Our Challenge makes you BÄÄM is a team challenge and first took place in 2013, the year, when CrossFit am Lech was established.
At first, it was set up as an invitational challenge where friendly and regional boxes received our invitations.
Last year, we made a huge step forwards and set up a qualification because the requests on participation increased over the years and reached a maximum.
In 2015, more than 200 teams – that means more than 1000 athletes – participated. In our finals the best 35 elite and the best 6 masters teams fought for victory in a local hockey arena and about 800 guests took the chance to watch former and future regionals athletes getting to their limits in our 7 workouts spread over two days.
CHANGES
In 2016, there will be no grand final in a big location! The 2016 edition will be set up as an online challenge.
CrossFit develops incredibly fast. This is a problem for all the new people in this sport. For them, it is almost impossible to compete at a challenge and to compare themselves with other athletes. All the requirements on weight or skill increase. This makes it more difficult for new athletes, competitions get more and more uninteresting for the people.
In a team challenge, you can compensate weaknesses with other athletes’ strength. Each workout of CMYB 2016 will be doable for each athlete –as well, of course, for the “newbies”.
For the athletes, there is no requirement on doing a specific movement or weight. Feel free to share the job!
Now, for sure, you will ask yourself: why should I participate if there won’t be any big final event?
‘Talking about CrossFit, almost anyone has three things in mind: Community, team spirit and being there for your mates.’
We want to show, that we don’t want to profit from this – we want to strengthen the spirit of community. All the registration fees will be donated for charity purposes.
How this works out?
In 2015, we had registrations from all over Europe (e.g. Finland, France, Italy, Spain, etc.) and why should we force a – for example – french team to donate their money to a purpose or institute here in Germany?
Each team is free to choose the purpose they donate their registration fee of 15 EUR to.
To complete the registration, we need a prove of your donation – please send us your receipt of the 15 EUR (or even more if you want to help the organization with more money) by mail or facebook message.
In 2016, CHALLENGE makes you BÄÄÄM is going to change to CHARITY makes you BÄÄÄM.
We appeal to you for talk to everyone you know: to your friends, your box owners and the boxes around you: sweat with us for good purpose.
Experienced athletes, just go for some “newbies” or kids and build a team. It’s all about team spirit.
THE TEAM
A team consists of three people. There is no requirement on how the team should be built. That means: regardless of age or gender, the choice is yours. Three age classes:
Elite (born in year 1997 till 1977)
Masters (born in year 1976 or before)
Kids/Teens (born in year 1998 till 2003)
Example 1: Example 2:
Male Elite Male Elite
Male Masters Female Elite
Male Kids/Teens Female Elite
>>> all members of one gender is ok >>> all members of one age classes is ok
REGISTRATION
Registration is open from 1st of February (and it is no joke) till 21st of May. The registration fee is 15,00 EUR per team. No late entries will be accepted. A CrossFit Affiliate is not necessary.
IMPORTANT DATES & INFORMATION
The competition will run from the 1st May 2016 to 22nd May 2016.
All five workouts will be released at 9:00 PM (CET) on Sunday. The Teams will have three weeks until Sunday the 22nd of May 9:00 AM (CET) to complete the five workouts, enter the result in the ranking homepage of Myboxlog and maybe send a video submission to us with a Youtube or Vimeo Link (CMYB@MAIL.DE).
APPEAL
Appeal to every sports company & sponsor:
Help us there for the winners and to offer them awesome prizes!
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