go crazy too. I don't think it was quite the spectacle is Torian, but I think the fans are still very amped up over it. No I agree. I think South America is probably 2nd. Pat Rafter Arena 5500 seat capacity, it's pretty big for a
semi final. I guess Europe, in Europe I think was probably pretty big too. 77000 I think is what I heard. Torian felt like Watapalooza. Not this past year, but the prior years when it wasn't rainy and like it rains. Every year in water Palooza man I feel like it's a something bad happens every year. As for the competition, anything stand out to you John on the men's side? Jack Rosema. I I thought Jack Rosema was the biggest surprise.
Guy's been kind of like Tyler Cristobal territory his whole career, like routinely semi finals athlete, never good enough to actually make it. Said he's trained, changed his training this year and he's like gotten things more organized around around his life and do it freaking show. Jack Rosen would like the whole entire week weekend, just like every he surprised everybody in the run. And I remember after he did that run, Taylor was like, dude, Jack
is super fit right now. Did you see what he did on the run? And I'm like, you know, yeah, he did good. But like, you know, he never does. Like he never makes it right. Like he's truly like the Tyler Cristobal thing. Like he just, he never gets it done. So like, I just, you know, it's hard for me to expect him to do
it until he does it right. And he like was not even close to not making it. And then he won the snatch ladder, did what I thought Hatfield was going to do on the snatch ladder, beat everybody by a lot, and then ended up 5th, 5th. I mean, the only people that beat him are probably going to be in the top five, you know what I mean? Or in the running. For the top ten at least. Yeah, top ten at least, right? Those are the only guys that beat him.
I'm excited to see Jack at the Games 'cause I he looked great. He was the biggest surprise in the men's field to me. Yeah. Other than other than him, I feel like everything was about as expected. You know, Taylor's super fit. He just hasn't been training enough to have that either intensity or recoverability, especially in the legs. He knew what he knew event two was going to be a problem. Kind of what I like thought was going to happen with Taylor, happen with Taylor.
And he's super, super fit, but he's just, he's just not there yet. I actually think next year he's going to make it easy. I think next year like he'll be like, he'll be kind of like how Hatfield was this year. Truly, I think I think he'll make it almost comfortably. Yeah, when when he we we knew event two was not going to be a strong suit. And when when three, seeing that the rope climbs just didn't matter for the men, I knew that kind of took away some of his strengths. 100%.
And you know, he he had to do better in the run event. He had to do better in the in the rope climb if it would have been and he. Had to do better in the last event. If it had been two back-to-back rope climbs each round instead of 11, then, you know, back ping ponging back and forth, I think that would have probably played to his favor. And then, yeah, I mean, there was just some great performances on that final event that got them, you know, middled him between other people.
They needed to. But. Everything else went about as expected. I think, you know, Roman, Jeff and Dallin and Hopper really would like all separate themselves as they're the top four guys. You could switch that order however you want. As far as who wins, it doesn't really matter to me. They're all, they're all going to. They were all do what I thought they should have done. They all look like how they should look potentially for the games.
Hatfield made it comfortably. Christophel fell short at the last event, like everything happened about what it was expected. Yeah. You know. Final event, Tyler, how crazy was the crowd when just everybody was just dropping their dumbbells? Backing up Christophel is, I don't know, maybe in your words, quitting. Dude, I thought he I thought he was going to do it this time too. You know what? You know what's bad? We're talking about the men.
Sarah, we'll get to the women. He asked about the men. Sarah. Calm down, Sarah. You don't think I would forget about Yolo Volo? Goodness gracious. Anyway, I thought Christa Fell was going to do it. Dude, he was so comfortable. He was in 8th place. I'm like, all you got to do, it's not blow up. And then he paced his bike. He paced his bike. I'm like, oh, he's doing. He really paced his bike really paced. It broke the ring muscle UPS like three times. I'm like, dude, I mean, it's fine.
You're kind of going too slow, but it's fine. And still I can't. As I was, as I was making that reel that I I don't know if I can release the I feel guilty about it 'cause I called it and I just knew the whole time I was making it, I was like, I don't know why I'm right, but I'm right. Like it was the one thing. It's like I'm not the. I thought about Annika Greer. That's how I felt about Annika Greer.
Anika Greer was killing it the whole weekend and the whole time I said she's going to not no, dude, she's going to fall just short and I, I'll. Give you this job when? It happened. I'll give you this You might be the best analyst to pick the best athletes in the best order, but if someone's not going to make it, I'll tell you first. I I that's what. You're going to pick. I knew I knew Annika wasn't going to make it and I as I didn't, I wanted Tyler to make it, he said.
The dude's old. 32. He's about to age up and I was like, this guy can like this guy to make it. This was his best shot and I was like, he was comfortable. He didn't even have to do anything to make it. He just had to not be bad. Do you think that was that he was the slowest person off the bike? That was like remotely in contention for a game spot. I think so. I think he paced everything really, really hard and he just, if I can lunge, I'm broken, I'll make it and and that's the truth.
That's the. Truth. That's all he would have, yeah. And as soon as he broke and, and he got sent back, I was like, it's I, I was like, how's this happening? No, no, dude, I I saw that. I saw that Tyler and I was like in my head, I was like, I can't believe Tyler is right. Tyler picks. Loose but he freaking is pro like I was like good grief Tyler to get it together man. Why do you keep doing this thing? It's. Like it was hard for me to watch. I didn't like watching it either.
Dude, I was like, no, that I just it's my magic spell. I just I felt, I felt terrible my. Magic. Spell. I get I. Get superstitious man. I'm like fuck, like I I got to keep this shit to myself. Like I can't be letting. This out your boy Travis Mayer benefited. Benefited from the. Christophel Yeah, that's why I needed it. Meneo and Christophel both gave way. Oh no, he. Said be yo, he said be. Yo-yo. Yeah. I thought you remember who made it. Yeah, you're right. You're right.
Yeah. It was looking tight there at the end. I I was like, I didn't think that that there was just some crazy switch UPS and I was like, there's no way, like everyone's about where they're going to be. And then it was just mass chaos. I thought even Parker was going to be out. No, well, he went so freaking fast that he could afford to blow up and still finish in the
right amount of time. And what's bad is I feel really bad about this is like in heat one, I had Dallin as I picked, I picked Dallin and then I heard Luke Parker saying I want to beat everybody by 30 seconds. And and like, so like, I know, you know, you know, text, talk to a couple people, right? I know that he has done this and he has actually done it right where he knows he can send it and still hold on.
Like if you, if you know it in practice, it's easy to do in the competition, especially a Sprint like that. If you know that you have it and you've done it in practice, it's not hard to make yourself do it in competition 'cause you know what it's gonna be and you know that you're successful on the way back. If you don't know that you're successful, it's incredibly hard because it's like you just think you're gonna fail the whole time.
When I was looking at the when I was looking at the workout and then I was looking at the guys on the bubble, I was texting somebody about this and who, and they were like, who's the last three in? And I was like, Luke, something's changed about him over the past three years. Like his swag. He's he's a little bit more firm in who he is and who he is as an athlete. And I was like, he's going to execute. I'm a Games, he does feel like I'm a games athlete, like.
