In November, the CrossFit Games team released its first season update for 2025.
- In that announcement, we learned that while the Open, Semifinals, and Games remain generally the same from last season, we can say goodbye to the CrossFit Quarterfinals.
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Remind Me
Quarterfinals was the second stage of the CrossFit Games season from 2021 to 2024.
In the first three iterations (2021-2023), the top 10% of athletes (Individual, Team, and Age Group) on the leaderboard after the three-week Open could advance to compete in online Quarterfinals, with a chance to advance further to the in-person Semifinal round.
- Those who qualified then took on four to five Quarterfinal workouts over a long weekend in April.
In 2024, the “quarter” in “Quarterfinals” took on a new significance as 25% of the athletes in the Open qualified for the second stage.
The Quarterfinals stage was also the point at which athletes from around the world were grouped into their competitive regions: North America East and West, Europe, Asia, Oceania, South America, and Africa, most recently.
- The qualification rules for Quarterfinals stipulated that it was not the top 10% globally who received an invitation but the top 10% — later 25% — from their region to ultimately qualify for their region’s in-person Semifinal.
If your goal was to make Quarterfinals, the change to 25% made it much easier, but you likely didn’t realize that was your last chance at the time.
- Now, with the end of Quarterfinals (and we believe competitive regions), only the top 1-2% worldwide, depending on division, make it to the next stage.
To mark the end of the CrossFit Quarterfinals era, we look back at the key stats and details from the past four seasons.
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Individual CrossFit Quarterfinals – By the Numbers
Registration and Qualification
Qualification Statistics
- 162,792 – Athletes qualified for Quarterfinals from 2021 to 2024: 90,475 men and 72,317 women.
- 80,259 – Athletes qualified for Quarterfinals in 2024 alone: 44,302 men and 35,957 women. This number is nearly half of the total qualifiers across the four years.
Registration Statistics
- 72,231 – The total number of registrations for Quarterfinals from 2021 to 2024: 40,765 men and 31,466 women.
- This includes repeat qualifiers during the four years.
- 32,258 – Athletes registered for Quarterfinals in 2024 alone: 17,817 men and 14,541 women.
- This represents a 232% increase in men’s registration and a 255% increase in women’s registration from 2023 to 2024.
- 50,270 – Unique athletes registered for Quarterfinals from 2021 to 2024: 28,196 men and 22,074 women.
- This number includes all athletes who qualified one time, especially in 2024, as well as athletes who qualified multiple times, but it only counts them once each.
Highlights
- 2,001 – Athletes qualified and registered for all four years of Quarterfinals: 1,201 men and 800 women.
- Those athletes should get a T-shirt.
- 58.28% and 54.64% – The registration conversion rate from 2021. This is the high water mark for both men and women for all four years.
- After this year, the men’s and women’s divisions averaged a 43% conversion rate.
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The Workouts
- 296,304 – Workouts were submitted in total by all competing athletes across all four seasons with Quarterfinals. 167,327 were submitted by men, and 128,977 were submitted by women.
- 255,986 – Workouts were done in an affiliate.
- In total, 86.39% of all Quarterfinal workouts were done in an affiliate, leaving only 13.61% occurring outside of an affiliate.
- 5-5-5-4 – The number of Quarterfinals workouts each season. In the last season of Quarterfinals, only four workouts were programmed, while all other seasons had five workouts.
- In 2021 and 2022, we saw a max lift or set of lifts (the “Other CrossFit Total”), while in the latter season, they were all “for time” or “for reps.”
The Winners
- 6 – The number of athletes who won the CrossFit Quarterfinals worldwide.
- This includes Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr (2021 & 2022), Justin Medeiros (2022 & 2023), Emma Lawson (2024), Mal O’Brien (2023), Jonne Koski (2024), and Travis Mayer (2021).
- 39 – The number of athletes who won their division in their competitive region.
- Two athletes won their region three times: Justin Medeiros (2022 in North America and 2023-2024 in North America West) and Ricky Garard (2022-2024 in Oceania).
- Nine athletes won their region twice, including Guilherme Malheiros, Jason Smith, Kealan Henry, Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr, Laura Horvath, Gabriela Migała, Christina Livaditakis, and Victoria Campos. Twenty-eight additional athletes won their region; the full list is below.
