Florida Big & Blind & Time 2022

Date: Mar 13, 2022
City: Orlando, Florida, United States
Venue: Black Belt Center
Address: 4516 Hoffner Ave 32812
Details: Venue is a martial arts studio, enter through the double black doors, overflow parking is across the street at Publix
Contact: Florida Big & Blind & Time 2022 Organizers
Organizers: Nancy Hartman and Sean Hartman
WCA Delegates: Jacob Ambrose, Katie Hull, Nancy Hartman, and Nathan Graves

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Information

For Safety Precautions, we ask that competitors and their one guest only be in the venue during the competition's scheduled time.

Please review the COVID precautions tab for information regarding the steps taken to increase competitor safety at this competition.
Please review the other tabs for more information on the competition.
Please review the competitor information tab before the competition.

STAFF
Please contact us if you are interested. You must be able to staff for the entire competition. Staff will pay registration and have it refunded upon completion of staffing for the competition.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 31

Registration period: Online registration opened and closed .
Registration requirements: This competition is over, click here to display the registration requirements it used.

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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 36 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $30 (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 by contacting the organization team.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.

At the current time, the venue will be requiring masks of all attendees, including guests.
Due to COVID-19 we are limiting 1 guest per competitor - if you are able to attend by yourself we recommend not having guests.
Due to COVID-19 we will not be accepting event changes during the competition - please request changes by Friday March 4, 2022 7:00pm EST.
After the competitor limit has been reached, you may still pay and be put on a waiting list. If you are first/next on the waitlist 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.
Once registration closes we may add additional round(s) of events as time may permit in the schedule.

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 95% 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.
Highlights: Click here to display the highlights of the competition.

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Max Park won with a mean of 1:19.96 in the 6x6x6 Cube event. Tommy Cherry finished second (1:48.52) and Katie Hull finished third (1:50.04).

World records: Max Park‎ 5x5x5 Cube 33.02 (single) and 5x5x5 Cube 38.45 (average); Tommy Cherry‎ 3x3x3 Blindfolded 14.61 (single).

Event	Name	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	Max Park	33.02	WR	38.45	WR	United States	39.70	46.36	40.10	33.02	35.54
6x6x6 Cube	Max Park	1:16.54		1:19.96		United States	1:24.85	1:16.54	1:18.48
7x7x7 Cube	Max Park	1:53.08		1:55.38		United States	1:55.36	1:57.70	1:53.08
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Tommy Cherry	15.16		DNF		United States	15.16	DNF	DNF
Clock	Kerry Creech	4.18		4.66		United States	4.85	5.16	4.18	4.67	4.47
3x3x3 Multi-Blind	Nathan Scott	10/11 52:33				United States	10/11 52:33

Important Links

(Links will be updated closer to the competition)
Group Sheet:
Live Results: https://live.worldcubeassociation.org/competitions/852
Livestream: https://www.twitch.tv/seanhartman

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. *Due to COVID restrictions, we may utilize stationary seating. You will turn your puzzle in at your station and remain seated for all of solves in a round. You may not be able to compete in an event if you miss your group.
Your delegates for this competition are: Nancy Hartman, Jacob Ambrose and Katie Hull and Zachary White. 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 can watch Kit Clement's WCA Competitor Tutorial Video
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. *Due to COVID restrictions, we may utilize stationary seating. You will turn your puzzle in at your station and remain seated for all solves in a round. You may not be able to compete in an event if you miss your group.

Staff

Please contact us if you are interested - you must be able to staff for the duration of the competition.

Awards

Certificates will be given for podium winners.

We will privide hand sanitizer, masks, and disinfecting wipes, available to everyone in attendance.
The venue is recommending that participants and guests wear a mask.
We ask that any attendee showing symptons of COVID stay home.
Competitors will remain at their station to complete all solves in their group and stations will be sanitized in between.
There will NOT be a competitor waiting area. Due to the COVID limitations for group size , guests will be required to wait/remain in a designated area.

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.