How to Watch Open Announcement 24.1

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Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up.

In today’s edition:

• The Open is here! The Open Report with Mike Halpin from Known and Knowable drops today with important registration numbers updates and how they stack up historically.

• Teen champ Ty Jenkins ages up in 2024

• ROKA announces partnership with CrossFit Games and adds Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr to its athlete roster

• And, how to watch CrossFit Open Announcement 24.1

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“I feel really well-prepared. Last season, my goals shifted. I was already focusing on weaknesses to prepare for Individuals.” - Three-time Teen Games champ Ty Jenkins on transitioning from the teen age groups to the Individual (18-54) Division

CROSSFIT OPEN

The Open Report: Week 6 — It’s Here!

Days until the 2024 CrossFit Open: 0!

(Register for the Open now)

The Open is… NOW! We are zero days out!

We have arrived. The 2024 CrossFit Open starts on February 29, at 12 p.m. PT / 3 p.m. ET, with the announcement of 24.1 by Dave Castro. 

We are in the ramp-up period this week, and things are looking up.

That’s what I will be touching on today. Over on my Instagram, Known & Knowable, I have been tracking and posting a few data points (mostly) daily. First, the daily totals of the ‘Open Division’ (16-54-year-old men and women) and then the age group divisions that fall outside that 16-54 group (14-15 boys and girls and 55+ men and women).

That currently looks like this:

In week two of the Open Report, I touched on this comparison to 2022 and 2023 and how it didn’t give a good representation without a bunch of caveats. For example: 

• In 2023, registration started weeks to months earlier. 

• The 2023 Open started nearly two weeks earlier in February than 2022 and 2024. 

So, about halfway into our tracking window, I started adding in a better comparable year-over-year "Days Out" comparison. In short, I compared registration based on the relative start date of the Open itself rather than the calendar date from one year to the next. 

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SPEED READS

The Mayhem Athlete’s Everyday Hero Games are back! This year, the top two athletes from each division on the online portion will be invited to compete at Crossfit Mayhem for a one-day in-person team competition where they will name The Fittest Everyday Heroes.

• The online competition will run May 1-6, and the in-person competition takes place on June 22. Full details will be released following the Opn

🚨🚨 Syndicate Crown Community Event: Sweat before you spectate! The Syndicate Crown (North America East Semifinal) announces a new Community Event that will take place concurrently with the Semifinal Event on Friday, May 31 through Sunday, June 2.

• Community divisions will compete outside on Mary Costa Plaza located directly in front of the Knoxville Civic Coliseum.

• Registration will go live on Wednesday, February 28, at 12:00 p.m. ET.

• Pick your format (Solo, Team of 3, Pair) and division (Rx, Scaled, or Intermediate) and get signed up now. Each format is scheduled to compete on a different day, starting with “Solos” on Friday.

Bethany Flores is “UNBROKEN”: Check out the first episode of a two-part series giving a behind-the-scenes look into Bethany Flores’ Semifinals run in 2023, which culminated in her return to the CrossFit Games.

🎟️ 🎟️ Semifinals Spectator Tickets Available Now: Want to check out the top 40 men and women and top 30 teams in the North America West and Europe regions early this summer? Early Bird tickets are available now for both the French Throwdown and North America West.

Working with Larger Bodies Seminar and PRVN Fitness: Athena Perez and Scaled Nation will be joining PRVN Fitness at their new headquarters in Nashville, TN, to present the "Working with Larger Bodies" seminar. The event will occur on April 21, 2024, beginning at 9 AM. Register now!

ICYMI: How to be the ideal Open athlete — your coaches and gym owner will thank you.

MEMBER EXCLUSIVE

3-Time Teen Champion Ty Jenkins Ages Up, Prepares for the 2024 CrossFit Season

Out of the misty foothills and mountains of Branson, MO, a dominant young athlete has emerged in the teenage division — Ty Jenkins.

The youngster has taken first place at the CrossFit Games for the last three years across the 14-15 and 16-17 age divisions.

