Score Submission and Validation Pathways

Score Submission Pathways

The 2022 NOBULL CrossFit Games Open will feature three distinct ways to get your score on the board — two that will be familiar to anyone who has done the Open in the past and one new way to play.

What's New
Completing your workout under the direct, in-person observation of a registered judge is a new path to score submission/validation in 2022. A registered judge is someone who has completed the 2022 Online Judges Course.

Why the Change?

The CrossFit Games team wanted to make the Open more accessible to athletes who are:

• Training in garages and home gyms

• Working out at school and work clubs that do not have affiliation

• Part of nonprofit groups without affiliation

• Prevented from visiting their box due to gym closures

What's Returning

As always, joining the community at an affiliate will be one of the best Open experiences you can have. Completing each workout at an affiliate will be the primary score submission path for most athletes. After you complete each workout, your affiliate manager will validate your score.

Video submission provides another great way to participate in the Open. Those outside the affiliate system can record their workout and submit a link to their video when they submit their score.

Score Visibility

What’s New

This season, scores submitted during the Open will be immediately visible on the worldwide leaderboard. This is particularly important for athletes completing their workouts at an affiliate; your score will be visible before your affiliate manager has completed the final validation.

After the affiliate manager score validation deadline (Wednesdays at 5 p.m. PT), any unvalidated scores will be removed from the leaderboard.

Why the Change?

After listening to feedback from last season, we found many athletes within affiliates expressed their enjoyment of the Open was hampered because their scores were not validated early enough. Since the validation window (Wednesdays at 5 p.m. PT) extends beyond the score submission window (Mondays at 5 p.m. PT), many athletes were not able to see their efforts reflected on the leaderboard next to their peers while the competition was still live. So this year, we’ve changed the process so participants can have greater control over when their scores become visible.

Note: The score submission window closes on Monday at 5 p.m. PT each week. Scores submitted after this deadline will not be accepted for any reason. Make sure you get your scores submitted on time.