A few days ago, more precisely on Sunday 3 July, we at CrossMAG were invited to attend the announcement of the first qualifying WOD of the Battledrome Championship.
The event, held at CrossFit® Full Gear, it was a real show! The first workout was announced in an “Open” style with four top-class athletes from our panorama who challenged each other!
We are talking about Elisa Fuliano who fought against Chiara Salandra and Enrico Zenoni against Iurii Marincenco.
We arrived early and were well received by Dani and Alessia, the owners and organizers of the battle.
The garage has been used in great style: warm-up area, training area interviews, commentator stations, lights and cameras, which broadcast the entire race live online on Youtube.
La live broadcast also had live rep scoring for each movement, so that the spectators from home could know exactly the score of the competitors, just like at Madison.
The organizers told us that special software was used for this event, recently tested even in the semi-finals in Amsterdam.
At exactly 17 pm the event started and there was no lack of entertainment: from drums to the songs of a young rapper, Sheffer, the author of the official Battledrome theme song.
For the occasion he was called “THE JUDGE”, that is, Luca Morassutto who unveiled the highly anticipated wod Aquila Rossa:
Index
WOD 1 RED EAGLE:
The athletes used their arms a lot in this workout. Chiara Salandra has decided not to do the deadlift unbroken, dividing them so as not to overload the forearms.
Zeno, on the other hand, didn't stop for a second, all unbroken! A real monster!
At the end of Wod A, Enrico and Elisa were some points ahead of their rivals. In the ceilings of clean & jerk, Iurii and Enrico drew at 140kg, while Chiara beat Elisa with 85kg at 80kg.
It was a lot of stuff guys ...
WOD 2 THE BONELESS
A few days after the event at CF Full Gear the second qualifying wod was released.
5 rounds per time
9 devil press
10/15 cal assault bike
Men 2 x 22,5kg Women 2 x 15kg
Time cap: 10 mins
Why join Battledome?
According to the boys this race will be a new and stimulating format:
“It is a particular race because it will have an octagonal competition field and a flow made unique by the presence of direct challenges between the participants.
From the second day of competition, athletes will have to compete 1vs1 before each WOD.
These will be the Battle, an exclusive element of Battledrome. Whoever wins receives the nomination of "Warrior", whoever loses "Rookie".
Thanks to these challenges, the ranking will always remain open so that anyone can be part of the top 8 who will access the final within the octagon.
The categories will be five and each will have its own eight finalists:
Elite, Regular and Experience for both men and women, Master 40 and 45 men.
As a worthy conclusion, the top two elites will have one final challenge that will decide the winner who will have the title and the Battledrome Champion belt.
To accompany all this, a series of shows to entertain the spectators ".
Well, what about? Lots of stuff.
When will Live be?
The live shows will take place in Milan on 21-22-23 October 2022.
Until when are registrations open?
The deadline for registering for the race will be 24/07/2022 at 23:00.
Registrations can be made directly from Judge Rules site.
Registration costs?
The cost to participate in the online qualifications is:
- 39 euros from 01/02/2022 EARLY BIRD
- 49 euros from 1/03/2022 REGULAR
- 59 euros from 1/06/2022 LAST CALL
Category
The athletes who will participate in the competition are divided into the following categories:
EXPERIENCE: 48 men, 32 women
REGULAR: 48 men, 16 women
ELITE: 16 men, 16 women
MASTER 35 (from 35 to 39 years old): 16 man
MASTER 40 (from 40 to 44 years old): 16 man
MASTER 45 (from 45 years upwards): 16 men