Bay Area Speedcubin' 67 - San Ramon 2025
- Date
- Jan 12, 2025
- City
- San Ramon, California, United States
- Venue
- Address
- 17011 Bollinger Canyon Rd, San Ramon, CA 94582
- Details
Ridgeview Room
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Jaidon Poraminthara Lin (เจเดิ้น ปรมินทร์ หลิน) and West Coast Cubing LLC Treasurer
- WCA Delegates
- Calvin Nielson, Chris Martin, David Karalli (داود قراعلي), Mitchell Lane, Nolan Yiu, and Wilson Li (李超雄)
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition is organized in partnership with West Coast Cubing and Speedcubeshop.
- 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.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 127
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Friday, November 1, 2024 at 6:00 AM UTC and closed Monday, December 2, 2024 at 3:57 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 $40 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Friday, January 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC you will be refunded 90% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Friday, January 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Friday, January 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC by contacting the organization team.
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.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Caleb Yao (姚英華) won with an average of 6.66 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Zerui Cheng finished second (6.88) and Gurshan Singh finished third (7.43).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Caleb Yao (姚英華) | 6.24 | 6.66 | United States | 6.35 | 6.92 | 6.72 | 7.88 | 6.24 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Paul Mahvi | 29.26 | 31.51 | United States | 30.13 | DNF | 34.73 | 29.68 | 29.26 | |||
| 5x5x5 Cube | Paul Mahvi | 47.30 | 54.58 | United States | 47.30 | 58.60 | 57.76 | 55.88 | 50.11 | |||
| Clock | Alessandro Diomampo | 3.06 | 3.36 | United States | 3.65 | 3.32 | 3.06 | 3.11 | DNF | |||
| Skewb | Taj Bressert | 2.24 | 2.90 | Netherlands | 3.01 | 3.08 | 5.12 | 2.24 | 2.60 | |||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 95 advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 16 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 3:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:15.00 | Top 12 advance to next round |
| Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 3:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:15.00 | ||
| 5x5x5 Cube | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 4:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 2:00.00 | |
| Clock | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 1:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 25.00 | Top 12 advance to next round |
| Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 1:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 25.00 | ||
| Skewb | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 1:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 20.00 | Top 12 advance to next round |
| Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 1:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 20.00 |
Arriving by plane:
The nearest airport is Oakland International (OAK), about 30 minutes away from the venue by car. Uber can be a good choice from the airport.
By car:
Dougherty Station Community Center offers free parking. The parking lot is along Bollinger Canyon Road.
Food:
This competition will not be providing food for competitors. There are limited food options nearby due to the urgent venue change. The nearest mall with a decent variety of food is The Plaza at Gale Ranch, approximately 5 minutes drive away from the venue.
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!
Click here to be directly taken to the Discord Server!
We also have a NorCal Cubing Community Facebook group!
This competition will be sponsored by SpeedCubeShop! They will be providing gift-card prizes for this competition. They will not be selling puzzles onsite.
Use code "WCC" for 5% off all orders at SpeedCubeShop?
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.