Rulebook 2025: How to qualify for the CrossFit Games?
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Are you not clear on how to qualify for the CrossFit Games? Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Official CrossFit Competitions, but you still don't know how it works?
All this information is contained in the Rulebook (competition rules) published by CrossFit Games each season. It specifies the rules by which all athletes are judged during the season and it is your obligation to be familiar with it.
What is the Rulebook?
The CrossFit rulebook is the rules governing the current CrossFit season and accepted by the athletes when they decide to participate, either as an amateur or as a professional. This regulation includes the entire competition, from its initial phase with the Open, to the final phase, where the fittest team, woman and man on Earth are crowned.
It specifies not only how to classify the Games, but also the standards of movement during the Open, or the anti-doping rules.
Individuals
Fewer competitors: Only 30 men and 30 women will compete for the title "Fittest on Earth" in the upcoming CrossFit Games 2025.
Qualification Pathways: New this year, there are two options to qualify for the CrossFit games.
Semifinals in Affiliates or In-Person Qualifying Events.
CrossFit Open 2025
It all starts with the Open and anyone with the intention of reaching CrossFit Games must complete it.
The duration of the Open is maintained at 3 weeks:
Registration begins: January 15.
Announcement of 25.1: February 27.
Closing of the 25.3 submission window: March 17.
Price: $20
Requirements to qualify for Games
Athletes must finish in the top 1% of the Open to be eligible for the CrossFit Games, regardless of their decision to attempt to qualify in competitions.
At the end of the Open, the best will go directly to Quarterfinals the Semifinals, which are divided into two options:
Semifinals in Affiliates
Format: Online Competition from May 1 to 4.
Dates: Thursday, May 1, at 12 p.m. PT until Sunday, May 4, at 5 p.m. PT. The schedule in Spain will be from Thursday, May 1, at 9 p.m. PT until Sunday, May 4, at 2 a.m. PT.
Requirements: Athletes must compete in an affiliated CrossFit and have two judge courses (2025 Judges Course and Advanced Judges Course).
Classification: The world's top 12 from this stage will qualify directly for the CrossFit Games.
Price: $100
Leaderboard finalization: The individual league table will be final no later than May 19, 2025.
CrossFit Games Qualifying event
These are competitions that will award at least one individual male and one female place for the Games 2025.
These competitions may be held prior to the Online Semifinals and the winners would earn their direct berth to Games. If the athlete would also compete in the Semifinal Online and will be placed in a qualifying position to Games, this invitation will be passed to the next in line.
If the athlete has a place in the Online Semifinal and wins an event, the invitation will be passed on to the next in-person competition.
Number of classifications: 18 qualifying places from 10 events.
Dates: From April to the first week of June.
Classification: Each event will qualify 2 men and 2 women; some events only 1 man and 1 woman.
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Dates |
Event |
Location |
Places at Games |
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April 5-6 |
Cookeville, TN USA |
2 | |
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April 18-20 |
Brazil |
2 | |
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April 24-27 |
Malaga, Spain |
2 | |
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May 9-11 |
Montpellier, France |
2 | |
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May 16-19 |
The Fittest Experience |
Oklahoma City, OK USA |
2 |
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May 29-June 1 |
Rebel Renegade Games |
Vanderbijlpark, South Africa |
1 |
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May 29-June 1 |
Busan, Republic of Korea |
1 | |
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May 30-June 1 |
Knoxville, TN USA |
2 | |
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May 29-June 1 |
Brisbane, Queensland AUS |
2 | |
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June 6 - 8 |
NorCal Classic |
Sacramento, CA USA |
2 |
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June 13-17 |
Last Chance Qualifier |
Online |
1 |
CrossFit Games 2025
Location: Albany, NY, United States.
Athletes: 30 men and 30 women
Price: $400
Teams
Teams wishing to qualify for the CrossFit Games have a simpler process.
Open → Semifinals in Online Affiliates → CrossFit Games 2025
Everyone must register and compete in the CrossFit Open, which runs from February 27 to March 17.
Those who participate in this event are eligible for the In-Affiliate Semi-Finals, which will be Online only and will be held from April 24 to 27.
Semifinals
Price: $100
Games
The 20 best teams in the world in these Online Semifinals will qualify for the CrossFit Games 2025, with the condition that only one team per affiliation can qualify.
Price: $600
Masters and Teens Divisions
Three-stage competition:
Open → Semifinals in Affiliates → Age Group CrossFit Games.
Registration and competition at the CrossFit Open from February 27 to March 17.
Semifinals in Affiliates
The top 2% Open finalists (minimum 200 athletes per age division) will compete in the Affiliates Semifinals April 3-6.
CrossFit Games age group
- The top athletes from the Semifinals will qualify for the Age Group CrossFit Games in Columbus, Ohio, August 21-24.
Number of qualified athletes varies by age division:
- Masters 35-39: 30 men and 30 women
- Masters 40-44: 30 males and 30 females
- Masters 45-49: 30 males and 30 females
- Masters 50-54: 30 men and 30 women
- Masters 55-59: 30 males and 30 females
- Masters 60-64: 20 men and 20 women
- Masters 65-69: 20 men and 20 women
- Masters 70+: 10 men and 10 women
- Youths 14-15: 30 boys and 30 girls
- Youths 16-17: 30 boys and 30 girls
Adaptive Division
The Games Adaptive are managed by WheelWOD, with 16 divisions:
- Superior impediment 1 point of contact
- Upper impediment 2 points of contact
- Impediment lower above the knee
- Lower impingement below the knee
- Lower lower impairment
- Major neuromuscular
- Moderate neuromuscular
- Neuromuscular minor
- Visual impairment
- Short stature
- Sitting without hip function
- Sitting with hip function
- Seated quadriplegic
- Diagnosed standing
- Intellectual without chromosomal condition (new)
- Intellectual with chromosomal condition (new)
All adaptive athletes must compete in the CrossFit Open.
The top 20 athletes in each division advance to the Semifinals (not required in a CrossFit affiliate).
Semifinals adaptive from May 8 to 11.
The top 10 athletes in each division in the Semifinals will qualify for the Games Adaptive in Las Vegas, Nevada, September 9-13.
