Crossfit 26.2 Announcement Set for Cascais With Live Duel Featuring Top Athletes
The crossfit 26. 2 announcement will take place on March 5 at CrossFit Black Edition in Cascais, Portugal, with the reveal scheduled for 12 p. m. PT and a live broadcast for fans worldwide. The timing matters because athletes will have until 5 p. m. PT the following Monday to submit their scores for the second of three Open workouts.
Crossfit 26. 2 Announcement at CrossFit Black Edition, Cascais
Organizers have scheduled the Crossfit 26. 2 announcement for Thursday, March 5, with the event staged at CrossFit Black Edition in Cascais. The reveal will be streamed live and free on the CrossFit Games website and on the platform's YouTube channel, allowing both competitors and viewers to watch the matchup broadcast in real time. The announcement slot is set for 12 p. m. PT; submissions for Workout 26. 2 must be uploaded by 5 p. m. PT on the following Monday, March 9, preserving the same schedule used for the first week.
The second workout is the middle test of the three-workout Open window, and the live broadcast will again include a duel that highlights elite competitors. For this announcement, the producers have called on Lucy Campbell, Mirjam von Rohr and Aimee Cringle to take part in the on-stage matchup that typically accompanies each workout reveal.
Dave Castro’s Hints, Week One Results and the Duel Lineup
Teasers for the Open have already been part of the narrative: earlier in the cycle Dave Castro shared a close-up image of what appeared to be the eye of a bison, followed a day later by an AI-generated clip showing a pyramid forming and exploding in fire. Those hints were tied to the first announcement sequence and helped generate early guesses about programmed movements and rep schemes. The first workout’s live reveal happened at 3: 00 p. m. Eastern Time and the week that followed delivered clear leaderboard movement.
After Week One, Mirjam von Rohr and Bjarni Leifs led the female and male leaderboards in their respective divisions, underscoring how quickly standings can shift early in the Open. With those results in hand, athletes now turn attention to Workout 26. 2, and the duel on March 5 will spotlight three athletes who could influence the tone of the next leaderboard shakeup: Lucy Campbell, the second-place finisher at last year’s Games; Mirjam von Rohr, a past overall Open winner; and Aimee Cringle, who posted multiple top-five event finishes at the Games last season.
Because the announcement is both live and publicly accessible, coaches and competitors can watch the duel and immediately begin planning strategy for recording and submitting official attempts. The five-day window between the reveal and the 5 p. m. PT submission deadline compresses recovery and attempt planning, making every hour after the broadcast valuable for athletes and teams.
What makes this notable is the repeatable structure organizers have used: a public, duel-driven reveal at a central venue paired with an identical submission timetable to the first week. That predictable cadence concentrates attention on the matchup as much as on the workout itself and frames the first several days after the reveal as a decisive operational period for competitors.
Fans who want to follow the reveal should tune in at the stated 12 p. m. PT slot on March 5 to catch the duel and full workout reveal, then expect the results window to close at 5 p. m. PT on Monday, March 9. The second out of three Open workouts will therefore determine how athletes approach the final week and which names rise or fall on the live leaderboards.
