In late-March, the CrossFit Games gave fans on Facebook a chance to choose what final workout to put athletes through at a qualifier tournament in Iceland. The result: the Games shattered its streaming record on Facebook, pulling in more than one million viewers and more than 300,000 comments.
For the first time ever, Dave Castro, the director of the CrossFit Games, gave viewers an option to vote on three potential options for Open Workout 18.5, the final discipline of a five-workout series that determines which athletes move forward to Regionals.
From a studio in Reykjavík at 3 p.