Minnesota Cube Melt 2017
- Date
- May 6 - 7, 2017
- City
- New Brighton, Minnesota, United States
- Venue
- Address
- 400 10th St. NW., New Brighton, MN 55112
- Details
Main Parking and event entrance are on the East side of the Community Center.
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizer
- Christopher Olson
- WCA Delegate
- Walker Welch
- Information
THIS IS NOT THE NORMAL MINNESOTA CUBE MELT/CUBETCHA VENUE AT THE CHURCH. PLEASE CHECK VENUE INFORMATION.
There is a 120 Person Competitor Limit for this Competition.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 117
- 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.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Kennan LeJeune won with an average of 8.62 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Christopher Olson finished second (8.71) and David Nguyen finished third (9.15).
North American records: Cale Schoon 5x5x5 Blindfolded 5:31.17 (single); Kevin Hays 6x6x6 Cube 1:36.75 (average); Mark Boyanowski 4x4x4 Blindfolded 3:00.65 (average).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Kennan LeJeune | 7.19 | 8.62 | United States | 9.89 | 8.53 | 7.19 | DNF | 7.44 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Christopher Olson | 1.69 | 1.95 | United States | 3.40 | 1.90 | 1.75 | 2.20 | 1.69 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Jonah Crosby | 28.89 | 32.12 | United States | 28.89 | 35.47 | 29.61 | DNF | 31.28 | |||
| 6x6x6 Cube | Kevin Hays | 1:32.87 | 1:36.75 | NAR | United States | 1:37.65 | 1:32.87 | 1:39.74 | ||||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Mark Boyanowski | 35.79 | 37.53 | United States | 35.79 | 39.33 | 37.48 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Walker Welch | 24 | 25.67 | United States | 24 | 25 | 28 | |||||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Eric Zhao | 13.68 | 15.75 | United States | 15.00 | 18.54 | 15.87 | 16.37 | 13.68 | |||
| Square-1 | Carter Kucala | 8.46 | 13.23 | United States | 15.28 | 8.46 | 13.90 | 11.97 | 13.82 | |||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Cale Schoon | 2:22.61 | NR | DNF | United States | 2:37.33 | DNF | 2:22.61 | ||||
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | Cale Schoon | 5:31.17 | NAR | DNF | United States | DNF | 8:05.95 | 5:31.17 | ||||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Mark Boyanowski | 31/42 1:00:00 | United States | 31/42 1:00:00 | ||||||||
Events
3x3 Speedsolve - 4 Rounds
2x2 Speedsolve - 3 Rounds
4x4 Speedsolve
6x6 Speedsolve
3x3 Blindfolded
3x3 One-Handed
Square-1
Sunday
3x3 Fewest Moves
4x4 Blindfolded
5x5 Blindfolded
3x3 Multiple Blindfolded
Tentative Events
5x5 Speedsolve
3x3 One-Handed (Round 2)
Other Additional Rounds
Schedule
| Saturday - Community AB | Event | Round | Cutoffs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Registration/Setup | ||
| 8:30 - 9:30 | 3x3 One-Handed | Combined Final | 0:50 Cutoff / 2:00 Time Limit |
| 9:30 - 9:45 | New Competitor Tutorial | ||
| 9:45 - 11:15 | 3x3 Speedsolve | Round 1 | None |
| 11:15 - 12:15 | 2x2 Speedsolve | Round 1 | 2:00 Time Limit |
| 12:15 - 1:00 | Lunch | Round 1 | |
| 12:45 - 1:15 | Square-1 | Combined Final | 0:45 Cutoff / 2:00 Time Limit |
| 1:15 - 2:30 | 4x4 Speedsolve | Combined Final | 1:30 Cutoff / 2:30 Time Limit |
| 2:30 - 3:15 | 3x3 Speedsolve | Round 2 (Top 60) | |
| 3:15 - 4:00 | 6x6 Speedsolve | Combined Final | 4:30 Cutoff / 6:00 Time Limit |
| 4:00 - 4:20 | 2x2 Speedsolve | Round 2 (Top 32) | |
| 4:20 - 4:50 | 3x3 Blindfolded | Combined Final | 15min Combined Time Limit |
| 4:50 - 5:10 | 3x3 Speedsolve | Round 3 (Top 24) | |
| 5:10 - 5:30 | 2x2 Speedsolve | Final (Top 12) | |
| 5:30 - 6:00 | 3x3 Speedsolve | Final (Top 12) | |
| 6:00+ | Awards/Cleanup |
| Sunday - Room 218 | Event | Round | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Registration/Setup | ||
| 10:00 - 11:15 | FMC Attempt #1 | Final | Mean of 3 |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | 4x4 Blindfolded | Final | Best of 3 |
| 12:00 - 12:45 | Lunch | Final | (Submit MultiBLD cubes at end of lunch) |
| 12:45 - 2:00 | FMC Attempt #2 | Final | Mean of 3 |
| 2:00 - 3:15 | MultiBLD Attempt #1 | Final | Best of 1 |
| 3:15 - 4:30 | FMC Attempt #3 | Final | Mean of 3 |
| 4:30 - 5:45 | 5x5 Blindfolded | Final | Best of 3 |
| 5:45 - 6:00 | Awards/Cleanup |
4BLD and 5BLD events you have that time frame to complete all 3 of your solves.
