Cal Poly SLO Winter 2023
- Date
- Feb 25, 2023
- City
- San Luis Obispo, California, United States
- Venue
California Polytechnic State University, SLO
- Address
- 1 Grand Avenue, San Luis Obispo, CA
- Details
Building 192 (Engineering IV) Room 106
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizer
- Paul Mahvi
- WCA Delegates
- Calvin Nielson and Chris Martin
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
All competitors under the age of 18 are required to follow the information on the Minor Liability Form page.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 41
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 1:00 AM UTC and closed Saturday, February 18, 2023 at 7:59 AM UTC.
- Registration requirements
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There is a competitor limit of 48 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $20 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Saturday, February 18, 2023 at 7:59 AM UTC you will be refunded 50% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Saturday, February 18, 2023 at 7:59 AM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Saturday, February 18, 2023 at 7:59 AM UTC on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Paul Mahvi won with an average of 8.21 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Dan Tran finished second (9.10) and Nipun Das finished third (9.50).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Paul Mahvi | 7.20 | 8.21 | United States | 7.20 | 8.41 | 8.24 | 7.98 | 12.94 | |||
| 7x7x7 Cube | Paul Mahvi | 2:19.62 | 2:24.68 | United States | 2:28.31 | 2:19.62 | 2:26.10 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Paul Mahvi | 2:13.50 | DNF | United States | 2:13.50 | DNF | DNF | |||||
| Skewb | Wilson Xie | 3.34 | 3.90 | United States | 3.50 | 3.45 | 3.34 | 7.67 | 4.76 | |||
| Square-1 | Calvin Nielson | 7.43 | 8.85 | United States | 7.74 | 7.43 | 9.68 | 9.14 | 10.84 | |||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 24 advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 12 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 7x7x7 Cube | First round | Bo1 / Mo3 | 10:00.00 | 1 attempt to get < 5:00.00 | Top 6 advance to next round |
| Final | Mo3 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Final | Bo3 | 10:00.00 cumulative* | ||
| Skewb | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 30.00 | 2 attempts to get < 15.00 | Top 12 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 30.00 | |||
| Square-1 | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 1:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 40.00 | Top 6 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 |
Even though COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted, we ask that you please excercise common sense. If you are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, or are just feeling unwell, do not attend. Anyone showing signs of being sick will be asked to leave. If you test positive for COVID-19 within two weeks after the competition, please notify us right away so we can instruct everyone else to get tested and quarantine (we will leave your name anonymous).
All Minors (persons under the age of 18) will be required to have their parent or legal guardian fill out and sign a liabilty form. This must be signed on paper and turned into us. We will print out some copies, but we would recommend you print them out and sign them ahead of time as this will speed up the check in process. The liability forms can be found here:
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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).
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.