DEKA FIT Disqualification Update - Mark Polzin
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Mark Polzin finished 3rd in yesterday's DEKA FIT. Then went to his hotel to shower. When he came back for the awards ceremony, he was told he was disqualified for missing 2 burpees.
We have reached out to DEKA and are looking to get them on the horn soon.
Great coverage while maintaining integrity of all. Several great points were mentioned and many of us have the same concerns.
Crazy finish
I don't think the punishment fits the mistake, but that's a whole conversation on its own.
In terms of the judge vs athlete responsibility for counting reps...
We can't expect a volunteer judge who doesn't know the movements and has never judged high level athletes before, to count reps accurately. There will continue to be issues like this for as long as the sport allows that to happen.
My main issue in this particular case is that Mark told the judge that he was wrong, when he was indeed correct. If you do that, you should either a) own whatever happens to you as a result of doing incorrect reps, or b) continue counting yourself and if DEKA has an issue with it, you appeal and let the video show the truth.
It's both the judge AND the athlete's responsibility to count reps. We need to stop relieving the athlete of this responsibility. Athletes count their reps all the time in training, in sims, etc. They can count in competition, too.
I understand racing is not the same environment as training. I have competed in CrossFit, DEKA, HYROX, and lots of other local comps. Nerves are different. Race brain is real. But that is all part of why we run the race. Execution matters. Executing the correct number of repetitions is part of executing.
Judge at same event miscounted my med ball sit-up throws. She was not no repping me. She just kept pausing. I did 30 instead of 25. It was weird.
Surely if you did the bike first then all 10 events would be out of order, Numerically. So that would be a 10 x 1 min penalty.
Athlete: Find 10 judges that know what the he$$ they’re doing…
Also Athlete: Judge (correctly) called 4 Reps, Athlete (incorrectly) called it 5. Had Athlete just followed the Judge there would be no DQ.
This isn’t even taking into account Athlete’s lack of form standard (which Athlete WAS called out on during Reps, but Athlete still repeated).
Suspect the athlete intimidated the judge with his assertion.
It’s always the cheats that squeal the loudest. Agreed that the application of the DQ seems harsh, but I have no time for cheats, which is what he was, knowingly doing his burpees incorrectly.
Specific to the race it is very simple - the judge said he was done and that should makes it final. The idea that Spartan does after the fact penalties is horrible. Even allowing in the weirdest way that it was appropriate to self count burpees on a Spartan course it completely irrelevant to a DEKA race and what is going on. Props to Mark - he said he was there to qualify and he didn't; he is taking the high road as much as possible. Class act!