Indiana Finally Returns 2023
- Date
- Feb 25, 2023
- City
- Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
- Venue
Herron-Riverside High School
- Address
- 3010 N White River Pkwy E Dr, Indianapolis, IN 46208
- Details
Gymnasium
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Ben Edwards, Kate Grahame, and Midwest Cubing Association
- WCA Delegates
- Braden Richards, Carter Bitz, Carter Kucala, and Javier Gonzalez-Napoleoni
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
The Midwest Cubing Association and The World Cube Association are pleased to welcome WCA Competitions back to the Hoosier State! 5x5 is featured as the main event of this competition, but there are still 3 rounds of 3x3.
This competition is recognized as an official World Cube Association competition. Therefore, all competitors must be familiar with the WCA Regulations. By registering, competitors agree to the information in the Competitor Responsibilities tab. This tab details the responsibilites of all competitors at this competition. Not abiding by these responsibilities can result in disqualification. Please also be sure to review the Health and Safety tab to check additional COVID-19 information for this competition.
This competition is supported by the Midwest Cubing Association.
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- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 113
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 12:00 AM UTC and closed Tuesday, February 7, 2023 at 9:50 PM UTC.
- 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 120 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $20 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Sunday, February 19, 2023 at 4:59 AM UTC you will be refunded 90% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Sunday, February 19, 2023 at 4:59 AM UTC.
We encourage everyone to register for the events they want to compete in via your online registration, however you may add events to your registration up until the event has started.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Your registration will not be confirmed (moved from the waiting list) until payment has been completed. Please note that even after payment, registrations need to be manually approved before appearing on the registration list.
Competitors will be accepted from the waitlist in the order that they paid.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Henry Lichner won with an average of 46.69 seconds in the 5x5x5 Cube event. Kate Grahame finished second (49.53) and Luke Garrett finished third (52.53).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Luke Garrett | 3.95 | 5.49 | United States | 5.41 | 6.10 | 7.06 | 3.95 | 4.97 | |||
| 5x5x5 Cube | Henry Lichner | 44.42 | 46.69 | United States | 46.94 | 44.42 | 51.13 | 46.69 | 46.45 | |||
| 6x6x6 Cube | Kate Grahame | 1:23.38 | 1:27.93 | United States | 1:33.25 | 1:27.15 | 1:23.38 | |||||
| 7x7x7 Cube | Kate Grahame | 2:10.19 | 2:19.29 | United States | 2:14.62 | 2:33.06 | 2:10.19 | |||||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Luke Garrett | 9.84 | 10.77 | United States | 10.20 | 11.19 | 16.11 | 9.84 | 10.91 | |||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 72 advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 16 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 5x5x5 Cube | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 4:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 2:15.00 | Top 30 advance to next round |
| Second round | Ao5 | 4:00.00 | Top 10 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 4:00.00 | |||
| 6x6x6 Cube | First round | Bo1 / Mo3 | 6:00.00 | 1 attempt to get < 3:30.00 | Top 10 advance to next round |
| Final | Mo3 | 6:00.00 | |||
| 7x7x7 Cube | Final | Bo1 / Mo3 | 7:30.00 | 1 attempt to get < 5:00.00 | |
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 2:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:00.00 | Top 16 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 2:00.00 |
ALL COMPETITORS:
When you arrive, you will receive a card/nametag with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event. In addition, you will also receive staffing assignments. All competitors are expected to help at this competition. If the competition is low on staff and you do not meet your staffing assignments, we reserve the right to disqualify you from competing.
FIRST-TIME COMPETITORS:
At the beginning of the day, there will be a new competitor/judging tutorial. If this is your first competition, it is STRONGLY recommended that you attend this, as it will help ensure that staff are plentiful and the competition can run as smoothly as possible.
It is also important that you watch this video that gives a brief competitor tutorial as well.
All results from the competition will be posted live here.
This competition will be sponsored by The Cubicle! They will be providing gift card prizes to all newcomers and the top 3 finishers in each event.
This competiton is also sponsored by Cool Cube Merch. They will be giving away a few items throughout the competition and you can use the discount code: InReturns20 until the day of the competition to get 20% off the highest priced item in your cart.
Masks are optional at this competition
Competitors should not attend the competition if experiencing symptoms of COVID-19, or if they were exposed to someone with COVID-19. If this occurs to you, the organizers will offer the competitor a full refund.
Note: The COVID safety restrictions may change if cases increase or decrease in Indiana and/or the US.
The deadline to be accepted from the waitlist has passed. The competitor list is now final.
Groups can be viewed here:
https://competition-groups.netlify.app/competitions/IndianaFinallyReturns2023
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.