Miami Skewbed 2024
- Date
- Nov 16, 2024
- City
- Miami, Florida, United States
- Venue
Florida International University
- Address
- 11200 SW 8th St, Miami, FL 33174
- Details
Graham Center Ballroom
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- CubingUSA Treasurer, Daniel Guerra, Eddie Artze, Vasiliki Athanasopoulos, and Yuli Artze
- WCA Delegates
- Carter Bitz, Coleton Pleiss, Nancy Hartman, and Nathan Graves
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
There are a lot of areas to explore around campus to explore for other guests. Please let us know of any concerns or special circumstances, we may or may not be able to accomodate them.
-Please review the competitor information tab before the competition.
-Please review the Florida/Southeast Cubing tab for how to keep up with future competitions that are announced.
-Please review all other tabs for more information on the competition.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 109
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- 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 125 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $40 (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.
Any spectator can attend for free.
This competition is expected to fill, so please plan accordingly. Your spot will not be reserved until the registration fee has been paid, so make sure to do so after completing registration.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Linus Vork won with an average of 3.19 seconds in the Skewb event. Daniel Guerra finished second (3.83) and Owen Brooks finished third (5.62).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Owen Brooks | 5.92 | 7.77 | United States | 8.37 | 8.13 | 9.68 | 6.81 | 5.92 | |||
| Clock | Eddie Artze | 3.41 | 4.88 | United States | 3.41 | 5.96 | DNF | 4.48 | 4.21 | |||
| Pyraminx | Owen Brooks | 2.17 | 2.87 | United States | 3.49 | 2.94 | 2.17 | 3.20 | 2.46 | |||
| Skewb | Linus Vork | 2.28 | 3.19 | United States | 2.57 | 4.94 | 2.28 | 3.40 | 3.59 | |||
| Square-1 | CJ Dresdner | 11.03 | 12.31 | United States | 11.03 | 12.20 | 16.19 | 11.52 | 13.20 | |||
SoutheastCubing.org
The new Southeast Cubing Website is home to all kinds of information about cubing in the Southeast including:
Southeast Cubing is also on social media!
Florida Cubing:
Florida Cubing Facebook Group: https://m.facebook.com/groups/floridacubing
Competition Email list: https://forms.gle/2r77SYz1gkmUuDpu6.
Amount of competitors moving to subsequent rounds may change after registration closes/fills
Important Links
(Links will be updated closer to the competition)
All Competitors
- Please try to arrive at least 30 minutes early for the events you are competing in to ensure that you are on time for your events
- We will use regulation 9p3 as much as we can, so if you do not arrive to compete by the event is ending your spot may be given up to the next competitor in the rankings.
- Your Delegates for this competition are: Carter Bitz, Nancy Hartman, Nathan Graves, and Coleton Pleiss. Ask them if you have any questions throughout the day!
- To keep the competition running on time and to ensure we can keep all events we will be requiring competitors to also judge. Pay attention to the group assignment sheet - If you are in the first group of an event you will then judge the second group, if in the second group you will judge the third group and so on - if you are in the last group you will judge the first group. This is essential to keep the events on schedule. We also invite any parents or guests to also help to judge - thank you for your support. Please arrive to attend the Competitor Tutorial
New Competitors
- You will need to arrive on time to watch the new competitor introduction at 8:40 AM.
- You can watch Kit Clement's WCA Competitor Tutorial Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPL3eV-A0ww
- Please be familiar with all of WCA's regulations, most importantly Article A. If you have any questions about the regulations, feel free to ask.
- In each event we will have rounds. We will take the top competitors into subsequent rounds. After a round is completed it will be entered into live.worldcubeassociation.org. Your name will be highlighted if you are advancing to the next round.
- Each round will be divided into groups to help them run more efficiently. We will call the groups in order with a last call during the last group. Please bring your puzzle up when your group is called. We are allowed to deny you the ability to compete if you do not come up by the last call.
Accessibility
Reach out the organization team if you require any accomodations. We are happy to work with you to the best of our ability! The regulations recommend you reach out 2 weeks beforehand so we can best prepare for it. Let us know if you have any questions or concerns.
Staff
Staff will be provided lunch during the competition and a refunded registration fee. Please fill out the staff form if you are interested in staffing: here Thanks for your support!
Awards
The podium will be provided a gift card code to TheCubicle.com!
There are two parking areas directly next to the venue, 2a and 2b
If you prepay using the link below, parking here will cost $8 for the entire day:
https://fiu.nupark.com/v2/portal/eventregister/ba1ce747-b04f-4deb-bcef-6d1eb690fb20#/events/registration/
There are two parking garages a 5 minute walk from the venue, Gold and Blue Garages
If you prepay using the link below, parking here will cost $5 for the entire day:
https://fiu.nupark.com/v2/portal/eventregister/ba1ce747-b04f-4deb-bcef-6d1eb690fb20#/events/registration/
* If you prepay for parking in the parking garages, park in spaces labled Student or Faculty/Teachers
If you do not want to prepay, you must pay $1.25 per hour at the machines, and MUST ONLY park in spaces labled METERED
Miami International Airport (MIA) is 11 miles from the venue but has limited options. Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) is 35 miles from the venue but tends to have cheaper prices and more options.
This competition is sponsored by TheCubicle!
The Graham Center is the most convenient option, having a large selection of restaurants to choose from.
You can see what is currently open on campus here: https://shop.fiu.edu/dining/restaurants/
Off campus, there is the Las Americas V Central Plaza, which is 2 miles from the venue and has some restaurants that you can choose from.
We have partnered up with Hotelplanner.com to offer special rates for hotel nights. Please click the link to explore options.
We are offering Miami Skewbed T-shirts!
Each T-shirt is $15, and you can choose between 3 colors and you can add your name to the back of your shirt that you order
You can order your tshirts at the link below:
https://polka-dot-pig.myshopify.com/products/miami-skewbed-tees
When ordering your shirts, you must write your FULL NAME or WCA ID (if applicable) in the appropriate box
You must PREORDER any T-shirts you want before October 31st
When ordering please select pickup (if you select shipping option you will be charged shipping ) -please note that It will show as pick up in Georgia but the shirts will be shipped to organizers for pick up at the competition
-Pick-up will be during Check-in
The author of "Lucky Scramble," Peter Raymundo, will be at the competition, signing copies of his book!
Since there are limited copies available to be bought at the competition, copies are also available on TheCubicle.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.