Corpus Christi Summer 2025
- Date
- Jun 7, 2025
- City
- Corpus Christi, Texas, United States
- Venue
American Bank Center
- Address
- 1901 N Shoreline Blvd, Corpus Christi, TX 78401
- Details
Henry Garrett Prefunction
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Casey Ngo, Nicholas Pena, and Southern Cubing LLC
- WCA Delegates
- Matt Lee, Michael Conard, and Tristan Patrick
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
We are excited to announce the first ever World Cube Association competition in Corpus Christi!
This competition is supported by Southern Cubing LLC. To learn more about cubing in the Southern USA, including other competitions, visit Southern Cubing.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitor limit
- 120
- Number of times bookmarked
- 10
- Registration period
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Online registration will be open from Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC to Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC.
- Registration requirements
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Create a WCA account here if you don't have one.
If this is not your first competition, associate your WCA ID to your WCA account here.
Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 120 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $25 (United States Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
If your registration is cancelled before Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC you will be refunded 75% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Any spectator can attend for free.
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 64 advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 16 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 16 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 3:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:30.00 | Top 12 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 3:00.00 | |||
| 5x5x5 Cube | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 5:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 2:30.00 | Top 12 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 5:00.00 | |||
| 6x6x6 Cube | Final | Bo1 / Mo3 | 6:00.00 | 1 attempt to get < 3:45.00 | |
| 7x7x7 Cube | Final | Bo1 / Mo3 | 10:00.00 | 1 attempt to get < 5:00.00 | |
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 1:30.00 | 2 attempts to get < 45.00 | Top 12 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 1:30.00 |
Important Links (to come soon)
Group Sheet:
Live Results:
All Competitors
- Please try to arrive at least 30 minutes early for the events you are competing in to ensure that you are on time for that event.
- We will use regulation 9p3 as much as we can. So if you do not arrive to compete by the time the event is starting, your spot may be given up the next competitor in the rankings.
- To keep the competition running on time and to ensure we can keep all events we will be requiring competitors to also judge. Pay attention to the group assignment sheet - This is essential to keep the events on schedule. We also invite any parents or guests to also help to judge - thank you for your support. Please arrive to attend the New Competitor & Judges tutorial.
- Your delegates for this competition are <Delegate List>. Ask them if you have any questions throughout the day!
New Competitors
- Please try to arrive early to watch the new competitor introduction.
- Additionally you can watch Kit Clement's WCA Competitor Tutorial video.
- Please be familiar with all of WCA's regulations, most importantly Article A. If you have any questions about the regulations, feel free to ask us.
- In each event we will have rounds. We will take the top competitors into subsequent rounds. After a round is completed it will be entered into WCA Live. Your name will be highlited if you are advancing to the next round.
- Each round will be divided into groups to help them run more efficiently. We will call the groups in order, along with a last call during the last group. Please come bring your puzzle up and wait in the competitor waiting area when your group is called. We are allowed to deny you the ability to compete if you do not come up by the last call.
Room Details: This competition will be held in the Henry Garrett Prefunction. The venue is located in the second floor and can be reached by either escalator or elevator.
Parking: The parking garage attached to the venue is 10-15 USD, depending on whether prepay or day of payment is preferred. There is public parking west to the venue, east to the Harbor Playhouse.The seawalk has various amounts of public parking alongside N Shoreline Blvd aswell. Here is the parking payment portal for the venue's closest parking https://app.parkmobile.io/venues/american-bank-center/events/261262
Lunch: NO OUTSIDE FOOD OR DRINK IS PERMITTED IN THE VENUE. There are several restaurants near the venue. Here are the closest restaurants.
Hotels: There are several hotels near the venue with the shortest walking distance being 13 minutes from the Omni hotel. Most hotels are within a 10 minute drive. Here are the closest hotels.
Travel: The Corpus Christi International Airport is a 15 minute drive away from the venue.
TBA
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Time limit
If you reach the time limit during your solve, the judge will stop you and your result will be DNF (see Regulation A1a4).
Cutoff
The result to beat to proceed to the second phase of a cutoff round (see Regulation 9g).
Format
The format describes how to determine the ranking of competitors based on their results. The list of allowed formats per event is described in Regulation 9b. See Regulation 9f for a description of each format.