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Lunch with the Clydesdale - We already know the Structure of the CrossFit Games Season · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  what is going on everybody
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  hopefully I'm coming in
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  clear I am now down to lte
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  I thought I had five g um
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  but I'm here in montana
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  still uh so doing uh what I
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  can with what I got here
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  with my ipad um but guys
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  man amanda mark trent olive
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  meredith lito jody denise
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  Jake, Ken, Corey, Joseph.
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  Holy cow.
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  You guys, man,
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  loading up the chat already.
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  We just got started.
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  Having a great day here.
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  Last night, coming in loud and jazzy.
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  Thank you so much, Trent Olive,
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  for the feedback.
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  Had a great night last night.
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  My daughter took us to this
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  restaurant where...
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  it really was like straight
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  out of the nineteen seventy two.
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  It was an old hotel that had
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  an attached restaurant and
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  lounge and in the lounge it
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  was called the sip and dip
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  and in the sip and dip they
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  had tanks where they had
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  live mermaids swimming
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  around in these tanks and
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  entertaining everybody and they would
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  they would do these things
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  where they blow a bubble
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  and put a heart on the top
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  of it and it would float to
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  the surface and pretty cool little show.
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  And the decor in there,
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  I don't think has been
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  changed since the nineteen seventies,
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  but really a fun time with
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  her and her friends just
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  kind of sitting back and
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  having some good food and
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  kind of going back in time.
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  So it's been a pretty fun
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  week here in Montana,
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  getting to spend with my daughter
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  It's so much fun.
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  The night before, we went to Singo.
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  I talked about that yesterday.
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  But there was a food truck
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  there that was Korean and
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  Native American fusion.
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  And literally,
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  the two people in the food truck,
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  one was Korean and one was
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  Native American.
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  And they made foods that
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  were a fusion of the two
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  different cultures.
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  And it was amazing.
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  It was amazing.
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  the the care they put into
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  that food was was so good
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  and um yeah it was really
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  cool really cool if you're
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  ever in great falls you got
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  you got to find it it's pretty cool
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  I saw Bruce Wayne is heading
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  to SoCal maybe for Waterpalooza.
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  So jealous.
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  That's got to be a fun time.
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  I know they really build out
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  that beach pretty fun.
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  And hope you have safe
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  travels across the country, Bruce,
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  for that.
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  So, yeah.
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  Corey says,
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  sounds like something Guy Fieri
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  would find.
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  Yeah, we just stumbled on it.
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  My daughter didn't even know about it.
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  It just happened to be at
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  the place where we went to
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  play that music bingo game.
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  This is really rough.
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  Uh,
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  So I'm just going to give it
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  a minute to calm down.
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  But yeah,
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  it's not even letting me share
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  the... Hmm.
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  okay we're gonna try it out
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  here on the porch I have no
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  notes now and nothing to go
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  off of uh but I think I'm
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  out here on the front porch
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  so hopefully are we are we back guys
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  um so yeah so I'll just have
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  to hold the ipad in the air
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  and I will do it from the
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  front porch maybe I get
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  better cell service out
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  here so good I'm back I'm
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  back nice uh denise
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  I'll be lifting at SoCal
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  Waterpalooza Saturday
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  morning at eight a.m.
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  USAW and Tier Waterpalooza
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  SoCal are partnering on a
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  weightlifting meeting structure.
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  Isn't the normal three, three lifts.
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  You just have thirty minutes to lift.
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  Wow, that's interesting.
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  That's really cool.
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  So, yeah, not a green screen, Mark.
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  It is literally me on the
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  front porch of our little
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  bungalow here in Montana.
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  So.
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  Yeah, hopefully it stays quiet.
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  It's a real little neighborhood.
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  So everything is cool here.
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  So Denise, once that's done,
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  you'll have to tell us what
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  that's like to just have
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  thirty minutes open to lift
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  instead of a three by three stand.
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  Jay Burch says,
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  I also need to stand on one
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  leg and put my tongue in my cheek.
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  Yeah,
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  I think just being outside is
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  probably going to help a little bit.
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  Just hope the noise stays low.
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  The Wi-Fi here is terrible, Denise.
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  We've been actually lodging
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  complaints with the Airbnb people.
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  So, Joseph, a wire hanger might help.
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  Yeah, those were my college days.
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  I would do the wire hanger
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  on the back of a TV and out
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  the window to get cell
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  service or get TV service anyway.
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  So, so anyway, yeah.