He'll shoot his. Three, when he has, I feel that vibe off of him too. I was like, if I'm going to put my money on and I'm going to put or anybody, I'm going. To put it on. Yeah. And then yeah. And I bought into it and I was like, all right, I'm going to pick Luke Parker. And then and then he blew up and it screwed me. I would have bought. I would I would have won E two. And I know we're talking about it, but I would have won E it had I picked Dallin and I had Dallin picked until I heard
that. And then I just freaking bought into it like a stupid person. And then it would and then it, and then it, you know, it's, it's whatever, it's whatever it happens. So Luke or Sarah Cooper? I'm glad Luke made it over Seth. So when Luke made it and Seth was the first one out, I thought because Luke has a baby coming on the way in August, I was waiting for a Julian. He did. I was like, he is he going to announce that he's going to step aside and he's like.
Because it's I'm. So happy I made it. I'm going. I'm like, never mind. No bro, dude, he's at the start of his career. He was a rookie. He was a rookie last year, right? He's been in the game for a long time, like he's been training as a CrossFit athlete for a long time. He's not been a games. Athlete. Yeah, and that's what I'm saying. Like I think, you know, he's at the prime of his life, like he's at the peak of his what he's going to be. He's got about three years of
this. Like if like there's no way to pull the Hulin was done. You know what I mean? He was fit enough to make it, but he was done. Yeah, right. Like Luke is entering his peak. There ain't no way he's he's he's being family, man. He's like, listen, honey. We're. About to make money on doing this fitness thing. You need to take care of the baby. That's what's happening. If he goes to the game, it builds things for him and it helps his family.
It's this smart move. I mean, yeah, it sucks, but it's not. Going to be on the bachelor again. He can, he can probably swing both like go to the games and then you know. But yeah, I I just thought that guys. Do it all the time. He's he'll be fine. I thought the only reason I thought it might happen is just because it was Seth, right? Like if it if it had been, I mean, Taylor, whoever else, right?
That's not mayhem. I was like, yeah, you know, he probably will go. But like, I was like, oh, that'll be a crazy story. That feels dirty though, like hey, I beat you, but I'll I'll, I'll, I'll let you get my game spot. You know what I mean? Like no, you got to get your GameSpot. You have to earn your GameSpot. There's like if you you I would feel I would not want to go to the games. No getting gifted. No, I would be like, no, dude, you, I'll give it. I'll give it.
If you give it to me, I'll give it away. If you give it to me, Taylor Self is going to the CrossFit Games and he's going to talk. He'd probably give it away too. All day every Yeah, Taylor probably wouldn't want to be. Give Dre Strom's going lacrosse. It's. Going to come, all right, Taylor and Crick. The Fell is going to the CrossFit Games. Bike. Run. Rock, lift? Does it seem that former team women do better than team men individuals?
If so, why? No. David Kim and Jorge Fernandez are your spitting image. No. Yeah, they did not represent the teams as much as you would. I know I obviously, obviously Devin had a back injury, but we're going to take a break and answer the unknown. Sorry Tyler, if you Thunderbolt. Baby. Thunderbolt hot. Looking. Hurricane. That's right. We need the Thunderbolt. We need the Thunderbolt one for. This I do, I do next week.
Next week. If you want to know who's not going to make it, you just need to ask Killer who's going to win it all. I don't know what that means. That means Bill Leahy. Oh. 2025. 2025 yeah, that, that one hurts. I'm sure I saw Bill Leahy had surgery. Dude and I and and we need to give props to him. Like doing the 8 box jumps on a torn Achilles. I don't know how many people are going to do I Dude you. Can't move. I don't know. You feel it.
Yeah, like what? What not It's, it's just like, well, you got to think he's got adrenaline flying, but no, like you, you, you can't move your foot like it's gone. Yeah, it was. It's like what attaches your foot to the rest of your leg is gone. Well, he's he could probably box jump more than I can, just like without moving his feet. I guess, you know, you know, really try to jump off that one leg. Yeah. But dude, like, seriously, it, it is insane that he was able to finish that event.
And a lot of people were like, maybe it's just partial and he can get through it. And not like, you really just play. It's like a fully torn Achilles and the fact that he finished that event, anybody who talked trash on him before needs to needs to apologize because I think that's pretty insane. Let's see, there it is. Bill Leahy. Yeah, 30 inch box jump. Did his last seven more box jump overs, basically jumping off of
1 foot and he knew he was done. What sucks is too he just got an Adidas. Adidas sponsored him. Listen, if I'm if I'm Bill Leahy, I'm about to be able to do 35 ring muscle UPS. I'm broken like any polling or really pushing. He just do he just do 15 strict and be done. No, seriously. Like, like to the point where it's like if there's any pulling involved at all, I'm going to win. And what's funny is. He's pushing. He's already pushing. Really, really, really, really
elite at that. But I mean this, just get what are you going to do this? But this gives you a reason, honestly, to make it where it's like it's impossible. Nobody will ever beat me if pulling is involved. That's a pretty crazy thing to like have, right? If you don't have any stuff, how much stuff that's applicable to, And I know he's already one of the best ones I'm pulling, but to have it like where it's like untouchable, you know what I mean? If I were, what else are you
going to do? Yeah, and just a a shout out. So this photo was taken by Aaron Murphy, who shot for me at North America East and West. He's done a lot with her Heat 1. So I think this is probably the best photo from semi finals. Probably. It captures a lot more than just just the event, so go. 1000 words, as they say. That's right. Go go check out Erin Murphy designs on Instagram. So yeah, that was that was unfortunate to see real. Quick, real quick, I want to
get. There is doing doing pulps in his most recent story there. You go. I want to get through this. You got to hit me up the week of, man. If it the week has passed, it's over. Sorry. You still got some time in the North America East. No, I know it's over. Oh, it's over. You got to do it already. Yeah, you got to do it until the the, the, the once this show starts, it's over. Ioffer it on this show and then it's over once the show starts. Then you're out. You're breaking up rules.
No, that's what I've done the entire time. That's what I've done the entire time. I'll tell you I have lost $43 the entirety of semi finals. It's not bad. No, it's not bad at all. People aren't asking for it man Except Nick. Wait. To the women. Yolo. Follo, John. Dude, I think this is the biggest implosion I've ever seen from an athlete. And and she she I predicted her to be the Hadekano of this region, like the name that people didn't know that are are about to know and live lived up
to it until that last event. Like she she was like, I I think all the games athletes thought that too. Everybody that I heard from, it's like, Yo, Ericafolo is the real deal. She was with the top. Like I just like, just like Austin Hatfield, she was with the top girls, the top four girls, like with them, we're going along with them the whole entire competition except the handstand walk workout, every other event was with them. That in the handstand walking is her is a weakness of her.
So like I'm not counting that one, but until that last event and that last event, she biked slow. She was one of the last ones off the bike, but then did 15 ring muscles unbroken. One of the few girls that did that. I have never seen somebody blow up that bad like she was the she was the second person on the dumbbells. The second person first person hadn't took it was Lexi Neely, I believe also blew up really bad. But it wasn't just Folo that blew up.
What made that crazy was the three girls that had a chance to make it were Fi Segafi, Lexi Neely and and Erica Folo in that heat, right? Yet Annika Greer and you had and nobody thought Chloe Govind David had a shot winds up she's got the third best time in the event. Nobody thought that about her. And then all three of those women blew up so bad. All of them. Lexi Neely blew up FISA Goffy blew up FISA. Goffy was kind of like Tyler Christovel. She was slow on. Average she was.
