2027 Season · 11 regions · Our tenth year
BuiltDifferent.
Run by people who have stood on the same floor you have. Three stages, five-year brackets from 30 to 65+, and ten champions at the World Fitness Finals in December.
RX and Intermediate. Enter from any gym in the world.
Photography — Ross Forte & Dylan Olivier
Early bird closes
The road to the Championship
Three stages · Jan to Aug 2027
STAGE 01
Online Qualifier
Four workouts, filmed and submitted from your own gym, anywhere in the world. Top 8 per division and age group in each region advance.Registration open →STAGE 02
Semi Finals
In-person events across Australia and New Zealand, plus online entry from the Northern Territory, Indonesia and anywhere else in the world. Top 3 per age category and division qualify.Six venues confirmedSTAGE 03
Championship
Three days at Seaworks, Williamstown. Friday check-in and Event 1, then a full weekend of competition and the presentation.Seaworks, Williamstown
World Fitness Finals
Copenhagen, December 2026
Bella Center · 17–20 December
Ten MastersHQ champions — the number one RX man and woman in each age group from 35–39 to 55–59 — compete at the World Fitness Finals in Copenhagen this December.
Four workouts filmed in a home gym in January. A world final in December. That is what a season here can turn into.
Where this can leadStage 01 — Online Qualifier
Enter from any gym, anywhere
Stage 02 — Semi Finals
Top 3 per division advance
| Region | Window | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Victoria | 17–18 April 2027 | AusFitness Expo, Melbourne |
| Queensland | June 2027 | In person — venue TBA |
| New South Wales | June 2027 | BHD Fitness |
| South Australia | June 2027 | CrossFit Mount Barker |
| ACT | June 2027 | In person — venue TBA |
| Western Australia | June 2027 | Injustice CrossFit |
| New Zealand | June 2027 | CrossFit D-Day |
| Tasmania | June 2027 | In person — venue TBA |
| Northern Territory | June 2027 | Online submission |
| Indonesia | June 2027 | Online submission |
| International | June 2027 | Online submission — open worldwide |
The gyms that host us
2026 semi final hosts · tap a gym for their Instagram · 2027 venues listed above
- QueenslandAnchor Fitness
- New South WalesBHD Fitness
- South AustraliaCrossFit Mount Barker
- ACTCrossFit SFS, Hume
- Western AustraliaInjustice CrossFit
- New ZealandCrossFit D-Day
- Northern TerritoryExpressions of interest open
- VictoriaAusFitness Expo
- TasmaniaExpressions of interest open
Interested in hosting a 2027 semi final at your gym? Get in touch.
Stage 03 — Championship
Seaworks, Williamstown · 13–15 August 2027
Friday 13 August
Athlete check-in from mid-morning. Event 1 runs in the afternoon.Saturday 14 August
Full competition day.Sunday 15 August
Final events, presentation on site from 6:00pm, after party from 6:30pm.Session times to be confirmed.
From the floor
Athlete feedback
This comp is second to none. They are very, very organised, and the communication from them is unbelievable. The online comp was partnered with personal emails showing the WODs, movement standards via YouTube, and a score sheet. Could not have been any easier or more professional.
Awesome job at managing a smooth and flawless competitive platform for masters, with programming which is challenging but considered for masters athletes at all levels. I'll be back for sure.
How we run it
What happens on the floor
A masters competition is won or lost on the floor, not on the website. Ten seasons in, this is what we hold ourselves to.
Ben Abbott, MC — Down Under Championship, Torian, the Australian Open and top events worldwide.
DJ VIC, music — the DJ for Hyrox in Australia and internationally, and on the decks at Down Under Championship, Torian and the CrossFit Games.
Mel Robinson, owner and competition director — MastersHQ across all ten seasons, past owner of the Down Under Championship and part of running it for more than a decade, event director of the Expo Games, and owner of Ballarat Goldfields CrossFit.
Training for it is the other half
Masters Athlete Accelerator · Luke De Jonge
Signing up is the easy part. It is the months in between that decide how February goes.
Luke De Jonge is an exercise physiologist who spends his days with masters athletes — people training around old injuries, full time jobs and a body that stopped recovering like it did at 25. He writes the MastersHQ workouts for the 2027 season, and his Masters Athlete Accelerator is built for exactly that athlete.Minimum effective dose
No junk volume. The least work that still moves the needle, so you turn up to the Qualifier sharp instead of cooked.Written around your body
Programming set to your age, your goals, your recovery and your injury history. Not a template built for a 24 year old.Performance, longevity and health
The point is not only a better score in February. It is still training well in ten years.Coaches you can actually reach
Direct access to Luke and to Tyler, his partner and the program’s newest coach, plus a community of masters athletes chasing the same thing.$99 per monthFully onlineAny level, any age bracket
See the programRun independently by Luke De Jonge. MastersHQ does not deliver the coaching. Accelerator members get no advance access to the qualifier workouts. Everyone sees them at the same time, on the same day.
Brands backing the series
Stage 01 opens 15 January 2027
