The PFAA created this guidance to support event organizers in scoring their events/competitions. This method ensures consistency across different competitions that can have a differing number of athletes. Any competition, event, or company that wishes to use this content is welcome to do so.

How to Use Scoring Tables

  1. Determine the number of athletes competing at your competition.

  2. If you have more than 100 athletes at your competition, we recommend using the scoring system that the CrossFit Open uses: 1st place = 1 point; 2nd place = 2 points, and so on. At the end of the competition, the athlete with the fewest total points is the winner. We have not created a spreadsheet for this self-explanatory Scoring Table.

  3. If athletes tie in a test (exact same reps on an AMRAP, exact same weight lifted in a 1 rep max, exact same finish time) they should receive the same number of points.. 

    • For example, if they tie for the winning score they both receive 100 points and the next best score receives points for a third-place finish. This is standard practice at the CrossFit Games and other fitness competitions.

  4. If you have 100 athletes or fewer, use the Even Distribution Scoring Table. Find the tab that corresponds to the number of athletes competing and use that Scoring Table. The athlete with the most points at the end of the competition wins.

  5. If the number of athletes decreases (due to injury or otherwise) after the event has started, we recommend you retain the same Scoring Table with which you started the competition.

    Note: The PFAA recommends competitions never cut athletes and maintain the full field for the entire competition.

How did the PFAA make these Scoring Tables? 

These straightforward Scoring Table recommendations stem from years of elite athlete experience. 100 competing athletes receive 1 point per increase in rank, while 50 competing athletes receive 2 points per increase in rank. We used CrossFit Inc’s Even Distribution Scoring Tables from prior competitions to distribute the points for other field sizes such as competitions with 40 athletes to avoid fractions.

Here are links to Even Distribution Scoring Tables used by the CrossFit Games:
2019 CrossFit Games | 2021 CrossFit Games | 2022 CrossFit Games