The 2025 CrossFit Open has ended — and now, the full prize pool comes into focus.
In complete, 235,524 athletes registered for this 12 months’s CrossFit Open, based mostly on reporting pulled simply after the shut of exercise 25.3. This equates to a complete prize pool of $2,355,240.
- I’ll clarify what meaning for the Fittest on Earth, the Affiliate Cup Champion, and all prize winners in a second.
At an estimated $2,355,240, the 2025 Video games season prize purse is the bottom to start out a season since 2016’s $2.2 million complete, which was sponsored by Reebok.
- A caveat: The 2020 prize purse was to be over $3 million, however resulting from adjustments to the season, due partially to the pandemic, the purse ended up being $1.8M for the person competitors that occurred. It broke down as $500,000 for sixth by means of twentieth place and $1.3 million for first by means of fifth place within the in-person remaining in Aromas, CA.
Large Takeaways
- Half of the $4,710,480 raised by means of Open registrations will go to the prize purse and half to CrossFit LLC.
- The prize purse is $2,355,240, which is the bottom for the reason that 2016 season.
- In accordance with Uncover Albany, there is no such thing as a incentive program for CrossFit like there was in Fort Value.
- The remaining $2,355,240 from Open registration will seemingly comprise the working funds for the CrossFit Video games, a considerably decrease quantity than in recent times.
When CrossFit introduced that it might cut up Open registration and that fifty% would comprise the Video games prize purse, I wrote the following:
- “One huge factor: CrossFit is betting huge on group backing as they may now fund the prize purse for the season based mostly upon 50% of each $20 Open registration charge.”
It was a giant wager.
Now, two months later, was it well worth the gamble? Did CrossFit LLC have a alternative?
What In regards to the Different 50%?
Earlier than we talk about the 50% that makes up the 2025 CrossFit Video games season prize pool, let’s contact on the opposite 50% that goes to CrossFit LLC.
As a non-public firm, that cash allocation is fully as much as them, however it’s vital to notice the latest previous and potential future for CrossFit.
Final week, Don Faul, CEO of CrossFit LLC, confirmed the rumors that CrossFit LLC is up for sale from Berkshire Partners.
Whereas potential, it’s unlikely that adjustments to Video games funding will happen whereas a sale is open and ongoing. Nonetheless, a possible new proprietor might purchase the corporate and sweeten the pot in the event that they selected to both add to the prize pool or improve the Video games and protection. In fact, that may depend upon the sale being finalized within the subsequent 5 months.
In earlier seasons, CrossFit LLC is estimated to have earned the next from Open registration:
Be aware: This calculation relies on complete registration numbers multiplied by the $20 USD Open registration charge.
That is only for the Open. Within the final 4 seasons, CrossFit additionally had the Quarterfinals, which was an invitation-only second stage of competitors for the highest 10% of Open finishers from 2021 by means of 2023 and the highest 25% in 2024.
In these 4 seasons, CrossFit introduced in a complete of $5.67 million, which broke out to:
Be aware: This calculation relies on complete registration numbers multiplied by the corresponding Quarterfinal registration charges for every division.
The entire quantity earned by way of registration this 12 months is $4,710,480, down from $6,869,920 for Open registration and $2,228,250 for Quarterfinals registration in calendar 12 months 2024.
That was over $9 million in pre-Semifinals registration charges. In 2025, that complete is right down to $4.71 million.
And 50% of that goes to the prize purse.
Not like earlier seasons, from the early 2010s by means of final 12 months, this season doesn’t have a presenting sponsor or a prize purse sponsor.
- This 12 months, the prize sponsor is you, the Open group.
Prize sponsorship might change between now and August when the CrossFit Video games happen in Albany, NY.
Talking of the host metropolis: In 2024, the town of Fort Value and the state of Texas, by means of the state’s Occasion Belief Fund Program, signed an settlement with Visit Fort Worth and CrossFit LLC to pay $773,731.00 to host the Video games in Fort Value, TX.
- The town of Fort Value would pay $106,722.00, and the state of Texas would fund $667,009.00.
The settlement, which Morning Chalk Up acquired by means of FOIA request, between the town of Fort Value, Go to Fort Value, and CrossFit states that the funds will go towards bills incurred from holding the ultimate occasion within the host metropolis, together with:
“Promoting and advertising promotions, Awards for the Occasion, Rental value, Emergency medical technician/ Medic providers, and Bills associated to well being screening and security protocols for the occasion.”
As of this text’s publication, the newest Texas Financial Improvement & Tourism Workplace Event Trust Awarding report reveals $0.00 paid to CrossFit and Go to Fort Value (excel report dated 2/28/25):
For 2025, Discover Albany, the tourism group that helped carry the Video games to Albany, confirmed that it’s not conscious of incentives for internet hosting the Video games in upstate New York.
