What's up you guys? I'm signing up for the Open this year because I love the community, the challenge and the sport of fitness and I'd love to see you there on the leaderboard as well. What's up guys? It's Sprager here coming to you live from the sauna telling you why you should sign up for the 2025 across the Games Open. So one, it's measurable. It's my favorite part about it.
You can compare it to your past and your future self and you can see if you degressed in your fitness or if you improved in your fitness. So I love it as a metric for my athletes and for myself. To the community. You get to experience blood, sweat, and tears with your fellow gym members, with your friends next to you and the core memories that will last a lifetime because you're going to be pushed outside your comfort zone. And three, it's going to teach you a lot of things about
yourself. Well, you're amidst a hard workout or you're being pushed outside of your comfort zone. You're going to learn some tough lessons. You're going to be proud of yourself. You're going to come out of it a better person. So I love the Open for those three reasons, and I hope to see you on the leaderboard. What's up? My name is William Leahy the 4th and this is my fifth year signing up for the CrossFit Open, and you should too. Welcome to the spin pre Tijuana palooza Eve.
We're not in Miami this this year, but we're there in spirit, I guess. John was there in spirit last year, so it only makes sense. I've only ever been there in spirit to be honest with y'all. It looks a little cold and rainy, so hopefully if you guys are going down there, you have brought a hoodie, get some paper street coffee, stay warm. If you are not and you're watching this as Savon says, like and subscribe. We got a long night ahead of us.
We got an hour and a half here and then handing it off to Savon. John, you're heading over there. I think Chase, hopefully a couple others to do more coverage of what a tear. What a palooza. Sorry, Yes, Kenneth, the lap you are definitely taking a shot every time somebody says tear so. Yeah, sound off if you're in the comments and you're in water at in Miami right now tear. Heidi, crew, good morning. Heidi's drunk. Something like that. Billiam the 4th. That's right, the computer is
here. Barkley, Dale. Apollo. Yeah, Barkley, you should change your handle. Might as well call me Rocky then because I'm coming out on the win with a win here, so you don't know. We'll get in that here in a minute. First of all, we're going to go through some of your comments. We are going to walk through the Heat One app, give our pics for all individual events and what prop bets. Are they all in there yet, Tyler? All right, Good. Loaded. Ready to go?
We'll talk through some Mayhem invites and blind rankings, and then maybe some Last Chance qualifier, maybe, I don't know. All right, First off, viewer comments. You got quite a few of them this time. I can remember that guy. I think that's the guy that tried to prevent me the last night, Sunday night, it was rainy. There's like the the stadium was like 20% full. There's nobody there. I have my media pass and the guy's like only ticketed people
can get into the stadium. And so I walked out, and then he turned around and I walked right back in. Ticket Fascism. That is the guy that's in charge of enforcing people saying tear before water. Palooza. That guy right there, he's just walking around. Somebody should do that as a bit like, just like somebody says water palooza and they're like, what did you say? Dude, Peter had a hard run yesterday with Hiller, Hiller said. Water like 23 times and and he every time he threw a tear in
there. It was quite funny with y'all. I don't remember which question it was but I'm like legitimately 12 times said it in the middle of his one minute answer on coffee pods in one yesterday. It still made more sense than your first answer. Yeah, I know that was. I know. I I. That was one of the best shows that had no real great answers in it. I hey, I thought my other two were good, but I'll that first question, that first answer, I
went back and watched that. I'm like, did it really sound that bad? I knew I was kind of rambling a little bit. And then you should have, Peter should have clipped it and then put the Billy Madison, Billy Madison guy up there. I want you no point. And we are all stupider for what we just heard. Oh, that was. That's, that's how it felt. It was rough. It was rough. I, I, I deserved that zero. I earned. I earned that 0 is what I was saying. He still came back keeping it real.
He's down there in Miami looking at Mike helping there's. Some guy named Mike. Mike on his shirt I. Don't know. ISON could be. Could be, I don't know. And Baron, all I could think of you of while you were discussing John's picks last week was John in a hospital room with his newborn baby screaming at his phone why he picked who he picked. It's not far from the truth. I I wasn't screaming, but I was definitely paying attention. Her water hadn't broke yet.
I was like, let's yeah, he was fine. Let's say you had the baby right before the. Show Oh, no, you're right. No, no, no, my bad. My scratch, scratch. I was talking to you guys before then, though. But no, she just had the baby 20 minutes ago. And you still wanted to come on. And we were like, John, just stay off. Six O 3 was birth time, so we had a good 30 minutes, man, we were ready. I I really wanted to show her to
the world. I wanted to, I wanted to show her like, hey, look at. Everything here she is, I just. Did look at this and he was not about it so. That's fair, probably would probably going to take a week off. Get ready for this one. T dragon OK five OG definitely a legit account. If you are not top five potential at the games or have home run events such as lifting or endurance or gymnastics like Koski Ghee or Danielle Brandon, you are absolutely benefiting
from the world fitness project. You get a fixed income. It's like it's like the the senior citizens and more exposure from your for your sponsors. So I don't see the reason why it is a bad thing. For challengers. It's different, but you have to spend money to earn money. Tennis is the same for young athletes. I would say pro athletes.
I don't. I heard the problem is if the World Fitness Project ends up hurting that person as far as the Games go, because you can either be one of the fittest people in the world, but let's, let's be honest, irrelevant in the World Fitness Project, or you can be irrelevant at the CrossFit Games. There's only one one thing's going to move the needle. And yeah, you get 30 grand, you do. But that's all you're ever going to get. You're never, you're never going to get past that. You have.
Been that travelling back and forth all over the place. You've sold your fitness career for 30 grand a year. You've sold your soul to the devil. Jeffrey Burchfield As a retired teacher, I have a fixed income. Nice, Jeff. And I mean, and maybe people can just adjust their training and, you know, do both of them, but it's only for people that like it actually influenced if they made the games or not, right? Yeah, do you want to be irrelevant at the games or irrelevant at the World Fitness
Project? I'm irrelevant right here at home. The cheapest place to be. Irrelevant. There you go. We're just the morons on the with the microphone. I'll get to that here in a second. Clooney's Adventures. I was wondering if we were going to get into that. Yeah, yeah, great show. Guys. Would you be able to to detail in an in an episode the things about the WFP that you think are
good both for fans and athletes? I'm extremely cautious of the WFP being a sustainable tour event year over year, but I do see a lot of positive aspects they're trying to implement. I didn't do I? I, I want to make this clear. I want it to work. I want it to work. I want it to be great. I want it to be another thing that the athletes can do. I'm all about it. They were so shady in how they put it together. It's all like, like it's they said it's not going to influence
the game season. We're not or not, we're not going to be intertwined with them. It's just another opportunity. No, we're not battling the games. It's just we're just going to have all our stuff. Exactly when they're having their stuff, like it's just, it's very shady the way the way they went about it. But I I want it to work so badly and I hope everything is just super happy. That no, you have not said one good thing yet. He wants it to be. He wants to succeed.
That's. I, I, I just I. It's spin just makes a very compelling case of why it won't. Ways in which it could. This is a good question because he's like, all right, if you don't hate it, tell me what you like about it. Ways it could be good that they aren't, that I don't see them moving into yet, is they could create an offseason structure to where lower level competitors actually are incentivized to compete in the competitor
division. The Challenger. Or the challenger division, Sorry, that doesn't seem like there's we went over last show how that doesn't seem to be the case. There's no real incentive to be in the con, the challenger division, if they could run more cool events, but they're going to have to get bodies there. This is a sub like this is a structure that could work great, but I don't think that they've made those moves yet. And maybe they don't because they haven't reached that scale,
but we don't. Even we don't even have the 40 athletes yet. Right. I see a future in the way that it could work, but I'm I'm just holding my breath to see if they do any of those things and I'm I'm assuming that they're not going to thus far. Cautiously pessimistic. Yeah, sure. I am super excited though for some exclusive swag. That's a clean logo do. You know what I thought about whenever this came out? Go ahead and play it and I'm gonna tell you. Like my immediate thought.
