Mattew Souza (00:06):
I’m alive. Alright guys, welcome. This is a test. I’m not sure if you guys could hear me okay if it’s coming in. All right. Please lemme know in the comments, we sent out a link. We’re going to see whoever is available is available. Otherwise you guys might just be stuck with me for a few minutes and we’ll jump off. So hopefully this will work out. Can you guys hear me? Lemme know if you can. You guys should see Avon in his element. He’s crazy. He’s all over the place. It’s awesome. It’s awesome to see. We just had one of the teen events finish up now. Yes, you got me. Can you hear me? Almost too well. Should I back the mic up a little bit here? Yeah. All right. Awesome. Here we go. Helping up, dude. Where are you at?
Mike Halpin (01:05):
In the car? On the w, on the way back from Big Dane.
Mattew Souza (01:08):
Nice. So what’s going down? What have you seen? Anything exciting to tell to the people?
Mike Halpin (01:17):
Oh wow. H W P O was there getting warmed up. That crew is looking real good.
Mattew Souza (01:26):
Wait, who was the crew? Who was all there? Who’d you see?
Mike Halpin (01:29):
I think it was everybody. It was Hopper, Catherine. Oh geez. Christine, Jake, Douglas, Sam, Sam.
Mattew Souza (01:40):
How’d the mood look? They looked good. They looked in good spirits or were they freaking out a little bit? What was going down?
Mike Halpin (01:46):
Yeah, it looked good. They were trying the pirouette that got announced, that gymnastics worked out. It looked pretty good.
Mattew Souza (01:56):
Nice. Okay, here we go. Avon’s in the building. Hopefully he’ll load up. He’s out outside on the campus cruising around. Maybe he won’t.
Mike Halpin (02:12):
I’m going to hear him.
Mattew Souza (02:13):
I don’t think it’ll work. Tyler was going to help me out, but then he’s, he loved me hanging. There he is. Savon. Can you hear me? Oh, your Internet’s chopped dude, nothing.
Mike Halpin (02:32):
Hey good, how are you?
Mattew Souza (02:35):
I hear you now we got you. Can you hear me?
Mike Halpin (02:39):
Yeah, yeah. Alright, what’s up? Ing in the car?
Mattew Souza (02:45):
Yeah, he just came back from watching the w
Mike Halpin (02:47):
Dale.
Mattew Souza (02:49):
Hey. Yeah, his internet’s pretty much chopped. So I have this set up so you guys know where I’m at? I’m in the media room here in the expedition hall. Oh you are? Yeah.
Mike Halpin (03:00):
Yeah, we’ll be over there.
Mattew Souza (03:02):
I found where the router was at and I brought the whole entire setup and we even have the fricking, I got the soundboards. We’re going to get the phone call coming in too.
Mike Halpin (03:12):
Yeah, I watched a bit of last night. Those phone calls were something else, man.
Mattew Souza (03:16):
Dude, that Keep call had been one of the biggest phone call shows we’ve had in a little bit. People were getting pissed because they can keep I
Mike Halpin (03:22):
Was rolling
Mattew Souza (03:23):
The call. Yeah, the call we’ve been in. Alright, so I sent out the link to a bunch of people. We’ll see. They’ll probably just leave me hanging on the air like an asshole, but we’ll get something rolling here. Okay, that’s better. I don’t know if you’ll be able to continuously move, step on and catch it. It’s pretty choppy. Did you turn the wifi off on your phone too? Yeah, nothing.
Mike Halpin (03:53):
It’s going to answer in like 30 seconds. Yeah, I see you.
Mattew Souza (03:56):
Okay, I see. Can you hear me though? Hear and see. So yeah, so I’m actually surprised that there’s this many people here already. I mean it’s Wednesday and usually that’s wild. Last year this place was pretty low key on Wednesday and even on Thursday a little bit and this year it already seems like it’s fricking crazy packed. Even the parking was already rough. So I imagine this place on Saturday or Friday, Saturday is just going to be incredible. It is going to be packed.
