Utah Newcomers 2025


Date
Mar 22, 2025
City
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Venue

University of Utah Union Ballroom

Address
200 S, Central Campus Dr, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Details

Main Ballroom

Contact
Organization team
Organizers
Bradley Sampson, Cade Beck, Isaac Myers, Joey Day, Malcolm Geldmacher, and Utah Cubing Association
WCA Delegates
Bradley Sampson, Brendan Bakker, Cade Beck, Isaac Myers, and Joey Day
Download all the competition's details as PDF here.
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.

For questions regarding deadlines, registrations, and the competition waitlist, please see the Registration and Waitlist Info tab.

Go to our website to find links to our Facebook group , Instagram page, and the Rockies Discord Server, to be notified when local competitions are announced and to keep in touch with cubers in the area!


Events
Main event
Competitors
185
Registration period

Online registration opened Tuesday, December 17, 2024 at 2:00 AM UTC and closed Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM UTC.

Registration requirements
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Highlights
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Canyon Pettitt won with an average of 8.61 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Eric Pesci finished second (8.68) and Isaac Myers finished third (8.87).

Event Name Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube Canyon Pettitt 7.71 8.61 United States 7.719.828.079.168.59
2x2x2 Cube Canyon Pettitt 1.53 2.12 United States 4.581.531.892.132.33
4x4x4 Cube Canyon Pettitt 30.00 33.14 United States 32.6734.1532.6030.0034.51
EventRoundFormatTime limitCutoffProceed
3x3x3 CubeFirst roundAo510:00.00Top 120 advance to next round
Second roundAo510:00.00Top 16 advance to next round
FinalAo510:00.00
2x2x2 CubeFirst roundAo51:00.00Top 75% advance to next round
Second roundAo51:00.00Top 16 advance to next round
FinalAo51:00.00
4x4x4 CubeFirst roundBo2 / Ao53:00.002 attempts to get < 2:00.00Top 40 advance to next round
Second roundAo53:00.00Top 16 advance to next round
FinalAo53:00.00
Schedules are subject to adjustments, especially once registration totals are known. Registered competitors will be notified by email of any major changes.

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Black Stage
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Newcomers

For those of you new to cubing, welcome!

We wanted to let you know this event is perfectly fine for cubers of any age and experience. We just ask you to know a couple things before coming to compete.

When you arrive, make sure you check in with a WCA delegate at the check-in desk. There will be a check-in period from 8:00-9:00 for newcomers.

Please be familiar with the WCA Regulations, which can be found here. There is a lot to go over but the most important parts are articles 2, 3, and A, so if you can't go over all the regulations please go over those three sections!

Additionally, this video will explain almost everything one will need to know about competing for the first time; however, it is still required that all competitors are still familiar with the full set of regulations above.

If you are ready to sign up, head over to the registration tab, click register, and fill out the information it asks for. This will help you get registered for the competition, and one step closer to your first WCA competition!

You can also watch this tutorial on how to create a WCA account and register with the new registration system!

Registrations
Registrations are first come, first serve based on the order of when payment is recieved. Registrations are manually accepted by the organization team of the competition, so please do not contact the organization team if your registration has not been accepted unless it has been longer than 3 business days since you have completed your registration.

In order to register, please fill out the registration process as detailed below. If you have not paid and entered all necessary information, including first and last name, then your registration will not be accepted.

Waitlist
If the competitor limit has filled, then you will see a banner message on the WCA website that the competitor limit for the competition has been reached. In order to get onto the waitlist, you will need to complete the registration process like normal, including paying the registration fee. If a spot opens up then your registration will be accepted and you will be notified. If a spot does not become available by the time that registration closes, then you will be issued a 100% refund of your registration fee.

Cancellations and Refunds
If you register and later realize you cannot make it the competition, please email us and we will delete your registration and issue a 50% refund. After the refund deadline passes, we will be unable to provide any refunds

Adding/Dropping Events
Competitors may request (by email) to add or remove events from their registration.

Registration process

you can also find a video tutorial of this process here

1. Create a WCA account, this is necessary to register! Be sure to enter your first and last name, your registration will not be accepted if this information is not provided.

2. Click on the registration tab found in the top left of the competition website.

3. Read the registration requirements and confirm that you have acknowledge them

4 Select the events that you wish to compete in, put in the number of guests (non competing individuals who are attending with you) and click register!

5. Pay your registration fee, your registration will not be accepted until this gets paid! You may also leave a donation if you would like to support future competitions in Utah.

ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING.

Before the competition, you will receive an email with information about the events you are competing in, and staff responsibilities that you have been assigned. Additionally, you will receive a lanyard at the competition with your personalized competing and staffing information. As per WCA Regulation 1e2, “Every competitor must be available for judging.” We rely on volunteer staff to keep competitions affordable, and to keep competitions running on time.

We will provide a judging and competitor tutorial at 9:00 AM, during group 1. We strongly recommend that first time competitors show up for the competitor tutorial, as well as any other competitors or guests that would be interested in learning how to judge. Even if you are a newcomer you can still register for 4x4, as you will just compete after the tutorial is over

We will need help judging for the second/final rounds of events as we can not assign staff for those in advance. Spectators are encouraged to learn how to judge; you do not need to know how to cube in order to be a judge. Having enough judges ensures that we stay on schedule and are able to leave on time.

You can purchase Team Utah merchandise on our Teespring website!



This competition is sponsored by Kanyons Cubes! Check out their website here https://kanyonscubes.com/. They will also be vending at the competition

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.

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