Ohio State Mental Madness 2024

Date: Mar 15, 2024
City: Columbus, Ohio, United States
Venue: Ohio Union, The Ohio State University
Address: 1739 N. High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43210
Details: First Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Braden Richards, Keenan Darkins, and The Rubik's Cube Club at Ohio State
WCA Delegate: Braden Richards

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Information

This competition only features FMC (3x3x3 Fewest Moves)

All 3 rounds (9 attempts) will be done in 1 full day, with short breaks between attempts and meal breaks between rounds. Please plan accordingly to ensure you will be present in time for each attempt.

As a result, this competition is not recommended for those looking for a typical competition experience. However, new competitors are still welcome to sign up :)
Please consider instead any of the many other competitions happening in Ohio.

All competitors who attend will receive a special "I Survived Ohio State Mental Madness 2024" pen.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 15

Registration period: Online registration opened and closed .
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There is a competitor limit of 70 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $15 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 95% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
On the spot registrations will be accepted with a base registration fee of $15 (United States Dollar).
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 2 guests.
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Christopher Chi won with a mean of 22.00 moves in the 3x3x3 Fewest Moves event. Evan Brown and Owen Widdis finished second (23.33).

Event	Name	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Christopher Chi	20		22.00		United States	20	26	20

Venue:

Parking:
There is a parking garage located adjacent to the building at 1759 N. High Street Columbus, Ohio 43210. Pricing can be found at the garage website.

Entrance:
Ohio Union: You may enter either at the East Entrance on High Street or at the West Entrance on College Road. Proceed to the Great Hall Meeting Room on the first floor..

Hotels:
There is no designated hotel for this competition.
However, there are multiple hotels located near the univeristy including Holiday Inn Express, Days Inn, Comfort Suites, The Blackwell Inn, The Urban, and more
Food:
Due to Ohio State's spring break, no food options inside the Ohio Union will be open. However, several restaurants on High St. including Subway, Raising Canes, and more.

ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING

This competition only features FMC

All of the information below is for normal, non-PBQ competitions. However, if you are unfamiliar with how PBQ competitions work, please reach out to us in the 'Contact' link and we are happy to help with any questions.

All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. This video gives a basic overview of the rules. Note that this video is fairly old and some information may be outdated.

In addition, please read this document before coming to the competition.

Finally, please be familiar with how to judge at a cubing competition. All competitors will be required to judge in at least one of the events they are competing in. This video gives a basic overview of how to judge, and does include more up-to-date information.

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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).

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.