She was pretty much out of it by that event anyway. Like she needed a she had to win the whole thing. If she did Chloe Goffin Davic, she would have made it. She was ahead of Chloe. Yeah, Yeah. I don't think anybody would expect you what? I don't think anybody would expect her to be top three in that event. You would have expected Chloe, Govin Davi to be I like Sandra full name I. Think it's just Govin, not Govin. Don't don't hurt what I'm doing, Ryan.
You would expect. You would expect her to be though. No, you would not. No. Ain't no shot, dude. And then did you see her? Did you see her like Erica Follo? I'm talking put the dumbbells down and just looked at everybody and was like, I can't do it. Is that? Real dark lion. That's great, 'cause he actually has that. If that's that's true, that's
that's nuts. Yeah, what what it reminded me of is and maybe to a different, it's obviously a different stimulus, but the capital with Haley where she just literally heard she could not pick up the Husavel bag. Yeah, but it's if Rebecca Fusole beater right what it was. Right. Like if she would have not been able to finish. And Rebecca, yes. Yes. But to that moment, but that moment you're watching just like just pick him up and walk and like her forearms, just her grip was just gone.
Had the chance dude. Is the only girl not to finish the event. I was stressed a little bit, John. I was like if he goes 2 for two on these wild calls with Hatfield. Oh what I should have I 100%. Should have. I was like, I don't know if I can live in that world. I, I didn't want her to lose, but I was like, something's got to happen here because Austin can't lose. Right, Laura, is there a go WAD coupon code?
So I don't have anything special, but if you do go to go WAD dot app, you get a 14 day free trial if you sign up. So yeah, go check that out. Dude, if half it would have blown up like that, do you know how devastated I would have? Been. Oh, I would have. Been I, I don't know if I could have shown up on the show, I would have been like, guys, I'm just depressed. I whoever, second, whoever second in this little chart, we're going to show they can have the title.
I don't want it anymore. I don't deserve it. And then obviously, maybe the the most impressive performance of the week or the semifinals. Tia Claire Toomey winning all five of the six. You mean expected the most expected performance of the week? Do you think 5? I don't know if it's. Did anybody call 5? Yeah, Jr. did. I said, I said four, maybe five and he said five. He was the hardest one on five. And I was like I definitely could see her doing 5I expect 4 and almost won the handstand
walk. Danielle Brandon was the biggest surprise as far as poor performance in an event. Tia was third in that. How insane is that? Emma Lawson, what is your take away after this? Nothing, she'll be fine. Yeah, I mean, what? What's your take? Sounds like that's a loaded question. It's more about like you, you basically go in not thinking you have a chance at winning the games. You didn't. You didn't beat her at anything. You don't. Have a chance? Did we think that before?
Did you think she thought that before? I don't know, I mean. Not with Tia. If she if she doesn't know, then she's stupid. The only person who thinks that, who could even fathom that thought right now, has to be Laura. I don't think anyone else is thinking that thought. And, and I don't blame Laura for thinking that because Laura can actually beat her in things and like, like Laura.
Beater in two events, right? Right, and and like she and Laura has taken it to her a couple times in in stuff that's not even like rowing. You know, something like she's just gonna she's just that much better at like 1. Laura beater in the handstand walk. Laura has the world record in the handstand walk event, right.
Like it's still it Laura. I mean, I know it's just the row, but but the yoke workout, the yoke at the end of 2018, Laura, Laura beat her in that workout and the obstacle course race, I think Laura beat her in that workout. It's either hopes. Not out race or a. Oh, hope is gone. Like there is no hope but you. OK, I I think Laura has to think that way or she has no shot to do anything. I think Laura has a chance if she has the best weekend of her life and Tia stumbles.
I think I think Laura legitimately legitimately hear me what I'm saying. I'm just like I'm so serious when I say I think Laura legitimately has a shot to get within 100 points of TF. God, what a statement. This is and and you could laugh at that when you we get to the game like what you just saw should have proved that to you. When we get to the games, you can hope all you want. That's what's going to happen. I think this is the problem there. Could be no handstand push ups.
No, I think there's still, I think we've not seen anything. Or just regs Laura. Needs no handstand push ups to be second. Right that's what I mean. Like I'm afraid that with no handstand push ups and semi finals it almost guarantees the games will have it. Now if it's just handstand push up, if it's any version that's not strike deficit, Laura will be fine. She'll be middle of the pack in the workout.
OK she's it's still bad for her when like so whenever whenever you got other people saying oh it's just a strict deficit she has trouble with. No, she's still trash compared to the really good girls at handstand push ups. Like that's going to be her worst event. Whatever event has the handstand push ups will be her worst event. But if it's not strict deficits, she'll be middle of the pack. If it is strict deficit, she's last place song always going to beat her.
Jawan Jung is really really really good at strict deficit handstand. Push ups. Thinking about this from a different direction, I don't think any of the weirdos that could win one off events, like they're just really good at some stuff. Like a lot of those weirdos did not survive this weekend, right? That get to the games and they just have a win and then they have like 30th place finishes on the rest of the events. Like none of those people survived this.
So you're already almost automatically choosing for Tia because you have to have those. I don't. Think they're already in the women's side? I would say. Where does strap this and handstand push ups could be? Tia. She's a but she's also a a top ten fittest athlete in the world. Yeah, I'm saying like saying. I think the men, the men have. Dancer kind of guy that just shows up. And the Colton Merton's you have Bronislaw Jack Farlow. You got Danny Spiegel.
She's, I mean she might win to events then not going to be anything and anything else, you know what I mean? But you need those. You need those people to exist to disrupt what what T is doing. Yeah, Laura. Yeah, Laura needs to beat those people. And for those people to middle, middle her and Tia. I just think like what Brian just has said, there's not. The amount of women to do that that there is in the men's side. And it honestly, it still didn't matter with Fraser.
He was just better than everybody. But what you're saying needs to happen. There's not enough women. Like the top ten women are just so much better than every than all the rest of the women. Even if you're a specialist, it wouldn't, it just doesn't matter unless it's lifting. You know, if it's like the CrossFit total, like you know what I mean? Like lifting. There can be people in 30th that you know have a really good event, but T is, T is.
But based on the. Programming T won that I. Don't think we're going to see those kind of events now like we just. No, but I'm saying. Those are the. Events. Those are the only events that those girls can middle or those girls can actually do something. The top ten girls are so much better than everybody else. Yeah, it. But back to Emma. Like I I don't think anything less of her. I don't, but I don't think anything more of her. I'll probably pick her to be
third place. Yeah. Like Emma Lawson will be third place to me at the CrossFit Games. It's probably like, what? Without really diving into it or making my picks yet, you know, I like to see if there's any events released at all, but. I to me, it's safe to say top eight, like 100% top eight. Oh, I think. It's safe to say top five. Top five, yeah. Yeah. I think. He's talking to win though, like Tia intimidation from Tia or something like that.
And do I if she had any hope at all, she's dumb. Maybe an outside chance, but I just don't think there's. Brian, are you going to beat me in any lifting thing? Do you have hope to beat me in any lifting? No. That's Emma Lawson to Tia Toomey on everything. Yes, apparently after seeing this weekend it absolutely. Is like, you see what I'm saying? Like that's what she wouldn't
have that hope. I was hoping to see that she has been made the same improvements that she did from 22 to 2323 to 24 and maybe has the chance of getting in the next. You just, you just didn't. You forgot how good Tia was. Tia was. Go back and watch 2021 CrossFit Games. Just just watch every event and then and then and then think about how good the women are, OK? That's fair, that's fair. I want to move down to South America. Oh. But first I want to play a
little clip. John, I think you know what this is. Oh, gosh. Top seven are sealed. All right, Well, that's good, for nobody cares. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, guys. Julia. Camargo. Camargo. One of our South America correspondents guys, listen, Aurora, John hates ghee. John hates ghee. OK, you've got to know that if you come in here gloating an oppressive touch and go performance 440 for ghee in event five, it's going to. Trigger down. It's going to set him on weight lifter.