Mike Halpin (04:26):
Yeah, the media room was packed too. We got sort of pushed out into the outside area. Is that where you are or you’re in the
Mattew Souza (04:32):
No, no, no, I’m upstairs. Inside the expedition hall In that space?
Mike Halpin (04:36):
Yeah. Oh, okay.
Mattew Souza (04:37):
Hey, are you following these? The team events so far? They were out there doing the sled pool workout and that shit looked hard. A couple of ’em got carried off the field by medical.
Mike Halpin (04:49):
Oh, the team workout. I thought you said teams. No, I was out there yesterday. They had move. I know they had to move the schedule because of the heat today. They were originally supposed to do the five K in the middle of the day and they moved it to six or seven o’clock tonight.
Mattew Souza (05:03):
Oh
Mike Halpin (05:03):
Really? I think there’s a lot of concern on the heat and how athletes are, especially older or younger athletes are dealing with it.
Mattew Souza (05:12):
People watching some of the teen stuff. Do you know any highlight standout people? There was one guy there on four for four has won every single event. I forget his name so I do apologize.
Mike Halpin (05:26):
I don’t think it’s rj. Do you know the athlete? That’s four years in a row. Oh, Ty Jenkins.
Mattew Souza (05:34):
Hi
Sevan Matossian (05:43):
Up. Oh, is it it Rero or this? No, this is my nose, my nose guard. It blocks out the haters too. Watch Kester. Nano two. Your feet are even adorable. Thank you.
Mattew Souza (06:05):
Do you guys get interactions?
Sevan Matossian (06:10):
Hey, I’m going to go over and watch. Have you seen this kid tie
Mattew Souza (06:16):
Four for four so far? Yeah, 16 to 17. Apparently he’s just cleaning up house. Hal, do you follow any of ’em? Do you pay attention to that a little bit, especially that group potentially coming into an individual the following year.
Mike Halpin (06:32):
Yeah, Lucy McGonigal that’s on CompTrain. And then Trita Smith, she works with Justin’s coach. She was looking pretty good. They were both in semi-finals so obviously following them a little bit and then I’m trying of who else? RJ Mester. I think it’s, yeah, how you say his name? He’s in the mentee and then I think Brood has a couple athletes that have been following their crew around, so I was watching them a little bit yesterday in that lift.
Mattew Souza (07:06):
Of course they’re already fostering up. The next crew coming in, huh? I
Mike Halpin (07:09):
Know. Six. Six athletes.
Sevan Matossian (07:14):
Rob Forte. Good to see you. Hey, I thought I saw someone sneaking up from behind in Oh, what’s up? What’s up? Congratulations. What a stud you got? What a stud. Hey Savon. Andreas, nice to meet you.
Mattew Souza (07:32):
This is just a meet and greet with Sev.
Sevan Matossian (07:34):
We’re trying to do the podcast. I’m trying, I’m trying. I’m dedicated. Let’s see.
Mattew Souza (07:44):
Somebody said that ain’t going to make, that’s great.
Mike Halpin (07:47):
See if I’m got, can’t tell if you’re shot.
Mattew Souza (07:54):
What event are you most excited about? How has that’s been announced so far?
Mike Halpin (08:01):
Well, I just saw this teams one where they’re going to have to do an hour of biking I think is what JR sent us. I haven’t read about it yet, but it’s going to be two on two biking. I was out at the bike field yesterday and it’s the cycle cross field, so they have to get off the bike for I think 200 meters and jump some fences and stuff. So that looks pretty good. That’s that’s going to be the first individual event, I think the first or second team event tomorrow.
Mattew Souza (08:29):
And when you were looking at some of those obstacles, did you see anything that’s going to cause any issue? Are we going to see anybody go over the top of the bars or anything crazy like that?
Mike Halpin (08:37):
Well, I think there’s a real, it might be a real problem with the chain breaks because the individual event is 40 minutes. The team event is an hour of back and forth.
Sevan Matossian (08:47):
I’m going to go over there. I’m just trying to get on the back. I’m going to go do this workout over Toast Bar inside there. Heidi, tell me where you’re so happy. Oh my gosh, Heidi, not yet. Okay
Mattew Souza (09:03):
Guys.
