At 0530 on a Tuesday at Christ Community Church parking lot, a bunch of guys got together and looked around at each other waiting for something to happen. Here is their story.

QvQ quarterfinals got underway, as two incredibly mature individuals, a lawyer and a “businessman”, shouted commands and hoped the pax would not mutiny. Dick jokes were held to a minimum. This was all business between a clash of F3 Isotope titans.

Popcorn kicked off with a hotel room workout. No, not the kind of hotel room workout you get when you drop your kids off at the grandparents and you take your wife to the Quality Inn behind the McDonald’s off Statesville and 73 that one time last summer. This was a bootcamp style HIIT workout you could do in a confined space and without gym equipment. 45 seconds on, 15 seconds off of the following: burpees, supermans, high knees, merkins, jump squats, diamond merkins, al gore, plank, ww2. Then do it all again in reverse order.

Then Cherrybomb took over with a basketball court workout. Bear crawls, lunges, and other movements across the courts with merkins, burpees, and core work at each out of bounds line.

With that, the honorable judges Omega and Scrappy (wait is Ping a judge?) did the same kind of math that Drew Carey does on Who’s Line Is It Anyway? to determine that Popcorn moves to semifinals.

Thanks to all the pax and a very worthy competitor in Cherrybomb, the number 1 dude in F3 that I tried to emulate when I first started F3 nearly 5 years ago.