All right, here we go. Look at that hat. Will more at? I like the hat, I think it looks pretty cool. Look at that. Look at that Airbnb in Miami. They are living large. This hits me so hard, like the the fire festival, if you guys remember that where they're like, they got this island and they're like, Oh well, all these beautiful people are going to be here and. Then is Wilja rule. Cha cha rule. I mean, I think technically he
is if you've never. Seen No, no, no. Will's the guy that put it together. Will's not Ja Rule. Will's the guy who put it. Together no the Gillette family is to to get the. Funding it but they're but like there's. Ja Rule is the Ja Rule is the the hype man. Yeah, he's the face. Yeah, yeah, you're not, You're not wrong. But I just feel it. Just, it hits me so hard, like Crossfit's version of the Fyre Festival and like, it's going to be so beautiful.
Look at it. Look at where we're living, man. And then, you know, and then Will's sucking some dude's Dick to save the Fyre Festival. You got to do what you got to do, John. Firefest. What am I saying? I'm saying. Festival, it's fine. Where do you put this for formations for that? Just one you have to e-mail jobs at at worldfitnessproject.com. You know, great documentary by the way, if. You don't know what I'm talking about. Look up the firefest document.
It's pretty awesome. Like you're really, you're really going to like and you like, you need to understand what I'm talking about. Like I didn't just say that randomly like you need to, you need to watch that documentary. I realized if you had not seen it like that, probably felt really out there. You know who else had a dope Airbnb last year? Waterpalooza. Heat 1. Look for that goddess. It's true. John's gone. He's out the Clooney's he likes, or she likes whatever.
The Clooney's is watching the best of the best compete against each other more than twice a year. The thing is, they've always had that opportunity and they chose not to. I like that it's a tour. I mean more places around the world to get to see and engage with the athletes. Fair. Do you get to say a three event deal is a tour? I guess crash Crucible? But the finals too, so that's. It's a tour. No, it's 3 total, 22 tours and a final. Yeah, it's. The world. It's like when will.
Bash Me more of a more of a more of a series. It's like when. Will bash me for say 5 figures. Yeah, I actually like that they are contracted to promote the World Fitness Project via socials. I like to see like how you get to see the athletes fitness against each other, overspread each other, spread over a whole year, not just speaking for one event. However, Clooney's is suspicious, very suspicious of
the finances. Very. Suspicious. Not announcing a single sponsor prior to announcing 78% of the athletes is puzzling. OK, not announcing a media team or a broadcast deal prior to announcing athletes is also puzzling. What are you reading? This is Clooney's bro. Clooney's this. Is Clooney's he Clooney's wanted to get our thoughts but then also weighed in I'm. Sorry this has gone on too long for my thoughts to be had. Come on, Joe I. I got no thoughts anymore.
This is a good point and that's why I like say what you will about CrossFit, they people promote CrossFit and they don't really reach out to get people promote or haven't in the past get gotten people to to promote. And so yeah, it does come across fake. Well, we haven't seen them promote it yet, that's true. And not going on every podcast, CrossFit media space to promote this is also puzzling. They've been on coffee pods and wads and talking to elite Fitness. What else is there?
They're invited. On this show if they would like. Anytime. And all strong women as well. Easy, John. We're open to any and everybody. You're a diverse. We do not care. We include everybody. If you're male, female, and that's it, will it you're, you're welcome to the show. We did invite Sam on and she was going to come on. And then she read the comments. Yeah, then she read the comments. And that's not on us. That's not on us. And then we got ratioed.
I learned. I learned what that meant this week. Yeah, I looked and that's. We got it. Let's see at will. No Rep you. Why is there a beef between barbell spin and Mayhem? They mentioned Spin four to five times on their podcast. They're coming around. They're coming around. I felt for you, John, when you said like when Rich said, who's John Young? Oh man. I I recognize that feeling this week when they kind of threw some shots at us also because I
did not say what they said. I said, like we said, I got grouped in and I was like, I did not say that. That happens to me all the freaking time, Tyler. People just take something I say and change it a little bit and then run with it. Yeah, hold on. Do we want to dive into this right now? We want, we want to do this right now. Sure, yeah. Let's do it. Go ahead, you're the one most angry about it. Pull up receipts here. Tyler, go ahead. Well, there's Vander Sloot. He said that.
We flaunted that. We knew that Suspend tweeted out Albany. When did you tweet that? December 21st or 12th or something like that. And, and Vander Sloot said that we were flaunting like, oh, we knew and we broke the news and we were well aware that everyone knew except for everyone watching this show, right? And that's the thing. Like we weren't acting like we knew and no one else knew. We just, we learned stuff and we tell you guys in our own way. Y'all wouldn't know if we didn't
know first. It's always. I think that's where they're that's where they fell short is just because everybody within Mayhem and everybody they talk to knows they're not thinking about the 312 people that are watching that may or may not have got heard that. And the six thousand others that I'll watch later. Right. It's, it's more about informing and like, it's not like trying to be arrogant or anything like that. It's Yep, called it, Yep, it's leaked. We knew it, We shared it.
We're more like, we're more like confirming that we are a trustworthy source that come to you about information that not everybody knows yet. And we're making everybody know it, right? Kind of like, kind of like like if you knew there was a last chance qualifier and you said it way before anybody was supposed to say anything.
Yeah, I I thought it was odd that that Rory was like, I think the problem with media is that they're just trying to get a gotcha or a scoop and the insider information. It's like, well, if we weren't there, then who else would be talking about it? And then also, like Rory said, like, oh, there's a story that's posted and then everybody else, you know, does their own spin on that story. And it's like, well, spin has a lot of readers.
It would be dumb of him to not put that same story back out. It's not like he's like, oh, I told you all first. He's just saying like, hey, here's the news. Read it. You also. Don't. It's weird when you go look at any other like Trump was inaugurated, like oh, and CNN posted first. So Fox News can't. No, they all put their own spin on it. They all put their own story out. That's what happens. And if you want to follow me, you want to follow, follow morning chalk up.
If you want to wait till Thursday morning to listen to the talking Elite fitness, you can do that. If you all want to find out a whole week late, go ahead. If you want to listen to Craig Ritchie in three weeks, you can listen to that. It's fine. Who's also said that we. And Mayhem people, I don't know why y'all are being mean to us. I, I have just like like I have just come around to liking the mayhem people. I I mayhem. So do why y'all want to be this?
So long and I finally come around about, you know what, they're good people. They always, you know, when things go South, they're the first ones to be like y'all are this is dumb and like I and I love that about rich, about the Chico, about about their whole all everything they got going on and I'll and I'm I'm team mayhem, I'm back, I'm on the train and then they're going to be mean to us and and I just I just think that's that's kind of a dirty that's a Dick move. You know I. Love it.
I love it it. It seemed disingenuous in that like. Nobody would know who Austin Hatfield was if I wasn't just screaming. There it is. OK, OK. I'm doing all your work. For I thought Scott called it. I thought Scott called it like 3 years ago. Scott called it first. No, I like the little back and forth like you all want to throw tit for tat. That's fine. I don't, we're not. I do think there is like an enemy making thing.
And point being, this week Dallin threw some shots back at me for saying fitness privilege on his. His show I DM Ed him and I was like hey do not put me in the same boat as that OK? I don't like in enough holes. I do not need to be lumped in with him with stuff. He's, I don't think Tyler's was a shot at it. It was like he's so fit he can do. What? It was a compliment, but Dallin didn't, and I loved that. He did not let that.