Mike Halpin (09:04):
Audrey.
Mattew Souza (09:05):
Oh, what’s up? It’s
Sevan Matossian (09:06):
Really me. It’s on. Bye.
Mattew Souza (09:13):
It’s a little bit better, but it’s still pretty choppy. But you come in a lot clearer now and as I speak, of course I wish I got a bunch of questions for seven of ’em, but I don’t know what’s going to pan out for us on this one. I want to know how’s it going, how many people he is met? Does he even walk through vendor village? Can he walk through Vendor Village?
Mike Halpin (09:35):
Does he get stopped every five seconds? It looks like that one’s true
Mattew Souza (09:38):
Every five or 10 seconds. Tyler Watkins did say he was going to come on the show with me and he’s sitting right across the media thing and he’s like, yeah, don’t worry, I won’t leave you hanging. And now he’s not on the fucking show. So me and you holding it down Alvin,
Mike Halpin (09:51):
I’m walking to get something to eat. So
Mattew Souza (09:54):
You’re going to jump off, see how
Mike Halpin (09:55):
Long it lasts?
Mattew Souza (09:57):
Okay.
Mike Halpin (09:58):
I won’t leave you hanging.
Mattew Souza (09:59):
Alright, well this was basically just a test to see what it would be like. I think the plan is basically we’re going to try to go live twice a day, as you guys know, we’re already in the evening and then we’ll go live from where I’m at here. I would love to say that, I mean I sent the link out to a ton of people, so I’d like to say that we’ll get eventually a bunch of participants that’ll come in and I’ll give us what’s going on, where they’re at, what’s happening, and then we will hopefully we’ll have more to chat about as these events roll out and everything else.
Mike Halpin (10:29):
Yeah, I think they’re mostly getting an announced today and then we get going soon tomorrow. Are you going to do the press conference or are you going to stream that?
Mattew Souza (10:40):
I don’t know if we could stream the press conference. I haven’t heard will be there. What time is that? Do you know? Right offhand? It was supposed to be this evening, right?
Mike Halpin (10:49):
5 30, 5 40, something like
Mattew Souza (10:51):
That. Yeah, so I’m sure we’ll cruise over there. If they allow us to stream it, we’ll stream it and then if not, I’m sure we will have some stuff from it. We also have a bunch of people out here that are helping out with still photos. Shout out to Jonathan Ortega and EAM photo and stuff like that as well as video. So the idea is that we’ll be able to publish a ton of that stuff to Instagram and the YouTube shorts so that way we have a bunch of stuff coming out as well that you guys can check out. But other than that we’ll be doing these two shows and giving some updates. Oh, it looks like Tyler’s setting up across the room for me now. Fucking Slack. What do you guys think? People in the comments, what are you excited to see? What’s the favorite event that you have least so far?
(11:40):
Allegra R. I’m going to squeeze these names up. I always just make fun of Sevan for getting the names wrong and now that I’m in the hot seats, good luck Allegro R 4 99 Killing it per usual pumper behind the scenes. I know for a fact that we have already got some incredible stuff. Some of the interviews and interactions that s has already got. It’s already ready to rock. It’s only going to get better and better, so I’m super pumped for it. All the stuff that he’s capturing and the interactions and stuff like that and the cuts, the cuts are going to be insane where the drama will unfold, it’ll be nuts. Ran into Brian Friend, he’s doing his thing down there.
Mike Halpin (12:26):
Yeah, we’re Barkley and I are here to support Brian since he’s doing his production thing, so able to be down on the field writing stuff and watching the individuals and then Peter’s handling all the team stuff. So be Friendly Fitness is definitely doing our thing. I think they’re doing prerecorded videos that are coming out each day to talk about the events, so
Mattew Souza (12:47):
Yeah. That’s awesome. And what would they find that at
Mike Halpin (12:51):
YouTube? Be friendly is YouTube. Yep,
Mattew Souza (12:54):
There you go. So you guys can keep up to date with that as well, but yes, we’ll just be checking in. Thanks for bearing with us. If you kind of feel our way through the dark here. I’m pumping because people were saying that I’m not coming in glitchy and they can hear me really well, which is great and literally the router is plugged in right behind me.
