Rocky Top 2018


Date
Dec 1 - 2, 2018
City
Gatlinburg, Tennessee, United States
Venue

Rocky Top Sports World

Address
1870 Sports World Blvd Gatlinburg, TN 37738
Details

The Rock

Contact

Rocky Top Organizers

Organizer
Jacob Ambrose
WCA Delegates
Jacob Ambrose, Katie Hull, and Seth Talbot
Download all the competition's details as PDF here.
Information

Please review the competitor information tab before the competition.
Please review the other tabs for more information on the competition.

Events
Main event
Competitors
81
Registration period

Online registration opened and closed .

Registration requirements
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Create a WCA account here if you don't have one.
If this is not your first competition, associate your WCA ID to your WCA account here.
Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 100 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $20 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 95% of your registration fee.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.


Registrations may be deferred due to:
- Not paying
- Incorrect date of births
- Incorrect Names
- The competition being full because the competitor limit is reached
- Failure to register online (no at-the-door registrations will be accepted)

If you are having issues using stripe payments, you can alternatively use paypal. Please contact the organizers if you are experiencing issues.

Registrations must be accepted manually, so if you do not see your name on the competitor's list within a business day, then please contact the organizers to resolve the issue.

If you would like to be assigned staff positions for this competition, please contact the organizers. Staff registrations will be accepted proportionally as the competition fills up. To guarentee a spot in the competition, please pay the registration fee and you will be refunded after the competition.

After the competitor limit has been reached, you may still pay and be put on a waiting list. If you are first on the waitlist and someone cancels their registration, then you will receive an email from the organizers. You must reply to the email and confirm your registration within 24 hours of receiving the email to compete. If no response is heard from you, the next person on the waiting list will be offered your spot. After the competition, all competitors on the waiting list will recieve a refund for the registration cost minus tax.

Highlights
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Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡) won with an average of 7.42 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Kieran Dizon finished second (8.19) and Nicolás Sánchez finished third (8.39).

Event Name Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡) 7.09 7.42 Chinese Taipei 8.137.097.317.177.78
2x2x2 Cube Nicolás Sánchez 1.32 2.10 United States 2.861.852.751.321.70
4x4x4 Cube Katie Hull 29.46 30.34 United States 31.4529.9432.5929.6229.46
6x6x6 Cube Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡) 1:45.64 1:58.04 Chinese Taipei 1:46.301:45.642:22.18
3x3x3 Blindfolded Connor Yungbluth 1:23.91 DNF United States DNFDNF1:23.91
3x3x3 One-Handed Kieran Dizon 12.08 12.87 United States 13.4913.0512.0816.2112.08
Clock Daniel Mullen 6.08 6.77 United States 6.256.086.767.547.29
Megaminx Katie Hull 53.11 1:02.65 United States 53.111:04.201:01.601:02.151:05.75
Pyraminx Harsha Paladugu 3.01 3.77 United States 4.223.703.014.043.57
Skewb Sean Skinner 4.24 4.68 United States 4.244.464.618.494.98
Square-1 Connor Yungbluth 9.84 13.69 United States 10.9213.7516.4024.699.84
4x4x4 Blindfolded Raymond Goslow 6:58.57 DNF United States DNFDNF6:58.57
5x5x5 Blindfolded Raymond Goslow 12:25.00 DNF United States DNF12:25.00DNS
3x3x3 With Feet Kieran Dizon 29.59 33.92 United States 33.6737.1829.5933.1035.00

Important Links

Group Sheet
Live Results

All Competitors

  • Please try to arrive at least 30 minutes early for the events you are competing in to ensure that you are on time for that event.
  • We will use regulation 9p3) as much as we can. So if you do not arrive to compete by the time the event is ending, your spot may be given up the next competitor in the rankings.
  • It would be wonderful if we could get some volunteer help from either the competitors or the parents. Judging is a super simple task and any staff member can teach anyone at any time. Judge for however long you'd feel like. It's an excellent way to make the time fly by!
  • 5x5 is a tenative event! We will hold it if there is extra time throughout the day.
  • Your delegates for this competition are Jacob Ambrose and Katie Hull. Ask them if you have any questions throughout the day!

New Competitors

  • Please try to arrive early to watch the new competitor introduction at 9:15am Saturday. If you won't be there on Saturday then please ask a staff member whenever you arrive to give you a rundown of how the competing process will work.
  • Additionally you can watch Kit Clement's WCA Competitor Tutorial video.
  • Please be familiar with all of WCA's regulations, most importantly Article A. If you have any questions about the regulations, feel free to ask us.
  • In each event we will have rounds. We will take the top competitors onto the subsequent rounds. After a round is completed results will be entered into CubeComps (linked above). Your name will be highlighted if you made it to the next round.
  • Each round will be divided into groups to help them run more efficiently. We will call the groups in order, along with a last call during the last group. Please come bring your puzzle up and wait in the competitor waiting area when your group is called. We are allowed to deny you the ability to compete if you do not come up by the last call.

Location:
Rocky Top Sports World
1870 Sports World Blvd
Gatlinburg, TN 37738

Room Details:
The competition will be held in The Rock.
We will be using 2 of the basket ball courts. in the main gym.

Parking:
Parking is $5.00 a day per car. It is conviently located near the building. Attendants will point you in the correct direction.

