Central Washington Odds 2025
- Date
- Apr 13, 2025
- City
- Ellensburg, Washington, United States
- Venue
Central Washington University, Nicholson Pavilion
- Address
- 715 E Dean Nicholson Blvd, Ellensburg, WA, 98926
- Details
Room 203/204, upstairs classrooms
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Gabe McBee and Pacific Northwest Cubing
- WCA Delegates
- Cailyn Sinclair, Chris Tabar, and Gabe McBee
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition is recognized as an official World Cube Association competition. Therefore, all competitors must be familiar with the WCA regulations. Please refer to the Competitor Responsibilities tab.
PLEASE NOTE: This competition is part of a series with Central Washington Evens 2025. Competitors are allowed to only compete in 1 competition. You can see more information on the Competition Series tab.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 19
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Thursday, February 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC and closed Friday, April 11, 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.
This competition is part of the Central Washington Spring 2025 Competition Series. Other competitions in this Series are: Note: You can submit a registration for all competitions in a Series, but only one of those registrations can be confirmed and accepted. You will only be allowed to compete in one of the Series competitions!
There is a competitor limit of 50 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $25 (United States Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
If your registration is cancelled before Friday, April 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC you will be refunded 50% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Friday, April 11, 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.
On the spot registrations will be accepted with a base registration fee of $25 (United States Dollar).
Any spectator can attend for free.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Vikram Haldar won with an average of 8.31 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Ethan George Hayes finished second (8.35) and Dylan O'Meara finished third (10.31).
Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
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3x3x3 Cube | Vikram Haldar | 6.08 | 8.31 | United States | 8.24 | 8.61 | 6.08 | 11.19 | 8.09 | |||
5x5x5 Cube | Vikram Haldar | 53.89 | 1:01.73 | United States | 1:00.61 | 1:08.46 | 1:04.60 | 59.98 | 53.89 | |||
7x7x7 Cube | Kevin Hays | 2:08.08 | 2:10.15 | United States | 2:13.50 | 2:08.88 | 2:08.08 | |||||
3x3x3 Blindfolded | Dylan O'Meara | 1:32.64 | DNF | United States | 1:32.64 | DNF | DNF | |||||
3x3x3 One-Handed | Ethan George Hayes | 11.27 | 11.87 | United States | 15.55 | 12.19 | 11.27 | 11.98 | 11.45 | |||
Megaminx | Vikram Haldar | 49.31 | 51.65 | United States | 49.36 | 49.31 | 51.53 | 54.06 | 54.50 |
Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
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3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round | |
Second round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round | ||
Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
5x5x5 Cube | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 5:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 2:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round |
Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
7x7x7 Cube | Final | Bo1 / Mo3 | 10:00.00 | 1 attempt to get < 6:00.00 | |
3x3x3 Blindfolded | Final | Bo3 | 10:00.00 | ||
3x3x3 One-Handed | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 10:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 40.00 | Top 75% advance to next round |
Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
Megaminx | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 5:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 2:30.00 | Top 75% advance to next round |
Final | Ao5 | 5:00.00 |
Due to ongoing circumstances, the organizing team is enforcing restrictions during the competition which will impact the running of the competition. Here are the most important changes.
- Please eat all food in the cafeteria area.
- Competitors should not attend the competition if experiencing symptoms of COVID-19, or if they were exposed to someone with COVID-19. If this occurs to you, the organizers will offer the competitor a full refund.
- Additional rules may be added as deemed necessary by the organizers, the WCA Board, or local/national governments.
By registering for this competition you agree that you understand and will follow all the information listed above.
ALL COMPETITORS:
When you arrive, you will receive a card/nametag with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event. In addition, you will also receive staffing assignments. All competitors are expected to help at this competition. For each event you sign up for, you will be assigned to help out for just one group of that event. 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.