THERE IS A VENUE CHANGE FROM THE NORMAL CUBE MELT VENUE!
Venue Address:
New Brighton Community Center
400 10th St NW
New Brighton, MN 55112
Saturday will take place in the Community AB room while Sunday will take place in Room 218 on the 2nd floor.
PARKING
The main parking for the venue will be in the East (Right) Parking Lot after you enter. There is also other lots around the building that you can use, but the East lot is closer to the room we will be in.
TRAVEL
If you are travelling from the East or West, I694 takes you very close to the Community Center. The exit you want is Exit 40 that takes you to 10th Street NW. After going South-East on 10th Street, you go past the stop light on Old Hwy 8 and the Community Center is on the next left.
Travelling from the North or South, I35W is the closest Interstate. You can take the exit for West on I694 to the instructions above or take Exit 26 to 5th Street NW. You go west on 5th Street and then north on 5th Ave NW. Getting to the stoplight intersection of 10th Street NW and Old Hwy 8, take a right and the Community Center is on the next left.
| Name | 3x3 | 2x2 | 4x4 | 5x5 (tentative) | 6x6 | 3x3 BLD | 3x3 OH | Sq-1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Lehman | 1 | 7 | 1 | |||||
| Aiden Ford | 2 | 8 | 2 | |||||
| Alec Olson | 3 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Alex Gundrum | 4 | 10 | 2 | 4 | ||||
| Alex Niedan-Olsen | 5 | 1 | ||||||
| Alex Vilendrer | 6 | 2 | 5 | |||||
| Andrew Tyberg | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | |||
| Arjun Prasad | 8 | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Ben Haberman | 9 | 5 | 5 | 3 | ||||
| Benjamin Hoppke | 10 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 2 | |||
| Benjamin Stulken | 11 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Bodie Zwank | 12 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| Brandon Fisher | 1 | 3 | ||||||
| Brandon Satterstrom | 7 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Brian Berg | 2 | 9 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Brian Gennow | 1 | |||||||
| Brody Meschke | 3 | 10 | ||||||
| Brody Schoon | 4 | 1 | 4 | |||||
| Bryce Rohloff | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | |||
| Cale Schoon | 6 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Cameron Jamison | 7 | 4 | 2 | |||||
| Cameron Lehman | 8 | 5 | 6 | 3 | ||||
| Cameron Quast | 9 | 6 | 1 | |||||
| Carter Kucala | 10 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 4 |
| Cecelia Linkert | 11 | 8 | ||||||
| Chase Wilkinson | 12 | 9 | ||||||
| Christian Stamness | 1 | 10 | ||||||
| Christopher Olson | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Cole Hanson | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Connor Gabbert | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Daniel Dylla | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | ||||
| Daniel Lokken | 5 | 4 | ||||||
| Dante Ugalde | 8 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| David Golisch | 6 | 5 | 4 | |||||
| David Nguyen | 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Derek Weissinger | 7 | 6 | ||||||
| Dylan Harrison | 8 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | ||
| Eldon Kaplan | 9 | 8 | ||||||
| Eric Zhao | 10 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | |
| Ethen Loasching | 1 | 9 | ||||||
| Evan Klein | 11 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 3 | |||
| Evan Strautman | 1 | |||||||
| Gabriel LaForte | 12 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||
| Harrison Toppings | 10 | 3 | ||||||
| Henry Lange | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | ||
| Holden Moritz | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Holden Peterson | 4 | 6 | ||||||
| Hunter Mohs | 5 | 7 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| Indigo Sabin | 6 | 8 | ||||||
| Isaac Homuth | 7 | 9 | 5 | 4 | ||||
| Ivy Beck | 11 | 10 | ||||||
| Jack A Kern | 9 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| Jack Faatz | 10 | 2 | ||||||
