Back to School Colorado 2024

Date: Aug 24, 2024
City: Denver, Colorado, United States
Venue: Denver Police Protective Association and PPA Event Center
Address: 2105 Decatur St, Denver, CO 80211
Details: PPA Event Center Ballroom
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Colorado Cubers, Kaemon Vita, and Taren White
WCA Delegates: Elizabeth Cutting, Luke Meszar, Miles Walcott, Raymos Castillo, Stone Amsbaugh, and Zachary Miller

: Download all the competition's details as PDF here.

Information

We're excited to welcome competitors back to Denver for another fun day of speedcubing!

Please make sure to read all tabs before registering. These tabs include important information regarding your responsibilities as a competitor and are very important!

This competition has a 150 competitor limit. Please try to limit your guests that you bring to the competition!
Competitions fill quickly, so it is recommended you register as soon as possible to save a spot.
Be sure to familiarize yourself with the WCA regulations.
If this is your first competition, please be present for the competitor tutorial at 8:00 AM.
If you are unable to make the competition, please withdraw your registration as soon as possible by emailing the organizing team, to ensure competitors on the waitlist can compete. You will receive a 50 percent refund if you drop before the withdrawal deadline of (6:00 PM MDT 08-17-2024)
This competiton will feature a head-to-head style 3x3 finals!
This competition is financially supported by Colorado Cubers!

Events
Main event

Competitor limit: 150

Number of times bookmarked: 22

Registration period: Online registration opened and will close .
Registration requirements: 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 $33 (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 50% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
We encourage everyone to register for the events they want to compete in via your online registration, however you may add events to your registration up until the event has started.
On the spot registrations will be accepted with a base registration fee of $40 (United States Dollar).

Please keep in mind that registrations are approved manually after payment, so your registration may not be approved immediately.
Your registration is not complete until your registration fee has been paid.
All competitiors must read the "Competitor Information" tab.

WAITLIST INFORMATION:
If the competitor limit of 150 has been reached, you can still register and pay the registration fee to secure a spot on the waitlist. During the registration period, any competitor can cancel their registration and allow the first person on the waitlist to take their spot. If you find that you cannot make it to the competition after registering, please contact us so that we can maximize attendance.
All registrants still on the waitlist after the registration period will have their registrations deleted, and will be fully refunded.
We may completely close registration if the waitlist becomes very large.

We ask that you bring no more than two guests to help us with space in the venue. If you have any problems or would like to request additional guests, please contact the organizers. Thank you for your compliance.

ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING.
Before the competition, you will receive a card/nametag with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event in an email. We will be relying on competitors to help by judging whenever they are not competing, especially with our small competition size. Judging is very easy, and is a great way to make time fly!

We will provide a judging and competitor tutorial at the beginning of the day, right before the start of the first event. This will allow anyone with questions about how to judge to be properly prepared when they are expected to help.

We will need help judging for the second/final rounds of events as we can not assign staff for those in advance. Spectators are encouraged to learn how to judge; you do not need to know how to cube in order to be a great judge. Having enough judges ensures that we stay on schedule and are able to leave on time.

BY REGISTERING, YOU AGREE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND AND WILL FOLLOW ALL THE INFORMATION LISTED ABOVE

This event is open to cubers of any age and experience. For those of you new to cubing, welcome! We just ask that you know a couple things before coming to compete...

First, please be familiar with the WCA Regulations, found here.

Here are some frequently asked questions:

Q: Are there any restrictions on competing?
A: Nope! Outside of the restriction on spectators, anyone of any skill can compete in this competition, including first-timers. As long as you know how to solve the cube, go ahead and sign up!

Q: Do spectators have to pay?
A: No! All spectators are let into building for free, but keep in mind you can only bring one!

Q: Do I use my own cube to compete?
A: Yes! You are responsible for your own hardware in order to compete. We heavily discourage borrowing or sharing other people's cubes at the competition.

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, go to wca.link/live to find information about current events.

Q: Why am I not on the registration list yet?
A: When you register, make sure you have paid the registration fee. Afterwards, your registration must then be manually accepted, so please wait at least 24 hours before contacting us. You should receive an email when your registration is accepted.

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 cube!

Q: Are there age divisions?
A: No! All competitors are on an equal playing field.

If you have any other questions, feel free to contact us by using the contact links on the general info page!

If you would like to be notified of future competitions in the state of Colorado, please sign up for the Colorado Cubers newsletter! This newsletter will notify you of future competitions in the state of Colorado when they are announced, and will provide you with monthly updates with news and results.

To subscribe, please see the landing page here.

If a registrant drops out, the next person with a paid registration on the waitlist will replace them.

Those currently on the waitlist will be listed below:

We will be holding one round of Face-Turning Octahedron (FTO)! All FTO competitors must fill out the registration form and be registered for Back to School Colorado 2024.

Cutoff for the average is 2:30 (within 2 attempts) and the time limit for each solve is 4 minutes.

The results will be recorded through Cubing Contests, and will then be added to the rankings.

Live Results

Event Details

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.