The 2010 CrossFit Games

2010 CrossFit Games Finals

United States Qualifiers

International Qualifiers

In contrast to the snowy competition in Canada, athletes in Florida are being tested by the southern heat. Director John Mclaughlin checked in with the following update.

Friday
From what we've seen in the dirty south, you would think the best prescription for an overhead PR is simple. Just find four friends and an outdoor basketball court, take four bars and set them the shape of a square with copious amounts of Bumpers in each corner. Then start a clock and for take turns lifting something heavy for 10 minutes. If you still haven’t found that PR, try adding in hundreds of screaming fans.

That was how Friday's affiliate competition went down at the South East Regional. The first event was 10 minutes of ground to overhead followed by one minute of rest, then two minutes of max rep muscle-ups, another one minute rest and finally finishing with two minutes of max rep chest to bar pullups. The event was scored by the total pounds from each athlete's best lift. Two pounds were added for each muscle-up and one pound was added for each chest to bar pullup.

One team took a unique approach, scoring .5 in an event with only whole numbers. Either by a stroke of genius or dumb luck a single 2.5 pound plate was left on a bar during a successful lift to overhead. That .5 changed the point’s standings from a tie to a second place finish!

Two Masters event bookended the days activities with Gabriele Schlicht AKA Tigress of Hardcore posting an 8:40 unofficially placing her third overall of all Female Masters!

Saturday
The prescription was validated on the second day of competition when Ndiya Nkongh PRed her squat clean by 20 pounds. Laura Demarco ran the entire 13 Bar gauntlet with every rep finishing overhead, she was the only Athlete all day to accomplish this. The similarities from Friday were friends, the outdoor basketball court and the roaring fans. What was unique were the 13 heavy bars athletes had to rotate through every 50 seconds, completing a rsquat clean with the option to jerk for bonus points. Women started at 120lb up to 180lb in 5lb increments the men pulled 215lbs to 335lb bars in 10lb increments.

The men moved some amazing weights Also. Rory Hanlin - the top male barely edged out Spencer Hendel by 1 Bonus lift. Both athletes looked as if they could have ran another bar in the series. Equally impressive was the third best finisher in this event. Travis Harrison pleased the crowd by holding 335lbs in the bend of his arms after it slipped from his hands while he was standing up the final clean. He then attempted to jump the weight up into the front rack position for a good lift. It was an amazing effort.

It was an amazing showing from all Dirty South athletes! Clean PRs, Overhead PRs, first Muscle-ups (actually the first 3 Muscle-ups for athlete Silke Vonsaalfeld)!

Affiliates had a true gut check Event as well. they had to flip a tire 50 meters before completing 200 team burpees (while jumping through the tire center).Then they returned with another 50m tire flip to finish. Was it mentioned that there were two tires per team. CF Delray Beach won the event and locked in the top team spot for the Saturday points standings.

The Masters finished their weekend with Chesty Cindy during the toughest part of the day - the 3:30 heat in Florida at that intensity is no small feat for any athletes!

Friday ran 2 Masters Events and 1 Affiliate Event.

Saturday ran 3 Individual Events, 1 Masters Event and 1 Affiliate Events.

Sunday will be 2 Affiliate Events and 2 Individual Events.

Top 4 Female as of Saturday:
1. Michelle Benedict
2. Jenni Orrr
3. Shana Alverson
4. Laura Demarco           

Top 4 Males as of Saturday:
1. Rich Froning
2. Mike Giardina
3. Spencer Hendel
4. Brandon Phillips           

Top 8 Affiliates as of Saturday:
1. CF Delray Beach
2. CF Local
3. CF Atlanta
4. CF Wilmington
5. Team CockDiesel
6. CF Southside
7. I AM CrossFit Miami
8. CrossFit Charlotte

Dirty South Out!