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  So we got some news
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  yesterday on the structure
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  of the twenty twenty six
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  CrossFit game season that is going to be
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  That is going to be very
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  similar to maybe the twenty
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  twenty four CrossFit Games
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  season with a little bit of
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  twenty five mixed in.
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  The big news from the
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  announcement was the open
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  is in February and March.
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  Then they are going to bring
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  back quarterfinals for the
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  top twenty five percent.
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  I know there was a pretty
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  big demand for that.
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  It gave some people in
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  affiliates something to shoot for.
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  And now they're going to
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  have that again with the
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  With the quarterfinals,
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  then we're going to go to
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  what they're calling in-person semifinals,
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  not in whatever they called it last year,
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  qualifying events.
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  It is now going to be
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  in-person semifinals.
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  There's going to be a list
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  made that has not been made
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  available at this time.
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  And then after that,
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  once all those in-person are done,
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  Then they'll have the online
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  semifinal for qualifications,
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  like a last chance qualifier,
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  but it'll probably be a
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  bigger number than one.
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  It will be whatever's left
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  that wasn't qualified
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  through the in-person semifinals.
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  So you'll have that online to finish.
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  And then you go to the games,
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  which are going to be in July this year.
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  And by the looks of the timeline,
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  it appears to be the end of July.
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  Um,
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  Also, for the age group athletes,
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  they are going to add the
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  option of some in-person
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  qualifying events for their
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  CrossFit Games.
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  Now,
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  it does appear there was some
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  speculation that they would
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  put the age group and the
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  elites back together for
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  the twentieth season.
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  But by this timeline,
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  it looks like the age
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  groups are still going to
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  be separate for this season.
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  But they are going to do the...
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  um,
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  quarterfinals on the same weekend with
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  the same workouts.
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  So someone,
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  and I think barbell spin even use this.
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  So Carolyn who qualified for
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  both last year still will
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  have the opportunity to
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  qualify for both on the same weekend,
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  doing the same workouts this year, um,
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  in the quarterfinals before
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  she gets to semis.
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  So, um,
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  I like that they brought up quarters.
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  I don't like that I now have
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  to do said quarters.
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  Very good point, Lito.
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  Mark Moss,
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  I'm assuming CrossFit would
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  program the semis.
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  I don't know.
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  I don't think so.
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  I think the in-person semis, probably not.
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  The online semis, probably not.
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  Biggest note for me is they
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  are dropping the number of
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  Masters athletes for the game.
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  Yeah, I did.
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  Again, I haven't done a big comparison.
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  I'm very limited in what I can do here.
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  So I'll probably,
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  maybe Holly will take some looks at that,
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  maybe put up a chart if she's listening.
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  I think that would be cool
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  to see a chart from last
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  year's numbers to this year's numbers.
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  But it doesn't surprise me
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  that they're doing that.
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  I think they need to
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  right-size that because
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  there are so many divisions
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  to get through in a day.
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  And the days are long at
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  those age group games.
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  But they need a better
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  qualifying system to get
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  the right people to the games.
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  So it's this big conundrum
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  that they have to figure out, Denise.
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  Because I know when it was just online,
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  you're not getting the
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  right ten or the right
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  fifteen or the right twenty there.
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  They need to find a better
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  way to get the right people there.
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  Then I think you can
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  right-size the numbers.
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  um okay uh denise for my
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  division only fifteen go versus twenty
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  Yeah,
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  I think some have changed and some
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  have not.
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  But again,
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  I don't think we're getting the
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  right people to the game.
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  So I think they need to figure that out.
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  Lito, question, Scott.
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  Do you think it becomes like
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  the elite indie where
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  there's an African semi
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  that qualifies masters?
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  I don't think so.
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  I think that it's going to
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  be primarily North America
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  and maybe Europe,
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  maybe Australia that have
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  an in-person qualifying event.
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  And we have no details on any of that.
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  So everything that I'm
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  saying is complete speculation.
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  So, yeah.
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  So, yeah,
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  Amanda says forty five to fifty
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  four drop from thirty to twenty.
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  That's a big drop.
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  That's a big drop.
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  And again, if you got the right twenty,
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  I can see it.
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  I just don't think they're
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  getting the right twenty
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  before they make that decision.
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  So we'll see how this in-person thing goes,
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  because like.
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  And what I know the most is Jamie.
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  I've been following her
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  career for a while.
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  I documented her season from
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  beginning to end.
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  And so...
