How Many Events is Too Many Events?

Good morning and welcome to the weekend edition of the Morning Chalk Up. This is Jessica Danger, your Managing Editor, covering for Justin while he is in São Paulo for the Brazil CrossFit Championship, bringing you a quick wrap-up of the major news items throughout the week. Today’s edition is powered by Competition Corner.

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“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.” — John F. Kennedy

Congratulations, you get to watch so much fitness from home this weekend! This is the busiest event weekend of the season, with three sanctioned events. For athletes hoping to make it back to Madison this summer, time is running out. After this weekend, there are only three more Sanctionals left. 

Tommy Marquez and Justin LoFranco are on the ground at the Brazil CrossFit Championship bringing you end-to-end coverage all weekend. (They’re learning Portuguese so quickly!) They even got to catch up with Kenzie Riley and Sean Sweeney after their Event 1 wins. Make sure you follow along with our live blogs, on our Instagram and on our Facebook. 

The Rogue Invitational starts today in their brand new event stadium. And they’ve got one of the most impressive rosters, including the Legends, where CrossFit athletes like Mikko Salo, Jason Khalipa, Tommy Hackenbruck and Julie Foucher will all take the competition floor again.

And guys, he’s actually doing it. Jacob Heppner is competing at the Down Under CrossFit Championship in Sydney this week. TBD if he brought Winston.

The next time you see us in your inbox, we’ll have six more individuals and three more teams going to the CrossFit Games in Madison this summer.

Enjoy the weekend,

Jessica Danger

Managing Editor

Hunter McIntyre is on a hunt for one of the wildcard invitations recently introduced to the CrossFit Games process. He thinks he should get one and he’s training hard to prove that he can hang with the fittest.

The Age Group Online Qualifier concluded May 6 and video reviews will be completed on May 21. As we saw with the Individuals, expect scoring adjustments and leaderboard shifting as happens each year with the AGOQ video reviews.  In the meantime, we ran some analysis on the results so far. 

This weekend at the Rogue Invitational, the prize purse is $400,000. But for 2015 Games champion Ben Smith, this weekend has nothing to do with money, but instead extending his streak of consecutive individual Games appearances to 11.

The first day of competition has wrapped up at the Brazil CrossFit Championship and we’ve got the run down of the events, current standings, and analysis of athlete performance so far. We’ve also got a list of athletes to keep an eye out for and events you don’t want to miss. 

Hope you don’t have any plans this weekend! We’ve got three Sanctionals this weekend. Here’s what you need to know to keep up.

1. We’re at the Brazil CrossFit Championship this weekend, bringing you all the coverage we can. Here is the schedule and events so you can set your alarm to follow along on our Day Two Live Blog. If you want to get caught up, here is Day One.
2. Before we caught our flight to São Paulo, we made this list of Brazil CrossFit Championship power rankings. You’re welcome.
3. The Rogue Invitational kicks off today, at Rogue Headquarters in Columbus, OH. You can watch on Rogue’s Facebook, YouTube, or their website. 
4. The Down Under CrossFit Championship is well under way. You can watch live from their website. 
5. Talking Elite Fitness hosts Tommy Marquez and Sean Woodland walk you through key points of all three sanctioned events in their latest episode.
6. In between heats, make sure you get your hands on ButcherBox’s BBQ bundle. All new subscriptions get free baby back ribs, two free pounds of ground beef and two free NY strip steaks.