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T-Town Showdown AL 2024

Date: Aug 10, 2024
City: Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
Venue: PARA Belk Activity Center
Address: 2101 Bowers Park Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL 35405
Details: Multipurpose Gym, back left of the facility from the main entrance
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: CubingUSA Treasurer and Roman Wofford
WCA Delegates: Clay Moore, Jared Stinson, Katie Hull, and Roman Wofford

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

Information

This competition is supported by CubingUSA

Please be aware of all registration/competitor requirements before registering!

Events
Main event

Competitor limit: 80

Number of times bookmarked: 36

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 80 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $25 (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 80% 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.

Registrations must be accepted manually, so if you do not see your name on the competitor list within a business day, then please contact the organizers to resolve the issue.

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

After the competitor limit has been reached, you may still pay and be put on a waiting list. If you are first on the waitlist and someone cancels their registration, then you will automatically be accepted and notified, but you should let us know if you are not able to attend so we can offer your spot to someone else. After the competition, all competitors on the waiting list will receive a refund for the registration cost minus processing fees.

Staff members will have a refunded registration fee. All Staff members must pay the registration fee in order to be considered registered. Check out the Staff tab for more info.

Please be aware seating may be limited within the gymnasium. Guests and parents should feel free to bring a chair if you have one. We would like to prioritize seating at tables for competitors.

All Competitors

Please try to arrive at least 30 minutes early for the events you are competing in to ensure that you are on time for that event.
It would be wonderful if we could get some volunteer help from either the competitors or the parents. Judging is a super simple task and any staff member can teach anyone at any time. Judge for however long you'd feel like. It's an excellent way to make the time fly by!
Ask your Delegates if you have any questions throughout the day!

New Competitors

Please try to arrive early to watch the new competitor introduction. If you won't be there then please ask a staff member whenever you arrive to give you a rundown of how the competing process will work.
Additionally you can watch Kit Clement's WCA Competitor Tutorial video.
Please be familiar with all of WCA's regulations, most importantly Article A. If you have any questions about the regulations, feel free to ask us.
In each event we will have rounds. We will take the top competitors onto the subsequent rounds. After a round is completed results will be entered into WCA Live. Your name will be highlighted if you made it to the next round.
Each round will be divided into groups to help them run more efficiently. We will call the groups in order, along with a last call during the last group. Please come bring your puzzle up and wait in the competitor waiting area when your group is called. We are allowed to deny you the ability to compete if you do not come up by the last call.

Group Sheets
Group Cards (PDF)

Live Results

Live Results can be found at WCA Live. Please be familiar with WCA Live as we will use placements to determine groups for subsequent rounds.

If you are interested in joining the volunteer staff for this competition, you can apply below:

Staff Application

Staff members are expected to spend most of the day helping out, especially with the following tasks:
- Scrambling
- Running
- Data entry

In exchange for your hard work, we'll provide snacks and lunch for you during the competition and refund your registration fee after the competition. Please be aware if the competition does not fill to a reasonable number of competitors, we may not be able to offer staff benefits.

Please note that we may receive more staff applications than we are able to accept, so we apologize in advance if you are not selected.

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.