FSUbers 3.0 2022
- Date
- Dec 3, 2022
- City
- Tallahassee, Florida, United States
- Venue
- Address
- 212 Student Services Building, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32304
- Details
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
- Contact
- Organizers
- Nancy Hartman and Sean Hartman
- WCA Delegates
- Carter Bitz, James Hildreth, Nancy Hartman, Nathan Dwyer, and Nathan Graves
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
Due to available space, each competitor can only have one guest. There are a lot of areas to explore around campus to explore for other guests. Please let us know of any concerns or special circumstances, we may or may not be able to accomodate them.
Please don't bring a guest unless you noted so in your registration. Let us know if you are bringing a guest if you didn't note so in your registration so we can add that.-Please review the competitor information tab before the competition.
-Please review the COVID-19 for information regarding the steps taken to increase competitor safety at this competition.
-Please review the Florida/Southeast Cubing tab for how to keep up with future competitions that are announced.
-Please review all other tabs for more information on the competition.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 84
- 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 $25 (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 by contacting the organization team.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
After the competitor limit has been reached, you may still pay and be put on a waiting list. If 100 competitiors are signed up, and you don't see your name as one of them under competitors, then you are on the waiting list.
If you are first/next on the waiting list and someone cancels their registration then your registration will be confirmed. Please, let us know as soon as possible if you are not able to attend to allow another competitor to attend. After the competition all competitors on the waitlist will receive a refund for the registration cost minus tax (90%).
Once registration closes we may add additional round(s) of events as time may permit in the schedule or change the number of competitors to advance to the next round.
Extra Information
- Please make sure your email associated with your WCA account is one that you regularly check as you will need to see any emails the organization team may send out.
- To register for this competition, you must pay in full in advance through Stripe. Your registration is not complete until you pay.
- If you are having payment problems, please contact the organizers for an alternative payment method.
- To cancel your registration, please email the organizers with your name telling them you want to cancel your registration. You will recieve a 90% refund if you let us know before registration closes. If you are having trouble paying on the website or any other registration problems, please use the contact button to talk to us.
- If the competition reaches its competitor limit and when registration closes, no additional registrations will be accepted. No exceptions.
- Be aware, competitions are filling up very quickly. It is recommended to register as soon as possible once registration opens. If you would like tips on how to register faster, please let us know. You can contact organizers or delegates by clicking on their name on the information page.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Noah Swor won with an average of 8.33 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Carter Bitz finished second (8.53) and Sean Hartman finished third (9.21).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Noah Swor | 7.16 | 8.33 | United States | 7.16 | 9.47 | 8.58 | 8.46 | 7.95 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Matthew Duffin | 1.62 | 2.58 | United States | 2.71 | 1.62 | 2.66 | 2.38 | 4.64 | |||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Noah Swor | 12.43 | 13.66 | United States | 13.07 | 15.19 | 16.69 | 12.43 | 12.72 | |||
| Megaminx | Heewon Seo | 32.34 | 32.70 | United States | 32.36 | 37.34 | 32.34 | 32.87 | 32.88 | |||
| Pyraminx | Daniel Porter | 1.89 | 3.76 | United States | 3.93 | 1.89 | 7.68 | 3.78 | 3.57 | |||
| Skewb | Noah Swor | 2.70 | 3.59 | United States | 3.98 | 3.66 | 2.70 | 3.14 | 4.55 | |||
| Square-1 | Noah Swor | 6.33 | 9.18 | United States | 9.45 | 11.20 | 12.86 | 6.33 | 6.90 | |||
Florida Cubing:
Florida Cubing Facebook Group: https://m.facebook.com/groups/floridacubing
Competition Email list: https://forms.gle/2r77SYz1gkmUuDpu6.
Southeast Cubing:
Cubing Southeast Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/491409969462797
WCA - Southeast, USA Discord server: https://discord.gg/hp7DSmtReb
Reach out to us if you have any questions.
Important Links
(Links will be updated closer to the competition)
Group Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UnP9NO542xKH5jJfaKwS7J5Pty--xo5BDy1_Sk8tsrc/edit#gid=0
Live Results: https://live.worldcubeassociation.org/competitions/1789
All Competitors
- Please try to arrive at least 30 minutes early for the events you are competing in to ensure that you are on time for your events
- We will use regulation 9p3 as much as we can, so if you do not arrive to compete by the event is ending your spot may be given up to the next competitor in the rankings.
- Your Delegates for this competition are: Nancy Hartman, Carter Bitz, Nathan Graves, Nathan Dwyer, and James Hildreth. Ask them if you have any questions throughout the day!