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  Like she wouldn't have qualified in, in,
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  she didn't qualify in that
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  year because they only took ten.
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  She finished in the top twenty.
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  But if you put her head to
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  head with people in a live competition,
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  she's going to finish top ten.
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  She just is.
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  That's who she is.
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  She is that person that sees
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  someone ahead of her and
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  she's willing to go dark
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  and get to a place that
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  other people aren't willing to go to.
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  And so when it's all online,
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  you lose those people.
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  Denise,
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  there is a chart on CrossFit's website.
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  Okay,
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  so Holly doesn't have to do any work
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  today.
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  Thank you, Denise.
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  So it's going to affect a
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  lot of people with that,
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  but I guess I like this
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  season structure better
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  than last year for sure.
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  I'm not sure I'm a big fan
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  of the Wild West semifinal piece.
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  I don't know what we do there.
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  If they're insistent on
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  doing what we're doing now,
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  I don't know how you fix that piece.
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  Because if people are doing
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  four and five and six
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  semifinals as opportunities,
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  I have to see what they're going to do.
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  Are they going to allow
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  unlimited opportunities
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  turns at the in-person semis
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  like they did this year um
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  um mark moss I can confirm
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  that my dark place is fully
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  lit for most corey can
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  confirm there you go um so
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  yeah I think that's my biggest concern
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  I actually like the games
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  probably moving up to July.
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  It gives a little bit longer off season,
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  even though it's probably
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  only a week or two ahead of time.
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  I like that the quarterfinals are back.
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  I think that's a good thing
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  because it allows pretty
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  much three open workouts
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  and a four event or five
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  event weekend to balance
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  the test for people to
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  going to semifinals.
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  I do think that Carolyn has
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  made this proposition in
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  the past and should be done
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  and you should carry over
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  the scores from the open to
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  quarterfinals.
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  And then you have a big
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  complete test to qualify
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  people to the next level.
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  Ken Walters.
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  But that's sport, right?
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  Every year in all the team sports,
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  there are several teams
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  that shouldn't be there,
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  but they made it.
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  That's one of the exciting
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  things about professional sports.
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  I see what you're saying, Ken,
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  but I think in the age
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  group division specifically,
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  in the age group division specifically,
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  you're missing out on some
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  of the top athletes because
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  there is no in-person event.
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  I think that the programming
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  is less balanced because
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  they have less opportunity.
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  Yeah.
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  And so that's where I'm saying that for,
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  I think in the elites,
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  you still get the top athletes.
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  It's really kind of the
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  fringe that's getting
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  messed with a little bit.
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  And I'm a little bit better
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  with that than I am in the
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  age group division.
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  Um, Um,
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  Enrique online semi should
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  be after the in-person so
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  more elite athletes can be
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  present at semifinal events.
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  That is what they are doing this year.
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  The online semifinal for
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  elite athletes will happen
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  after all the in-person events.
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  So it should jack up the
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  amount of people going to
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  the in-person events.
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  And so I think that is a
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  great move that they have made.
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  If you're a top athlete,
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  shouldn't you still be able
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  to qualify through an online semi?
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  Lito,
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  if everything was fair and everybody
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  did everything by the book,
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  I think that your statement is correct.
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  But I think in the age group divisions,
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  there's less checks and
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  balances for all of that.
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  And I don't think that
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  people are ethical and
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  honest in submitting their
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  online workouts.
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  Scott,
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  is there a reason you don't do
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  Wadapalooza events anymore?
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  No.
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  The biggest reason is that
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  I've had personal life
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  issues over the last year
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  that have prevented me from travel.
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  And it's prevented me from
• 19:30
  getting sponsorships for the show.
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  And without the sponsorships,
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  it's really hard to pay for
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  travel out of my own pocket.
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  Yeah.
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  And so I have to limit,
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  I have to limit my choices
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  to what I can afford and
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  where I get the most bang for my buck.
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  And typically, um,
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  what a Palooza doesn't
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  afford me the opportunity
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  to get a lot of bang for my
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  buck while I'm there.
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  Um,
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  so it's just a lower priority with the
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  limited budget that I have,
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  but I do have a
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  videographer photographer
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  that goes to all the water
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  Palooza events.
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  Um,
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  So yeah, he'll be there.
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  Isma,
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  he is on Instagram and he
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  collaborates with me at
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  every Wadapalooza event.
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  So my IG is full of sights
• 20:25
  and sounds from the events
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  and his shots are amazing.
