Cubing in the Lion's Den 2023

Date: Jun 3, 2023
City: Ellicott City, Maryland, United States
Venue: Howard High School
Address: 8700 Old Annapolis Rd, Ellicott City, MD 21043
Details: Cafeteria
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: CubingUSA Treasurer and Jed Silverman
WCA Delegates: Blake Thompson, Nick Silvestri, Pierce Tickle, Rich Tayag, and Will Callan

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Information

Competition will be held in the school cafeteria.

When facing the school from Route 108, enter through the doors on the very left side of the school. There are stairs leading up to the entrance. Once inside, the cafeteria is on the left.

This competition is supported by CubingUSA.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 141

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 150 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $10 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 90% 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 on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.

Please keep in mind that registrations are approved manually after payment, so your registration may not be approved immediately.
Your registration is not complete until your registration fee has been paid.
All competitiors must read the "Competitor Responsibilities" tab.

WAITLIST INFORMATION:
If the competitor limit of 150 has been reached, you can still register and pay the registration fee to secure a spot on the waitlist. During the registration period, any competitor can cancel their registration and allow the first person on the waitlist to take their spot. If you find that you cannot make it to the competition after registering, please contact us so that we can maximize attendance.
All registrants still on the waitlist after the registration period will have their registrations deleted, and will be fully refunded.
We may completely close registration if the waitlist becomes very large.
Highlights: Click here to display the highlights of the competition.

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Christopher Sun won with an average of 6.44 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Đỗ Quang Hưng finished second (6.96) and Ari Randers-Pehrson finished third (7.49).

Event	Name	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Christopher Sun	5.17		6.44		United States	6.24	6.10	6.99	5.17	9.51
2x2x2 Cube	Zayn Khanani	1.10		1.22		United States	1.14	1.72	1.22	1.29	1.10
4x4x4 Cube	Đỗ Quang Hưng	20.52		22.84	NR	Vietnam	32.22	20.75	24.28	23.49	20.52
5x5x5 Cube	Đỗ Quang Hưng	41.31	NR	43.88	NR	Vietnam	43.09	43.80	45.86	44.75	41.31
Skewb	Zayn Khanani	1.76		2.08		United States	1.76	2.32	2.04	1.89	2.43

ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING

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 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/running 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:

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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.

Groups can be found here.

Results will be uploaded on WCA Live.

If you are interested in staff, please fill out the following form: STAFF APPLICATION FORM

NOTE: ALL COMPETITORS MUST PAY THE $10 REGISTRATION FEE. If you are selected for staff, you will be refunded the registration fee AFTER the competition has ended.

Staff will be responsible for doing scrambling tasks throughout the day.

Staff members will have the registration fee reimbursed after the competition and will have lunch provided during the competition.

Final staff decisions will be made after registration closes.

This competition is sponsored by TheCubicle! They will be providing gift cards to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners of each event. Additionally, each first-time competitor will receive a gift card to TheCubicle!

Registration for this competition is closed because we already have a long waitlist as shown below. Rest assured, more competitions will be planned for the second half of the year.

Current Waitlist: Last updated 5/29

Connor L
Orhan T
Ibrahim K
Aarav B
Ben K
Aryan R
Scott H
Jack B
Jack K
Alexander J
Christopher R
Roberto C
Evan Y
Jun K
Adrien L
Ethan S
Tanner S
Stephen R
Daniel L
Rahul S
Tyler F
Owen D
Armen A

If you have registered but are neither on the above waitlist nor the competitor list, then you have not paid your registration fee.

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.