| Jack Johnson | 8 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Jack Johnston | 11 | 6 | 5 | 5 | ||||
| Jacob Nokes | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Jamal Gonzalez | 1 | |||||||
| Jason Valente | 2 | 5 | ||||||
| Jedrick Remonde | 3 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Joe Sullivan | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Joel Emigh | 5 | |||||||
| John Gray | 6 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | |
| John Vaughan | 7 | 9 | ||||||
| Jonah Crosby | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||
| Jonah hamilton | 8 | |||||||
| Jordan Barnes | 9 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | |||
| Jordan Mosakowski | 10 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 4 | ||
| Joseph Zaffuto | 11 | 2 | 6 | 1 | ||||
| Joshua Beck | 12 | 7 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Joshua Chen | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | |||
| Joshua Churchill | 2 | 4 | 3 | |||||
| Joshua Feran | 3 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Josiah Paul Zderad | 3 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | |||
| Kennan LeJeune | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Kevin Hays | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | |||
| Khalil Kaba | 12 | 6 | ||||||
| Kieran Rowe | 4 | 7 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Krishang Navaneetha Krishnan | 5 | 8 | ||||||
| Kristin Wiley | 5 | 9 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Logan McGraw | 6 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | |
| Lucas Nhat-Phong Le | 7 | 9 | 3 | 2 | ||||
| Mark Boyanowski | 7 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Mark Campbell | 6 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | ||
| Mason Ries | 8 | |||||||
| Matt Gossett | 9 | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||||
| Matthew Jenson | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 6 | |||
| Matthew Tokheim | 8 | 4 | 2 | |||||
| Max Youngberg | 12 | 5 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Melissa Friese | 3 | 6 | ||||||
| Melissa Su | 8 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |
| Mitchell Bean | 4 | |||||||
| Nathan Langer | 3 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | |||
| Nathan Mihm | 4 | 8 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Ne Dassanayake | 5 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | |
| Nickolai Farber | 6 | 10 | ||||||
| Oliver Pham | 7 | 1 | 5 | |||||
| Owen Kluempke | 11 | 2 | ||||||
| Paul Talbot | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| PengSu Thao | 10 | |||||||
| Philippos Karypis | 5 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 6 | ||
| Preston Meyer | 6 | 5 | ||||||
| Rachel Feran | 9 | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Reid Peterson | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| Ryan DeLine | 2 | |||||||
| Sam Simmons | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Samuel Remus | 3 | 8 | 2 | |||||
| Samuel Truman Mork | 4 | 9 | 6 | |||||
| Sarah Cook | 10 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | |
| Sean Churchill | 5 | |||||||
| Seth Fregien | 6 | 10 | 2 | |||||
| Simon Beck | 7 | 1 | ||||||
| Teddy Thalhuber | 8 | 2 | 4 | 3 | ||||
| Tony Baston | 9 | 3 | 4 | |||||
| Travis Hammerstad | 10 | 4 | ||||||
| Tyler Johnson | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Tyler Robinson | 12 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| Virinch Pandari | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| Walker Welch | 11 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| William Wigstrom jr. | 8 | |||||||
| Zachary White | 12 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
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Payments for this competition is being run through the WCA website. After you fill out the form in the registration tab, it will prompt you to pay the $20 registration fee. A reminder that your registration is not complete until you have paid the online fee.
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.