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  He's more artistic in this
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  space than anybody else in
• 20:32
  the cameraman work that I think of.
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  He does things a little off
• 20:37
  the cuff and things like that.
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  So yeah,
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  Enjoy that partnership
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  immensely and he helps me
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  out tremendously So and
• 20:46
  that has been going on for
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  well over a year now and
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  will continue in the future.
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  He's just an incredible photographer.
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  So Um
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  Have they announced how the
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  semis will be grouped, rankings,
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  or location-based?
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  They haven't done any of that yet.
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  And, yeah, Eastma captures.
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  Dude does great work.
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  That is my man.
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  That's my guy.
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  Go support him on Instagram.
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  He is tremendous and very, very artistic.
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  It's just different than the
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  typical CrossFit pictures.
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  He does a little bit of,
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  he does some fun stuff.
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  If you've ever seen the big head,
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  little body pictures from
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  different events, that's him.
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  He also does some very crazy
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  things with lights and
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  colors that other people don't do.
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  And that's why I love him
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  because he's just very
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  different and off of the typical.
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  So.
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  So that's that.
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  So that is the CrossFit game season.
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  My big wonder now is what is
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  the reaction from WFP?
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  What do we know from their
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  season schedule?
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  How much is it going to interweave?
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  I've already heard.
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  I haven't been able to, again, research it,
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  that there's already one
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  conflict that's coming up
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  for the next season.
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  It's going to be interesting
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  to see how this weaves together.
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  Will it force exclusivity?
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  Without it being contractual,
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  that's going to be an
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  interesting thing to
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  discuss once we kind of see
• 22:39
  both seasons and kind of
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  lay over top each one over
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  the other and see how it
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  affects one another.
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  So that'll be interesting.
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  And so with that,
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  I do want to talk about
• 22:52
  some comments I got from
• 22:53
  yesterday's show.
• 22:54
  And I probably wasn't as
• 22:56
  clear as I should have been,
• 22:57
  but it was in my response
• 23:01
  to Will Morad saying on a
• 23:02
  podcast that saying I heard
• 23:06
  rumors at the H Group Games
• 23:09
  that there was going to be
• 23:10
  exclusivity was a smear campaign.
• 23:15
  and that the bashing of
• 23:16
  athletes is leading to
• 23:18
  mental health issues.
• 23:21
  And what I said yesterday
• 23:22
  was that if you are having
• 23:24
  mental health issues being
• 23:26
  discussed about in a professional sport,
• 23:28
  it may not be the career
• 23:30
  path you should go down.
• 23:32
  And what I want to clarify is this.
• 23:34
  I suffer from mental health issues.
• 23:36
  I have been on antipsychotics in the past,
• 23:41
  and I've worked very hard
• 23:42
  to get to where I am today.
• 23:45
  What I'm saying is that it's
• 23:48
  I'm not making light of
• 23:50
  mental health disorders or issues.
• 23:52
  I I tried to say that yesterday.
• 23:56
  I probably didn't do a good job of it.
• 23:58
  I felt like will was making
• 24:01
  light of what mental health
• 24:03
  issues are by his statement
• 24:05
  in that video.
• 24:07
  But what I'm saying about the athletes is
• 24:11
  that if by being out there
• 24:13
  and being judged is
• 24:14
  creating mental health issues for you,
• 24:17
  that may not be the best
• 24:19
  place for you to be.
• 24:20
  Why would you want to keep
• 24:23
  doing a sport that by nature,
• 24:26
  a professional athlete in
• 24:28
  any sport in this world,
• 24:30
  if you look at soccer,
• 24:32
  if you look at football,
• 24:34
  if you look at the NBA,
• 24:37
  you look at hockey, from basketball,
• 24:39
  high school on you are being
• 24:41
  judged by your performances
• 24:44
  by your by how you do your
• 24:47
  strategies all of those
• 24:49
  things you are going to be
• 24:50
  judged frequently and if
• 24:53
  you're going to play in
• 24:55
  this sport why would you
• 24:57
  want to do something that
• 24:58
  creates mental health
• 24:59
  issues for yourself that is
• 25:03
  what I was saying it just
• 25:05
  doesn't make sense I can't
• 25:07
  stand the sight of blood
• 25:09
  I would never be a nurse or
• 25:11
  a doctor or a veterinarian.
• 25:13
  I couldn't do it.
• 25:15
  Seeing blood does something
• 25:17
  to me that is very uncomfortable.