Jay Cloutier, Uncover Albany’s Sports activities Commissioner, advised the Morning Chalk Up, “Uncover Albany shouldn’t be conscious of any incentives being supplied to CrossFit for internet hosting [the 2025 CrossFit Games] in our Vacation spot.”
- He continued: “The Group at massive, by means of the LOC (native organizing committee), is working arduous to rally current service assets to give attention to guaranteeing a protected, profitable Video games and facilitating the local people’s enjoyment of the video games with out interruption to the conventional ongoing actions inside our vibrant group.”
Whereas there was no presenting sponsor like Reebok or NOBULL in 2024, CrossFit introduced that attire sponsors GORUCK and Northern Spirit would fund the prize purse.
If the Video games is with out funding from the host metropolis, a prize purse sponsor, and is now utilizing 50% Open registration funding for the prize purse, the place would the cash come from to host the Finals of the CrossFit Video games season?
That is the gamble.
With 50% of Open registration going to CrossFit LLC, this pot of cash will seemingly fund the CrossFit Video games, together with contributions from the eleven sponsors presently listed as occasion companions, together with Rogue Health and america Border Patrol.
CrossFit has, nonetheless, moved some funding allocations off their books for 2025 and added a further alternative within the Community Cup for all of the group to fund the Video games.
The opposite qualifying parts of competitors for the Particular person and Group divisions transfer on-line or are being hosted by In-Particular person Occasion organizers. Dave Castro acknowledged on his Week in Review (3/17/25) that the Group Cup registration is not going to go towards prizes however will fund the Video games and “every thing else we do.”
- “For the Group Cup,” Castro stated, “that cash isn’t going to prizes like [the Open]. That’s simply serving to facilitate and placed on all the opposite issues and the Video games primarily and every thing else we do.”
Is $2.35M sufficient base to placed on “the final word proving grounds for the Fittest on Earth”?
The 50% Prize Pool
The opposite gamble by CrossFit was placing out hypothetical numbers.
There was no requirement to do that, and it could have athletes questioning why they have been advised a prize quantity that wouldn’t come to be.
- We even noticed Dave Castro’s Instagram post calculating what the prize purse can be and stating 250,000 registrants is “extra reasonable, hope it’s larger than that.”
It didn’t hit. This was the large wager that went to the below.
In Appendix F: Prize Money Distribution, HQ calculated the division prize purses for the 2025 season through the use of 300,000 hypothetical members for instance.
With 64,476 fewer registrants, it seems the rulebook will must be up to date, and quantities that have been acknowledged in January must be edited right down to align with actuality in March.
Primarily based on Open registration, right here is the prize purse breakdown:
Be aware: Earlier than we get too far into it, all calculations are based mostly on Appendix F within the 2025 CrossFit Video games Rulebook. The CrossFit Video games crew will finalize and formally announce them.
Particular person – CrossFit Video games Prizes
The CrossFit Video games Particular person competitors could have a complete prize purse of $1,154,067.60 to crown the Fittest on Earth. The lads’s and ladies’s divisions could have matching complete prizes of $577,033.80, with $288,516.90 going to the Fittest on Earth and $57,703.38 and $46,162.70 going to second and third place.
First place by means of twentieth place for the People will seem like this:
| Placement | 2025 | 2024 | YoY Distinction |
| 1st | $288,516.90 | $315,000 | -$26,483.10 |
| 2nd | $57,703.38 | $125,000 | -$67,296.62 |
| third | $46,162.70 | $85,000 | -$38,837.30 |
| 4th | $40,392.37 | $60,000 | -$19,607.63 |
| fifth | $20,196.18 | $45,000 | -$24,803.82 |
| sixth | $15,579.91 | $40,000 | -$24,420.09 |
| seventh | $14,425.85 | $35,000 | -$20,574.15 |
| eighth | $12,694.74 | $32,000 | -$19,305.26 |
| ninth | $12,117.71 | $29,000 | -$16,882.29 |
| tenth | $11,540.68 | $26,000 | -$14,459.32 |
| eleventh | $9,809.57 | $20,000 | -$10,190.43 |
| twelfth | $8,655.51 | $18,000 | -$9,344.49 |
| thirteenth | $6,924.41 | $15,000 | -$8,075.59 |
| 14th | $6,347.37 | $14,000 | -$7,652.63 |
| fifteenth | $5,770.34 | $13,000 | -$7,229.66 |
| sixteenth | $5,193.30 | $12,000 | -$6,806.70 |
| seventeenth | $4,616.27 | $11,000 | -$6,383.73 |
| 18th | $4,039.24 | $10,000 | -$5,960.76 |
| nineteenth | $3,462.20 | $9,000 | -$5,537.80 |
| twentieth | $2,885.17 | $8,000 | -$5,114.83 |
| twenty first | $0.00 | $7,000 | -$7,000.00 |
| twenty second | $0.00 | $6,750 | -$6,750.00 |
| twenty third | $0.00 | $6,500 | -$6,500.00 |
| twenty fourth | $0.00 | $6,250 | -$6,250.00 |
| twenty fifth | $0.00 | $6,000 | -$6,000.00 |
| twenty sixth | $0.00 | $5,750 | -$5,750.00 |
| twenty seventh | $0.00 | $5,500 | -$5,500.00 |
| twenty eighth | $0.00 | $5,250 | -$5,250.00 |
| twenty ninth | $0.00 | $5,000 | -$5,000.00 |
| thirtieth | $0.00 | $4,750 | -$4,750.00 |
Group – CrossFit Video games Prizes
For the Affiliate Cup Championship (Groups Division), the profitable affiliate will obtain $70,657.20,, and second and third place will obtain $47,104.80 and $35,328.60, respectively.
