Slowly but surely, the 2019 competitive season is coming together. The latest announcement coming out of HQ is regarding four more events that are officially CrossFit-sanctioned: CrossFit Strength in Depth, the CrossFit Lowlands Throwdown, and the CrossFit Italian Showdown — which, unlike the others, won’t include a team competition.

They also announced SouthFit CrossFit Challenge as a sanctioned event, but it won’t be official until the 2020 competitive season.

HQ confirmed in a press release that the Games will begin with elimination events, to narrow it down to 10 competitors who will move on to the finals. The athletes’ scores in the Open will determine competitor seeding. Athletes who choose not to participate in the Open will have the lowest seeding and will be placed in the first qualifying heats at the Games.

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The pool of athletes who will qualify for the Games is going to be so much larger than previous years, which means the events will only continue to get more challenging — but that was a given, and something Dave Castro warns us about almost every year.

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