Happy Valley Spring 2024
- Date
- Mar 30, 2024
- City
- State College, Pennsylvania, United States
- Venue
- Address
- HUB-Robeson Center University Park, PA 16802
- Details
HUB 302, large room in the middle of the third floor
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Alfonsus Rahardjo, Graham Lively, and Toby Waters
- WCA Delegates
- Stephen Griggs and Zach Ridall
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
PSU students must leave their PSU email as a comment on their registration to qualify for the discounted registration fee of $10. The full registration fee ($20) must be paid, and then qualifying registrations will receive the refund.
Competitors may bring at most one guest. No external spectators are allowed, only those coming with a confirmed competitor will be allowed in the venue.
In accordance with University policy all competitors 17 years of age and younger MUST have their legal guardian accompanying them to this competition.
All proceeds from the event will be going to the PSU Rubik's Cube Club.
- Competitors may bring at most one guest.
- To get to the HUB 302 room, please take any of the elevators from the main HUB building (with the food court) up to the third floor. The elevator by the bookstore does not go to the third floor. From here, HUB 302 is all the way down the main third floor hallway.
- The organizing team strongly recommends receiving a COVID-19 vaccination before competing. For information on, and finding vaccines near you, please use this website!
- If you have symptoms related to COVID-19 such as cough, fever, shortness of breath, etc. do not attend this competition.
- If you have had a positive COVID-19 test or prolonged exposure to someone with the virus within 14 days prior to the competition, do not attend.
- By registering for this competition, you agree that you understand all the information presented in this tab, will abide by all the COVID-19 restrictions placed on this competition, and acknowledge the risk of contracting COVID-19 or any other disease in attending an event of this scale.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 57
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- Registration requirements
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There is a competitor limit of 60 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $20 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 50% 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.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 1 guest.
The organizational team is offering a discounted price of $10 to PSU students. To qualify, you must leave your PSU email as a comment on your registration.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Christopher Sun won with an average of 5.97 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Michael Nielsen finished second (6.64) and Alex Niedland finished third (7.47).
3x3x3 Cube
# | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
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1 | Christopher Sun | 5.84 | 5.97 | United States | 6.09 | 5.84 | 5.85 | 5.96 | 7.54 | |||
2 | Michael Nielsen | 6.01 | 6.64 | United States | 6.48 | 6.96 | 8.34 | 6.01 | 6.47 | |||
3 | Alex Niedland | 6.02 | 7.47 | United States | 6.02 | 7.82 | 6.84 | 7.75 | 8.47 |
4x4x4 Cube
# | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
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1 | Christopher Sun | 25.00 | 26.39 | United States | 31.58 | 25.00 | 26.38 | 27.75 | 25.03 | |||
2 | Benjamin Wei | 27.74 | 29.06 | United States | 27.74 | 27.91 | 30.39 | 31.87 | 28.88 | |||
3 | Benjamin Pugh | 26.53 | 31.64 | United States | 31.15 | 28.21 | 35.57 | 36.66 | 26.53 |
5x5x5 Cube
# | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
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1 | Christopher Sun | 46.43 | 48.16 | United States | 48.99 | 47.99 | 47.49 | 46.43 | 52.93 | |||
2 | Benjamin Wei | 46.60 | 50.94 | United States | 53.20 | 56.89 | 49.20 | 46.60 | 50.43 | |||
3 | Ganghui Lin (林刚辉) | 53.67 | 57.89 | China | 57.57 | 58.49 | 53.67 | 57.61 | 59.48 |
Megaminx
# | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
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1 | Declan Wilhelm | 37.02 | 43.23 | United States | 43.70 | 41.66 | 44.33 | 37.02 | 50.27 | |||
2 | AJ Kamal | 40.88 | 43.71 | United States | 40.88 | 46.06 | 41.23 | 43.84 | 47.55 | |||
3 | Christopher Sun | 46.12 | 50.06 | United States | 50.24 | 46.12 | 52.38 | DNF | 47.56 |
Pyraminx
# | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
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1 | Michael Nielsen | 1.57 | 1.87 | United States | 1.75 | 1.87 | 2.49 | 1.57 | 1.99 | |||
2 | Yuki Nagai | 2.31 | 3.08 | United States | 3.34 | 3.39 | 2.50 | 5.11 | 2.31 | |||
3 | Tomas Kaiser | 3.78 | 4.64 | United States | 3.78 | 5.00 | 3.84 | 5.18 | 5.08 |