Swoop in and Solve Oxford 2025
- Date
- Feb 23, 2025
- City
- Oxford, Ohio, United States
- Venue
- Address
- 550 East Spring Street, Oxford, Ohio 45056
- Details
Fritz Pavilion C
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Cubing Frontiers LLC, Harsha Paladugu, and Joey Reindl
- WCA Delegates
- Braden Richards and Garrett Hadaway
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
Please note that outside food and drink are not allowed, but there are several options in and near the venue.
You can find out about upcoming competitions in our area in our local Facebook group: Ohio and Michigan Speedcubing
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 39
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC and closed Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:00 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 75 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $22 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC you will be refunded 90% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:00 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.
On the spot registrations will be accepted with a base registration fee of $22 (United States Dollar).
Any spectator can attend for free.
Miami University Students are able to compete for free. To do this, please sign up and pay registration as normal so we can accept the registration. Once you have paid and been accepted, please contact Harsha Paladugu at paladus3@miamioh.edu with your UniqueID, then we will refund your fee.
If there are already 150 competitors on that list, it means the competition is full, and any future registrants will be placed on the waitlist.
If the competitor limit is not reached, we will accept at-the-door registrations. We cannot accept any new registrations after the limit has been reached - Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Luke Griesser won with an average of 5.71 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Luke Garrett finished second (6.52) and Hassan Khanani finished third (8.43).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Luke Griesser | 4.93 | 5.71 | United States | 5.80 | 4.93 | 5.59 | 8.09 | 5.73 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Luke Garrett | 20.97 | 25.12 | United States | 25.70 | 32.46 | 20.97 | 25.73 | 23.93 | |||
| Skewb | Jacob Bennett | 1.87 | 3.45 | United States | 3.63 | 4.51 | 2.90 | 3.82 | 1.87 | |||
| Square-1 | Hassan Khanani | 4.43 | 5.31 | United States | 5.45 | 6.53 | 4.43 | 5.30 | 5.18 | |||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 20 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 3:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:15.00 | Top 10 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 3:00.00 | |||
| Skewb | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 10 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| Square-1 | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 2:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round |
| Second round | Ao5 | 2:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 2:00.00 |
Venue:
This competition will be held on the third floor of Miami University's Armstrong Student Center.
Parking:
Paid street and garage parking are available throughout campus. There is also a paid lot at Shriver Center across the street from the venue.
Entrance:
There are several enterances to the building, but the main doors facing East Spring Street provide the easiest access to the venue.
Hotels:
Oxford has limited hotel availability, so we recommend staying in Dayton or Cincinnati.
Food:
Outside food and drink are not allowed in the venue. See 'Food' Tab for more information
There are several lunch options located in Armstrong: Pulley's Diner, Red Zone, Miami Emporium, Eiffel Pizza and Pasta, Kabar Asian Cuisine, Café Lux, and Evergrains At Haines.
Another option is going to the Maple Dining Hall which is about a 5 minute walk from Armstrong. Additionaly there are several options located on High Street, however parking may be difficult to find.
Reminder: Outside food and drink are not allowed in the venue
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 fun overview of the rules.
In addition, please read this document before coming to the competition.
This document is also useful: Competing, Judging, and Running Tutorial
Finally, please be familiar with how to judge at a cubing competition. All competitors will be required to judge in at least one of the events they are competing in. This video gives a basic overview of how to judge, and does include more up-to-date information.
For All Competitors
Before you arrive, you will recieve an email with competition information including your groups for the competition. This could be displayed in one of two ways, either as a pdf or as a website link to competitiongroups.com.
If you recieve a pdf, it will contain multiple competitor cards. Find the card with your name on it, and it will contain personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event, along with judging/scrambling assignments. Every competitor is expected to help out during the event(s) they are registered for. The card will look similar to the following:
If you recieve a website link to competitiongroups.com, click on the link (or head to the Groups tab on this website) and login to your WCA account. Then, find the competition and scroll to your name. Your list of groups will look similar to 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.
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.