Cubing at Iowa State 2025
- Date
- Mar 1, 2025
- City
- Ames, Iowa, United States
- Venue
Radisson Hotel Ames Conference Center at ISU
- Address
- 2609 University Blvd, Ames, IA, 50010
- Details
In the ballroom, follow the signs.
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Ethan Cho, Luke Brunsvold, Maxim Duncan, and Midwest Cubing Association
- WCA Delegates
- Chris Martin, Francisco García, Mickey Doyle, and Shain Papalotl Longbehn
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition is supported by the Midwest Cubing Association (MCA).
We have local Facebook groups for our cubing area. Feel free to join the Iowa Cubing and follow the Midwest Cubing Association for information and announcements on upcoming competitions.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 87
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Thursday, January 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC and closed Saturday, February 22, 2025 at 5:59 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 90 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $30 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Saturday, February 22, 2025 at 5:59 AM UTC you will be refunded 75% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Saturday, February 22, 2025 at 5:59 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.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 2 guests.
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Registration is accepted in the order paid. Payment must be made for registration to be considered complete.⚠️If all competing spots are filled, a waitlist will begin. Waitlist spots are added in the order paid. Click here for more information about the waitlist.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Brody Rhoades won with an average of 7.27 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Kaius Young finished second (8.45) and Ethan Cho finished third (8.57).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Brody Rhoades | 5.79 | 7.27 | United States | 5.79 | 6.60 | 7.50 | 7.90 | 7.71 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Kaius Young | 22.66 | 25.18 | United States | 29.02 | 23.39 | 27.25 | 24.89 | 22.66 | |||
| 5x5x5 Cube | Ethan Cho | 46.61 | 47.82 | United States | 53.24 | 46.61 | 48.09 | 48.35 | 47.02 | |||
| Clock | Chris Van Der Brink | 3.29 | 4.12 | United States | 4.36 | 3.46 | 4.53 | 3.29 | 5.96 | |||
| Skewb | Trenton Cuzick | 3.10 | 4.17 | United States | 3.10 | 5.14 | 4.89 | 3.81 | 3.81 | |||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 3:00.00 | Top 16 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 3:00.00 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 3:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:30.00 | Top 12 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 3:00.00 | |||
| 5x5x5 Cube | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 5:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 2:00.00 | |
| Clock | Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | ||
| Skewb | First round | Ao5 | 2:00.00 | Top 12 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 |
Q. How do I register for this competition?
A. Registration for this competition opens on Wednesday, January 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM CST and will be open until Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM CST. You'll need a WCA Account to register. Once registration has opened, you can register at the register button to your left. 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 Shain Longbehn, Francisco García, and Mickey Doyle. 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.
Q. How can I have a competition in my hometown?
A. There is no Iowa-based delegate (yet!). You can contact the closest delegates by email here. We would love to help you organize a comp anywhere in Iowa and bordering states!
For each event, competitors are called to compete one group at a time. To facilitate this, all competitors will be assigned to a specific group for each event. Judging, running, and scrambling assignments for helping out at the competition are also listed for each competitor.
The competitor cards will also be available on a lanyard for each competitor at registration the morning of the competition. All competitors will be required to wear their lanyards throughout the day of the competition.
Group assignments will be announced closer to the competition date.
Live results will be available here during the event.
Competitors are added to the waitlist in the order paid
Once registration fills, a waitlist will begin and the link to monitor the status will be in this tab. You must pay the full registration fee to be added to the waitlist. When the waitlist reaches 25 people, registration will close and no more people will be allowed to register.
A link will be available here once a waitlist begins to monitor your status on the waitlist.
Most waitlisters move off the list around 1-2 weeks before the competition. Please keep an eye on your email as the competition gets closer.
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.