Late Call-Ups Abbie Domit and Jack Farlow Won $20,000 Each at Wodapalooza SoCal

• Abbie Domit and Jack Farlow joined the OUTCAST team within an hour of Justin Medeiros and Ellie Turner withdrawing from the Huntington Beach event.
• OUTCAST finished the three-day Battle of the Camps with 28 points, two ahead of PRVN, and each of its six athletes took home $20,000.
• A last-place finish in the final workout, reversed on appeal to second place, decided the title.

A Wildcard Roster Rebuilt in an Hour Still Won

Four days before Gymreapers Wodapalooza SoCal opened on the sand beside the Huntington Beach Pier in California, the team called OUTCAST lost two of its headline names. Justin Medeiros, the two-time CrossFit Games champion, had been in a motorcycle accident, and his fiancée Ellie Turner withdrew from the Battle of the Camps alongside him. Within an hour of that announcement, the team named replacements: Abbie Domit and Jack Farlow.

The event ran September 26 to 28, and the pair left as winners of the first Battle of the Camps. OUTCAST beat three established training groups for a $120,000 first prize, which works out to $20,000 for each of its six athletes. For two substitutes who had been asked to fill in on short notice, that is a large payday for a weekend of work.

OUTCAST was built as a wildcard entry for this event, coached by Adam Neifer. Arielle Loewen and Tudor Magda served as captains. Danielle Brandon and Domit rounded out the women, while Farlow and Bill Leahy joined Magda on the men’s side. One detail from The Barbell Spin adds a personal note: Farlow was probably already in Huntington Beach, as his girlfriend, Emma Lawson, competed for the rival BRUTE team. Lawson finished second in the women’s field at the 2026 CrossFit Games, so the couple spent the weekend on opposite sides of the same scoreboard.

What Battle of the Camps Asks of Six Athletes

In CrossFit, a camp is a coached training group that develops athletes under one program. The Wodapalooza format pits four of them against each other. Each camp fields six athletes, three women and three men, and the weekend stacks 11 workouts across three days. Some workouts score women and men separately, which creates 16 scoring opportunities in total. Teams earn three points for first place, two for second, one for third and none for fourth.

The field was deep. BRUTE, coached by Matt Torres, brought James Sprague, the reigning Fittest Man on Earth, along with Dallin Pepper, the 2026 Games runner-up, and Jayson Hopper. PRVN, founded by Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr and Shane Orr, sent Jay Crouch, Maddie Sturt, Colten Mertens, Ricky Garard, Olivia Kerstetter and Kyra Milligan. Training Think Tank, founded in 2013 by Max El-Hag, sent Noah Ohlsen, who collected the $10,000 MVP award, plus Travis Mayer, Hannah Black, Lydia Fish, Anikha Greer and Chandler Smith.

OUTCAST won more than the last event. The team won the men’s Rob O. workout in 4:11.59 and took both the women’s and men’s Vertigo events, in 5:31.81 and 4:59.40. Training Think Tank won several women’s pieces, PRVN took the men’s Shoulder Season in 18:21.44, and BRUTE won Divide and Conquer in 15:48.70. The final tally read OUTCAST 28, PRVN 26, Training Think Tank 24 and BRUTE 19.

• First place: OUTCAST, $120,000 ($20,000 per athlete)
• Second place: PRVN, $48,000 ($8,000 per athlete)
• Third place: Training Think Tank, $24,000 ($4,000 per athlete)
• Fourth place: BRUTE, $12,000 ($2,000 per athlete)

Rope Randy and the Appeal

The title came down to the last event, a captains-only workout called Rope Randy. Each captain completed 300 heavy double-unders, a jump rope skill where the rope passes under the feet twice on every jump, then moved into 75 synchronized dumbbell snatches done in sets of 15 reps on each floor square. Loewen and Magda represented OUTCAST.

According to The Barbell Spin, the pair completed 30 reps and then skipped the entire third square, moving on with only 60 of the 75 required reps. A judge initially directed them to the finish line, which muddied whether the workout was complete. OUTCAST crossed the line last. The team then appealed and received second place in the event, which gave it the two extra points it needed to pass PRVN. Wodapalooza did not publish an explanation of the ruling, The Barbell Spin reported, so the result leaves a question that the organizers have yet to answer publicly.

Fans who follow the sport will likely argue about that finish for weeks. For athletes reading along at home, the practical lesson is familiar from any local competition: count your reps, confirm with your judge, and keep your eyes on the standard until the clock stops.

What the Festival Means for Everyone Else on the Beach

Battle of the Camps drew the attention, but the festival around it is where most of the competitors were. Hoodline reported that more than 2,000 athletes competed across September 26 to 28, roughly double the size of the event in 2024. The program included the flagship Gymreapers Wodapalooza competition, strongman, Olympic weightlifting and a U.S. Army obstacle challenge called The Gauntlet. Organizers projected an $8 million economic footprint for Huntington Beach, a city that already draws 2.34 million visitors a year.

Local access was part of the plan. Huntington Beach residents with valid ID paid $15 a day to watch, a price low enough for a family to turn up for an afternoon. A WZA Sports executive told Hoodline the crowd brings money without much friction, saying, “We love to dine, shop and sleep in beds.”

For a curious newcomer, the format is easier to approach than the prize purse suggests. The elite workouts use movements found in any CrossFit gym: rope jumping, dumbbell work, rowing and running. The wider festival field of more than 2,000 athletes raced in the sand beside the pier over the same three days.

The story of OUTCAST adds a second lesson for gym owners and coaches: a roster is only as solid as its bench. Domit and Farlow had about four days to prepare for a three-day event, and they left with the biggest check of the weekend. Medeiros watched from the sidelines, and the wildcard team that lost him still finished first.