5BLD in a Madison Fall 2024
- Date
- Nov 2 - 3, 2024
- City
- Madison, Wisconsin, United States
- Venue
Monona Terrace
- Address
- 1 John Nolen Dr, Madison, WI 53703
- Details
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- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Carter Kucala, Midwest Cubing Association, Simon Kellum, and Zeke Mackay
- WCA Delegates
- Carter Kucala, Joshua Feran, Simon Kellum, and Zeke Mackay
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition is not recommended for first time competitors. Please check out 4x4 by Four Madison Lakes 2024, which will be more friendly towards beginners.
5x5 Blindfolded is the main event of this competition. We recommend giving it a try!
This competition is supported by the Midwest Cubing Assocation.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 16
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- Registration requirements
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Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 30 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $40 (United States Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 75% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
We encourage everyone to register for the events they want to compete in via your online registration, however you may add events to your registration up until the event has started.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Stanley Chapel won with a single solve of 2:35.36 in the 5x5x5 Blindfolded event. Brayden Thompson finished second (17:11.00) and Aaron Soley finished third (21:47.00).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7x7x7 Cube | Noah Swor | 2:32.00 | 2:37.24 | United States | 2:32.00 | 2:43.99 | 2:35.73 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Stanley Chapel | 16.02 | 17.40 | United States | 18.27 | 16.02 | 17.92 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Carter Kucala | 20 | 21.67 | United States | 21 | 24 | 20 | |||||
| Megaminx | Zeke Mackay | 36.49 | 38.18 | United States | 37.98 | 36.49 | 38.59 | 38.19 | 38.37 | |||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Stanley Chapel | 59.49 | DNF | United States | DNF | DNF | 59.49 | |||||
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | Stanley Chapel | 2:35.36 | DNF | United States | DNF | DNF | 2:35.36 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Stanley Chapel | 39/46 58:43 | United States | 39/46 58:43 | 2/2 0:43 | |||||||
Parking
Information will be emailed to competitors and posted here leading up to the event.
Groups
Will be posted closer to the competition. Due to the nature of this competition, competitors will be expected to help out throughout the competition for groups they are not competing in.
Live Results
Will be posted to WCA Live throughout the competition.
We will be attempting to hold three rounds of 5x5 Blindfolded at this competition, but we need your help to make this happen! Because of Regulations 9m2 and 9m3, we need to have at least 16 competitors competing in the first round, and at least 8 competitors to get a success. If you know how to solve a 5x5 blindfolded, please attempt at this competition!
If you do not already know how to solve a 5x5 blindfolded, you can find a tutorial here - we highly encourage you to try it out!
| Competition | Date | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| 7x7 in a Madison Park 2022 | Sep 25, 2022 | Kate Grahame |
| FMC on a Madison Terrace 2022 | Oct 29-30, 2022 | Cale Schoon |
| 2x2 in a Madison Lodge 2022 | Dec 3, 2022 | Max Walaszek |
| 4BLD in a Madison Hall 2023 | Jan 28-29, 2023 | Tommy Cherry |
| MBLD in a Madison Meeting Room 2023 | Mar 4-5, 2023 | Thomas Reinke |
| OH in a Madison Ballroom 2023 | Jul 8, 2023 | Eli Parker |
| Square-1 on a Madison Square 2023 | Oct 14-15, 2023 | Brian Johnson |
| 5x5 on Madison Ice 2023 | Dec 9-10, 2023 | Henry Lichner |
| 3BLD on a Madison MoNona 2024 | Feb 17-18, 2024 | Will Cerne |
| 6x6 Still in a Madison Park 2024 | Sep 15, 2024 | Henry Lichner |
| 5BLD in a Madison Fall 2024 | Nov 2-3, 2024 | You? |
| 4x4 by Four Madison Lakes 2024 | Dec 7, 2024 | You? |
| Skewb on the Madison Snow 2025 | Feb 15-16, 2025 | You? |
5BLD will be the 11th Madison event competition. Maybe you can be the next Madison champion!
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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.