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Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up.

In today’s edition:

  • CrossFit issues a late penalty and rescinds Emma Tall’s Games qualification.
  • The West Coast Classic is more than a year and a half in the making. The field is stacked and the action is set to go, see our preview below.
  • The CrossFit Asia Invitational and the Atlas Games are the final two online Semifinals. The rosters are competitive and the weekend promises dramatic finishes.
  • Tola Morakinyo made the switch to individual and moved to Las Vegas with the Underdog Athletics team. He’s ready to compete for a Games ticket and defend “home turf.”
  • Last Chance: The Morning Chalk Up has a $1000 Rogue Home Gym to give away. Enter now for your chance to win, before it’s too late.

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  CrossFit Issues Late Penalty, Rescinds Emma Tall’s Games Qualification After Official Announcement  

CrossFit Issues Late Penalty, Rescinds Emma Tall’s Games Qualification After Official Announcement

On Monday night, when the leaderboard closed and results from the weekend’s Semifinals were made official, Emma Tall celebrated qualifying to the CrossFit Games after placing fifth at the German Throwdown.

  • The 29 year-old Swede had every reason to think she was headed to Madison, WI this summer. She had received an email from CrossFit LLC telling her the scores she submitted had been accepted. CrossFit announced on their own social media congratulating the qualifying athletes. “I was tagged,” Tall said, when referring to the post.

But on Wednesday morning, she woke up and looked at the leaderboard and discovered 20 seconds had been added to her time on Workout 6 — 2:50 to 3:10 — knocking her into 19th on that event, and eighth overall. As a result, Tall was suddenly out of the CrossFit Games and Samantha Briggs, originally in sixth, was in.

The details: Shortly after she looked at the leaderboard, Tall realized CrossFit had tried reaching her via email on Tuesday at 5 PM PT explaining why she had been issued a penalty on Workout 6; however, the email had gone to her spam folder.

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  • Sara Sigmundsdottir signed an extension of her contract as a Global Ambassador for Volkswagen R.
  • O2 x Project Onyx: O2 will donate all proceeds from the day’s sales on Juneteeth (June 19) to EZ Muhammad and Pat Ford’s Project Onyx.
  • Chyna Cho, Games veteran and former CrossFit Mayhem team-member, is officially moving to Hawaii.
 
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  Wild, Wild West Coast Classic Preview  

Wild, Wild West Coast Classic Preview

The final week of Semifinals features the last of five live competitions and it’s one most of us have been waiting for, for over a year.

Remind me: The 2020 West Coast Classic was set to take place in late March of 2020. The roster of athletes in all the elite divisions were stacked, the workouts were all throwbacks to old Regional or Games tests, and anticipation was high. Then the world shut down and we were unsure if we’d ever see it come to life. Well, fast forward fourteen months and the stage is set for just about everything we wanted.

The Competition: Due to the extreme nature of shutdowns and restrictions in California, event directors made the decision early on to relocate with the priority being the ability to host a live competition with spectators. After shopping for several venues they settled on the Orleans Center in Las Vegas and it appears all systems are go for what should be an epic event.

Staying true to their intention from last season, all the events for both teams and individuals will be replicas or variations of past Games events. Highlighting the list are two past Regional final events (from 2015 and 2017), the Ruck Run from the 2019 Games, and a revamped version of Push Pull, whose original version featured one of the most memorable final heats in Games history.

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  Atlas Games Preview: A Virtual Reality  

Atlas Games Preview: A Virtual Reality

On March 12, 2020 athletes, coaches, media team members, and event organizers gathered for an emergency briefing on the floor of what was supposed to be the first sanctioned iteration of the Atlas Games.

Hours earlier athlete check-in was underway, vendors were setting up booths, and the Morning Chalk Up team was preparing for the first of three straight Sanctional weekends on the road – with the West Coast Classic and German Throwdown to come in the following weeks.

The briefing confirmed everyone’s worst fears, the Atlas Games were postponed indefinitely, and following the news of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s wife Sophie testing positive earlier that day, it appeared the entire world was headed for a lockdown. The next day the United States declared a state of emergency, and the world hasn’t been the same since.

Overview

The Atlas Games had the unfortunate honor of being the 2020 Sanctional event that was left at the altar by the pandemic, which no doubt left future iterations of the event in question. A year later, they’ll be pressing forward despite the still present restrictions of the same pandemic, but with a virtual format that has served as a saving grace for the season.

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  2021 NOBULL CrossFit Games Invitations On the Line At The Asia Invitational  

2021 NOBULL CrossFit Games Invitations On the Line At The Asia Invitational

Six automatic 2021 NOBULL CrossFit Games invitations are on the line this weekend for the athletes competing at the CrossFit Asia Invitational on June 18-20. The online Semifinal will send the top two individual men, women and teams to Madison, WI to represent the continent.

What’s on the line: Along with a Games invite, the top-two finishers in each division will take home prize money from a total prize purse of $45,000 USD. Individual athletes who finish 3-5 earn a spot to the Last Chance Qualifier that will be held online June 28-July 4.

  • First – $5,000
  • Second – $4,000
  • Third – $3,000
  • Fourth – $2,000
  • Fifth – $1,000
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  Tola Morakinyo is Healthy and Ready to Put On a Show During West Coast Classic  

Tola Morakinyo is Healthy and Ready to Put On a Show During West Coast Classic

This week, some of CrossFit’s biggest names will descend upon Las Vegas to compete in the West Coast Classic. Their goal will be to finish the weekend in the top five and book a trip to the 2021 NOBULL CrossFit Games. Underdogs Athletics’ athlete Tola Morakinyo will take part in the competition while trying to reach Madison for the first time as an individual, and he will defend Las Vegas in the process.

