2025 TRU Challenge (formerly Festivus)
2025 TRU
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Grab your gym partner and jump in the TRU Challenge!
**TRU Challenge is for Intermediate and Novice athletes only. **
If you compete in the RX or Elite divisions in other competitions or place in the top 10% of The Open or top 5% of your age group division in The Open, you are ineligible to compete in the TRU Challenge. If you choose to sign-up and we find out that you are, in fact ineligible, you will be disqualified and not be offered a refund.
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Since 2011
TRU Challenge, formerly the Festivus Games, since 2011, is a competition for "the rest of us" - for the 95% of athletes who aren't pure-Rx firebreathers. No athlete, whether six months in or brand new, will need to scale any of the events. The competition is about capacity more than a high degree of skill. Everyone can row…just how fast? Everyone can deadlift..just how much?
Since the first competition with about 70 athletes Festivus Games has grown to over 17,000 athletes a year!
When you compete in the Festivus Games you can expect to be challenged but you can also expect to have a lot of fun. When you see the WODs you'll finally be able to say "I can do that!" With your boxmates, you will sweat, laugh, cheer and compete.