First place by means of twentieth place for the groups will seem like this:
| Placement | 2025 | 2024 | YoY Distinction |
| 1st | $70,657.20 | $100,000 | -$29,342.80 |
| 2nd | $47,104.80 | $75,000 | -$27,895.20 |
| third | $35,328.60 | $45,000 | -$9,671.40 |
| 4th | $16,486.68 | $30,000 | -$13,513.32 |
| fifth | $8,243.34 | $25,000 | -$16,756.66 |
| sixth | $6,359.15 | $15,000 | -$8,640.85 |
| seventh | $5,888.10 | $12,000 | -$6,111.90 |
| eighth | $5,181.53 | $9,000 | -$3,818.47 |
| ninth | $4,946.00 | $6,000 | -$1,054.00 |
| tenth | $4,710.48 | $3,000 | $1,710.48 |
| eleventh | $4,003.91 | $0 | $4,003.91 |
| twelfth | $3,532.86 | $0 | $3,532.86 |
| thirteenth | $2,826.29 | $0 | $2,826.29 |
| 14th | $2,590.76 | $0 | $2,590.76 |
| fifteenth | $2,355.24 | $0 | $2,355.24 |
| sixteenth | $2,119.72 | $0 | $2,119.72 |
| seventeenth | $1,884.19 | $0 | $1,884.19 |
| 18th | $1,648.67 | $0 | $1,648.67 |
| nineteenth | $1,413.14 | $0 | $1,413.14 |
| twentieth | $1,177.62 | $0 | $1,177.62 |
Associates Prize Purse (New for 2025)
New this 12 months, Crossfit can be awarding prizes for the highest associates within the type of Rogue Health present playing cards, every of which is $2,500.
Participation relies on complete registrations by means of 25.3 in every competitors area, and efficiency relies on the top-performing affiliate groups in every competitors area. An affiliate can not win each participation and efficiency prizes.
The entire allocation appears to be like to be:
- The highest 94 taking part associates every get a $2,500 Rogue Health present card.
- The highest 94 efficiency associates every get a $2,500 Rogue Health present card.
The entire allocation is unfold over the seven aggressive areas with round 13-14 winners in every area: North America East, North America West, Europe, South America, Oceania, Asia, and Africa.
Open Prize Purse
General Finishers – $58,881.00
- 1st Place – $14,720.25
- 2nd Place – $8,832.15
- third Place – $5,888.10
Particular person Weekly Performances – $58,881.00
- 1st Place – $4,906.75
- 2nd Place – $2,944.05
- third Place – $2,747.78
In-Affiliate (On-line) Semifinal
- 1st Place – $8,832.15
- 2nd Place – $4,239.43
- third Place – $3,886.15
- 4th Place – $3,532.86
- fifth Place – $3,179.57
- sixth Place – $2,826.29
- seventh Place – $2,473.00
- eighth Place – $2,119.72
- ninth Place – $1,766.43
- tenth Place – $1,413.14
- eleventh Place – $1,059.86
Masters and Adaptive Prize Purse
At the moment, CrossFit, Legends, and WheelWOD haven’t launched the breakdown of prize cash allocation for first by means of third in every of their divisions.
Their complete allocation based mostly on registration on the time of the 25.3 submission deadline is:
- Masters – $235,524.00
- Adaptive – $70,657.20
Prize pool allocation calculation supplied by Fran Lung Analytics.
Open Report – Weekly Replace 8
The information beneath is updated by means of the submission deadline of Week 3 on March 17 at 8:10 p.m. ET.
Primarily based on Age Group Divisions
Primarily based on Aggressive Area
Previous 4 Years – Worm Chart
- The chart above, which is a year-over-year comparability chart counting right down to the submission date for XX.1, now has 2023 knowledge in addition to 2022. Be aware: 2022 solely contains the ‘Open’ division, not the 14-15 or 55+ age group divisions or Adaptive divisions.
We could have yet one more Open Report subsequent week, which is able to give attention to 5 the explanation why the group didn’t register for the 2025 Open.
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