Every CrossFit Games event, in one searchable almanac

The problem

The Games have changed a lot since 2007. The workouts, the places and the rules all moved. But the facts sat in old posts, videos and forum threads.

Our coaches wanted one place to look things up. So we built it for our own gym first.

What we built

The Games Almanac lists every individual event in Games history. Each year has its own page with the champions, the format and every workout.

It is an independent project. It is not linked to CrossFit, the company.

• TimelineFour eras, from the Ranch years to today, with a card for each year.
• EvolutionCharts that show how the programming shifted over time.
• MovementsEvery movement ever used, and when it first showed up.
• Records and loreThe champions wall and the biggest, longest and heaviest tests.

How we built it

1. One research agent collected each year's events from public sources.
2. A second agent checked every claim against the first.
3. Where sources disagreed, we kept both and left a note. We did not guess.
4. A build script cleaned movement names, so one movement has one name everywhere.
5. The script then linked each Games movement to the daily workouts that use it.

What changed

Today the almanac covers 241 events across 20 Games and 103 movements. We found that 39 of those movements never showed up in a daily workout. They only live on the Games floor.

Coaches now use it to see where a workout came from. Athletes use it to see what a Games year really asked of people.

It also gave us a base for more tools, like head-to-head views and a what-if scoring page.