CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2023

Date: Apr 15 - 16, 2023
City: Orange Beach, Alabama, United States
Venue: Orange Beach Event Center
Address: 4671 Wharf Pkwy W, Orange Beach, AL 36561
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Cady Shields, Carter Bitz, Clay Moore, Jacob Ambrose, Jared Stinson, Katie Hull, Nancy Hartman, Nathan Graves, Raymond Goslow, Roman Wofford, Sam Arndt-Ambrose, and Zachary Ochs
WCA Delegates: Cady Shields, Carter Bitz, Clay Moore, Dalton Padgett, Jacob Ambrose, Jared Stinson, Katie Hull, Nancy Hartman, Nathan Graves, Raymond Goslow, Roman Wofford, Zachary Ochs, and Zachary White

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Information

This competition is supported by CubingUSA as the Southeast Regional Championship for 2023. Residents of the following states/territories are eligible for the title of Southeast Champion: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, and US Virgin Islands.

All competitors must read the "Important Information" tab prior to registering.

Southeast Champions of 2023:

3x3x3 Cube - Nicolás Sánchez - 7.63 Average
2x2x2 Cube - Nicolás Sánchez - 1.65 Average
4x4x4 Cube - Nicolás Sánchez - 28.29 Average
5x5x5 Cube - Sean Hartman - 53.25 Average
6x6x6 Cube - Vishwa Sankar - 1:36.16 Mean
7x7x7 Cube - Vishwa Sankar - 2:34.06 Mean
3x3x3 Blindfolded - Noah Swor - 20.79 Single
3x3x3 Fewest Moves - Kerry Creech - 26.33 Mean
3x3x3 One-Handed - Andreas Lambropoulos - 12.55 Average
Clock - Vishwa Sankar - 5.25 Average
Megaminx - Heewon Seo - 31.92 Average
Pyraminx - Zachary Ochs - 2.40 Average
Skewb - Dominic Redisi - 2.96 Average
Square-1 - Calix Tang - 8.88 Average
4x4x4 Blindfolded - Elvin Xu - 5:39.93 Single
5x5x5 Blindfolded - Raymond Goslow - 15:55.00 Single
3x3x3 Multi-Blind - Raymond Goslow - 12/13 Cubes in 59:52

Events
Main event
Competitors: 194

Registration period: Online registration opened and closed .
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Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 250 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $45 (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.
Any spectator can attend for free.

After registering for this competition, please declare your residency on CubingUSA by logging in to the CubingUSA website, editing your account and setting your home state.

Registrations are accepted manually by the organization team. If you do not see your name on the competitor list within one business day after completing payment, please contact the organizers to resolve the issue.

Registrations may be deferred due to providing incorrect or incomplete information when registering. In these cases, the organizers will email you before accepting the registration to confirm your competitor information. After 24 hours without a response, the registration will not be accepted until the information is clarified.

All staff members must pay the registration fee in order to have their registration accepted. After the competition, staff members will receive a refund for the registration fee.

Waiting List Policy

After the competitor limit has been reached, you may still register and pay the registration fee in order for your registration to be put on a waiting list. If you submit your registration but do not pay, you will not be placed on the waiting list. Please contact the organization team if you would like to know what your place on the waiting list is. You do not have a spot at the competition until you receive a confirmation email with the subject line: "Your registration for CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2023 has been accepted." Do not make travel plans until you receive the acceptance email and see your name on the competitor list.

If you are first on the waiting list and someone cancels their registration, then you will automatically be accepted into the competition and receive a notification email. After the competition, all competitors remaining on the waiting list will receive a refund for the registration fee, minus processing fees.
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Dylan Miller won with an average of 6.38 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Ryan Pilat finished second (6.64) and Luke Griesser finished third (6.64).

