Catalyst Games 2011

Games 2010 Best Picture Winner Announced!

Unlike the Games, it wasn't even close!

Carolle Robinson will spend the next year competing at Catalyst for free! Her amazing picture of MaryAnn deadlifting 300lbs in Event #1 garnered 52% of the total vote, got featured on the CrossFit A-blog, and added as the facebook profile pic of more than one person! Brilliant, Carolle!

 
We couldn't be happier to have Carolle competing all year: she was the one who showed up for every single Green Army team training session before Sectionals; she's always a force in Bettys; she knows what 300lbs feels like herself.  We're jacked that she won, because we KNOW she'll use the free entries into every event she can!

Way to go, Carolle!

Catalyst Games 2010 Best Photo Contest

Well....it only took two weeks to choose our favourite ten pictures from over 2000! Thanks to all picture-takers who uploaded to our Flickr group!

In no order:

"The Stare-Down"

 
"Faces"

 
"Over and Above"

 
 
"Nice job, Buddy!"

 
"300"

 
"Mel Kipping"

 
"Mens' Rx Podium"

 
"Miranda"

 
"Sandy"

 
"Pam"

 
Instructions: vote for your three favourites on the right-hand side of any Catalyst site. Next Monday, we'll announce the winner, who will receive free entry into competitive Catalyst events for a year, including Murph, FranFest, Fight On Friday, Baseline Week, Midnight 5k...even Catalyst Games 2011! Get clickin'!

Best Photo Contest Rules

 
10 days later, the dust is finally settling enough for us to enjoy some quality art.  We've already seen A LOT of amazing stuff....does CrossFit self-select for creative people; does it spur creativity (as we're starting to believe); or are we just exceptionally lucky?  Already, 2000+ pictures have crossed our facebook profile; how are we supposed to choose?

We're passing the buck. If you have pictures you'd like to submit, you can choose ten and upload them to our Flickr group (you may need to join Flickr or Yahoo! - it's free.) You can also influence the judges early by hitting 'favourite' on a picture you REALLY, REALLY like!

Of those, we'll choose ten finalists and post them on our site on Friday.  You'll be allowed to vote for three.  The picture with the most votes wins.  We're not often democratic, but in this case, it's really up to the Family.

Plan B: email the photos to chris@catalystgym.com .

Rules: photos must be unedited.  We love seeing your artistic sense, and we love what PicNik does with this stuff....but it's too hard to judge.  So please submit only untouched photos in colour, black/white, or cyan (that's okay.) No extra text or highlights,  please.

Prize: free entry into EVERY Catalyst event for 1 year, including the 2011 Games! FranFest2010, Murph '11, the Midnight 5k....and many more to be announced!