Lloydminster Border Battle 2024

Date: Oct 12, 2024
City: Lloydminster (Alberta/Saskatchewan), Saskatchewan, Canada
Venue: Lloydminster Golf and Curling Centre
Address: 4706 54 St, Lloydminster, SK S9V 0S1
Details: Upstairs at the Green Glacier Eatery
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Dylan Vaskevicius, Kolbi Zen Xavier, Laura Plourde, Speedcubing Canada, and Warren Aguinaldo
WCA Delegate: Laura Plourde

: Download all the competition's details as PDF here.

Information

Attendance is not required for the entire competition, however please arrive at least 15 minutes before your event's planned start time.
Please bring your own cubes for the events you are competing in.

First Time Competitors:
All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. There is a video here for a basic rundown of a competition.

This competition features the most popular, easy WCA events and would make a great competition for first time competitors.

Newcomer podiums for all events will be recognized at this competition.

Unofficial Event:
We will be hosting 1 round of Mirror Blocks during lunch. Please see the tab for more information.

Draw prizes:
There will be draw prizes throughout the day to encourage competitors to stay after their round is done.

Competition format:
We will be using the stationary format for this competition.

Guests
Please let us know in your registration comment how many guests you will be bringing so we can plan seating accordingly. There is no guest limit at this venue as it is large and has extra areas for overflow seating.

Notice of Filming and Photography:
Attendees of Speedcubing Canada competitions consent to their images being used by Speedcubing Canada and its partners in marketing materials, social media and other digital platforms.

Events
Main event

Competitor limit: 60

Number of times bookmarked: 20

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.
There is a competitor limit of 60 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $30 (Canadian Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
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.
On the spot registrations will be accepted with a base registration fee of $30 (Canadian Dollar).
Any spectator can attend for free.

On the spot registrations will be accepted only if the competitor limit was not reached during pre-registration.

Q. How do I register for this competition?
A. You'll need a WCA Account to register. Once registration has opened, you can register at the register button to your left or at this link. Select the events you'll be competing in and any comments you'd like the organization team to know. After pressing Register, you'll be prompted to pay using Stripe. You must pay your registration fee to be eligible to compete. If there is still space in the competition and you do not receive an email saying your registration has been accepted within 48 hours of paying, please contact the organization team. If the competitor limit does not fill during registration, we will accept a limited number of on the spot registrations, up to the original competitor limit.

Q. How can I prepare for the competition day?
A. Competitors should understand the WCA Regulations before competing. We will have a New Competitor Tutorial at the beginning of the day where you can learn and ask questions.

Q. Who should I ask if I have any questions?
A. Before the competition, you can contact the organization team with any questions with our contact form. During the competition, you can speak to a delegate. Your delegates for this competition are Laura Plourde.

Q. What are groups? How can I find which ones I'm in?
A. Groups are how we determine when each competitor competes. During each round, we will have several groups that will be called up in succession. When the group in which you're supposed to compete is called, please come up to the cube dropoff table and submit your puzzle. When the group you're judging is called, come up and find an empty station to judge. Groups will be printed on your nametag the day of the competition, and can also be found at competitiongroups.com.

Q. How old do I have to be to compete?
A. WCA Competitions are open to cubers of any age! We do not have age groups so all competitors compete with each other. For some events, the groups will be sorted by speed, so you will be competing against cubers of the same skill.

Q. What do I need to bring to the competition?
A. You'll need to bring the puzzles required for any event you'll be competing in. Most competitors like to bring other cubes to warm up with. All timing equipment will be supplied by the WCA Delegates at the competition.

Q. Where can I find results for this competition?
A. Live results will be visible on the WCA Live and will be posted on the WCA Website shortly after the competition. If it's your first competition, you'll get a WCA ID when results are posted to the WCA Website.

Q. How can I have a competition in my hometown?
A. For any suggestions on future Saskatchewan competitions, contact Alberta Cubers here. For those near the Minnesota or North Dakota border, please reach out to the Minnesota delegates here. You can stay updated on Canadian competitions by signing up to the Speedcubing Canada mailing list here.

Facebook Group
Join the Saskatchewan Speedcubing Facebook group here!
Join the Border City Cubers Facebook group here!

Border City Cubers Meetups:
Cube meetups are hosted almost every Saturday from 12PM to 3PM in the food court of the Lloyd Mall.

Judging:
All competitors are expected to help at this competition. We will have a judging tutorial at the beginning of the day. All competitors will be assigned to judge 1 group of each of the events they are competing in.

If you don't know how to judge or run, make sure to come to the competitor tutorial at the start of the competition. These duties will be on the back of your name tag (explained in the competitor tutorial), so please be aware of when you're expected to come up and help. This is required to keep the competition running smoothly and on time, since it is purely run by volunteeers. For non-first rounds (ie 3x3x3 round 2) there are no assigned duties, so if you see an empty juding seat then please come up and fill it.

We also ask that you keep the venue as tidy as possible as possible - please put garbage/recycling/etc in the appropriate bins when you're leaving.

If you need help or are confused about any of these duties, just ask an organizer or an experienced competitor and they can explain.

The venue is located upstairs in the event space and the Green Glacier Eatery. Since the restaurant is letting us use this space for free, we ask that you bring no outside food into the venue.

Details on food and drink available at the Green Glacier Eatery will be coming soon.

We will be hosting an unnoficial round of mirror blocks during lunch.

The signup form will be sent out separately, and you can also sign up on the spot.

Unofficial results will be posted to https://cubingcontests.com/.

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.