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Who's on Top of the "Unofficial" Worldwide CrossFit Rankings?

November 6th, 2024

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Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up.

In today’s edition:

  • For the last two seasons, the CrossFit Games team has released a Worldwide Ranking based on its own scoring system. This year, the rankings were not updated after the Games, so Mike Halpin from Known & Knowable did it. Check the full top 100 list today. 

  • Despite being the top two women in the world of CrossFit, Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr and Laura Horvath have competed head-to-head a remarkably few times. What does history tell us happens when they have?

  • Today, we drop the second in a multi-part series highlighting longtime CrossFit affiliate owners and the advice they wish they had at the outset. Today’s topic is the evolution of affiliate programming.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“If the programming seems disjointed or you are changing the style often, the coaches will not be able to field the ‘why are we doing this?’ questions.” - Brett Wilson, co-owner of CrossFit Mill Street in Vienna, VA, on the importance of affiliate coaches buying into the gym’s programming.

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The Post-CrossFit Games Top 100 Worldwide Ranking – Gabriela Migała and Jeff Adler on Top

For the last two seasons, the CrossFit Games team has released a Worldwide Ranking (WWR) based on its own scoring system. 

  • The last update to the WWR was on June 5, 2024, shortly after the conclusion of the Semifinals.

With the withdrawals of Games athletes after Lazar Đukić’s death in Fort Worth, the rumors of a new season structure for 2025, and much of the community waiting on the results of the third-party investigation, there is every reason under the sun to explain why CrossFit hasn’t released an updated worldwide ranking since June.

That said, we went ahead and updated it for them — unofficially, of course.

Along with the last Top 100 Women and Top 100 Men that the CrossFit Games team released in the early summer, they also released a points matrix for the Semifinals and for the CrossFit Games.

  • The current official WWR and the points matrix can be found here.

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Tia Vs. Laura – What History Tells Us

Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr and Laura Horváth are the two best women CrossFitters in the world today. 

The two have combined to win all five Rogue Invitationals. 

  • Toomey-Orr won the first three competitions, while Horváth is the two-time defending champion. 

Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr has dominated the CrossFit Games in her career, with seven Fittest on Earth titles since 2017. 

  • The one year she didn’t compete, Laura Horváth took the title. Horváth also has three other podium finishes at the CrossFit Games in her career.

While these two women stand above the rest of the field, they have shared the competition floor surprisingly rarely. 

Looking Back

Before the 2024 Rogue Invitational, the two have only met on the competition floor nine times. The number drops to seven if you exclude the online competitions.

  • COVID-19 forced the 2020 Rogue Invitational and the first part of the 2020 CrossFit Games to be completed remotely.

Past Competitions

Comparing the head-to-head results, the two have only faced each other at the CrossFit Games (five times) and the Rogue Invitational (four times).

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WODs and Wisdom Series Part 2: 10-Plus Year Gym Owners Talk About the Evolution of CrossFit Programming

Editor’s Note: This is the second part in a multi-part series highlighting longtime CrossFit gym owners, their experiences over the past decade, and some advice they wish they had at the start. Click here for part one.

Constantly varied, functional movements performed at a high intensity. 

That’s the basic, barebones definition of CrossFit.

As someone who started CrossFit in 2008, I can say that programming at my affiliate in the early days perfectly reflected this definition. 

  • I showed up each day, hit whatever random, intense workout was written on the whiteboard, and went as hard as possible.

A year later, I started coaching at CrossFit Vancouver in British Columbia, the first affiliate in Canada.

All of our coaches shared the programming responsibilities. 

  • This meant we had a rotation, where each coach took on the programming for one week every six weeks.

We didn’t follow any system or adhere to any tried-and-true programming principles. We didn’t communicate with each other about our workout plans for the week. There were no coaches’ notes, accessory work, or talks about ensuring clients preserve the intended stimulus of the day.

Back then, the goal was often to crush people. Oddly enough, it actually kind of worked, and we had no trouble picking up clients from 2009 to 2011.

  • Somewhere along the way, though, we realized what we were doing wasn’t sustainable. It was too intense, too reckless, and ultimately just too random. 

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