LA Twist or Treat 2025
- Date
- Nov 1, 2025
- City
- Hammond, Louisiana, United States
- Venue
Knights of Columbus Center
- Address
- 1700 N Oak St #1300, Hammond, LA 70401
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- RJ Gohn and Southern Cubing LLC
- WCA Delegates
- Jeremy Falanga, RJ Gohn, Seth Talbot, and Shawn Parker
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
Check out the Twist or Treat?! tab for information about special activites for this competition such as special treats and a costume contest!
- 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.
Make sure to check out Louisiana Speedcubing's Facebook group for upcoming competitions and announcements!
- Events
- Main event
- Competitor limit
- 60
- Number of times bookmarked
- 9
- 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 60 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $30 (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 .
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.
There will be no refund to no-shows unless cancelled before the deadline Saturday, October 25, 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 Saturday, October 25, 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 Saturday, October 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM will receive a full refund shortly before the competition.
- No more registrations will be accepted from the waitlist after Saturday, October 25, 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, Shawn Parker, Jeremy Falanga, 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.
Keep up to date about competitions and all things cubing related here!
🎃 Twist or Treat Extras: Costumes & Candy! 👻
We're adding a spooky spin to cubing fun at Twist or Treat 2025! In the spirit of Halloween, we invite all competitors and attendees to join in on some festive extras throughout the day:
🧛♂️ Costume Contest
Come dressed in your Halloween best!
All competitors who arrive in costume will be automatically entered into our costume contest. Costumes can be spooky, silly, clever, or cubing-themed - just make sure they don’t interfere with solving or judging.
🏆 Prizes will be awarded for winners!
🍬 Halloween Treats
It wouldn’t be Twist or Treat without treats!
We’ll have a selection of free Halloween candy and snacks available throughout the day for competitors and guests. We welcome attendees to bring prize or treat donations - however this is not required.
Whether you’re solving or spectating, we encourage everyone to get into the Halloween spirit. We can’t wait to see your creepy, kooky, and cubey costumes!
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.