2025 Competition

Early Registration

• Housing Conference Room
  4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Registration

• Conference Center Lobby
  8:00 am – 2:00 pm

Training Classes: 

• Confined Space and Rope Rescue –  6:00 am – 3:00 pm
• 1st Aid Refresher, CPR and AED Practice –  6:00 am – 3:00 pm
• Basic Firefighting, Vehicle Extrication and Awareness Level Hazmat –  6:00 am – 3:00 pm
•  Horizonal Confined Space Rescue – 6:00 am – 3:00 pm
•  CDC/NIOSH Mine Rescue Training Platform Testing – Session 1 – 6:00 am – 10:00 am & Session 2 – 11:00 am – 3:00 pm

Morning Events:

•  Judges Meeting
  Room 220
  8:00 am – 3:30 pm
• MSHA Personnel Meeting
  Room TBA
  8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Evening Events:

• Captains & Trainers Meeting
  Classroom Building – Room 220
  3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
• Captain’s 30 Minute Meeting with Teams
  Room TBA
  4:30 pm – 5:00 pm
• “The Big Dig” Meet and Greet, Dinner &
  Blind Knot Tying Competition
  Conference Center
  6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

First Field Day of Competition: 

Registration

• Conference Center Lobby
  8:00 am – 2:00 pm

Regional Teams Field Exercise Competition

• Breakfast from 6:00 am – 6:30 am
• Lockdown Location – TBA
  6:30 am – Until
• All Testing
  Lockdown Location
  7:00 am – 8:00 am

National Teams Field Exercise Competition

• Breakfast from 6:00 am – 6:30 am
• Lockdown Location – TBA
  6:30 am – Until
• All Testing
  Lockdown Location
  7:00 am – 8:00 am

Second Field Day of Competition:

Regional Teams Field Exercise Competition

• Breakfast from 6:00 am – 6:30 am
• Lockdown Location – TBA
  6:30 am – Until

National Teams Field Exercise Competition

• Breakfast from 6:00 am – 6:30 am
• Lockdown Location – TBA
  6:30 am – Until

First Aid (Brady 11th Edition) and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation with AED Rescue Breathing (ASHI) Competition

• Lockdown Location – TBA – 7:00 am – Until

Banquet and Awards

• Shiloh Farm – 1500 Benjamin Chaires Road Tallahassee, FL 32317
• Happy Hour 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
• Program & Dinner begins at 6:00 pm

The 2025 Competition fees are:

• Team Registration – $1,500
• Non Competitor Participant – $200
• Classes – $60 per person
• Additional Banquet Tickets/Guests – $50
• Exhibitor/Vendor Booths – $500

• Click here to register your team for the 2025 Competition.

• Click here to register for your non-competitor access to the 2025 Competition.

• Click here to register for your Exhibitor/Vendor access to the 2025 Competition.

• Click here to register for your Sponsorship of the 2025 Competition.

• MSHA-Recognized Regional Rules for Surface Metal and Nonmetal Mine Rescue Contest Rules 2025
• MSHA-Recognized National Rules for Surface Metal and Nonmetal Mine Rescue Contest Rules 2025

FPSI Housing Prices and Reservations

Rooms are first come, first served.  We have limited rooms available so any teams wanting to onsite, need to book rooms immediately:

• On-site single occupancy housing pricing per night $36
• Double occupancy rooms pricing per night per person $29

Housing: Karen.Miller@tsc.fl.edu  or Allenk@tsc.fl.edu 

Comfort Inn & Suites
215 Commerce Boulevard
Midway, FL  32343
(850) 576-7300 or (850) 576-8300

Country Inn & Suites by Carlson
Tallahassee Northwest I-10, FL
3096 North Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL  32303
(850) 701-2850; Fax (850) 701-2857

Courtyard by Marriott Tallahassee
1972 Raymond Diehl Road
Tallahassee, FL  32308
(850) 422-0600

Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites
2725 Graves Road
Tallahassee, FL  32303
(850) 536-2000

Best Western Plus
2727 Graves Road
Tallahassee, FL  32303
(850) 562-7200

Drury Plaza Hotel

1690 Raymond Diehl Rd,

Tallahassee, FL 32308

(850) 297-0505