Imagination Station A 2025

Note: The competitor limit for this competition is 45 and it has already been reached. If you register, your registration will be placed on a waiting list. It may not be approved unless a spot frees up.

Date: Jan 4, 2025
City: Toledo, Ohio, United States
Venue: Imagination Station
Address: 1 Discovery Way Toledo, Ohio 43604
Details: Exploration Center - on the lower floor next to the cafeteria
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Cubing Frontiers LLC, Mason Langenderfer, and Wesley Barwinski
WCA Delegates: Braden Richards, Mason Langenderfer, Ricky Martin, Seth Rowell, Tyler Rose, and Yuxuan Chen

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Information

This competition is at the Imagination Station science center. Non-competing family members and spectators are required to purchase a day pass to the science center to enter the competition. A day pass is included in the competitor registration fee.

Imagination Station opens at 10am - you will not be able to get in earlier than then.

Events
Main event

Competitor limit: 45

Number of times bookmarked: 34

Registration period

Online registration opened and will close .

Registration requirements

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.
This competition is part of the Imagination Station 2025 Competition Series. Other competitions in this Series are:

Imagination Station B 2025

Note: You can submit a registration for all competitions in a Series, but only one of those registrations can be confirmed and accepted. You will only be allowed to compete in one of the Series competitions!
There is a competitor limit of 45 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $20 (United States Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 90% 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 can attend paying an entry fee of $17 (United States Dollar).

Spectators, friends, and family are permitted to come, but they must purchase a pass to enter the science center. Competitors do not have to purchase a pass as it is included in the registration fee.

The pricing is as follows:
Adult (13-64): $17.00
Lucas Co. Adult: $15.00

Senior (65+): $16.00
Lucas Co. Senior: $14.00

Kid (3-12): $15.00
Lucas Co. Kid: $13.00

Children 2 & under: Free

Visit the Imagination Station website for more information:
https://www.imaginationstationtoledo.org/visit/hours-admission

Directions and parking instructions:
https://www.imaginationstationtoledo.org/visit/directions-parking

The competition room is immediately next to a cafeteria, and Imagination Station is adjacent to a Barry Bagels. You are also allowed to pack your own lunch.

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.