Puzzles in Pottsville 2025
- Date
- Jan 18, 2025
- City
- Pottsville, Pennsylvania, United States
- Venue
Pottsville Area High School
- Address
- 1600 Elk Ave, Pottsville, PA 17901
- Details
Cafeteria
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizer
- Carter Strouse
- WCA Delegates
- Brayden Adams, Evan Liu, and Zach Ridall
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- 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 Competition Procedures tab.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitor limit
- 90
- Number of times bookmarked
- 57
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and will close .
- Registration requirements
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Create a WCA account here if you don't have one.
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 90 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $20 (United States Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
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.
Registration is not complete until payment of the registration fee is made.
Venue Address:
Pottsville Area High School
1600 Elk Avenue
Pottsville, PA 17901
Driving: From I-81, take exit 116 to Route 901 East. Follow Route 901, which will eventually turn right in Minersville. Continue on Route 901 and continue straight ahead onto US-209. Then from there, turn left onto 16th Street and continue until you reach the parking lot entrance on your right.
Parking: Please park in the parking lot by the Martz Hall/D.H.H. Lengel Middle School, where there are entrances along 16th Street and West Laurel Boulevard. Use the stairs on the upper level of the parking lot. Cross 16th Street and the cafeteria will be right in front. Image of the parking entrance along 16th Street is shown below.
Hotels: There is a Country Inn & Suites outside of Frackville and a Holiday Inn in Frackville, which are less than 20 minutes away.
Dining: There are several Restaurants and Fast Food places on US-209, Route 901, and Route 61 that are within a 5-10 minute drive.
For First-Time Competitors
All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. This video gives a basic overview of the rules.
In addition, please read this tutorial document before coming to the competition.
For All Competitors
When you arrive, you will receive a card with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event. In addition, you will also have judging/scrambling assignments on your card. Every competitor is expected to help out during the event(s) they are registered for. The card will look like the following:
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.
Registration Process
Before You Register
All prospective registrants need a WCA account. New competitors can create their own WCA account by clicking here and entering the required information.
How to Register Online
Prospective competitors register by:
1. Signing into their WCA account;
2. Clicking "Register" on the left side of this webpage, selecting the events they would like to compete in, and submitting their registration;
3. Paying the registration fee of $20.00. (The registration fee is the same regardless of how many events are selected.) Your registration is not complete until you have paid the registration fee.
The competitor limit for this competition is 90. The list of approved competitors can be found by clicking "Competitors" on the left side of this webpage. If there are already 90 competitors on that list, it means the competition is full, and any future registrants will be placed on the waitlist.
Competitors MUST register and pay online in order to compete. No at-the-door registrations or payments will be accepted.
Any requested changes to registration before Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST will be honored. Your registration is not complete until your name shows up on the list.
How to Pay for Registration Online
Payment is processed through Stripe. Click on the "Register" tab on the left side of the webpage to register and pay all in one place! You can start the payment process by clicking "Pay your fees with card."
Refunds
Approved competitors who cancel their registration before Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST are eligible for a refund for half (50%) of their registration cost. After this date, no refund requests will be honored. Attempting to file a chargeback for the registration fee will lead to being blacklisted from future WCA events.
Waitlist Information
We will be keeping a waitlist for this competition. To secure a place on the waitlist once 90 competitors have paid, simply pay the registration fee. If a competitor emails us to drop out before Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST, you will be notified if you are the next competitor on the waitlist. After that deadline, all remaining competitors on the waitlist will be emailed letting them know they did not get off the waitlist and will be fully refunded.
TheCubicle will be providing prizes for the winners!
This competition is being held in the Mid-Atlantic Region (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA, VA, WV). See the regions on CubingUSA's website.
- Join the Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Discord server
- Join the Tri-State Cubing Facebook group (NJ, NY, PA)
- See the Mid-Atlantic Region Organizational Spreadsheet
- See upcoming competitions:
- in Delaware
- in Maryland
- in New Jersey
- in New York
- in Pennsylvania
- in Virginia
- in West Virginia
Our competitor limit of 90 has been reached. New registrants will be placed on this waitlist, and will be accepted only if someone cancels their registration. Competitors have until January 11, 2025 at 23:59 to cancel their registration, and after that any competitors who are still on the waitlist will have their registration fully refunded.
Waitlist:
- Lucas F
- Arjun M
- Clara P
- Jake O
- Pranav C
- Greyson G
- Ian K
- Eleanor B
- Nathan K
- Nathan S
- Maxwell M
- George Z
- Andrew Z
- James O
- Connor D
- Stza S
- Reese L
- Haolin J
- Jonah S
Last Updated: 12-14-24 1523
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.