Florida Spring A 2022

Date: Mar 12, 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 Spring A 2022 Organizers
Organizers: Nancy Hartman and Sean Hartman
WCA Delegates: Jacob Ambrose, Katie Hull, Nancy Hartman, Nathan Graves, and Zachary Ochs

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Information

This competition is part of a series competition, meaning that you can only participate in 1 competition of the series. Please see the series tab for more information.

For safety precautions, we ask that competitors and their one guest only be in the venue during the competition's scheduled time. Please do not be in the venue before or after the specific competition.

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: 34

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.
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Tommy Cherry won with an average of 6.76 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Zachary Ochs finished second (8.34) and Kerry Creech finished third (8.44).

Event	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Tommy Cherry	5.61	6.76	United States	5.61	6.90	9.71	6.94	6.45
2x2x2 Cube	Zachary Ochs	1.60	1.94	United States	1.83	1.76	2.24	2.72	1.60
Pyraminx	Simon Kellum	1.77	2.03	United States	1.84	3.60	1.93	2.31	1.77

Important Links

(Links will be updated closer to the competition)
Group Sheet:
Live Results: https://live.worldcubeassociation.org/competitions/850
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 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, Zachary White and Katie Hull. 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 has recommended 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.

This comeptition is part of a series.
- Competitors are only permitted to participate in one of the competitions in the series.
- Competitors may only register for 1 of the competitions in the series. If a competitor registeres for multiple competitions in the series, then their registration may be deferred and they may not be registered at all competitions that they registered for.
- If a competitor competes at more than one of the involved series competitions, all of their results from the series will be removed and they may face disciplinary action.

Here are the competitions that are a part of the Florida Spring 2022 series:

Competition - Start/End Time - Events
Florida Spring A 2022 March 12, 2022 8:15 am to 1:00 pm 3 x 3, 2 x 2, Pyraminx
Florida Spring B 2022 March 12, 2022 1:45 pm to 6:15 pm 3 x 3, OH, 4 x 4

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).

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.