Northern Tier Twist 2025


Date
Oct 25, 2025
City
Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, United States
Venue

Northern Tier Regional Library

Address
4015 Dickey Rd, Gibsonia, PA 15044
Details

Richland Room, Enter through side entrance from lower parking lot

Contact
Organization team
Organizers
Dev Choksi, Niam Choksi, and Stephen Griggs
WCA Delegates
Leia Jiang and Stephen Griggs
Download all the competition's details as PDF here.
Information

This competition is recognized as an official World Cube Association competition. Therefore, all competitors must be familiar with the WCA regulations. If you are new to competing, please refer to the Competitor Information tab.

Events
Main event
Competitors
36
Registration period

Online registration opened and closed .

Registration requirements
This competition is over, click here to display the registration requirements it used.
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Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 40 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $25 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 90% 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.

Registration is not complete until payment of the registration fee is made.

Once the 40 competitor limit has been reached, all subsequent registrations will be put on the waitlist. You must register and pay to get a spot on the waitlist. If you get off the waitlist, you will receive an email indicating that your registration was approved. If you are still on the waitlist on Friday, October 17th, 2025 at 11:59 PM EDT, you will receive a full refund of your registration fee.

Highlights
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Ganghui Lin (林刚辉) won with an average of 8.13 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Jacob Nobili finished second (8.64) and Sujan Feist finished third (8.64).

Event Name Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube Ganghui Lin (林刚辉) 7.00 8.13 China 9.758.777.417.008.20
2x2x2 Cube Sujan Feist 0.99 1.10 United States 0.991.221.800.991.09
4x4x4 Cube Ganghui Lin (林刚辉) 26.03 29.51 China 29.2628.9235.9130.3426.03
3x3x3 One-Handed Benjamin Pugh 10.39 12.63 United States 13.9912.9015.3911.0110.39
Clock Xavier Ye 3.41 5.34 United States 6.445.453.415.515.07
Megaminx Xavier Ye 44.39 50.23 United States 46.9154.6749.1255.5744.39
Pyraminx Xavier Ye 2.07 2.57 United States 2.232.944.622.532.07

Address: Northern Tier Regional Library
4015 Dickey Rd, Gibsonia, PA 15044

Parking: There is free parking available in front of the library.

Entrance: Please enter through the side entrance from the lower parking lot, not through the main library entrance.

Food: There are a handful of options nearby along route 8.

ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING

For First-Time Competitors

All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. This video gives a basic overview of the rules.

In addition, please read this document before coming to the competition.

For All Competitors

When you arrive, you will receive a card with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event. In addition, you will also have judging/scrambling assignments on your card. Every competitor is expected to help out during the event(s) they are registered for. The card will look like the following:

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If you do not arrive to help during your scheduled event, and there are not enough staff members, we reserve the right to disqualify you from competing.

Registration Process

Before You Register

All prospective registrants need a WCA account. New competitors can create their own WCA account by clicking here and entering the required information.

How to Register Online

Prospective competitors register by:
1. Signing into their WCA account;
2. Clicking "Register" on the left side of this webpage, selecting the events they would like to compete in, and submitting their registration;
3. Paying the registration fee of $25.00. (The registration fee is the same regardless of how many events are selected.) Your registration is not complete until you have paid the registration fee.

The competitor limit for this competition is 40. The list of approved competitors can be found by clicking "Competitors" on the left side of this webpage. If there are already 40 competitors on that list, it means the competition is full, and any future registrants will be placed on the waitlist.

Competitors MUST register and pay online in order to compete. No at-the-door registrations or payments will be accepted.

Any requested changes to registration before 11:59 PM EDT on Friday, October 17th, 2025 will be honored. Your registration is not complete until your name shows up on the list.

How to Pay for Registration Online

Payment is processed through Stripe. Click on the "Register" tab on the left side of the webpage to register and pay all in one place! You can start the payment process by clicking "Pay your fees with card."

Refunds

Approved competitors who cancel their registration before 11:59 PM EDT on Friday, October 17th, 2025 are eligible for a refund for 90% of their registration cost. After this date, no refund requests will be honored. Attempting to file a chargeback for the registration fee will lead to being blacklisted from future WCA events.

Waitlist Information

We will be keeping a waitlist for this competition. To secure a place on the waitlist once 40 competitors have paid, simply pay the registration fee. If a competitor emails us to drop out before 11:59 PM EDT on Friday, October 17th, 2025, you will be notified if you are the next competitor on the waitlist. After that deadline, all remaining competitors on the waitlist will be emailed letting them know they did not get off the waitlist and will be fully refunded.

Groups are available here, have been sent by email, and will be given to you on a physical card at the competition.

Live results will be found on WCA Live

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.

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