TYR WZA 2025 Starts...Now

January 23rd, 2025

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Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up competition edition.

In today’s edition:

  • TYR Wodapalooza 2025 is here, and we've got everything you need to stay up to date.

  • Who will win in Miami Beach? We asked the experts. Check out our consensus picks below.

  • Is there a Last Chance Qualifier this year? We lay out the evidence below, including a recent leak from Cookeville.

COMPETITIONS

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2025 TYR Wodapalooza Day 1 — Lay of the Land

Thursday kicks off the first day of the 2025 TYR Wodapalooza competition in its new location, right on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach, FL. 

  • The four-day fitness festival will begin with Elite Individuals competing on Thursday and Friday, followed by Elite Teams of Three on Saturday and Sunday. The competition for community members will also begin on Friday.

Now in its 13th year, TYR WZA welcomes over 2,000 athletes competing in 55 divisions. The total prize, nearing $600,000, matches the highest it's ever been

How to stay in the know: 

Today's top stories: Stay up to date on key stories as they develop.

What they’re saying: In an interview with Morning Chalk Up, Dylan Malitsky, Loud and Live’s Vice President of Sports and Managing Director of TYR WZA Miami and TYR WZA SoCal, noted that he hopes Miami Beach will become the long-term home of TYR Wodapalooza and wants to help it grow into an even larger space.

  • “The event is going to be between 6th and 10th Street on the beach, on Ocean Drive on the sand,” Malitsky told Morning Chalk Up. “This just opens up the playbook for us to really ideate and create this thing exactly as we see fit. [With] Bayfront Park, we were sort of locked into a certain type of logistical flow.” 

Thursday's Schedule of Events

Below is the schedule for the TYR Wodapalooza, Day 1. 

The events will be live-streamed on Loud and Live’s YouTube. Here is a direct link to the live stream for the Individual Elite Divisions on Thursday. Also, be sure to keep an eye on Morning Chalk Up's Instagram for more live coverage.

  • Elite Individual Event 1: Two Rounds Too Many – 7:00 a.m. PT | 10:00 a.m. ET | 3:00 p.m. GMT

  • Elite Individual Event 2: The Ocean Drive Drag Race – 8:46 a.m. PT | 11:46 a.m. ET | 4:46 p.m. GMT

  • Elite Individual Event 3: High Stakes, Tight Ropes -- 11:40 a.m. PT | 2:40 p.m. ET | 7:40 p.m. GMT

  • Reps Ahead Pro 6: – 3:00 p.m. PT | 6:00 p.m. ET | 11:00 p.m. GMT  

Workout Descriptions 

Individual Event 1: Two Rounds Too Many, Reign Total Body Fuel Sandbox

2 Rounds For Time:

  • 50/40 cal bike

  • 1000-meter run

  • 150 box step or jump overs, 20-inches across

* Round 1 – with vest | Round 2 – without vest

Individual Event 2: The Ocean Drive Drag Race, Reign Total Body Fuel Sandbox

For Time:

  • 21/18 cal row

  • 21 toes-to-bar

  • sled drag

1-minute rest

  • 18/15 cal row

  • 18 toes-to-bar

  • sled drag

1-minute rest

  • 15/12 cal row

  • 15 toes-to-bar

  • sled drag

Sled Weights

  • Round 1 – Light

  • Round 2 – Medium

  • Round 3 – Heavy

For Time:

  • 75 VELITES heavy double-unders

  • 90-foot handstand walk

  • 21 wall-facing handstand push-ups

  • Each arm: 12 single-arm dumbbell snatch + 12-meter single-arm overhead dumbbell lunge, 100/70 pounds

  • 6/4 legless rope climbs

  • Each arm: 12 single-arm dumbbell snatch + 12-meter single-arm overhead dumbbell lunge, 100/70 pounds

  • 21 wall-facing handstand push-ups

  • 90-foot handstand walk

  • 75 VELITES heavy double-unders

Reps Ahead Pro 6, TYR Arena 

Undercard

  • Khan Porter vs. Riley Humrighouse

  • Lena Richter vs. Jessi Smith

Main Card

  • Dallin Pepper vs. Jayson Hopper

  • Alex Gazan vs. Emma Lawson

Sequence – “Moe” 

  • 7 cal Echo Bike

  • 40-foot handstand walk (every 5 feet = 1 rep for 8 total reps)

  • 7 heavy sandbag-to-shoulder, 150/100 pounds

* 2:30 on, 1:00 minute off for 4 rounds max
* 8 reps ahead, or leader after 4 rounds wins

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COMPETITIONS

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Who Will Win at 2025 TYR Wodapalooza? We Asked a Team of Experts for Their Predictions

The 2025 TYR Wodapalooza, the first major event of the year, is upon us, and with it comes our first chance to see elite athletes in action. 

  • We reached out to some of the experts in the field to attempt the improbable, if not impossible, task of predicting the outcome. 

We independently ranked the women, men, and teams based on where we believe they will finish this week. 

  • We mostly agreed at the top of the leaderboard. In fact, all eight of us ranked Laura Horvath first. 

No surprise there. 

However, it quickly got interesting as we made our way down the leaderboard. 

Will Horvath dominate as we all expect? Can Ricky Garard pull off the three-peat? We will undoubtedly witness plenty of surprises as athletes work to make a name for themselves. 

The analysts/experts we reached out to included:

  • Tommy Marquez, Talking Elite Fitness. 

  • Dave Charlton, Fran Lung Analytics

  • Brian Friend, BFriendly Fitness

  • Mike Halpin, Known & Knowable

  • Julia Papworth, Morning Chalk Up, and The Fantasy Footballers

  • John Young, Barbell Spin

  • Patrick Clark (PC), BFriendly Fitness

  • Scotty Freymond, Morning Chalk Up

We wanted to take this opportunity to gather some juicy educated guesses from some of the top analysts and squeeze them into one list. 

Was the juice worth the squeeze? 

CROSSFIT GAMES

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A Third Pathway to the 2025 CrossFit Games Leaked: Last Chance Qualifier

Just when we thought we might finally know all of the details of the 2025 CrossFit Games season qualification process, another wrinkle has been leaked: One final man and one final woman will have the opportunity to earn their invite to the 2025 Games through a “Last-Chance Qualifier.” (Well, we think that’s the case, at least.) 

We reached out for specific details and an official statement from CrossFit LLC but did not receive a response before publishing. However, Rich Froning leaked the details on Monday during a conversation with Rory McKernan on the CrossFit Mayhem podcast.

  • “Yeah, they’re doing a Last-Chance Qualifier this year, too,” Froning said. McKernan seemed to back up this claim.

After that, there was an awkward moment before Froning added, “I don’t know if that’s announced [yet] but I’m pretty sure…Whoops.”

Remind Me

Before this news, it appeared there were two ways to earn one of the 30 invites to the CrossFit Games this summer in Albany, NY.

  • The In-Affiliate Semifinals 

  • In-Person Qualifying Events (IPQE) 

Eighteen men and 18 women will qualify through one of the 10 IPQEs to be held around the world between April and June. All of these are either invitationals or have their own online qualifiers, and it seemed the other 12 would then earn their invites through the In-Affiliate Semifinals.

But wait, we noticed something wasn’t adding up.

CrossFit’s 2025 Rulebook states that the top 11 men and women at Semifinals will earn a cash prize, depending on the number of Open registrations.

  • And, on his Week in Review, Director of the CrossFit Games Dave Castro said all CrossFit Games Semifinals qualifiers will receive a cash prize.

So either Castro was wrong, or the Rulebook was wrong, or there was another event CrossFit hadn’t yet released.