Chicago Area Twist Spring A 2024
- Date
- May 18, 2024
- City
- Glen Ellyn, Illinois, United States
- Venue
College of DuPage
- Address
- Student Resource Center (SRC), Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
- Details
Turner Conference Center
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Brandon Reichman, Carter Thomas, and Midwest Cubing Association
- WCA Delegates
- Brandon Reichman, Carter Kucala, Draco Tong, Ilkyoo Choi (최일규), Saransh Grover, Simon Kellum, Zachary Miller, and Zeke Mackay
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This is a great competition for new competitors! Please reach out to us if you have any questions about registration or competing.
This competition is supported by the Midwest Cubing Association.
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- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 127
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- 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 Chicago Area Twist Spring 2024 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 160 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $25 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 75% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
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.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Zeke Mackay won with an average of 6.09 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Andrew Moy finished second (6.81) and Ben Zhao finished third (6.94).
World records: Carter Thomas Clock 2.38 (single).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Zeke Mackay | 5.53 | 6.09 | United States | 6.03 | 6.31 | 6.93 | 5.53 | 5.93 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Max Walaszek | 1.36 | 1.69 | United States | 2.07 | 1.58 | 1.36 | 1.42 | 3.04 | |||
| 5x5x5 Cube | Henry Lichner | 40.80 | 47.68 | United States | 44.43 | 40.80 | 47.10 | 53.56 | 51.51 | |||
| Clock | Brayden Thompson | 3.81 | 4.74 | United States | 4.99 | 3.81 | 4.98 | 4.25 | DNF | |||
| Square-1 | Zeke Mackay | 7.28 | 8.58 | United States | 10.74 | 12.10 | 7.28 | 7.40 | 7.60 | |||
All results from the competition will be posted live on https://live.worldcubeassociation.org/competitions/5156
Q. How do I register for this competition?
A. Registration for this competition opens on Monday, March 11th and will be open until Monday, May 13th. You'll need a WCA Account to register. Once registration has opened, you can register at the register button to your left or at this link. Select the events you'll be competing in and any comments you'd like the organization team to know. After pressing Register, you'll be prompted to pay using Stripe. You must pay your registration fee to be eligible to compete. If there is still space in the competition and you do not receive an email saying your registration has been accepted within 48 hours of paying, please contact the organization team.
Q. How can I prepare for the competition day?
A. Competitors should understand the WCA Regulations before competing. For something a little more digestable, you can read the WCA Competitor Tutorial or watch this video guide. We will have a New Competitor Tutorial at the beginning of the day where you can learn and ask questions.
Q. Who should I ask if I have any questions?
A. Your delegates for this competition are Brandon Reichman, Carter Kucala, Draco Tong, Saransh Grover and Simon Kellum. Please ask them if you have any questions.
Q. What are groups? How can I find which ones I'm in?
A. Groups are how we determine when each competitor competes. During each round, we will have several groups that will be called up in succession. When the group in which you're supposed to compete is called, please come up to the cube dropoff table and submit your puzzle. When the group you're judging is called, come up and find an empty station to judge. Groups will be emailed to competitors or in a tab on this website in the week leading up to the competition.
Q. Do competitors need to volunteer? How do I do that?
A. We require that all competitors volunteer as Judges during the competition day. You will be assigned a group to judge in. We will go over judging in our New Competitor Tutorial.
Q. How old do I have to be to compete?
A. WCA Competitions are open to cubers of any age! We do not have age groups so all competitors compete with each other.
Q. What do I need to bring to the competition?
A. You'll need to bring the puzzles required for any event you'll be competing in. Most competitors like to bring other cubes to warm up with. All timing equipment will be supplied by the WCA Delegates at the competition.
Q. Where can I find results for this competition?
A. Live results will be visible on the WCA Live and will be posted on the WCA Website shortly after the competition. If it's your first competition, you'll get a WCA ID when results are posted to the WCA Website.
This competition will be sponsored by The Cubicle! Gift card prizes will be given out to all who place in the top 3 of each event. Puzzles will not be sold onsite.
Staffing includes judging, running, scrambling, and data entry. To apply for staff, click on the link below:
https://forms.gle/pjDpWjssEfmxEqGe8
Staff are expected to help out the entire day. If you staff for one competition, you will receive free lunch for that day. If you staff for both competitions, you will be refunded your full registration fee and receive free lunch for both days.
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.