Princeton Fall 2023

Date: Nov 18, 2023
City: Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Venue: Princeton University
Address: Frist Campus Center, Frist Ln, Princeton, NJ 08544
Details: Frist Campus Center, Multi-Purpose Room
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Andrew Tao and Bryce Springfield
WCA Delegates: Dana Yi, Siddharth Suresh, and Zach Ridall

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Information

If you would like to be on the competitor list, please carefully note exactly when registration opens, and sign up as soon as possible. This competition has filled up very quickly in the past, so do not miss out. Please see other tabs for more information.

MINORS POLICY: Princeton University now requires chaperones for all minors participating in on-campus events. Therefore, any child under 18 that plans to compete must be accompanied by a parent or other adult, who will be required to sign in. (Please reach out to the organizer with any issues/questions.)

GUEST POLICY: Each competitor is allowed to bring only 1 guest. If you would like to bring additional guests, please reach out to the organizers and we will let you know if there are any extra guest slots.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 97

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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There is a competitor limit of 100 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $20 (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 .
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 1 guest.

Princeton students are waived the registration fee; please PAY during registration and please provide your princeton.edu email in the comments when registering. You will be refunded afterwards.

WAITLIST INFORMATION: There will be a waitlist. To be added to the waitlist, competitors must register as normal, including paying the registration fee.

If a competitor drops out, the next competitor on the waitlist will be accepted. If you do not make it off the waitlist by Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 11:59 PM EST, your registration fee will be fully refunded.

If you are currently registered and cannot compete, please send us an email so that we can let another competitor on the list.
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Jerry Yao won with an average of 7.13 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Carson Widjaja finished second (7.19) and Alex Niedland finished third (7.55).

Event	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Jerry Yao	4.84	7.13	United States	6.72	4.84	8.61	7.19	7.48
2x2x2 Cube	Zayn Khanani	0.92	1.52	United States	0.92	1.96	1.00	2.30	1.60
5x5x5 Cube	Jerry Yao	48.58	50.96	United States	48.58	49.34	53.64	52.20	51.33
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Kevin Liu	39.42	47.86	United States	39.42	50.83	53.34
3x3x3 One-Handed	Jerry Yao	9.88	11.36	United States	11.46	13.57	9.88	11.11	11.51

ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING.

NEWCOMERS:

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.

ALL COMPETITORS:

All competitors are expected to help out at this competition. In addition to your competing groups, all competitors will receive groups in which they are expected to either judge, scramble, or run. All assignments will be organized by group, meaning that when we call a particular group of an event up to compete, if you are scheduled to judge/scramble/run during that group, you will come up and start performing your assigned task. If you do not show up for your assignments, your times may be subject to disqualification.

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The venue is the Frist Campus Center Multipurpose Room, which can be found on the bottom floor of the Frist Campus Center.
Please enter the building through the door circled in red below, right off Frist Lane. Once you enter, go down the stairs immediately to your left.

You can park in the North Garage, which is accessible off of Prospect Ave and about a 8-min walk to Frist Campus Center. The garage has consistent availability of approximately 200 spaces.
Click here to see the North Garage on Google Maps.

Alternatively, Lot-10 and Lot-13 can be used. They are accessible off Williams St and are about a 6 min walk to First Campus center. However, depending on the time of guest arrival, spaces might be limited.
Click here to see Lot-10 on Google Maps.

Both of these options are free.

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There are many food options available at the Frist Gallery on the A Floor of Frist (one level above the Frist MPR), as well as restaurants on Nassau Street, a 10-minute walk away.

Competitors can see their group assignments here:
https://www.competitiongroups.com/competitions/PrincetonFall2023

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.