Slow N Steady Summer 2017


Date
Jul 1, 2017
City
College Park, Maryland, United States
Venue

Adele H. Stamp Student Union

Address
3100 Adele H. Stamp Student Union, College Park, MD 20742
Details

Grand Ballroom, Room 1206

Contact
Organization team
Organizers
Dan Selzer, Robbie Stevenson, and Tommy Szeliga
WCA Delegates
Corey Sakowski and Keaton Ellis
Information

Registration cost is $15 online. Registration at the door will not be allowed. Free for UMD students, faculty, staff, and alumni. There is a 300 person competitor limit. Please read the "Competitor Information" tab before registering.

Events
Main event
Competitors
150
Registration period

Online registration opened and closed .

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Highlights
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Keaton Ellis won with an average of 8.04 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Juliette Sébastien finished second (9.04) and Amod Mathur finished third (9.09).

Event Name Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube Keaton Ellis 6.37 8.04 United States 7.2012.688.516.378.41
4x4x4 Cube Chanoe Park 29.77 32.23 United States 29.7732.4432.8534.1931.39
Clock Charles Jerome 9.53 10.36 United States 10.0411.1811.759.859.53
Skewb Zeyu Hu (胡泽宇) 2.49 3.37 China 2.493.394.073.143.58
Square-1 Tommy Szeliga 8.12 9.64 United States 8.129.438.25DNF11.25

Slow N Steady Summer 2017

ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THE "COMPETITOR INFORMATION" TAB BEFORE REGISTERING.

Heat Sheet with Staffing Assignments

Date:
July 1st, 2017

Location:
Adele H. Stamp Student Union
3100 Adele H. Stamp Student Union
College Park, MD 20742

NOTE THAT THE COMPETITION IS IN THE GRAND BALLROOM, NOT THE COLONY BALLROOM!

Registration Fee:

There is a 300 competitor limit for Slow N Steady Summer 2017, on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Registration is $15, must be paid online via Stripe, and is nonrefundable after June 26th. Spectators come in for free. Unfortunately, we are no longer able to allow people to pay in cash at the door. Registration is not final until payment is complete and your name appears on the competitor list. Registration is FREE for UMD students/faculty/staff/alumni ONLY.

There is NO AT-THE-DOOR REGISTRATION, NO EXCEPTIONS.

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 look at CubingUSA's Competitor Tutorial.

  • Rubik's Cube: Speedsolve: (4 rounds)
  • 4x4 Speedsolve: (1 round)
  • Rubik's Clock: (1 round)
  • Skewb: (2 rounds)
  • Square-1: (1 round)
  • 3x3 One-Handed (tentative): (1 round)
Event Time Cutoff Time Limit
Registration 9:00-9:30
Competitor Tutorial 9:30-10:00
Rubik's Cube First Round 10:00-11:30 N/A 10:00
Skewb Combined First 11:30-12:30 N/A 1:00
Lunch 12:30-1:00
Rubik's Clock Final 1:00-1:45 0:30 1:00
4x4 Final 1:45-2:45 1:15 2:00
Rubik's Cube Round 2 (top 64) 2:45-3:15
Square-1 3:15-4:00 0:30 1:00
Rubik's Cube Round 3 (top 32) 4:00-4:30
Skewb Final (top 16) 4:30-4:45
Rubik's Cube Final (top 16) 4:45-5:00
Buffer 5:00-5:30
Awards 5:30-6:00

Travel and Venue Information

Directions: http://thestamp.umd.edu/about_us/directions_to_stamp

Parking: http://thestamp.umd.edu/the_stamp_student_union/directions_to_stamp/parking_information

Notice that parking is free on weekends. This is ONLY if you park in Lot 1, which, from Stamp, is past the Cole Student Activities Building. Notice that in that parking lot, not everything is part of Lot 1, so make sure you park somewhere that is part of Lot 1 if you do not want to get ticketed. The very colorful green area at the top is where you want to be: http://www.transportation.umd.edu/parking/maps/map_color.pdf

NON-NUMBERED parking spots in the Regents Drive Garage(located to the right of the M roundabout) are free on weekends. Please note that NUMBERED spaces are still metered. YOU WILL RECEIVE A $75 FINE FOR PARKING IN A NUMBERED SPOT AND NOT PAYING.

NOTE: The competition is being held in the Grand Ballroom, Room 1206, which is on the first floor, number 43 on this map: http://thestamp.umd.edu/Portals/0/Images/About/map_firstfloor.jpg

HOTELS: There are multiple hotels located on Route 1(Best Western, Hampton Inn, Clarion, College Park Marriott, and more) located less than five minutes away from the venue.

ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING.

If you are a first time competitor, please read this section carefully. If you are a returning competitor, please skip to the next section.

NEWCOMERS:

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. Huge thanks to Olivér Perge and Niki Placskó for the document!

ALL COMPETITORS:

Please read this section carefully. We will have a change in organization for Slow N Steady Summer 2017 modeled off of Hungarian competitions in Europe. When you arrive, you will receive a lanyard with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event. In addition, you will also have staff assignments on your lanyard. Every competitor is expected to help out this competition. The card will look somewhat like the following:

Image description

Legend:
* S - scrambling
* R - running
* J - judging

Please note that everyone is expected to help only during the events they are registered for, and everyone need only help for one group per 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.

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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