Odd Seattle Summer 2022

Date: May 28, 2022
City: Seattle, Washington, United States
Venue: Husky Union Building - University of Washington
Address: 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA 98195
Details: The competition will take place in the Lyceum (Room 160).
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Ben Royce and Byron Jin
WCA Delegates: Cailyn Hoover, Matthew Dickman, and Peter Preston

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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. Please also be sure to review the Health and Safety tab to check additional COVID-19 requirements for this competition.

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This is a competition in a series with School's Out PLU 2022. You can only register for one of these two competitions. Attempting to register for multiple competitions in this series will result in the organization team choosing which registration is valid on your behalf.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 62

Registration period: Online registration opened and closed .
Registration requirements: This competition is over, click here to display the registration requirements it used.

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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 $30 (United States Dollar).
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 by contacting the organization team.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.

Your registration will not be confirmed (moved from the waiting list) until payment has been completed. Please note that even after payment, registrations need to be manually approved before appearing on the registration list.

By registering, competitors agree to the information in the Competitor Responsibilities tab. This tab details the responsibilites of all competitors at this competition. Not abiding by these responsibilities can result in disqualification.

Competitors will be accepted from the waitlist in the order that they paid.

Students of UW will get a 50% refund of their registration fee. You have to pay the full amount, and then after registration we will grant you the refund.

This is a series competition with School's Out PLU 2022 You will only have your registration accepted for one competition in the series.
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Ben Yu won with an average of 8.31 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Jonathan Truchot finished second (8.90) and Rituraj Sohoni finished third (8.97).

Event	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Ben Yu	8.05	8.31	United States	8.50	8.05	8.36	9.68	8.08
5x5x5 Cube	Ash Black	1:01.40	1:03.24	United States	1:02.98	1:04.46	1:01.40	1:02.28	1:07.29
7x7x7 Cube	Ash Black	2:52.69	3:06.92	United States	3:16.84	3:11.23	2:52.69
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Andrew Rizo	25.91	DNF	United States	31.10	25.91	DNF
Square-1	Ben Yu	7.51	10.15	United States	9.59	7.51	12.11	9.64	11.22

ALL COMPETITORS:

When you arrive, you will receive a card/nametag with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event. In addition, you will also receive staffing assignments. All competitors are expected to help at this competition. For each event you sign up for, you will be assigned to help out for just one group of that 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.

As well as a first-time competitor tutorial, we will provide a judging tutorial at 9:00 AM, right before the start of the 5x5x5 speedsolve event. This will allow anyone with questions about how to judge to be properly prepared when they are expected to help. We hope that this system will fairly divide up the judging of the competition and make the competition run smoothly for all.

FOR FIRST-TIME COMPETITORS:

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 to learn about the procedures for judging.

Due to ongoing circumstances, the organizing team is enforcing restrictions during the competition which will impact the running of the competition. Here are the most important changes.

Masks are encouraged, but not required.
Please eat all food outside of the Lyceum.
Competitors should not attend the competition if experiencing symptoms of COVID-19, or if they were exposed to someone with COVID-19. If this occurs to you, the organizers will offer the competitor a full refund.
When not competing, competitors and spectators should attempt to socially distance whenever possible by keeping 3 feet away from others.
Officials and staff will be following special procedures to continue to lower chance of transmission of COVID-19, such as utilizing sanitizer frequently and distancing.

Additional rules may be added as deemed necessary by the organizers, the WCA Board, or local/national governments.

By registering for this competition you agree that you understand and will follow all the information listed above.

Q: Do I use my own cubes to compete?
A: YES! You are responsible for your own hardware in order to compete and to be similarly responsible for its whereabouts at the competition venue.

Q: What is the competition like?
A; Competitions like this one have a bunch of tables where cubers like us get to sit, discuss and practice our favorite thing: cubes! The actual competing with timers, mats and displays is on one side of the venue. The competing is split up into groups, so as to better organize who competes when.

Q: How do I find results?
A: Data recorders will compile and present all results at WCA Live. We will add a link here in the days leading up to the competition, and also include it in the pre-competition email.

Q: Are there age divisions?
A: Nope! All competitors compete in the same group.

Q: Can I have fun at this event?
A: ABSOLUTELY YES! Cubing is amazing, and we sincerely hope you enjoy the competition!

For any additional questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to the organizers/delegates on the General Info tab!

Location on Campus: University of Washington HUB, lyceum theater.
Detailed Interactive map of UW: https://www.washington.edu/maps/#!/hub
The Lyceum is room 160, located on the first floor.

Airport: The closest airport is Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA). You can then take the lightrail to the University of Washington Stadium station which is a 5 minute walk from the HUB.

Train: Amtrak will land you in Seattle's Amtrack Station
More information can be found at http://www.amtrak.com/northwest-train-routes. You can then take the lightrail to the University of Washington Stadium station which is a 5 minute walk from the HUB.

Parking:
You are required to pay for your own parking if you drive. Parking is $6.00 daily outdoors on weekends, or $12.00 daily inside the Central Plaza Garage. Download the PayByPhone app to pay for parking. Detailed map of parking at UW: https://transportation.uw.edu/maps/self-serve-parking. The closest large parking lot is the Padelford Parking Garage, which you can navigate to directly. It's recommended that you arrive 10-15 minutes early to give yourself time to find parking.

Competitor list finalized as of Friday, May 20th, at 5pm PST. Waitlist has been removed.

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.