Out in the Country Crossfield 2025

Date: May 3, 2025
City: Crossfield, Alberta, Canada
Venue: Crossfield District & Community Hall
Address: 900 Mountain Ave, Crossfield, AB T0M 0S0
Details: Main Hall
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Cache Adams, Niels Nijstad, and Speedcubing Canada
WCA Delegates: Dylan Vaskevicius, Laura Plourde, and Orion Donovan

: Download all the competition's details as PDF here.

Information

Registration Reminders
You must register and pay the registration fee before your registration can be accepted. Unpaid registrations will not be accepted.

Please review all of the tabs listed on this website. You only need to show up for the events that you're competing in - but we encourage you to show up for longer. Note that we may run ahead of or behind schedule, so please be ready for each event/round about 30 minutes in advance, just in-case.

Notice of Filming and Photography
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Events
Main event

Competitor limit: 125

Number of times bookmarked: 11

Registration period: Online registration will be open from to .
Registration requirements: 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 125 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $30 (Canadian 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 .
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Any spectator can attend for free.

Due to the venue capacity, please try to limit your guests to 2 guests per competitor if possible.

For first-time competitors:

There are multiple things a first-timer must know before competing. All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. Watch this video for the basic overview of the rules.

In addition, please read this WCA Competition Tutorial before coming to the competition to learn about the procedures for judging.

All competitors:

When you arrive, you will receive a card/nametag with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event. In addition, you will also receive staffing assignments. Most competitors are expected to help at this competition.

We will provide a judging tutorial at the beginning of the day. This will allow anyone with questions about how to judge to be properly prepared when they are expected to help. We hope that this system will fairly divide up the judging of the competition and make the competition run smoothly for all.

All spectators:

Spectators must remain at least 1.5 meters away from the solving stations when they are in use, as per Article 7b of the WCA Regulations. No flash photography is permitted.

Food

Crossfield has many local restaurants covering many different styles of food, and there is also fast food restaurants such as Dairy Queen, and Subway.

Travel

Hotels
While Crossfield does have a local inn, we recommend competitors consider staying in the nearby city of Airdrie, which offers a variety of highly-rated accommodations, including well-known chains such as Hampton Inn, Holiday Inn Express, and Ramada by Wyndham. These hotels provide reliable amenities and are just a short drive from Crossfield, ensuring a comfortable and convenient stay for your trip.

Getting to Crossfield
Both major enterances to Crossfield are located on the QEII highway, both Northbound and Southbound.
Competitors going Northbound coming from Calgary will want to take Exit 295, and competitors going Southbound coming from Edmonton will want to take Exit 305.

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.