South Deerfield Side Events 2023
- Date
- Sep 30, 2023
- City
- South Deerfield, Massachusetts, United States
- Venue
Deerfield Elementary School
- Address
- 21 Pleasant St, South Deerfield, MA 01373
- Details
Main Room
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Cube New England, Elijah Rain Phelps, and Levi Gibson
- WCA Delegates
- Evan Liu, Ryan Durette, Tommy Szeliga, and Will Russo
- 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.
The main event of this competition is Pyraminx.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 53
- 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 70 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $25 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 50% 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 on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 1 guest.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Kyle Meade won with an average of 1.70 seconds in the Pyraminx event. Krish Shah-Nathwani finished second (2.70) and Elijah Rain Phelps finished third (3.08).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Elijah Rain Phelps | 6.64 | 7.65 | United States | 7.41 | 6.64 | 9.03 | 8.18 | 7.37 | |||
| 6x6x6 Cube | Evan Liu | 1:35.88 | 1:46.18 | United States | 2:02.80 | 1:39.86 | 1:35.88 | |||||
| Clock | Kyle Meade | 3.73 | 4.07 | United States | 3.91 | 6.06 | 4.23 | 3.73 | 4.06 | |||
| Pyraminx | Kyle Meade | 1.63 | 1.70 | United States | 4.46 | 1.65 | 1.63 | 1.70 | 1.74 | |||
| Skewb | Kyle Meade | 3.06 | 3.68 | United States | 3.52 | 3.06 | 3.58 | 4.24 | 3.95 | |||
| Square-1 | Elijah Rain Phelps | 6.79 | 8.00 | United States | 7.78 | 8.84 | 8.23 | 7.98 | 6.79 | |||
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 tutorial 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 will also have judging/scrambling 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:
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.
Registration Process
Before You Register
All prospective registrants need a WCA account. New competitors can create their own WCA account by clicking here and entering the required information.
How to Register Online
Prospective competitors register by:
1. Signing into their WCA account;
2. Clicking "Register" on the left side of this webpage, selecting the events they would like to compete in, and submitting their registration;
3. Paying the registration fee of $25.00. (The registration fee is the same regardless of how many events are selected.) Your registration is not complete until you have paid the registration fee.
The competitor limit for this competition is 70. The list of approved competitors can be found by clicking "Competitors" on the left side of this webpage. If there are already 70 competitors on that list, it means the competition is full, and any future registrants will be placed on the waitlist.
Competitors MUST register and pay online in order to compete. No at-the-door registrations or payments will be accepted.
Any requested changes to registration before 4:00 PM EDT on Saturday, September 23 will be honored. Your registration is not complete until your name shows up on the list.
How to Pay for Registration Online
Payment is processed through Stripe. Click on the "Register" tab on the left side of the webpage to register and pay all in one place! You can start the payment process by clicking "Pay your fees with card."
Refunds
Approved competitors who cancel their registration before 4:00 PM EDT on Saturday, September 23 are eligible for a refund for half (50%) of their registration cost. After this date, no refund requests will be honored. Attempting to file a chargeback for the registration fee will lead to being blacklisted from future WCA events.
Waitlist Information
We will be keeping a waitlist for this competition. To secure a place on the waitlist once 70 competitors have paid, simply pay the registration fee. If a competitor emails us to drop out before 4:00 PM EDT on Saturday, September 23, you will be notified if you are the next competitor on the waitlist. After that deadline, all remaining competitors on the waitlist will be emailed letting them know they did not get off the waitlist and will be fully refunded.
TRAVEL
Hotels in South Deerfield MA can be found here.
Flying into Bradley International Airport in Hartford, CT is closest to hotels linked above and the venue. Logan Airport in Boston, MA is also a decent option, however it is farther away.
There are several train stations near the venue, those being in Springfield MA, Northampton MA, and Holyoke MA.
LUNCH
Lunch will not be provided to competitors, but there are a plethora of restaurants within a 2-5 minute drive of the venue.
PARKING
There is plenty of free parking at the school. Please do not park in the staff parking spots.
Frontier Community Access Television (FCAT) will be livestreaming this competiton. If you do not want to be on camera or do not want your solves to be on the stream, please email us at citrcubing26@gmail.com.
If you would like to view the livestream, go to Youtube.com and search "FCATMedia" or click the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC44hASccxUpLgmFOUBnUQaw
We will also make an announcement before the start of the competition, so you can also ask FCAT in person if you would like.
We have no COVID-19 related restrictions. However any competitor who feels more comfortable wearing a mask may feel free to do so.
We strongly recommend that you test for covid-19 4 days before the competition.
Groups can be found here
We will be changing some peoples groups for 3x3 round 1 and clock round 1 due to an error making groups.
Live results will be available on WCA Live after the start of the competition.
If you would like to be staff at this comp, please fill out the form below. Staff will get registration refunded and free lunch.
This competition is organized by Cube New England, a group dedicated to growing the speedcubing community in New England, USA.
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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.