UMBC Winter 2024
- Date
- Mar 2, 2024
- City
- Catonsville, Maryland, United States
- Venue
University Center
- Address
- 1000 Hilltop Cir, Baltimore, MD 21250
- Details
Ballroom
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Brad Hoffman, CubingUSA Treasurer, Jay Leveton, Reanne Salazar, and Samuel Du
- WCA Delegates
- Blake Thompson, José Leonardo Chaparro Prieto, Nick Silvestri, Rich Tayag, and Siddharth Suresh
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
The competition will take place in the Ballroom on the third floor of the University Center.
To prevent overcrowding in the venue, we are limiting each competitor to one guest only.
Competition is free for all UMBC students, staff, and faculty.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 136
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at 12:30 AM UTC and closed Sunday, February 25, 2024 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 150 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $25 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Sunday, February 25, 2024 at 12:00 AM UTC you will be refunded 95% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Sunday, February 25, 2024 at 12:00 AM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Sunday, February 25, 2024 at 12:00 AM UTC 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.
Please keep in mind that registrations are approved manually after payment, so your registration may not be approved immediately.
Your registration is not complete until your registration fee has been paid.
All competitiors must read the "Competitor Responsibilities" tab.WAITLIST INFORMATION:
If the competitor limit of 150 has been reached, you can still register and pay the registration fee to secure a spot on the waitlist. During the registration period, any competitor can cancel their registration and allow the first person on the waitlist to take their spot. If you find that you cannot make it to the competition after registering, please contact us so that we can maximize attendance.
All registrants still on the waitlist after the registration period will have their registrations deleted, and will be fully refunded.
We may completely close registration if the waitlist becomes very large. - Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Raihan Sadr won with an average of 7.52 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Michael Nielsen finished second (7.60) and Brayden Adams finished third (7.96).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Raihan Sadr | 6.65 | 7.52 | United States | 7.13 | 7.66 | 7.76 | 8.02 | 6.65 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Matthew Rich | 31.80 | 33.95 | United States | 40.69 | 31.80 | 34.10 | 32.64 | 35.10 | |||
| 7x7x7 Cube | Sanzhar Beisembayev | 3:01.39 | 3:05.19 | United States | 3:01.39 | 3:05.68 | 3:08.51 | |||||
| Pyraminx | Michael Nielsen | 1.53 | 2.23 | United States | 2.64 | 2.12 | 1.94 | 3.23 | 1.53 | |||
| Skewb | Brad Hoffman | 2.90 | 3.64 | United States | 3.36 | 2.90 | 3.64 | 7.80 | 3.91 | |||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 72 advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 24 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 3:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:45.00 | Top 24 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 3:00.00 | |||
| 7x7x7 Cube | Final | Bo1 / Mo3 | 10:00.00 | 1 attempt to get < 5:00.00 | |
| Pyraminx | Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | ||
| Skewb | First round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 24 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 |
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 basic overview of the rules. In addition, please read this 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/running 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.
Groups are available at competitiongroups.com and live results can be tracked on WCA Live.
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PARKING
Parking is free on the weekends. We recommend parking in the parking garage, near the administration building.
FOOD
Lunch options on campus include True Grit's dining hall, Chik-fil-A, and Hissho. Note that other restaurants on campus such as Starbucks will not be open during the competition, nor will most restaurants in the Commons be open.
There are also many off-campus options nearby in Arbutus and Catonsville.
If you are interested in staff, please fill out the following form.
NOTE: ALL COMPETITORS MUST PAY THE $25 REGISTRATION FEE. If you are selected for staff, you will be refunded the registration fee AFTER the competition has ended.
Staff members will be provided with free registration and lunch for the competition.
Final staff decisions will be made after registration closes.
This competition is supported by CubingUSA.
Even though everyone will pay the $25 registration, we are allowing all UMBC students, staff, and faculty to participate free-of-charge by refunding their registration. In order to verify that you are a UMBC student, we ask that you fill out this form with your UMBC email, so that we can verify.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kJVILIOxVytUeX7okZMQS2JEEYE-KwIX-xJVOw_6bl4
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.