Cubing For Water Winter 2023

Date: Jan 7, 2023
City: Stafford, Texas, United States
Venue: Living Water International
Address: 4001 Greenbriar Drive, Stafford, Texas, 77477
Details: Competition will be held in the foyer area.
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Aurelio Archibold and Matt Lee
WCA Delegate: Vincent Chen

: Download all the competition's details as PDF here.

Information

This competition is supported by CubingUSA.

Competitions tend to fill quickly, so we strongly recommend competitors register immediately right when registration opens to secure a spot.

Please review the "Competitor Information" tab before the competition.
Please review the other tabs for more information on the competition.
We ask that competitors come with no more than one guest.

Please note that the schedule is subject to change, as we may hold events slightly earlier or later than shown depending on whether the competition is running ahead of schedule or behind schedule.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 55

Registration period: Online registration opened and closed .
Registration requirements: This competition is over, click here to display the registration requirements it used.

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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 55 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $30 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 95% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until by contacting the organization team.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.

Registrations must be accepted manually, so if you do not see your name on the competitor's list within a business day, then please contact the organizers to resolve the issue.

Registrations may be deferred due to:
- Incorrect date of birth
- Incorrect name
- Representing a foreign country and not providing documentation
In all of the above cases, the organizers will email you before accepting the registration to confirm the information provided.

After the competitor limit has been reached, you may still pay and be put on a waiting list. If you are first on the waitlist and someone cancels their registration, then you will receive an email from the organizers. You must reply to the email and confirm your registration within 24 hours of receiving the email to compete. If no response is heard from you, the next person on the waiting list will be offered your spot. After the competition, all competitors on the waiting list will receive a refund for the registration cost minus tax. Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor's list until Thursday, December 29, 2022, 7:00 PM CDT.

We will not be accepting event changes during the competition. If you wish to change which events you are registered for, please contact the organization team prior to Thursday, December 29, 2022, 7:00 PM CDT.
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Ryan Pilat won with an average of 6.70 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Jason Lee finished second (7.48) and George Fan finished third (8.68).

Event	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Ryan Pilat	6.25	6.70	United States	8.10	6.25	6.57	7.17	6.37
4x4x4 Cube	Jason Lee	26.15	29.25	United States	33.58	30.19	28.00	29.56	26.15
5x5x5 Cube	Ryan Pilat	55.62	57.99	United States	56.93	55.62	57.95	59.49	59.08
3x3x3 One-Handed	Ryan Pilat	11.54	13.31	United States	13.44	11.89	14.60	14.63	11.54
Megaminx	Ryan Pilat	47.70	50.03	United States	53.39	47.70	48.51	51.27	50.30
Skewb	Riley Norrid	2.46	3.39	United States	2.46	3.49	3.50	3.19	3.86

This competition will take place at Living Water International

* Competitors will be allowed no more than one guest in the venue.
* Parking may fill up at the venue. Overflow parking is permitted across the street from the location.
* Living Water International is a 501(c)(3) non profit. You can learn more about the organization here.
* This competition is raising funds for the organization. More details can be found on the Fundraising tab.

All Competitors

Please try to arrive at least 30 minutes early for the events you are competing in to ensure that you are on time for that event.
We will use regulation 9p3 as much as we can. So if you do not arrive to compete by the time the event is starting, your spot may be given up the next competitor in the rankings.
To keep the competition running on time and to ensure we can keep all events we will be requiring competitors to also judge. Pay attention to the group assignment sheet - This is essential to keep the events on schedule. We also invite any parents or guests to also help to judge - thank you for your support. Please arrive to attend the New Competitor & Judges tutorial.
Your delegates for this competition are Zachary White and Vincent Chen. Ask them if you have any questions throughout the day!

New Competitors

Please try to arrive early to watch the new competitor introduction.
Additionally you can watch Kit Clement's WCA Competitor Tutorial video.
Please be familiar with all of WCA's regulations, most importantly Article A. If you have any questions about the regulations, feel free to ask us.
In each event we will have rounds. We will take the top competitors into subsequent rounds. After a round is completed it will be entered into WCA Live. Your name will be highlited if you are advancing to the next round.
Each round will be divided into groups to help them run more efficiently. We will call the groups in order, along with a last call during the last group. Please come bring your puzzle up and wait in the competitor waiting area when your group is called. We are allowed to deny you the ability to compete if you do not come up by the last call.

This competition is being held as a fundraiser for Living Water International.
In sprit of that, we created a fundrasing page where cubers can work together.
At fundraise.water.cc/cube, competitors and those involved can create fundraising pages by clicking Join Team.
We encourage parents to help their younger cubers with this process. You can then share your fundraiser page to friends and family. This is optional.
If every competitor can raise just $15, we can provide water to at least 25 people from this form of fundraising alone. Participation in this can also help us have the possibility of using this venue again in the future.
The competitor with the most money raised and the competitor with the most donors will recieve prizes after the fundraising period has ended (after the competition). More details will be provided later on prizes.

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.