Mike Halpin (13:11):
You’re not pissing off all the people in the media room it sounds like.
Mattew Souza (13:13):
No, I probably am, but the thing is, I have the guy with the headphones on so I have my headphones and I could barely hear myself, but I’m sure I’m screaming across this whole entire room right now. I wish I had a mini webcam. I would point it the opposite direction so you guys could see what I see. Oh, here we go to save the day.
Mike Halpin (13:34):
There we go.
Mattew Souza (13:37):
Yeah, you came in great too and helping Connection is awesome. Stevon is as it didn’t work at at all.
Mike Halpin (13:45):
Yeah, anything on the field sucks.
Mattew Souza (13:48):
Yeah, that’s interesting. Last year I was able to cruise around and even when the venue was super crowded, I still had a decent connection. Where are you going? Oh, he’s going up here to crash. I thought he left his little spot, so yeah, so is there anything you guys want to see? I’m going to try to capture a bunch of stuff out there on my phone and post it up as well. Okay. He’s putting a box underneath his laptop there
Mike Halpin (14:22):
Day. Oh, that’s a sweet spot.
Mattew Souza (14:23):
Oh boy. Now he just, this is amateur. This is awesome.
Mike Halpin (14:30):
They’re bringing the big guns for the morning show.
Mattew Souza (14:32):
Yeah, yeah. You guys can tell we really upped that production value now that I’m running the man in the show trying to,
Mike Halpin (14:38):
I’m trying to do slapstick
Mattew Souza (14:39):
Shit over here. You guys are not going to believe it. Tyler and I met extra slop. Oh yeah, we met Mr. And Mrs. Slop. Yes. Yeah, super good people. It’s crazy to meet people and then they say what their name is in the We had mole over my, you did not slap Susan Tyler. Why didn’t you guys tell me I had MLE over my mustache? You did not. You were good. Unless it’s in the photo that we took and then you saw it afterwards, in which case I didn’t see it. So Ty, so Tyler, we were just talking about some of the team stuff. Are you following that at all? No. Okay, cool. Old are we, so we were just faking it until we make it here. That one guy’s killing it though. I already forgot his name. Sorry. Ty.
Mike Halpin (15:25):
Ty Jenkins.
Mattew Souza (15:26):
Ty Jenkins.
Tyler Watkins (15:27):
Oh, the team stuff. I thought you meant team.
Mattew Souza (15:30):
Yeah, happen. My pronunciation is my
Tyler Watkins (15:33):
Sucks. No, it’s okay. I have been watching the 16 to 17 males, but I’ll be honest, it’s solely because I want to watch Caden Hogan, t t t athlete. He’s looking really good. He has a tendency to come out really hot
(15:48):
And he struggled with closing right at the end, but he’s doing really well. He’s an undersized, so we were talking about it on the field. Brian and I, he’s a little bit of an undersized athlete, but he’s a heavy fighter like Josh and so he’s really interesting to watch. I think he pushes himself every workout. I’ve seen him, his lips do that white thing where you’re like, you go into that sympathetic response system and so it’s like he’s really good at doing that. I love an underdog and he’s definitely an underdog, so it’s been fun to watch
Mike Halpin (16:22):
Him. Yeah, I saw him in the athlete area. He’s got a whole family here with him cheering him on, so it’s really cool.
Tyler Watkins (16:29):
I met his mom yesterday. She’s Indian and she’s a doctor so she’s super intense but she’s also super sweet. She’s like four foot and he had messed up a little bit on the clean and jerk workout and he came out and she was giving him a pep talk and you’re doing great, all this stuff. And it was funny like you forget how bashful you are at 16, 17 and your parents start giving you that pep talk and he was like, mom,
Mattew Souza (16:59):
Go away. Yeah,
Tyler Watkins (17:01):
It was great content.