He didn't like that at all. I love it and it helps it like I know Dallin and I would consider Dallin and I like somewhat friends and it's like I like the little little shots. Doesn't even know who you are. I like the little shots, but like, I don't want to start a war with him. Like, I think we're all on the. Side I don't think I, I don't yeah, I don't think, I don't think it's just I'm not mad, I
don't think. There's. No, I'm not mad. If anything else, it's clear that they get their news from the barbell spin. Very, very clear. Rich made that pretty evident. Exactly, and so joking. When he said that, but I don't think. So hey, we went from hey, two years ago. He was blocking me. Now he's commenting and talking about the barbell spin. So we've come a long way in a few years. So I. Wanted the record to state that I thought that Mayhem not running a qualifier is cool.
I think you guys were disingenuous on that bit. But hey, we can leave that alone. I don't. Know who who blocked you? Spin. Rich did back in 2019. Who's unblocked now? Who's referring? OK. Mr. Frenny moving on at Cy BY-I. Hope we can be friends in the future. I'm sorry. I hope we can be friends in the future. Go ahead, CYBY. Yeah, another very legit person. Interesting games, athletes shilling for their prize purse at the start of the show. Shame I did not pay them one cent.
So. They did that at the 'cause James is a good dude. Yeah, I asked for a a short little blip saying why should people do the the open and James came back with a 45 second very in depth reason why you should do that. Sorry, John. All right, last one from wanna love. You know no one will care or be interested in world fitness project Same 20. We know who's in who will care except the 20 predetermined athletes. I'm struggling with the entire concept.
Guess we'll find out eventually. I'm not on the edge of my seat so not interesting. But you will be because we will be covering it. We will be. I don't know. I'm not very interested right now either. We'll, we'll, we'll see. Oh. Man, John, come on. That's it. Do we know how the live stream is going to work for any of those? We don't stay. Tuned based based on the amount of investment, I would say it. Works it's me great.
I'm excited. Indianapolis in May All right, moving on. Go ahead and give us a follow road to 10,000, right? 9100 something. Oh, look awesome, Mansur. Speaking of tear, Seth Rollins had tear shoes on when he wrestled on Monday Night RAW. Oh. That's cool. Kenneth, take a drink. 2. Sivan the game's best events best judging, best prize purse, best media Speaking of media, Sivan's behind the scenes is coming out here soon so. First episode's trippy. It is trippy, isn't it?
It's. All every episode's going to be I. Mean it's it's but it but it's like it hits you. There's so much of the stuff that happened at the house that I wish it made it in. I think more of that stuff will start. It will. I think we're trying. To try to do like an inside the inside the not behind the scenes, but inside the scenes. The emotion, the emotion that came out during those three days was more emotional range. And I've, I think we all grew like way closer in that time.
And it was, it was really interesting to see how everybody handled it so. Yeah. All right. Moving on. Tyler tries to get deep. No, and it goes and. It's been goes all right, moving on. Moving on, we're done. When is coming out the behind the scenes coming out there? Sivan, let us know. All right, Tier, what a palooza drink, Kenneth heat one. Have you signed up yet? Sign up How many teams? Going on through. These. You partnered with Proven Frog. Proven and frog grips are like
dude frog grips. Scan the scan the code over there. QR code wrong way. Wrong way, Tyler. No, it's right on my end. No. It's not right on ours. Oh, well, then there you go. There you go. There you go. Yeah, it's I they were going to give out gift cards and $100 every for the team competition and the individual competition sign up. There'll be plenty to win. It'll be a good one. We I think we've gotten way better at the props.
I'm excited to do these and I think like it's going to be hard to pick winners. Did you say the the grand prize for number one shot caller this year was $37,000? Is that what you said? Hard to hear from. All right, well, we're going to go through the lineup. Wait so is it true frog grips rubber slash rubber is banned for the whole season now or is it just in person shit? I don't know how you could prove.
It's just in person. The rule book states that you're not allowed to have it in any stage of the competition. Now I don't think there's any possible way that anybody can enforce that during the online portion of it, but it technically is not allowed if you have any rubber based grips throughout this entire season. How would they prove it? They can't. It's, I mean, what do you do? Show your show your grips at the beginning? My name's Tyler Longans and he got on these grips.
I mean, I guess if it's kind of like the the like if you had a belt on that was, you know, illegal toll, A6 inch thick, you know, somebody could look at it be like, hey, that doesn't. Look right Sharpie at bright green. Got it. But no, it's it's the rubber base grips. Not all frog grips are banned. Get the elite grips, I'm telling you right now. Those are those are the banned ones, Tyler. If you either, I never use any other ones.
Nick was talking about this on the Peruvian podcast about how like beginner athletes use them to feel like they can do more. We got slick bars at my gym and they 100% make a difference. Use them. Let the band grips do it. Honestly, honestly that No, no, no, no, I got you. I'm, I'm with, I'm with you, I'm with you. I'm the I'm team Tyler right now. Honestly, if you are not going to be at the CrossFit Games, they only help that much. It's like they help so much they
have to ban them. Why would you not use them if you're not, if you're not elite? What, you know what I mean? What I thought was interesting is, like Colton said, he uses the base grips. From what I can tell, almost everybody uses base grips. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they do. Right. And those are the ones that you use chalk with. They're not banned. They're they're totally legal. All the lead athletes do that because rubber grips don't work on chalk.
So if you're going up to the bar after somebody just previously chalked the shit out of it, you're screwed. So go ahead and use those. The nice thing about the rubber based grips is you don't need chalk. So you don't have to waste time chalking up. You don't have to worry about it. If you're a gym owner, you probably like those better because you're not, you know those those members aren't chalking everything up on the pull up bar.
So use QR code, save 15% using code spin or try to win some prizes on the heat one out. Do it. They got belts too. I'm excited to get their belt. Yeah. All right, let's go through the event. You want to go through the events first. Sure. Yeah, yeah. Do our picks for the events. Pull up your heat one out. I haven't done this, so this would be good. There you go. By the way Tyler, I was looking at the wrong event.
I think 2 is a great line. I. I apologize, but they don't, they don't know. They don't know what event that is. So just just not tell them I. Wonder how many people have picked that already. It's too late, all right, first event, 2 rounds, too many two rounds, one with the vest, one without. 50 slash, 40 calorie bike, 1000 meter run and 150 box step up or jump overs. So what I've learned is you can only step up with the weight fest if you so choose. You can jump over without the vest.
All right, you can't jump over with the best. I don't think this will apply at all. I don't think anybody's jumping at all. No, it's a complete waste of time or I don't even know why not any time savings when you try to do 150 of them? It's a waste of ink. They should have just said box step overs. Right, all right, You have to pick a male, a female and a flex pick. All right, Tyler, do you want to go first, man? Pick a male. James Sprague, it's.
A good one, John. Yeah, my male pick is also James Sprague. Likewise, 81% have only picked James Sprague. I think he's a lock on the women's side, John. On the women's side, I got Emily Rolf. I also have Emily Rolf. I'm going Amy Kringle. That's a not a bad pick at all. You know who you know who is a little bit of a dark horse pick is good old Caitlin Bernadin. Really. We did not running. Is she good at right?
But she's she's tall. And long right like like in and you know, pool boy said like, hey, this girl is amazing at endurance things. And we all laughed at him and then she freaking won the event, which is mind blowing to me. I think this is, I think she knows this is the only event she can show out at. Why would she not like send it harder than everybody else, You know, You know what I'm saying?
And I just imagine if you're that good at running that you're going to be pretty good at the rest of stuff. That's. Fair. And I again dark horse to win it, right. I don't think I'm still picking Emily Rolf all day. I think Amy Kringle's a great pick, but I think Caitlin Bernadin is a good dark horse pick. It will be fun in the future when we can set lines on people who are way outside picks like, you know, 100 to one points on, on on those. Give you odds.
