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2026 Masters Gymnastics Individual World Cup

MIT Dupont Gymnasium

Cambridge, MA

May 3, 2026

Schedule

  • December 2, 2025: Registration opens.
  • March 27, 2026 at 11:59pm UTC-5: Registration closes
  • Sunday, May 3
    •  Session 1 (MAG)
      • 11:15am Open Stretch (gymnasts may start occupying the floor/mats to stretch)
      • 11:45am Warm-up (gymnasts may start using the equipment and warming up their first event)
      • 12:00pm Competition Begins
    •  Session 2 (WAG)
      • 1:30pm Open Stretch (gymnasts may start occupying the floor/mats to stretch)
      • 2:00pm Warm-up (gymnasts may start using the equipment and warming up their first event)
      • 2:15pm Competition Begins
    • Awards
      • 6:30pm in the same venue.
  • After the meet
    • Results will be posted as soon as possible after the meet and communicated to all participants.
    • If you attended the meet, please consider giving us feedback in this quick survey!

Pre-Meet Checklist

Rules and Policies

The detailed competition format can be found here (2026 NAIGC Masters Individual World Cup Format) and the general Masters Rules the meet will be operating under can be found here.

Registration

Registration is open from now until March 27, 2026, at 11:59pm UTC-5, after which we will not be accepting any further registrants. Registration covers participation in the meet, receipt of a participation medal, and receipt of any placement awards given to the registrant. The fee is $67 to register for the meet, and US residents must also pay for a $50 NAIGC Membership (this gets you access to all other NAIGC meets in this competition year, plus events like the FlipFest retreat). The NAIGC Membership fee is waived for all international registrants (email events@naigc.org to receive a discount code to cover the cost of NAIGC membership). The registration process is…a little complex, since you need the following things, roughly in order:

  1. A ScoreFlippers account.
  2. An NAIGC Membership.
  3. To be part of a club that either has the club membership waived (Masters – Individual) or has paid their 25/26 club membership fee.
  4. Either register for the meet yourself or have a club manager of your club register you for the meet.

See below for a graphic hopefully covering everyone’s various situations and how to do the four things listed above, and links to detailed instructions below the graphic for various situations.

Merchandise

We won’t be including a meet shirt as part of the registration fee this year, but we have made some cool shirts if you want to buy one, and you can have it shipped directly to your home in advance of the meet! Women’s shirts are here, men’s shirts here. If you’re coming from far away internationally and shipping is prohibitive, please reach out to nate.sharpe@naigc.org to coordinate shipping to the event venue to pick up at the meet.

Accommodations

We have a reserved hotel block through the NAIGC’s booking agent available here. We also have discount codes through MIT, although some of the hotels listed there have blackout dates including some of the days people will want to stay for the competition. Outside of those options, we recommend airbnb.com, booking.com, vrbo.com or something similar to see what other options exist in the area during the time you want to stay. Any accommodation within walking distance of a Red Line stop will be easy to get to the meet from (walk to the subway, take it to Kendall/MIT or Central Square, walk 10 min. to the meet).

Travel

The closest major airport is Boston Logan International. If you’re staying anywhere in Boston/Cambridge/Somerville, you can get from the airport to your accommodations using the subway/bus system, which can also be used to get to the meet from your accommodations. Further out than that you’ll want to rent a car, or could get by with just using taxis/uber/Lyft/etc. For getting to the meet, the Central Square and Kendall/MIT stops on the Red Line subway are about equidistant from the gym, and the #1 Bus drops off very close by at 77 Massachusetts Ave. Google Maps in general will give you lots of options for getting around the area. There are also bike shares available if you want to travel that way as well!

FAQ

When the NAIGC was created, it only catered to collegiate clubs. As athletes graduated, they couldn’t find a venue for continuing the sport of gymnastics, so the NAIGC stepped up to fill that need. We now support both intercollegiate and adult club gymnastics, and this now includes Masters gymnastics!

Allowing cross gender competition aligns with the NAIGC’s core value of providing radical opportunity. Gymnastics is one of the few sports that offers different opportunities based on gender, and the NAIGC is working to provide equal opportunity for all participants. If we start having enough participants to warrant splitting awards by gender we'll do that, but in a meet of this size with the amount of UAG (Unified Artistic Gymnastics, the rules governing competing across both disciplines regardless of gender) competitors we anticipate, it isn't warranted.

Sure! Your score has two main components:

  • Execution (E-Score)
    • This starts at a 10.0 and then you lose points for all of your errors. Knees a little bent when they should be straight? -0.1. Take a medium step after landing your dismount? -0.3. Fall on that tricky first tumbling skill? -1.0.
  • Difficulty (D-Score)
    • This is the sum of the combined difficulty values of all the skills that you do. If you do more than the counting number, you get credit for the highest value subset matching the counting number (eg. you do 8 skills plus a dismount instead of just 5 and the dismount, so they don't count your three lowest value skills). The difficulty value for a skill can be read in this chart:
    • Composition Requirements (CR) are five general categories or types of skills that if you satisfy, you get 0.5 per CR (eg. on beam CR II is a turn on one leg). For the dismount CR, you need to do a dismount of a certain difficulty to get full credit.
    • If you're doing fewer skills than the minimum then you lose 1 point off this for each skill short you are
    • Because vault just has the one skill, there are no CRs or short exercise deductions, and you'll get bonus depending on your age decade.

Sure! Your score has two main components:

  • Execution (E-Score)
    • This starts at a 10.0 and then you lose points for all of your errors. Knees a little bent when they should be straight? -0.1. Take a medium step after landing your dismount? -0.3. Fall on that tricky first tumbling skill? -1.0.
  • Difficulty (D-Score)
    • This is the sum of the combined difficulty values of all the skills that you do. If you do more than the counting number, you get credit for the highest value subset matching the counting number (eg. you do 8 skills plus a dismount instead of just 5 and the dismount, so they don't count your three lowest value skills). The difficulty value for a skill can be read in this chart:
    • Element Groups (EG) are four general categories or types of skills that if you satisfy, you get 0.5 per EG (eg. on rings EG I is a kip or swinging skill). For the dismount EG, you need to do a dismount of a certain difficulty to get full credit.
    • If you're doing fewer skills than the minimum then you lose 1 point off this for each skill short you are.
    • Because vault just has the one skill, there are no CRs or short exercise deductions, and you'll get a bonus depending on your age decade.

Questions? Email events@naigc.org

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