However, heading into the 2024 season, Jenkins has aged up into the individual division and is ready to compete against some of the biggest names in the sport.

CROSSFIT GAMES

ROKA Partners with CrossFit Games, Adds Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr to Athlete Roster

Eyewear and apparel brand ROKA has joined with CrossFit HQ to become an official partner for the 2024 CrossFit Games, the companies announced on Wednesday. 

Remind me: The 2024 CrossFit Games is being held in Fort Worth, TX, from Thursday, August 8 to Sunday, August 11. The first step to making the Games begins this week with CrossFit Open workout 24.1. 

ROKA was founded in 2013 in Austin, TX, and is known for its performance eyewear and wetsuits, among other performance gear. The brand has gained traction in the CrossFit space by adding several notable Games-level athletes to its athlete roster, including Brooke Wells, Laura Horvath, Chandler Smith, and Noah Ohlsen. 

Along with the Games partnership announcement, ROKA has also announced that it is adding six-time CrossFit Games winner Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr to that list. This will be the first season Toomey-Orr will be back on the competition floor after giving birth to her daughter Willow. 

• “This year, we’re excited to expand our impact in the fitness community and provide CrossFit athletes with the best performance eyewear and swimwear for training and competition,” Rob Canales, co-founder and CEO of ROKA, said in a press release. 

• Don Faul, CEO of CrossFit, added: “Built by athletes, for athletes, ROKA is the perfect fit for the CrossFit community. We’re incredibly excited to welcome them as a partner for the 2024 season!”

• “I have been wearing ROKA sunnies for years through my training and competition,” Toomey-Orr said. “Not only do they look good and have great styles but they are light and feel secure on my head when performing all the activities I do on a daily basis.” 

As a part of this partnership, ROKA is also launching two giveaways. 

• The first giveaway is a chance to work out with Toomey-Orr at the CrossFit Games, plus a pair of ROKA sunglasses. 

• The second is a weekly giveaway of 100 pairs of ROKA sunglasses each week of the 2024 CrossFit Open. 

Registration for the giveaways can be found here.

CROSSFIT GAMES

How to Watch CrossFit Open Announcement 24.1

The first live CrossFit Open workout announcement of the 2024 season is coming in hot on Thursday, February 29, on the official CrossFit YouTube channel. And we’ve got all the details you need to know heading into the event:

• Open Announcement 24.1 is presented by Momentous, the Official Sports Nutrition Partner of CrossFit, and will take place in Pleasanton, CA, at CrossFit Pleasanton.

• The 2023 Fittest Man on Earth, Jeffrey Adler, will take on his friend and fellow Canadian, Brent Fikowski. 

• On the women’s side, two young stars who finished only 15 points apart on the 2023 CrossFit Games leaderboard, Alex Gazan and Alexis Raptis, will battle it out.

• The 24.2 announcement takes place on March 7 at CrossFit Shred Shed in Boise, ID, and will feature a head-to-head battle between Justin Medeiros and Colten Mertens.

• The 24.3 announcement features Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr competing against Arielle Loewen. 

• Tune in to the CrossFit Games website or CrossFit YouTube channel for the live 24.1 workout announcement on Thursday, February 29, at 12 p.m. PT. As always, the Morning Chalk Up will provide workout strategy guides and full leaderboard coverage and analysis as events unfold.

  Morning Chalk Up will also publish details on the next two workout announcements in the coming weeks.

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• 🧟‍♂️Nice work to weightlifting coach Sonny Webster on the 170-kilo/374-pound zombie clean into a squat jerk.

• Great job to Ayoke, of Core City CrossFit in Detroit, MI, who is getting ready for her first CrossFit Open. 

• Congratulations to Stephanie from CrossFit High Gear in Medina, OH, on her first ring muscle-up.

• Congratulations to Alijah from CrossFit Next Fight in France on the 33 strict pull-ups. 

• 🐾Good job to Dave and Matt from CrossFit Tolland in Tolland, CT, on their innovative warm-up.