I had to forgot about this kind of topic of the CrossFit Games is not CrossFit.

We should run them separately.

Competition doesn't just die because the CrossFit Games does or doesn't exist.

It happens at all levels all the time.

People are competitive by nature.

I think the future of the games should only have an outcome that supports and grows the community and the affiliates.

If there's decisions we're making or things we're changing that are hurting affiliates

or not helping the community, it's probably not a good decision.

All right.

We're here. We got a big crew, heavy hitters crew here. We got the Dave Castro on today. Thanks for joining us, Dave. Appreciate it as always. Yeah, you're very welcome. And then we got Seth Page here. Long time, how can I describe you? Longtime coach, affiliate owner, games athlete coach,

non-games athlete coach, misfit training, jump the ship, jump ship training, newly CrossFit

Athlete Council member. Is that how you guys are referred? I believe so. Very cool. Welcome to the show, guys.

We're going to take on a heated topic today. I think we got the right crew for this. I'm excited for this one. So let's get down to business here. I had like a preamble of how I wanted to slowly lead into this thing. And then the advice I was given was like just shut up and get to the point. It was funny. I had forgot about this topic of games versus CrossFit. Should they be separate entities? Are they different things? As the games diverge from the methodology? And then recently I stumbled on a pretty honk in Reddit post about this. Anyway, the person goes through all these items. Here's all the reasons why they should be separate. But then at the end, he said something like, and it was like, but CrossFit should still have enough control over the game so it like maintains its essence or something like that. And I'm like, well, then why the hell would you separate them? But I think what this comes down to, you know, critique we hear a lot of times is that the CrossFit games is not CrossFit. We should run them

separately. What does that even mean and what does that mean to you guys? I mean, there's a lot we

have to unpack here, but I think we should just start with that. Dave, you want to lead it off?

Yeah, but before I lead it off, I want to ask you, what do you think about the concept, Seth,

of the podcast coming back, the Sport

of Fitness podcast?

Awesome.

It's incredible.

I'm very excited about it.

I think that's one thing that's kind of been missing for some time as continued coverage

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