Bay Area Speedcubin' 66 - Belmont 2024
- Date
- Nov 9, 2024
- City
- Belmont, California, United States
- Venue
- Address
- 10 Davis Dr, Belmont, CA 94002
- Details
Gymnasium
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Ethan Mendelson, Trevor Mendelson, and West Coast Cubing LLC Treasurer
- WCA Delegates
- Antonio Kam (甘浩東), David Karalli (داود قراعلي), Jason Ostdiek, Michael Chai (柴天方), Mitchell Lane, Nolan Yiu, Ruby Lu (卢红), Ryan Jew, Tim Xie, and Wilson Li (李超雄)
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
- West Coast Cubing LLC presents another Bay Area Speedcubin' competition!
- If we run ahead of schedule, we will start first round events no earlier than 20 minutes, so please show up at least 20 minutes before your first event.
We will be assigning judging assignments to competitors for the group before or after their own competing groups. Please check your personal competitor cards when we assign them a week before the competition date for relevant info.
Note: This is a different venue from BASC 52 - Belmont 2023. Also note this is a different location than the high school located in Hillsborough.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitor limit
- 150
- Number of times bookmarked
- 43
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and will close .
- Registration requirements
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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 $35 (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 85% 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.
Adding/Dropping Events
- Competitors may request by email to be added to more events BEFORE registration closes.
- Competitors may not add events after registration closes.
- Competitors may request by email to remove events from their registration. It is also acceptable to not show up for any event you do not wish to compete in, although it is not encouraged.
- Competitors may also adjust their registration details by themselves, without prior approval until the registration deadline
Waitlist: PLEASE CHECK THE COMPETITOR TAB ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE TO SEE HOW MANY COMPETITORS HAVE BEEN APPROVED
If Registration fills up, we will place competitors on a waitlist. In order to get on the waitlist, you must register and pay. You are not on the waitlist until you pay the registration fee. If you do not make it off of the waitlist, you will be fully refunded. If a competitor drops out, the first person on the waitlist will replace them. People can be replaced up until the registration close date indicated above.
In a catastrophic event where the event will be compromised and cancelled, a full refund shall be offered to all competitors, in contrast to the typical 50% registration refunds.
This competition will also hold unofficial events. The results will be recorded through Cubing Contests, and will then be added to the rankings.
Live Results
Event Details
Rules
In addition to the WCA sanctioned events, we will also be having Kilominx and FTO at this competition, which you can sign up for here after you are accepted for this comp:
https://forms.gle/pgK2nKFMEHY8b2DU8
There is a competitor limit of 20 for each.
FTO:
Time Limit: 3:00
Cutoff: 2 attempts to get < 1:30
Kilominx:
Time Limit: 1:15
Cutoff: 2 attempts to get < 45.00
By car:
Parking is available at the Crystal Springs Uplands School parking lots.
By public transportation:
Competitors can take public transportation like BART, CalTrains, and SamTrans to the venue.
By plane:
Competitors flying in can arrive at SFO International Airport.
Food:
No food allowed in the venue, please eat food outside the venue.
Food options available at the Carlemont Shopping center and downtown Belmont.
For those of you new to cubing, WELCOME!
We wanted to let you know this event is perfectly fine for cubers of any age and experience. We just ask you know a couple things before coming to compete...
First, please be familiar with the WCA Regulations, found here:
https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/
This video will explain most of what any cuber competing for the first time will need to know. However, it is still the competitors responsibility to be familiar with the full set of regulations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPL3eV-A0ww
If you have any questions after watching this video, we will be having a new competitor tutorial right before 3x3. That would be the perfect time to ask those questions and clear up any confusion.
Head over to the registration tab, if you are ready to sign-up for your first competiton! Click register, and fill out the information that it asks for. This will help you get set up into the WCA's system and one step closer to your first official solve!
Q&A:
Q: Do I use my own cube to compete?
A: YES! You are responsible for your own hardware in order to compete.
Q: What is the normal age of competitors at these events?
A: All ages are welcome, but in general competitors are between 10 and 20 years old. Don't let this stop you though, everyone can and should cube!
Q: What is the competition like?
A; Competitions are a bunch of tables where nerds like us get to sit and discuss our favorite thing, Cubes! Of course in addition there is competing, which will occupy one side of the competition hall, where you will see lots of timers flickering with contestants new personal bests. Most competitions have a break for lunch, and the competing is split up into groups, as to better organize who competes when. (Check the Groups tab and listen at the competition for more info on this.)
Q: How do I find results?
A: All results are posted on the WCA page a couple of days after the competition finishes. However, for the day of competing, search "WCA Live" (https://live.worldcubeassociation.org) to find information about current events. This is also where you will find information about 2nd and 3rd rounds of events.
Q: Why am I not on the registration list yet?
A: Make sure you pay your registration fee in order to be automatically placed on the registered list, which will also guarantee you a spot in the competition. If payment may be any issue, or you are not sure if you can attend, use the contact button to talk to us, and see if we can work out another payment strategy, or have you pay on arrival at the compeition. No matter what you situation may be however, please register online. It is much easier for us to have you register now and pay later, then to have to input information at another time.
Q: Are there age divisions?
A: Nope! All cometitors compete in the same group.
Q: Can I have fun at this event?
A: HECK YES! Cubing is amazing, and we sincerely hope you enjoy the competition!
Information about groups will be released closer to the competition.
Want to stay connected with the West Coast community? Join the West Coast Cubing Community Discord Server! Speak with other competitors from NorCal, SoCal, Nevada, Hawaii, and Tijuana and keep in touch with fellow competitors and meet new ones! Find out about competition discussion as it happens in real time, and even announcements for competitions before registration opens!
Waitlist has not begun yet as registration is not full
This competition will be sponsored by Diansheng! They will be giving out puzzles to everyone who podiums.
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.