{"id":93667,"date":"2025-10-22T05:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T05:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/93667\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T05:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T05:54:10","slug":"is-mad-fitness-festival-the-second-semifinal-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/93667\/","title":{"rendered":"Is MAD Fitness Festival the Second Semifinal in Europe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today the @mad_fitness_festival Instagram account made three posts outlining the 2026 CrossFit Games schedule. The second post, which included the timeframe for Semifinals, included a logo for the MAD Fitness Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The caption rad, \u201cThe 2026 CrossFit Games season is here! ARE YOU READY TO MAKE HISTORY?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mantasleep.com\/?thebarbellspin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22864\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761112450_873_mantasleep_banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"294\"  \/><\/a>Use code \u2018SPIN\u2019 to save 10%<\/p>\n<p>The account is run by <a href=\"https:\/\/madsportevents.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MAD Events<\/a>. If you are not familiar with them, they used to run the Madrid Championship and last hear hosted Wodland Fest, one of the In-Person Qualifying Events for the 2025 CrossFit Games.<\/p>\n<p>In 2026, however, it appears their competition is getting a bit of a rebrand. With Wodland Fest\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wodlandfest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram account<\/a> not making a post since this past May, it appears that the new Semifinal in Europe, run by the same organization, will be called the MAD Fitness Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The Instagram account has repurposed the Madrid Championship account and has renamed it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mad_fitness_festival\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@mad_fitness_festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No additional details have been released such as location or dates, but all signs point to this being the second Semifinal competition within Europe for the 2026 CrossFit Games season.<\/p>\n<p>The other European Semifinal, the French Throwdown, <a href=\"https:\/\/thebarbellspin.com\/crossfit-games\/2026-french-throwdown-set-for-may-15-17\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced earlier today<\/a> that it will be held May 15-17.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier today the @mad_fitness_festival Instagram account made three posts outlining the 2026 CrossFit Games schedule. The second post,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[565,134,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-93667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}