CrossFit Age-Group Semifinals Begin, Masters and Teens Race the Clock

Masters and teenage CrossFit athletes opened the 2026 Age-Group Online Semifinals with five workouts, a hidden leaderboard and a hard deadline: all scores must be submitted by Monday, May 11, at 12 p.m. PT. The final leaderboard will not be set until May 26, when CrossFit issues invitations to the athletes who earned spots in San Jose.

That makes this week the decisive bridge between Quarterfinal success and the season’s age-group championships. The online Semifinals are the last qualifying stage for the 2026 Masters CrossFit Games and the 2026 Teenage CrossFit Games, both set for July in San Jose, California, with the broader CrossFit Games finals scheduled for July 24-26 at SAP Center. CrossFit also confirmed in December that the Masters CrossFit Games by Legends, Teenage CrossFit Games by PIT and Adaptive CrossFit Games by WheelWOD would all be staged in San Jose.

The test is built to expose more than raw fitness. In the 35-39 division, Workout 1 asks for five rounds of seven squat snatches and three rope climbs to 15 feet, with a 15-minute cap. Workout 2 strings together lateral burpee box jump-overs, shuttle runs, double-unders and handstand walks. Workout 3 turns into two rounds of a 1,000-meter row, 50 thrusters and 30 chest-to-bar pull-ups, capped at 25 minutes. Workout 4 is a deadlift progression that shifts into cleans as the loads climb, and Workout 5 is a 10-minute AMRAP built around dumbbell walking lunges and escalating strict handstand push-ups.

The format leaves little room for error outside the training plan. CrossFit emailed the password at 11:45 a.m. PT on Thursday, May 7, before competition started, and the same password applies to all five workouts. Athletes can write it on a whiteboard, but it still has to be shown or stated at the start of every video. Timer apps such as WodProof or wetime are allowed only if they are built into the recording during the workout, not added afterward.

Judging and video submission rules are just as strict. Both judges must hold an L1 or OL1 credential or higher and have completed the Advanced Judges Course. The head judge has to be visible and introduced on camera, self-judging is not allowed, and the YouTube link must be public, though it may be muted for copyright reasons. Even equipment standards matter, with CrossFit specifying that women may use a 45-pound barbell if it meets the minimum diameter requirement.

The stakes are heightened by how deep the field has already been. More than 250,000 athletes took part in the 2026 Open, and CrossFit says only the top 400 athletes in the 35-54 age bands, plus the top 300 in the 14-17 and 55-plus divisions, advanced to Age-Group Semifinals. That is why the hidden leaderboard matters so much: with qualification still in play, every rep and every video detail can decide who gets the call to San Jose.