Gobbler Cube Day Fall 2019

Date: Nov 2, 2019
City: Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Venue: Graduate Life Center Multipurpose Room at Virginia Tech
Address: 155 Otey St, Blacksburg, VA 24060
Details: Multipurpose Room
Contact: scoott@vt.edu, tttcuber@gmail.com
Organizers: Deniz Atak and Scott McGowan
WCA Delegates: Corey Sakowski, Justin Gou, and Keaton Ellis

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Information

Events
Main event
Competitors: 39

Registration period: Online registration opened Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 12:00 AM UTC and closed Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 12:00 AM UTC.
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There is a competitor limit of 80 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $15 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 12:00 AM UTC you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee.
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Keaton Ellis won with an average of 7.58 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Zachary Ochs finished second (7.85) and Ray Bai finished third (8.44).

Event	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Keaton Ellis	7.06	7.58	United States	8.25	7.54	8.03	7.06	7.18
4x4x4 Cube	Ray Bai	27.39	30.34	United States	37.47	27.39	33.08	30.28	27.65
3x3x3 One-Handed	Keaton Ellis	7.26	11.97	United States	7.26	12.57	12.71	13.43	10.64
Megaminx	Ray Bai	37.39	43.01	United States	44.91	37.39	39.66	44.46	53.49
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Corey Sakowski	6:01.26	DNF	United States	DNF	6:01.26	DNF

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 16 advance to next round
	Final	Ao5	10:00.00
4x4x4 Cube	Final	Bo2 / Ao5	5:00.00	2 attempts to get < 2:00.00
3x3x3 One-Handed	First round	Bo2 / Ao5	2:00.00	2 attempts to get < 45.00	Top 16 advance to next round
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	Ao5	2:00.00
Megaminx	Final	Bo2 / Ao5	5:00.00	2 attempts to get < 2:30.00
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Final	Bo3	1:00:00.00 total for 5x5x5 Blindfolded Final, 4x4x4 Blindfolded Final**
5x5x5 Blindfolded	Final	Bo3	1:00:00.00 total for 5x5x5 Blindfolded Final, 4x4x4 Blindfolded Final**

Schedules are subject to adjustments, especially once registration totals are known. Registered competitors will be notified by email of any major changes.

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Saturday, November 2, 2019

10:00 - 11:00

Registration

10:30 - 11:00

Tutorial for new competitors

6:30 - 8:00

4x4x4 Blindfolded Final

6:30 - 8:00

5x5x5 Blindfolded Final

11:00 - 12:15

3x3x3 Cube First round

3x3x3 One-Handed First round

3:00 - 3:45

3x3x3 Cube Second round

3:45 - 4:45

Megaminx Final

4:45 - 5:00

3x3x3 One-Handed Final

Travel and Venue Information
Location

Parking:
Parking Information

Parking Locations

Notice that parking information is available in this map. The lots labled Squires Lot F/S/V and Architecture Annex/Media Lots (top righ hand corner) are the closest lots to the venue. Metered parking spaces are also available for short–term visitors on–campus. Visitors with parking permits may not park free at parking meters.

NOTE: The competition is being held in the Graduate Life Center Multipurpose Room. You can enter to the main entrance of the building but we recommend entering in the side entrance, closest to the Squires parking lot as that entrance leads directly to the entrance of the Multipurpose room.

Hotels:
There are multiple hotels located around the school located near the venue. Feel free to search results here.

Food:
We will not be catering food. There are many places for dining during lunch a few minutes away from the venue by walking. Feel free to search results here.

ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING

For First-Time Competitors

All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. This video gives a basic overview of the rules. In addition, please read this document before coming to the competition.

For All Competitors

When you arrive, you will receive a card with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event. In addition, you will also have judging/scrambling/running assignments on your card. Every competitor is expected to help out during the event(s) they are registered for. The card will look like the following:

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If you do not arrive to help during your scheduled event, and there are not enough staff members, we reserve the right to disqualify you from competing.

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 across rounds (see Guideline 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.