Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Talking Elite Fitness, Sean Woodland, Tommy Marquez,

Lauren Kalil, and the official friend of the show, Brian Friend, here with you as we continue to

barrel towards weekend number one of semifinals. And today, we are going to focus on the individual

competitions for the men and the women in North America East.

Obviously earlier this week, some big news happened with Mal O'Brien saying that she's not going to compete at semifinals.

If you're looking for our reaction on that, you can find it on YouTube.

The four of us went live on Tuesday afternoon to talk about that.

So today we're going to focus more on who is in the field for the men and for the women.

So let's just start with the women's side. Because I think coming in, you know, and Tommy

you and I talked about this, we said that, you know, you could have, you know, you could have the eventual

cross-of-game champion coming out of this semifinal. And, you know, that's still a possibility.

Like, this is still a very talented women's field. How many, is it, 12 spots that are up for grabs

here? 12 men, 11 women. 12 men, 11 it, 12 spots that are up for grabs here?

12 men, 11 women.

12 men, 11 women. So 11 for the women.

And we're going to do what we did for the team side of things. And we're going to sort of break these athletes down and put them into tiers.

All right. So our first tier, we're calling this the hardware store. These are athletes who are,

you know, they're feeling the pressure, but they are not concerned about not making it to Madison.

And if and when they do make it to Madison, they not only expect to do well, but also push for a

spot on the podium.

So obviously,

you know, Mal O'Brien leaves a big void there

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