Skillcon 2018
- Date
- Dec 14 - 16, 2018
- City
- Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
- Venue
- Address
- 3700 W. Flamingo Road Las Vegas, NV 89103
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Kit Clement, Ryan Jew, and Shelley Chang
- WCA Delegates
- Kit Clement, Ryan Jew, and Shelley Chang
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This is a WCA competition presented in conjunction with SkillCon 2018. Check the SkillCon website for more info on the other events and seminars that will be going on.
This competition is recognized as an official World Cube Association competition. Therefore, all competitors should be familiar with the WCA regulations. If you are new to competing, you may want to watch this competitor tutorial.
Before registering, you must read the "Competitor Responsibilities" tab. This tab details the responsibilites of all competitors at this competition.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 49
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Friday, June 1, 2018 at 12:00 AM UTC and closed Saturday, December 8, 2018 at 7:59 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 120 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $75 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Saturday, December 1, 2018 at 7:59 AM UTC you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators can attend paying an entry fee of $50 (United States Dollar).
If you are only planning on attending the Saturday (or any single day) portion of the competition, please reach out to us about registering at a reduced price of $40.
Registration only covers entry for competitors. Spectators must purchase their own passes at $20/day or $50 for the whole weekend. You can purchase these passes at this link. The number of guests is being collected on the WCA site for informational purposes only; you still need to purchase passes on your own.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Max Park won with an average of 6.97 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Patrick Ponce finished second (7.15) and Stanley Chapel finished third (8.73).
African records: Moez Boussarsar 6x6x6 Cube 2:37.74 (average) and 7x7x7 Cube 4:13.90 (average).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Max Park | 6.36 | 6.97 | United States | 6.75 | 7.60 | 7.20 | 6.95 | 6.36 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Stanley Chapel | 1.11 | 2.20 | United States | 1.99 | 1.11 | 1.83 | 2.77 | 4.42 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Max Park | 21.33 | 24.39 | United States | 26.35 | 24.82 | 27.80 | 22.00 | 21.33 | |||
| 5x5x5 Cube | Max Park | 41.04 | 43.65 | United States | 46.90 | 46.75 | 41.04 | 41.91 | 42.30 | |||
| 6x6x6 Cube | Max Park | 1:15.50 | 1:19.27 | United States | 1:21.23 | 1:15.50 | 1:21.08 | |||||
| 7x7x7 Cube | Max Park | 1:59.90 | 2:01.24 | United States | 1:59.90 | 2:03.89 | 1:59.94 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Stanley Chapel | 26.45 | DNF | United States | 26.45 | 27.38 | DNF | |||||
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Kit Clement | 26 | 28.33 | United States | 30 | 29 | 26 | |||||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Max Park | 9.73 | 10.40 | United States | 9.73 | 11.06 | 10.27 | 10.88 | 10.04 | |||
| Megaminx | Patrick Ponce | 40.26 | 46.39 | United States | 45.75 | 40.26 | 45.38 | 48.04 | 51.46 | |||
| Pyraminx | Tripp Peters | 2.43 | 3.91 | United States | 4.21 | 3.57 | 4.99 | 2.43 | 3.94 | |||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Keenan Johnson | 5:28.51 | DNF | United States | 5:28.51 | DNF | DNS | |||||
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | Jason White | 12:33.00 | 13:24.00 | United States | 13:17.00 | 12:33.00 | 14:22.00 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Stanley Chapel | 26/27 54:31 | United States | 26/27 54:31 | ||||||||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 8 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 10 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 4:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:20.00 | |
| 5x5x5 Cube | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 5:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 2:10.00 | |
| 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 < 5:45.00 | |
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | First round | Bo3 | 20:00.00 cumulative* | Top 8 advance to next round | |
| Final | Bo3 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Final | Mo3 | 1 hour | ||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 3:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:00.00 | Top 10 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| Megaminx | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 6:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 3:00.00 | |
| Pyraminx | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 10 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Final | Bo3 | 1:15:00.00 total for 4x4x4 Blindfolded Final, 5x5x5 Blindfolded Final** | ||
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | Final | Bo3 | 1:15:00.00 total for 4x4x4 Blindfolded Final, 5x5x5 Blindfolded Final** | ||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Final | Bo1 | 10:00.00 per cube, up to 60:00.00 |
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. Thanks to Olivér Perge and Niki Placskó for providing this detailed judging information document.
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 (except Fewest Moves), 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.
The Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino is host to SkillCon. Events at SkillCon will take place inside the Rio Hotel located at
3700 W Flamingo Rd
Las Vegas, NV 89103
Please see https://book.passkey.com/go/SRMOX8 to book a room at the Rio with the SkillCon group rate. The reservation cut off date for the group rate is November 22, 2018.
This competition will be sponsored by TheCubicle.us! 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. For 3x3x3, the third prize is $15, second prize is $25, and first prize is $35. For all other events, third prize is $5, second prize is $7, and first prize is $10.
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).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced across rounds (see Guideline 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.