For ten years the Italian Showdown has brought athletes and enthusiasts onto the field and for 2025 it announces an even more inclusive format
No, we don’t want to find the fittest athlete in the world, the CrossFit Games already do that. What we want is to give all CrossFit enthusiasts the opportunity to test themselves live, on a real international competition floor, to celebrate fitness and health together with our entire Community. This has always been our mission.
Therefore, as always, anyone can participate in the Italian Showdown, regardless of age and ability level, without having to go through online qualifications: just register and take to the field, putting into practice the skills developed during the training sessions performed in class with your coach or independently in your home gym.
This format has been enormously successful since the first edition, with a thousand athletes registered in just a few hours, registrations sold out every year and hundreds of thousands of social reaches. With the 2025 edition, the Italian Showdown enters its tenth year of activity, bringing great innovations to make the competition even more inclusive at all levels.
Over the course of these years, the audience of CrossFit practitioners has expanded throughout the population, bringing enthusiasts of all age groups closer to the competition, even the most aged ones and those who have not yet developed all the skills. At the same time, the capabilities of more experienced athletes have grown to levels that were unthinkable just a few years ago.
Consequently, the performance gap between experts and beginners has opened up to the point of making it necessary to review categories and divisions, to allow all participants to compare themselves with their peers, in terms of age and skill level, and to face competition-testing workouts that are always sustainable and fun.
Therefore, we have started a series of simulations and analyses based on the results of past editions, with the aim of defining new criteria for belonging to the various divisions, which are as up-to-date as possible and in line with the abilities and age of the real participants, i.e. “normal” people who train in class and who want to take to the field for passion.
Staying true to its mission, the 2025 Italian Showdown will be strongly community-oriented, with new skill divisions and age groups truly open to all, always without qualifications and always absolutely live on a new extended playing field, fully equipped by technical partner Xenios USA.