He's the best weight lifter. Good for him. Hey, I'm glad that you lifted the weights key. I'm glad, I'm glad. Go freaking run. OK? Because you're going to get to the games, you're going to have a conditioning workout, and you're going to be trash. But I'm glad you lifted those weights fast. Man, you're the freaking same every single year. How about you work on a weakness, not touch a weight, and you post one more post about lifting weights and you're for your precious sponsors.
You're never going to be anything relevant in the games other than a lifter if you don't change what you do. I need to put that on a dubstep track so that that GE can listen to it when he trains. Then then have the fluffy duck guy. Gosh that's embarrassing. When I listen back to it, I listen to myself. It's very harsh. GE had a great weekend. Yeah, he does. I mean he didn't. He's has before in semi finals. And it wasn't just the strength based workouts. No, in South America two years
ago. Go look at what he did in South America. It was very similar. And he got, what, eighth two years ago at the Games? No, his rookie year he got 7th and then he got like 10th or 11th and then he didn't make it. Yeah, Why the hate, John? He's like you. He's like you. John you hate. He's the Sal you know of yourself. He's the Brazilian John Young,
just a little bit more fit. I don't, I don't think so, but he just, I see it makes me upset when a weightlifter as good as he is, is improving on his weightlifting. Like I saw his 310 double snatch at Watapalooza, 310 hang snatch for two, which is insane. It is like it's, it's insane. And then he's going to go to the Games and then any cardio workout, he's going to be 20 to 35th place. And like he always is, he's been that for four straight years. He is not. He's the same guy every single
year. And the reason, the reason why I give him hate is because so many people want to hype him up like he's the next thing coming. Like he can be potential podium guy in the future and he can't. He won't be ever if he does not change what he does. And like, if he does change what he does, I'll change my tune. But he's like Danny Spiegel. He's he's better than Danny Spiegel. He's a, he's a better, he's, his morals are better than Danny Spiegel. I knew that was.
Going, We won't get into that. We won't get into that. Like he might be a great guy, but he's like Danny Spiegel and like he's always going to be the best at this thing. Cool, improve on something out. Like if the CrossFit is the game of no weaknesses, right? Like that's how you get better. You go to the games and you're the same thing over and over and over. You're not working your weaknesses. And if you are, you're working them less than everybody else. Because he's just, he's just a
song on repeat. And so is Danny Spiegel. She's a song on repeat. I'm not impressed. Pretty good though dude. I'm not. Impressed when you can lift the heaviest sandbag or you snatch the most weight or you clean and dirt the most weight or you can run 100 yards faster than everybody. You could do that at 16 years old. You could do that like if you want to compete in the sport of fitness, I just want you to treat it the way other people are treating it and you don't have to.
For the record, he didn't have to do anything. He can keep doing what he's doing. He's probably making a lot of money. He's got like 400,000 followers. Andy Spiegel's got probably made so much money doing what she's doing. And if that's what you want to do, cool. I am never going to root for that person. You know what I'm? Saying more for him than he wants for himself. Yes, yes.
And if he wants, if he, if he's lying to himself and saying that he wants those things, he wants to be the fittest version of himself. He wants to be a podium contender eventually. He's lying to himself because he's not doing the work that requires that. Envy is doing the work that requires that. Like, say he he is working his weaknesses. He needs to hire somebody else because it's not working every single year. He's the same guy.
If you're working your if you're working your weaknesses, you would be different. And people can say like it. I'm a mayhem hater, Betty, because he's at Mayhem. Hatfield's literally my favorite athlete. And Roman, I was, I was on the Roman train forever. Like I like May. It's not about Mayhem. It's like, and that's why I like don't root for those people. And like, so somebody tells me, wow, he won the snatch ladder 440. He's the fastest guy at the
snatch ladder. Did you all expect anything different? I don't care if I posted me lifting weights every single day, what would the chat tell me? John, stop lifting weights. You're retarded. That's what Taylor yells at you all the. Time is the is the chat is the chat. Would the chat not say that? Right. Why are we not saying that to him? I'm the only one saying that to him. Get out of here, Hiller. Get. I don't know. We'll see. We'll see if it.
I know he's been running over the last year, so maybe he'll surprise you. John, you have to. I appreciate what you're saying, John, but I think you should be more passive about it. Good for him. We're going to see him once a year, do some kind of crazy lift and he's going to collect $1,000,000. He'll never. Be better than that. He'll be richer than me his entire life. I mean, you, you don't ask Bronislaw to go do that. Oh, there just to make the games, man.
There it is. So he John wants to believe that Guy can be the best, but Guy won't do the work. So it's making John mad. That's it, yeah. That's it. 100%. That's it. I think Danny Spiegel could be topped. Ten woman at the games. Top five woman at the games, if she lost 20 lbs, look and you're laughing at that. Think, think about it, think about it, think about it.
If she lost 20 lbs and could run a 5K under 20 minutes, if I said, hey Danny, if you lose 20 lbs and you run a 5K under 20 minutes, that's all you have to do. That's it. Just that you could be top five at the games. Why would you not do that dude? Run. Run sucks. Yeah, it does. It does. It does. But that doesn't defeat my point. You know what I mean? And like, they don't care. Like, I truly think they don't care. Dave doesn't care. Gee doesn't care. They're gonna keep doing them.
And that's why they they can keep. Doing this this is probably the most relevant point. That's my point, Sabir and Kelly. That's my point. That's why. Her butts made where her way more money than her, Philly says. And Gee would get weaker. That's why I don't root for them, and that's why I'm never going to be impressed with any lift they do.
If I want to be impressed by lifting, I'll watch the Olympics. Some little Chinese kid will do way more impressive things than Guy or Danny Spiegel ever did. Like, if you're impressed by lifting things, go watch the Olympics. You know what I mean? I'm not going to be impressed by that stuff. All right, next topic. It's time for blind rankings. It's back Mantasleep use code spin mantasleep.com get the best
sleep mask out there. All right, let me let me pull it up. I went back and forth on on the topic today. I ended up being nice. The topic is semi final highlights. It was going to be, it was going to be semi final, semi final moments with some not so great things when hold on. Hold on, pause. I'm sorry I had to post this. Yes. I'm not a games athlete. I am not one of the fittest men in the world. I'm a guy that talks on the Internet. That's all I am, Nick. You.
Can't compare me to Gee, I'm not Every single day is not just devoted to making myself the fittest man in the world because I'm not fit enough to make it that OK, We're way different, all right? I'm sorry. I wish this would actually translate to the screen but I think it looks better on YouTube. But some jy milk and waffles. Oh, is that what the OK I see? Yeah. I don't think I've ever seen the actual like what it looks like. Yeah, it's you will.
I mean, that's what we see on Sevon's show. Yeah, it's an actual waffle. All right, Semi final highlights. Easy number one, we got an easy #1. What's your #1 Colt and? Saxon go colt and Saxon Go has to be #1. OK. We'll we'll find out if you rank it #1 The Oceana podium battle for the Men 2nd. Four or five, it was pretty cool. Man, I would say 3. Four or five. Dude, it went back and forth. It went back and forth a lot. No, no, the men like Bailey was ahead at one point.
