Crossfit Regionals Week 2 Recap

So Week 2 of the Crossfit Games Regionals we had the Mid-Atlantic, Norcal, Canada East, and Europe. In my opinion probably the most competitive of all the regionals. This weekend's regionals had everyone talking about one guy, A.J. Moore.

Mid-Atlantic

- A.J. Moore finished 1, 2, 2, 30, 2, 6. His 30th place finish in the 100s workout (it should be officially called that) is definitely an outlier. Apparently he had 59 missed reps on his kettlebell swings during this workout and there is video evidence of this. You be the judge.

My 2 cents: Sure, some of them shouldn't have counted but given the context of the situation, as a judge, you need to balance being strict but also give some leeway according to how your other fellow judges are judging the other athletes. If the other judges are being more lenient and letting things slide, you should back off a bit also. I can understand 10 no-reps, maybe even 20. But 60 no-reps when you have to do 100 total? I think that's a little too harsh.

- There is now a campaign to get A.J. Moore to the Games, and deservedly so cause he would be a beast in Cali.

- Ben Smith won the last 3 workouts, look out for him. Current prediction: Definitely top 10

Norcal

- Maybe the most stacked regional of all the regionals. We have 5 athletes in this regionals who were in last year's games and they finished 1-5, duh.

- Jason Khalipa dominated the weekend

- Neal Maddox gets to go to the Games because Khalipa gets a free pass for being a previous Games champ.

- Too bad, Big Dawg, Joey Warren just missed out. If he was in any other regional, he woulda made it

- On the girl's side, big ups for 30 some-odd year old Annie Sakamoto for qualifying. Old School.

Canada East

- I don't think any of the men who qualified will be big contenders this year. They should've combined Canada as one regional again this year. It would've been interesting to see how that would have turned out with 4 guys qualifying. I haven't checked the numbers but all 4 guys potentially could've been from out west.

- Camille (F'n hottest badass chick in Crossfit) Leblanc-Bazinet completely annihilated the competition. She won every event except for a third place finish in the last workout which she probably could also have won if she wanted to. She is a force to be reckoned with. At this rate, wouldn't be surprised to see a top 5 finish from her at the Games.

Europe

- Outstanding performances for Tuomas Vainio but he can't do muscle ups well so that's his Achilles heal

- The other Mikko needs an extra year to be truly competitive.

- Annie dominated to nobody's surprise and it will be damn fun to watch her and Kristin battle it out at the Home Depot Center. Can any woman challenge these 2? Camille? Becky Conzelmen? Angie Pie? We'll see....

Next week, we'll have Central East, North West, South West, and Asia doing battle. Until next time.