• 25:21
  And so I would,
• 25:23
  I would avoid those
• 25:24
  situations for myself.
• 25:27
  So that's what I was trying to say.
• 25:30
  Why would you put yourself
• 25:31
  in a situation that creates
• 25:33
  those things for you?
• 25:35
  I understand that there are
• 25:36
  people that do suffer
• 25:39
  mental health issues in that respect.
• 25:43
  And I was not trying to make
• 25:44
  light of that.
• 25:44
  I was trying to show the
• 25:46
  seriousness in that.
• 25:48
  Why would you put yourself
• 25:50
  in that situation?
• 25:54
  That's what I was trying to say.
• 25:57
  I would never make light of
• 25:59
  mental health issues or
• 26:02
  anything like that.
• 26:04
  That's truly what I was saying.
• 26:12
  And I probably didn't say it
• 26:13
  well yesterday.
• 26:14
  Probably didn't say it well yesterday.
• 26:17
  All right, so...
• 26:28
  Anyway,
• 26:32
  I think that's pretty much
• 26:33
  everything I have for today.
• 26:35
  It's probably going to be a
• 26:36
  little bit shorter show and
• 26:38
  less big news breaks overnight.
• 26:40
  I think I'm going to take tomorrow off.
• 26:43
  It's my last day,
• 26:44
  full day here in Montana to
• 26:47
  be with my daughter and
• 26:52
  And I want to spend as much
• 26:53
  time as I can with her and
• 26:57
  kind of soak up everything
• 26:58
  I can with her.
• 27:01
  So with that,
• 27:03
  I want to thank you guys for
• 27:04
  sticking with me through
• 27:05
  all the internet issues and
• 27:08
  all the stuff this week.
• 27:09
  Love you all.
• 27:11
  Don't forget to like and
• 27:12
  subscribe to the channel.
• 27:13
  We're trying to get to three
• 27:14
  K by the end of the year.
• 27:16
  We're like.
• 27:17
  Fifty away, fifty five away,
• 27:19
  something like that.
• 27:23
  And really trying to get
• 27:24
  there by the end of the year.
• 27:26
  So with that,
• 27:27
  there'll be tier water
• 27:27
  Palooza this weekend.
• 27:28
  We'll cover that on Sunday night,
• 27:29
  CrossFit talk.
• 27:31
  I'm excited for that event.
• 27:33
  Um,
• 27:33
  I think the teams are somewhat evenly
• 27:37
  matched up.
• 27:38
  If I were to make a
• 27:39
  prediction for this weekend,
• 27:40
  I really think that the
• 27:44
  world team has the edge, uh,
• 27:48
  I think that most of them
• 27:50
  are proven athletes and
• 27:52
  they work out together a lot.
• 27:54
  They probably communicate together a lot.
• 27:56
  I think that's going to be a
• 27:57
  big advantage.
• 27:59
  What worries me on the
• 28:01
  American side is that
• 28:06
  Alexis Raptus is coming off
• 28:09
  that injury that she talked
• 28:13
  about at the games with Drew from WFP.
• 28:16
  I don't know how that's
• 28:16
  going to affect her this weekend.
• 28:21
  I hope that...
• 28:24
  I hope that she's fine and I
• 28:25
  hope that she can perform,
• 28:27
  but that's my worry on the American side.
• 28:30
  And I think that, uh, the,
• 28:32
  the world's I'm sorry,
• 28:33
  on the American side and on
• 28:34
  the world side,
• 28:35
  I think that they have a
• 28:36
  lot of home run hitters with Tia and Guy.
• 28:40
  Um, and Emma tall,
• 28:41
  like they're going to do,
• 28:42
  they're going to do really well.
• 28:44
  So with that, I see that, uh,
• 28:47
  Jay Burch's son is hitting thirty today.
• 28:49
  Happy birthday to your son, Jay Burch.
• 28:53
  And with that, again,
• 28:55
  don't forget to like and
• 28:55
  subscribe to the channel.
• 28:57
  We will be back Sunday night
• 28:59
  for Sunday Night CrossFit Talk,
• 29:01
  unless something breaks overnight,
• 29:03
  and then I'll jump on
• 29:04
  tomorrow and do one last
• 29:05
  show from Montana.
• 29:06
  But with that,
• 29:08
  traveling out here on Saturday morning,
• 29:10
  and we'll see everybody
• 29:11
  Sunday night on Lunch with
• 29:13
  the Clydesdale.
• 29:14
  Bye, guys.