Flex in Lex 2023
- Date
- Aug 19, 2023
- City
- Lexington, Kentucky, United States
- Venue
Eastland Church
- Address
- 2598 Liberty Rd, Lexington, KY 40509
- Details
Auxiliary Gymnasium (building behind the church)
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Eric Dodson and Glenn Koster
- WCA Delegates
- Alison Meador, Braden Richards, Javier Gonzalez-Napoleoni, and Ricky Martin
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 83
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Tuesday, July 11, 2023 at 12:00 AM UTC and closed Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 12:00 AM UTC.
- Registration requirements
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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 90 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $18 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 12:00 AM UTC you will be refunded 90% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 12:00 AM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 12:00 AM UTC on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Luke Griesser won with an average of 5.72 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Miles Lentz finished second (8.11) and Braden Richards finished third (8.23).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Luke Griesser | 5.52 | 5.72 | United States | 5.79 | 7.96 | 5.52 | 5.57 | 5.80 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Luke Griesser | 25.47 | 30.07 | United States | 30.57 | 25.47 | 28.11 | 32.11 | 31.52 | |||
| Clock | Braden Richards | 6.27 | 6.80 | United States | 7.43 | 6.39 | 6.27 | 6.59 | DNF | |||
| Pyraminx | Steven Wintringham | 1.80 | 2.21 | United States | 1.80 | 4.11 | 2.50 | 2.03 | 2.11 | |||
| Skewb | Dominic Brandi | 3.20 | 4.29 | United States | 4.09 | 3.20 | 7.03 | 4.55 | 4.23 | |||
| Square-1 | Maksymilian Misiak | 7.51 | 11.04 | Poland | 11.87 | 11.81 | 9.66 | 7.51 | 11.65 | |||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 75% 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 | 2:30.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:30.00 | Top 8 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 2:30.00 | |||
| Clock | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 1:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 30.00 | Top 8 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | |||
| Pyraminx | First round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 8 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | |||
| Skewb | First round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 8 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | |||
| Square-1 | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 1:30.00 | 2 attempts to get < 45.00 | Top 8 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 1:30.00 |
Venue: 2598 Liberty Rd, Lexington, KY 40509 - Eastland Church, Auxiliary Gymnasium (building behind the church)
Parking: There is plenty of free parking in front of and behind the church building.
Entrance: The Auxiliary Gymnasium is in a rectangular building behind the church. Enter through the double doors.
Hotels: There are no designated hotels for this competition. There are many hotels near I-75 exit 108 and Man O War Blvd (Hamburg area).
Food: There are many restaurants nearby in the Hamburg area. To get from the church to Hamburg: turn right onto Liberty Rd (0.1 mi), turn left onto Star Shoot Pkwy (0.7 mi), turn right onto Sir Barton Way.
For first-time competitors
All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. This video gives a basic overview of the rules. Note that this video is fairly old and some information may be outdated.
In addition, please read this document before coming to the competition.
Finally, please be familiar with how to judge at a cubing competition. All competitors will be required to judge in at least one of the events they are competing in. This video gives a basic overview of how to judge, and does include more up-to-date information.
This competition is sponsored by The Cubicle! They will be providing prizes as well as a $5 gift card to their shop to each new competitor. You can check out their site by clicking on the image below.
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.