Cubing up the UP 2023
- Date
- Apr 8, 2023
- City
- Gladstone, Michigan, United States
- Venue
Terrace Bay Hotel
- Address
- 7146 P Rd, Gladstone, MI 49837
- Details
Ballroom
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Carter Kucala, Midwest Cubing Association, and Zeke Mackay
- WCA Delegates
- Carter Kucala, Michael Conard, Shain Papalotl Longbehn, Walker Welch, and Zeke Mackay
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
We're coming back to the UP! Note that this competition is in the Eastern time zone.
This competition is supported by the Midwest Cubing Association.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 30
- 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.
There is a competitor limit of 100 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $20 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 100% 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.
On the spot registrations will be accepted with a base registration fee of $20 (United States Dollar).
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Brian Johnson won with an average of 6.46 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Carter Kucala finished second (7.23) and Silas Breault finished third (7.83).
Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
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3x3x3 Cube | Brian Johnson | 5.00 | 6.46 | United States | 7.57 | 5.00 | 5.25 | 6.56 | 7.69 | |||
2x2x2 Cube | Brian Johnson | 1.25 | 1.53 | United States | 1.25 | 1.49 | 1.32 | 3.85 | 1.77 | |||
4x4x4 Cube | Zeke Mackay | 26.74 | 29.16 | United States | 26.74 | 31.41 | 29.07 | 26.99 | 33.27 | |||
6x6x6 Cube | Silas Breault | 1:46.75 | 1:51.74 | United States | 1:54.02 | 1:46.75 | 1:54.46 | |||||
3x3x3 One-Handed | Brian Johnson | 9.61 | 11.98 | United States | 9.61 | 16.14 | 10.35 | 13.10 | 12.50 | |||
Pyraminx | Simon Kellum | 1.47 | 1.95 | United States | 1.52 | 3.01 | 2.41 | 1.47 | 1.92 | |||
Skewb | Brian Johnson | 3.00 | 3.59 | United States | 3.85 | 6.27 | 3.00 | 3.47 | 3.46 | |||
Square-1 | Carter Kucala | 7.64 | 9.10 | United States | 7.64 | 11.17 | 9.04 | 8.63 | 9.63 |
Q. How do I register for this competition?
A. Registration for this competition opens on Wednesday, February 22 at 7:00 PM EST and will be open until Wednesday, April 5 at 11:59 PM EDT. 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, the number of guests you'll be bringing (this does not need to be an exact number, we just like an estimate) 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 Carter Kucala and Zeke Mackay. 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 is not easily accessible except by car.
The closest airport is Delta County Airport about 15 minutes from the venue.
We recommend staying in the Terrace Bay Hotel (the venue of the competition) as there are few other nearby hotels. We have reserved a block of rooms for a discounted price, which you can access by using code "CUBING".
If you have not registered yet by the registration deadline of April 5th at 11:59 pm EDT, do not worry! You may still register at the door of the competition. If you are planning on doing this, please let us know in advance via the contact link here with the following information:
-WCA ID (If you have competed before)
- Full name
- Gender
- Email
- Birthday
- Events you would like to compete in
Additionally, you will be able to pay the $20 registration fee in cash, venmo, or paypal at the competition. If none of these options work for you, please let us know as soon as possible.
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.