Mattew Souza (17:03):
Hey, were you surprised? We just took a walk through North Park. Were you surprised at the amount of people already there watching the WA zombie help me out here. I’ll be calling it the teenager. Were you surprised that there’s out there watching the teenagers
Tyler Watkins (17:19):
A little? There was a real good crowd. There was more. That was at semifinals in 2022.
Mattew Souza (17:29):
Wait, say that one more time. The whole thing dropped off and came back. Sorry. There’s more than what I said.
Tyler Watkins (17:34):
There was more people there than were at semifinals in 2022, so
Mike Halpin (17:39):
We probably saw the broadcast and were like, Hey, I got to go down there, I guess.
Mattew Souza (17:43):
Yeah,
Tyler Watkins (17:44):
It was good.
Mike Halpin (17:46):
We’re not supposed to talk bad about the broadcast,
Tyler Watkins (17:48):
So yeah, I missed that whole thing yesterday. Was it terrible? Are we allowed to talk that
Mike Halpin (17:56):
If you stuck your head out the window where you are right now and looked over at North Park, that was a view on the broadcast. Broadcast. Great. They only have so many options.
Mattew Souza (18:05):
I let just heard
Mike Halpin (18:06):
That
Mattew Souza (18:08):
There’s room for improvement, that’s all
Mike Halpin (18:10):
Always. I have heard that the final day will be broadcast from what I’ve heard for them. So they will get time to shine and there will be an award ceremony and all that.
Mattew Souza (18:22):
Yeah. Oh, okay. What day is that?
Tyler Watkins (18:25):
Thursday.
Mike Halpin (18:26):
Thursday is going to be a big day. It’s everything at once. Yeah.
Mattew Souza (18:31):
What were you going to say? Sorry.
Tyler Watkins (18:35):
It’s super interesting. There was a lot of negative talk about teens, should we cancel teens doing CrossFit because all the controversy with Mal and all that about the girls quitting and it’s like there’s a lot of support out there and honestly I had never really experienced the teen stuff, but in the past I’ve seen super small crowds and stuff like that. Basically you think only family are being out there, but I, Susie, you noted this earlier today of how many people are here and there’s not much else going on, so they’re like, yeah, I’m going to go watch these teens. There’s a super, it’s way more full this year than it was last year at this time.
Mattew Souza (19:15):
Way more literally. It’s good
Mike Halpin (19:18):
To see because, oh, go ahead.
Mattew Souza (19:20):
Go ahead, go ahead, go.
Mike Halpin (19:22):
I was going to say it’s good to see because I put on an article a month ago or so, Dave before he was fired, started talking about how there was the possibility of splitting the age groups and adaptive off from the game. And so they need some momentum and need some people to say, Hey, we’re going to get behind doing this separately if that’s still something that he’s looking to do. Obviously that was two years ago almost at this point, but that could be a big thing of creating an event to really showcase the age group athletes and the adaptive athletes and this could be a bit of that to just say, Hey, people will watch it if it’s the only thing to watch. But if they’re all going at once then yeah, everybody’s going to be at the Coliseum while everybody’s at North Park and vice versa.
Tyler Watkins (20:09):
I don’t know. Go ahead.
Mattew Souza (20:11):
No, I was just going to say, but you’re right because I think more and more people are coming out here earlier than they had in the past. Normally you wouldn’t see it really fill up until Friday. You might see as many people that are here now on the Thursday, but it seems like each year getting earlier and so I imagine with how many people are here today come Thursday, it’s going to be packed already. And so by giving them their own days, the teenage group and in the masters and stuff like that, like you said, as people come in, they’re checking out Vander Village, they’re seeing some of this stuff, but at the same time now you’re giving ’em something to watch. So that crowd’s filled up. And I would just like to also note that when they are doing, from what I just saw at North when they had the teenage groups going, all the volunteers and all the events and all the medical staff, I mean top-notch quality, they’re still treating it just as they would with that final heat of individuals. So as far as logistics are concerned and making sure everybody’s being treated really well, it’s definitely happening down there, which is awesome to see.
