Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2024

Date: Nov 9 - 10, 2024
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
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Adam Martinson, Frederick Zheng, Jed Silverman, Liam Chen, and Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing
WCA Delegates: Blake Thompson, Brayden Adams, José Leonardo Chaparro Prieto, Pierce Tickle, Rich Tayag, Stone Payne, and Will Callan

: Download all the competition's details as PDF here.

Information

This is a 2-day competition, held in 2 different venues.
Saturday's events will be held in the main lecture room of Susquehanna Hall. Sunday's events will be held in the Grand Ballroom of Stamp Student Union.

Please note, as this is a college venue, there must be parent/guardian supervision for minors for the duration of the competition.

Events
Main event

Competitor limit: 300

Number of times bookmarked: 63

Registration period: Online registration opened and will close .
Registration requirements: 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 300 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $15 (United States Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 90% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until by contacting the organization team.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.

Free for UMD students, faculty, and staff. Unfortunately, we can no longer waive registration for alumni.
Please keep in mind that registrations are approved manually after payment, so your registration may not be approved immediately.
Your registration is not complete until your registration fee has been paid.
All competitiors must read the "Competitor Information" tab.
Any requested changes to registration before registration closes will be honored.

WAITLIST INFORMATION:
If the competitor limit of 300 has been reached, you can still register and pay the registration fee to secure a spot on the waitlist. During the registration period, any competitor can cancel their registration and allow the first person on the waitlist to take their spot. If you find that you cannot make it to the competition after registering, please contact us so that we can maximize attendance.
All registrants still on the waitlist after the registration period will have their registrations deleted, and will be refunded 90% of the registration fee.

Due to space constraints in our Saturday venue, we are imposing a competitor limit on 3BLD, 4/5BLD, and Multi-Blind respectively. If any of these limits are reached before registration closes, we will keep a "waitlist" of competitors who wish to register for each of these events.

Competitors must register for these events if they wish to compete in them or be included on the waitlist. If you do not make it off of the waitlist for an event, it will be removed from your registration before the competition.

Please note that this limit may change based on how registration numbers pan out. If this is the case, this will be communicated to all competitors and this tab will be updated to reflect this.

3BLD (limit: 45)

4BLD, 5BLD (limit: 24)

MBLD (limit: 24)

Getting to Campus

Note that if you are coming by public transportation, the Green Line Metro stop is not on campus. You will need to take the Shuttle-UM 104 bus from the stop to campus. Please factor this into to your travel time when planning to come to the venue.

The parking map of UMD shows available parking on campus. During the weekend, there is free parking at all green-highlighted parking lots on this list. Regents Drive Garage and Lot Z are the closest free parking lots to Stamp Student Union.

Mowatt Parking Garage is the closest visitor parking lot to Susquehanna Hall. Parking in the U2 section of Mowatt Parking Garage is free on weekends.

ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING

For First-Time Competitors

All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. This video gives a basic overview of the rules. In addition, please read this document before coming to the competition.

For All Competitors

When you arrive, you will receive a card with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event. In addition, you may also have judging/scrambling/running assignments on your card. Every competitor is expected to help out during the event(s) they are registered for. The card will look like the following:

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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.

Stationary/Fixed Seating

In this format, there is no competitor waiting area and competitors will complete all their solves for the round at the same solving station. Each solving station is numbered and a cube cover will be already at the station with a matching number.

When the competitor’s group is called, the competitor goes up to that stage’s “drop-off” table and collects their scorecard.
Competitor goes to any open solving station with their scorecard and puzzle.
If there are no open stations, please wait a couple of minutes or see a Delegate to see if there are open stations at other stages. A station may open up as competitors from the previous group finish.
Competitor makes sure they have the correct numbered cover at their station.
If the competitor is in need of a judge, they raise their hand.
The competitor drops their solved puzzle and their scorecard into the cube cover. The judge or competitor then holds up the cover to signify it is ready to be scrambled.
A runner picks up the cube and takes it to the scramblers. After it is scrambled, a runner knows where to return it based on the station number on the cube cover.
The competitor completes all of their solves at this station for the round.

There is no official hotel for this competition, and no room blocks will be offered. Below are suggestions for lodging in the area.

There are multiple hotels located on Route 1(Best Western, Hampton Inn, Cambria Hotel, College Park Marriott, and more) located less than five minutes away from the venue. These are not an exclusive list of hotels, nor are these hotels affiliated with, sponsoring, or holding special accommodations for this competition.

Private lodging sites such as AirBnB also offer options in the area.

If you are interested in staff, please fill out the following form.

NOTE: ALL COMPETITORS MUST PAY THE $15 REGISTRATION FEE. If you are selected for staff, you will be refunded the registration fee AFTER the competition has ended.

Staff members will be provided with free registration and lunch for the competition.

Final staff decisions will be made after registration closes.

This competition is being held in the Mid-Atlantic Region (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA, VA, WV). See the regions on CubingUSA's website.

Join the Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Discord server
Join the Tri-State Cubing Facebook group (NJ, NY, PA)
See the Mid-Atlantic Region Organizational Spreadsheet
See upcoming competitions:
- in Delaware
- in Maryland
- in New Jersey
- in New York
- in Pennsylvania
- in Virginia
- in West Virginia

Groups and live results will be posted here at a later date.

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.