Rocky Top 2023
- Date
- Dec 2 - 3, 2023
- City
- Gatlinburg, Tennessee, United States
- Venue
- Address
- 1870 Sports World Blvd Gatlinburg, TN 37738
- Details
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- CubingUSA Treasurer, Jacob Ambrose, and Sam Arndt-Ambrose
- WCA Delegates
- Braden Richards, Cady Shields, Clay Moore, Dalton Padgett, Jacob Ambrose, Jared Stinson, Joshua Feran, Katie Hull, Raymond Goslow, Roman Wofford, and Roxana Johnson
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition is supported by CubingUSA.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 163
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Tuesday, August 1, 2023 at 1:00 AM UTC and closed Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 12:00 AM UTC.
- Registration requirements
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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 200 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $35 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 12:00 AM UTC you will be refunded 50% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Thursday, November 23, 2023 at 12:00 AM UTC.
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 be accepted onto the competitor list. After the competition, all competitors remaining 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. Please see the Staff Tab to apply.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Luke Garrett won with an average of 6.08 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Luke Griesser finished second (6.52) and Caleb Chen finished third (6.87).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Luke Garrett | 4.81 | 6.08 | United States | 5.20 | 4.81 | 6.87 | 6.84 | 6.19 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Luke Garrett | 1.12 | 1.43 | United States | 3.35 | 1.46 | 1.12 | 1.21 | 1.63 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Luke Garrett | 24.20 | 25.86 | United States | 26.81 | 30.93 | 24.20 | 24.53 | 26.24 | |||
| 5x5x5 Cube | Luke Garrett | 51.66 | 53.35 | United States | 53.08 | 53.30 | 51.66 | 57.82 | 53.66 | |||
| 6x6x6 Cube | Katie Hull | 1:39.25 | 1:47.85 | United States | 1:58.29 | 1:39.25 | 1:46.02 | |||||
| 7x7x7 Cube | Luke Garrett | 2:23.28 | 2:25.97 | United States | 2:30.56 | 2:24.07 | 2:23.28 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Calix Tang | 22.12 | DNF | United States | DNF | 22.12 | DNF | |||||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Luke Garrett | 7.18 | 9.83 | United States | 10.47 | 9.82 | 7.18 | 11.35 | 9.20 | |||
| Clock | Eddie Artze | 4.06 | 4.86 | United States | 4.84 | 5.04 | DNF | 4.06 | 4.69 | |||
| Megaminx | Luke Garrett | 30.50 | 37.39 | United States | 39.59 | 37.63 | 35.28 | 39.26 | 30.50 | |||
| Pyraminx | Luke Garrett | 1.80 | 2.38 | United States | 1.80 | 2.41 | 2.64 | 5.75 | 2.10 | |||
| Skewb | Ayden Dincher | 1.08 | 3.11 | United States | 3.31 | 1.08 | 2.86 | 4.48 | 3.17 | |||
| Square-1 | Matthew Remington | 8.70 | 9.90 | United States | 12.76 | 10.41 | 8.70 | 10.58 | 8.72 | |||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Calix Tang | 6:43.44 | DNF | United States | DNF | DNF | 6:43.44 | |||||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 3:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 60 advance to next round | ||
| Semi Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 20 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 100 advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 20 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 3:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:30.00 | Top 20 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 3:00.00 | |||
| 5x5x5 Cube | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 5:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 2:30.00 | |
| 6x6x6 Cube | Final | Bo1 / Mo3 | 10:00.00 | 1 attempt to get < 4:00.00 | |
| 7x7x7 Cube | Final | Bo1 / Mo3 | 10:00.00 | 1 attempt to get < 5:30.00 | |
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | First round | Bo3 | 10:00.00 cumulative* | Top 20 advance to next round | |
| Final | Bo3 | 10:00.00 cumulative* | |||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 2:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:00.00 | Top 20 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 2:00.00 | |||
| Clock | First round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 60 advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 20 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | |||
| Megaminx | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 5:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 2:30.00 | |
| Pyraminx | First round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 100 advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 20 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | |||
| Skewb | First round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 20 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | |||
| Square-1 | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 2:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 45.00 | Top 20 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 2:00.00 | |||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Final | Bo3 | 30:00.00 cumulative* |
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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.
We have now determined the final list of staff for this competition and all applicants have been notified of their acceptance status. Thank you to all who applied!
This competition is sponsored by theCubicle! They will provide gift card codes to the podium!
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.