NJIT Ability Experience 2024

Date: Nov 9, 2024
City: Newark, New Jersey, United States
Venue: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Address: 150 Bleeker St #1982, Newark, NJ 07102
Details: Campus Center, Ballroom A (Second Floor)
Contact: Organization team
Organizer: Rohan Volety
WCA Delegate: Austin Reed

: Download all the competition's details as PDF here.

Information

This competition is recognized as an official World Cube Association competition. Therefore, all competitors must be familiar with the WCA regulations. If you are new to competing, please refer to the Competitor Responsibilities tab.

How to get to Venue: There are two entrances. If you entered through the doors with a sky bridge above, turn left to take elevators or turn left at the middle of the building to go upstairs.
If you entered through the side with a field, take the elevators at the end of the building on the right or turn right at the middle of the building to go upstairs.
Signs will be posted around the building for directions.

Competitors may bring at most two guests.

This competition is sponsored by the Pi Kappa Phi Ability Experience. The Ability Experience is the philanthropic initiative of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity dedicated to aiding the 6.5 million citizens living with disabilities across the United States. Together, we’re helping to change the way society views people with disabilities because labels should not define us. We put our values into action, bringing our mission for a more inclusive community to life every single day.

For more information about the Ability Experience, please click on the Sponsors/Charity Info tab. All excess funds and donations from this competition will be donated to the Ability Experience.

Events
Main event

Competitor limit: 100

Number of times bookmarked: 80

Registration period: Online registration will be open from to .
Registration requirements: 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 100 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $20 (United States Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 75% 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 100 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.

The venue is the Campus Center, 150 Bleeker St, Newark NJ 07103

Accessible Via:
Train: The Newark Light rail has a stop on the NJIT campus
Airport: The Newark Liberty National Airport is 15 mins away via car and 30 via public transport

Parking: please park at the Summit Street Parking Deck
NJIT Parking Deck, 154 Summit St, Newark, NJ 07102
Parking is free inside the parking deck
After parking take a right and walk straight (crossing warren street) until you see the skybridge, enter the building on the left of the skybridge

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 may 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:

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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.

Registration Process

Before You Register

All prospective registrants need a WCA account. New competitors can create their own WCA account by clicking here and entering the required information.

How to Register Online

Prospective competitors register by:
1. Signing into their WCA account;
2. Clicking "Register" on the left side of this webpage, selecting the events they would like to compete in, and submitting their registration;
3. Paying the registration fee of $20.00. (The registration fee is the same regardless of how many events are selected.) Your registration is not complete until you have paid the registration fee.

The competitor limit for this competition is 100. The list of approved competitors can be found by clicking "Competitors" on the left side of this webpage. If there are already 100 competitors on that list, it means the competition is full, and any future registrants will be placed on the waitlist.

Competitors MUST register and pay online in order to compete. No at-the-door registrations or payments will be accepted.

Any requested changes to registration before 8:00 PM EDT on Friday, November 1st will be honored. Your registration is not complete until your name shows up on the list.

How to Pay for Registration Online

Payment is processed through Stripe. Click on the "Register" tab on the left side of the webpage to register and pay all in one place! You can start the payment process by clicking "Pay your fees with card."

Refunds

Approved competitors who cancel their registration before 8:00 PM EDT on Friday, November 1st are eligible for a refund for 75% of their registration cost. After this date, no refund requests will be honored. Attempting to file a chargeback for the registration fee will lead to being blacklisted from future WCA events.

Waitlist Information

We will be keeping a waitlist for this competition. To secure a place on the waitlist once 100 competitors have paid, simply pay the registration fee. If a competitor emails us to drop out before 8:00 PM EDT on Friday, November 1st, you will be notified if you are the next competitor on the waitlist. After that deadline, all remaining competitors on the waitlist will be emailed letting them know they did not get off the waitlist and will be fully refunded.

This competition is sponsored by the Pi Kappa Phi Ability Experience.

The Ability Experience is an independent-nonprofit dedicated to aiding the 6.5 million citizens living with disabilities across the United States. The Ability Experience works to create a community where the abilities of all people are equally recognized and valued through inclusivity– challenging society’s language and perception of individuals with disabilities.The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity is honored to be able to support an organization that is dedicated to raising awareness, fundraising, volunteering, and promoting the message that disability does not mean inability. We put our values into action, bringing our mission for a more inclusive community to life every single day.

Proceeds from this competition will be donated to the Ability Experience to support efforts against the way society views people with disabilities.

If you would like to learn more about the Ability Expereince please navigate to https://www.abilityexperience.org/ for more information.

If you would like to donate to the cause, please do so by adding a donation to your registration thorugh Stripe.

TheCubicle will be providing prizes to the winners!

This competition is being held in the Mid-Atlantic Region (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA, VA, WV). See the regions on CubingUSA's website.

Join the Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Discord server
Join the Tri-State Cubing Facebook group (NJ, NY, PA)
See the Mid-Atlantic Region Organizational Spreadsheet
See upcoming competitions:
- in Delaware
- in Maryland
- in New Jersey
- in New York
- in Pennsylvania
- in Virginia
- in West Virginia

Groups will be posted here closer to competition day.

We will be using WCA Live to track the live results of this competiton. On competition day, navigate to https://live.worldcubeassociation.org/ and click on NJIT Ability Experience 2024.

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.