Legends Championship still has 305 roster spots open ahead of Semifinal

Three hundred and five roster spots were still unfilled at Legends Championship with little more than two weeks left before athletes walked into Del Mar Arena. Only 95 of 400 places had been confirmed for the April 24-26 in-person Semifinal in Del Mar, California, and not a single division had reached half capacity.

That is more than a registration hiccup. Legends is one of CrossFit’s official in-person Semifinals, the final qualifying stage for the 2026 CrossFit Games and Divisional Games, so the size and shape of the field affect everything from the competitive value of the event to the feel inside the arena. A Semifinal that is still trying to fill spots this late risks looking less like a proving ground and more like a scramble to get warm bodies on the floor.

The event page lays out a 400-athlete structure built around 20 elite men, 20 elite women, and a Masters roster split across age groups that totals 180 men and 180 women from 35 through 70-plus. Legends says invites are invitation-only and are drawn from 2025 Games performances, special invitations, and the final 2026 CrossFit Quarterfinal leaderboard. For elite individuals, the top 10 men and women are eligible for late invites. For Masters, it is the top 15 in the 35-54 divisions and the top 8 in the 55-plus divisions.

That invite process leaves very little room for delay. Athletes who receive an invite have 48 hours to register, and Legends said it would keep backfilling down the leaderboard until rosters were full. That timing matters because Quarterfinal scores were due March 30 at 12 p.m. PT, while the final leaderboard was still being settled as invites went out. In other words, some athletes were still waiting to see where they landed while the event was already trying to finish its field.

The roster snapshot also showed the problem was not isolated to one bracket. Some Age Group divisions had only one registered athlete, a sign that the thin turnout stretched well beyond the elite side. Yet the names already on the list still carry weight: Dallin Pepper, EJ Hein, James Sprague, Justin Medeiros, Roman Khrennikov and Tudor Magda were among the men confirmed, while Abigail Domit, Arielle Loewen, Emily Rolfe, Haley Adams, Kyra Milligan, Lexi Neely, Lydia Fish and Olivia Kerstetter were on the women’s side.

Whether late fill-ins can save the field will come down to how many athletes answer quickly and how deep Legends has to go down the leaderboard. For now, the story of this Semifinal is not just who is in it. It is how much of it is still waiting to be filled.