Battle of Alberta 2024

Date: Feb 10, 2024
City: Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
Venue: Cenovus Common, Red Deer Polytechnic
Address: 100 College Boulevard Red Deer, Alberta, Canada T4N 5H5
Details: Upstairs in the Cenovus Learning Common
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Colette Ross, Nathan Davies, Niels Nijstad, and Speedcubing Canada
WCA Delegates: Alexander Mutch, Dylan Vaskevicius, Kristopher De Asis, Laura Plourde, and Orion Donovan

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Information

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Events
Main event
Competitors: 116

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There is a competitor limit of 132 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $30 (Canadian Dollar).
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Kyle Santucci won with an average of 7.12 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Lucas Kuczaj finished second (7.49) and Seamus Twyman finished third (8.28).

Event	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Kyle Santucci	5.12	7.12	Canada	9.12	5.12	5.99	6.25	DNF
2x2x2 Cube	Ryan Yasinko	2.66	3.05	Canada	3.52	2.66	3.24	2.93	2.99
5x5x5 Cube	Lucas Kuczaj	1:00.04	1:01.69	Canada	1:03.59	1:00.04	1:01.62	1:03.26	1:00.20
Megaminx	Lucas Kuczaj	30.74	34.97	Canada	34.87	37.42	37.83	32.61	30.74
Pyraminx	Danny Buschert	2.21	3.24	Canada	2.21	5.76	2.36	3.11	4.25

As a non-official side event, we are excited to have the Battle of Alberta! We will sort competitors by Northern and Southern Alberta, with HWY 11 being the cut off.

For the scoring of the Battle of Alberta side classification, for 3x3, 2x2 and Pyraminx (first round only), we will use the best 25 competitors of the north group vs the best 25 competitors of the south group.
We will average their times per group and the fastest group will get 1 point.
For 5x5 and megaminx we will do the same with the top 15 per group.
This way there are 5 points to give away, but there's more!
If someone gets a Canadian record Ao5 in any of the events (including finals) that group gets an additional 2 points per record.

In the rare case the groups north and south get the same average times, the 25 vs 25 getting the same time, then the best Ao5 of the first round will win the point.
If those are the same, then the best single of the first round will win the point. If that is still the same time, the point for that event will be decided by coin flip

The group with the biggest amount of points wins the Battle of Alberta!

Wear your favourite jersey! We encourage competitors and guests to wear their Flames, Oilers, or other sports team wear of their choice, as we hope to create a fun Battle of Alberta atmosphere!

For first-time competitors:

There are multiple things a first-timer must know before competing. All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. Watch this video for the basic overview of the rules.

In addition, please read this WCA Competition Tutorial before coming to the competition to learn about the procedures for judging.

All competitors:

When you arrive, you will receive a card/nametag with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event. In addition, you will also receive staffing assignments. All competitors are expected to help at this competition. For each event you sign up for, you will be assigned to help out for just one group of that event.

We will provide a judging tutorial at the beginning of the day. This will allow anyone with questions about how to judge to be properly prepared when they are expected to help. We hope that this system will fairly divide up the judging of the competition and make the competition run smoothly for all.

All spectators:

Spectators must remain at least 1.5 meters away from the solving stations when they are in use, as per Article 7b of the WCA Regulations. No flash photography is permitted.

Food

RDP is within 5 minute drive to restaurants such as McDonald's, Wendy's, A&W, Freshii, Dairy Queen, Denny's, Tim Horton's, etc.

Travel

There are a variety of hotels available nearby in town, and on Gasoline Alley.

Venue

The competition will take place upstairs on the East wing of campus in Cenovus Common (since Cenovus Common is on the second floor, it is not shown on this map, but the location is directly above the Visual Arts area). Direct access to Cenovus Common is through the East Entrance, which leads directly to the staircase up to the competition. Alternatively, use the Main Entrance, turn left and head straight down the East wing. Turn left at the Nova Learning Common. Taking the next right leads down a hallway to a staircase which will take you up to the competition.

Parking

Parking is complimentary on the weekend. A parking lot has been reserved exclusively for our use, and will have signage for our event.

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.