Event	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Dylan Miller	5.45	6.38	United States	7.69	6.39	5.45	6.32	6.44
2x2x2 Cube	Nicolás Sánchez	1.27	1.65	United States	2.06	1.82	1.39	1.75	1.27
4x4x4 Cube	Nicolás Sánchez	25.36	28.29	United States	29.99	26.73	28.14	25.36	33.93
5x5x5 Cube	Sean Hartman	48.84	53.25	United States	48.84	51.50	49.99	59.18	58.27
6x6x6 Cube	Vishwa Sankar	1:33.53	1:36.16	United States	1:35.36	1:39.60	1:33.53
7x7x7 Cube	Zachary White	2:31.02	2:33.68	United States	2:33.34	2:36.69	2:31.02
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Noah Swor	20.79	DNF	United States	DNF	20.79	DNF
3x3x3 One-Handed	Andreas Lambropoulos	10.55	12.55	United States	10.55	DNF	11.38	12.84	13.42
Clock	Vishwa Sankar	4.93	5.25	United States	5.32	5.10	DNF	4.93	5.34
Megaminx	Heewon Seo	28.91	31.92	United States	1:10.15	32.47	28.91	33.17	30.11
Pyraminx	Zachary Ochs	1.76	2.40	United States	1.76	3.55	1.82	1.83	5.56
Skewb	Dominic Redisi	2.47	2.96	United States	2.47	4.65	3.01	2.58	3.28
Square-1	Calix Tang	7.10	8.88	United States	11.54	7.10	8.82	8.68	9.13
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Ryan Pilat	3:24.48	DNF	United States	3:24.48	DNF	DNF
5x5x5 Blindfolded	Raymond Goslow	15:55.00	DNF	United States	DNF	15:55.00	DNS
3x3x3 Multi-Blind	Raymond Goslow	12/13 59:52		United States	12/13 59:52

Live Results

All Attendees (Spectators/Families)

Spectators (parents, siblings, friends, etc.) are allowed to come and watch for free. No prior registration is required.
It would be wonderful if we could get some volunteer help from parents. (If you have not judged before, please attend the new competitor tutorial to learn how.) Once you know how, you can judge for however long you'd feel like - it's an excellent way to help support the event your kid is enjoying and make the time fly by as well!

All Competitors

Make sure to set your home state on CubingUSA by logging in to the CubingUSA website and editing your account.
All competitors will receive judging assignments and are expected to fulfill them. Failure to show up to judge may result in disqualification. If you do not know how to judge, please attend the new competitor tutorial to learn how.
You should be present before the start of each event you are competing in. If you miss your group, you may not be able to compete in the event.

New Competitors

We will have a new competitor tutorial at 10:20am on Saturday. It is very important that you attend this tutorial to learn the competing and judging processes.
This video will help explain most things that any first-time competitor will need to know. It is highly recommended that parents watch this video as well to better understand how a competition works.

If you have any questions not answered on the competition website, please use the contact link on the General Info tab to contact the organization team.

We will be awarding Southeast Regional Champion titles in each event to the highest-ranked competitor from CubingUSA's Southeast region, which is defined as the following states and territories:

Alabama
Florida
Georgia
North Carolina
Puerto Rico
South Carolina
Tennessee
United States Virgin Islands

The deadline to officially declare your residency in the Southeast by listing your home state/territory on your CubingUSA account was Sunday, March 26, 2023, 8:00 PM EDT/7PM CDT. Only those who declared residency by the deadline will be eligible for Southeast Champion titles. If you achieve a Southeast Champion title, you may be asked to verify your residency at the competition.

