Berkeley Pre-Cal Day Tricubealon 2025
- Date
- Apr 18, 2025
- City
- Berkeley, California, United States
- Venue
SOCS 20
- Address
- Barrows Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
- Details
This venue is NOT the normal Pauley Ballroom venue!
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Anto Kam (甘浩東), Berkeley Cube Club, and West Coast Cubing LLC Treasurer
- WCA Delegates
- Anto Kam (甘浩東), Ruby Lu (卢红), Ryan Jew, and Tim Xie
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
IMPORTANT: This competition is happening on a weekday, not a weekend
- Registrants will be accepted in the order that they pay, not the order that they register. Please be patient with us as we manually accept all eligible competitors.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitor limit
- 30
- Number of times bookmarked
- 10
- Registration period
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Online registration will be open from Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 3:45 AM UTC to Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM UTC.
- Registration requirements
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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 30 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $10 (United States Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
If your registration is cancelled before Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM UTC you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM 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 $10 (United States Dollar).
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 2 guests.
All competitors must be available to judge/run/scramble for the competition as per Regulation 1e2 and 1f2. All competitors will be expected to help by judging or running for any event they are doing. Nametags will be handed out with all the information regarding what groups you will be competing in and what groups you will be helping in. If you are not competing in an event, you will not be assigned to help during that event.
Berkeley students will be able to compete for free for this competition.
If you are a Berkeley student, email anto@berkeley.edu with proof (for example, a student ID), and we'll waive your registration fee for the competition.
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 8 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | First round | Bo3 | 10:00.00 cumulative* | Top 8 advance to next round | |
| Final | Bo3 | 10:00.00 cumulative* | |||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 6:25.00 | 2 attempts to get < 45.00 | Top 8 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 6:25.00 |
This event will be held on the UC Berkeley campus. It is generally difficult to find parking in Berkeley, so public transport is the best option.
Arriving by plane:
The nearest airport is Oakland International (OAK), about 30 minutes away from campus by car or plan for an hour and a half by public transport. Uber can be a good choice from the airport.
By car:
Parking is pretty difficult to find in Berkeley. The easiest place to park is Underhill Parking Structure, around 3 blocks away from the main campus. Parking on the street is occasionally available, but it is not recommended that you bank on this option.
By public transport:
If coming by BART, get off at the Downtown Berkeley station, then follow Center Street until you arrive at the university. If you are considering taking the AC transit or other bus option, get off at the Bancroft and Telegraph stop and you're already on campus.
Want to stay connected with the West Coast community? Join the West Coast Cubing Community Discord Server! Speak with other competitors from NorCal, SoCal, Nevada, Hawaii, and Tijuana and keep in touch with fellow competitors and meet new ones! Find out about competition discussion as it happens in real time, and even announcements for competitions before registration opens!
We would like to thank SpeedCubeShop for sponsoring this competition! SpeedCubeShop is one of the original cube retailers based out of Las Vegas, and will also be providing prizes to 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).
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.