Cubing in the Lion's Den 2024
- Date
- Feb 10, 2024
- 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, Jarom DeGiulio, Jed Silverman, and Michael Menachery
- WCA Delegates
- Blake Thompson, José Leonardo Chaparro Prieto, Nick Silvestri, Rich Tayag, and Siddharth Suresh
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- 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
- 142
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- Registration requirements
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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.Additionally, Howard High School students and faculty are granted free entry. You must still pay the registration fee, but you will be refunded afterwards. Please list if you are a Howard High School student or faculty member in the comments of your registration to receive your refund.
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
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Zayn Khanani won with an average of 7.31 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Brayden Adams finished second (7.89) and Sam Popp finished third (7.90).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
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| 3x3x3 Cube | Zayn Khanani | 6.13 | 7.31 | United States | 6.83 | 7.85 | 6.13 | 7.38 | 7.73 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Zayn Khanani | 32.08 | 33.46 | United States | 33.10 | 42.58 | 34.55 | 32.74 | 32.08 | |||
| 5x5x5 Cube | Hassan Khanani | 58.97 | 1:03.48 | United States | 58.97 | 1:07.28 | 1:08.54 | 1:00.34 | 1:02.81 | |||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Liam Chen | 19.23 | DNF | United States | 19.23 | DNF | 19.40 | |||||
| Megaminx | Declan Wilhelm | 37.19 | 41.30 | United States | 37.19 | 41.69 | 41.18 | 41.04 | 44.74 | |||
| Skewb | Zayn Khanani | 1.30 | 1.71 | United States | 2.05 | 2.56 | 1.59 | 1.30 | 1.50 | |||
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:
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 are available at CompetitionGroups.com and live results links will be posted posted on WCA Live.
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STAFF APPLICSTION IS NOW CLOSED!
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.
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.