Mountain View Multi Madness 2023
- Date
- Nov 24 - 27, 2023
- City
- Mountain View, California, United States
- Venue
Private residence
- Address
- Private residence
- Details
Details will be given to competitors closer to the competition date.
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Abhimanyu Singhal (अभिमन्यु सिंघल) and Calvin Nielson
- WCA Delegates
- Abhimanyu Singhal (अभिमन्यु सिंघल), Anto Kam (甘浩東), Calvin Nielson, Nolan Yiu, and Ruby Lu (卢红)
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
- West Coast Cubing LLC presents a PBQ of epic proportions!
- This competition will be testing the new revolutionary score-taking technology, TimeBase! We will be using traditional scorecards but will be offering a brand-new, paperless scoretaking experience for all registered competitors!
- If we run ahead of schedule, we will start first round events no earlier than 20 minutes, so please show up at least 20 minutes before your first event.
- We will be assigning judging assignments to competitors for the group before or after their own competing groups. Please check your personal competitor cards when we assign them a week before the competition date for relevant info.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 24
- 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 60 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $30 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 50% 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.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 1 guest.
Adding/Dropping Events
- Competitors may request by email to be added to more events BEFORE registration closes.
- Competitors who have already had their registration accepted may add events up until the event is held (supposing there are spots available)
- Competitors may request by email remove events from their registration. In order to hold 3 rounds, we need 16 competitors to compete and 8 to get a success in the first rounds. If you are not planning on competing, please let us know as soon as possible.
- Competitors may not adjust their registration details by themselves, without prior approval until the registration deadline
Waitlist: PLEASE CHECK THE COMPETITOR TAB ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE TO SEE HOW MANY COMPETITORS HAVE BEEN APPROVED
If Registration fills up, we will place competitors on a waitlist. In order to get on the waitlist, you must register and pay. You are not on the waitlist until you pay the registration fee. If you do not make it off of the waitlist, you will be fully refunded. If a competitor drops out, the first person on the waitlist will replace them. People can be replaced up until the registration close date indicated above.
The waitlist works on a per-event basis. Competitors will not be "registered" for the competition until they make it off the waitlist in at least one event. When that happens, their registration will only include the event(s) they made it off the waitlist for. As they make it off the waitlist for more events they registered for, that will be added to their registration, and they will receive an email. Competitors may also request to be added or removed from the waitlists for other events if they wish by emailing the organization team.
In a catastrophic event where the event will be compromised and cancelled, a full refund shall be offered to all competitors, in contrast to the typical 50% registration refunds.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Rowe Hessler won with a result of 54/60 59:51 in the 3x3x3 Multi-Blind event. Stanley Chapel finished second (28/33 42:08) and Graham Siggins finished third (33/49 1:00:00).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Stanley Chapel | 16.22 | 17.74 | United States | 16.22 | 18.58 | 18.43 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Calvin Nielson | 30 | 32.33 | United States | 30 | 30 | 37 | |||||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Stanley Chapel | 59.06 | DNF | United States | DNF | DNF | 59.06 | |||||
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | Graham Siggins | 3:15.36 | DNF | United States | 3:15.36 | DNF | DNF | |||||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Rowe Hessler | 54/60 59:51 | United States | 46/52 59:29 | 40/60 1:00:02 | 54/60 59:51 | ||||||
This tab is for visibility. There is a 16 person competitor limit per event.
By public transportation:
There is a nearby CalTrain station.
By plane:
San Jose (SJC) and San Francisco (SFO) airports are the closest.
Food:
Food will be included in the registration fee for Lunch Friday through Sunday. Please reach out to us if you have any dietary restrictions.
For those of you new to cubing, WELCOME!
We wanted to let you know this event is perfectly fine for cubers of any age and experience. We just ask you know a couple things before coming to compete...
First, please be familiar with the WCA Regulations, found here:
https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/
This video will explain most of what any cuber competing for the first time will need to know. However, it is still the competitors responsibility to be familiar with the full set of regulations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPL3eV-A0ww
Head over to the registration tab, if you are ready to sign-up for your first competiton! Click register, and fill out the information that it asks for. This will help you get set up into the WCA's system and one step closer to your first official solve!
Q&A:
Q: Do I use my own cube to compete?
A: YES! You are responsible for your own hardware in order to compete.
Q: What is the normal age of competitors at these events?
A: All ages are welcome, but in general competitors are between 10 and 20 years old. Don't let this stop you though, everyone can and should cube!
Q: What is the competition like?
A; Competitions are a bunch of tables where nerds like us get to sit and discuss our favorite thing, Cubes! Of course in addition there is competing, which will occupy one side of the competition hall, where you will see lots of timers flickering with contestants new personal bests. Most competitions have a break for lunch, and the competing is split up into groups, as to better organize who competes when. (Check the Groups tab and listen at the competition for more info on this.)
Q: How do I find results?
A: All results are posted on the WCA page a couple of days after the competition finishes. However, for the day of competing, search "WCA Live" (https://live.worldcubeassociation.org) to find information about current events. This is also where you will find information about 2nd and 3rd rounds of events.
Q: Why am I not on the registration list yet?
A: Make sure you pay your registration fee in order to be automatically placed on the registered list, which will also guarantee you a spot in the competition. If payment may be any issue, or you are not sure if you can attend, use the contact button to talk to us, and see if we can work out another payment strategy, or have you pay on arrival at the compeition. No matter what you situation may be however, please register online. It is much easier for us to have you register now and pay later, then to have to input information at another time.
Q: Are there age divisions?
A: Nope! All cometitors compete in the same group.
Q: Can I have fun at this event?
A: HECK YES! Cubing is amazing, and we sincerely hope you enjoy the competition!
TimeBase is a technology and system for running comeptitions that does not rely on scorecards!
TimeBase is a display system aimed to streamline a competitor experience. There will be a short demonstration on using the system as there are some differences to what competiors may be used to. We will have the TimeBase team there to answer any question and address any potential problems. Competitors will be given a lanyard with a unique NFC tag assigned to their profile. It's best not to lose it but we will have replacements on hand just in case. Feel free to reach out after the competition with any sort of feedback or concerns. Any thoughts you may have can help the further development of TimeBase!
This competition will be the first WCA competition to utilize TimeBase. That being said, we will still be using scorecards as this competition acts more as a "test run" of the technology to ensure that it meets quality, accuracy, and durability standards.
Groups will be announced closer to the competition. Keep an eye peeled!
Want to stay connected with the West Coast community? Join the West Coast Cubing Community Discord Server! Speak with other competitors from NorCal, SoCal, Nevada, Hawaii, and Tijuana and keep in touch with fellow competitors and meet new ones! Find out about competition discussion as it happens in real time, and even announcements for competitions before registration opens!
Currently, our waitlist is: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-O3Wrp2nwfF7dO4n010GI1lJ2TZNNFiQbQUG6squ1r8/edit#gid=0
Thanks to The Cubicle for sponsoring this 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.