The 2025 Team In-Affiliate Semifinals leaderboard has been finalized, and we now know the 20 teams headed to Albany, NY, for the CrossFit Games this August.
The only path for teams this season and their only time competing together was the In-Affiliate Semifinal.
A total of 855 teams registered during the CrossFit Open, and any registered team was immediately qualified for the Semifinals stage, just one step away from the Games.
- In sum, 138 of the original 855 Open teams competed in the online event from April 24 through 27. That’s a decrease of almost 70 teams from last season, when up to 30 teams were eligible to compete at each Semifinal event, and 206 teams did so.
New for 2025, teams were required to have up to three certified judges for each of the five completed workouts.
Key Takeaways
- Team Semifinals are done – 20 teams are heading to Albany.
- No penalties or score changes were issued post-review.
- Competition Director Adrian Bozman: “We should start expecting integrity from people.”
- Butcher’s Lab Vanløse won two of the five workouts.
- Oslo Kriger won; Tola Morakinyo could earn a third consecutive podium spot in three years, each on a different affiliate team.
Run Rules Controversy and Adrian Bozman on Judging and Standards
In case you missed it, Workout 4 sparked some pre-event controversy and online chatter.
The three-round workout featured an 800-meter run and progressively more difficult gymnastic pulling movements. This is the first time CrossFit has included an outdoor run in a mass participation online event.
As Semifinals weekend approached, Rich Froning and the Mayhem crew discussed this workout and the judging and review standards with Adrian Bozman, Competition Director for CrossFit, on The Rich Froning Podcast.
- “Is it possible that people can cheat in competition? Yes,” Bozman said. “Do we expect that there’s some integrity left in the community? Yes.”
Unlike the Age Group and Individual Semifinals, teams were not required to submit video evidence of their workouts for public scrutiny and review. Instead, the CrossFit rulebook states: “It is recommended that teams aspiring to qualify for the CrossFit Games have videos available should CrossFit request to review a score.” (Rule 2.11)
Bozman shed some light on this process from the perspective of the CrossFit Games team at HQ:
- “There are people who do bad things in competition. I mean it’s not flawless, and I hate that people will take a competition with let’s say 2500 athletes, and they’ll pick an outlier and say, ‘Hey, you didn’t catch this one.’ Yeah, but look at the 600 that we did and the ones that we did investigate and got removed as they should have, or got penalized as they should have – nobody wants to hold up those examples.”
The leaderboard was finalized and the results were made official once CrossFit’s review period ended on May 2.
- There were no scoring adjustments, with one exception: CrossFit Advantage was added to the leaderboard late due to a technical error on the submission site.
Several teams revealed that CrossFit requested workout videos and confirmation of run courses for Workout 4 shortly after the submission deadline; however, there were no reports of other videos being requested.
Based on the CrossFit rulebook, “Team scores will be valid at the close of competition. CrossFit may request videos for review at its discretion.”
It’s possible that every rep reviewed and the amount CrossFit conducted during their nearly two weeks of investigation yielded zero penalties needing assessment. Another section of the 2025 rulebook states that CrossFit includes a rule that says:
- “At its own discretion, CrossFit reserves the right to stop reviewing videos once enough videos have been reviewed to fill the Games rosters.” (Rule 2.10b)
That leaves us with the 20 teams headed for the Games in Albany.
Key Storylines and Who to Watch in the Team Division this Summer
Final Leaderboard – Top 20 Teams
| 2025 Games Qualifying Team | Country |
| 1. CrossFit Oslo Kriger – 23 | Norway |
| 2. CrossFit Butcher’s Lab Vanløse – 27 | Denmark |
| 3. CrossFit Undivided – 28 | USA |
| 4. CrossFit Le Repere Mayhem – 31 | Canada |
| 5. CrossFit Furuset Kriger – 43 | Norway |
| 6. CrossFit 1124 – 47 | USA |
| 7. CrossFit Body Blueprint Conquer – 48 | USA |
| 8. CrossFit Greater Heights OverTake – 52 | USA |
| 9. Blueprint CrossFit Team AOD – 63 | UK |
| 10. CrossFit Mayhem – 71 | USA |
| 11. CrossFit Invictus – 73 | USA |
| 12. CrossFit PRVN – 77 | USA |
| 13. CrossFit 4 Friends Smart – 81 | Spain |
| 14. CrossFit Franco’s EMOM Co. – 81 | USA |
| 15. CrossFit Prestanda – 88 | Sweden |
| 16. Camp Rhino CrossFit Dawgs – 98 | USA |
| 17. Camel City CrossFit – 99 | USA |
| 18. Q21 CrossFit – 115 | Argentina |
| 19. TTT CrossFit – 115 | USA |
| 20. 8th Day CrossFit – 120 | USA |
CrossFit Oslo Kriger
The Norwegian powerhouse squad won the In-Affiliate Semifinals with 23 points. The team is captained by Oda Lundekvam, who was part of Oslo Kriger BLST in 2024, where they placed fourth at the Europe Semifinal and seventh at the Games.