Tyler Watkins (21:09):
Maybe it’s just that we’re a little bit early in the week, but the vibe that I’m getting from the support staff, the judges, the medical people, it’s a lot more giddy than it was last year, like an anecdotal thing I’ve noticed, but they all seem really geared up this year and it’s like they seemed happy that they were out there with the teens and going through the bike. You were on the course yesterday, right? Helping during the bike test all the judges, everybody with Oh they were those tests, they were all stoked
Mike Halpin (21:43):
And they were excited to see the media there. We weren’t ever feeling in their way and Taylor was out there, Savannah was out there, they were excited to see everybody there. I talked to what’s going on.
Tyler Watkins (21:54):
I talked to one of the more senior judges and I’ve known her for a few years and I was like, how does this feel in comparison to a few of the other years or the last couple years? And she was like, we’re just really excited that Dave’s back because there’s a structure that’s here that hasn’t been here. It’s like when your parents, they’ve set these guidelines and then you feel more free because you know what the guidelines are, whereas if you don’t have the guidelines you always feel like you might be messing up that I think they feel more free because they have more guidelines this year.
Mattew Souza (22:27):
Yeah, that’s a great point. I mean you definitely, from the movie, it does seem like everybody is more giddy about it. The energy’s a lot higher and yeah, you can feel it all the way from the event staff to the athletes to the fans all the way across the board.
Tyler Watkins (22:40):
Yeah. We’ll see how we all feel on Friday when we’re sunburnt tired.
Mike Halpin (22:47):
Hey, I’m going to hop off, go into this breakfast place. Thank you. Play the Heat one app everybody. Good to see you guys. Thanks. Bye. Later.
Mattew Souza (22:57):
Fiona h asked, where’s Savon? Where’s Hiller? Are they out filming? Yes. The answer to that is yes they are. We tried to get Sevan in earlier. I sent a link out to everybody, but it didn’t really look as if the connection was going to work out there. So we stuck, was stuck with us for a little bit longer.
Tyler Watkins (23:16):
How are you right next to the router and do you have terrible,
Mattew Souza (23:20):
Is it terrible
Tyler Watkins (23:22):
So bad? Maybe it’s just on my end.
Mike Halpin (23:24):
It looks
Mattew Souza (23:24):
Great. Oh man, everybody said that it was good from before. Maybe it got shitty again. I don’t know. Yours is, but yours was good.
Tyler Watkins (23:31):
You’re getting five G like cancer over there right next to it and you still don’t have good stigma.
Mattew Souza (23:36):
It’s the sacrifices I make for the show. I’m
Tyler Watkins (23:38):
Saying, oh, there you go. The fans will enjoy this. So it looks like we’re super legit and our setups are good, but then it’s like you look over here and SU’s back there in the corner.
Mattew Souza (23:54):
Oh yeah. Some of the people said it’s getting choppy. You still sound good.
Tyler Watkins (23:58):
You still sound good? Yeah.
Mattew Souza (24:00):
The broadcast at SU’s internet, Joel,
Tyler Watkins (24:04):
They’re throttling us down.
Mattew Souza (24:08):
What did laptop say? They could come down to the campsites for better service, more bandwidth available. Is that true? Is that real? Maybe we should, I
Tyler Watkins (24:15):
Don’t know if we have wifi in the campsite. I know Craig does, but
Mattew Souza (24:20):
Yeah, it calmed down right now. You sound great. It’s fine. Yeah,
Tyler Watkins (24:23):
You’re good now
Mattew Souza (24:24):
Heidi, I have your mouse pad here, Heidi.
Tyler Watkins (24:28):
That’s exactly how we all feel. He’ll tell us where he is and then we can’t find him.
Mattew Souza (24:34):
Yeah, good luck. Even if you find him, it’s going to be a very fast passing because he is on a mission
Tyler Watkins (24:42):
Like nailing down jello.
