Worlds 2025 registration in 4 phases, with varying qualifying times

[UncleFrank]

Worlds 2025 will be July 3-6, 2025 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
Registration will open sometime in Fall 2024.
Registration is going to happen in 4 phases, with varying qualifying times for each phase.












See

CubingUSA - Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025

www.cubingusa.org

<edit> to add all phases/times together

 

[AhsanDaCuber125]

Phase 1 seems scary to me, I’m too slow. But I don’t think I’ll go to Worlds.

 

[Running for cube]

This reminds me of a conversation off the layer by layer podcast where they were talking about a 30 second cut off for a national competition. They were saying how 30 seconds could really cut off important people in the community, but that it would be interesting to see these high-level competitions really being high-level, and not just community hang outs. It's interesting to see them make these changes to really get the best people in the world, but I think it's worth it for other world cubing events to occur, like a convention.

 

[qwr]

MBLD 32 points? there's like 30 or so people in the world that qualify for the cutoff

 

[Curunír]

I'll need to practice hard if I want to get in the first phase for 3BLD

 

[BVCuber13]

If you log in to CubingUSA with your WCA account, you can see which phases you can register for. This is mine.

Spoiler: My PR Averages

3x3: 8.27
2x2: 2.85
4x4: 40.27
5x5: 1:16.26
6x6: 2:39.19
7x7: 4:17.14
3BLD: 1:11.58 single
FMC: 38.33
OH: 20.52
Clock: 7.47
Mega: 1:16.72
Pyra: 5.09
Skewb: 6.12
Squan: 21.08
4BLD: DNF single (2 centers)
5BLD: DNF single (not even close lol)
MBLD: DNF single (1/4)

 

[Lord_Oscar]

I just realised that some local comps in China have a quicker cutoff than we had in NZ Nats 2023

 

[fes_77]

Me smooth brain no understans the phases thingy can someone explain :c

 

[Curunír]

Me smooth brain no understans the phases thingy can someone explain :c

so each phase will be for a certain amount of time (I assume 1 or 2 weeks), and for each stage you have to be faster than the time stated to register.
for example in 3x3 the first phase is 8 seconds so only people with a time of 7.99 seconds or below can enter but by the time it gets to the 4th phase you only have to be sub-1

this is so people like Max Park can have some time to register before people like me who are realistically not going to win worlds.

 

[bldcuber314]

Good, this time we won't have issues with people like Tymon 84th on the waiting list.

 

[Exmestify]

the 3x3 cutoff for phase 4 is slower than the cutoff for 3x3 oh

 

[abunickabhi]

The qualification times in phase 1 is scary yo!

 

[ogSkewbed]

(me actually thinking I have a chance at clock phase 2 because i have 2 clock competitions and my pr is 8.66 but i am averaging 9.4)

 

[Spencer131]

MBLD 32 points? there's like 30 or so people in the world that qualify for the cutoff

MBLD is a lot of work for scrambling and judging, so it makes sense to allow less competitors for that event

I am so glad they are finally prioritizing better competitors for championships

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

I really like this idea, I hope it'll become mainstream for major championships. Although, I'll probably never go anyway unless there is one that's close enough, but oh well. Maybe the Netherlands get a WC at some point, considering it was cancelled in 2020.

the 3x3 cutoff for phase 4 is slower than the cutoff for 3x3 oh

I mean, more people will want to compete in 3x3 than in OH. OH is far less popular, so it makes sense to have a bit of a discrepancy there.

less

*fewer (sorry, I can't help myself)

 

[Spencer131]

*fewer (sorry, I can't help myself)

i had no idea there was a difference between less and fewer!

 

[HK-Speedcube]

Thanks for posting this out! seems like an interesting method, i will probably not participate (Seattle's on the opposite side of America ;/ ), but still fun that based on the phase i could take part (only in phase 4 but still)

 

[Arcanist]

Ummm...I still have a year.

 

[Garf]

Im a little slow for phase 2 but I can definitely do phase 3. So that means I need to get faster lol.

 

[Cubist-Guitar]

Most of the stuff I should be able to qualify for are phase 3, so getting to phase 2 for at least 5-7 events, I should want to go if I can.

The easiest ones for me (in order) would probably be Clock, Squan, 2x2, 4x4, Pyraminx, and Skewb, followed by 3x3 and 5x5+