Hybrid Games have come under increasing scrutiny in recent weeks, following a series of athlete testimonials and vendor complaints related to missed payments, broken promises, and lack of transparency.
In our first article “Hybrid Games – Questions of Trust and Transparency”, we detailed several of these claims, including firsthand accounts from athletes who say they were promised compensation or stakes in the business, only to be left unpaid or removed from the team without explanation.
A second piece “Another Athlete Speaks Out” featured Jessica Brady, who says she was paid a day rate to help film the launch video and was promised a 15 percent commission on ticket sales and a free entry to compete. She says she never received the promised race entry or commission payments, and has not seen any sales data. She also alleges her likeness and local reputation were used in early promotional content without follow-through.
Now, venue confusion is raising additional questions about Hybrid Games’ planning and professionalism. On June 20, the company posted a site visit to ExCeL London and announced that the next event would take place there on November 15–16. But just 15 days later, they posted that “something doesn’t feel right about London” and stated that the event would instead be held at Olympia, one week later.
When asked about the venue change, Hybrid Games owner Dale Walker said, “It’s with the lawyers,” and pointed to an Instagram comment implying that HYROX may have been involved. We have since confirmed that he shared a similar version of that story with at least two other individuals.
We reached out to HYROX for clarification. Their spokesperson responded:
“HYROX is solely focused on developing the sport of fitness racing and executing world-class events for our athletes, partners, judges, staff and wider community. We do not comment on the activities of other events.”
In other developments, on July 7, Hybrid Games posted that the first event of its 2026 season, rumored to be in Belfast, would go on sale that day. As of publication, no additional information or follow-up has been posted.
Wow…you are really out to get these guys.
My take is that that reserved the venue, but not paid the deposit. Another company has come in and asked for that date, the venue is obliged to check with first customer to ensure it pays the deposit – they will have a day or two and if customer 2 pays, customer 1 loses out.
This shows two major issues with the Hybrid games – they haven’t sold the tickets they’ve needed to cover the venue costs – which is worrying and the second they are not transparent and go out of their way to hide the truth which is even more concerning.