Do you need software when there are only forty of you?

Forty athletes over two WODs is eighty scores to enter, sort and tie break. A spreadsheet copes as long as nothing moves. The day three people withdraw and two scores are disputed, you are still looking for the right row while the room waits. The tipping point is less about the number of athletes than about the number of hands touching the data.

What does it cost if entries are free?

Nothing at all. The commission only applies to paid sales. You get registrations, divisions, heat planning, check-in and the leaderboard, and the competition appears in the public calendar unless you prefer to keep it private, accessible by link.

Can you still take entries at the door?

Yes. You add an entry by hand on the day, from your phone, and the athlete joins the heats like everyone else. It is meant for places paid in person and for invitations. Those entries are flagged as manual, so your online sales figures stay accurate.

How long does it take to publish the page?

About ten minutes for the name, the dates, the venue and the divisions. The page is online and shareable from that point. You add the description, the WODs, the schedule and your partners afterwards, at your own pace.

Can you reopen the same competition the following year?

Yes. You create the new edition with its dates, then rebuild your divisions and WODs, which duplicate in one click once the first is created. The previous edition leaderboard stays online at its own address. That is what athletes find when they search for your competition, and your best argument to fill the second one.

Organisers

Your first box competition, without losing your nights

Forty athletes, two WODs, one Saturday. You do not need a heavy machine for that.

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A first open takes a few evenings to prepare, not three months. You pick two WODs, you open registration to the members of your CrossFit® box and to the neighbouring boxes, and the platform holds the lists, the heats, the scores and the leaderboard. On the day, you are out on the floor with your athletes instead of stuck behind a laptop.

The format that works for a first open

40 to 80

athletes

Below 40 the room feels empty and the day drags. Above 80 you need a second floor, more judges and a real team around you.

2 WODs

plus a final

Two qualifying WODs for everyone, then a final for the top six of each division. Three events are enough to build a leaderboard people can read.

7 hours

from doors to podium

Doors at 8, first heat at 9, podium around 4 in the afternoon. One day, not a weekend.

4 divisions

to start with

RX and Intermediate, men and women apart. That is the minimum for the ranking to mean anything, and already four podiums to prepare.

None of this is imposed. It is simply the format that asks for the least preparation and still fits into a single day.

What it actually costs

There is no subscription, no yearly licence and no listing fee. You only pay on the entries you sell.

Free entries

0 % plus 0 €

A competition with free entries pays nothing. Registrations, divisions, heat planning, check-in and leaderboard are all included, and you choose whether it appears in the public calendar or stays private, accessible by link.

Paid entries

3 % plus 1.50 €

Per entry sold, paid by default by the athlete at checkout. You keep your ticket price, minus Stripe fees, straight into your own Stripe account.

On an open at 40 € a place with 60 entries, the athlete pays 42.70 € and you collect 2,400 € before Stripe fees.

The full pricing

How many judges and volunteers

This is the question that stops most first opens, and the answer is lower than people expect. For 60 athletes on eight lanes, around fifteen people are enough, and half of them are your own members.

One judge per lane

Eight lanes, eight judges per heat. Your coaches and the members who are not competing will do. Each one gets a link, scores from their phone without creating an account, and has the athlete sign off at the end of the WOD.

Judge mode

Four to six volunteers

One on the door and check-in, one on the clock and the microphone, two resetting equipment between heats, one on the bar. They sign up online on the slots you open, and you see straight away what is still uncovered.

Volunteer management

How a typical day runs

8 am

Doors and check-in

You scan the QR code each athlete received with their registration and mark them present. No shows drop out of the heats and out of the leaderboard, with nothing for you to redo.
8.45 am

Briefing

You read the standards for both WODs once, in front of everyone. The judges get their link and go to the lane they were assigned.
9 am

First WOD

Heats follow each other at the interval you set. Validated scores come in as they go and the leaderboard moves live on the screen in the room.
12 pm

Break

An hour off while the first WOD leaderboard settles. You decide whether to reveal it right away or hold it back until the end of the day.
1 pm

Second WOD

Same rhythm, same judges, same lanes. By the last heat the combined ranking over both events is already calculated and tie broken.
3 pm

Final

The top six of each division go out for one last event. Final heats are generated from the leaderboard, with a cut at whatever number of qualifiers you choose.
4 pm

Podium

The final ranking goes public and your athletes find it on their phone. The results page stays online and gets shared, and it is what fills the next edition.

The five traps of a first open

The shared spreadsheet

Three people in the same file on a Saturday morning, a formula breaks and nobody knows which one. A spreadsheet has no lock, no readable history and no input control. It always ends up showing two different rankings depending on who opens it.

Heats redrawn the night before

There are always last minute withdrawals. Heats drawn by hand cost you an evening every time someone pulls out. Generated from the list of athletes actually present, they are rebuilt in a minute on the morning itself.

No check-in at all

Without a roll call you discover the no shows when the heat is announced, empty lane and clock already running. Check-in sorts that out before the first heat and takes the absentee out of the ranking in the same move.

Results read out on the microphone

Nobody remembers a ranking read out loud, and you spend the evening answering the same questions. An online leaderboard can be read, shared and checked without you.

Cash taken at the door

An envelope of notes proves nothing, neither for your accounts nor for the athlete asking for a refund. An online payment leaves a trace and a receipt.

Frequently asked questions

: Forty athletes over two WODs is eighty scores to enter, sort and tie break. A spreadsheet copes as long as nothing moves. The day three people withdraw and two scores are disputed, you are still looking for the right row while the room waits. The tipping point is less about the number of athletes than about the number of hands touching the data.
: Nothing at all. The commission only applies to paid sales. You get registrations, divisions, heat planning, check-in and the leaderboard, and the competition appears in the public calendar unless you prefer to keep it private, accessible by link.
: Yes. You add an entry by hand on the day, from your phone, and the athlete joins the heats like everyone else. It is meant for places paid in person and for invitations. Those entries are flagged as manual, so your online sales figures stay accurate.
: About ten minutes for the name, the dates, the venue and the divisions. The page is online and shareable from that point. You add the description, the WODs, the schedule and your partners afterwards, at your own pace.
: Yes. You create the new edition with its dates, then rebuild your divisions and WODs, which duplicate in one click once the first is created. The previous edition leaderboard stays online at its own address. That is what athletes find when they search for your competition, and your best argument to fill the second one.

Your box already has everything it takes

Create the page for your open in a few minutes. No card is asked for, and nothing is billed while nothing is sold.

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