Mini Mental Breakdown San Diego 2022
- Date
- Oct 23, 2022
- City
- San Diego, California, United States
- Venue
- Address
- 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093
- Details
The Forum (4th floor)
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Andrew Meckert and Matthew Dickman
- WCA Delegates
- Elijah Brown, Matthew Dickman, and Michael Young
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition is recognized as an official World Cube Association competition. Therefore, all competitors must be familiar with the WCA Regulations. If you are new to competing, please refer to the Competitor Information tab.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 14
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 2:25 AM UTC and closed Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 12:00 AM 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 50 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $15 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators can attend paying an entry fee of $15 (United States Dollar).
This competition does NOT have 3x3.
Your registration is not considered complete until after the registration payment has been made. Please note that even after payment, registrations need to be manually approved before appearing on the competitor list. If the competitor limit has been reached before your payment was completed, you will be placed on a waitlist. For more information on the waitlist, please refer to the waitlist tab, which will be manually kept up-to-date as more people register.
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.
Graham Siggins won with a single solve of 18.67 seconds in the 3x3x3 Blindfolded event. Owen Wilkins finished second (33.14) and Akifumi Sasaki (佐々木彰史) finished third (1:09.16).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Graham Siggins | 18.67 | 19.96 | United States | 18.67 | 19.72 | 21.48 | |||||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Graham Siggins | 1:30.05 | DNF | United States | 1:44.31 | 1:30.05 | DNF | |||||
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | Graham Siggins | 3:12.12 | DNF | United States | 3:12.12 | DNF | DNF | |||||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Graham Siggins | 48/62 58:58 | United States | 38/62 1:00:00 | 48/62 58:58 | |||||||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | First round | Bo3 | 10:00.00 cumulative* | Top 75% advance to next round |
| Final | Bo3 | 10:00.00 cumulative* | ||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Final | Bo3 | 2:00:00.00 total for 5x5x5 Blindfolded Final, 4x4x4 Blindfolded Final** | |
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | Final | Bo3 | 2:00:00.00 total for 5x5x5 Blindfolded Final, 4x4x4 Blindfolded Final** | |
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Final | Bo2 | 10:00.00 per cube, up to 60:00.00 |
The registration fee for competitors is $15. All competitors must read the WCA Regulations. Pay particular attention to Article B: Blindfolded Solving.
All events will take place in The Forum.
We'd like to emphasize that blindsolvers of all experience levels are welcome to compete! If this is your first blindfolded competition, here are a few important things to know:
- For blindfolded events, the competitor lifts the cover off the cube, not the judge!
- If you're judging a blindfolded event, don't place the paper between the competitor and the cube until after the competitor applies a turn to the cube. This is because a competitor is allowed to remove their blindfold and look at the cube again if they haven't applied any turns.
- In rounds with cumulative time limits, the judge writes how much time the competitor uses during a DNF attempt on the score card, e.g. DNF (1:23.45).
- A stopwatch must be used to time attempts longer than 10 minutes.
We're excited to see how much the SoCal blindsolving scene has grown over the past few years! Please feel free to reach out to the organization team if you have any questions.
In addition to a competitor limit for the whole competition, each event will have a separate limit. Registrations will be considered in the order that they are paid. If your paid registration includes events which have filled up, your registration will be accepted and modified to include only events which have space. Then, you will be placed on a waitlist for each full event you requested.
Once your registration is accepted, you will not be able to change your registered events unless you contact the organizers. If you would like to add an event after registering, your request will be approved if there is space; otherwise, you will be placed on the waitlist.
The entire competition will have a limit of 50 competitors. MBLD will have a limit of 25 competitors. All other events will have a limit of 30 competitors. Limits for some events may be increased at the organizers' discretion.
| Event | Competitor Limit | Remaining Space |
|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | 30 | 30 |
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | 30 | 30 |
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | 30 | 30 |
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | 25 | 25 |
Map of Price Center East
Driving Directions
- From the North/South:
- Interstate 5 South Exit LA JOLLA VILLAGE DRIVE
- Go west on La Jolla Village Drive
- Turn right at Villa La Jolla Drive to enter the UC San Diego campus
- Proceed straight until you reach the Gilman Parking Structure, at the corner of Villa La Jolla Drive and Gilman Drive
Walking from Gilman Parking Structure
- Head north on Russell Drive
- Turn left on Lyman Lane
- Price Center will be on the right
- The Forum is located on the fourth floor
Food
There are plenty of options for food in the lower levels of the Price Center. Here, you can find a map with what you can find on each floor.
This competition will be sponsored by TheCubicle! They will be providing gift-card prizes for this competition. They will not be selling puzzles onsite.
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).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced (see Regulation A1a2).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced across rounds (see Guideline A1a2++).
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.