OH in a Madison Ballroom 2023
- Date
- Jul 8, 2023
- City
- Madison, Wisconsin, United States
- Venue
- Address
- 1 John Nolen Dr, Madison, WI 53703
- Details
Madison Ballroom
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Carter Kucala, Midwest Cubing Association, Simon Kellum, and Zeke Mackay
- WCA Delegates
- Braden Richards, Carter Bitz, Carter Kucala, Draco Tong, Joshua Feran, Shain Papalotl Longbehn, Simon Kellum, and Zeke Mackay
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
3x3 One-Handed is the main event of the competition, but we will still be holding 3x3, Skewb, and Square-1. We hope to see you at Wisconsin's biggest competition EVER this July!
Please read the FAQ if this is your first competition and contact the organization team if you have further questions.
The Venue Information tab contains important Parking, Travel, and Accommodation information for before the competition.
This competition is supported by the Midwest Cubing Association.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 231
- 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 250 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.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Eli Parker won with an average of 10.16 seconds in the 3x3x3 One-Handed event. Brody Lassner finished second (11.56) and Brian Johnson finished third (12.16).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Ben Zhao | 5.16 | 6.75 | United States | 5.42 | 7.75 | 5.16 | 7.20 | 7.62 | |||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Eli Parker | 9.18 | 10.16 | United States | 9.84 | 10.40 | 9.18 | 10.24 | 10.86 | |||
| Skewb | Carter Kucala | 1.05 | 2.13 | United States | 1.05 | 4.13 | 2.78 | 1.91 | 1.69 | |||
| Square-1 | Hassan Khanani | 5.37 | 5.78 | United States | 8.15 | 5.45 | 5.37 | 6.01 | 5.89 | |||
Q. How do I register for this competition?
Registration for this competition is now closed. We hope to see you at a future Wisconsin comptetition if you couldn't make it to this one!
Q. How can I prepare for the competition day?
A. Competitors should understand the WCA Regulations before competing. For something a little more digestable, you can read the WCA Competitor Tutorial or watch this video guide. We will have a New Competitor Tutorial at the beginning of the day where you can learn and ask questions.
Q. Who should I ask if I have any questions?
A. Before the competition, you can contact the organization team with any questions with our contact form. Your delegates for this competition are Braden Richards, Carter Bitz, Carter Kucala, Draco Tong, Joshua Feran, Simon Kellum, Shain Longbehn, and Zeke Mackay. All delegates will be wearing red Midwest Cubing Association shirts. Please ask them if you have any questions.
Q. What are groups? How can I find which ones I'm in?
A. Groups are how we determine when each competitor competes. During each round, we will have several groups that will be called up in succession. When the group in which you're supposed to compete is called, please come up to the cube dropoff table and submit your puzzle. When the group you're judging is called, come up and find an empty station to judge. Groups will be emailed to competitors or in a tab on this website in the week leading up to the competition.
Q. Do competitors need to volunteer? How do I do that?
A. We require that all competitors volunteer as Judges during the competition day. You will be assigned a group to judge in. We will go over judging in our New Competitor Tutorial.
Q. How old do I have to be to compete?
A. WCA Competitions are open to cubers of any age! We do not have age groups so all competitors compete with each other.
Q. What do I need to bring to the competition?
A. You'll need to bring the puzzles required for any event you'll be competing in. Most competitors like to bring other cubes to warm up with. All timing equipment will be supplied by the WCA Delegates at the competition.
Q. Where can I find results for this competition?
A. Live results will be visible on the WCA Live and will be posted on the WCA Website shortly after the competition. If it's your first competition, you'll get a WCA ID when results are posted to the WCA Website.
Q. How can I have a competition in my hometown?
A. You can contact the Wisconsin delegates by email here. We would love to help you organize a comp anywhere in the area!
Venue
This competition will be held in the Madison Ballroom on the fourth floor of Monona Terrace. The Madison Ballroom is located to the left of the main entrance.
Food
Monona Terrace will be providing Snack, Lunch, and Beverage options for purchase from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM at this competition. Otherwise, there are plenty of food options in the capitol square a 2-3 block walk from the venue.
Parking
Monona Terrace has a 600-space parking structure available during the weekends. The rate is $5 per day on weekends. You can enter at one of these two addresses:
1 John Nolen Dr, Madison, WI
1 Wilson St, Madison, WI (Convenient drop-off point)
Madison has plenty of other parking options, the availability of which can be found here.
Hotels
Monona Terrace is connected by skywalk to the Hilton Monona Terrace. There are plenty of other hotel options around Monona Terrace you can find here.
Travel
The closest airport to Monona Terrace is Dane County Regional Airport (MSN) about 15 minutes drive away. You can also fly into O'Hare International Airport (ORD) which is connected by a ~3 hour bus ride to downtown Madison.
Madison is connected by bus routes. The closest bus stop to Monona Terrace is E Wilson & MLK Junior, connected to routes 4 and 38. You can find more information on this stop here.
Staff Applications for this competition are closed. Thank you to all applicants and you have received an email regarding the status of your application if you applied.
This competition is sponsored by TheCubicle! They will provide gift card codes to the podium winners!
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.