Glasgow Side Events Autumn 2024
- Date
- Sep 14 - 15, 2024
- City
- Glasgow, City of Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Venue
Learning and Teaching Building, Strathclyde University
- Address
- 49 Richmond Street, G1 1XU
- Details
3rd Floor, Room TL328
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Eleanor Sinnott and UK Cube Association
- WCA Delegates
- AJ Nicholls, Ada Cooke, Adam Leyton, Eleanor Sinnott, Ryan Eckersley, and Scott Hunter
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This is a side events specialist events competition, so we do not recommend this competition to first time competitors.
Please make sure to read all the information in the tabs above.
- Events
- Competitors
- 59
- 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 80 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is £30 (British Pound).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 75% 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 on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Make sure to register and pay for the competition to be accepted. We will not accept any registrations at the competition.
Once you have been accepted, you will receive a confirmation email. If registration is full by the time you pay then you will not receive this confirmation email and you will be on the waiting list. If you do not make the competitor list by the limit date for refunds (specified above), then you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee. You may contact us to ask for your current position on the waiting list.
If you can no longer attend, let us know as soon as possible through the contact link on the General Info page. We often have waiting lists so letting us know you cannot attend allows us to add another person to the competition.
If you would like to change events, you can do so on the register page by simply reselecting your events list, and clicking "Update Registration".
If you have any problems check out the FAQ, or feel free to contact us.
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4x4x4 Cube | Ciarán Beahan | 24.16 | 25.61 | Ireland | 31.78 | 24.16 | 24.97 | 26.18 | 25.67 | |||
| 5x5x5 Cube | Ciarán Beahan | 41.11 | 42.17 | Ireland | 43.50 | 41.52 | 42.24 | 42.76 | 41.11 | |||
| 6x6x6 Cube | Ciarán Beahan | 1:18.73 | 1:20.64 | Ireland | 1:21.50 | 1:21.68 | 1:18.73 | |||||
| 7x7x7 Cube | Ciarán Beahan | 1:51.46 | 1:52.03 | Ireland | 1:51.46 | 1:52.33 | 1:52.29 | |||||
| Clock | Jacob Chambers | 4.07 | 4.32 | United Kingdom | 5.10 | 4.11 | 4.60 | 4.25 | 4.07 | |||
| Megaminx | Sean Moran | 28.96 | 32.01 | United Kingdom | 30.16 | 29.61 | 28.96 | 38.40 | 36.26 | |||
| Square-1 | Ryan Eckersley | 7.86 | 9.37 | United Kingdom | 9.29 | 15.19 | 7.86 | 8.57 | 10.26 | |||
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Frequently Asked Questions
Need to unregister?
Q: What do I do if I can no longer attend?
A: Let us know via the contact link on the General Info page.
Q: If I do not attend do I get a refund?
A: If you inform us you are no longer attending before the limit date for refunds on the General Info page then you will receive a 75% refund. If this time has passed then you will receive no refund.
Something else you'd like to know?
We have a detailed Parents' Guide that covers the answers to many more questions, free from cubing jargon! Whilst primarily aimed at the parents of younger competitors, there is useful information for everyone to find within it.
Check it out here!
Schedule Changes: Please note that the schedule is subject to change up until the Wednesday before the competition. Any major changes should be communicated in the precompetition email.
Please help judge! As a competitor, your judging assignments are the absolute minimum you should be doing to help out. Since second rounds, third rounds and finals have no assigned judges, we really need people to help out whenever available for these. If you're a parent you can also get involved with running and juging, it's really easy! We will have a judging tutorial in the mornings as well, which will run through the process and will be tailored towards parents who want to get involved.
No flash photography anywhere in the venue.
If you are a spectator, please never stand further forward than the front row of spectator chairs.
We will be taking videos and photographs of the competition and the environment for our social media pages and website. By attending the competition as a competitor or a guest, you are accepting that you may be filmed or photographed for these purposes.
Disclaimer
- There may be a photographer present at our events and by attending you give us permission to use any photos or videos you appear in on our website, our social media, or for other marketing purposes.
- The UKCA does not accept responsibility and expressly excludes liability to the fullest extent permitted by law for any loss or damage to any personal property; or for personal injury or illness suffered by you at a UKCA event.
- The UKCA is not responsible for any accommodation, travel or associated costs you might incur in the unlikely event that a competition has to be cancelled, rescheduled or relocated.
- Children under 18 years old should be accompanied by an adult.
Venue
The venue is the Learning and Teaching building at the University of Strathclyde, 49 Richmond Street G1 1XU. The university is right in the heart of Glasgow and is very easily accessed.
Please note that there is a new Low Emission Zone in Glasgow City Centre: please check here to see if your vehicle is compliant.
Travel
Car: Parking is available at the following nearby car parks:
- NCP George Street Car Park on Montrose Street. A discount for this is available by prebooking here using code L6PN4FX
- Duke Street Car Park for a flat rate of £6 a day
Train: The venue is a 15 minute walk away from Glasgow Central station and a few minutes away from Glasgow Queen Street station. The shuttle bus 398 offers free transport from Glasgow Central station to Buchanan Bus station or Queen Street station for anyone holding a valid rail ticket.
Plane: The nearest airport is Glasgow Airport. The 500 Glasgow Airport Express offers a direct service from the airport to Buchanan bus station, just a few minutes from the venue.
Coach: The venue is a 5 minute walk away from Buchanan bus station which has intercity coach connections to many destinations across the UK.
Bus: The Citylink 900 bus offers a direct service to Buchanan bus station from Edinburgh while the X99 connects Glasgow to Dumfries. Many local buses also stop at North Frederick bus station across the road from the venue.
Accommodation
There are many hotel options available in central Glasgow, some of which are listed below:
This competition has been organised with help from Strathclyde Rubik's Cube Society
Find out more about the society here and join our Discord server here.
Each event is run in groups, depending on how many people are competing in the event depends on how many groups there are. We call each group up one at a time in order to complete their solves during the scheduled time for the round. We have software that automatically picks what groups you are in, the judges, and who scrambles for each group. This is the minimum amount you should be helping out as it only is for first rounds. We always appreciate extra help!
Please note down which groups you are competing and scrambling in before arriving at the competition!
Groups
Click here to see your groups!
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.