Lundekvam is joined by her teammate from 2024, Ingrid Hodnemyr, Victor Helsinghof, who competed individually before joining the Oslo team this year, and team journeyman Tola Morakinyo.
- Morakinyo is the only athlete to have podiumed at the 2024 CrossFit Games and qualify again in 2025. In 2024, he competed with bronze medalist Peak 360 CrossFit, which is also coached by Kriger Strength, alongside Noah Ohlsen, Matilde Garnes, and Lena Richter.
- If Morakinyo and the Oslo team earn a podium spot again this year, his recent Games record would be three podiums in three years on three different affiliate teams.
8th Day CrossFit
The fifth-place team at the 2024 Games was the last to make the 2025 roster, ranked twentieth overall, a single point inside the cutline.
- 8th Day’s team is nearly identical to its Games team in 2024.
CrossFit Invictus
Arguably the only “super team” in the field this year, the Invictus squad includes Phillip Muscarella and Emily Rethwell from Invictus Unconquerable, who took eighth place at the Games last year. They added Sean Early from CrossFit Invictus Unbroken, who finished in ninth place at North America West Semifinals, and five-time Individual Games athlete Dani Speegle.
Invictus won Semifinals Workout 1, with a time of 8:27.
- Remind me: New this season, affiliates can only send one team per affiliate to the Games. In the past, larger affiliates with deep talent pools like Invictus, Mayhem, and Oslo might have sent multiple teams. Now, affiliates are limited to one team.
CrossFit Mayhem
Angelo DiCicco captains the fourth-place team of 2024, which has a roster identical to last season, including Molly McGrandy, Zoe Jones, and Sam DeMeester. In 2024, they finished just 19 points shy of the podium.
- However, Mayhem does have other teams within their empire that competed at CrossFit Mayhem during the Team Semifinals weekend and qualified.
CrossFit 1124
In sixth place overall, CrossFit 1124 returns with members Tyler Cooke, Reilly Good, and Sydney Smith. This season, the trio has added Jessica Androsik, who finished 25th at the Syndicate Crown North America East Semifinal as an Individual in 2023.
CrossFit Furuset Kriger
The fifth-place team, CrossFit Furuset Kriger, concluded their weekend at CrossFit Oslo alongside the CrossFit Oslo Kriger team.
Furuset Kriger is captained by Verena Evelyn Reimers, who is joined by Henrik Negård, Ingrid Tøndel, and Marius Tinglum Pettersen. Pettersen finished in seventh place with Oslo Kriger BLST in 2024, while Tøndel was part of Oslo Kriger PSL.
- Both teams documented their performances on YouTube.
There is no rule stating that teams must compete at their affiliate. Collaborations like Kriger coming together to coach and adjudicate under one roof have once again proven successful for the Kriger teams under head coach Joakim Rygh and nine-time Games athlete Kristin Holte.
Q21 CrossFit
Team Q21 is the only team outside North America and Europe to qualify this year for the Games.
- In years past, there were seven regions across the globe, each sending qualifiers to the Games. However, this season, teams competed on a worldwide leaderboard with an entirely online model.
Thirteen teams from North America, six teams from Europe, and one team, Q21, from Argentina, South America, made the cut for Albany.
Q21 has sent teams to the Games twice, in 2021 and 2023.
CrossFit Butcher’s Lab Vanløse
The second-place team overall was the only team to win two workouts of the five total in the online qualifier, taking Workouts 2 and 3.
- Butcher’s Lab is captained by Christina Agerbeck. Agerbeck was on Buther’s Lab’s Lab X last season and is now on Vanløse with Oliver Valentin Toft, Pernille Amalie Kristensen, and Thomas Stroier.
CrossFit Body Blueprint Conquer
Captained by three-time Games team athlete Jordan Adcock, the team of 2024 Team Games athlete Nicki Torreggiani, Joe Pierro, and Joshua Hong won Workout 4, the controversial test with 800-meter run intervals.
CrossFit Undivided
The third-place team overall won Workout 5, which was a front squat max lift for total weight across three lifts for each of the four team members.
- Undivided, captained by two-time Games athlete Kristine Best, includes four-time Games team athlete Christine Znosko, two-time Games athlete and GRID league champion Griffin Roelle, and Games team athlete Mike Needleman.
The team squatted 4,110 pounds across their combined 12 lifts, winning the event by 50 pounds.
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