Bailey got second, Jay got third. Worst Jay's ever done in a semi final. But Jay was first after like 2 events. Like he was rotating forth the whole time. Like I guess Ricky dominated the 1st event and then Jay beat him by a good amount and then Bailey came out of nowhere events three and four and then Ricky kind of brought it home on the last day. Our Australian counterpart down. There lightly biased Kathy, I would say, I would say three. If you want to go 4, we can go
four. If you want to go 4, we can go 4. No, you're not a, you're not a part of this. Let's go 3. Let's go three because the fans are saying 2 and and I think what what's happening is Ricky like Ricky getting first. If Ricky hadn't gotten first, it'd probably be higher at my list. But Ricky? Ever gotten first? Of those three, that's who I had picked first. Yeah, but I don't think Ricky has ever, ever gotten first. No, I think it was two years ago. He he started off terrible.
That Jay's always won. Jay's won semi finals like like two or three years straight. Yeah. All right. Next one Tia dominates the North America East semi final. 5-4 or five, Yeah, I'm. Sorry. Like we knew it was coming. Yeah, I'm not impressed by it. Where do you want to put it, four or five? 5I I'd say 5 and and like, I'm sorry, Tia. Like if Tia's like you're not impressed by it. I destroyed everybody I know you're that good like. No, it's yeah.
It's like, it's not that we're not impressed. It's very impressed, but it's expected. It's it's expected, yeah, unless you do like, like you got to throw like some kind of like, look at somebody. You got to create some drama somewhere, right? Like to slow up a little bit, yeah. Fraser would flip off Castro or drop a bag out of his backpack. Like you. You got to do something like I'm telling you, you should have after the run event because Haley was dying trying to keep up with you.
TA, I know TS is a big fan of the show. TA is after the after the run of the show. You should have went and got Willow and held her and high five to everybody. I'm telling you, that would have made that would have brought this up at least to four. All right, next one Colton touch and go snatch. I think it's one and you weren't a part of like the the like commentary Tyler. So it might have played out a little bit differently for you, but that was the most hyped.
I was the entire semifinal. No, I mean I was out of my seat screaming and everybody else was too. I mean like besides. Yeah, you had a way different sandbag. You and the six other people. Yeah, besides the sandbag event at the Games, that was the loudest I've ever screamed at the CrossFit event. And it it was, it was probably louder than that. So I agree one. Next one cursed Utter's blitz of the snatch. It was. Oh man. It sucks because like I was
there, so I missed. I missed it to a degree. I mean, I caught it, but it was like you just didn't like realize what was happening. You didn't understand what was happening. Yeah, that's how good it was. And then it was over and you were like, wait, what? What? Did you just do and like, like you need to go watch the, the east, the east, do the snatch ladder and then at 4:00, at 4:58. Look where everybody is. It's 350 at 3:58 at 358.
Look at where everybody is and be like Olivia was done. Like like, like, Oh yeah, it's, it's so that's why I did. This week, this past week, we were there and it was like, Olivia's done. And it's like, what the hell? I say two. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I agree. I agree. I mean, it's definitely better than Oceana. To just changing the plates. Right.
Multiple times like that slows you down and for her to just blow through it. I feel like she had to work on her plate change speed to go that fast. Like she had trained to put on weights faster. I mean it's so fast you start to question if there's not like misreps or something like just from like at a glance like I've I've went and watched it back like she does everything perfect. Like literally zero execute. I don't think another human can do it that fast.
No, I don't. I don't think he's so either. I'm sorry. But like we said with Friendly Fran, it's like that. That was so next level. That it'll not be. Touched for you can't in 10 years. No one will still do it I'm. Not going to say that, but it's. It's I bet you, but I, I went and watched it back. She did everything. But it's like, it's that level of execution where you're like, there's just no way this is real. And all singles. Yeah. Yeah. All right.
See how you guys did the last one, the final event Carnage. I'm fine with this. That might be that might should have been three, but I I'm fine with this. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm good with this. I think Tia dominates. I I would switch Oceana and the final event, but besides that, we're we're right on point. I think it's probably the closest we've ever been. Well, maybe. No, we we've hit a couple like on the. Money.
When you think about the final event, we talked about it with Boz. We did the blind rankings with him. That was one of the events that was ranked. Oh. Dude I guarantee he was like on cloud 9 watching watching that event go down. Every every region for the most part, had some type of drama. Yeah, it was close. Athletes were dropping dumbbells at the last 12 feet. It's hard to make a lunge for the last event not be just so interesting. It's. Crazy how many people were failing.
I know every time they do it. And like, yeah, I don't know. It's it's, it's insane, man. Yeah, so there you go. There's your blind rankings for the week, John, the best analyst. First of all, if you didn't see it out in Asia, Dejuan Young, I don't know why president of the John Young Fan Club, if you can't see that. Yeah, she took that photo while out there in South Korea. I I don't know if it was APC that took that photo or got her that but. He definitely just gave her a
piece of cardboard and said hey. Can. You hold this, let me let me take a picture real this. Is for my little brother. He's sick, he said. Something wrong with him, Will. You either way, it might be the best. Picture He calls himself an analyst. He likes you guys. Like, yeah, yeah. Before we get into how everybody did in the Heat One app over the course of the three weeks, I want to go take a look at Games Mountain. Oh snap. This is the.
This is the. Original This is the This is your most recent games Mountain this because it has Haley Adams on there. And we're going to update this. We're going to update this next week, right, Brian? That's right. Next week. It's going to be the Final Games Mountain going into the Games. I know we still have like a month to go over for the Games, a month and a half. We got two months, two months 2.
Months we got full two months. But it'll be the final games mountain, the official games mountain. I'm interested to see rookie hill. We're doing rookie Hill right? I think we got like a lot of. Them which is we got a lot so yeah, I mean top six all did very well. Top ten the top four rows of your games mountain. No issues. Yeah, Valner and Lowen, probably the least, the worst performances out of the 10, but I'm not worried about those guys veterans. Fakowski, Maderos Maderos wins
his semi final. Dallin takes second which I think he was a little surprised by. Danielle and Alexis all respectable. Then we got Yoda Koski. He might drop off the mountain. He might be out. Captain's daughter just had surgery, so she's out. It's a. Possibility. Yeah, that one's not John's fault. So really only one legit one so far. Yeah, I think Colton Merton's out down there too, so. Three, three times. So close. Good job, John. I mean, this is the prediction for the games.
It's not prediction for who's going to make the games. This is like when the games happens these. Are going to be the top people. Oh, just the people that make it. Yeah, I yeah, I think anybody could make the literally, it's just the top 30 people like it's. Like if you. Really. You really want to think. Of saying that not too good, but that's. We'll we'll head down to base camp, though. That's where it gets a little bit more interesting.
James Sprague, Yeah, A. Lot of these guys could be climbing the mountain. It's. Preview. Preview for next week and stops could be going away. Jack Farlow. You're Jack Farlow. Amanda Barnhart did not have the best weekend. And then Paige Powers, obviously. That's not our fault. Didn't stand up per box step UPS, but overall again a solid a solid base camp. Maybe some of these might be be
moving up for those 3 athletes. And I want to say my, my best, the best rookies, the rookies that I thought could do the best at the games. Austin Hatfield and Grace Walton made it very easily, like did like. The reason they're at base camp, even though they have them on Rookie Hill, is 'cause I think these guys can make noise in the games, Top 20 noise in the games as rookies. Sarah, this is from January. I think it's the last time we updated it. So this is not the current.
