2025 CrossFit Games Prize Money Breakdown

This year the prize money for the 2025 CrossFit Games season was tied to CrossFit Open registrations. Appendix F of the CrossFit Games rulebook laid out how the prize money would be distributed between affiliates, Open, Semifinals and the CrossFit Games.

The rulebook, however, based those payouts on an estimated 300,000 athletes registering for the CrossFit Open.

Now that the 2025 CrossFit Open is officially closed, along with registrations (yes, people continue to sign up for the Open after the 25.1 submission window closes), we can calculate the payouts.

First, by my calculations, there were 235,523 total registrations, including the Adaptive Divisions on Competition Corner. Note, the official count has not been confirmed by CrossFit. However, based on my count, a total of $2,355,230 will be allocated to the 2025 CrossFit Games season prize purse.

That prize money will then be distributed as follows:

Open – Affiliate Prizes

The Affiliate Open prizes are split between participation and performance. The top affiliates will receive a $2,500 Rogue Fitness gift card. Affiliates can only win one gift card, even if they qualified to win based on both participation and performance.

Based on $471,046, this equates to 188 total gift cards available (94 for participation and 94 for performance). The number of gift cards per region is as follows:

Open – Top Individual Performers

The Open – Top Individual Performers prize money is split 50/50 between the top finishers each week and the overall Open podium finishers. As such, $58,881 is awarded to individual workout performances and $58,881 is awarded to the top 3 overall finishers.

Here is the breakdown of that prize money:

Weekly Podium Finishers

Overall Podium Finishers

While the leaderboard will not be finalized until March 26, here is how the prize money would be distributed based on the unofficial results:

Individual Semifinals

Every qualifying man and woman via the In-Affiliate Semifinals will receive the following:

CrossFit Games (Individuals)

There will be 30 men and 30 women competing at the 2025 CrossFit Games. The top 20 will earn a share of the prize money. Here is that breakdown:

Affiliate Cup Games (Teams)

The top 20 teams from the In-Affiliate Semifinals will advance to the 2025 CrossFit Games. All 20 teams will receive a share of the prize money.

Masters & Adaptive Divisions

The Masters divisions will receive 10% of the prize money, or $235,523. The Adaptive divisions will receive 3%, or $70,657. The payouts per placement per division will be announced at a later date, but prior to the start of each competition.