Rogue Invitational

[Hardartery]

Don't know if anyone has been catching the livestreams. Hooper got second place in all thress events on Friday, Halfthor got first in the DL and the Inver Stones, Thomas Evans won the Farmer's/Log Lift, which left Hooper in First overall coming in to today and Halfthor in second. Tom Stoltman won the first event today, Halfthor second, not sure right now if Hooper or Singleton got third but it appears Hooper is third on the Medley. I haven't finished the stream for today yet.

[Hardartery]

Hooper smoked the Yoke/Power Stairs. His first first of the contest, and then he completed the Press Medley - not sure if he won it or got second. Luke Stoltman was the only other finisher but Halfthor actually did quite well on it getting everything but the final 405 Axle. Hooper ran away with the contest Thor a comfy second place, Tom got third but Singleton was not far off.

[OverheadDeadlifts]

Hope they get a lot of feedback about how terrible those buttons are. It was especially bad on the sled pull where guys weren’t sure if they’d hit the end or not and some did an unnecessary last pull before they were confident hitting the button. The only thing I liked them on was the power stairs but even still people were tripping over the implement trying to get to the button faster. One of the CrossFit girls actually fell and hit her abdomen on the T handle on her way to the button which looked painful.

Was actually in attendance and heard some chatter about them liking the venue and talking about holding it here again next year. The Strongwoman was more entertaining than the Strongman in my opinion. When Thor came 2nd last on the log press and it was clear Toms head wasn’t 100% in it, everyone knew Hooper was going to win barring an injury. Most of the Women came out like they had something to prove on every event. Far less predictable.

[Hardartery]

Hope they get a lot of feedback about how terrible those buttons are. It was especially bad on the sled pull where guys weren’t sure if they’d hit the end or not and some did an unnecessary last pull before they were confident hitting the button. The only thing I liked them on was the power stairs but even still people were tripping over the implement trying to get to the button faster. One of the CrossFit girls actually fell and hit her abdomen on the T handle on her way to the button which looked painful.

Was actually in attendance and heard some chatter about them liking the venue and talking about holding it here again next year. The Strongwoman was more entertaining than the Strongman in my opinion. When Thor came 2nd last on the log press and it was clear Toms head wasn’t 100% in it, everyone knew Hooper was going to win barring an injury. Most of the Women came out like they had something to prove on every event. Far less predictable.

I agree, especially about the buttons. That was pretty retarded and unnecessary, the whole thing overall looked like it was probably a good show. The mix seemed like it would keep things interesting, these things can get real slow and boring around the events during setup but this seemed very well thought out in terms of minimizing setup times.

[rjharris]

N = 1, but i asked inez about it after and she said the buttons were good. She and her coach said they'd been burned by slow reaction times by judges with their stopwatches before. I agree that it *looked* worse.

[OverheadDeadlifts]

I agree, especially about the buttons. That was pretty retarded and unnecessary, the whole thing overall looked like it was probably a good show. The mix seemed like it would keep things interesting, these things can get real slow and boring around the events during setup but this seemed very well thought out in terms of minimizing setup times.

Yeah the setup time between CrossFit/Strongman, resetting implements and changing weights between men/women was all lightning fast.

N = 1, but i asked inez about it after and she said the buttons were good. She and her coach said they'd been burned by slow reaction times by judges with their stopwatches before. I agree that it *looked* worse.

Really? I suppose if you’ve been fucked over by that in the past then having control over your finish time probably feels nice.

Some sort of force plate system would be better (load/touch the force plate with the implement to stop the count) but I guess the logistics and cost would be more difficult. But if Brian Shaw can set up a force plate to stop people bouncing a machine squat then I’m sure it can be done.