Pegasus 2023

Date: Jan 7, 2023
City: Orlando, Florida, United States
Venue: University of Central Florida
Address: 12715 Pegasus Drive, UCF Student Union, Orlando, FL, United States, 32816
Details: Pegasus Ballroom First Floor of UCF Student Union
Contact: Sean Hartman and Nancy Hartman
Organizers: Nancy Hartman and Sean Hartman
WCA Delegates: Carter Bitz, Katie Hull, Nancy Hartman, and Nathan Graves

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Information: -Please make sure your email associated with your WCA account is one that you regularly check, as you will need to see any emails the organization team may send out.
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Events
Main event
Competitors: 190

Registration period

Online registration opened Saturday, November 12, 2022 at 1:30 AM UTC and closed Saturday, December 17, 2022 at 1:30 AM UTC.

Registration requirements

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There is a competitor limit of 200 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $45 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Saturday, December 17, 2022 at 1:30 AM UTC you will be refunded 50% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Saturday, December 31, 2022 at 1:30 AM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Saturday, December 31, 2022 at 1:30 AM UTC by contacting the organization team.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.

After the competitor limit has been reached, you may still pay and be put on a waiting list. If 200 competitiors are signed up, and you don't see your name as one of them under competitors, then you are on the waiting list.

If you are first/next on the waiting list and someone cancels their registration then your registration will be confirmed. Please, let us know as soon as possible if you are not able to attend to allow another competitor to attend. After the competition, all competitors on the waitlist will receive a 90% refund for the registration.

Once registration closes we may add additional round(s) of events as time may permit in the schedule or change the number of competitors to advance to the next round.

Extra Information

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To register for this competition, you must pay in full in advance through Stripe. Your registration is not complete until you pay.
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To cancel your registration, please email the organizers with your name telling them you want to cancel your registration. You will recieve a 50% refund if you let us know before registration closes. If you are having trouble paying on the website or any other registration problems, please use the contact button to talk to us.
If the competition reaches its competitor limit and when registration closes, no additional registrations will be accepted. No exceptions.
Be aware, competitions are filling up very quickly. It is recommended to register as soon as possible once registration opens. If you would like tips on how to register faster, please let us know. You can contact organizers or delegates by clicking on their name on the information page.

Highlights

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Noah Swor won with an average of 8.06 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Alexander Persaud finished second (8.14) and Owen Brooks finished third (8.30).

North American records: Tommy Cherry‎ Clock 2.97 (single).

Event	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Noah Swor	7.37	8.06	United States	8.49	7.52	8.20	7.37	8.47
2x2x2 Cube	Santino Maiorino	2.05	2.24	United States	2.24	2.05	2.80	2.15	2.34
4x4x4 Cube	Pranav Kulkarni	26.69	28.21	United States	29.31	28.01	32.95	27.32	26.69
5x5x5 Cube	Carter Bitz	48.37	53.88	United States	53.93	54.76	52.95	55.84	48.37
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Tommy Cherry	18.70	DNF	United States	DNF	18.70	DNF
Clock	Tommy Cherry	4.04	4.94	United States	4.16	4.04	DNF	4.06	6.59

Event	Round	Format	Time limit	Cutoff	Proceed
3x3x3 Cube	First round	Ao5	10:00.00		Top 60 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	10:00.00		Top 16 advance to next round
2x2x2 Cube	Final	Ao5	10:00.00
4x4x4 Cube	First round	Bo2 / Ao5	5:00.00	2 attempts to get < 1:45.00	Top 12 advance to next round
4x4x4 Cube	Final	Ao5	10:00.00
5x5x5 Cube	First round	Bo2 / Ao5	6:00.00	2 attempts to get < 2:45.00	Top 12 advance to next round
5x5x5 Cube	Final	Ao5	10:00.00
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Final	Bo3	15:00.00 cumulative*
Clock	First round	Bo2 / Ao5	1:30.00	2 attempts to get < 45.00	Top 12 advance to next round
Clock	Final	Ao5	10:00.00

Schedules are subject to adjustments, especially once registration totals are known. Registered competitors will be notified by email of any major changes.

