Garage Games One - February 11-12

Saturday - Individuals
Sunday - Teams
winners at ALL age groups
We are back again for a 3rd year in a new location.
We will have several new options for divisions.
RX ...for those that can do Life as Rxed
Scale ... for those that have issues with skills and weights
Beginner ... for those that just started

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Garage Games ONE – the event that started it all. With nearly 500 competitors last year, we look forward to entertaining you back in Woodstock GA. We have a new outdoor venue, and a new date. You won’t have to fight with the Superbowl crowd this year, February 11-12th.

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Event Logistics

As always, this event is set to test your overall fitness and work capacity. We have fun WOD’s that will have you dirty and smiling at the end. The outdoor back woods environment that we have found, will see to that. We will cap registration as we begin to fine tune our WOD’s.

In addition, all competitors that do both days of competition will receive a limited edition embroidered fleece jacket (working on this now). We will not produce these other than for this event, nor will they be sold in our merchandise store. Compete, and get one!

We will have a massive wedding type tent for competitors and vendors. It will be heated.

If you wish to bring your own tent and heat, please do so.

everything is subject to change as I’m working out all the logists now but trying to give details now

Saturday Feb 11th – Individuals
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Sunday Feb 12th – Teams Rx/Scaled
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teams size is 4 with any combination of male/female
but each female will get a bonus to your team (still working on this part) and it will be big.
each teammate must resgister individually and with the SAME TEAM NAME!!! so we can match you up
If you’d like to do a team but dont have teammates, then post a note on our FB page.

4 teammates x $80 = $320

$80 for individual registration

click me to register

Time line:
8am check in
9am events start
4pm events end (we hope)

You may register for both days. If you do both Individual and Team, then you will recieve a limited edition hoody
if you do one day then you will still get a shirt, but no hoody.

New Location for 2012

Divisions
RX – for those that can do movements and weights listed
Scaled – for those that have issue with skills and weights
Beginner – for those that are new to crossfit

Age Groups
- everyone will have 2 rankings: Overall and Age (like a 10k race)
- all divisions will also recieve a placing for age group with a list of placings online. Your heats will be created based on your grace time and age.
- each person will be ranked in the overall group (for points) and medals.
- age divisions will look like this (but its still being edited):
Youth, Teen, 20-25, 26-29, 30-33, 34-37, 38-41, 42-45, 46-48, 49-51, 52-54, 55+

Rankings
- you will get 2 rankings. Overall ranking for Garage Games Series Points and then your Age Division
- the top 3 people in each overall division ranking will be removed from the Age Division ranking (this follows the 10k race method)

Heats
-Heats will be created by using grace time (if you provide one) inconjunction with your age. If you didn’t give us a Grace time then it will be just your age.

Scoring
-Each WOD will be worth the same amount of points

- You will be ranked by finishes and 1st place gets 1 point, 2nd gets 2, etc

- Lowest number of points wins. Ties go to best placing.

- If you DNF an event you get either the MAX time, zero reps, zero weight. There are NO partial scoring.

- Everything will be posted on google docs for your viewing.

Tents
- You may bring a personal tent and use the grass as long as you do not get in the way of the WODs

To Bring!!!
- This park is very primitave. We will have 10 toilets and we will have a tiny generator for official use. We will have a 70x40ft heated tent. RSB catering will be selling paleo food and hot drinks.

- You should bring a chair, blanket, all your water, change of clothes, multiple shoes, your own rope/chalk/tape

- We will have several vendors there: apparel, shoes, and more.

Volunteers
-Volunteer and get a shirt. Volunteer all day get lunch. Volunteer all day both days get the volunteer hoody
-Compete 1 day, volunteer 1 day (all day) get both shirts, a lunch, a volunteer hoody.

volunteer here

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GG ONE promises for 2013 0

Garage Games ONE 2013 will be on 2/9-10.

Early bird gets 40-50% off for the first 50 registrations, 20-30% for the next 50, 5-10% for the next 50 (no refunds so be sure).
my promises for 2013:
- 3-4 wods that will not mess you up for the OPEN.
- individual Saturday & Team Sunday
- 9am start with a 3pm finish
- no awards presented that day (unless i figure out a better way to do scores by 2013)
- loads of fun
- better format for spectating
- special item for doing double day either competing or volunteering or mix.

Attempt to have for 2013:

- 2 heated tents

- bleachers for spectators

- a system to report scores that day (like sunday but better)

- trail run with twist

- classic crossfit wod

- Field of Pain 3

- mini obstacle course (provided by Firebreather Challenge)

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Meet the Champions: Travis Mayer 0

How did Travis Mayer become Champion of 2011 Garages Games? It is speculated that his inner fire was stoked when he missed qualifying for the 2011 Crossfit Regionals by one spot; however, the drive for victory has been with Travis for much longer.

Growing up in Woodstock, Georgia, he was on the cross country team and played basketball during high school. More notably, he was a competitive motocross rider for 8 years, which might be where his edge-of-disaster approach to working out originates. After nearly a decade of mud and the smell of gasoline, Travis had had his fun, but would shortly find a new kind of thrill. “I was a personal trainer down in McDonough, Georgia when I met my buddy, Justin Saxon, who told me to check out this Crossfit stuff. So I did, and I fell in love when the wonderful Fran broke me in.”

Shortly after his first exposure to Crossfit, Travis set his sights high, aiming to be the youngest man to win the Crossfit Games. He joined The Garage in the Fall of 2010, and with the help of his new coach, Wes Harper, began working diligently to meet his goal. Come March 16th, it was time for Travis to tackle his first obstacle.

Mayer has a diverse skill set.

The first 2 weeks of the 2011 Crossfit Open went very well, which came as no surprise to Travis, considering how hard he had worked. Unfortunately, sub-100th place finishes in weeks 3-5 would cause him to miss Regionals as an individual by 3 points. Though his score did not push him to Regionals as an individual, it did help boost The Garage’s affiliate team to the event, where they finished 23rd.

Disappointed with his individual performance, Travis immediately re-aimed. The target: The Garage Games Series. Having competed in The Garage Games earlier in the year, Travis had a sufficient idea of what to expect; having missed his previous goal, he knew the pain of failure. Later into the year, Travis sought out Nate Schrader (14th at the 2011 Crossfit Games) for help with his training. He would go on to win 7 out the 12 events he competed in for The Garage Games, which would garner him a perfect score. Travis was excited to hold an over-sized check in his hands for the first time. “It was an amazing feeling to be standing on top of the podium, knowing I just won was unbelievable.” Even after his victory, Travis insists, ”I believe that all the top athletes are great, and not ever knowing the WODs that will come up, it can be anyone’s game. Just all depends on the day, how your feeling, eating. All of it plays in together.”

"...knowing I just won was unbelievable."

Travis kept celebration brief, and got back to a strict Paleo diet and training hard in short order. Despite being the champion, Travis is not without weaknesses and is ready to admit to them. “I would would not like to see 1RM on snatch. Just not my cup of tea.” He also finds himself in the occasional long staring contest with cookies, which he is convinced are staring back at him. Cookies and snatches aside, Travis will be ready for the upcoming year. His year starts on February 11 in Garage Games ONE’s team event. Joining his team will be some of the South East’s best in Brian Kost, who finished 2nd to Mayer in The Series, Irving Hernadez, and Ty Hanson, both of whom have won Garage Games events.

His ever evolving training program, eating right, Garage Games events; it all leads to one thing in 2012:

“Crossfit Games. Period.”

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