[7] Toomey put in a dominant display to win the women's compeitin by 195 points over Kristin Holte.

For the first year since 2008, the CrossFit Games no longer hosted a regional qualifier and instead sanctioned independently run events around the world.

The events were trademarked as "Sanctionals" by CrossFit,[12] and were used to qualify participants in the Men, Women, and Team divisions for the 2019 Games.

[4][14] Individual athletes qualified for the 2019 CrossFit Games in one of four ways by order of precedence: becoming a national champion in the 2019 CrossFit Open, finishing in the top 20 men or women worldwide in the Open, winning a Sanctionals event, or by select invitation at the Games' discretion.

[16][17][18] After the national champions were determined, the next 20 overall male and female worldwide finishers in the Open qualified for the Games.

[24] The drastic nature of the cuts and how early the athletes were cut proved controversial as many podium finishers of previous Games such as Sara Sigmundsdottir, Samantha Briggs, Annie Thorisdottir, Patrick Vellner, Brent Fikowski, and Ben Smith failed to reach the later stages of the competition.

A bag fell out of Mat Fraser's rucksack near the end of the 6 km run without his being aware of it, which led to a penalty of 60 seconds, dropping his position in the event from 6th to 17th.

As many repetitions as possible in 20 minutes of: A traditional CrossFit workout, the competitors performed five handstand push-ups, then ten squats, followed by fifteen pull-ups.

The event was won by Noah Ohlsen, who took the overall lead from Mat Fraser with this win,[28] and Kari Pearce.

A 1,000-meter (3,300-foot) swim to a buoy in Lake Monona and back to shore, then immediately grabbing a paddleboard for a 1,000-meter paddle on the same course.

In Ringer 2, the athletes alternated between completing burpees and jumping up to touch the rings as a target and overhead squats with a barbell.

[30] For the final event, a combination of three standard CrossFit workouts were done back-to-back-to-back: "Grace" (30 clean and jerks), muscle-ups, and "Isabel" (30 snatches).

The event was won both Mat Fraser and Tia-Clair Toomey, who also both repeated as CrossFit Games champions.

Teams were cut to 11 after Strongman's Fear, 9 after Sprint Relay, 7 after Big Chipper, 5 after Swim Paddle.