Reno Summer 2023


Date
Jun 10, 2023
City
Reno, Nevada, United States
Venue

Earl Wooster High School

Address
1331 E Plumb Ln, Reno, NV 89502
Details

The Gymnasium

Contact

Reno Rubik's Cube Club

Organizers
Jason Ostdiek and Michael Larsen
WCA Delegates
Anto Kam (甘浩東), Chris Martin, and Mitchell Lane
Download all the competition's details as PDF here.
Information
  • Registrants will be accepted in the order that they pay, not the order that they register. Please be patient with us as we manually accept all eligible competitors.
  • Competitors may only bring one guest maximum.

Competition Day Timing
- The competition will begin at the scheduled start time.
- Lunch will end at the scheduled time.
- Events will begin as soon as the previous event is wrapping up. Exception: All First Round events will not start more than 20 minutes early.
- Competitors may not compete in an event if they miss last call for that event. In general, last call is a few minutes after the last group is called.

Events
Main event
Competitors
56
Registration period

Online registration opened and closed .

Registration requirements
This competition is over, click here to display the registration requirements it used.
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 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.

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

Waitlist

If the registration has completely filled, competitors will be placed on a waitlist. Competitors on the waitlist will be notified by Saturday, June 3rd if they have been removed from the waitlist.

Highlights
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Paul Mahvi won with an average of 7.72 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Caleb Yao (姚英華) finished second (8.55) and Jason Ostdiek finished third (8.79).

Event Name Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube Paul Mahvi 7.37 7.72 United States 7.697.3711.108.047.44
4x4x4 Cube Paul Mahvi 26.56 29.33 United States 29.5330.4228.5229.9326.56
7x7x7 Cube Paul Mahvi 2:13.52 2:20.51 United States 2:13.522:22.422:25.60
3x3x3 One-Handed Anto Kam (甘浩東) 8.61 9.95 Hong Kong, China 10.0410.728.6110.589.23
Megaminx Mitchell Lane 56.38 1:00.01 United States 59.521:01.811:07.8258.6956.38
Pyraminx Michael Larsen 4.55 5.22 United States 6.304.624.556.054.98

Location

Earl Wooster High School
1331 E Plumb Ln
Reno, NV 89502

Parking

Parking is available in the west parking lot.
This can be accessed from the street Harvard Way.

Food

There are various restaurants open nearby Wooster.
There are also restaurants around the school, such as:
* Redwood Rotisserie (Plumb Ln and Kietzke Ln)
* Denny's (Plumb Ln and Harvard Way)
* Albitas (Terminal Way)
* Jack in the Box (Kietzke Ln)

Want to stay connected with the West Coast community? Join the West Coast Cubing Community Discord Server! Speak with other competitors from NorCal, SoCal, Nevada, Hawaii, and Tijuana and keep in touch with fellow competitors and meet new ones! Find out about competition discussion as it happens in real time, and even announcements for competitions before registration opens!

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For those of you new to cubing, WELCOME!

We wanted to let you know this event is perfectly fine for cubers of any age and experience. We just ask you know a couple things before coming to compete...

First, please be familiar with the WCA Regulations, found here:
https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/

This video will explain most of what any cuber competing for the first time will need to know, however, it is still required that they are familar with the full set of regulations above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPL3eV-A0ww&t=2s

If you have any questions after this video, we will be having a new competitor tutorial the morning of the competition. That would be the perfect time to ask those questions and clear up any confusion.

If you are stoked to compete and ready to sign up, head over to the registration tab, click register, and fill out the information it asks for. This will help you get set up the WCA's system and one step closer to your first official solve!

Q&A:

Q: Do I use my own cube to compete?

A: YES! You are responsible for your own hardware in order to compete.

Q: What is the normal age of competitors at these events?

A: All ages are welcome, but in general competitors are between 10 and 20 years old. Don't let this stop you though, everyone can and should cube!

Q: What is the competition like?

A; Competitions are a bunch of tables where nerds like us get to sit and discuss our favorite thing, Cubes! Of course in addition there is competing, which will occupy one side of the competition hall, where you will see lots of timers flickering with contestants new personal bests, and a vendor, where you can purchase all you cubing related needs. Most competitions have a break for lunch, and the competing is split up into heats, as to better organize who competes when. (Check the Groups tab and listen at the competition for more info on this.)

Q: How do I find results?

A: All results are posted on the WCA page a couple of days after the competition finishes. However, for the day of competing, go to https://live.worldcubeassociation.org to find information about current events. This is also where you will find information about 2nd and 3rd rounds of events.

Q: Why am I not on the registration list yet?

A: Make sure you pay you entrance fee in order to be eligible to be placed on the registered list, which will also guarantee you a spot in the competition. If the competitor list is full, you will be placed onto a private waitlist, which is listed in the oder of when competitors pay. Note that in order to be on either the registered list or the waitlist, you must pay your entrance fee. If you are not advanced from the waitlist before registration closes, you will be issued a full refund. If payment may be any issue, or you are not sure if you can attend, use the contact button to talk to us, and see if we can work out another payment strategy, or have you pay on arrival at the compeition. No matter what you situation may be however, please register online. It is much easier for us to have you register now and pay later, then to have to input information at another time.

Q: Are there age divisions?

A: Nope! All cometitors compete in the same group.

Q: Can I have fun at this event?

A: HECK YES! Cubing is amazing, and we sincerely hope you enjoy the competition!

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).

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.

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