[1] The winners of the Games were Rich Froning for the men's competition and Annie Thorisdottir for the women, who were both runners-up the previous year.

[4] CrossFit started a 10-year, $150 million, sponsorship and partnership deal with Reebok in 2011, and the prize money for the male and female individual winners of the Games increased substantially to $250,000 this year.

[6] 2011 was the first year the Open was implemented as part of the qualification process in a CrossFit season.

Athletes can submit their scores online either with video evidence or validation by judges in a CrossFit affiliate.

[7][8] Annie Thorisdottir and Dan Bailey were the respective female and male individual winners of the Open.

The workouts for the Regionals were standardized this year, and all athletes had to compete in the same six events to determine the qualifiers for the CrossFit Games.

Failure by an athlete to complete a certain movement, for example, a single handstand push-up in the first event, would result in elimination.

[16][17] Starting this year, CrossFit awarded prize money to all who qualified from the Regionals to the Games.