Mini-sota 2023
- Date
- Nov 25, 2023
- City
- New Brighton, Minnesota, United States
- Venue
New Brighton Community Center
- Address
- 400 10th St NW, New Brighton, MN 55112
- Details
Room 224
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Midwest Cubing Association and Shain Papalotl Longbehn
- WCA Delegates
- Carter Kucala, Shain Papalotl Longbehn, Simon Kellum, and Walker Welch
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
There is no 3x3 at this competition. This competition style is not recommended for new competitors.
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This competition is supported by the Midwest Cubing Association (MCA).
We have local Facebook groups for our Cubing Area. Feel free to join the Minnesota Cubing Community and follow the Midwest Cubing Association for information and announcements on upcoming competitions.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 18
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Friday, October 13, 2023 at 12:30 AM UTC and closed Friday, November 24, 2023 at 5:59 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 30 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $25 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Friday, November 24, 2023 at 5:59 AM UTC you will be refunded 90% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Friday, November 24, 2023 at 5:59 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.
On the spot registrations will be accepted with a base registration fee of $25 (United States Dollar).
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Registration is accepted in the order paid. Payment must be made for registration to be considered complete.⚠️If all competing spots are filled, a waitlist will begin. Waitlist spots are added in the order paid.
Click here for more information about the waitlist.
Please wait 48 hours for your registration to be manually accepted.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Brian Johnson won with an average of 45.23 seconds in the Megaminx event. Carter Kucala finished second (49.46) and James Ekins finished third (53.31).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Andy Wong | 20.70 | DNF | United States | 20.70 | DNF | DNF | |||||
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Evan Brown | 22 | 25.00 | United States | 29 | 24 | 22 | |||||
| Megaminx | Brian Johnson | 42.81 | 45.23 | United States | 46.55 | 44.36 | 44.78 | 42.81 | 1:00.39 | |||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Carter Kucala | 3:17.38 | DNF | United States | 3:17.38 | 3:30.63 | DNF | |||||
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | Walker Welch | 14:41.00 | DNF | United States | DNF | 20:22.00 | 14:41.00 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Carter Kucala | 23/33 1:00:00 | United States | 23/33 1:00:00 | ||||||||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | First round | Bo3 | 15:00.00 cumulative* | Top 75% advance to next round |
| Final | Bo3 | 10:00.00 cumulative* | ||
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Final | Mo3 | 1 hour | |
| Megaminx | First round | Ao5 | 20:00.00 cumulative* | Top 75% advance to next round |
| Second round | Ao5 | 3:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 3:00.00 | ||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Final | Bo3 | 1:30:00.00 total for 5x5x5 Blindfolded Final, 4x4x4 Blindfolded Final** | |
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | Final | Bo3 | 1:30:00.00 total for 5x5x5 Blindfolded Final, 4x4x4 Blindfolded Final** | |
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Final | Bo1 | 10:00.00 per cube, up to 60:00.00 |
Live results will be available here during the event.
Competitors are added to the waitlist in the order paid
If registration fills, a waitlist will begin and the link to monitor the status will be in this tab. You must pay the full registration fee to be added to the waitlist. If the waitlist reaches 10 people, registration will close and no more people will be allowed to register.
A link will be available here once a waitlist begins to monitor your status on the waitlist.
Most waitlisters move off the list around 1-2 weeks before the competition. Please keep an eye on your email as the competition gets closer.
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.