Yeah, odds. I've been saying that the whole time. I think over under 5th place would be a good prop bet for Caitlin Bernadin. Lucy Campbell I don't hate that pick, Carolyn, but it's a it's the bike, I guess, to me. Well, and she's saying dark horse, but like. Flex, Pick, spin. I'm going with. Ricky Gerrard, Ricky. Yeah, I mean, yeah to yeah. I mean, Ricky and Jeff are probably your next two people. No way, Jeff. There's going to be. Jeff does anything.
What do you mean not even top five? No, I've heard a rumor that Jeff is not competing. Oh shit, where you heard it here first? We we do the news. I don't. I don't. I do not have confirmation of that, but I have heard it from 2-3 people and a question from 1/4 asking if he was competing. So there's things swirling out there that he's not competing in an individual. So I don't know. When would they announce? That action starts 10:00 AM Eastern Time.
We will send out an alert when the when the heat starts. Right, Yeah, I might change my pics off Jeff just in case then and then last minute change. Make it. Like if I want Jeff and he is competing, then I'll change it again. So where's this loading rumor was? Where did he hurt? Did he hurt something? I don't know. I don't know. I know Caroline, Caroline put a story out of him watching TV and it had like like a Mr. Humidifier on. So I don't know if he's been
sick. I don't know if he just changed his mind. I have no idea. He could be competing. I don't know. He might show up and destroy everybody, but. Could be a flu game. Could be a Michael Jordan flu game. So pick Jeff Adler at your own risk. I had him in there. I'm taking him out. Maybe if I see him line up and there's still time I'll throw it in there, but. All right, you know what then I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to throw this guy out. Nobody's going to think anything
of this, I think. What about Austin Hatfield? No. So I thought about it. I'll get to that in a second. Sivan. Yes he is. My understanding is he is not competing, although nothing official. Has gone on. It's a rumor. A hard rumor. He does. Hard rumor. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but when you're picking, all I could say is if you pick Jeff Adler in the top 10 or your shot caller, you're playing with fire. He's a rumor that I heard when he was still going to do team. That's what I had heard.
So it's not from both of them, it's just individual. And if he still does team, it's clear that he is scared of Austin Hatfield. And I'm going to make that known, OK? Clear as mud, Johnny. Right, the same way Rich left the games individual because he saw this little short dude coming who could do stuff he couldn't. Right, the same way he got out while the getting was good. And I understand and you want to have more time for family. I get it. I get it. And honestly, it's probably the
truth. It's just awfully convenient. Awfully convenient is all I will say. Feels like the same thing's going on right here because this is going to be the Hatfield Invitational. It's about to turn into that and y'all are going to y'all are going to see it. You're going to see it. You're. Doing a lot of convincing on something you're so convinced of. What the Jeff is scared. Austin Hatfield. He doesn't do the games for the World Fitness Project.
Oh my gosh, he's so scared. Could be that'd. Be true. Yeah, he sees the Hatfield in the Challenger group. Austin Hatfield. He's good running, he's decent at the bike. I don't think he's probably the best. My concern is he was really good at Chad at the games, but he was good because he was doing that weird like hop down, skip down where nobody else was other than James and a couple others.
And so if it's just regular box step overs, you don't get to do that little skip down, so. You think he has a he had. AI don't think it gives you as much. I mean, he'd obviously has the the capacity to do that many at that speed, but he's also just faster. And if you can't be that much faster, I mean, I don't know if you get enough like, I mean, I could, I could see it. I could see it. I'm just not willing to put him anthropometrics. Alone, I I would hear his.
Pin I think because I think. Ricky would have been right there with him until he twisted his ankle, I think. Ricky wasn't even close to to him when he twisted his ankle in check. I, I think, I think the 20 inches helps him a lot. Like what? Like we're not talking about it's the 20 inches, right? If it's 24, I think it takes a little bit away from him, but
it's only 20 inches. And I think what you see, what you can take away from Chad. And obviously I'm biased and I'm willing to admit I might be playing this up in my head for it to make more sense than it actually does, right? Because obviously I want him to win. I I picked him to win, right? I want him to win. I like Austin, but you know, he has the endurance to keep a
speed for a very long time. Like his speed is not going to change and if you can keep 150 step overs like the same speed the entire time, I think he's gonna clip people like a lot in the box step overs. Do you know how long it takes to do 150 box step overs? 3 or 4. It'll be close to half. No, no, it'll be close to. Half minutes. With the vest, with the vest very, very fast with the vest is 6 minutes and then without a
vest is 5 1/2 minutes, right? That's you're taking more time doing the box step overs than you are running. And he's a good runner. And then the least amount of time is biking and he's not a bad biker. Now I, I can't pick him over James. It's hard to pick him over James, right? But I think there will be Austin and Ricky or Jeff and Ricky. If Jeff did it, they would be there. I think Austin will also be there. So if Jeff's out. And then you got Ricky.
But you know I'm going to take my dog Corzos, right? That that's my thinking process. Again, could be completely biased and I'm fooling myself. We will see. Yeah, here we go. Will the Heat one up move all of your picks up one place if Jeff does not? No, you got it. You got to be able to be on the ball with that. They'll, we will, we will send out an alert if that's the case and we'll remind you to go change your top 10 picks or your picks in general.
Right, all right, next one event #2 this is the three rounds, four time. It's a calorie row, toes to bar, and a sled drag. I want to pull up a story that I saw, so go ahead with your picks guys on this one. OK, my pick for this is Ricky Garrard. I'm also picking Ricky for this one. It kind of makes me not want to pick Ricky for the first one. Does that make sense? So yeah, Ricky Garrett's my pick for this one. I think you cannot make that
much time up on a rower. I think if we all sprinted 21 calls from the rower, one second ahead of spin, 2 seconds ahead of Tyler, I don't think you're going to make up that much distance on the rower. I think the toast to bar toe to bar cadence, you can absolutely kind of get seconds on that, right? And I, I think the toast bar
matters more than the row. And then it's all about the sled, not the light and medium sled, I think are irrelevant because I think everybody's gonna be able to Sprint the light and medium sled, the heavy sled, it has to be heavy enough that it's like stops people in their tracks. And I just don't like this going to I, I don't like, like, I don't know, right, Because everybody's got to be able to do it. Dude, this isn't only going to
happen with a three plate load. It's going to happen if you get your, if you get your pull wrong. This is going to happen with everybody because that front lip is going to catch underneath that sand and it's going to bog down and you're going to be screwed. So that's why I think my pick is James Sprague, again, for the reasons that John John just played out. He's tall, They're going to have to pull it up, and so he's got
more up than everybody else. He's also not bad at any of the other things that are in this event, the Tozabar are not enough to create a distance separation between him and everybody else, and he'll kill on this part. Sleeper pick Travis Mayer. Get that, Get that in there. Sorry so Ed AI can we get a how to set your picks for dummies?
If you go to the shot caller league, you can click on the event and then down it'll say starters, click where it says M and then all the males will pop up. Pick your mail, click where it says F, all the females will pop up. Same. Here and delete. So give a creedence the Tyler's pick. I I don't think James is going to win this, but I don't think he's going to be outside the top five on this. He's like he will have. I don't see a way where this is a bad event for James, right?
Like I think he'll always be very, very close to winning, if not winning. So he's I wouldn't say he's probably a safer pick, even though I think Ricky will beat him in this. I think the sled drag, that is a big wild card. Like I I think there's gonna be situations where. But then just pick Jack Farlow to win I'm. Not picking Jack Farlow. To win. Why? Because if the sled's the biggest factor, you think Jack can't do 211815 unbroken and it's 211815 Sprint on the row?
