CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019
- Date
- Feb 16 - 17, 2019
- City
- College Park, Maryland, United States
- Venue
Adele H. Stamp Student Union
- Address
- 3100 Adele H. Stamp Student Union, College Park, MD 20742
- Details
Colony Ballroom & Grand Ballroom
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Amod Mathur, Chanoe Park, Dan Selzer, and Pavan Ravindra
- WCA Delegates
- Corey Sakowski and Keaton Ellis
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
Free for UMD students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Please read the "Competitor Information" tab before registering.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 233
- 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 300 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $15 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Any requested changes to registration before registration closes will be honored. Your registration is not complete until your name shows up on the list. If you believe you paid and your name isn't showing up, please contact us so that we can assist you.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Patrick Ponce won with an average of 7.43 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Luigi Soriano finished second (8.40) and Keaton Ellis finished third (8.46).
North American records: Patrick Ponce 3x3x3 Cube 4.24 (single).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Patrick Ponce | 6.22 | 7.43 | United States | 7.99 | 6.22 | 11.16 | 7.17 | 7.14 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Christopher Chi | 1.31 | 1.70 | United States | 1.68 | 1.31 | 1.73 | 3.01 | 1.69 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Patrick Ponce | 24.45 | 27.92 | United States | 30.52 | 24.45 | 28.94 | 25.79 | 29.02 | |||
| 5x5x5 Cube | Patrick Ponce | 45.06 | 51.78 | United States | 49.23 | 54.14 | 45.06 | 55.60 | 51.96 | |||
| 6x6x6 Cube | Brandon Nunez | 1:39.21 | 1:43.86 | United States | 1:39.21 | 1:50.06 | 1:42.32 | |||||
| 7x7x7 Cube | Benjamin Wei | 2:16.02 | 2:23.25 | United States | 2:16.02 | 2:26.98 | 2:26.74 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Liam Chen | 23.90 | 30.75 | United States | 23.90 | 43.75 | 24.61 | |||||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Patrick Ponce | 9.72 | 11.34 | United States | 12.39 | 9.72 | 10.92 | 12.54 | 10.70 | |||
| Clock | Jacob Ambrose | 6.77 | 6.97 | United States | 6.77 | 7.11 | 8.96 | 6.92 | 6.88 | |||
| Megaminx | Ray Bai | 40.47 | 43.36 | United States | 45.47 | 40.47 | 42.13 | 43.91 | 44.03 | |||
| Pyraminx | Livia Kleiner | 2.73 | 3.08 | United States | 2.73 | 2.99 | 2.85 | 5.30 | 3.40 | |||
| Skewb | William Klauer | 1.78 | 3.79 | United States | 3.46 | 1.78 | 4.65 | 4.64 | 3.26 | |||
| Square-1 | Brandon Lin (林博浩) | 7.45 | 8.28 | United States | 8.24 | 9.16 | 7.45 | 11.67 | 7.45 | |||
Note that if you are coming by public transportation, the Green Line Metro stop is not on campus. You will need to take the Shuttle-UM 104 bus from the stop to campus. Please factor this into to your travel time when planning to come to the venue.
The parking map of UMD shows available parking on campus. During the weekend, there is free parking at all green-highlighted parking lots on this list. Lots B(Regents Parking Garage) and Z are the closest free parking lots near campus.
NOTE: The competition is being held in the Grand Ballroom AND Colony Ballroom, which are in different locations. The Grand Ballroom is Room 1206, which is on the first floor, number 43 on this map. The Colony Ballroom is Room 2203, located on the second floor, number 50, on this map.
ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING.
If you are a first time competitor, please read this section carefully. If you are a returning competitor, please skip to the next section.
NEWCOMERS:
There are multiple things a first-timer must know before competing. All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. There is a video here for the basic overview of the rules.
In addition, please read this document before coming to the competition. Huge thanks to Olivér Perge and Niki Placskó for the document!
ALL COMPETITORS:
Please read this section carefully. Changes in organization have been made modeled off of Hungarian competitions in Europe. When you arrive, you will receive a lanyard with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event. In addition, you will also have staff assignments on your lanyard. Every competitor is expected to help out this competition. The card will look somewhat like the following:
Legend:
* S - scrambling
* R - running
* J - judging
Please note that everyone is expected to help only during the events they are registered for, and everyone need only help for one group per event. 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.
There is no official hotel for this competition, and no room blocks will be offered. Below are suggestions for lodging in the area.
There are multiple hotels located on Route 1(Best Western, Hampton Inn, Cambria Hotel, College Park Marriott, and more) located less than five minutes away from the venue.
Private lodging sites such as AirBnB also offer options in the area.
If you are interested in staff, please fill out the following form.
NOTE: ALL COMPETITORS MUST PAY THE $15 REGISTRATION FEE. If you are selected for staff, you will be refunded the registration fee AFTER the competition has ended.
Staff members will be provided with free registration and lunch for both days of the competition. A decision on free accommodation will be made closer to the competition date.
Final staff decisions will be made near the start of February 2019.
CubingUSA Regional Championships determine regional championships based on state.
Northeast Regional Champion titles will be restricted to competitors from:
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
Follow the instructions at the link above to be eligible for Northeast Region Champion titles.
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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).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced (see Regulation A1a2).
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.