It's from January, we're going to update it. We're just seeing, we're looking back and just seeing what how they did leading up to the games. Yeah, this is this is looking to see how John as an analyst has done on some of his predictions. All right, heading over to rookie Hill, Mr. Austin Hatfield at the very top qualifies easily. Peter Ellis. Victor Hoffer. Dude, I can't believe all these people qualified that we say we're going to a sense of.
Rookie Yeah, the 1st 3. And if you remember I said the 3rd row, I don't expect these people to make it, but they're always on the cusp of making. It dude, that third row you went you you went over three though. No. Did you not hear what I just said? I. Know but you made Grace and then Seth was close. I'm surprised you had Grace so far down. And I made Claudia. I think you had graced so far down because you still didn't know who was going to be in Oceana at the time.
Yeah, like I made this one like, like so early. And Claudia Glock made it too. I think Jorge won't take Jake. My worst one. I won't take Jake away from me because his he's his knees screwed up and he was just there really to just roll the dice. Sell some drinks then. I think it's really what it was for. You can get it on Amazon now, just in case you did not know. I think I think Jon put Jorge Fernandez on there. I think Jon put Jorge Fernandez on there for Tyler just to
appease him back in the day. I just put, I just put it there for any Invictus believers, you know. And. Give him hope. And then we got, do we? Do we have the timeout one as well? We do not have the timeout, but we do have the playground. This was not a very good. Well, these are people that I didn't expect to make the games, but we were going to make noise in the semi finals.
Lydia Fish, definitely. And I mean, like you say, Lydia Fish, Kelsey Kill was one spot out, Hannah Black one team. Trista had the greatest competition I think I've ever seen her have. Yeah, Trista was really good. Christina Levitic Levitadatus. Levitadatus made the games. No she did not. She got second Gemma Raider. And the oh, OK, how much, how much Africa matters. Orteza, I don't think, I don't even remember hearing his name. He had a bad. Very, very bad day.
I would know because I crushed Asia on heat one, which we'll get to in a second. You. Proud. You. Proud, very proud of my Asia. And then we got. To come back. Wait, I was right in front of Lydia when she made that. Those two snatches. It was. It was pretty electric, dude. That that could have been on the on the moments, the. It was, it was really amazing. Why? And she was so stoked when she made the first one. Like her face lit up. She didn't even care about the
second one. Lydia Fish is going to be a perennial Games athlete. Lydia. Lydia Fish puts on 10 lbs of muscle. Now I get that that's a lot, but Lydia if if she puts 10 lbs of muscle on and just gets 20 lbs stronger in every lift, she will be I think she can be a top ten games athlete. Literally just £20 stronger in every lift. She could be a top ten games athlete. I get this way easier said than done, but should she do it? Facts. Making a shirt, I really do.
I think she can be top ten, top ten in the games. That's that's the only thing that she's missing. That's a bold prediction. No, I I like that dude. She's got the work ethic she's got. Like she did good in events that she shouldn't have done good in. Yeah, and imagine now imagine if she was 20 lbs stronger how good she would be. Like the cleaners? Are a couple years older. You could put her like 8 spots
more. Yep. Comeback Canyon. These were athletes who needed to have a good comeback this season. Bounce back Luca in the Games Hopper. All of these guys made the games. All. Of them, Amanda Barnhart did not. Oh Dang it. Amanda, you're very, very close, But Amanda Barnhart did not. But everybody else? Where is Barnhart? Look at the top of Travis down there at the bottom. As he deserves to be, I Travis needed a Tyler Cristofeld
meltdown to make the games. He deserves to be at the bottom of the Creek. Sucks to be a winner, dude. Sucks to be a winner going to the games. Yeah, he was saving his performance for the games to get top ten peak and peak at that moment. And the comeback. Canaan, Cliff, Olivia Bailey, Nick. Matthew, Alex. Vigneo, John again, four out of six. Well. OK. And Ariel Lowen is just would do worse than third, like she would be like less than fifth I think is what I said.
Yeah, this has got more to do with the games, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So four out of five, I said Spiegel could make it or not make it. Yeah. So again, that's. Crazy that four out of the five of those didn't make it. Yeah, yeah. All right. So heat one, we had three weeks 7 semifinals and Jon went to the lengths of looking at some of the top analysts in the space, see how everybody did. You think Barkley did this? Did you do it or did Barkley do it? I did it. It looks good, doesn't it?
That sounded like a lie. You'll see the spreadsheet. You'll see the spreadsheet. Definitely Jon. Jon definitely put this together. Barkley. Barkley would make it look so much better than. That a little bit a little bit cleaner, but the math, math. And so we'll take a look at it. And there was nothing behind this. I didn't know where I was gonna be. I truly just wanted to see where everybody was gonna, where everybody would end up. And so this is the shot collar,
right for every region. So it wasn't, it wasn't just the top 12 or top five for the small region. It was making individual event picks and some of the side bets. JY wins four of the seven amongst all the top analysts. Freaking. Freaking Luke Parker. I would. Have known North America East too if it went for Lou Parker. I had a 6th place at Asia. That was my only claim to fame. So all of mine, I literally if I if I played, I didn't play the last week.
I started to and then didn't get to all the regions. Yeah, I think spin. Spin is the only one that I think we really can't like Tate like this is what he. Is. Because he he kind of said it and never changed. Anything I said it forget it didn't make any changes based off of athlete performances, did not do any of the updated ones that kind of came in if they you know, if it was not ready by Wednesday, I didn't do it.
So I'll take a pass. But week one I was a little bit better and then week two was trash. Chase had a pretty good time there in the South, South America and and North America East. He only played five of the regions. I would have loved if he would have played all seven. I thought about giving like a bonus to like if you played all seven, but then that's not like legitimate, you know?
What I mean what was interesting, so you took all this and then you went and looked at the total points if they did not do a region basically just gave them the average of their other scores, right, So do. You do you think there's another fairway to do it? I thought that was the most fairway to do it. Tyler. I mean, there, there's a lot with this that's flawed, but you, you did the best you could. Tell me what could have been better on.
It I mean, the only thing is if I, if I only if I only did the the the four small regions that most people didn't, you could have a better average. But yeah, I definitely, I definitely. Would only do the large reasons just like because so many people didn't do them you. Say that, but Pedro had his best placement on the large region. That's what I'm saying. Like just include those. The large ones don't. Don't include the small ones. I think the small ones matter man.
I mean, I guess, and then like, for instance, just to make excuses for myself, like I think I missed most of my Oceana picks 'cause we didn't quit doing stuff till like 10 or 11 at night, Yeah. And so, yeah. And then like, I don't know, for North America West, like I was doing crazy picks just 'cause I wanted to try shit out. So this let me explain myself and how I picked 'cause. Here, let's go. Let's go to the average.
