Bloomington Open 2024
- Date
- Feb 24, 2024
- City
- Bloomington, Indiana, United States
- Venue
Banneker Community Center
- Address
- 930 W Seventh St, Bloomington, IN 47404
- Details
In the Gymnasium
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Aidan Halloran and Midwest Cubing Association
- WCA Delegate
- Javier Gonzalez-Napoleoni
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition is supported by the Midwest Cubing Association.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 55
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Friday, January 26, 2024 at 8:00 PM UTC and closed Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 8:00 PM UTC.
- 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 65 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $25 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Friday, February 16, 2024 at 12:00 AM UTC you will be refunded 90% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Friday, February 16, 2024 at 7:00 PM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Friday, February 16, 2024 at 7:00 PM UTC by contacting the organization team.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Any spectator can attend for free.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Luke Garrett won with an average of 5.95 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Brody Lassner finished second (8.41) and Ellery Dillon finished third (8.45).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Luke Garrett | 5.04 | 5.95 | United States | 8.02 | 6.04 | 5.04 | 5.86 | 5.95 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Luke Garrett | 25.35 | 28.84 | United States | 30.47 | 29.63 | 25.35 | 26.41 | 30.58 | |||
| Clock | Reed W. Richardson | 3.45 | 3.77 | United States | 3.64 | 3.67 | 4.01 | 3.45 | 7.56 | |||
| Megaminx | Luke Garrett | 31.54 | 39.61 | United States | 39.00 | 31.54 | 40.41 | 39.43 | 52.47 | |||
| Pyraminx | Luke Garrett | 1.98 | 2.84 | United States | 3.57 | 1.98 | 2.65 | 4.05 | 2.30 | |||
| Square-1 | Luke Garrett | 8.91 | 11.49 | United States | 10.69 | 10.74 | 13.04 | 13.57 | 8.91 | |||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 12 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 3:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:25.00 | Top 8 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 3:00.00 | |||
| Clock | Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | ||
| Megaminx | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 5:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 2:30.00 | |
| Pyraminx | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 8 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| Square-1 | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 3:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 50.00 | Top 8 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 3:00.00 |
For first-time competitors
All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. This video gives a basic overview of the rules. Note that this video is fairly old and some information may be outdated.
In addition, please read this document before coming to the competition.
Finally, please be familiar with how to judge at a cubing competition. All competitors will be required to judge in at least one of the events they are competing in. This video gives a basic overview of how to judge, and does include more up-to-date information.
For all competitors
When you arrive, you will receive a card with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event. In addition, you will also have judging/scrambling assignments on your card. Every competitor is expected to help out during the event(s) they are registered for. The card will look like the following:
If you do not arrive to help during your scheduled event, and there are not enough staff members, we reserve the right to disqualify you from competing.
The Community Center is located on the of 7th St. and Elm St. The nearest parking lot is the Butler Park Community Garden which is connected to the community center with a blue line. If this lot is full, there is a lot of free street parking on the adjacent and nearby streets. The gymnasium is directly forward, down the stairs after entering in the main entrance.
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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.