Lunch:
Champs Grill

Hotels:
Please use this link to Book a Hotel through Rocky Top Sports World.
Using this link will help the competition! Please book early as it's a busy weekend in Gatlinbrg. This link is avaliable until November 16th.

All Information on this tab regarding Cutoffs, Time Limits, Proceeding Competitors, and Number of Rounds are approximations and will be updated 1 week before the competition.

Event Round Format Cutoff Time Time Limit Competitors
3x3x3 Cube Round 1 Ao5 5:00
Round 2 Ao5 5:00 Top 75%
Final Ao5 5:00 Top 16
2x2x2 Cube Final Ao5 1:00
4x4x4 Cube Combined Final Bo2 / Ao5 2:00 5:00
5x5x5 Cube Tentative Bo2 / Ao5 2:30 5:00
6x6x6 Cube Combined Final Bo1 / Mo3 4:30 10:00
3x3x3 Blindfolded Round 1 Bo3 20:00C Noisy*
Final Bo3 15:00C Top 8
3x3x3 One-Handed Combined First Bo2 / Ao5 0:40 1:30
Final Ao5 1:30 Top 16
3x3x3 With Feet Combined First Bo2 / Ao5 3:00 5:00
Tentative Round 2** Ao5 5:00 Top 75%
Final Ao5 5:00 Top 75%
Clock Round 1 Ao5 1:00
Final Ao5 1:00 Top 8
Megaminx Combined Final Bo2 / Ao5 2:30 5:00
Pyraminx Round 1 Ao5 1:00
Round 2 Ao5 1:00 Top 48
Final Ao5 1:00 Top 16
Skewb Round 1 Ao5 1:00
Final Ao5 1:00 Top 16
Square-1 Combined Final Bo2 / Ao5 0:40 1:30
4x4x4 Blindfolded Final Bo3 1:40:00C w/ 5BLD***
5x5x5 Blindfolded Final Bo3 1:40:00C w/ 4BLD***
Team BLD Unofficial Mo2 5:00

Legend

Format- Ao5 = Average of 5 (where the best and worst solves are not counted in the average), Mo3 = Mean of 3, Mo2 = Mean of 2, Bo3 = Best of 3, Bo2 = Best of 2, Bo1 = Best of 1
Cutoff- Rounds with a cutoff will have an additional best of 2 (best of 1 for 6x6) format where competitors will have 2 attempts to achieve a time under the cutoff. If the comeptitor does then they will be awarded more attempts to compelete the average.
Cumulative Limit(C)- The total time allowed for all attempts combined.
Time Limit - Any attempt in the round exceeding this time will be awarded a DNF. For "WCA" Time limits, it is dependent on the regulations for that event.
* = For 3x3 BLD Round 1 will be held in a noisy enviroment. We will not be asking the audience to be quiet during this time. For 3x3 BLD Final we will be enforcing a quiet enviroment.
** = For Feet, if we have 16 or more competitors in Round 1, we will have an additional round of Feet.
*** = For 4BLD and 5BLD the cumulative limit will apply to both events at the same time. So you will have 1 hour 40 minutes for all 6 attempts.
The Number of Competitors moving on to the subsequent rounds may change based on if the competition is ahead or behind schedule.

Team BLD

Team BLD is an unofficial event where 2 competitors will work together to solve a 3x3x3 Cube. One of the team members will be the "solver": they will be blindfolded and allowed to preform moves on the cube. The other team member will be the "caller": they will not be allowed to touch the cube, but can tell the other team member what to do.
There will be an inspection period of 15 seconds where the team can use as much of or as little of inspect that they like. The solver must be blindfolded during this time, the caller is allowed to touch the cube. All normal solving procedures will occur after that.
After solve 1 the solver and the caller MUST switch their roles for solve 2. The rankings are based on the mean of the 2 attempts.

Day 1 Saturday 12/1

Time Event
8:00 - 8:30 Set-Up
8:30 - 9:15 Feet Round 1
9:15 - 9:30 New Competitor Introduction
9:30 - 10:30 Pyra Round 1
10:30 - 11:30 6x6 Final
11:30 - 12:30 3BLD Round 1 - Noisy
11:30 - 12:30 Lunch
12:30 - 1:45 4x4 Final
1:45 - 2:45 Mega Final
2:45 - 3:35 OH Round 1
3:35 - 4:30 Square-1 Final
4:30 - 5:00 Team BLD Final
5:00 - 7:00 4BLD / 5BLD - Quiet Time

Day 2 Sunday 12/2

Time Event
9:00 - 10:00 Skewb Round 1
10:00 - 10:40 Pyra Round 2
10:40 - 11:30 Clock Round 1
11:30 - 12:00 Tentative Feet Round 2
12:15 - 12:30 Feet Final
11:30 - 12:30 Lunch
12:30 - 1:45 3x3 Round 1
1:45 - 2:00 Skewb Final
2:00 - 2:15 OH Final
2:15 - 2:30 Pyra Final
2:30 - 3:00 Clock Final
3:00 - 4:00 3x3 Round 2
4:00 - 5:00 2x2 Final
5:00 - 5:15 3BLD Final
5:15 - 5:30 3x3 Final
5:30 - 6:00 Awards/Clean-Up

We will revise the Schedule 1 week prior to the competition to reflect the number of people competing.
All times are tentative and subject to change if we are ahead or behind schedule.
We may add rounds of events if we run far ahead of schedule.

TBD

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).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced (see Regulation A1a2).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced across rounds (see Guideline A1a2++).

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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