Empire State Side Events 2024
- Date
- Mar 24, 2024
- City
- Albany, New York, United States
- Venue
- Address
- 55 Eagle St, Albany, NY 12207
- Details
Meeting Room 2
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizer
- Empire State Cubing
- WCA Delegates
- Evan Liu and Zachary Miller
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition is recognized as an official World Cube Association competition. Therefore, all competitors must be familiar with the WCA regulations. If you are new to competing, please refer to the Competition Procedures tab.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 21
- 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 110 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $30 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 50% 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.
On the spot registrations will be accepted with a base registration fee of $30 (United States Dollar).
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 1 guest.
Registration is not complete until payment of the registration fee is made.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Nicolas Naing won with an average of 31.27 seconds in the Megaminx event. Alexei Sinyavin finished second (33.56) and Declan Wilhelm finished third (43.40).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Aaron Jake Wong | 6.54 | 7.46 | United States | 6.54 | 7.87 | 7.58 | 9.17 | 6.93 | |||
| Clock | Angelo Terpening | 4.39 | 5.79 | United States | 5.85 | 6.51 | 4.39 | 7.43 | 5.01 | |||
| Megaminx | Nicolas Naing | 28.49 | 31.27 | United States | 31.49 | 31.10 | 34.86 | 31.21 | 28.49 | |||
| Skewb | Saisabari Ramesh | 2.63 | 3.69 | United States | 2.83 | 6.42 | 3.45 | 4.78 | 2.63 | |||
| Square-1 | Elijah Rain Phelps | 6.22 | 7.48 | United States | 6.22 | 6.27 | 9.73 | 7.89 | 8.27 | |||
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | Evan Liu | 11:03.00 | 12:13.00 | United States | 12:01.00 | 13:35.00 | 11:03.00 | |||||
Address:
Albany Capital Center
55 Eagle St, Albany, NY 12207
Traveling by train: There are numerous Amtrak trains per day from New York Penn Station to Albany-Rensselaer, which is then a short drive across the Hudson River from downtown Albany.
Airport: Albany International Airport (ALB) is roughly 10 miles away from downtown Albany.
Parking: The closest parking available is the convention center's own garage; the entrance is on Wendell Street. The MVP Arena garage is also right next door. Additionally, downtown Albany has free street parking every weekend.
Hotels: The Renaissance Albany Hotel is connected by skybridge to the venue. Other hotels in downtown Albany include the Hilton Albany, Fairfield Inn and Suites Albany Downtown, and Hampton Inn and Suites Albany Downtown. There are also numerous hotels closer to the airport.
Food: Outside food/drink is permitted this time. There are also many options in downtown Albany, but most of them are sit-down restaurants. More fast food options are available closer to the airport (15-20 minutes away), in particular near Colonie Center and Latham Crossing.
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 tutorial 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 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.
Registration Process
Before You Register
All prospective registrants need a WCA account. New competitors can create their own WCA account by clicking here and entering the required information.
How to Register Online
Prospective competitors register by:
1. Signing into their WCA account;
2. Clicking "Register" on the left side of this webpage, selecting the events they would like to compete in, and submitting their registration;
3. Paying the registration fee of $30.00. (The registration fee is the same regardless of how many events are selected.) Your registration is not complete until you have paid the registration fee.
The competitor limit for this competition is 110. The list of approved competitors can be found by clicking "Competitors" on the left side of this webpage. If there are already 110 competitors on that list, it means the competition is full, and any future registrants will be placed on the waitlist.
Any requested changes to registration before 11:59 PM EDT on Saturday, March 16 will be honored. Your registration is not complete until your name shows up on the list.
How to Pay for Registration Online
Payment is processed through Stripe. Click on the "Register" tab on the left side of the webpage to register and pay all in one place! You can start the payment process by clicking "Pay your fees with card."
Refunds
Approved competitors who cancel their registration before 11:59 PM EDT on Saturday, March 16 are eligible for a refund for half (50%) of their registration cost. After this date, no refund requests will be honored. Attempting to file a chargeback for the registration fee will lead to being blacklisted from future WCA events.
Waitlist Information
We will be keeping a waitlist for this competition. To secure a place on the waitlist once 110 competitors have paid, simply pay the registration fee. If a competitor emails us to drop out before 11:59 PM EDT on Saturday, March 16, you will be notified if you are the next competitor on the waitlist. After that deadline, all remaining competitors on the waitlist will be emailed letting them know they did not get off the waitlist and will be fully refunded.
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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 (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.