For Global Finals 2025, the flow of the tournament will be as follows: 

We are excited to welcome your team to Kansas City for Global Finals 2025! For Global Finals 2025, Team Challenge and Instant Challenge will be in separate sites, with Team Challenge in the Kansas City Convention Center and Instant Challenge in the Kansas City Marriott Downtown (200 W 12th Street). 

The flow of the Team Challenge portion of the tournament will be as follows: 

• Approximately 40 minutes before your Presentation, you should begin moving all props and items necessary for your Team Challenge Presentation into the Pre-Prep Area. The Pre-Prep Area will be clearly marked for your Challenge and level and will be close to your Presentation Site. The Pre-Prep Area Appraiser will check to make sure all of your team’s required forms are complete and that all team members are present.
• Approximately 20 minutes before your Presentation, your team will move from the Pre-Prep Area to the Prep Area to complete the check-in process.
• At your team’s scheduled Team Challenge Presentation time, you will move all of your props and other items from the Prep Area into the Launch Area inside the Team Challenge Presentation Site and complete your Team Challenge Presentation.
• Once you have completed your Team Challenge Presentation and talked to the Appraisers, your team will move all of your props and other items from your Team Challenge Presentation to Prop Storage, the dumpster area, or vehicles at this time.  
• Congratulations! You’ve completed the Team Challenge portion of Global Finals 2025! 
  
  

The flow of the Instant Challenge portion of the tournament will be as follows: 

• Instant Challenge will be scheduled separately from Team Challenge.
• Instant Challenge Check-In will be located on the 2nd floor of the Marriott. You will enter the West Tower of the Marriott with the entrance off 12th Street, NOT the East Tower with the entrance on Wyandotte. From the first floor lobby in the West Tower, follow signs to the escalator to take you up to IC Check-In. Elevators are available for people who need assistance. Do not bring any electronic devices or timekeeping devices up to the second floor.
• Your team should plan to arrive at IC Check-In approximately 40 minutes prior to your team’s scheduled Instant Challenge. Parents and other team supporters will not be allowed onto the 2nd floor. They should wait downstairs in the Marriott Lobby.
• Your team will move to the Holding Area approximately 20 minutes prior to your scheduled Instant Challenge. The Instant Challenge Appraisers will check that all team members who will participate in the Instant Challenge are present, that your team will honor the Instant Challenge promise, and that you will not take any prohibited items into the Instant Challenge room. 
• At your team’s scheduled Instant Challenge time, your team members and up to one Team Manager will enter the Instant Challenge room and complete your Instant Challenge. 
• After completing your Instant Challenge, feel free to meet up with your supporters on the first floor. Remember not to discuss the Instant Challenge where anyone else can hear.  
• Congratulations! You’ve completed the Instant Challenge portion of Global Finals 2025!