Minnesota Cube Day 2023

Date: Sep 23, 2023
City: Apple Valley, Minnesota, United States
Venue: Apple Valley Senior Center
Address: 14601 Hayes Rd, Apple Valley, MN 55124
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Midwest Cubing Association and Shain Papalotl Longbehn
WCA Delegates: Carter Kucala, Lisa Kucala, Ricky Martin, Shain Papalotl Longbehn, and Simon Kellum

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Information

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 Assocation for information and announcements on upcoming competitions.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 95

Registration period: Online registration opened Wednesday, August 2, 2023 at 11:30 PM UTC and closed Sunday, August 6, 2023 at 7:05 PM UTC.
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There is a competitor limit of 100 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $20 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Monday, September 18, 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 Monday, September 18, 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.
Any spectator can attend for free.

Registration and the waitlist has filled. No more registrations will be accepted.

More information on the waitlist can be found here.

Please consider signing up for Cubetcha 2023 if you are looking for another Minnesota competition. We are hoping to announce more soon. Stay tuned!
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Brian Johnson won with an average of 7.02 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Kaius Young finished second (8.00) and Carter Kucala finished third (8.37).

Event	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Brian Johnson	5.41	7.02	United States	6.84	7.67	6.54	8.80	5.41
2x2x2 Cube	Brian Johnson	1.27	1.35	United States	1.30	1.47	1.27	1.27	1.79
5x5x5 Cube	Brian Johnson	52.42	58.88	United States	1:01.08	1:01.84	1:02.02	52.42	53.71
3x3x3 One-Handed	Andy Wong	11.19	11.94	United States	12.11	12.23	11.19	11.49	16.56
Pyraminx	Simon Kellum	1.90	2.68	United States	1.90	2.71	2.28	3.06	4.30

Event	Round	Format	Time limit	Cutoff	Proceed
3x3x3 Cube	First round	Ao5	10:00.00		Top 75% advance to next round
	Second round	Ao5	10:00.00		Top 24 advance to next round
	Final	Ao5	10:00.00
2x2x2 Cube	First round	Ao5	2:00.00		Top 24 advance to next round
2x2x2 Cube	Final	Ao5	2:00.00
5x5x5 Cube	Final	Bo2 / Ao5	3:00.00	2 attempts to get < 2:30.01
3x3x3 One-Handed	First round	Bo2 / Ao5	2:00.00	2 attempts to get < 1:00.00	Top 24 advance to next round
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	Ao5	2:00.00
Pyraminx	First round	Ao5	2:00.00		Top 24 advance to next round
Pyraminx	Final	Ao5	2:00.00

Schedules are subject to adjustments, especially once registration totals are known. Registered competitors will be notified by email of any major changes.

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Saturday, September 23, 2023

2:05 - 2:10

New Competitor Awards

2:10 - 3:00

3x3x3 Cube Second round

Tutorial for new competitors

9:00 - 10:30

3x3x3 Cube First round

10:30 - 11:30

3x3x3 One-Handed First round

2x2x2 Cube First round

4:00 - 4:35

3x3x3 One-Handed Final

Clean-up / Podium Awards

For each event, competitors are called to compete one group at a time. To facilitate this, all competitors will be assigned to a specific group for each event. Judging, running, and scrambling assignments for helping out at the competition are also listed for each competitor.

The competitor cards will also be available on a lanyard for each competitor at registration the morning of the competition. All competitors will be required to wear their lanyards throughout the day of the competition.

Group assignments will be announced closer to the competition date.

Live results will be available here during the event.

The waitlist deadline has passed. All still on the waitlist have been refunded.

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.