East Bay Big and Blind 2024
- Date
- Nov 24, 2024
- City
- Oakland, California, United States
- Venue
Private Residence
- Address
- Private Residence
- Details
Details will be emailed to competitors before the competition
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Emmett O'Leary-Liu, Goodwin Liu, and West Coast Cubing LLC Treasurer
- WCA Delegates
- Abhimanyu Singhal (अभिमन्यु सिंघल), Calvin Nielson, Jason Ostdiek, Ruby Lu (卢红), and Wilson Li (李超雄)
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition is organized in partnership with West Coast Cubing
Adding/Dropping Events
- Competitors may request via the contact form to be added to more events BEFORE registration closes.
- Competitors may not add events after registration closes.
- Competitors may request via the contact form to remove events from their registration. It is also acceptable to not show up for any event you do not wish to compete in, although it is not encouraged.
- Competitors may also adjust their registration details by themselves, without prior approval until the registration deadline
If Registration fills up, we will place competitors on a waitlist. In order to get on the waitlist, you must register and pay. You are not on the waitlist until you pay the registration fee. If you do not make it off of the waitlist, you will be fully refunded. If a competitor drops out, the first person on the waitlist will replace them. People can be replaced up until the registration close date indicated above.
In a catastrophic event where the event will be compromised and cancelled, a full refund shall be offered to all competitors, in contrast to the typical 95% registration refunds.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 18
- 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 20 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $16 (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 on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 1 guest.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Calvin Nielson won with a mean of 27.00 moves in the 3x3x3 Fewest Moves event. Stanley Tran finished second (34.67) and Graham Siggins finished third (35.33).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6x6x6 Cube | Heidi Chan | 1:47.45 | 2:06.44 | United States | 1:47.45 | 2:25.13 | 2:06.75 | |||||
| 7x7x7 Cube | Calix Tang | 3:14.73 | 3:22.94 | United States | 3:28.50 | 3:14.73 | 3:25.58 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Calvin Nielson | 24 | 27.00 | United States | 29 | 24 | 28 | |||||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Graham Siggins | 1:45.21 | 1:48.27 | United States | 1:51.98 | 1:47.63 | 1:45.21 | |||||
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | Graham Siggins | 3:44.17 | DNF | United States | 3:44.17 | DNF | DNF | |||||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Graham Siggins | 58/64 59:15 | United States | 58/64 59:15 | 56/64 1:00:00 | |||||||
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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 across rounds (see Guideline A1a2++).
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.