Remind me: Morakinyo is a three-time CrossFit Games veteran as a team athlete. He competed with Reebok CrossFit Back Bay in 2017, CrossFit Invictus Back Bay in 2018, and Invictus Boston in 2019. The team’s career-best finish at the Games was ninth in 2018.

Shifting gears: Following his time in team competition, Morakinyo packed his bags and headed west. He joined coach Justin Cotler in Las Vegas. Morakinyo then kicked off the 2021 season by placing 230th in the Open (North America) and 37th in the Quarterfinals. He also turned in a performance that includes the fastest time in Event five, a blistering 1:48.

  • “I’ve been working just with Justin for almost two years now,” Morakinyo said. “And hadn’t really gotten a chance to work with him in person. But I’ve known him for maybe five, six years at this point. So we’ve got a lot of trust going on there.”
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3/16: Oceanside CrossFit 1st Annual Shamwod & Shenanigains (Oceanside, Ca)
3/16: Shamwod & Shenanigains (Oceanside, Ca)
3/16: Shamwod & Shenanigains (oceanside, ca)
3/16: Upper Hunter Strongest Novice (Muswellbrook, Australia)
3/23: CFL Teen Take Over (Lorton, VA)
3/23: Masters Distinguished Games (Fort Wright, KY)
3/23 - 3/24: Beach Brawl (Spring) (Pensacola Beach, FL)
4/6: Best Babes 608 (Janesville, Wisconsin)
4/6 - 4/7: SeaDog Summer Showdown (Jupiter, Florida)
4/6: Girls Gone Rx Minnesota (Austin, Minnesota)
4/6: Girls Gone Rx Kentucky (Richmond, Kentucky)
4/6: Girls Gone Rx Ohio (Lancaster, Ohio)
4/6: Best Babes Decatur (Decatur, Alabama)
4/6: Best Babes South Carolina (Beufort, South Carolina)
4/6: Best Babes Houston (Houston, Texas)
4/6: Best Babes Wyoming (Cheyene, Wyoming)
4/6: War Off I-4 (Deland, FL)
4/6: Two Peas in a Pod: Mixed Gender Partner Comp (Burlington, MA)
4/6 - 4/7: No Pain No Game (Legnano, Italy)
4/6 - 4/7: Shack Team Edition (Rome, Italy)
4/6: Best Babes South Carolina (Beaufort, SC)
4/6: Best Babes Decatur (Decatur, AL)
4/6 - 4/7: Landifornian Battle (Seignosse, France)
4/6: Best Babes Tampa (Tampa, Florida)
4/13: Queens of Oly Rockledge (Rockledge, FL)
4/13: Queens of Oly East Tennessee (Bulls Gap, TN)
4/13: Fittest on Main (Boaz, AL)
4/19 - 4/21: Crash Crescendo (Spartanburg, SC)
4/20 - 4/21: Okanagan Valley Throwdown (Penticton, British Columbia, Canada)
4/20: Barbells For Bullies: Community Workout Savannah (Savnnah, Georgia, US)
4/20: Festivus Games @ CrossFit Plattsburgh (Plattsburgh, NY)
4/20: Festivus Games @ CrossFit Masiphumelele (Kommetjie, Cape Town, South Africa)
4/20: Festivus Games (Goderich, Canada)
4/20: Festivus Games (Clermont, FL)
4/20: Festivus Games @ The Gym – CrossFit Kilo (Cedar Falls, IA)
4/20: Festivus Games @ CBM Sirens (Caledonia, MS)
4/20 - 4/21: Okanagan Valley Throwdown (Penticton, British Columbia)
4/20: The Fittest 4 (Sunshine Coast, Australia)
4/20: Embrace the Challenge (Mentor, Ohio)
4/20: Festivus Games @ CrossFit Pagosa (Pagosa Springs, CO)
4/20: First EVER Adaptive Festivus Games Competition (Waterford, United States)
4/20: Festivus Games (WAUKESHA, WI)
4/20 - 4/21: BGR Contest Spring Edition (Bergerac, France)
4/20: Festivus Games @ Coyote Valley (San Jose, CA)
4/26 - 4/28: Crash Crescendo (Spartanburg, SC)
4/27: Cap Crown Throwdown (Gladstone, Australia)
4/28: 249 Spring Throwdown (Sittingbourne, Kent, England)
5/4: Team Challenge Texas (San Antonio, Texas)
5/4 - 5/5: Italian Bulls Games (Lido di Ostia, Italy)
5/4 - 5/5: Pavia Spring Challenge ’24 (Pavia, Italy)
5/4: The Strong and Courageous (Cullman, Alabama)
5/4: CHLKDUP Classic (Nashville, TN)
5/11 - 5/12: Finest City Weightlifting Open – Presented by The Strength Tank (San Diego, CA)
5/11: True Fitness Trials (Cherry Hill, NJ)
5/11: Queens of Oly Hawaii (Wailuku, Hawaii)
5/11: Queens of Oly Hudson (Hudson, NY)
5/11: Queens of Oly Philadelphia (West Chester, Philadelphia)

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