Solve La Crosse 2025
- Date
- Mar 8, 2025
- City
- La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States
- Venue
Radisson Hotel La Crosse
- Address
- 200 Harborview Plaza, La Crosse, WI 54601
- Details
Hotel Ballroom
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Carter Kucala, Midwest Cubing Association, Simon Kellum, and Zeke Mackay
- WCA Delegates
- Carter Kucala, Joshua Feran, Lisa Kucala, Shain Papalotl Longbehn, Simon Kellum, Walker Welch, and Zeke Mackay
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
New to competing? This competition is a good one to be your first!
This competition is supported by the Midwest Cubing Association.
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- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 65
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Saturday, December 14, 2024 at 12:00 AM UTC and closed Tuesday, March 4, 2025 at 5:59 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 70 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $30 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Tuesday, March 4, 2025 at 5:59 AM UTC you will be refunded 90% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Tuesday, March 4, 2025 at 5:59 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.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Zeke Mackay won with an average of 6.19 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Brian Johnson finished second (6.75) and Mihir Narayan finished third (7.06).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Zeke Mackay | 5.54 | 6.19 | United States | 7.22 | 6.02 | 5.54 | 6.70 | 5.86 | |||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Brian Johnson | 10.10 | 11.21 | United States | 10.85 | 12.98 | 11.91 | 10.10 | 10.88 | |||
| Clock | Zachary Cribb | 2.48 | 3.99 | United States | 2.48 | 3.99 | 4.18 | 3.80 | DNF | |||
| Pyraminx | Brian Johnson | 1.91 | 2.49 | United States | 2.54 | 2.76 | 2.76 | 1.91 | 2.17 | |||
| Skewb | Simon Kellum | 1.62 | 2.77 | United States | 1.62 | 4.00 | 2.30 | 4.25 | 2.02 | |||
| Square-1 | Nathan Rahn | 5.07 | 6.57 | United States | 6.93 | 5.07 | 7.33 | 5.44 | 11.35 | |||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 48 advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 12 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 2:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 45.00 | |
| Clock | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 1:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 30.00 | Top 12 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| Pyraminx | First round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 12 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | |||
| Skewb | First round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 12 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | |||
| Square-1 | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 2:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 45.00 |
Q. How do I register for this competition?
A. Registration for this competition opens on December 13th and will be open until March 3rd. You'll need a WCA Account to register. Once registration has opened, you can register at the register button to your left or at this link. Select the events you'll be competing in and any comments you'd like the organization team to know. After pressing Register, you'll be prompted to pay using Stripe. You must pay your registration fee to be eligible to compete. If there is still space in the competition and you do not receive an email saying your registration has been accepted within 48 hours of paying, please contact the organization team.
Q. How can I prepare for the competition day?
A. Competitors should understand the WCA Regulations before competing. For something a little more digestable, you can read the WCA Competitor Tutorial or watch this video guide. We will have a New Competitor Tutorial at the beginning of the day where you can learn and ask questions.
Q. Who should I ask if I have any questions?
A. Your delegates for this competition are Carter Kucala, Joshua Feran, Lisa Kucala, Shain Longbehn, Simon Kellum, and Zeke Mackay. Please ask them if you have any questions.
Q. What are groups? How can I find which ones I'm in?
A. Groups are how we determine when each competitor competes. During each round, we will have several groups that will be called up in succession. When the group in which you're supposed to compete is called, please come up to the cube dropoff table and submit your puzzle. When the group you're judging is called, come up and find an empty station to judge. Groups will be emailed to competitors or in a tab on this website in the week leading up to the competition.
Q. Do competitors need to volunteer? How do I do that?
A. We require that all competitors volunteer as Judges during the competition day. You will be assigned a group to judge in. We will go over judging in our New Competitor Tutorial.
Q. How old do I have to be to compete?
A. WCA Competitions are open to cubers of any age! We do not have age groups so all competitors compete with each other.
Q. What do I need to bring to the competition?
A. You'll need to bring the puzzles required for any event you'll be competing in. Most competitors like to bring other cubes to warm up with. All timing equipment will be supplied by the WCA Delegates at the competition.
Q. Where can I find results for this competition?
A. Live results will be visible on the WCA Live and will be posted on the WCA Website shortly after the competition. If it's your first competition, you'll get a WCA ID when results are posted to the WCA Website.
Q. How can I have a competition in my hometown?
A. You can contact the Wisconsin delegates by email here. We would love to help you organize a comp anywhere in the area!
Want to stay connected with the MIdwest Cubing community? Join the Midwest Cubing Community Discord Server! Speak with other competitors from around the midwest, keep in touch with fellow competitors and meet new ones! Find out about competition discussion as it happens in real time, and even announcements for competitions before registration opens!
The competition venue - the Radisson La Crosse - has given us a room block to share with competitors. The rate is $139 for Friday night. You can book at this link.
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.