Team Online Semifinals leaderboard opens review before CrossFit Games cutoff

The Team Online Semifinals have already finished on the floor, but the real pressure point now sits behind the camera. With score submissions closed at noon PT on Monday, June 8, the leaderboard is populated and still unofficial, and the teams sitting on the cutline must now wait through video review, penalties, and appeals before the field to the 2026 CrossFit Games is final.

That uncertainty matters because only the top seven teams in the world will advance once the review process is complete. CrossFit built this stage around scrutiny: each workout required both a Head Judge and a Floor Judge with a CrossFit Level 1 Certificate or higher plus the Advanced Judges Course, and every team had to submit video for all five workouts, not just selected efforts. In a year where online judging has drawn more attention than usual, the difference between moving on and going home may come down to standards calls, not workout speed.

The review window is already open to qualified public judges. Anyone who has passed the most recent Judges Course can view and provide input on published leaderboard videos during online competition, and those reviews run through Thursday, June 11 at 3 p.m. Eastern. CrossFit says those public evaluations can be combined with reviews from the CrossFit Games internal review team, creating a second pass over the leaderboard just as the most consequential part of the season begins.

What gets flagged can change a season quickly. CrossFit’s review process checks loading, measurements, rep counts, test guidelines, and movement standards before escalating to senior judges if needed. Videos that are blocked, private, edited, or otherwise noncompliant may receive a zero for the workout, which means the leaderboard still has room to move before the qualifying list is locked. That is exactly why the current standings are best read as a snapshot, not a verdict.

The timing adds another layer of tension. The Team Online Semifinals ran June 4-8, and the Individual Online Semifinals follow June 11-15, placing the team review window directly in the middle of the final qualifying stretch. CrossFit’s 2026 rulebook says online and in-person events together make up the CrossFit Games season, and this stage is proving how much of that season now depends on procedure. The workouts are done, but for the teams hovering near the top seven, the season is still being decided rep by rep on video.