@theparadox116 Sprint events, in general, aren't really a good test of fitness. It introduces a level of technique and precision that's really beyond the scope of CrossFit IMHO. At least - they should not be used for making huge cuts like they were.
In the Sprint Couplet, as this post notes, individual lanes can have variations that can make a considerable difference. They were on astroturf (afaik) so there should be almost no variation in the field, yet there was. The snatches from the first event were making considerable marks in the field, and the first heat had a lot of athletes that didn't make any snatches - this will mess up some lanes more than others for the sled push.
The obstacle course was even worse, and I'm sure it's been discussed to death here. There were two results in the obstacle course (fortunately both were below the cut line) that used thousandths of a second to determine the score. The entire event was won on hundredths of a second. They did have the athletes perform the workout multiple times, which perhaps means that there's a claim to be made re: consistency, but the scores were varying by several hundredths of a second as the event went on, so I'm not sure that it's a good test. Something as simple as starting out on the left or right leg can put the chip timer over the line before another athlete. An extra half-step accelerating out of the obstacles. The event did not introduce enough of a spread in the scores to be meaningful.
