MoCo Cubing Winter 2024
- Date
- Jan 20, 2024
- City
- Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
- Venue
Gaithersburg Church of the Nazarene
- Address
- 8921 Warfield Rd, Gaithersburg, MD 20882
- Details
Life Center
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- CubingUSA Treasurer and Wilson Dawson
- WCA Delegates
- Blake Thompson, Rich Tayag, Siddharth Suresh, and Will Callan
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
There is a large parking lot in front of the main entrance. The competition will be held in the Life Center.
This competition is supported by CubingUSA.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 111
- 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.
There is a competitor limit of 125 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $25 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 95% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Please keep in mind that registrations are approved manually after payment, so your registration may not be approved immediately.
Your registration is not complete until your registration fee has been paid.
All competitiors must read the "Competitor Responsibilities" tab.WAITLIST INFORMATION:
If the competitor limit of 125 has been reached, you can still register and pay the registration fee to secure a spot on the waitlist. During the registration period, any competitor can cancel their registration and allow the first person on the waitlist to take their spot. If you find that you cannot make it to the competition after registering, please contact us so that we can maximize attendance.
All registrants still on the waitlist after the registration period will have their registrations deleted, and will be fully refunded.
We may completely close registration if the waitlist becomes very large. - Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Zayn Khanani won with an average of 8.29 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Will Callan finished second (8.67) and Hassan Khanani finished third (8.75).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Zayn Khanani | 6.93 | 8.29 | United States | 6.93 | 8.04 | 10.26 | 8.11 | 8.71 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Zayn Khanani | 1.14 | 1.51 | United States | 2.29 | 1.46 | 1.14 | 1.64 | 1.44 | |||
| Clock | Sula Mareska | 4.84 | 6.15 | United States | 4.84 | 7.37 | 6.20 | 5.48 | 6.76 | |||
| Square-1 | Hassan Khanani | 5.43 | 7.10 | United States | 6.17 | 5.43 | 7.66 | 7.48 | DNF | |||
ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING
For First-Time Competitors
All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. This video gives a basic overview of the rules. In addition, please read this document before coming to the competition.
For All Competitors
When you arrive, you will receive a card with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event. In addition, you will also have judging/scrambling/running assignments on your card. Every competitor is expected to help out during the event(s) they are registered for. The card will look like the following:
If you do not arrive to help during your scheduled event, and there are not enough staff members, we reserve the right to disqualify you from competing.
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McDonald's - 4 min drive
Subway - 4 min drive
Wendy's - 9 min drive
Chipotle - 11 min drive
Chick-fil-a - 13 minute drive
Staff Application is now closed. Thank you for those who applied, selections have been made.
NOTE: ALL COMPETITORS MUST PAY THE $25 REGISTRATION FEE. If you are selected for staff, you will be refunded the registration fee AFTER the competition has ended.
Staff members who sufficiently fulfill their duties will be provided with refunded registration and lunch for the competition.
Currently, we are planning to hold the competition as scheduled. We are monitoring the weather conditions and any change in status will be communicated here and via email. We recommend competitors make their respective judgements as to whether it’s safe to travel.
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.