Salem Spooktacular 2023
- Date
- Oct 28, 2023
- City
- Salem, Oregon, United States
- Venue
- Address
- 200 Commercial Street SE Salem, Oregon 97301
- Details
Santiam rooms
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Benjamin Gottschalk, Kylie Cecchini, Pacific Northwest Cubing, and Tripp Peters
- WCA Delegates
- Alex Seidler and Benjamin Gottschalk
- 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 Competitor Responsibilities tab.
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- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 97
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- 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 175 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $25 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 75% 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.
On the spot registrations will be accepted with a base registration fee of $25 (United States Dollar).
Any spectator can attend for free.
Your registration will not be confirmed (moved from the waiting list) until payment has been completed. Please note that even after payment, registrations need to be manually approved before appearing on the registration list.
By registering, competitors agree to the information in the Competitor Responsibilities tab. This tab details the responsibilites of all competitors at this competition. Not abiding by these responsibilities can result in disqualification.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Bo Ahn-Lewandowski won with an average of 8.54 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Benjamin Li finished second (9.17) and Ezra Fish finished third (9.24).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
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| 3x3x3 Cube | Bo Ahn-Lewandowski | 6.16 | 8.54 | United States | 8.41 | 6.16 | 8.72 | 8.50 | 9.42 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Benjamin Gottschalk | 34.07 | 34.92 | United States | 34.90 | 37.53 | 34.30 | 35.56 | 34.07 | |||
| Megaminx | Benjamin Gottschalk | 47.69 | 54.74 | United States | 54.59 | 55.31 | 47.69 | 54.44 | 55.18 | |||
| Pyraminx | Tripp Peters | 1.47 | 4.42 | United States | 4.27 | 3.87 | 1.47 | 5.12 | 5.14 | |||
| Skewb | Núria Pérez Casas | 4.33 | 5.40 | Spain | 7.40 | 4.93 | 6.18 | 4.33 | 5.10 | |||
| Square-1 | Benjamin Gottschalk | 5.60 | 8.00 | United States | 11.67 | 7.52 | 6.39 | 10.08 | 5.60 | |||
ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING.
FOR FIRST-TIME COMPETITORS:
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.
In addition, please read this document before coming to the competition to learn about the procedures for judging.
ALL COMPETITORS:
When you arrive, you will receive a card/nametag with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event. In addition, you will also receive staffing assignments. All competitors are expected to help at this competition. For each event you sign up for, you will be assigned to help out for just one group of that event. 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.
We will provide a judging tutorial at the beginning of the day, right before the start of the 3x3x3 speedsolve event. This will allow anyone with questions about how to judge to be properly prepared when they are expected to help. We hope that this system will fairly divide up the judging of the competition and make the competition run smoothly for all.
Venue
The competition will be held at the Salem Convention Center in Salem, OR.
Hotels
There are many hotels in the Salem area. Click here for a list of hotels.
There is a also hotel connected to the venue.
This competition will be sponsored by TheCubicle! Thanks so much to them for their continued support.
Gift card prizes will be given out to all who place in the top 3 of each event.
As of announcing this competition, we are not currently planning to require masks or vaccination/negative test status to attend this event, and will not be limiting guests. However, we reserve the right to implement a mask requirement and/or a vaccine/negative test requirement if the COVID-19 situation significantly worsens by the competition.
As of now, we ask all competitors to adhere to the following recommendations:
- Competitors should not attend the competition if experiencing symptoms of COVID-19, or if they were exposed to someone with COVID-19. If this occurs to you, the organizers will offer the competitor a full refund.
- When not competing, competitors and spectators should attempt to socially distance whenever possibly by keeping 3 feet away from others.
- When eating, we encourage competitors to eat only with members of your household, use proper social distancing, and/or eat outside the venue.
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Remember that you must have a paid registration to be placed on the waiting list.
We will be selling shirts at this competition!
Here is the link to a form with all of the information: https://forms.gle/otW6SrrKNEgH4uEcA
This will be a loosely Halloween themed competition, there will be decorations, a photo-back drop, and shirts.
Costumes are encouraged, but must be appropriate. Please no blood/gore/or possibly violent or offensive costumes. If a costume is deemed inappropriate by one of the delegates, you will be required to change. If you refuse, you may be disqualified (regulation 2H).
Due to the theming of the competition, we will have a special, unofficial event! We will be hosting a single round of Rubik’s Magic before the awards presentation. Anyone who can solve the puzzle may compete!
Lastly, to top off the Halloween festivities, we will be having a costume competition as well. The winner will be decided by the competition staff through a vote, and announced directly after lunch.
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.