Buckeye Big Brain Ohio State 2025
- Date
- Mar 8 - 9, 2025
- City
- Columbus, Ohio, United States
- Venue
- Address
- 1739 N. High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43210
- Details
Saturday: Cartoon Room -- Sunday: Senate Chamber
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Braden Richards, Carson Miller, Cubing Frontiers LLC, and The Rubik's Cube Club at Ohio State
- WCA Delegates
- Braden Richards and Mason Langenderfer
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition will only hold blindfolded events and FMC! First time competitors are welcome, but we will not be holding traditional events like 3x3x3 or Pyraminx.
This competition is supported by Cubing Frontiers LLC.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 15
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Monday, February 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC and closed Friday, March 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM 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 40 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $15 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC you will be refunded 75% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Friday, March 7, 2025 at 12:00 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.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Christopher Chi won with a mean of 20.00 moves in the 3x3x3 Fewest Moves event. Stanley Chapel finished second (25.00) and Rowe Hessler finished third (26.33).
North American records: Christopher Chi 3x3x3 Fewest Moves 20.00 (average).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Stanley Chapel | 18.35 | DNF | United States | DNF | 26.69 | 18.35 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Christopher Chi | 18 | 20.00 | NAR | United States | 22 | 20 | 18 | ||||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Jason Vindvamara | 5:46.54 | DNF | United States | DNF | DNF | 5:46.54 | |||||
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | Stanley Chapel | 2:07.06 | DNF | United States | 2:07.06 | DNF | DNF | |||||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Rowe Hessler | 48/70 1:00:00 | United States | 48/70 1:00:00 | ||||||||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | First round | Bo3 | 20:00.00 cumulative* | Top 75% advance to next round |
| Final | Bo3 | 10:00.00 | ||
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | First round | Mo3 | 1 hour | Top 75% advance to next round |
| Final | Mo3 | 1 hour | ||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | First round | Bo3 | 1:00:00.00 cumulative* | Top 6 advance to next round |
| Final | Bo3 | 10:00.00 | ||
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | First round | Bo3 | 1:30:00.00 cumulative* | Top 6 advance to next round |
| Final | Bo3 | 10:00.00 | ||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Final | Bo1 | 10:00.00 per cube, up to 60:00.00 |
Venue:
Parking:
There is a parking garage located adjacent to the building at 1759 N. High Street Columbus, Ohio 43210. Pricing can be found at the garage website.
Entrance:
Ohio Union: You may enter either at the East Entrance on High Street or at the West Entrance on College Road. Proceed to the Cartoon Room on the Third Floor.
The second day of the competition will be in the Senate Chamber on the 2nd floor
Hotels:
There is no designated hotel for this competition.
However, there are multiple hotels located near the univeristy including Holiday Inn Express, Days Inn, Comfort Suites, The Blackwell Inn, The Urban, and more
Food:
There are several options inside the Ohio Union including the Union Market, Woody's Tavern, and Sloopy's Diner. There are also many options on high street.
ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING
This competition only features Blind Events and FMC
All of the information below is for normal, non-PBQ competitions. However, if you are unfamiliar with how PBQ competitions work, please reach out to us in the 'Contact' link and we are happy to help with any questions.
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.
Please be aware of Ohio State's minor policy, stating that all attendees under the age of 18 must be supervised by a parent or adult at all times on campus property (which includes the Ohio Union).
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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).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced (see Regulation A1a2).
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.