That part is just a Sprint. If it's just the sled that matters, Jack Farlow would be the best one. 'Cause he's tall. No, I'm just thinking of Alpaca. When he was the only one that could move it and nobody else could. Everybody got stopped in their tracks and he won his heat. Not because he could legless rope climb better than everybody. Lord knows that it was just because he could move the last sled and everybody else was stuck and he won his heat. OK. Another sleeper pick?
Luke Parker. I'm picking Pat Velder. Don't hate it. Yeah. I mean, that's your. That's safe. Women, John. Laura Horvath. Same. I don't think it'll be close. Yeah, I'm going to go. I'm going to go with Laura. All right, and flex pick. I think I picked Valner for my flex pick. I put Emma tall. I don't hate that pick. I honestly thought about it. She's got a lot of power. Can't you pull the sled correctly? That's going to be like you'll see the truth that. Rolls Emily.
Roll for this. Not enough. Power. Really. You're going to change your pick after seeing the sled? I mean, I guess it's not a ball. She's not rolling. Across the stand, it's it's, it's your arch. Nemesis, The Stand. It's not, it's not that she doesn't have power. She's a bigger body. You picked her lass at everything in Rogue? Yeah, because she wasn't. Strong. I think she'll be better here. OK. All right. And she did really, she did
really well for herself. Didn't she get like 12th place or something like that? She did better than you thought. Yeah. I'm going with Travis Mayer of. Course you are. I got to find a place to put him in. This is a great place. Oh also there's a prop pic. So if you if you go over to the up on the top where it says line up to the left of that it says props. There's a prop for this, which
is event two women. How many women in the final heat are still in Round 2 when the leader starts Round 3? That's. That's a hard prop. Better than that, yeah. It's, I mean, it's only the final heat and that the thing about this is I think we'll see a weird mix of athletes. How many? How many, 10 or 20? I think it's 10. You think? I think on this course it's 10. Span, you talked me into it. I'm going to switch to Valner. I'll see. There you go. You're welcome. It's just safer.
OK. For the prop pick, I would recommend picking the day of to see who's in that final heat. It's the same. It's the same final heat all first day, I believe, Yeah. Are we going to go through the props after we go through the events? Yeah, sure, sure. Event 3. Event. 3. All right, event 3. This is the Hiller's favorite number scheme.
This is the heavy double unders handstand walking, wall facing handstand, push ups, single arm snatch and single arm overhead dumbbell lunge, legless slope climbs and then coming on back. Legless slope. Legless RIP climbs. Legless. I'm going to go with Austin Hatfield online. Yeah, that's my pick too. Come on, guys. Yeah, I'm going to go with Austin all. Right female Tyler. I'm going to go with we're getting bogged down because so many people are playing right now.
Thank God, Alexis Raptors. I've got Alexis Raptors too. And also Alexis Raptors alright to the spin. Oh, right. Are we going to go 3 for three? Maybe. I don't think so though. I've got Ariel Lowen. Tyler. Hell with it, Alisa Foliano. All right. We're going to go 3 for three different. I'm picking Brooke Wells. Wow, that I. Heard she pretty did pretty good in testing on this SO. She's I've got to meets Danielle Brandon on handstand walk event so. Can you remind me to tell?
You and she has handstand push up capability or capacity. So capacity. After the show, guys, can you remind me to tell you something about this event? I I have. I have. Some propping correctly on. Yes, yes, I have something to tell you that's funny about this event. I'm so mad at you. I can't tell the crowd. The people. Friday morning Worth the wait, the Max, The Max wait clean plus hang clean men, John. Dude, it's nobody. I've got key.
You're wrong. I have Gee. I'm going with Austin Hatfield. All the way. That would make my day. Hang, he did 365 in training and I know it wasn't his last. It wasn't his last hit. Yeah, I know what his last hit was. I just, it's just here's OK, This is my this is my reasoning. We've never seen Gee like pushed ever right Austin, he has he has he has a track record of not executing to his fullest
capabilities, right. He has like it's it's a it's a record like it, like I'm saying a pattern, right and until. One changes that pattern. One competition, John, One competition. Until he changes that pattern. No, He did that Waterploos last year. Yeah, but until he changed, until he changes, until he changes that pattern, it's really hard. Listen, I picked him to win the competition. It's not like I'm not sticking my head out, but.
You hate it, but. It's hard for me to say he's going to beat Gee when Gee has never been beaten in a lifting event and never been pushed. That's why that's why now I I kind of think like Jack Farlow, like I think any three of those guys can win Farlow, Hatfield or Gee. And it might just revolve around who lifts last, like who's out there because you get to play the game and see what they put on there, right? But Gee just doesn't look like he struggles. I've seen him clean four O 7.
I've seen Hatfield clean 400 and I've seen Jack clean and Jerk 400. Right? I think they're all around the same strength level, except I've never seen Ghee actually struggle. I would say I would actually say that Jack is probably the third strongest. He just has a better jerk than the other two. Maybe. Right, 'cause Jack, I mean that 400 clean on for Jack was not like super easy. It wasn't easy for Austin. But you look at, but you look at Ghee back two years ago when he
did a 395 cleaning. That was like. That was nothing. Yeah, yes, I I agree. And I'm maybe and Gee probably can clean and jerk that right. But I can't in good faith like bet against Gee in a lifting event until he gets beat because he's never been beaten and he's never really looked close to being beaten, right? I, I, but listen, I picked with my heart and my rankings, Tyler, you know what I mean? I listen, I I want to be, I want to be right with that more than anything in the world.
All I want in this world is to be the most accurate person at that stuff. But if I can't pick against guy in this event, I if Austin were to win this event, Tyler, do you know how happy it would be like like Leslie might have a second baby after that happened. OK, I'll, I'll, I'll be. That's what it's going to take. I'll be honest with you, she might be pregnant that night, OK? Because that's how happy, that's how happy I would be if Austin
were to win the lift event, OK? So somebody said the other day, John has changed since the baby spent more. John react Papa young guy uses speed hang takes some of that out and Jack's big hands going to help him on grip Yeah the speed actually helps more on the. Yeah, I think, I think on a hang, I, I, it's probably because dad does not use speed on his hang clean is uses a lot more muscle. But yeah, I, the hang is, is I would argue more speed is needed on a hang than an actual clean.
The hand thing, absolutely. Like there's a, the reason I would not be able to lift more weight is because I couldn't hold on to it. It wouldn't be because I couldn't get under it or I couldn't squat it. There's going to come a weight that I just can't hold on to in the hang. So I he absolutely has a point on that. Here's a prop. Does anybody get hurt on the hang portion of it? Oh, like dropping it back down onto their thighs. I don't think so. I don't think so.
OK, I've never really seen anybody get hurt doing that. Oh, I have. I've seen somebody like break both of their clots. But no, I don't. I don't think so. OK. Sorry for beating the downer. On the women's side, I'm picking Laura Horbath. Yeah, I'm picking Laura too, and I think this is an easy pick for Flex because I think it's an easy one too in the women's side, and nobody's really going to be close to that. That's why I'm picking Danny as the win and then my flex is Laura.
Yeah, I mean, and I'm picking Danny in my flex. I like it. I have Danny in the flex. As well. It's a easy one too. Yeah, I, I tell the the goal on it like I don't think anybody's going to get points on anybody in this workout as far as like the game in the app goes. But it is a nice feather in your hat if you pick the winner on the men's field, because I do think for the first time, there's three guys that can win
it, right? In a field where Ghee is there, there's three guys that can win it, which is pretty freaking awesome. And I and honestly, Tyler, I'm rooting for everybody except Ghee to win it. But I'm still picking Ghee to win that event. I don't hate it. I just want to Austin.
I I also think that Austin, he not only did the Mayhem training camp for Watapalooza, but he then posted that knowing like that that footage was going to come out and he's worked out with Ghee and so he posted that with that knowledge. That's my daughter, all right. Moving on Ven 525 Chestabar pull ups, 25 burpees over the block, 50 dumbbell bench press, 70 slash £50.25 burpees and 25 Chestabar pull ups Ven's side.
