The Beast of the East meets the Garage Games

We’ve got some big news for all you Beasts and Garage Games athletes out there. This past week I had the privilege of meeting with Dr Eric Richards and the rest of the awesome crew from the Garage Games. We spent a couple of days at the Garage Gym in Woodstock Georgia. Along with being some of the nicest people you will ever meet they share our vision for where our sport is heading.

After a couple of days of talking about how we could help each other grow our sport we decided on this: The 2012 Beast of the East will be one of the  ”major event ” options for CrossFitters hoping to win the 2012 Garage Games Series in the northeast. The marriage of our 2 events should be a huge benefit to both our competitions.Combining the high profile nature of the Garage Games and the Beast of the East should make for event of epic proportions. We should also expect to see more top athletes from the northeast competing to be crowned both the Beast of the East and the Garage Game series winner.

One added benefit will be is the chance to win the cash prize from the Beast of the East and the winners purse from the Garage Games. Now that is huge! Make sure you register fast. This thing will sell out before you know it.

We could not be more excited to partner with such a great event and great group of people. See you all in October.

Beast of the East 2012

The Beast of the East 2012

The new website for the Beast of the East 2012 is now live. It has been a long time coming and we are extremely excited to share it with you. Some of the bigger changes to this years event include:

• Going from a 2 day event to a 3 day event!
• A new Masters category with age brackets starting at age 40
• An exciting new Brazilian Jiu Jitsu competition. No points..to win you must submit your opponent!
• A new powerlifting competition featuring a push /pull ( Bench press/ Deadlift)
• The return of the Kettlebell Beast competition
• The return of Gary Valentine’s USAW Olypmic lifting competition

*Other changes include a 1 day spectator pass so you can choose to come to 1-2 or 3 days if you like.

*A streamlined registration process that will handle the bulk of the logistics online before you show up to compete.

* a brand new Rogue Rig designed for the Beast

* cash prizes awarded for the winners of each wod. This is the first time where you can get a chance to get in on the cash prizes for taking first place in any one event!

* cash prizes for each of the other non-CrossFit competitions.

Our vision for a world class fitness festival and competition is coming together at lightning speed. The 2012 Beast of the East will be twice as large as last years event. We know it’s still 10 months away but it’s never to soon to start your training. If your coming to spectate plan on taking Friday off …you won’t want to miss the start of the whole weekend. As always we are looking for volunteers and judges so if you’re interested please go to the BOE site and register early.

Thanks and see you all in October!