Minnesota Meetup III Thursday 2024
- Date
- Jan 4, 2024
- City
- Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States
- Venue
Minnetonka Community Center
- Address
- 14600 Minnetonka Blvd, Minnetonka, MN 55345
- Details
Banquet Room
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Lisa Kucala, Midwest Cubing Association, and Shain Papalotl Longbehn
- WCA Delegates
- Lisa Kucala and Shain Papalotl Longbehn
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition is a series competition with:
You may only compete in one of these competitions.
At this competition, only the top three newcomers in each event will receive awards.
Please click here for more info about series competitions.
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
- 19
- 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.
This competition is part of the Minnesota Meetup III 2024 Competition Series. Other competitions in this Series are: Note: You can submit a registration for all competitions in a Series, but only one of those registrations can be confirmed and accepted. You will only be allowed to compete in one of the Series competitions!
There is a competitor limit of 55 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $10 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 90% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
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 $10 (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.
Carl Overbye won with an average of 8.70 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Boyd Mayfield finished second (10.64) and Leo Kopper finished third (12.26).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Carl Overbye | 6.51 | 8.70 | United States | 10.58 | 8.55 | 8.64 | 8.91 | 6.51 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Carl Overbye | 2.66 | 3.75 | United States | 4.10 | 2.66 | 3.14 | 4.20 | 4.02 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Carl Overbye | 33.25 | 34.83 | United States | 33.25 | 34.38 | 35.63 | 34.48 | 35.70 | |||
| Skewb | Carl Overbye | 3.53 | 4.66 | United States | 4.35 | 3.53 | 4.64 | 4.99 | 5.57 | |||
This competition is a series competition with Minnesota Meetup III Tuesday 2024 and Minnesota Meetup III Wednesday 2024. You may only compete in one of these competitions.
Series FAQ
Q: What events are at each competition?
A: The events in this series are as follows:
- Minnesota Meetup III Tuesday 2024 (January 2nd): 3x3, 2x2
- Minnesota Meetup III Wednesday 2024 (January 3rd): 3x3, Pyraminx
- Minnesota Meetup III Thursday 2024 (January 4th): 3x3, Skewb
Q: Can I compete at more than one competition?
A: No, you can only compete at one. This allows more people to compete. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Q: Can I attend any of the competitions as a spectator?
A: Yes! Spectators are free. Please also feel free to volunteer to help when we need it.
Q: Can I register for one and then switch to another?
A: As long as registration is still open you can switch, however, please keep in mind:
- If the other competition is full, you will go to the end of the waitlist out of fairness to others.
- You will have to register and pay for the other competition. A 90% refund will be given for the competition you don't intend on competing in.
Q: All competitions are full, can I be on multiple waitlists?
A: Yes! If all competitions are filled with 55 competitors each, then you can be on the waitlist for both competitions. Please keep in mind:
- You will have to pay for all waitlists you wish to be on to be considered registered on the waitlist.
- Whichever waitlist you get off of first will be the one your registered. You cannot choose which one you prefer.
- A full refund will be given for the competition you did not make it off the waitlist for.
- If you do not make if off of any waitlist you are on, a full refund will be given at the deadline
Q: My registration was accepted but I can no longer attend. Can I remove my registration?
A: Yes! Please let us know as soon as possible so other competitors can have your spot. If your registration was accepted, a 90% refund will be given to accommodate the processing fee as long as it is requested before the deadline.
Q: I am on the waitlist but I can no longer attend, can remove myself from the waitlist?
A: Yes! Please let us know as soon as possible so others can move up the waitlist. If you are not a registered competitor and are on the waitlist, you will receive a 100% refund.
Q: Registration closed and I didn't make it off either waitlist. What now?
A: Please be sure that you paid - if you did not pay, you were never considered fully registered. If you did pay, you will receive a 100% refund We are also working on announcing more competitions all the time - Click here to see Minnesota competitions!
General FAQ
Q. How do I register for this competition?
A. Registration for this competition opens on Tuesday, November 7, 2023 at 6:00 PM Central and will be open until Thursday, December 28, 2023 at 11:59 PM Central. You'll need a WCA Account to register. Once registration has opened, you can register at the register button to your left or at this link. Select the events you'll be competing in and any comments you'd like the organization team to know. After pressing Register, you'll be prompted to pay using Stripe. You must pay your registration fee to be eligible to compete. If there is still space in the competition and you do not receive an email saying your registration has been accepted within 48 hours of paying, please contact the organization team.
Q. How can I prepare for the competition day?
A. Competitors should understand the WCA Regulations before competing. For something a little more digestable, you can read the WCA Competitor Tutorial or watch this video guide. We will have a New Competitor Tutorial at the beginning of the day where you can learn and ask questions.
Q. Who should I ask if I have any questions?
A. Before the competition, you can contact the organization team with any questions with our contact form. During the competition, you can speak to a delegate. Your delegates for this competition are Shain Longbehn and Lisa Kucala.
Q. What are groups? How can I find which ones I'm in?
A. Groups are how we determine when each competitor competes. During each round, we will have several groups that will be called up in succession. When the group in which you're supposed to compete is called, please come up to the cube dropoff table and submit your puzzle. When the group you're judging is called, come up and find an empty station to judge. Groups will be emailed to competitors or in a tab on this website in the week leading up to the competition.
Q. Do competitors need to volunteer? How do I do that?
A. We require that all competitors volunteer as Judges during the competition day. You will be assigned a group to judge in. We will go over judging in our New Competitor Tutorial.
Q. How old do I have to be to compete?
A. WCA Competitions are open to cubers of any age! We do not have age groups so all competitors compete with each other.
Q. What do I need to bring to the competition?
A. You'll need to bring the puzzles required for any event you'll be competing in. Most competitors like to bring other cubes to warm up with. All timing equipment will be supplied by the WCA Delegates at the competition.
Q. Where can I find results for this competition?
A. Live results will be visible on the WCA Live and will be posted on the WCA Website shortly after the competition. If it's your first competition, you'll get a WCA ID when results are posted to the WCA Website.
Q. How can I have a competition in my hometown?
A. You can contact the Minnesota delegates by email here. We would love to help you organize a comp anywhere in Minnesota and bordering states!
Once 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. When the waitlist reaches 20 people, registration will close and no more people will be allowed to register.
Please also note you can be on the waitlist for more than one competition in this series, but if you are accepted into one of the competitions, your other registration will be deleted and a 100% refund will be processed for the deleted registration. If neither of your registrations are accepted before the deadline, you will receive 100% of your payment back.
Live results will be available at this link during the event.
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).
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.