Let's go to the average. So like you can see this is the actual, this is the actual ranking. Like where people it's their average placement and their total places. OK? Like total across all the regions. I just multiplied it by 7. If you did so, I'd like Chase. I took five. The 135.4 was his average placement multiplied by seven. That's how I got his total. OK all right, so I'm going to do this for every single thing we
do at the games. I'm going to do make an accuracy or at the well will won Watapalooza like he won would be #1 It's not like I'm going to be #1 every time. I'm going to do it for at least I shouldn't be or y'all need to step up your game up, but I'm going to make it every for every single thing. I'm going to make this or have Barkley make it if he wants to. I can't control Barkley, but if he wants to make it, Barkley can make it. Go ahead, Tyler. Oh, you want to talk about my
philosophy on pics? So I was thinking about it and I was like, I'm just playing a whole different game. Like I love picking people for stories. I love people. It's so it's like if you ever grew up, like growing up I played like Call of Duty. I only basically played like first person shooters and like other stuff like like that. But this is like I'm in like a, a role-playing game when I play my own game, like I'm not playing, I, I'm playing the side quests, like I'm not even
playing for the points. So it's like, I don't know, Tyler, Tyler. Beats you. You're bad that that's what that's what you're saying. Or or just some crazy shit. All all my conspiracy theories about stories about athletes all came true, which could be even more alarming. But that's so much sweeter if you do. If you do well, you know what I mean. I think that all the time, like OK, I'll have one kind of heart pick per region where like I really want this person to do this.
I think they can. Whether it happens or not, I don't know, like Colton winning a snatch ladder. I picked Colton. I don't think anybody else pick Colton except Taylor Taylor pick Colton, but everybody else was on the Tudor train and then it happened. It's just hit so sweet when it happens, when your heart pick happens. But then you can go with Luke Parker and F y'all up. So, you know, but yeah, I'm planning on doing this for every single big event that we do.
Obviously we won't need an average for the games. It'll just be like, you know, this is where everybody's stacked up and that'll be a much easier thing, right? And then I might just keep this and take a year, a year, a year of no listen, will would be at the top. I'm telling you, in Guadapalooza, I was, I was really bad. In Guadapalooza I'd have been like 5th. Speaking of Heat 1, Tyler, have you given away the prizes yet for We Are? Coordinating all of that currently.
But yeah, we're prizes are on our way for the most part. It's also. Yeah. But what's the guy who's father Bryce I just can't get over. Father Bryce. He's a legitimate priest I think in Italy, big. Fan of the show Father Bryce? Way to go man. Yeah. He. Didn't even know it was 2 tickets to the games. He goes, wait, I get the $1500 and two tickets and I said yeah dude, he goes, man, that's even better than that. That's awesome. So yeah, shout out to Father Bryce.
Good deal. All right, here we go. Enough with the analyst and John patting himself on the back. Dude, this is just what what it was man. I'm not patting myself at all. I'm sorry that I'm the best. I'm. Just curious if you're going to put this together if you were like 7. Yes, I was going to put it together no matter what. I thought Lou Parker ruined me. I thought Chase was going to be in first place because I knew Chase had done really well in
the regions that he he played. I didn't know that he had a three 100th place until I did the math. And. I knew Brian. I knew Brian beat me in one of the regions too. So like, I, you know, I didn't know how far things were going to be. Last topic here for Quickly Rogue earlier this week put out a new qualifying system for the Invitational. It is going to be used for invites to this year's Rogue Invitational out in Scotland. They're still going to have the qualifier to invite 5.
They're going to invite 10. Their intent is to invite 10 from this list and then the next 5 remain. Spots to fill to the top 20 or top 20 athletes is at their discretion. The system is a five year look back of open quarterfinals games and rogue Invitational performance with the caveat that as you go back in years, the waiting is less. So the fifth year is like 16% of the weight versus the most recent CrossFit Games win.
My first, I guess I'll start. I, I have a thought on this, but I want to see if either of you had thought about it. So Tyler, when you saw this, what was your initial reaction to why Bill and Katie devised the system for this? I thought that was the end of the question just. Why? Why? Yeah, Why would they devise this to some?
I think there's something larger at play that this is just a a prep for because like there's so much flawed with this and at the end of the day, like they generally pick people we want to see. So just pick who you want. Like they've not done a bad job. Hold on, Tyler. Thank you. Please pause the unknown. It's a Thunderbolt. Baby, there it is. Hot like a hurricane? When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you. Walter Payton.
I'm sorry that I'm the best, John. Needs to respond to that unknown. I don't think. I don't think I'm great. You just have to be great in the semifinals, right? No, no, I, I don't think I'm great. I just think there's nobody better. Whenever I think I'm great, I'll stop talking. I got, I got work to do, just like GE, just like GE does with his cardio abilities. I can always be a better analyst, as as we all can especially. Tyler, don't listen to Luke Parker next time.
I'm not picking Luke Parker. Yeah, if you're not. So why? Why Tyler? I just thought of a great segment who I think is going to lose and I there's no way we can run that segment. Why not? Wait, wait, what did you say? So it's like every, every event, you know, we always like who's going to win who. Bottom 5. And instead, so we like go to you to pick who's going to win. It's like, OK, Tyler who's? Going to who is going to be
trash at this competition? Well, let me tell you, I got stitch from Tyler Cristobal. Let me tell you right now, Attica Greer. Oh man, you talk about becoming the most dated analyst overnight. That'll. Be that'll be great at the games. Like who will miss the cut? Who's out? Yeah, I think we need it. I think we need a Tyler. Curse, I love it.
We, we call it the Tyler Curse. Think about it, think about it, think about it. If you're, if you're right, like, you know, even like half of the time. Half of the time. Like it'll be like. When you say when you don't want. Somebody's name. When you say somebody's name, there's going to be like. They're like, no, no, I got it on like. Pressure. There's going to be pressure. It's like the when. You're when you're right, it'll be like the Tyler curse got him.
It's like the Madden, the Madden cover, right? The Madden cover where everybody's getting injured for a while. Dude, I so want to do this now man, it's up to you, but I so want to do this. I I vote in favor of. The Tyler Crush segment. Tyler's trash so. I, I I don't. Tyler's. Trash. Tyler's trash, J John's games Mountain and then Tyler's trash. It's it's urban, it's not on the mountain. My brain. So thoughts, Tyler, on the the
Rogue qualifying system? The only problem I have with it is that they include their own Invitational. And so it becomes a circular reference of athletes who get there, continue like you can't get points if you don't go. So at yeah, it's, it's fine. I I just, I just kind of wish that this is one like where Crossfit's like we have the right, we reserve the right to basically do whatever we wanted anytime that's one here where I was like, just keep that right.
No one cares. John, your reaction? Yeah, I'm with Tyler. I mean, I I just don't care like you do. Like they said this, am I all right? Well, when you you figure out who's going, let me know when and then and then I'll talk about it. But like, that's how I feel. Like if you would, you could do whatever system you want. I mean, OK, I feel like some will say no. I announce. It now, well, I mean, I like that they announced. Stuff.
I think they didn't do it now and, and like I found Barkley and I found a few things we've we've communicated and they've had, I think they've been fixing it like Tim Paulson was in there once as Tim and once as Timothy, Jimmy Green and Jimmy Simmons. The. Last five spots still go to the queue, yeah. Yeah, the last five still go to the queue. So I mean, like it's literally this, just slightly different from the games.
And then people will say no. Like, I don't think Cara's going to go to the robe dude if she lives in Australia. You know what? I. Mean they pay for it, it's to Scotland. I get, oh, I forgot, it's Scotland. I mean, that's a wonderful place. Yeah. I think Carla's going to go to Scotland if you. Get invited. I think you're going. Do people say no all the time? Yeah, the the Round Rock Scotland, right? You think Annie, you think Annie will say yes.
