Mississippi Championship 2025
- Date
- Feb 22 - 23, 2025
- City
- Natchez, Mississippi, United States
- Venue
- Address
- 211 Main Street, Natchez MS 39120
- Details
Mississippi Suite
- Contact
- Organizers
- David Heaton, RJ Gohn, and Southern Cubing LLC
- WCA Delegates
- RJ Gohn and Seth Talbot
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This is Mississippi's first State Championship! Please read the State Champion Eligibility tab for all relevant information.
- Please review the Competitor Information tab before the competition.
- Please review the other tabs for more information on the competition.
Please note that the schedule is subject to change, as we may hold events slightly earlier or later than shown depending on whether the competition is running ahead of schedule or behind schedule.
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
- 85
- Number of times bookmarked
- 28
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and will close .
- 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 85 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $40 (United States Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 50% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
We encourage everyone to register for the events they want to compete in via your online registration, however you may add events to your registration up until the event has started.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
There will be no refund to no-shows unless cancelled before the deadline Friday, February 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Registration
- Registration is first come, first served based on the order of when payment is received.
Deleting Registration/Refunds
- If you register and later realize you cannot make the competiton, you can request a 50% refund (via the contact link on the General Info tab before registration closes.
- No refunds will be awarded after Friday, February 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM.
Adding/Dropping Events
- Competitors may add events after registration closes.
- Competitors may edit their registration to remove events. It is also acceptable to not show up for any event you do not wish to compete in.
Waitlist
- If the competitor limit has been reached, the waitlist opens. You can enter the waitlist by registering and paying the fee. Competitors will be accepted from the waitlist in the order that they paid.
- Competitors who do not make it off of the waitlist before the deadline (Friday, February 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM) will receive a full refund shortly before the competition.
- No more registrations will be accepted from the waitlist after Friday, Friday, February 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM.
Please follow all instructions or else your registration may be delayed.
In 48 hours, if you do NOT see your name on the Competitor List, then please reach out to us using the contact link on the General Info tab.
If the competitor limit is filled, you may still register and pay the registration fee if you wish, but you will be placed on a waitlist. Your registration will not be accepted unless a spot opens up.
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 RJ Gohn and Seth Talbot. 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.
This is the first annual Mississippi Championship! While only residents of Mississippi are eligible to win the title of Mississippi Champion, residents of any state or country are welcome and encouraged to compete.
We ask that competitors expecting to have a chance at a Mississippi Champion title bring proof of residence (current driver's license or school ID, etc.)
More information regarding eligibility can be found here.
Keep up to date about competitions and all things cubing related here!
As this is the first competition in Southern Mississippi we wanted to provide some information to ensure everyone has a chance to enjoy the historic downtown area of Natchez!
Hotels: Natchez Grand Hotel (connected to venue)
Best Western
Holiday Inn
Food: Local restaurants
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).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced (see Regulation A1a2).
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.