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FIREFIGHTER CHALLENGE

Entry Deadline: June 10, 2025

Cost: Registration Fee + $40.00 USD

CONTACT INFO: ffchallenge@bhm2025.com

 

  • Tuesday, July 1, 2025 
  • Wednesday, July 2, 2025 
  • Thursday, July 3, 2025 

 

Event times are estimated and subject to change once registration closes. 

Hoover Metropolitan Complex

Address: 5508 Stadium Trace Pkwy, Hoover, AL 35244

Distance from Host Hotels: 18.3 miles/29.5 km

Closest hotel: Hyatt Place Birmingham Hoover

 

Age Groups

Individual:

  • Men: 18+, 40+, 50+, 60+
  • Women: 18+, 40+, 50+

Overall:

  • Men (All Ages)
  • Women (All Ages)

Tandem: (2-Person):

  • Men: 18+, 40+, 50+ (FFC Relay Challenge rules apply)
  • Women: 18+, 40+ (FFC Relay Challenge rules apply)
  • Co-Ed: 18 +, 40+, 50+ (FFC Relay Challenge rules apply)

Team/Relay: (3, 4, or 5-Person)

  • Men: 18 +, 40+, 50+ (FFC Relay Challenge rules apply)
  • Women: 18 +, 40+ (FFC Relay Challenge rules apply)
  • Co-Ed: 18 +, 40+, 50+ (FFC Relay Challenge rules apply)

Disciplines

Age 18 and above will be placed into Divisions 1-2 based on seeding completion times.

  • Division 1 – Pro Level of our sport (Males must finish 1:50 mins or under; Females 3:00 mins or under)
  • Division 2 – Competitive Level of our sport (Males must finish 2:30 mins or under; Females 4:00 mins or under)
  • Junior Firefighters/Explorers Division – fire explorer and junior firefighter members, Age 13-17, from an organized youth development program of a fire department. 

Age categories may be added if more than 15 competitors enter any listed age category. In the event a posted age group has less than 3 participants, WPFG maintains the right to combine age groups within the same gender.

 

Entry Deadline: June 10, 2025

World Police & Fire Games Federation (WPFGF)

Tele. (858) 571-9919; E-Mail: 4info@cpaf.org

First Responder Institute (FFC)

6117 English Village Lane, Birmingham, AL 35242

E-mail: info@firstresponder.org  Website: http://firefighterchallenge.com/

Competition Format

Overall: means the overall fastest. 

All Male, Female or Non-Binary: means competitors on team must be either all males, all females, or all non-binaries. 

Age: means competitors in this age range bracket represented in the group. 

Coed: a mix of male, female, and non-binary. Coed teams must be proportioned as follows (see Section 9.8 for exception rule): 

  1. Two (2) person team: must be of two opposite genders. 
  2. Three (3) person team: two (2) competitors of same gender and one (1) competitor of opposite gender. 
  3. Four (4) person team: two (2) competitors of same gender and two (2) competitors of opposite gender. 
  4. Five (5) person team: three (3) competitors of same gender and two (2) competitors of opposite gender. 

Junior FF/EXP: means a member of a junior firefighter/explorer program between the Age of 13-17. Members Aged 18 and above will compete in Division 1-3 representing their department. 

Hybrid: means competitors representing more than one fire department. 

Fire Department Showdown: means a Fire Department with three (3) or more members from the same department competing in the Individual category to see if their combined times will be the fastest among other Fire Department teams. Division rankings do not apply for this category.

See map below for directions to the Hoover Metropolitan Complex from Athletes' Village in Downtown Birmingham.

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The confirmation letter for Firefighter Challenge will be emailed to you and posted here by June 1, 2025.

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