Algs in Ankeny 2024


Date
Mar 9, 2024
City
Ankeny, Iowa, United States
Venue

Holiday Inn Express & Suites

Address
2502 SE Hulsizer Rd, Ankeny, IA 50021
Details

Conference Center

Contact
Organization team
Organizers
Brody Rhoades, Mickey Doyle, Midwest Cubing Association, Pamela Burner, and Trenton Cuzick
WCA Delegates
Francisco García, Mickey Doyle, and Shain Papalotl Longbehn
Download all the competition's details as PDF here.
Information

This competition is supported by the Midwest Cubing Association (MCA).

We have local Facebook groups for our Cubing Area. Feel free to join Iowa Cubing and follow the Midwest Cubing Association for information and announcements on upcoming competitions in the Midwest.

Events
Main event
Competitors
97
Registration period

Online registration opened and closed .

Registration requirements
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 100 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $25 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 90% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Any spectator can attend for free.

⚠️ Registration is accepted in the order paid. Payment must be made for registration to be considered complete. ⚠️

If all competing spots are filled, a waitlist will begin. Waitlist spots are added in the order paid.

Click here for more information about the waitlist.

Please wait 48 hours for your registration to be manually accepted.

Highlights
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Brody Rhoades won with an average of 7.41 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Nathan Rahn finished second (8.98) and Josh Crook finished third (9.35).

Event Name Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube Brody Rhoades 6.82 7.41 United States 8.717.627.766.856.82
4x4x4 Cube Josh Crook 25.27 32.52 United States 33.5831.3633.3132.9025.27
Pyraminx Josh Crook 2.56 2.68 United States 2.702.562.733.572.61
Skewb Eddie Szuster 3.15 3.66 United States 3.563.423.154.016.61
Square-1 Nathan Rahn 4.95 7.81 United States 8.8815.596.607.964.95

Q. How do I register for this competition?
A. Registration for this competition opens on Wednesday, January 10, 2024 at 7:15 PM Central and will be open until Friday, March 1, 2024 at 11:59 PM Central. You'll need a WCA Account to register. Once registration has opened, you can register at the register button to your left or at this link. Select the events you'll be competing in and any comments you'd like the organization team to know. After pressing Register, you'll be prompted to pay using Stripe. You must pay your registration fee to be eligible to compete. If there is still space in the competition and you do not receive an email saying your registration has been accepted within 48 hours of paying, please contact the organization team.

Q. How can I prepare for the competition day?
A. Competitors should understand the WCA Regulations before competing. For something a little more digestable, you can read the WCA Competitor Tutorial or watch this video guide. We will have a New Competitor Tutorial at the beginning of the day where you can learn and ask questions.

Q. Who should I ask if I have any questions?
A. Before the competition, you can contact the organization team with any questions with our contact form. During the competition, you can speak to a delegate. Your delegates for this competition are Shain Longbehn and Mickey Doyle.

Q. What are groups? How can I find which ones I'm in?
A. Groups are how we determine when each competitor competes. During each round, we will have several groups that will be called up in succession. When the group in which you're supposed to compete is called, please come up to the cube dropoff table and submit your puzzle. When the group you're judging is called, come up and find an empty station to judge. Groups will be emailed to competitors or in a tab on this website in the week leading up to the competition.

Q. Do competitors need to volunteer? How do I do that?
A. We require that all competitors volunteer as Judges during the competition day. You will be assigned a group to judge in. We will go over judging in our New Competitor Tutorial.

Q. How old do I have to be to compete?
A. WCA Competitions are open to cubers of any age! We do not have age groups so all competitors compete with each other.

Q. What do I need to bring to the competition?
A. You'll need to bring the puzzles required for any event you'll be competing in. Most competitors like to bring other cubes to warm up with. All timing equipment will be supplied by the WCA Delegates at the competition.

Q. Where can I find results for this competition?
A. Live results will be visible on the WCA Live and will be posted on the WCA Website shortly after the competition. If it's your first competition, you'll get a WCA ID when results are posted to the WCA Website.

Q. How can I have a competition in my hometown?
A. There are unfortunately currently no Iowa-based delegates (yet!). For North East Iowa, please contact Carter Kucala and Simon Kellum by clicking here. For all other areas of Iowa, please contact Shain Longbehn and Mickey Doyle by clicking here. We will help you find the best delegate to help you get your competition going!

For each event, competitors are called to compete one group at a time. To facilitate this, all competitors will be assigned to a specific group for each event. Judging, running, and scrambling assignments for helping out at the competition are also listed for each competitor.

The competitor cards will also be available on a lanyard for each competitor at registration the morning of the competition. All competitors will be required to wear their lanyards throughout the day of the competition.

You can see your group assignments on Competition Groups!

Live results will be available here during the event.

Competitors are added to the waitlist in the order paid

Once registration fills, a waitlist will begin and the link to monitor the status will be in this tab. You must pay the full registration fee to be added to the waitlist. When the waitlist reaches 25 people, registration will close and no more people will be allowed to register.

Most waitlisters move off the list around 1-2 weeks before the competition. Please keep an eye on your email as the competition gets closer.

Want to meet cubers from throughout the US? Competitors of all speeds and experiences are welcome at the upcoming Regional and Continental Championships! They will be an amazing experience for all competitors, it doesn't matter how fast you are or whether your first competition was in 2014 or 2024!

CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2024

This year's Heartland Chamipionship will be held June 7-9 in Sioux Falls, SD and is open to competitors of all skill levels and experience. This can even be your first competition!

Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024

We are proud to host this year's North American Championship in the Midwest! Come to Minneapolis, MN July 18-21 to meet other cubers from across the continent! You will need to qualify in order to register, but do not worry! All you need to do to qualify is attend one competition before June 6th and achieve an official 3x3 average under one minute. More information on the North American Championship can be found here.

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.

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