Anybody not have Austin? No, we all have Austin now on this, on this event, though the flow is a little bit different than people might think like you have. To carry stuff. Right. So you have to get your blocks. You have like 2 blocks that you're jumping over and you have to you have to carry them to the designated burpee spot. Do your burpees and then carry them to the bench press. Do your bench press or dumbbells. Yeah, go. You have to go bring the you have to go carry the dumbbells
across the sand. Dumbbells to the to the bench press and then you bench and then you go and get the blocks again and carry those. 2 dumbbells back. And then you get the box. Like what I'm saying the same thing. You're just, you're just trying to make it like this. Is a literal class WAD. OK, everybody, we're done with this. Now go move your stuff over here. You just move things from point A to point B to do them. So it's a little, the flow is a little bit different than people
think. I still, I don't think it's going to affect the winner. I still think the bench press is going to be the crux of the workout. I don't think people understand how much those burpees are going to affect the bench press. Oh, huge. And Phil B brings up a good point. It has been changed, 40. Bench press is now on competition corner. So it's not 50, it's 40. Oh, that's. For the men and women. That's just says 40, yes. That's why would you change it to baby. People are getting buried.
No, I want them to be buried. That chat sucks a lot dude because I don't know I should do this event. You should do this event. Women, John, Laura. I have her as my flex. I picked Emma Tall. I picked her as my as as my female SO. I could be being dumb here. I got Alexis Raptis as my flex. I don't hate it, the logistics freaks me out. I think she'll just be faster than everybody at everything except the bench press, and I can't imagine she's got a bad
bench press. Some people are oddly bad at it, I don't think. She's bad at it. You know who's a dark horse in this? I think it's Kyra. Yeah, I wouldn't call her a dark horse. It just, well, maybe maybe you would call her a dark horse. She's. Going to be fast on the, she's going to be fast on the pull ups. But everybody's going to be fast in the pool like I there's not going to be very many people. There aren't going to go unbroken, yeah.
Yeah, Sivan, $10. $10. For. Business that's a a hard no. You know he's. Giggling the whole time. Never been. Never been more closed, I'll say. That, yeah. All right, tire's a good pick. Pat V for flex I'm. Trying to think because last year had the bench press, that's why I liked him at all. Oh, maybe not Go back to last. Year's overhead. That sucks. Not his. Pressing press, yeah, but he's not. I wouldn't pick him. I wouldn't. Pressing specialist. I'm second guess.
Got long arms, brother. Like he, he's not bad, but he's not great either. Yeah. And the final one, Corta Dito 2.0. I think it's how you say it, right? Corta dito corta. Dito. Whole bunch of wall balls. Pressing E Ho. Hang power, snatch thrusters and ring muscle UPS. I also have Austin Hatfield. It's going to be a Good Friday for Austin. Yeah, I have, Austin. Tyler. Austin Thatfield I. Figure you're going to say James Sprague. Dude, James is not going to be bad at that workout.
No. James is going to be deceptively like, oh, no, not cortadito, I'm sorry. The bench press workout. Yeah, yeah, he might. He might not be great on the Cortadito, but. He's not going to be bad, it's just he's going to lose time on the. I think he's going to be way faster than people think on the bench press workout. OK. I would not enough to like pick him but but but I'm no just no pick him. Wait, top seven? Top seven.
He's fine. I. Mean, I think he could be top, maybe top five in that even. OK, women. Alexis Raptis. I have her as my flex. You got Laura to win it. I do. I have Laura in my flex. I picked Alexis Raptis. And who's your flex? Ricky, he's going to be gunning for the. He did, he did. He did well with his messed up ankle last at the games. All right, props. Real quick though, quick follow. Final placement Top 1011 to 13th, 14th to 16th or 17 or worse. Top ten. I got her 10th place exactly.
I have her 11th to 13th. 11th to 13th 43% right now it's but top tens 48%. So yeah, John, you have swayed the votes here. I don't know about that, but I, I, I mean, I have, I think honestly 11th and 13th, I think it's the best pick. Like that's the safest pick if you're playing odds. But I have her 10th place in my rankings and I can't bet. I'm not betting against that. Like that's what's what I'm rock with. There's no power carry lunges, Apollo.
'S rankings have her in 34th. Are you serious? Well, it's the computer just takes the data that it has, right? Come on Barkley, that's trash. Sprague outside top 15. Will James Sprague do worse on event 3 or 4? Three is the handstand push up handstand walk event. Event 4 is the Hang clean event. This one's tough. Oh man, this is this is a. Great problem. Or you can pick same placement and really get points. That would go listen. Same placement should be worth way more points.
Than it's worth double the other. 20 no, I think it should be worth 10 times. I think if you hit same placement like you're, you win, you're in the running. That's why that's why Adam needs to make it so it's based off of how many people pick it because it would get 10 times the amount of. Same placement is the is the green the green slide on our roulette wheel? The same placement is. I'm saying event, I'm saying event 3. I'm going to go with four.
This is so hard dude because James has gotten so much stronger. Right. That's why I'm saying 3. Like it won't be good against those that he's trying to beat in the top 10, but I think he's going to be better than. Gosh, man. Brought to you by Zayn Healy. Zayn, thank you for this prop last week. I'm still going to go event for the clean because it's it's it's 42 handstand push ups. I just think he'll just manage that to the best of his
abilities. He's going to be fine on the legless rope climbs and like he's not going to compete with the top guys and that. But I think his fitness will overcome everybody. Everybody else can be blown the freak up right? And his, I think his if he executes. So all the streets can't do it.
Correct, correct. If he executes to his ability, like this is a workout, like I'm getting last place no matter what in the women's field, just because I can't move fast enough, I'm not fit enough, Like that's this workout and he that is a benefit to him. You know what I mean? So I could see him getting 12th place in this just because he's fit enough to get 12 plays in this even though he's muscular.
Fatigue not as good as. Back behind all of the Ricky's and Austin's. Right and then the hang clean and the clean like I think he beats guys like more. It's feebig in event three event, dude, I think so. Not in the clean, in the hand, in the handstand, push up. Not in the yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But. In the clean like. And they're clean. How? Strong. He's gotten to be able to do it for a hang double, essentially. That's like a really crazy
improvement. Well, I'm thinking like three, 45340 around there. But like guys like Moritz Feebig, they all beat him. Trayvon Benton of the world, they beat him. You know what I mean? Like he's looking at 16th, 17th place with his big and with how much improvement he has. What's funny is 10 more pounds and I think he's like looking at 10th place. Like the strength thing jumps so big to just by 10 lbs.
But he was I I just I'm still going to rock with his worst placements event for but this was an amazing prop man. You really have to think hard and. If you guys pick the same placement and it hits, let me know who you are because you're ballsy sons of bitches. No. I mean, I think same placement, if same placement were to hit, I don't think anybody I think it should be worth so much points. Everybody's out of the running except the people that pick same placement.
Right. That's why I like. That's why I like the. Means. The moving picks, yeah, Raptus versus Horvath, who will have a larger point difference against each other on these events. Raptus event 3 so she beats Laura in event 3 by a lot or Horvath over Raptors in event 4. I think this is easy. You think Horvath? I think Horvath event 4 will be a bigger difference. I'm going with the Raptors then. I'm picking Horvath dude. I like. It, I think it's, I think it's overall strength of field.
