Barely Awake Boulder 2024

Date: Jan 27 - 28, 2024
City: Boulder, Colorado, United States
Venue: Embassy Suites Boulder
Address: 2601 Canyon Boulevard, Boulder, Colorado, 80302, USA
Details: Pearl Street Ballroom
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Colorado Cubers, Kaemon Vita, and Taren White
WCA Delegates: Cade Beck, David Karalli (داود قراعلي), Draco Tong, Elizabeth Cutting, Jason Ostdiek, Raymos Castillo, Saransh Grover, and Stone Amsbaugh

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

Information

We are excited to welcome competitors back to Boulder for the first time since 2016, and for the second ever 24+ hour competition held in North America!

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 official competition, this video will provide you with most of the information you need. https://youtu.be/dPL3eV-A0ww
If this is your first competition, please be present 15 minutes before the competitor tutorial at 11:00 AM, which means you should plan to arrive at 10:45 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 (2024-01-20 00:00 UTC)

Events
Main event
Competitors: 126

Registration period: Online registration opened and closed .
Registration requirements: This competition is over, click here to display the registration requirements it used.

Hide 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 $49 (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 .
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 $60 (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.
Highlights: Click here to display the highlights of the competition.

Hide highlights.

Jacob Nokes won with an average of 7.30 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Brayden Wroten finished second (7.44) and Oliver Michael Sitja Sichel finished third (8.18).

Event	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Jacob Nokes	7.05	7.30	United States	7.17	7.05	7.65	7.07	9.94
2x2x2 Cube	Brayden Wroten	1.85	2.10	United States	2.11	3.98	1.85	2.15	2.04
4x4x4 Cube	Jacob Nokes	23.22	27.67	United States	27.61	25.50	23.22	29.91	33.75
5x5x5 Cube	Jacob Nokes	50.77	54.28	United States	57.67	53.96	51.22	58.49	50.77
6x6x6 Cube	Jacob Nokes	1:24.38	1:34.88	United States	1:43.54	1:36.72	1:24.38
7x7x7 Cube	Jacob Nokes	2:24.76	2:34.27	United States	2:24.76	2:49.13	2:28.93
3x3x3 Blindfolded	David Karalli (داود قراعلي)	22.22	DNF	United States	22.22	DNF	DNF
3x3x3 One-Handed	Livia Kleiner	13.20	13.93	United States	13.20	13.21	14.60	13.99	17.27
Clock	Kaemon Vita	4.16	4.63	United States	4.30	7.83	4.79	4.16	4.79
Megaminx	Livia Kleiner	45.27	49.41	United States	48.85	54.58	49.21	45.27	50.17
Pyraminx	Livia Kleiner	2.13	2.57	United States	3.12	3.88	2.45	2.14	2.13
Skewb	Brayden Wroten	1.58	2.50	United States	5.17	1.58	2.96	2.80	1.74
Square-1	Oliver Michael Sitja Sichel	8.68	11.32	United States	13.80	8.68	12.72	9.77	11.47

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! 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.

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!

Yes, this competition really is 24 hours long! It will run from 11:00 AM on Saturday, January 27th to 11:00 AM on Sunday, January 28th. The schedule includes time for Dinner on Saturday, and Breakfast on Sunday, and totals 24 hours. We will be holding raffles throughout the night for competitors that stay the full 24 hours!

Rooms at the hotel that this competition is being held at can be reserved here.

This Competition will include additional rounds of 3x3x3 Team Blind and Rubik's Magic. You can view cutoffs and regulations below!

Registration for extra events will be through this Mircosoft Form: https://forms.office.com/r/F5sEKsbvs8

Results for extra events can be found at https://cubingcontests.com/competitions/BarelyAwakeBoulder2024

Please do not fill out these forms until you have an approved registration through the WCA website. Yes, we're checking. We will delete responses that are submitted before registration opens.

If you run into any problems with the forms, please contact the organization team.

Magic

Description

The old removed Magic event. All regulations are the same as the former official event.

Regulations
* Submit one Three Ring Magic Folding Puzzle
* Ao5 Format
* The competitor may do practice solves on the competition timer. When the judge and competitor mutually agree, the official solves will begin. At that point, all solves will be treated as official solves.
* The puzzle is not scrambled.
* The puzzle is not covered by the judge.
* There is no inspection phase.
* The puzzles must be completely flat on the surface, with either of the two sides on top.

Format:
* Average of 5
* No Cutoff
* Time Limit: 1:00

Team Blind

Description

Two competitors must collaborate to solve a 3x3 cube, with one competitor turning the puzzle, and the other giving directions.

Regulations
* Submit one 3x3 Cube
* Bo3 Format
* Before the attempt starts, the competitors must decide who is is the caller (cannot touch the cube) and solver (blindfolded)
* The solver must put on their blindfold before the attempt starts
* The caller gets 15 seconds of inspection. During this time, they may touch the cube. Once they set the cube down for the solver to pick up, they may not touch the cube for the remainder of the attempt.
* Both competitors may talk during the entire attempt

Format:
* Best of 3
* No Cutoff
* Time Limit: 9:00 Cumulative (Sum of the three solves must not exceed 9:00)

This competition will have a dedicated staff team to ensure that the competition runs smoothly. The form to apply for this competition can be found here.
If you are accepted onto the staff team, you can choose between a registration refund, or Dinner and Breakfast at the competition. Please keep in mind that not every applicant will get accepted onto the staff team, but we encourage everyone to apply nonetheless.

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.

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.