CrossFit Quarterfinals 2027

The Open is huge and the Semifinals are already elite. The Quarterfinals are the filter in between: the strongest people from the Open keep competing, but now “alongside others from their gym and in the community”, in CrossFit’s words, and in a much smaller pool.

The key point: Quarterfinals are not done at home or in a park, but at a CrossFit affiliate. And the standings of this stage decide who reaches the Semifinals.

The top 25% in the world from the Open, in the individual division and in each age group. You receive an invitation and must accept it and register; registration opens on 15 March.

If you qualify both as an individual and in your age group, you can compete in both with one registration fee and one set of programming. Left out of this stage: teams (they go from the Open to the Team Qualifiers) and Adaptive athletes (from the Adaptive Open to their own online Semifinals). For the National Championships this stage does count: Open → Quarterfinals → national event.

The competition window is 15 to 22 March 2027. Exact opening and closing times are to be confirmed. One practical detail: on 14 March 2027 the US moves to daylight saving time and Europe follows on 28 March, so for those two weeks the time difference with Pacific Time shifts. We won’t convert times until CrossFit publishes them.

You get one week to do the workouts at your affiliate and log your scores on Games.CrossFit.com. How many workouts and what validation applies in 2027 is to be confirmed.

For reference, this is how it worked in 2026 (2026 rulebook, not yet valid for 2027):

• Every workout had to be done at an affiliate, with a registered judge, and validated by the affiliate manager. Unvalidated scores were removed from the leaderboard.
• There were no scaled versions.
• Scores stayed hidden until the competition ended.
• Open rankings were reset: everyone started level.
• Registration cost US$50.
• Videos were requested from top scores for review, mainly because of prize money.

Athletes are ranked by the sum of their placings across workouts, as in the Open. In 2026, ties were broken by the best result in a single workout.

Advancing to the Semifinals: 2,000 men and 2,000 women in the individual division, and these quotas per age group.