Team Quarterfinals: Who Qualified (Unofficial) & What the Leaderboard Tells Us

Team quarterfinals are over, the results have been published on CrossFit’s website and are still being reviewed before making them official, but it is safe to draw a few conclusions from the preliminary placing. Who was the dominant team in its continent, who was the best overall team, and why did Africa manage to sneak an extra team to the Semifinals?

CrossFit Mayhem Freedom changed three of the four athletes due to new rules regarding the Affiliate Cup and everybody was eager to know if this would become an obstacle. The team, led by Rich Froning, is the most successful in the CrossFit Games with four Affiliate Cup wins to date.

After the preliminary results have been posted, we can agree that Mayhem Freedom is the main contender to win this year’s championship once more. It finished 1^st in North America, and managed to get all five workouts in the top 5 in the continent.

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Compared to the rest of the world, CrossFit Mayhem Freedom also took first place overall. Workouts 2 and 5 were the best across the globe. The worst positioning was workout 1 that placed Rich Froning’s team 7^th in the world, while workout 4 saw the team lift the 5^th heaviest load and workout 3 with the 2^nd fastest time worldwide.

The Most Dominant In Its Continent – Team Quarterfinals

Although team Mayhem Freedom was the best overall in the United States and the world, the most dominant team was Eikestad Mighty Oaks from South Africa.

They might have finished 29^th in the world, but the team dominated in Africa. They managed to get the best results in the continent in workouts 1, 2, 3 and 5. Workout 4, where athletes had to front-squat for highest combined load, saw they lifting 1096 pounds, the second heaviest load in the continent.

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Team Quarterfinals’ Hardest Workout

We can assume that workout 2 was the hardest in this year’s Team Quarterfinals because only four teams managed to complete the workout in the entire world. Yes, you read it correctly. In the entire world, only four teams managed to finish the workout within the 25 minute time cap.

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Interestingly the four teams who managed to finish the workout are from North America: CrossFit Mayhem Freedom, i1uvit, Pro1 Montreal, Gold Standard Athletics.

Africa Sneaks One Extra Team Into Semifinals

When CrossFit first announced the road to the CrossFit Games, it was understood that every continent, except for Europe and North America, would have 20 teams qualified to the Semifinals, but that is not what happened to Africa.

Source: Courtesy of CrossFit Inc.

No, the teams did not cheat but rather got lucky, because the 20^th and 21^st team in the rank finished with exactly the same points. That means that both teams ended up in the 20^th position and should both be through to the Semifinals if there is no change in the leaderboard after CrossFit has reviewed all videos submitted.

Team FirstPower is from Kenya and Firebolt Dragons is from South Africa.

Team Quarterfinals Qualified to the Next Stage

The list is not official as CrossFit Inc still has to review all videos submitted. Nevertheless, here are the teams that qualified for the Semifinals this year.

North America

Europe

Africa

Asia

Oceania

South America