| Athlete | Count | Year / Region |
| Justin Medeiros | 3 | 2022-24 North America / North America West |
| Ricky Garard | 3 | 2022-24 Oceania |
| Guilherme Malheiros | 2 | 2022-23 South America |
| Jason Smith | 2 | 2021-22 Africa |
| Kealan Henry | 2 | 2023-24 Africa |
| Agustin Richelme | 1 | 2024 South America |
| Aleksandar Ilin | 1 | 2021 Asia |
| Björgvin Karl Guðmundsson | 1 | 2022 Europe |
| Dallin Pepper | 1 | 2023 North America East |
| Fabian Beneito | 1 | 2023 Europe |
| Ivan Kukartsev | 1 | 2024 Asia |
| Jay Crouch | 1 | 2021 Oceania |
| Jeffrey Adler | 1 | 2024 North America East |
| Jonne Koski | 1 | 2024 Europe |
| Morteza Sedaghat | 1 | 2023 Asia |
| Nicolas Bidarte | 1 | 2021 South America |
| Reggie Fasa | 1 | 2021 Europe |
| Roman Khrennikov | 1 | 2022 Asia |
| Travis Mayer | 1 | 2021 North America |
| Athlete | Count | Year / Region |
| Tia-Clair Toomey | 2 | 2021-22 Oceania |
| Laura Horvath | 2 | 2021, 2023 Europe |
| Gabriela Migała | 2 | 2022 Europe |
| Mallory O’Brien | 2 | 2022-23 North America & North America East |
| Christina Livaditakis | 2 | 2023 Africa |
| Victoria Campos | 2 | 2023-24 South America |
| Larissa Cunha | 1 | 2021 South America |
| Amanda Barnhart | 1 | 2021 North America |
| Michelle Basnett | 1 | 2021 Africa |
| Alexsandra Buzunova | 1 | 2021 Asia |
| Seungyeon Choi | 1 | 2022 Asia |
| Michelle Merand | 1 | 2022 Africa |
| Luiza Marques | 1 | 2022 South America |
| Dawon Jung | 1 | 2023 Asia |
| Arielle Loewen | 1 | 2023 North America West |
| Katelin Van Zyl | 1 | 2023 Oceania |
| Madeline Sturt | 1 | 2024 Oceania |
| Alex Gazan | 1 | 2024 North America West |
| Alexis Raptis | 1 | 2024 North America East |
| Seher Kaya | 1 | 2024 Asia |
- 27 – The number of athletes who won an Individual CrossFit Quarterfinals workout worldwide.
- Two athletes won four workouts: Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr and Ellie Turner.
- Two athletes won three workouts: Justin Medeiros and Olivia Kerstetter.
- Five athletes won two workouts: Jeffrey Adler, Laura Horvath, Agustin Richelme, Victor Hoffer, and Matt Dlugos.
- Eighteen additional athletes won a workout during Quarterfinals.
Here’s the full list:
| Athlete | Count | Workout |
| Justin Medeiros | 3 | IQF 21.2, 23.2, and 23.4 |
| Jeffrey Adler | 2 | IQF 24.4, and 22.3 |
| Agustin Richelme | 2 | IQF 24.3, and 22.1 |
| Victor Hoffer | 2 | IQF 23.1, and 22.2 |
| Matt Dlugos | 2 | IQF 22.5, and 21.3 |
| Colin Bosshard | 1 | IQF 24.2 |
| James Sprague | 1 | IQF 24.1 |
| Norman Woodring | 1 | IQF 23.3 |
| Jonne Koski | 1 | IQF 23.4 |
| Patrick Vellner | 1 | IQF 23.5 |
| Austin Cahoy | 1 | IQF 22.4 |
| Jake Berman | 1 | IQF 21.1 |
| Jayson Hopper | 1 | IQF 21.3 |
| Stephen Wallace | 1 | IQF 21.4 |
| Tola Morakinyo | 1 | IQF 21.5 |
| Athlete | Count | Workout |
| Tia-Clair Toomey | 4 | IQF 24.3, 22.2, 21.1, and 21.2 |
| Ellie Turner | 4 | IQF 23.4, 23.2, 22.5, and 21.3 |
| Olivia Kerstetter | 3 | IQF 24.1, 24.4, and 23.4 |
| Laura Horvath | 2 | IQF 23.3 and 23.5 |
| Lee Keyrouz | 1 | IQF 21.4 |
| Danielle Brandon | 1 | IQF 21.5 |
| Emma Lawson | 1 | IQF 22.1 |
| Mikaela Norman | 1 | IQF 22.3 |
| Danielle Paran | 1 | IQF 22.4 |
| Dani Speegle | 1 | IQF 22.5 |
| Mallory O’Brien | 1 | IQF 23.1 |
| Mirjam von Rohr | 1 | IQF 24.2 |
The Prize Money
- $8,139,600 – The potential revenue if all qualifiers had registered for Quarterfinals.
- $3,611,550 – The actual total revenue from the $50 registration fee for all men and women registered for Individual Quarterfinals
- $1,617,900 – The revenue from the $50 registration fees for 2024 alone.
- This was 45 percent of the total for all of Quarterfinals registration fee revenue.
- $0 – The total amount of prize money that was handed out for winning Quarterfinals worldwide or winning one of the workouts.
The Bottom Line
The most significant number from the CrossFit Quarterfinals era is four.
- 4 – The CrossFit Games season has changed again after four years. Four years, four quarters. It’s as if they planned it.
We now enter a new era with a season that’s a bit of a remix of the 2019-2020 Sanctionals alongside the Age Group Online Semifinals.
It appears that CrossFit hopes the new Community Cup will fill the potential revenue gap left by the Quarterfinals. Only time will tell.
Goodbye, Quarterfinals era.
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