Mattew Souza (24:45):
It just keeps slipping out of the fingers. I don’t know. But yeah, so this is basically the plan and I’ll get better at this. We’ll get some more people that’ll jump on as things unfold. We’ll have some pretty cool exciting news, so we’ll kind of catch it. We’ll have some talking points. We’ll come on here, we’ll discuss stuff with you guys. I’m going to hook up the phone. I don’t know if that drove you nuts last night or what guys, but the amount of people that called in was crazy and people were getting pissed about the call waiting and I literally was trying to hit the button off every single time. But a new call would come through if it was nuts, but I think that’ll be cool. We could have people call in, give their opinions on the event they saw at home, stuff like that, which would be awesome.
Tyler Watkins (25:25):
That’s a good problem to have.
Mattew Souza (25:28):
Yeah, exactly. And now my shit’s choppy again. Am I trying to, what
Tyler Watkins (25:34):
Up Jeff?
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Mattew Souza (26:24):
Holy shit. Did you say a year’s free of coffee? If they get all time
Tyler Watkins (26:26):
A year free supply of coffee. Maybe I can get Gabe to up it. Two years from Paper Street
Mattew Souza (26:32):
Two Lifetime supply. Mr. Spin, what’s going on brother? Where are you right now? Are you at work in the office on a lunch break? I’m at work one more day until take four days
Brian Spin (26:42):
And just die watch games. I was watching the live stream, but that seemed worthless.
Mattew Souza (26:50):
Oh boy. We’re not supposed to talk about that. Well, he said that they got room for improvement. Oh yeah, you guys could see the expedition hall from Tyler seat now that he moved out of the way too. It gives you a little bit more context as to where we are. And he’s coming over here with me now. What’s this? Oh, thank you. Not a sponsor. I don’t even know how to pronounce it. So you guys Brian, go ahead. Go ahead. What were you going to say? Have
Brian Spin (27:19):
You guys talked about the CrossFit Believe, withdrawing?
Mattew Souza (27:24):
No, this
Brian Spin (27:26):
Not withdrawing, not being able to compete?
Mattew Souza (27:29):
No. What happened?
Brian Spin (27:30):
I just shared a story on it. One of their athletes, they’d all checked in yesterday, one of their athletes was doing a handstand walk on a ramp that was padded and he fell and busted his face badly shit and rushed to the hospital emergency plastic surgery last night. He’s going through scans today and possibly further surgery on his nose or something like that.
Mattew Souza (28:05):
Holy shit. It’s always bad. Bad then. It wasn’t just a bang on head. It was
Brian Spin (28:08):
Bad. No, I don’t know if he caught the corner of it or how exactly what happened, but the big, I mean obviously that’s terrible, but now his team cannot compete even though they had an alternate.
Mattew Souza (28:23):
Really? Why do you think they can’t compete? Even with the alternate
Brian Spin (28:26):
CrossFit’s saying because they had already checked in, their roster is locked that
Mattew Souza (28:35):
Even under those circumstances,
Brian Spin (28:37):
That’s what they’re told. Yeah, they’re frustrated. They don’t care if they got zeros on everything. They’d love to be out there on the competition floor. I don’t think any of ’em have been before. I could be wrong, but I don’t think so.
Tyler Watkins (28:51):
What would be a justification for why that would be a good call? Can you create a scenario where it’s like, hey, you can’t change athletes after check-in, or is that just the rule that they made and now they have to hold to it? I bet that’s what it is.
Brian Spin (29:07):
My guess the reasoning probably is they release a workout, right? And it’s in their, I don’t
Tyler Watkins (29:14):
Wheelhouse. Oh, that’s good.
Brian Spin (29:15):
That’s probably why. Now in this situation, obviously the dude didn’t bust his face to get out of some type of workout. I’m sure that’s why. But it’s kind of a shitty scenario for him.
Mattew Souza (29:33):
Kind of breaking up there. Pull Boy says once you check in, that’s it. Yeah, and I think just to clarify what you guys were saying, it’s just because if you have somebody else on standby and a workout gets released or something at the check and you go, oh, so-and-so just hurt his ankle. You guys didn’t see it outside and now we’re going to stub in for this person because we know that that’s in their wheelhouse after these events got released. And so it’s unfortunate, but I could see the justification for once you check in.
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