Southeast Region Map

Event	2018 - Athens, GA	2019 - Charlotte, NC	2020/2021	2022 - Gatlinburg, TN (+ FMC locations)
3x3x3 Cube	Nicolás Sánchez (GA), 8.64 average	Tommy Cherry (FL), 8.45 average	Not held	Nicolás Sánchez (GA), 7.92 average
2x2x2 Cube	Tommy Cherry (FL), 1.79 average	Zachary Ochs (NC), 2.13 average	Not held	Zachary Ochs (NC), 1.65 average
4x4x4 Cube	Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡) (FL), 28.37 average	Katie Hull (GA), 28.27 average	Not held	Katie Hull (GA), 29.51 average
5x5x5 Cube	Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡) (FL), 56.34 average	Jared Stinson (GA), 1:02.52 average	Not held	Katie Hull (GA), 53.78 average
6x6x6 Cube	Jared Stinson (GA), 2:01.38 mean	Jared Stinson (GA), 1:53.70 mean	Not held	Sean Hartman (FL), 1:46.61 mean
7x7x7 Cube	Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡) (FL), 2:58.03 mean	Sean Hartman (FL), 2:44.76 mean	Not held	Sean Hartman (FL), 2:30.46 mean
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Tommy Cherry (FL), 29.96 single	Tommy Cherry (FL), 22.68 single	Not held	Tommy Cherry (FL), 16.71 single
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Jacob Ambrose (GA), 31.67 mean	Jacob Ambrose (GA), 28.00 mean	Not held	Zachary Ochs (NC), 25.00 mean
3x3x3 One-Handed	Kieran Dizon (GA), 12.42 average	Kieran Dizon (GA), 12.84 average	Not held	Andreas Lambropoulos (NC), 13.06 average
3x3x3 With Feet	Kevin Min (AL), 29.49 average	Tommy Cherry (FL), 28.69 average	Not held	Not held
Clock	Carson Claud (NC), 7.28 average	Kerry Creech (NC), 5.75 average	Not held	Kerry Creech (NC), 4.92 average
Megaminx	Jared Stinson (GA), 47.48 average	Jared Stinson (GA), 44.69 average	Not held	Heewon Seo (FL), 33.84 average
Pyraminx	Zachary Ochs (NC), 3.35 average	Kerry Creech (NC), 3.77 average	Not held	Kerry Creech (NC), 1.89 average
Skewb	Kevin Min (AL), 3.93 average	Tommy Cherry (FL), 4.67 average	Not held	Dominic Redisi (TN), 2.64 average
Square-1	Tommy Cherry (FL), 10.18 average	Tommy Cherry (FL), 9.91 average	Not held	Noah Swor (FL), 9.67 average
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Tommy Cherry (FL), 4:31.26 single	Raymond Goslow (GA), 7:54.72 single	Not held	Carson Claud (NC), 7:58.33 single
5x5x5 Blindfolded	Tommy Cherry (FL), 12:54.00 single	Tommy Cherry (FL), 5:41.42 single	Not held	Tommy Cherry (FL), 9:54.14 single
3x3x3 Multi-Blind	Raymond Goslow (GA), 13/15 cubes in 57:36	Tommy Cherry (FL), 28/30 cubes in 59:26	Not held	Sean Hartman (FL), 15/16 cubes in 57:30

A separate multi-location competition for 3x3x3 Fewest Moves was held on April 1, 2023, with locations in Birmingham, AL; Orlando, FL; Cumming, GA; and Charlotte, NC.

CubingUSA Southeast FMC Championship 2023

The podium from CubingUSA Southeast FMC Championship 2023 will be recognized during the awards ceremony at CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2023 to crown our Southeast FMC Champion.

Register for the State Relay Tournament

CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2023 will have a State Relay Tournament on Saturday evening (7:20pm-8:00pm).

Format:
- The competition will be a single bracket elimination where each team will compete head to head against another team to eliminate them from the tournament.
- Each team will be made up of 4 different people from the same Southeast state (AL, GA, FL, NC, SC, TN).
- A state may have multiple teams competing; however, a person can only compete on one team.
- The team will solve 8 puzzles back-to-back (2x2, 3x3, 4x4, OH, Clock, Pyra, Skewb, Sq-1). Each person on the team will solve 2 of these puzzles. The team which solves its 8 puzzles the fastest will advance to the next round.

Location:
Orange Beach Event Center
4671 Wharf Pkwy W
Orange Beach, AL 36561

Parking:
Free parking is available at the venue.

Lodging:
The competition venue has compiled a list of lodging options, which can be found by visiting this link and clicking "Book Direct".

Restaurants:
The venue is across the street from The Wharf, a shopping and dining complex that includes a variety of restaurants. Other options, including fast-food chains, are also available within a short drive.

Air Travel:
The nearest major airport to Orange Beach is Pensacola International (32 miles away), which is served by direct flights from major Southeast cities such as Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, Tampa, Orlando, and Miami.

Staff members have now been chosen for this competition. If you applied, you have been notified as to your acceptance status.

Expectations from staff members:
- Staff members will have additional assignments throughout the competition. You will be responsible for primarily scrambling and running duties, filling in missing judging spots if needed, and following any other instructions from team leaders.
- Staff members with HAelp Desk / Data Team assignments will have additional responsibilities while on the HAelp Desk stage. They will answer questions from attendees, handle the check-in process, provide a new competitor tutorial for late arrivals, perform data entry and data checking, and print and sort scorecards.
- You can select to only be a partial staff member if you only want to help out with certain events/rounds.
- For this competition, we expect all staff members to have some previous staffing and/or competition experience.

Benefits for staff members:
- Refunded registration fee
- Free meals (Saturday lunch, Saturday dinner, Sunday lunch)
- T-shirts
- Great experience staffing at a Championship!

All apparel has been ordered. No additional items can be pre-ordered, and there will not be any extra items for sale at the competition. There are no refunds on apparel orders.

If you ordered apparel before the deadline, it can be picked up during Competitor Check-In at the HAelp Desk on Saturday, April 15th between 7:30am and 10:20am. You must pick up your order during this time.

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.