Semifinal Announcements & A Rogue Invitational Workout Preview
Talking Elite Fitness
Tommy Marquez & Sean Woodland
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Nearly all of the 2026 CrossFit Games season has been announced after the dates and locations of the Semifinal qualifying events were announced along with a NEW twist of Masters athletes getting to compete in-person. Sean's in Scotland for the Rogue Invitational, and Tommy and Lauren breakdown the workouts that have been announced so far and give their best guess at some of the twists and elements that have yet to be revealed.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Talking Elite Fitness. |
| 0:03.9 | Sean Woodland is out in Scotland right now. |
| 0:06.7 | So while the dad is away, the kids will play. |
| 0:10.0 | Lauren Kille and Tommy Marquez here, we're going to be rolling our little rogue preview slash season preview now that we have some details today. |
| 0:20.1 | Plenty of interesting news to talk about because Masters will be having semi-finals for the first time. |
| 0:24.6 | But more on that in just a second. |
| 0:27.6 | Lauren, how are you doing? |
| 0:29.6 | Oh, I'm great. |
| 0:30.6 | I mean, Christmas really came early. |
| 0:33.6 | We have the Rogue Invitational this weekend, which is prime television time. I'm going to be |
| 0:39.8 | hosted up right over there with my popcorn with a little bevy. And then we also have the season |
| 0:46.0 | schedule. And the weather is looking perfect for Halloween. I was going to say, I thought |
| 0:53.9 | you, when you said Christmas was coming early, |
| 0:57.0 | I thought you like went all in on decorations at Costco or something like that. |
| 1:01.5 | I mean, you know, after Halloween, and I don't really decorate for Halloween, |
| 1:06.1 | I decorate for fall as like a season, but I don't decorate specifically for Halloween or Thanksgiving. |
| 1:15.7 | It kind of just goes like fall decor right into Christmas decor. So you know what? Maybe, |
| 1:21.0 | maybe while I'm watching the Rogue Invitational this weekend, who knows? The Christmas tree could come up. |
| 1:26.5 | I know Ariel Lohen would appreciate that. |
| 1:29.0 | And she just had a birthday. So I'm, I'm channeling her this weekend. |
| 1:35.1 | And a happy belated birthday to Ariel. Yeah, it's funny. You mentioned that about the weather because |
| 1:41.3 | our weather has been very, very bipolar. very bipolar oh yeah you said it was hot today |
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