CrossFit Mayhem fielded two teams at last year’s North America East Semifinal. CrossFit Mayhem, which qualified for the CrossFit Games, and Mayhem Liberty competed under the CrossFit Mayhem affiliate banner.
This year there is a new rule that only one team per affiliate can qualify for the CrossFit Games. An affiliate can have multiple teams that compete in the Open and in the In-Affiliate Semifinals, but only the top team can accept an invite to compete in Albany, New York, at the 2025 CrossFit Games.
Section 2.14 of the 2025 CrossFit Games rulebook states, “Only one team per affiliate will advance to represent that affiliate at the finals. If an affiliate has multiple teams compete in the Semifinal and more than one team finishes in a qualifying position, CrossFit will elect to invite the next eligible team on the leaderboard as long as the team is from a different affiliate.”
The rule change really only affects a few affiliates who have sent multiple teams to the Games. CrossFit Invictus, CrossFit Mayhem and CrossFit Oslo are the well-known affiliates who have been able to qualify more than one team in a year.
But it looks like the Mayhem Liberty team has found a loophole in the rulebook. Three of Mayhem Liberty’s athletes from last year have registered under a different gym in 2025. Dalton Rogers (Paige Powers’ baby daddy), Rebekah Devine and Kensie Campbell have registered under CrossFit Hendersonville.
CrossFit Hendersonville is a CrossFit affiliate just north of Nashville. It is also approximately 80 miles west of CrossFit Mayhem in Cookeville, Tennessee.
The Mayhem trio appears to have also added Wes Peters to the team. Wes has competed on he 12 Labours CrossFit Cerberus team based out of Maryland the past two seasons. This year, however, Wes has registered under CrossFit Hendersonville.
CrossFit Hendersonville does have ties to CrossFit Mayhem in Cookeville. CrossFit Hendersonville is a Mayhem Affiliate and uses their programming for the gym.
But maybe even more importantly, Mayhem’s Jake Lockert was actually a member at CrossFit Hendersonville for years. Lockert was on the CrossFit Hendersonville team in 2018. That team took 15th at the Central Regional that year.
From everything stated in the rulebook it appears that all of this is legal as long as the team completes all of the workouts at CrossFit Hendersonville. My guess is the plan is for these athletes to travel to CrossFit Hendersonville each of the three weeks of the Open and during the Team In-Affiliate Semifinal in an attempt to qualify for the CrossFit Games.Â
This is the first team that I am aware of that has registered under a different affiliate to skirt the new one team per affiliate rule this year. Will we see any other teams do this?
Update:
Rich Froning has responded and is not taking this lightly…
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