Bay Area Speedcubin' 49 - Berkeley 2023
- Date
- Jul 8, 2023
- City
- Berkeley, California, United States
- Venue
ASUC Student Union: Martin Luther King Jr. Building, Tilden
- Address
- MLK Student Union, Berkeley, CA 94704
- Details
This venue is NOT the normal Pauley Ballroom venue!
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizer
- Anto Kam (甘浩東)
- WCA Delegates
- Anto Kam (甘浩東), Chris Martin, Michael Larsen, and Mitchell Lane
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
IMPORTANT: This competition does not have 3x3x3 Cube. The main event is Megaminx.
- Registrants will be accepted in the order that they pay, not the order that they register. Please be patient with us as we manually accept all eligible competitors.
- Competitors may only bring one guest maximum.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 59
- 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 70 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $25 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 50% 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 by contacting the organization team.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 2 guests.
All competitors must be available to judge/run/scramble for the competition as per Regulation 1e2 and 1f2. All competitors will be expected to help by judging or running for any event they are doing. Nametags will be handed out with all the information regarding what groups you will be competing in and what groups you will be helping in. If you are not competing in an event, you will not be assigned to help during that event.
Competitors are limited to TWO guests.
If you put more than TWO guest on your registration, your registration may not be accepted.
You need to pay to get your registration accepted.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Nico Harper (李有為) won with an average of 42.60 seconds in the Megaminx event. Nolan Yiu finished second (47.03) and Ruby Lu (卢红) finished third (53.42).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2x2x2 Cube | Nir Marcovitz | 1.87 | 2.46 | Israel | 3.55 | 2.54 | 2.75 | 2.10 | 1.87 | |||
| 6x6x6 Cube | Paul Mahvi | 1:33.08 | 1:39.31 | United States | 1:45.58 | 1:39.26 | 1:33.08 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Elliott Kobelansky | 15.29 | 19.28 | Canada | 15.29 | 16.70 | 25.84 | |||||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Anto Kam (甘浩東) | 9.12 | 10.33 | Hong Kong, China | 11.38 | 9.12 | 10.01 | 10.90 | 10.09 | |||
| Megaminx | Nico Harper (李有為) | 37.61 | 42.60 | United States | 44.34 | 37.61 | 40.89 | 46.07 | 42.58 | |||
This event will be held on the UC Berkeley campus. It is generally difficult to find parking in Berkeley, so public transport is the best option.
Arriving by plane:
The nearest airport is Oakland International (OAK), about 30 minutes away from campus by car or plan for an hour and a half by public transport. Uber can be a good choice from the airport.
By car:
Parking is pretty difficult to find in Berkeley. The easiest place to park is Underhill Parking Structure, around 3 blocks away from the main campus. Parking on the street is occasionally available, but it is not recommended that you bank on this option.
By public transport:
If coming by BART, get off at the Downtown Berkeley station, then follow Center Street until you arrive at the university. If you are considering taking the AC transit or other bus option, get off at the Bancroft and Telegraph stop and you're already on campus.
COVID SAFETY
Due to ongoing circumstances, the organizing team is enforcing restrictions during the competition which will impact the running of the competition. Here are the most important changes.
Following University rules, masks are required for unvaccinated attendees. They are highly recommended for everyone else.
Competitors should not attend the competition if experiencing symptoms of COVID-19, or if they were exposed to someone with COVID-19. If this occurs to you, the organizers will offer the competitor a full refund.
The organizing team strongly recommends to recieve a COVID-19 vaccination before competing. This is not a requirement, but is encouraged for those who are eligible.
Competitors will only be allowed to bring ONE guest to the competition. The first three rules apply to the guest as well as the competitor.
Additional rules may be added as deemed necessary by the organizers, the WCA Board, or the local or state government.
By registering for this competition you agree that you understand and will follow all the information listed above.
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This competition is sponsored by TheCubicle.
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).
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.