2023 Rogue Invitational

The 2023 Rogue Invitational is the fifth annual competition in CrossFit organized by Rogue Fitness and the 3rd to feature a strongman competition. It was held at the Dell Diamond in Austin, Texas from 26 to 29 October 2023. The Rogue Invitational also featured a Rogue Record Breaker event and a Legends competition for CrossFit veterans. The winners are Patrick Vellner for the CrossFit men's competition, Laura Horvath for the women's, and Mitchell Hooper for the strongman.

The prize purse was at a minimum of $1,275,000, and reached over $1.6 million. With the winners of the crossfit competitions receiving $280,304.30 and the winner of the strongman competition receiving $146,159.14. 20 men and 20 women competed in the CrossFit individual divisions, 10 men were invited for the Strongman competition.

Competitors
Athletes may qualify for the Rogue invitational through the online qualifier, the Q, and 6 men and 6 women were selected from the qualifier. All the other invitees were top athletes from the 2023 CrossFit Games, apart from Tia-Clair Toomey.

For the strongman competition, three of the most recent World's Strongest Man champions were invited, as well as additional three finalists from the 2023 World's Strongest Man. The defending champion Oleksii Novikov returned, but the 2021 champion Martins Licis chose not to take part.

CrossFit men's division
• 🇨🇦 Jeffrey Adler

• 🇨🇦 Patrick Vellner

• Roman Khrennikov

• 🇨🇦 Brent Fikowski

• 🇺🇸 Dallin Pepper

• 🇫🇮 Jonne Koski

• 🇺🇸 Chandler Smith

• 🇦🇺 Jay Crouch

• 🇷🇸 Lazar Đukić

• 🇧🇪 Jelle Hoste

• 🇮🇸 Björgvin Karl Gudmundsson

• 🇳🇿 Bayley Martin

• 🇺🇸 Will Moorad

• 🇺🇸 Noah Ohlsen

• 🇦🇺 Ricky Garard

• 🇫🇷 Victor Hoffer

• 🇺🇸 Travis Mayer

• 🇺🇸 Tudor Magda

• 🇺🇸 Garrett Clark

• 🇺🇸 Jayson Hopper
 * undefinedOn March 1, 2022, CrossFit announced they will not recognise athletes from Russia or Belarus as a result of Russian violations of the Olympic truce through invasion of Ukraine during the binding truce. Athletes thereby will compete as neutral athletes. This rule continues to be in effect during the 2023 Rogue Invitational.

CrossFit women's division
• 🇭🇺 Laura Horvath

• 🇨🇦 Emma Lawson

• 🇺🇸 Arielle Loewen

• 🇵🇱 Gabriela Migała

• 🇦🇺 Tia-Clair Toomey

• 🇺🇸 Alex Gazan

• 🇺🇸 Paige Semenza

• 🇺🇸 Bethany Flores

• 🇺🇸 Emma Cary

• 🇺🇸 Danielle Brandon

• 🇺🇸 Paige Powers

• 🇨🇦 Emily Rolfe

• 🇸🇰 Karin Freyova

• 🇺🇸 Dani Speegle

• 🇧🇪 Manon Angonese

• 🇪🇸 Elena Carratala Sanahuja

• 🇺🇸 Lauren Fisher

• 🇺🇸 Kyra Milligan

• 🇺🇸 Christine Kolenbrander

• 🇺🇸 Shelby Neal

Qualified through the Q qualifier.

Annie Thorisdottir withdrew due to pregnancy, and Alexis Raptis due to injury.

Strongman
• 🇺🇦 Oleksii Novikov

• 🇨🇦 Mitchell Hooper

• 🇺🇸 Trey Mitchell

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Luke Stoltman

• 🇵🇱 Mateusz Kieliszkowski

• 🇺🇸 Thomas Evans

• 🇺🇸 Bobby Thompson

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Tom Stoltman

• 🇺🇸 Evan Singleton

• 🇨🇦 Maxime Boudreault

CrossFit
The CrossFit competitions were held over four days, from October 26 to 29, with 9 events scheduled. Bad weather conditions, however, led to a number of changes to some of the events for safety reason, for example, the front-rack lunges of Event 7 were changed to stationary lunges.

Event 1: Texas Heavy

 * 1 mile Ruck (100 lbs / 80 lbs)
 * 800m Ruck (45 lb / 30 lb)
 * 1 Mile Run
 * Sled Bag Pull to finish (125 lb / 100 lb)

Event 2: Seat at the Bar

 * 20-15-10 (mens)
 * 15-10-5 (womens)
 * Log Muscle Up
 * 5 Back Squats (375 lb / 260 lb) after each

Time cap: 9 minutes

Event 3: The Circus

 * Ski Erg — (40/32 calories)
 * Five Single-Arm Strongman Dumbbell Shoulder-to-Overhead (100 lb / 70 lb)
 * Killer Cage — down and back

Time cap: 15 min.

Event 4: 10th Inning
10 rounds for time:
 * 4 Ring Muscle-ups
 * 8 Handstand Push-ups
 * 12 Power Snatch (95 lb / 65 lb)

Time cap: 19 min.

Event 5: The Duel III

 * Over Under Over Log
 * 3 Sandbags to Teeter (200 lb / 150 lb)
 * Bracket Style –

Event 6: Max Deadlift

 * 1 RM Deadlift

Tie Break: Time determined prior to lifts of a run carrying jerrycans (100 lb in each hand).

Event 7: Hulk Hands

 * 30 Echo Bike Cals
 * 20 Double FatBell Ground to Overhead (70 lb / 50 lb)
 * Reverse Stationary Lunges with FatBell (70 lb / 50 lb)
 * Run
 * Bag Drag Up Hill
 * Run
 * Reverse Stationary Lunges with FatBell (70 lb / 50 lb)
 * 20 Double FatBell Ground to Overhead (70 lb / 50 lb)
 * 30 Echo Bike Cals

Event 8: Big Cat
5 Rounds for Time
 * 6 Box Jumps (42 in / 36 in)
 * 50 ft Handstand Walk
 * Run

Time cap: 9 min.

Event 9: The Cleanup

 * 3 rounds: 25 Double unders / 5 Power Cleans (225 lb / 155 lb)
 * 2 rounds: 25 Double unders / 5 Squat Cleans (225 lb / 155 lb)
 * 1 round: 25 Double unders / 5 Clean and jerks (225 lb / 155 lb)

Strongman
Six events were planned to be contested over two days (October 27 and 28). However, due to bad weather conditions, the event Apollon’s Wheels was canceled, and the Ultimate Log Medley event was delayed and changed to Log Lift for repetitions which was held indoors.

Event 1: Tower of Power

 * Weight: 900 lb deadlift for repetitions
 * Time Limit: 60 seconds

Event 2: Iron Bull Sled Pull

 * Weight: 1000 lb
 * Course Length: 50 ft
 * Time Limit: 60 seconds

Event 3: Rogue-a-Coaster

 * Weight: 600 lb
 * Time Limit: 1 minute 30 seconds
 * Notes: 54 inch incline

Event 4: Log Lift

 * Weight: 360 lb log lift for repetitions
 * Time Limit: 1 minute 30 seconds
 * Notes: If athletes got the log to their lap and the time expired they were allowed to attempt to lift the log

Event 5: The Duel
Weight: 3 sandbags weighing 325 lb, 350 lb and 375 lb to be picked up and loaded in to a teeter

Time Limit: 60 seconds