The changes brought to the 2019 season have ignited many debates, the latest of which is coming from former Games champion Ben Smith. People programming the events are also sometimes coaching the competitors, and Smith has thoughts about it. Check out his post below.

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To all these “Sanctional” event coordinators that are qualifying athletes for the CF Games: This seems like common sense?… Don’t have people programming the events for the competition ALSO be the coaches of athletes competing in these events.  What am I missing? ————————————————- I’m all for this format/changes and think it should work just fine, possibly even better than the last format. But these comps have a responsibility to be un-biased. I love that the events are varied in structure And programming but I see this programming bias potential as an issue that needs to be resolved and should just be common sense. Thoughts? Am I missing something? ————————————————– (Ps. Don’t say that programming doesn’t matter. It does. And That’s not the point, I’m thinking bigger picture for the “sport” as a whole and just want to start a discussion. Thx.) @crossfitgames

A post shared by Ben Smith (@bsmit13) on Jan 18, 2019 at 10:55am PST

What are your thoughts on the way events are being managed and Smith’s viewpoint of the whole scenario?

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