Bay Area Slowcubin' 2025
- Date
- Feb 22, 2025
- City
- San Jose, California, United States
- Venue
John Muir Middle School
- Address
- 1260 Branham Ln, San Jose, CA 95118
- Details
Multi-Purpose Room
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- David Karalli (داود قراعلي), Draco Tong, Ruby Lu (卢红), and West Coast Cubing LLC Treasurer
- WCA Delegates
- Anto Kam (甘浩東), David Karalli (داود قراعلي), Draco Tong, Ruby Lu (卢红), Samuel Martin, Shane Grogan, and Sherry Tao (陶心仪)
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition is organized in partnership with West Coast Cubing and SpeedCubeShop.
Get ready for a day of big cubes and blindfolded solving in San Jose!
This competition does NOT have 3x3x3 Cube. If you'd like to compete in 3x3, see Bay Area Side Events Day 2025.
All attendees are required to be quiet during blindfolded events, as these events require lots of concentration. If you would like to talk during a blindfolded event, please step outside of the venue first.
Competition Day Timing
- The competition will begin at the scheduled start time.
- Lunch will end at the scheduled time.
- Events will begin as soon as the previous event is wrapping up. Exception: All First Round events will not start more than 20 minutes early.
- Competitors may not compete in an event if they miss last call for that event. In general, last call is a few minutes after the last group is called.If you're interested in unofficial events, check out Bay Area Side Events Day 2025, a competition in San Jose on the same weekend!
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 50
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Sunday, January 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM UTC and closed Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM UTC.
- Registration requirements
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Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 80 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $25 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM UTC you will be refunded 80% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM UTC.
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 $25 (United States Dollar).
ON THE SPOT REGISTRATION:
- Missed the deadline to register online? You can register and pay for this competition in person! We will accept payment via cash or PayPal. Please note we will not accept bills over $20.
- Competitors who plan to register on the spot should show up before the start of events they wish to compete in. If a round is in progress at the time of registration, competitors who register on the spot might not be allowed to participate in that round.
Payment:
- Upon registering, you will receive an email with the subject "Registration Pending: Bay Area Slowcubin' 2025". This does NOT mean that you are on the registration list. Competitors will not be approved until the payment has been made.
- Please ensure you have paid the registration fees via Stripe on the "Register" page. Your registration is not complete and will not be processed until you have paid the registration fee. Contact the organizational team if you encounter an issue.
Waitlist:
- Once the competitor limit has been reached, the waitlist will be opened.
- You must pay the registration fee to be added to the waitlist.
- New registrations will be added to a waitlist and sorted in the order of payment.
- Waitlisted competitors will only be added to the competition if an existing competitor withdraws.
- All competitors still on the waiting list after Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM PST will be removed and provided with a full refund.
- You can see your position on the waitlist by checking the "Waitlist" tab.
Deleting Registration/Refunds:
- If you can no longer make the competition, you may request a partial refund.
- To receive a partial refund, you must contact the organizational team by Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM PST.
- Withdrawing enables us to maximize attendance and allows competitors on the waiting list to attend.
Changing Events:
- You may change the events you are registered for by contacting the organizational team.
- Competitors may add events up until the event has started. It is acceptable to not show up for any event you do not wish to compete in.
Please note, there will be no staff fee reimbursement for this competition.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Graham Siggins won with a single solve of 18.45 seconds in the 3x3x3 Blindfolded event. Calix Tang finished second (18.72) and Anto Kam (甘浩東) finished third (21.05).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5x5x5 Cube | Varun Mohanraj | 42.76 | 48.20 | United States | 50.58 | 51.90 | 44.89 | 49.12 | 42.76 | |||
| 6x6x6 Cube | Kate Grahame | 1:14.28 | 1:18.35 | United States | 1:19.31 | 1:14.28 | 1:21.47 | |||||
| 7x7x7 Cube | Kate Grahame | 2:01.92 | 2:04.06 | United States | 2:03.79 | 2:01.92 | 2:06.48 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Graham Siggins | 18.45 | DNF | United States | 20.37 | 18.45 | DNF | |||||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Graham Siggins | 1:37.82 | 1:41.67 | United States | 1:37.82 | 1:45.70 | 1:41.50 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Graham Siggins | 61/66 59:04 | United States | 61/66 59:04 | ||||||||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5x5x5 Cube | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 10:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 3:00.00 | Top 8 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 6x6x6 Cube | First round | Mo3 | 30:00.00 total for 6x6x6 Cube First round, 7x7x7 Cube First round** | Top 8 advance to next round | |
| Final | Mo3 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 7x7x7 Cube | First round | Mo3 | 30:00.00 total for 6x6x6 Cube First round, 7x7x7 Cube First round** | Top 8 advance to next round | |
| Final | Mo3 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | First round | Bo3 | 15:00.00 cumulative* | Top 10 advance to next round | |
| Final | Bo3 | 10:00.00 cumulative* | |||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Final | Bo3 | 1:45:00.00 total for 4x4x4 Blindfolded Final, 5x5x5 Blindfolded Final** | ||
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | Final | Bo3 | 1:45:00.00 total for 4x4x4 Blindfolded Final, 5x5x5 Blindfolded Final** | ||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Final | Bo1 | 10:00.00 per cube, up to 60:00.00 |
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Waitlist not yet created.
In the case of a waitlist, registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM PST.
Wondering if you made it to the next round? Click here to check live results on WCA Live. All data has to be entered manually before your final ranking for a round is available, so please be patient as we work hard to enter results.
This competition is sponsored by SpeedCubeShop! They will be providing gift card prizes for the top 3 competitors in every 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).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced (see Regulation A1a2).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced across rounds (see Guideline 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.