Please Be Quiet Reno Spring 2023

Date: Mar 26, 2023
City: Reno, Nevada, United States
Venue: University of Nevada, Reno
Address: 1664 North Virginia Street, Reno, NV 89557
Details: Ansari Business Building, First Floor, Room 102
Contact: Reno Rubik's Cube Club
Organizers: Brandon Harnish, Jason Ostdiek, and Michael Larsen
WCA Delegates: Anto Kam (甘浩東), Chris Martin, and Mitchell Lane

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Information: This competition is not typical. Only blindfolded events and 3x3x3 Fewest Moves are being offered.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 9

Registration period: Online registration opened Monday, February 27, 2023 at 12:00 PM UTC and closed Sunday, March 19, 2023 at 12:00 PM UTC.
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There is a competitor limit of 30 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $6.25 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Sunday, March 19, 2023 at 12:00 PM UTC you will be refunded 50% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Sunday, March 19, 2023 at 12:00 PM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 12:00 PM UTC on the Register tab.
On the spot registrations will be accepted with a base registration fee of $12.50 (United States Dollar).
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.

Registration requirements listed here are for this competition only. Other competitions may have different registration requirements.

If you are a minor (below the age of 18) and wish to attend this competition you must be accompanied by a legal parent/guardian.

We will only be accepting cash for this competition.

Waitlist

If the registration has completely filled, competitors will be placed on a waitlist. Competitors on the waitlist will be notified by Saturday, March 18th if they have been removed from the waitlist.
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Anto Kam (甘浩東) won with a single solve of 20.07 seconds in the 3x3x3 Blindfolded event. Jason Ostdiek finished second (58.90) and Jeremy Benik finished third (2:12.72).

Event	Name	Best		Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Anto Kam (甘浩東)	20.07		DNF	Hong Kong, China	20.07	DNF	DNF
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Brandon Harnish	29		29.33	United States	30	29	29
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Jeremy Benik	8:15.88		DNF	United States	8:15.88	DNF	9:30.79
3x3x3 Multi-Blind	Anto Kam (甘浩東)	14/16 55:31	NR		Hong Kong, China	14/16 55:31	8/11 39:16

Event	Round	Format	Time limit	Proceed
3x3x3 Blindfolded	First round	Bo3	20:00.00 cumulative*	Top 75% advance to next round
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Final	Bo3	10:00.00 cumulative*
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Final	Mo3	1 hour
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Final	Bo3	1:00:00.00 cumulative*
3x3x3 Multi-Blind	Final	Bo2	10:00.00 per cube, up to 60:00.00

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

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Events

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Saturday, March 25, 2023

Sunday, March 26, 2023

3x3x3 Fewest Moves Final (Attempt 3)

7:25 - 7:30

Leave

9:15 - 10:30

Check in/At-the-door Registration

9:30 - 10:30

3x3x3 Fewest Moves Final (Attempt 1)

10:30 - 11:15

3x3x3 Blindfolded First round

10:30 - 10:45

Submit puzzles for 3x3x3 Multi-Blind Attempt 1

11:15 - 1:00

3x3x3 Multi-Blind Final (Attempt 1)

12:30 - 2:00

Lunch

1:00 - 2:00

3x3x3 Fewest Moves Final (Attempt 2)

2:00 - 3:00

4x4x4 Blindfolded Final

3:00 - 4:10

3x3x3 Fewest Moves Final (Attempt 3)

4:10 - 4:25

3x3x3 Blindfolded Final

4:25 - 5:25

3x3x3 Multi-Blind Final (Attempt 2)

5:25 - 5:55

Awards

Location

University of Nevada, Reno
1664 N Virginia St
Reno, NV 89557

Parking

Parking is available in the Brian J. Whalen Parking Complex.
More information about parking is available on the UNR website.

Food

This competition is providing food to attendees for a separate fee.
We ask that all attendees see this form (link TBD) to list food preferences, dietary restrictions, and for information about payment.
Competition registration fees do NOT cover competition-provided lunch.

There are various restaurants open in the Joe Crowley Student Union.
For a complete list of open restaurants, please consult the UNR website.
There are also restaurants around campus, such as:
* Jimmy John's (Center and 9th)
* Laughing Planet (Virginia and 10th)
* Roberto's (Virginia and 8th)
* Raising Cane's (Virginia and 17th)
* Ike's Love and Sandwiches (Virginia and 17th)

This competition is a "quiet competition", meaning that the only events that are being offered are completed under quiet conditions:
* 3x3x3 Blindfolded
* 4x4x4 Blindfolded
* 3x3x3 Multi-Blind
* 3x3x3 Fewest Moves.

All competition attendees are required to remain quiet during these events.
Attendees wishing to socialize or otherwise talk at full volume must do so outside the room of the competition, out of earshot, as not to distract competitors.

The term "Please Be Quiet" to refer to these types of twisty puzzle competitions was coined by former Bay Area Speedcubin' organizer Nathaniel Knopf, with the competition Please Be Quiet 2015. Since then, more than 50 competitions have been named as "quiet" competitions, with most of them being called "Please Be Quiet" or similar.

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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).

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.