She basically lives in Scotland. I would say yes if I were Annie. I think she's done it. She's done it a million times. Yeah, not in Scotland. I get. Yeah, I know you're right. So go ahead, Ryan. I don't care. I had two two thoughts. First, I feel like this was in direct kind of when they had criticism when Tia was invited, right, because they didn't invite Bethany as the 15th person. They invited Tia and and Katie had to make the right call. Yes. But Katie came out and was like,
it's still an invitation. We get to pick who we want, you know, etcetera. I think their intent was let's put something more formalized so that we kind of have a system where, hey, we're going to invite 10 people from this, we're going to invite 10/5 from the queue. And then we'll just kind of pick, we still have 5 at our discretion, right? We can pick from the queue, we can pick from this. My second reaction was so they don't like the Crossfit's worldwide rankings. Yeah. There's.
Already even. Before, even before they would have went off games. They went off the game's performance right, but if you're going to pick some like previous historical like, why not system? Yeah, but they can't control it. They don't like it because CrossFit has openly said, yeah, we'll, we'll probably change it. And it's like, OK, if you guys are going to change it, we have to do our own thing.
Right. And they can, they if they don't like this, they can be like, all right, yeah, you're right. Y'all all right. We're not we ain't doing this anymore. Like I I I agree with that. I agree. So theirs is better I think than Crossfit's. I do. So one of my thoughts of how to do a worldwide ranking is to do it something like this where you do have prior years don't count as much as the current year. I don't think I'd go back five years. I think probably 3 is probably
the most I would go back. But and I think this opens up to if there was, if there was a season, right like you start throwing Watapalooza in here, you start throwing Dubai in here. It is interesting that quarterfinals is not in this. Yeah, it is. What do you mean it's not? It's right there. No. Semifinals, OK, I was like what? Sorry, sorry. Semifinals. That makes sense. That makes sense to me. So. I would take it a step further and say, look, there's a strength of field, right?
Like so like the games, the top 20 athletes at the games are, you know, how, how are they ranked? You know, the same with say Rogue has just 20. But like if you started looking at the top 20 athletes in the field who are competing, like you could have a kind of strength of field. Whereas like Dubai is not as strong as Rogue, so they don't get as many points to be allocated. You could do that for semifinals, right? Because, you know, South America is not as strong as North America East.
North America East get the most points allocated by doing well in semifinals. So I, I think you might be right, Tyler. It's going to lead to something else. Yeah. This is this is. What would that be? Some type of more formalized season ranking system that maybe CrossFit adopts at some point usually. Crossfit's going to adopt anything that they don't do. I sent you something spin. I, I don't know if you can pull it up on the thing, but this person really wants this to be
shown. He wants the public to know. To to our chat no. No, no. To the to the show, the show. I've I've the spin chat the spin. Chat doesn't matter, both of them. If you're able to put it on the show, it is of the utmost importance. But the world, the world sees this that way. He they know that this man is not lying. It's up most, John. You know it's not Let me. See if I if I can't. If you can't. If you can't, it's OK, no worries. I had you for a minute though, you kind.
Of is it just the photo? Yeah, you got to. You got to zoom in to see it. Zoom way in. Hang on. Turn your head sideways. Close the other eye. He said I'm not bluffing. There we go. We, we, we need video. We don't know what he's standing on. Yeah, yeah, we that doesn't prove anything. This wouldn't pass the rogue the rogue invitation. From the Rogue qualifier, pass the Rogue qualifier. Rogue Qualifier. Sorry. Let's see if I can. What is it? See, Barkley gets it. You can't come up here.
All right, this is Austin Hatfield. He wants to show you all that he is 5 foot eight and that he is not lying about his height. That's it. He's taller than 5/8. He says stop. Stop comparing this man to Colton Merton's. Colton Merton's in the car seat compared to Austin Hatfield. That's what he that's what he car seat. There it is. All right, that's it. I just wanted to show the world that he's 5 foot eight, although that proves nothing. He could have just been laying
down on that. Yeah, I thought that was. I don't think so. I'm five, nine and a half, 5:10. I'm going to, I'm going to come. I'm going to stand next to him at the games and I feel. Like I feel like you're. You're 59, right Tyler? Like 5. I I think so. At the games, no, at Crash, at Crash J Rs wife was measuring the height of all of us 'cause we got the shit talking as a wife and I was 5, seven and a half. But but you've stood next to me. I'm just like, I'm not that much shorter than you.
You're like an inch shorter than me. Yeah, yeah. And so whatever. So John's 5/8 and 1/2. No, I was. I was barefoot. OK, well then shoes matters, man. I'm five, I'm 59, with no shoes, with shoes and 5:10. Guys are short. We know they are. Short. We know, we know, we know. This is a freaking giant. So yeah, that the road qualifying system, it's out
there. I think there'll be changes to it, but don't be surprised if you see it somewhere else or being used a different iteration down the road. All right, guys, I think that's going to wrap it up. Tyler, any plans for Heat one in the in the games? Got got that on full swing now getting ready. We are, we are way we're we're trying to get way out of the 8 ball. That'll be the first.
Yeah, it's we. But what'll happen is because we always come up with plans, we're going to do this, we're going to do that. And inevitably all that gets scrapped three weeks before any event and it's just all hands on deck until the end. So yeah, we're working on stuff. I think semi finals taught us a lot of what what would be more interesting or what, yeah, sort of how to get even more excitement out of. The prop. The props are great man. Dude, the props took off.
I was like, I'm having so much more fun. Like it was already fun, but I was like this. I had fun setting the props. I had fun. I totally. The props and it's such a difference maker, such a different maker. If you're I love the props. Personally, I think the props are amazing. Yeah. And we're going to continue to do things like that, push harder into the props, I think like do more stuff with like different. Not different storylines too. Like it'll create storylines as
it goes. Well, separate, I mean. Like an easy way to think about this would be like camps. They were hard man, except for freaking a couple of them. I screwed up, I guess anyway, but like camps, right, So it's like you can play athletes from camps. Like we have different ways we can split up athletes now and I think create more storylines. So I'm I'm stoked to do it. 4000 the last week. I just like I'm blown away. That's that's the highest since the game.
So I'm hoping I think 10,000. I think we'll have a a big a big jump at the games. 10,000. 10,000 to the moon. Heat one to the moon. What? What does this mean guys? I don't understand what this means. John Young presents as a six foot three 220 LB man, but it's really 5 foot nine 200 lbs. No, that's that's like a compliment. Yeah, says you act larger than life. You are way you do present way bigger. Like in person I was like, oh, you're way bigger than I thought
you were. But you know my height and weight. What would that? Yeah, it's just you feel bigger. On screen all. Right. We'll, we'll, we'll leave it out there. Tyler and then Jon Jay White barbell, anything, anything going on there? Just getting people strong. Yeah, we're on a, we're on, We're on. We're on like a deload thing right now. We just finished the cycle like 3 weeks ago. So we're just chilling out and then we're going to start a new line up here pretty soon.
Good deal if you want to get strong Jay White barbell on Instagram message Jon and. Then Jon's head's not bigger than mine. No, it's how I just got a bigger head all. Right my freaking melon's huge, dude. Yeah, you did. You notice how big you looked compared to Taylor? I was like. And what's funny is Taylor, that's bigger than you. I know like. I know that Taylor is bigger than you, but. When we every. Single time you look so much bigger than him. It's my torso, man.
All my all my mass is in my torso. Sounds like a personal problem. It is a personal problem. All right, guys. Thank you. Good to be back and we'll all be back next weekend. Don't ever leave us again. I will try not to bye bye.