Chemung Cubing 2023
- Date
- Aug 5 - 6, 2023
- City
- Horseheads, New York, United States
- Venue
- Address
- 3300 Chambers Rd, Horseheads, NY 14845
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Addy Coolidge, Empire State Cubing, and Evan Liu
- WCA Delegate
- Evan Liu
- 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. If you are new to competing, please refer to the Competition Procedures tab.
Day 1 Events: 2x2x2 Cube, 3x3x3 Cube, 3x3x3 One-Handed, Pyraminx
Day 2 Events: 4x4x4 Cube, 5x5x5 Cube, 6x6x6 Cube, 7x7x7 Cube, 3x3x3 Blindfolded, Clock, Skewb
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 60
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Tuesday, June 20, 2023 at 11:30 PM UTC and closed Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 3:59 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 500 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $30 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 3:59 AM UTC you will be refunded 50% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 3:59 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 $50 (United States Dollar).
Any spectator can attend for free.
Your online registration is not complete until payment of the registration fee is made. If you do not pay online, the on-site registration fee is $50.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Chloe Gu won with an average of 7.36 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Noah Kim finished second (7.77) and Noah Melita finished third (8.34).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Chloe Gu | 6.83 | 7.36 | United States | 8.21 | 7.17 | 7.10 | 6.83 | 7.81 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Noah Melita | 1.79 | 2.63 | United States | 1.79 | 3.44 | 2.14 | 2.93 | 2.81 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Evan Liu | 30.07 | 33.31 | United States | 30.07 | 32.64 | 38.31 | 35.45 | 31.83 | |||
| 5x5x5 Cube | Evan Liu | 59.06 | 1:02.56 | United States | 1:13.70 | 1:02.25 | 59.06 | 1:02.87 | 1:02.57 | |||
| 6x6x6 Cube | Evan Liu | 1:35.70 | 1:49.71 | United States | 2:00.80 | 1:52.62 | 1:35.70 | |||||
| 7x7x7 Cube | Evan Liu | 2:46.44 | 2:49.84 | United States | 2:52.30 | 2:50.78 | 2:46.44 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Evan Liu | 1:12.57 | DNF | United States | 1:12.57 | DNF | DNF | |||||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Noah Kim | 9.70 | 12.05 | United States | 14.00 | 11.99 | 9.70 | 10.64 | 13.51 | |||
| Clock | Evan Liu | 5.57 | 6.00 | United States | 5.67 | 6.45 | 5.88 | 5.57 | 7.53 | |||
| Pyraminx | Noah Melita | 3.54 | 4.85 | United States | 3.54 | 4.65 | 5.51 | 4.38 | 5.75 | |||
| Skewb | Addy Coolidge | 3.64 | 5.02 | United States | 3.64 | 4.71 | 6.20 | 6.62 | 4.14 | |||
| 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 16 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 5:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 5:00.00 | Top 16 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 5:00.00 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 5:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 2:30.00 | Top 16 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 5:00.00 | |||
| 5x5x5 Cube | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 7:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 3:30.00 | |
| 6x6x6 Cube | Final | Bo1 / Mo3 | 10:00.00 | 1 attempt to get < 5:00.00 | |
| 7x7x7 Cube | Final | Bo1 / Mo3 | 10:00.00 | 1 attempt to get < 7:00.00 | |
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Final | Bo3 | 15:00.00 cumulative* | ||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 5:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:00.00 | Top 16 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 5:00.00 | |||
| Clock | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 1:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 30.00 | Top 12 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | |||
| Pyraminx | First round | Ao5 | 5:00.00 | Top 16 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 5:00.00 | |||
| Skewb | First round | Ao5 | 5:00.00 | Top 16 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 5:00.00 |
Address:
3300 Chambers Rd.
Horseheads, NY 14845
The Arnot Event Center is part of the Arnot Mall as shown below:
There are several hotels near the venue:
-Hampton Inn Elmira/Horseheads
-Courtyard by Marriott Elmira Horseheads
-Candlewood Suites Horseheads - Elmira
-Country Inn & Suites by Radisson, Big Flats (Elmira)
-Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Elmira Corning
For First-Time Competitors
All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. This video gives a basic overview of the rules.
In addition, please read this tutorial document before coming to the competition.
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.
How to Register Online
- If you don't already have one, create a WCA account by clicking here and entering the required information.
- Sign into your WCA account.
- Click "Register" on the left side of this webpage, select the events you would like to compete in, and submit your registration.
- Pay the registration fee of $30.00. (The registration fee is the same regardless of how many events are selected.) Your registration is not complete until you have paid the registration fee.
- Wait for an approval email.
Refunds
Approved competitors who cancel their registration before 11:59 PM EDT on Saturday, July 29 are eligible for a refund for half (50%) of their registration cost. After this date, no refund requests will be honored. Attempting to file a chargeback for the registration fee will lead to being blacklisted from future WCA events.
TheCubicle will be providing prizes for the winners!
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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.