You are viewing the schedule for the venue UCF Student Union, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd, Orlando, FL 32816 , the sole venue for this competition.

The time zone for this venue is America/New_York.

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Saturday, January 7, 2023

8:00 - 9:00

Set Up / Staff arrival

9:00 - 9:15

Tutorial for new competitors

9:15 - 10:30

3x3x3 Cube First round

10:30 - 11:45

2x2x2 Cube First round

11:45 - 1:00

4x4x4 Cube First round

1:00 - 1:30

Lunch

1:30 - 2:15

3x3x3 Blindfolded Final

2:15 - 3:15

Clock First round

3:15 - 4:20

5x5x5 Cube First round

3x3x3 Cube Second round

Important Links

Group Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jP4rMVlANzSx-nXhNDw2PTa0ANqb-YQygsc4K2mSMpk/edit#gid=1212698466
Live Results: https://live.worldcubeassociation.org/competitions/1905
Waiting List: Email Us

All Competitors

Please try to arrive at least 30 minutes early for the events you are competing in to ensure that you are on time for your events
We will use regulation 9p3 as much as we can, so if you do not arrive to compete by the event is ending your spot may be given up to the next competitor in the rankings. Due to COVID restrictions, we may utilize stationary seating. You will turn your puzzle in at your station and remain seated for all of solves in a round. You may not be able to compete in an event if you miss your group.
Your Delegates for this competition are: Carter Bitz, Jacob Ambrose, Katie Hull, Nancy Hartman, and Nathan Graves. Ask them if you have any questions throughout the day!
To keep the competition running on time and to ensure we can keep all events, we will be requiring competitors to also judge. Pay attention to the group assignment sheet - If you are in the first group of an event you will then judge the second group, if in the second group you will judge the third group and so on - if you are in the last group you will judge the first group. This is essential to keep the events on schedule. We will also need judges for the subsequent rounds which will not be assigned. We also invite any parents or guests to also help to judge - thank you for your support. Please arrive to attend the Competitor & Judges tutorial.

New Competitors

You will need to arrive on time to watch the new competitor introduction at 9:00AM.
You can watch Kit Clement's WCA Competitor Tutorial Video https://youtu.be/dPL3eV-A0ww
Please be familiar with all of WCA's regulations, most importantly Article A. If you have any questions about the regulations, feel free to ask.
In each event that we have multiple rounds we will take the top competitors into subsequent rounds(check the events tab for how many competitors progress, this may change prior to the competition). After a round is completed it will be entered into live.worldcubeassociation.org. Your name will be highlited if you are advancing to the next round.
Each round will be divided into groups to help them run more efficiently. We will call the groups in order with a last call during the last group. Please bring your puzzle up when your group is called. You will be required to judge in the group(s) you are not competing in. We are allowed to deny you the ability to compete if you do not come up by the last call. *Due to COVID restrictions, we may utilize stationary seating. You will turn your puzzle in at your station and remain seated for all solves in a round. You may not be able to compete in an event if you miss your group.

Staff

Please contact us if you are interested - you must be able to staff for the duration of the competition.

Awards

Certificates/ Medals will be given for podium winners. We will also have a free raffle for 2 speedcubeshop gift cards at the end of the competition.

Here is a map of the student union: https://studentunion.ucf.edu/map/
The venue is in the Pegasus Ballroom located on the first floor of the University of Central Florida Student Union.

Parking:

We recommend parking in Parking Garage H(which is the closest to the venue), but you can park in other parking garages if necessary.

How to Get to the Venue from Parking Garage H:
https://youtu.be/RG-3c5fwCHE

Airports:

The closest Airport is the Orlando International Airport MCO (~20 Miles from the Venue).

Food:
This is the weekend before school resumes for the Spring and limited food options are open. For the convenience of the competitors and guests we have coordinated the following options in the student union food court for the day of the competition:
Bentos: 11am - 6pm
Starbucks: 830am-5pm
Steak n Shake/ WhichWich/ Huey Magoos: 11am-3pm
There are also many available food options within a close drive of the venue.

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.