Erie Spring 2025

Date: Apr 26, 2025
City: Erie, Pennsylvania, United States
Venue: Grace Church Harborcreek
Address: 2420 Cumberland Road, Erie, PA 16510
Details: Church Sanctuary
Contact: Contact
Organizers: Charles Mitchell and Elijah Mitchell
WCA Delegates: Skylar Porter, Stephen Griggs, and Zachary Garber

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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 Competitor Information tab.

Events
Main event

Competitor limit: 70

Number of times bookmarked: 20

Registration period: Online registration opened Monday, March 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM UTC and will close Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM UTC.
Registration requirements: 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 70 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $15 (United States Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
If your registration is cancelled before Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM UTC you will be refunded 75% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM UTC on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Any spectator can attend for free.

Please keep in mind that registrations are approved manually after payment, so your registration may not be approved immediately.
Registration is not complete until payment of the registration fee is made.
All competitiors must read the "Competitor Information" tab.
Any requested changes to registration before registration closes will be honored.

WAITLIST INFORMATION:
If the competitor limit of 70 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 by emailing the organization team 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 provide you a 75% refund and maximize our attendance.
All registrants still on the waitlist after the registration period ends will have their registrations deleted, and will be fully refunded.

Event	Round	Format	Time limit	Cutoff	Proceed
3x3x3 Cube	First round	Ao5	10:00.00		Top 40 advance to next round
	Second round	Ao5	10:00.00		Top 12 advance to next round
	Final	Ao5	10:00.00
4x4x4 Cube	First round	Bo2 / Ao5	3:00.00	2 attempts to get < 1:20.00	Top 8 advance to next round
4x4x4 Cube	Final	Ao5	3:00.00
5x5x5 Cube	Final	Bo2 / Ao5	4:00.00	2 attempts to get < 2:00.00
Clock	First round	Bo2 / Ao5	1:00.00	2 attempts to get < 30.00	Top 8 advance to next round
Clock	Final	Ao5	1:00.00
Megaminx	Final	Bo2 / Ao5	4:00.00	2 attempts to get < 2:00.00

Schedules are subject to adjustments, especially once registration totals are known. Registered competitors will be notified by email of any major changes.

You are viewing the schedule for the venue Grace Church Harborcreek , the sole venue for this competition.

The time zone for this venue is America/New_York.

Events

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Saturday, April 26, 2025

8:15 - 8:30

Check-in

8:30 - 8:45

Tutorial for new competitors

8:45 - 9:45

4x4x4 Cube First round

9:45 - 11:00

3x3x3 Cube First round

3x3x3 Cube Second round

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 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 $15.00. (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 70. The list of approved competitors can be found by clicking "Competitors" on the left side of this webpage. If there are already 70 competitors on that list, it means the competition is full, and any future registrants will be placed on the waitlist.

Competitors MUST register and pay online in order to compete. No at-the-door registrations or payments will be accepted.

Any requested changes to registration before 11:59 PM EDT on Friday, April 18th, 2025 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 Friday, April 18th, 2025 are eligible for a refund for 75% 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 70 competitors have paid, simply pay the registration fee. If a competitor emails us to drop out before 11:59 PM EDT on Friday, April 18th, 2025, 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.

Groups will be created in the week leading up to the competition and will be posted here, sent by email, and will be provided to you on a physical card at the competition.

Live results can be found on WCA Live.

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.