Austin Tiny Puzzles 2023
- Date
- Nov 18, 2023
- City
- Austin, Texas, United States
- Venue
Apartment Clubhouse (Oak Hill, Southwest Austin)
- Address
- Oak Hill / Southwest Austin
- Details
To be emailed before the competition
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizer
- Michael Conard
- WCA Delegate
- Michael Conard
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This is a side events only mini-competition, intended to be paired with the Austin location of the Texas FMC Championships. Please see that competition page for more information, and consider participating in both events.
Note that the round 2 of each event being held is subject to having at least 8 competitors participating in round 1. Information about the exact address in Southwest Austin will be emailed to registered competitors a few days before the event. Due to the size of the venue, non-competing guests will not be permitted except in the case of a minor bringing a parent/guardian.
For a more normal competition experience, check out Texas Championship 2023.
To learn more about cubing in the Southern USA, including other competitions, visit Southern Cubing.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 17
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Thursday, October 12, 2023 at 12:30 AM UTC and closed Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 12:15 AM UTC.
- Registration requirements
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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 20 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $10 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 12:15 AM UTC you will be refunded 95% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 12:15 AM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 12:15 AM UTC by contacting the organization team.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Registration
Before your registration is accepted, you must pay the registration fee by Paypal or Venmo. Indicate "WCA Austin Tiny Puzzles" and the name you registered under in the description field of your payment.
After WCA Dues, printing costs, and the venue security deposit is returned, an equal share of refunds may be made to competitors who did not no-show.
Due to the size of the venue, non-competing guests will not be permitted except in the case of a minor bringing a parent/guardian.
- Paypal: @MichaelConard
- Venmo: @Michael-Conard-1, 0368 last fourPlease consider also registering for the Austin location of the Texas FMC Championships which is at this same venue and the same day.
Waitlist
- If the competitor limit has been reached, the waitlist opens. You can enter the waitlist by registering and paying the fee. Competitors will be accepted from the waitlist in the order that they registered.
- Competitors who do not make it off of the waitlist before the deadline (Monday, November 13, 2023 at 7:15 PM CST) will receive a full refund shortly before the competition.
- No more registrations will be accepted from the waitlist after Monday, November 13, 2023 at 7:15 PM CST.
Please follow all instructions or else your registration may be delayed.
In 48 hours, if you do NOT see your name on the Competitor List, then please reach out to us using the contact link on the General Info tab.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Matthew Bidwell won with an average of 3.99 seconds in the 2x2x2 Cube event. August Rhyne finished second (4.37) and Rune Thomas Coulbourne finished third (4.48).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2x2x2 Cube | Matthew Bidwell | 2.43 | 3.99 | United States | 2.43 | 4.06 | 3.90 | 5.06 | 4.02 | |||
| Pyraminx | Gustavo Guerra | 4.58 | 5.16 | United States | 5.06 | 6.51 | 5.62 | 4.79 | 4.58 | |||
| Skewb | Siddharth Reddy | 4.05 | 6.63 | United States | 10.18 | 5.06 | 8.12 | 6.71 | 4.05 | |||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2x2x2 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 2:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round |
| Second round | Ao5 | 2:00.00 | Top 6 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 2:00.00 | ||
| Pyraminx | First round | Ao5 | 2:00.00 | Top 6 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 2:00.00 | ||
| Skewb | First round | Ao5 | 2:00.00 | Top 6 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 2:00.00 |
If the first rounds of each event complete quicker than anticipated so we are ahead of schedule and there were 16 or more competitors, we may adjust round 2s to top 75% and add a round 3 for the top 6 from round 2.
You can view your round 1 groups and judging/running/scrambling assignments here: https://www.competitiongroups.com/competitions/AustinTinyPuzzles2023
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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).
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.