- To keep the competition running on time and to ensure we can keep all events we will be requiring competitors to also judge. Pay attention to the group assignment sheet - If you are in the first group of an event you will then judge the second group, if in the second group you will judge the third group and so on - if you are in the last group you will judge the first group. This is essential to keep the events on schedule. We also invite any parents or guests to also help to judge - thank you for your support. Please arrive to attend the Competitor & Judges tutorial.*
New Competitors
- You will need to arrive on time to watch the new competitor introduction at 8:45am.
- You can watch Kit Clement's WCA Competitor Tutorial Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPL3eV-A0ww
- Please be familiar with all of WCA's regulations, most importantly Article A. If you have any questions about the regulations, feel free to ask.
- In each event we will have rounds. We will take the top competitors into subsequent rounds. After a round is completed it will be entered into live.worldcubeassociation.org. Your name will be highlited if you are advancing to the next round.
- Each round will be divided into groups to help them run more efficiently. We will call the groups in order with a last call during the last group. Please bring your puzzle up when your group is called. We are allowed to deny you the ability to compete if you do not come up by the last call.
Competitors under the Age of 18:
We would appreciate if you fill this out and send a scan or picture to us, or bring it to the competition. We will also have some available at the competition to fill out. There is no actual risks outlined in this waiver, it is required for minors attending events at FSU.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xUPm7RaZRWAX0mUbiyVww56NDkUlm-Nj/view?usp=sharing
Staff
Please contact us if you are interested - you must be able to staff for the duration of the competition.
Awards
Certificates and Speedcubeshop gIft card codes will be given to podium winners. Competitors at the competition at the end of the day will be elgible for a raffle of 2 $50 speedcubeshop gift card codes.
There are multiple parking garages around campus, the closest one to the venue is the Traditions Way Garage Traditions Way Garage, Tallahassee, FL 32304(https://bit.ly/3qhu4KD).
We will have signs directing you to the venue nearby the parking garage, and here is a video showing how to go from the parking garage to the venue if you are still unable to find it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qsWxS8gXoA.
The Tallahassee International Airport (TLH) is ~6 miles from the venue(although it is an international airport, it actually doesn't fly nonstop to very many places and flights tend to be expensive, but depending on your location there may be decent options).
- At FSU face coverings are encouraged, but not required.
- We will privide hand sanitizer, masks, and disinfecting wipes, available to everyone in attendance.
- We ask that any attendee showing symptons of COVID19 or Monkeypox stay home.
This competition is Sponsored by Speedcubeshop!
Results:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12AGRWTOCZ5PJN9sIaBqSHhXN6JVMTFe_jh-uyAzBIGQ/edit
2x2 One Handed: Average of 5, 10 minute cumulative (This means that you can do up to 5 solves as long as your total time doesn't go over 10 minutes).
Mirror Cube: Average of 5, 10 minute cumulative
time limit.
Mini Guildford Relay: Best of 3, 10 Minute Cumulative, 2-3 person groups.
This is a relay of 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, 5x5, Megaminx, One Handed, Square-1, Skewb, Clock, and Pyraminx.
We will pair people into 2 or 3 person groups based on your times. You solve these cubes as a group, so each person only does a some of them.
Regardless of how many people are in your group, the cumulative time limit for your attempts will be 10:00. You may do up to 3 attempts as long as the combined total of the attempts isn't above 10 minutes.
You may also request to be a 1 person group and we may or may not be able to accommodate it based on how many people sign up.
Sign up:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSePoV5Q-UqrQIoXM2Jeg-5_hG3AMlWmb6m1YxnQmJbm2TavEQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
Notes for Mini Guildford:
-Be prepared to answer what you average around for each of these events in order to be paired up with others, put N/A if you don't know how to solve/don't do that event.
-We will pair people into 2 or 3 person groups based on your times. You solve these cubes as a group, so each person only does a some of them.
-Regardless of how many people are in your group, the cumulative time limit for your attempts will be 10:00. You may do up to 3 attempts as long as the combined total of the attempts isn't above 10 minutes.
-You can request to be paired up with someone/someone(s) in particular in this form.
-You may also request to be a 1 person group and we may or may not be able to accommodate it based on how many people sign up.
The most convenient place is The Den, which is on the first floor of the venue. They are prepared with extra staff for the competition.
The closest alternative options are at 1851 in the bottom floor of Azalea Hall(824 W Jefferson St). There are multiple food options here. There is also the student union nearby(75 N Woodward Avenue), which also has multiple food options.
You can see what is currently open here: https://seminoledining.campusdish.com
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.