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  • July 28, 2023By Mike Halpin

    In the last few months, The Barbell Spin has solidified a process that has been occasionally used in previous Games seasons, polling selective CrossFit media to rank the top athletes in the sport. Inspired by various polls in NCAA College Sports, the idea emerged to create a new opportunity for polling individuals who possess extensive

  • July 26, 2023By Brian

    Image Credits: CrossFit LLC If you have been following along over the last couple weeks with our: Male Athlete Spotlights Female Athlete Spotlight You’ll have noticed that we have regularly been referring to each athlete’s performance against the field of 2023 Games qualifiers. Well, here is the document which shows their results all stacked up against

  • July 15, 2023By Mike Halpin

    Image Credits: CrossFit LLC Much has been said and discussed on the initial offering of the NOBULL CrossFit Games Worldwide Ranking System. BrianFriend, myself and others have talked for hours and taken deep dives breaking down and analyzing its usefulness, the points that athletes can earn and the two year look-back process vs. starting fresh.   In

  • June 26, 2023By Brian

    **Contributions by Barclay Dale, Brian Friend, and Mike Halpin** Image Credits: Athlete’s Eye If you missed part one of this two part series you can find it here. This two-part series is a collection of findings we’ve observed after filtering through cross-semifinal leaderboards for a couple weeks. We acknowledged certain disclaimers in part one about what

  • May 29, 2023By Brian

    Image Credit: Athlete’s Eye Europe and Asia Final week of Semifinals! For the men, week 3 will see the final 13 qualifying spots to the 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games distributed; 11 spots are allocated to the European men’s field, and 2 spots are allocated to the men in Asia. Asia Men’s Field Nearly all the men

  • May 15, 2023By Brian

    Photo Credit – Athlete’s Eye Africa and North America East Semifinals Games spots for teams were determined prior to the season with no intention or effort to evaluate the competitive field of play. Week 1 of Semifinals has 11 available qualifying spots for teams, 10 spots are allocated to the North America East field, and

  • May 15, 2023By Brian

    Photo Credit – Fittest in Cape Town Africa and North America East Semifinals For the men, week 1 of SemiFinals has 13 available qualifying spots for the NOBULL CrossFit Games this summer, 12 spots are allocated to the North America East field, and one spot is available in Africa.  Africa Men’s Field I think we

  • April 30, 2023By Brian

    Image Credit - Athlete’s Eye I’ve been creating my own power rankings for the sport of CrossFit for nearly a decade. It began as a means to try to beat my friends in a version of fantasy CrossFit that I created leading into the 2014 CrossFit Games (Mat Fraser was a sleeper pick that year). 

  • April 29, 2023By Brian

    Image Credit - Athlete’s Eye If you did not see our Men’s Power Rankings article, check it out!  I’ve been creating my own power rankings for the sport of CrossFit for nearly a decade. It began as a means to try to beat my friends in a version of fantasy CrossFit that I created leading

  • April 28, 2023By Brian

    Image Credit - PRVN Fitness It’s difficult to do a Power Rankings for teams any earlier in the season than this. Given the rules about who can participate and contribute and be listed on a teams roster in the early stages of the season it isn’t really until Semifinals, the qualifying stage to the Games,

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