It’s a foregone conclusion in CrossFit that the Central East is always the most dominant region hinging on past years dominance by males from that region at the CrossFit Games. The dominance of the Central East could realistically only be matched by California. California housed the original CrossFit gym, has seen a number of high places at Games in years past and perhaps has the most deeply embedded CrossFit culture. In fact, the officials at CrossFit HQ believe so deeply in the dominance of California that both Northern California (Hawaii included) and Southern California will send 20 individual participants to the California Super Regional. How realistic are these assumptions? CrossFit prides itself on constantly innovating and testing new ideas. Perhaps, it is time to take a look at redrawing Regional lines.

A couple of caveats to this weeks analysis:

This week is limited to only looking at CrossFit Open 16.1. Although the large sample sizes means we likely may be able to extrapolate further.

Males will be all that we look at this week, a female analysis will be saved for further weeks.

Data is used from Tuesday morning and may shift slightly as scores are validated

We will only look at the United States regionals

This is highly unscientific

This is what we will be looking at for this week:

The average score (in reps) of the top ten males in each region

What place would a score of 260 reps (10 rounds) be in that region

This gives us only two numbers to look at. But from that we should be able to see both what the numbers look like for the top echelon and also get an idea for the top end depth of each region.