NYU Spring 2025
- Date
- Apr 13, 2025
- City
- New York, New York, United States
- Venue
- Address
- 238 Thompson St, New York NY 10012
- Details
Room 573: Grand Hall
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Dan Lu, Daniel Sun, and Empire State Cubing
- WCA Delegates
- Austin Reed, Dana Yi, and Leia Jiang
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- 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 Competition Procedures tab.
This is our second ever WCA competition at NYU after NYU Winter 2024!
NYU ID POLICY: New York University requires all adults to bring a government issued ID to sign in to NYU buildings. The organizers of this competition will have to submit a list of all visitors (which includes the competitor and their adult chaperone if the competitor is a minor) to the NYU visitor system after registration has been finalized. Read more about the NYU Visitor Policy here.
MINORS POLICY: New York University requires chaperones for all minors participating in on-campus events. Therefore, any child under 18 in the venue must be accompanied by a parent or other adult, who will be required to bring a government issued ID and sign in.
GUEST POLICY: Each competitor is allowed to bring only 1 guest. If you would like to bring additional guests, please reach out to the organizers and we will let you know if there are any extra guest slots.
NYU Students and Alumni: NYU students and alumni will receive a full refund for their registration. Please provide your NYU email in the comments of your registration and a full refund will be initiated once your registration is accepted.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitor limit
- 70
- Number of times bookmarked
- 51
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Friday, March 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM UTC and closed Sunday, March 16, 2025 at 1:31 AM UTC.
- Registration requirements
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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 70 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $10 (United States Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
If your registration is cancelled before Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC you will be refunded 75% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 1 guest.
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 16 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 5:00.00 | Top 50% advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 5:00.00 | Top 16 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 5:00.00 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 3:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:30.00 | |
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 2:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 45.00 |
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 tutorial 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 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.
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;
The competitor limit for this competition is 70. The list of approved competitors can be found by clicking "Competitors" on the left side of this webpage. If there are already 70 competitors on that list, it means the competition is full, and any future registrants will be placed on the waitlist.
Competitors MUST register online in order to compete. No at-the-door registrations will be accepted.
Any requested changes to registration before 8 PM EDT on Saturday, April 5 will be honored. Your registration is not complete until your name shows up on the list.
Waitlist Information
We will be keeping a waitlist for this competition. If a competitor emails us to drop out before 8 PM EDT on Saturday, April 5, 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.
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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.