Rocky Top 2022

Date: Dec 3 - 4, 2022
City: Gatlinburg, Tennessee, United States
Venue: Rocky Top Sports World
Address: 1870 Sports World Blvd Gatlinburg, TN 37738
Details: The Rock
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Jacob Ambrose, Katie Hull, and Sam Arndt-Ambrose
WCA Delegates: Alison Meador, Cady Shields, Jacob Ambrose, Jared Stinson, Katie Hull, and Mason Langenderfer

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Information: This competition is supported by CubingUSA.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 134

Registration period: Online registration opened and closed .
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Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 150 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $20 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 95% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
We encourage everyone to register for the events they want to compete in via your online registration, however you may add events to your registration up until the event has started.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Any spectator can attend for free.

Registrations must be accepted manually, so if you do not see your name on the competitor list within a business day, then please contact the organizers to resolve the issue.

Registrations may be deferred due to incorrect information when registering. In these cases the organizers will email you before accepting the registration to confirm the information provided. After 24 hours without a response, the registration will not be accepted until the information is clarified.

After the competitor limit has been reached, you may still pay and be put on a waiting list. If you are first on the waitlist and someone cancels their registration, then you will receive an email from the organizers. You must reply to the email and confirm your registration within 24 hours of receiving the email to compete. If no response is heard from you, the next person on the waiting list will be offered your spot. After the competition, all competitors on the waiting list will receive a refund for the registration cost minus processing fees.

Staff members will have a refunded registration fee. All staff members must pay the registration fee in order to be considered registered. After the competition, staff members will recieve a refund.
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Luke Garrett won with an average of 5.79 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Jared Stinson finished second (7.47) and Dominic Redisi finished third (7.54).

Event	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Luke Garrett	4.91	5.79	United States	6.79	5.65	4.91	6.29	5.43
2x2x2 Cube	Luke Garrett	1.13	1.54	United States	1.30	2.00	1.13	3.90	1.31
4x4x4 Cube	Luke Garrett	23.71	27.67	United States	24.37	32.88	27.68	30.97	23.71
5x5x5 Cube	Katie Hull	49.05	54.33	United States	53.23	1:04.39	56.32	53.45	49.05
6x6x6 Cube	Kate Grahame	1:23.83	1:29.01	United States	1:23.83	1:31.70	1:31.51
7x7x7 Cube	Kate Grahame	2:15.47	2:24.91	United States	2:27.49	2:31.76	2:15.47
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Tommy Cherry	16.23	DNF	United States	DNF	16.23	DNF
3x3x3 One-Handed	Eli Parker	9.34	10.78	United States	12.27	11.81	10.55	9.97	9.34
Clock	Jacob Ambrose	4.84	5.54	United States	4.84	6.20	5.38	5.03	9.18
Megaminx	Jared Stinson	31.84	37.83	United States	31.84	37.59	37.95	37.96	43.80
Pyraminx	Harsha Paladugu	1.39	1.82	United States	3.62	1.94	1.39	1.79	1.73
Skewb	Dominic Redisi	1.83	3.03	United States	3.44	3.14	1.83	3.65	2.50
Square-1	Tommy Cherry	6.65	9.76	United States	6.65	12.27	7.79	9.77	11.73

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 that event.
It would be wonderful if we could get some volunteer help from either the competitors or the parents. Judging is a super simple task and any staff member can teach anyone at any time. Judge for however long you'd feel like. It's an excellent way to make the time fly by!
Ask your Delegates if you have any questions throughout the day!

New Competitors

Please try to arrive early to watch the new competitor introduction. If you won't be there then please ask a staff member whenever you arrive to give you a rundown of how the competing process will work.
Additionally you can watch Kit Clement's WCA Competitor Tutorial video.
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 us.
In each event we will have rounds. We will take the top competitors onto the subsequent rounds. After a round is completed results will be entered into WCA Live. Your name will be highlighted if you made it to the next round.
Each round will be divided into groups to help them run more efficiently. We will call the groups in order, along with a last call during the last group. Please come bring your puzzle up and wait in the competitor waiting area when your group is called. We are allowed to deny you the ability to compete if you do not come up by the last call.

Location:
Rocky Top Sports World
1870 Sports World Blvd
Gatlinburg, TN 37738

Room Details:
The competition will be held in The Rock.
We will be using 2 of the basketball courts in the main gym.

Parking:
Parking is $5.00 a day per car. It is conveniently located near the building. Attendants will point you in the correct direction.

Lunch:
Champs Grill

Hotels:
TTS has partnered with Rocky Top Sports World to help secure any hotel or cabin bookings you may need. We highly recommend using their services to help you find affordable accomodations in Gatlinburg:
https://www.teamtravelsource-facilities.com/cubingusa
Using this link will help the competition! Please book early as it's a busy weekend in Gatlinburg.

If you are interested in being on staff please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/RxoBaoDy3xAfPLc59

You can sign up to be a partial staff member, and only staff for certain events / rounds.

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.