I think it's overall strength of field. I think handstand, wall facing, handstand push ups is not that big of a deal for Laura. If there's deficit, then sure. And the legless is a big deal for the women and Laura's going to fly through those, right? Like like I think Laura's going to be top seven in that workout in the handstand push up workout all. Right Lydia Fish, Lydia's highest placement B 1st to 5th, 6th to 10th, 11 to 15th or 16th
or worse. 6th to 10th. 11 to 15th. 11 to 15, all right, all right, event. Two women. How many women are in the final? In the final heater still in Round 2 when the leader starts so they're a minute ahead. This will be a day of wait, but I'm going to say, I'm going to say. Three plus I'm saying one. I'm going to say 0. Oh all, you're wrong. There's no way that no one's left behind in in Round 2. It's a minute. Dude, there's not going to be
much difference. This is a. These are three sprints, not going to be much difference in it. You've been three men. How many men go sub 12 minutes on the handstand push up workout? So there's a little bit to talk about here. I don't think we should talk about it. I think we should. I think we should talk about it. Because. I I text Jr. and I was like Jr. where do I set this line? Because Taylor talks so much about like if he went sub 12,
like that was his goal. And he said if I go sub 12, I'm like he was like, I'm going like 1155. And so ISJR is like, what do you think? He said set it at 2. John comes back with. I was looking at the wrong event. OK, twelve. I was looking, I was looking at at Courtadito I and like the Court of detail workout. I was, I think 12 people will finish under 12. And then I was and then I looked at the Heat one app and I was like, oh, this is the wrong event.
Like yeah, this one's way. Harder so everybody picks 7 or less unless you're. Giving out some free points. Hey, if you if you hit eight or more, good for you. Event 4 How many men will hit 375 or more? 10 or one? 2-3 or four? I guess four or more. You say 3/3. That's if they all do what they're supposed to, right? Feel like one of them's not going? I want to say 2. Yeah, I'm going to pick 3, but I think, but I think 2 is a good, I think 2 is a good answer all. Right. So like.
My my head wants to pick 2 but like 3 would be such a good show. That's what that's what I want. And I'm, I'm going to rock for this one. I'm going to rock with that. They're all capable. They're all capable. There you go. Go download Heat One app, go play daily prices. Click on the. Link every single link you click three times. Yes, click all the links support Frog grips. You can click that. Then you can use code spin, save 15%. All right, we got 19 minutes to go through three topics.
We got this Let's Go Mayhem invite. Mayhem invites. The invites have been out. Rogues rogue stuff. Mayhem Yeah, they use the Rogue Invitational. They invited 18 people. They're having to have field 20, so they're going to have two wild card invites. And the confirmed athletes have already starting to been announced. Man in Agony's Sam Kournoye, Hayley Adams, Travis Mayer, Brooke Wells, Dallin Pepper, Emily Rolf, Roman Krenikov. We know Jason Hopper is also competing.
Dude, only two people get in. That's that's. All right, that is my question. This is going to be one of the strongest fields if you if you confirm that you're going to compete and then you see Dal and Jason, let's say Jeff accepts. I'm telling you right now, if somebody denies and they end up offering other people like Austin's on the shortlist on that, He absolutely is doing the Mayhem classic. Why? Why Austin? Why is he going to do it? Yeah. He wants to. I guess beginning it mayhem
athlete but. Like I'm telling you that he wants to do it if they it's. As hard as fight though. It it doesn't, he thinks, he thinks he'll make it online. Like it doesn't matter. He just wants to do the Mayhem Classic. He's going to do Norcal too. Like it's like, but I know that he wants to do the Mayhem Classic. I'm just saying it's another guy to throw in the mix. I don't know if I'm picking him against Roman and down and Jason.
Depends on what the events are, but that's another guy that can make noise is what I'm saying. If if it gets down there. I mean, if you see all these guys, I mean, at what point, at what point do you just say it's cool, it'd be fun to compete, but I have a lot going on and I'm not going to qualify like man and Anganese, I'm sorry, like she ain't going to qualify out. Of this you doing the world
fitness project too, right? Yes, but you know the production is going to be such high quality, it is worth it for you from APR standpoint. Is it? I think it is. I would want to go just because it's mayhem. That's it. No prize money or limited prize money. You're trying to qualify. You're not sure if you're going to. Yeah, Mayhem.
It's going to be good exposure. You're going to get a real test and then like if you're like Dallin, do you think you can recover to do something else so. Well, I mean, I think if you're Dallin and you get a spot like, wow, you just got that done, you don't have to worry about anything else. Like for the Dallins of the world, Roman copper. Like I think those top 2 spots are in it and up for grabs. You're talking about the people that aren't those people.
Right, like it. Let's say Emmett Hall doesn't compete because she's not going to do the CrossFit game season and they go down to the next person in line. It's like, if you're Amanda Barnhart, why would you do it? Right. Or Danny Spiegel. She's not going to come top 2. Oh, Danny's just doing it for the publicity. Like I hear what you're saying, but like they're going to be competing a gazillion times this
this year. That's what they wanted. 11. That's a lot like Paige Semenza. They're using the Rogue Invitational qualifier. Rogue's got a, this girl's like why I invited Danny Spiegel and Danny has done, she does Rogue every single year. It counts for a lot. And then she does the games if she makes it and that's why she's in there. But that that they're using what Rogue is using as their ranking system to do the first set of
invites. Whoever declines then I think they'll just invite whoever they want after that. Baby, I might, I think they can go to like a second round. But I mean, if you're coming over from Europe and going back and forth, like it's a lot to do that. And if you don't feel like you have a shot at at qualifying, maybe that's where they may be more, you know, biased.
They think they can win. But from a outsider's perspective, like there's only a handful of people are going to come in the top 2. Yeah. Well if like Manny could have a Manny could have a great show and finished 8th doesn't qualify. Yeah. Right. And there's no backfill after that. It's not like, you know, 8th place and they all everybody in front of her finishes top 11 in the open or the semifinals and she gets to in it like it goes in order.
So this is the first two people that get it, men and women. Emma's an interesting pick because she said she's not going to compete in the CrossFit season I. Mean you got a bunch of. He's in the rogue, he's in the rogue thing. They're they're not operating, they're inviting everybody that's on that thing. That's it, right, Right. But. They're going to start going down this list and it's going to get further and further away from anybody having an
opportunity or chance. How do you and I mean, if, if, if too many people decline guys, I will accept an invite. If if you're just looking for comedic relief for like what like a you know, a normal Crossfitter looks like compared to like elite people. The Bill Murray pick. Yeah, I'll, I'll be that guy if you need somebody. But you can you can win the one event. I think. Maybe. I don't know if I win that one. It's got to be a selection
event. I think I'll be crushed enough that like that might not, might not win that one. Just sandbag everything so you get to win. Hold Sam Dancer at the Ranch Row I. Think you invite Hunter McIntyre and you invite me, and we'll see who ends up with the most points. They should he. Gets a. He gets 100 point win on the run and you get. Yeah, but that run's going to be split up with split up with something though, all like, here's what I'm thinking.
I'm thinking I'm going to be last in everything. He's going to be second to last in everything, right? And then it's just going to come down to his event and my event. And I'm hoping Jason can beat him in his event. And you know, he's got there's Jeff, Jason, Jeff, Ricky can beat him in his event. And nobody beats me in my event. Yeah. Thomas route so spin. You think only those who think they can win should go? That's maybe five people then, right?
I think you, you have to make a decision on what's best for you. If you, if you're trying to make it to the games and you're trying to balance World Fitness Project and Mayhem and Semifinals and TFX or Syndicate or French Throwdown or the other Wildland festival, like you could be doing 3 or 4 competitions in a freaking month. Like you've got to make a decision and I get exposure and
all this stuff. But that's where when you think about World Fitness Project and, and John's point earlier about does it impact your game season and ability to qualify? Doing these competitions just for the sake of competing can also hurt your future chances at qualifying for the games, right? You can only compete at such a high level a certain amount of times before you're going to you're going to have a fall off
in your performance. And so if you're going to mayhem and then three weeks later you're going and doing the semi final, the next week you're going to world fitness project. The following week you're going to TFX. That takes a toll on you, right? And if you're not going to have a chance at waiting, you got to decide what your goals are, so. Make an assessment. Right.
