Back to School Utah 2023
- Date
- Aug 19, 2023
- City
- Provo, Utah, United States
- Venue
- Address
- 2121 N 550 W, Provo, UT 84604
- Details
On the main floor on the West side of the building.
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Brock Burgi, Isaac Myers, Isabelle Evans, and Travis Cooper
- WCA Delegates
- Bradley Sampson, Cade Beck, Peter Preston, and Samuel Baird
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition is recognized as an official World Cube Association competition. Therefore, all competitors must be familiar with the WCA Regulations. If you are new to competing, please refer to the Competitor Responsibilities/New Competitor Information tab.
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- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 134
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- 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 $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 on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Any spectator can attend for free.
Registration
* Registration is first come, first served based on the order of when payment is received.Deleting Registration/Refunds
* If you register and later realize you cannot make the event, email us and we will delete your registration and issue a 50% refund.
* After the refund deadline passes, no refunds will be awarded.Adding/Dropping Events
* Competitors may request (by email) to be added to more events before 8 PM Mountain Time on August 10th, 2022.
* Competitors may not add events after registration closes.
* Competitors may request (by email) to remove events from their registration.Waitlist
* If the competitor limit has been reached, the waitlist opens. You can enter the waitlist by registering and paying the registration fee. Competitors will be accepted from the waitlist in the order that they paid.
* Competitors who do not make it off of the waitlist will receive a full refund after registration closes.
* No more registrations will be accepted from the waitlist after registration closes at 8 PM Mountain Time on August 10th, 2022. - Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Peter Augustine won with an average of 9.36 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Canyon Pettitt finished second (9.40) and Isaac Myers finished third (9.46).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Peter Augustine | 8.67 | 9.36 | United States | 9.29 | 9.14 | 9.65 | 8.67 | 11.26 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Eric Pesci | 29.38 | 33.73 | United States | 36.15 | 35.05 | 32.43 | 29.38 | 33.71 | |||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Canyon Pettitt | 13.35 | 14.89 | United States | 14.01 | 19.30 | 13.35 | 16.78 | 13.88 | |||
| Skewb | Ace Schembri | 3.50 | 4.52 | United States | 3.98 | 4.01 | 3.50 | 5.57 | 7.01 | |||
ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING.
Before the competition, you will receive an email with information about the events you are competing in, and staff responsibilities that you have been assigned. Additionally, you will receive a lanyard at the competition with your personalized competing and staffing information. As per WCA Regulation 1e2, “Every competitor must be available for judging.” We rely on volunteer staff to keep competitions affordable, and to keep competitions running on time.
We will provide a judging and competitor tutorial at 9am, right before the start of 3x3. We strongly recommend that first time competitors show up for the competitor tutorial, as well as any other competitors, or guest, that would be interested in learning how to judge.
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 judge. Having enough judges ensures that we stay on schedule and are able to leave on time.
Newcomers
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 to know a couple things before coming to compete.
Please be familiar with the WCA Regulations, which can be found here.
Additionally, this video will explain almost everything one will need to know about competing for the first time; however, it is still required that all competitors are still familiar with the full set of regulations above.
If you are ready to sign up, head over to the registration tab, click register, and fill out the information it asks for. This will help you get registered for the competition, and one step closer to your first WCA competition!
Registrations
Registrations are first come, first serve based on the order of when payment is recieved. Registrations are manually accepted by the organization team of the competition, so please do not contact the organization team if your registration has not been accepted unless it has been longer than 24 hours since you have completed your registration.
In order to register, please fill out the registration process as detailed below. If you have not paid and entered all necessary information (including first and last name) then your registration will not be accepted.
Waitlist
If the competitor limit has filled, then you will see a banner message on the WCA website that the competitor limit for the competition has been reached. In order to get onto the waitlist, you will need to complete the registration process like normal (including paying the registration fee). If a spot opens up then your registration will be accepted and you will be notified. If a spot does not become available by the time that registration closes, then you will be issued a 100% refund of your registration fee.
Cancellations/Refunds
If you register and later realize you cannot make the event, please email us and we will delete your registration and issue a 50% refund. After the refund deadline passes, no refunds will be granted.
Adding/Dropping Events
Competitors may request (by email) to add or remove events from their registration. Events may not be added after 8 PM Mountain Time on August 10th, 2022.
Registration process
1. Create a WCA account, this is necessary to register! Be sure to enter your first and last name, we reserve the right to deny your registration if this information is not provided.
2. Click on the registration tab found in the top left of the competition website.
3. Fill out your registration details, including the events that you would like to compete in and number of guest (non-competitors who will be attending with you).
4. Pay your registration fee, your registration will not be accepted until this gets paid! You may also leave a donation if you would like to support future competitions in Utah.
All 2023 Utah competitions are part of the Utah Cubing Cup. Competitors can earn points by competing and will win prizes at the end of the year.
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.