Death By: Episode 36 - Goodbye Semifinal Regions?
Talking Elite Fitness
Tommy Marquez & Sean Woodland
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Death By, Lauren Kalil and the contestants discuss if CrossFit should do away with regions for Semifinals, if they love or hate floor plans for the Open, and if the Open will have more or less than 4 scored tests.
Our contestants include Ellia Miller, Matt Torres, and Tommy Marquez.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody and welcome to another episode of Death Buy, where contestants will earn reps for their arguments for a chance to stand on top of the podium pedestal. |
| 0:08.2 | I am your host, Lauren Kalil. |
| 0:10.1 | Whoever I decide has the best argument through the final round will earn 30 seconds to talk about a topic of their choosing. |
| 0:17.5 | On today's episode, we have CrossFit semifinals athlete, Aaliyah Miller, owner of |
| 0:23.3 | brute strength, Matt Torres, and our very own Tommy Marquez filling in on the show today. |
| 0:33.1 | It's going to be a good one. Lots of fun on this show. Let's play death by. |
| 0:40.1 | Topic number one, a handful of athletes are in the process of applying for competition |
| 0:45.5 | region exemptions. |
| 0:47.0 | If an athlete resides in a region outside of their country of citizenship and they believe |
| 0:52.7 | that they may advance to the in-person |
| 0:55.1 | semi-final stage, they can petition CrossFit for an exemption to be placed in a different |
| 1:00.4 | competition region. The most notable example currently in the news, Ellie Turner, who requested |
| 1:06.4 | to compete in North America rather than Australia, her country of citizenship was denied. |
| 1:12.3 | But looking at the bigger picture, should CrossFit do away with regions for semifinals? |
| 1:18.6 | And if so, what is a better format? |
| 1:21.6 | Matt Torres, we are going to let you start round one. |
| 1:26.1 | So I think that the regional format is good for the fans that want to, you know, |
| 1:31.9 | cheer on the athletes that live in their country. I think where they fall short on this is, |
| 1:38.7 | are the top 40 men and women in the world making it to the cross-a-game. So this is the part that I'm saying they need to improve upon. |
| 1:46.6 | So it doesn't matter if they want to make it a spectacle and get athletes in the |
| 1:49.6 | regional is great. |
| 1:50.6 | But the real question becomes, you know, is countries or continents like Asia and Africa, |
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