We will provide a judging tutorial at the beginning of the day, right before the start of the 3x3x3 speedsolve event. This will allow anyone with questions about how to judge to be properly prepared when they are expected to help. We hope that this system will fairly divide up the judging of the competition and make the competition run smoothly for all.
FOR FIRST-TIME COMPETITORS:
There are multiple things a first-timer must know before competing. All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. There is a video here for the basic overview of the rules.
In addition, please read this document before coming to the competition to learn about the procedures for judging.
FAQs
Q: Do I use my own cubes to compete?
A: YES! You are responsible for your own hardware in order to compete and to be similarly responsible for its whereabouts at the competition venue.
Q: What is the competition like?
A; Competitions like this one have a bunch of tables where cubers like us get to sit, discuss and practice our favorite thing: cubes! The actual competing with timers, mats and displays is on one side of the venue. The competing is split up into groups, so as to better organize who competes when.
Q: How do I find results?
A: Data recorders will compile and present all results at WCA Live. We will add a link here in the days leading up to the competition, and also include it in the pre-competition email.
Q: How do we get our WCA IDs?
A: After the end of the of the competition, the delegates will submit the results and once approved, everyone will be automatically assigned their IDs.
Q: Are there age divisions?
A: Nope! All competitors compete in the same group.
Q: Can I have fun at this event?
A: ABSOLUTELY YES! Cubing is amazing, and we sincerely hope you enjoy the competition!
For any additional questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to the organizers/delegates on the General Info tab!
Location on Campus:
The venue will not open until 8am! If you want to arrive early, keep this in mind. The competition will be held in Room 203/204.
Central Washington University is in Ellensburg, WA in the middle of washington where I-90 Forks off into the 82.
Directions:
From Seattle
Take I-90 Eastbound to Ellensburg Exit #106. Follow the road through the intersection of Main for 5 1/2 more blocks.
From Spokane:
Take I-90 Westbound to Ellensburg exit #109. Take a right at the end of the off-ramp. Follow Canyon Road/Main Street to E. University Way. Turn right on E. University Way and go 5 1/2 blocks. Entrance to the parking lot is on the right. Our office is on the east side of the parking lot. Look for our red awning above our entrance.
From Wenatchee:
Take U.S. 97 Southbound over Blewett Pass into Ellensburg. Follow Cascade Way/E. University Way through the intersection of Main Street and continue for 5 1/2 blocks. Entrance to the parking lot is on the right. Our office is on the east side of the parking lot. Look for our red awning above our entrance.
From Yakima,Tri-Cities:
Take I-82 Westboud to I-90 Westbound for Seattle. Take the very first exit, #109. Take a right at the end of the off-ramp and follow Canyon Road/Main Street to E. University Way. Turn right on E. University Way and go 5 1/2 blocks. Entrance to the parking lot is on the right. Our office is on the east side of the parking lot. Look for our red awning above our entrance.
Parking:
Parking is free on the weekends.
Hotels:
There are many hotels in the Ellensburg area. Click here for a list of hotels.
Dining:
In the same building as the competition is the main cafeteria area. This will open at 11am. It offers a wide variety of options.
This competition will be sponsored by TheCubicle!
They will be providing gift-card prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in every event.
If you haven't checked out their store already, we highly recommend you do! They will not be selling puzzles onsite.
To be redirected to their site, either click HERE or the logo below!
If you get off the waitlist, you will receive an email indicating that your registration was approved. If you are still on the waiting list on Sunday, March 5, 2023 9:00 AM PST, you will receive a full refund of your registration fee.
Link will be available when registration fills.
This competition is part of a series with Central Washington Evens 2025 happening the day after. Competitors are allowed to compete in only one of these two competitions This will give up to 100 competitors the chance to compete this weekend. With having more competitor spots available, we anticpate registration to take longer to fill up. You are still encouraged to register as soon as possible to save a spot. If you register for both competitions, you will only be accepted to one competition, and it might not be the one you would like to attend.
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.