Like maybe the exposure is more for you, maybe maybe what just going to be in scene is better than qualifying, I don't know. Hey. Every competition's got to have it's it's losers and it's middle place finishers.
Right. Like I think at some point you go down further down the list and somebody just goes just to be able to compete on the same floor, go to Mayhem, have a cool experience, But everybody that was invited on this first list has the opportunity and ability to make it to the Games if they go to the right events. They just need to, you know, switch up, you know, switch up their training. It's. Just just just their. Training a little bit. Suggest your training.
Carolyn Prevo, all the comps are so close together for the in person online semifinals, it makes no sense to show up the ones you have no chance. The only reason is exposure and sponsors. Yeah, yeah. All right, that's it. We'll see who accepts. I think they have to expect accept by today. So next round of invites tomorrow maybe. How many? Rounds. I'll be checking my emails. 5 rounds. That's right, it's time for some blind rankings. You got to move fast, John. I'm ready.
Let's speed run. Let's do it. Speed run blind rankings. By the way, I was so up last last week. Last week was so was such a fun one. I was like, it's why do you pick the fun one when I don't come? I hope this one sucks. It might. It might. I don't know. All right. You just had to have a baby that last week. You couldn't wait until Thursday. I'll reprimand Leslie accordingly, don't worry. OK, here we go, 9 minutes. All right here.
Water Palooza Team names You're a ranking team names that you'll see on the floor on Saturday. How'd you get these? You got to have. I have sources. I have. I have a person. Just just a hint to cop Corner and water Palooza Release the damn team names. Yeah. It would help. It would greatly help anybody who's, you know, trying to talk about this shit. I think, I think they're trying to hide the Jeff Adler withdraw. I think that's what it is. It's fine, you can still show
their names. I hope Jeff competes, man, I really do. I want, I want Austin to beat Jeff, not Jeff. Avoid it. Is it is it is it a tarnished victory? If, Jeff, if. No, no, it's not tarnished. I didn't. I I just just got, I think Ricky and Rellner are still there. These are the biggest guys in the world, right? But. James Sprague beat the both of those. James Sprague. Yeah. I'm just. Yeah. Let's go, let's go. We'll talk. Here we go, first one we step on Legos. 4. Yeah, 4, four. OK.
Who picked that? All right, next one Mayhem Baywatch. Two, no Parker's on this team for sure. I like that. Yeah, let's go 2. Two, there is a male or female team. Honestly. Doesn't matter, they all, they all look good. I don't think there's any swimsuits at Tijuana please this year. They'll they'll still wear them. You think so? They don't wear them for the the. Bench press 1 they'll wear them for. Buff keys. 55 That's one one, No No 5. Meet me in the middle 3.
It's not though, dude, it is. It's too good. Bucky's. Bucky's. No, I understand it. It's it's stupid. Oh I hope they wear Bucky's merch. The dumbest thing I've ever I've ever seen. I, we can go three, I'll meet you in the middle. But I think it's, I think it's so stupid, Jose, just 'cause you comment more than once does not mean we think there's multiple people. Multiple people what? No that are commenting. You mean this? I think I see this. Once for this.
Justin, thank you, Justin. Oh man, so oh, that's terrible. Kenneth no swimsuits. Why are the hell were you watching? Don't empty all. Right next one sculpted scholars. I like. That 5. That this name. What is Brandon Luckett on this? Team This feels. This feels, Yeah. It feels intellectual feels. Jack Derds. That's our name. These are a prestigious, this prestigious name. I like this one. We can go 5, it's fine. I didn't even have to convince.
You and the last elite division team name Gaines and Roses. Oh, OK, yeah, let's go, let's go. I'm, I'm with it. I'm. Thinking Buffy's was definitely the best. One, I think it should have been Gaines and hoses though that would have been better Gaines. And hoses. Yeah. Good, I like this one. There you go, there's some of the team names you'll see on the floor Saturday. What was the the, the one we said a million times last year that I just wanted to, I hated
it so much. It I think it was a oh, it was one of the girl teams. The one that. Won with the 90s trend or something like that. No, they won. They won it the 90s. Trend. Yeah, worst team name of all time. And they win it, so you had to. Say that Kelsey Keel, Kelly Baker and. Emily Lundberg. Emily Lundberg. That's right. All right, we got 5 minutes just in time. CrossFit Games Last Chance qualifier Rich Froning broke the news. This makes me uncomfortable. Dave looking at us like.
This No, Rich. Rich brought it up and then later that evening somebody asked Dave, gave him a scenario. I think it may have even been in one of our comments. I didn't get to it, but the idea was six, the six people from the open who did not qualify after the North Norcal Classic get invited to a last chance qualifier. Dave said I like it and moved on. And then what we know about the math, I think all signs are pointing to that. Rich also said that there was a
last chance qualifier. Rory, without dropping a beat, also agreed with him. And then it was like, oh, wait, were we supposed to say that? And of course, it did not get cut out. So they just went with it. And then if you watch Dallin, Jason and Justin today, they talked a little bit about it. They laughed and said, let's just do another online last chance qualifier. That's what we need is people that don't make it on the online semifinals, give them another online competition to qualify.
I hope it's not online. I hope it's. Definitely going to be online, John, that I can't logistically pull it off in time. Why? Because it's going to be not not very far before the games. I don't think it's a lottery. It's the. Last chance like you can either compete or not compete. Unless it's at the the ranch, it's too much expense. No, let's go to Glassman's house.
Let's. What what about something really crazy and say anybody that wants to come that just barely missed out in any of them that come on to Albany and like Monday like the PGA does, you have a 111 day three event competition. Oh man, and then you're just roasted for the cage. Just. Three events just. Three events and then it start on Friday 3. Events, one of them is the Socal Bike run Burpee event and then one is 20 Rep Max bat. Atlanta. And then the other event could be Atlanta, yeah.
I mean, I I think you're probably right that it has to be online. I hate that. I think a last chance qualifier in person would be amazing. I mean, I understand it would be cool if it were in person. It's just logistically hard and then people are going to bounce because they'll be like, oh, I don't want to travel to, you know, the states just cause. Dude, I love when there's. Definitely not going to be a payout. It would be. There would be, I think.
You could be like, you could be like you get free tickets, you get your hotel, you get all the stuff like for the games, everybody that goes to the last chance qualifier, right? And then and then the top, the top, the top person gets to be it gets to be in the games. You're already there and and you know, you're starting a little bit behind because you didn't make it for real, for real. You had to do this backfill thing so. How much do you want it? How much? I think it would be amazing.
And then we could have like a stat like the highest last chance qualifier is like 8th place, you know what I mean? Like like we could probably keep like a running set because it's only one, it's only 1. And I, I, you might even be able to wear like a special jersey, you know what I mean? Like you could go, you could just go real big. With like a checkered jersey or something. Yeah, yeah. Like you're not meant to be here, but somehow you are, right.
Like. Like the the content from it would be great because there's so much on the line and so like, yeah, if you did it real intimate, it would be really cool. Yeah, it's like the the NCAA tournament when they added the play in games. Yeah. Right. And then you see them, they qualify and then they, you know, that person qualifies and then they start making a run at it. You're like, oh, let's get root for.
Him. Everybody's rooting for George Mason. They should get everybody jersey, that would be really cool. When the Golden Retrievers beat Virginia, it was like the greatest thing of all time. That's right. Well, hopefully we'll find out some more information on it, but that's my recommendation. Dave, I know you're watching. So he is watching. Look at him. He's like, say it. That's not a picture, that's actually him watching it. It's a live looking at him in
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