I got scared when Brian kicked John off, like my parents were fighting. Brian you had me going!

The Jane’s Addiction t-shirt is a lowkey bada$$ flex.

32:25 - Tyler’s comment about John’s army of middle aged women and leaving bad yelp reviews was hilarious 😂

Great show! The tangent was the best part AND the most important issue

59:11. This is gold!

As someone who just came here for the second time: maaaaan you had me good - was COMPLETELY buying it!😆

Castro consistently asks every athlete about benchmark wods, specifically, girl wods and cycling. The more I watch them, the more it stands out.

Run the cuts the way they are, THEN…. Bring everybody back to reek havoc on the final event! A bunch of bitter well rested athletes back for revenge! 💪

Here’s how to solve the backfill issue: Everyone in the semifinals did the same workouts (w/ the exception of test 1). Compare the scores of the other 5 workouts and take the best, regardless of region. However, if there’s someone else in the same region that beat that person when including test 1, that person goes.

Strength of Field Calc was skewed because of the cheaters so re-calculate when >1 qualifier pops

You guys just STRESSED ME OUT! I got sick when you shut John off and had to turn off the show and take a minute. Almost even texted my husband to tell him about it. Sooooo glad I turned the show back on! 😂😂😂😂😂

One point I never hear about cuts is the potential long term gain if you don’t have them. Those athletes that aren’t as good will understand the volume of the whole weekend first hand and will change their training based on that experience and come back better. Cuts make a better spectacle for that one weekend but are they best long term…? Add into that Tyler’s point about exposure, money making etc and again, those athletes are also motivated to do better.

I would like you guys to do a blind rankings of Dave’s CrossFit games athlete interviews !

I’m watching this on Thursday and John predicted Chad 😂

Prize money is a reason that there shouldn't be cuts. I know its a show and we dont really give a shit about bottom 10 but the athletes sure do care. I fully agree with Tyler on this. Also IMO 15,16,17 and 18 were the best Games we've had, abd there were no cuts

Last week John stated the points would be close, with cuts, there are adjustment to scoring table, points distribution matter. Also the World Wide Rankings has enough issues, and now 20 athletes don't do the full test, in a full test placing and payout may change within the 20-40, impacting WW Ranking & $$. For Professionalism of the sport, need to legit find top 40, not just the top 20. If they want people at vendor village, then having full 40 helps, people don't watch heat 1 & 2, fans will be in VV, If you don't have Heats 1 & 2, you will have less fans checking out VV, they will not be onsite waiting for their fav athletes and heats 3 & 4. Hopefully next yr there is a change to Semi-Final, so we get better representation at games, to have better 40 games athletes. Many issues need fixed, that shouldn't prevent us fixing other issues, fix it, waiting for the other parts to be fixed.

If I wear my new JY Barbell shirt every day back squats are programmed, will I PR every time?

Wouldn’t it make more sense to go down the D’Hondt method formula to work out who the next inline would be? This maintains the “strength of field” and would hopefully prevent unfit athletes making it

I HATE CUTS!!!! WE want to see ALL OF THEM THAT MADE IT! THE FITTEST needs ALL the athletes in all EVENTS!

As for the cuts would it be better to keep all the individual athletes and cut the teams 🤷‍♂️

To John’s point, the dudes that popped in Asia got them extra points for the games allocation, and probably didn’t get tested last year to know.

Would they ever (or maybe have they ever) program a workout where each individual does the work out one at a time and they do not know how well the other athletes did in the workout? Thought about this during Castro's conversation with Hopper, it tests a different kind of mental toughness

Did Tyler really say, hawk rush girl said something real?! Hell no, she didn’t!

The cuts are dumb. Why invite them just to cut them?

Is they Tyler vs. JY beef more schtick?

This assertion consistently that teens don't matter isn't true. The teen division is more important than ever and at the top of both sides of the sport, teens are coming. People love college sports. Hell, in certain regions, people love high school sports. These are legit athletes.

I blame John for the event release.

Mr. JY, please put on a shirt, we’re having a lady guest 🍩

Does John Young think NA East and NA West athletes are clean??? They don’t pop… but cmon John. You know they ain’t clean bro.

27:16 worst acting ever!

I hate the cuts on all and every level: *Goes counter to the CROSSFIT philosophy* 1) Relative point differential for each placement is increased from roughly 3 points to 5 points: Unevenly weights the events. Back-loads them. I.e., the 30 and 20-person events become more important than the 40-person events. 2) Fewer Tweeners: Changes, that is, decreases the points volatility due to fewer lower placed athletes finishing in between higher placed athletes. 3) Cheats the cut athletes of the Games experience, exposure, possibly competing in their best event/s, and getting the prize money from a complete competition. 4) Prohibits a true finish ranking of all (40) Games athletes. Prohibits a true ranking of the top finishers. Does not (necessarily) find The Fittest, and nearly definitely does not find an accurate podium, top ten, or prize money ranking. --The Unknown gets it. Tyler partially gets it...but he doesn't get the point differential and weighting part of it. --Spin and JY don't get the metrics AT ALL. Nor does TDC, if that makes you feel any better. --Btw, JY, you don't know what you are even trying to say when you throw around the word "Average". Learn the meanings/differences of the terms "Mean, Median, and Mode". And use the correct term for what you are trying to say. --Saying that "tennis has cuts" is so obtuse and irrelevant. ONE event, one opponent, zero sum game...same thing each and every time. Having cuts at the CrossFit Games would be more comparable to having cuts MIDWAY during the (ten) events of the Decathlon during the Olympics. It would no longer be the Decathlon. Get it??!!