Alabama Crimson Cubing Spring 2025
- Date
- Mar 22, 2025
- City
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
- Venue
John England, Jr. Hall
- Address
- 810 2nd St, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401
- Details
The competition will take place in the basement level multipurpose room. Entrances are outside facing Palmer Lake and Lakeside Dining Hall.
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Alexander Guirgues, John Shidemantle, Martin Albright, and Southeast Cubing
- WCA Delegates
- Jared Stinson, Katie Hull, and Roman Wofford
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
UA Students & Alumni: After registering, send an ACT card screenshot or proof of a crimson email address to the organizers to qualify for the reduced registration fee of $15.
Note: Competitors under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent/guardian at all times.
This competition is supported by Southeast Cubing, Inc., and organized by Alabama Crimson Cubing, the University of Alabama's cubing club.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 111
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Friday, January 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC and closed Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 4:59 AM UTC.
- Registration requirements
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This competition is over, click here to display the registration requirements it used.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 150 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $25 (United States Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
If your registration is cancelled before Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 4:59 AM UTC you will be refunded 90% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 4:59 AM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 4:59 AM UTC by contacting the organization team.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Any spectator can attend for free.
All University of Alabama students & alumni qualify for a discounted registration fee of $15. After registering and paying the full registration fee, please send an email to the organizers with either a screenshot/picture of your ACT Card, or proof of a crimson.ua.edu email address.
Registrations are accepted manually, so please be patient while waiting for your name to appear on the competitor list after you submit payment for your registration. Your registration is not complete until you pay. If you still do not see your name on the competitor list 24 hours after submitting your payment, then please contact the organizers to resolve the issue. You do not have a confirmed spot at the competition until you receive an email with the subject line: "Registration Accepted: "Alabama Crimson Cubing Spring 2025". Any travel plans that you make before receiving the acceptance email are at your own risk.
After the competitor limit has been reached, you may still submit payment for your registration in order to be put on the waiting list. If you are first on the waiting list and someone cancels their registration, then you will receive an email from the organizers notifying you that you are being accepted into the competition. After the competition, all competitors left on the waiting list will receive a refund for the registration cost, minus processing fees. No refunds will be issued after the registration period has passed, no exceptions.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Caleb Chen won with an average of 7.33 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Matias Marcantoni-Nunez finished second (7.49) and Nicolás Sánchez finished third (7.72).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Caleb Chen | 5.72 | 7.33 | United States | 8.14 | 7.18 | 6.67 | 5.72 | 9.03 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Matias Marcantoni-Nunez | 0.83 | 1.29 | United States | 0.97 | 0.83 | 1.50 | 1.40 | DNF | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Katie Hull | 27.04 | 30.20 | United States | 32.98 | 32.40 | 29.32 | 28.88 | 27.04 | |||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Caleb Chen | 12.46 | 14.34 | United States | 15.34 | 13.16 | 19.62 | 12.46 | 14.52 | |||
| Clock | Caleb Chen | 3.51 | 4.06 | United States | 3.91 | 3.88 | 3.51 | 4.40 | DNF | |||
| Megaminx | Jared Stinson | 35.00 | 40.74 | United States | 41.41 | 44.32 | 36.93 | 43.87 | 35.00 | |||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 50% advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 5:00.00 | Top 14 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 14 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 4:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 2:00.00 | |
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 3:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:00.00 | |
| Clock | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 2:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 45.00 | |
| Megaminx | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 5:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 2:30.00 |
About Southeast Cubing, Inc.
Southeast Cubing, Inc. (SECI) is the official 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization for speedcubing in the Southeast United States! SECI supports current and future cubers across the region by:
* collecting and sharing information on speedcubing competitions and clubs
* supporting the organization of more speedcubing competitions and clubs with resources, guidance, and logistical support
* organizing a regional championship every year
* engaging in outreach to expand the speedcubing community by visiting local community events
* providing spaces (both physical and virtual) for Southeast cubers and their supporters to connect and learn
Getting Involved with SECI
You can get involved with SECI in a variety of ways:
* Following SECI's social media pages to keep up with the latest news about Southeast cubing: 
* Joining SECI's social media discussion groups to be a part of the online conversation:
* Becoming a competition staff member, a competition organizer, or a WCA Delegate in the Southeast
* Hosting a cubing club in the Southeast
* Volunteering as an SECI team or Board member
* Donating directly to SECI to support the mission:
All Competitors
* Please try to arrive at least 20 minutes early for the events you are competing in to ensure that you are on time for that event.
* 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!
* Ask your Delegates if you have any questions throughout the day!
New Competitors
* Please try to arrive early to watch the new competitor tutorial. If you won't be there 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 WCA Live. 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.
To enter the venue, you must enter from the basement entrance facing Palmer Lake and Lakeside Dining Hall. The entrance can be found here
Free parking is available across the street from John England in this lot. In the unlikely case that this lot is full, the student center parking deck offers paid visitor parking.
Groups
CompetitionGroups
Live Results
Live results can be found at WCA Live
Volunteer competition staff has been selected for this competition.
TheCubicle is sponsoring this competition and will be providing prizes for podiums and other achievements!
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).
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.