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Competitor Responsibilities

Welcome to PNW Cubing!

In the PNW, we will schedule competitors to help, either judging, running, and scrambling for at least 1 group for every group they compete in. If you are young and this is your first competition, you may not be asked to help, just focus on enjoying your first competition! Running and Judging is very easy and is a great way to make time fly! 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.

On the day of the competition, you will receive a card/nametag with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event.

You can also view your assignments with much more detail on competitiongroups.com. This is a great place to check your competing and helping assignments as the competition progresses.

This is a favorites competition. At a competior limit of 300, there are plenty of other groups of your events and rounds to staff but in the event that a round is small, we may assign you to help a group of a round at a similar time that you are competing. For final rounds, we may only assign runners and scramblers and will rely heavily on volunteers for judging.

This competition will use a system involving runners, separate judges, and a waiting area. This means that for each group that you help, you may either run, judge, or scramble for the entire duration of that group on a specific stage. Judges will be fixed for the duration of each group. As a competitor, you will wait for your group to be called up (announced over a microphone). You will go to the dropoff table for the stage you're assigned, put your cube on your scorecard, sit down in the waiting area, come to the station that you are called to compete at, and sit back down at the waiting area when you're done with each of your solves. For more information for what this all looks like, reference this old but still relevant video

This competition will also expect competitors to use your competition ID to sign in the scramble, judge, and competitor boxes on your scorecard. This will be on your nametags as well as viewable on competitiongroups.com.

Schedule

As mentioned, this is a favorites competition currently with an event limit of 6.
- This means that you may register for any combination of events as long as it is 6 or less.
- FTO does not count towards this limit.

Being a favorites competition, it is very difficult to create a schedule as we do not know the registration counts ahead of time. The schedule you see currently is our best guess for how the days may go given our best guess of registration numbers. It is possible for rounds to be added. In the weeks leading up to the competition, we will revise the schedule based on registration numbers. We promise not to cut any rounds you currently see and if anything, we may add rounds.

The schedule has a number of simultaneous events. We have done so based on how easily we think we can schedule these events given typical competitor demand for the events. Our promise to you is that we will never prevent you from competing in any combination of events that you register for.

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 know a couple things before coming to compete!

First, please be familiar with the WCA Regulations, found here:
https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/

This video will explain most of what any cuber competing for the first time will need to know, however, it is still required that they are familar with the full set of regulations above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPL3eV-A0ww

If you have any questions after this video, we will be having a new competitor/judge tutorial just before 3x3 round 1 on Saturday. That would be the perfect time to ask those questions and clear up any confusion.

If you are stoked to compete and 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 set up the WCA's system and one step closer to your first official solve!

We will also expect you to be familiar with our competitor responsbilities.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Q: Do I use my own cube to compete?

A: Yes! You are responsible for your own hardware in order to compete. Please refer to section 3 of the WCA Regulations for more information on what puzzles are okay to use in competition. If you have any questions, please reach out!

Q: What is the competition like?

A: Competitions are a ton of fun! Competitions are a great opportuity to meet new cubers, make new friends, and be able to compete and get official times recognized by the World Cube Association. Competitions can be as social of an event as you would like them to be. The communitiy is extremely welcoming and you can always sit at any table and strike up a conversation with another cuber. They are great places to try new cubes as well, just in case you are looking to get a new main! Once you walk into the venue, you will most likely see your nametag at a check-in table. If you are a first-timer, you will be asked to verify your information on your registration (name, DOB, country). Once you grab your nametag, go ahead and find a seat and start cubing! There will be a competitor/judge tutorial, which can be found on the schedule. After that, we will begin with the first event and will be calling events up by group. Your group numbers can be found on the back of your nametag. After you compete in an event, you will most likely also be expected to help judge another group (typically the following group). Competitions are very self-sufficient, so we rely heavily on the assitance from other cubers and parents like you! Your assisgned helping groups should also be listed on the back of your nametag. Once you are done competing in your event, you can go back to your table and continnue to socialize! To see if you made it to the next round of an event, you can check your results.

Q: How do I find results?

A: For the day of competing, WCA Live will have all of the results manually entered throughout the day. Once on WCA Live, scroll to the competition in question and you're good to go! After the competition, official results will be posted typically within a few days to a week after the competition happens.

Q: How do I get a WCA ID?

After official results are posted after the competitions (see question above), you will receive an email with information on your WCA ID.

Q: Why am I not on the registration list yet?

A: Make sure you pay you registration fee in order to be eligible to be placed on the competitor list. If the competitor limit has been reached by the time your registration is completed, you will be placed onto a waitlist, which is listed in the order of when competitors pay. If you are not advanced from the waitlist before the waittlist closes (date found on Register tab), you will be issued a full refund.

Q: What is the typical age of competitors at these events?

A: All ages are welcome, but in general competitors are between 10 and 20 years old. Don't let this stop you though! Everyone can and should cube!

Q: Are there age divisions?

A: Nope! All cometitors compete in the same groups.

Q: Is there anything else I should know before attending my first competition?

A: Yes! Attending your first competition can come with a lot of nerves, so try and focus on having fun and meeting new people. If you aren't as fast as Max Park or Feliks Zemdegs, just remember that all cubers faster than you have been at your speed at some point! I also point people to Mats Valk's WCA Profile since he started competing whe he averaged well over a minute and now averages 6-7 seconds. People often do slightly worse in competition than at home too, so don't beat yourself up if you don't do as well as you had hoped! Once you lock in your first set of results, you'll have new personal records to break and goals to achieve at every new competition! If you plan on bringing any of your own puzzles, we highly rercommend marking them somehow (sharpie mark under a center cap or something similar) or keeping them in a box/bag. It happens far too often that many cubers bring a bunch of puzzles, put them on a table unattended, and accidentally take someone elses' puzzle, thinking it was theirs. It's easy to lose track of a single puzzle, especially since so many of them look the same at first glance!

Venue

We are welcoming you to the beautiful Lynnwood Event Center!

Much like Northwest Championship 2024, this competition will happen on the top floor in room 2D and 2E

We highly recommend visiting the venue's website for information on parking.

If you are flying in, we highly recommend using the Link Lightrail (also called 1 Line) to reach the competition. For $3 this train will take you from the airport all the way to Lynnwood City Center, which leaves a 20min walk to the venue. At the airport, follow signs or ask an employee to direct you to the Link Lightrail station, then use a kiosk to purchase a one-way ticket. Feel free to buy an orca card and add money to it at this kiosk if you are planning to use the 1 Line or local buses often. See also google map directions.

Food

It's important to note that outside food is NOT allowed. There will be onsite food & beverage vending in the venue.
There will be a concession stand at the venue, where food and snacks will be available for purchase.
Please refer to the menu here.

There are also plenty of quick-eats places nearby.

West Coast Cubing and PNW Cubing are working together to present a tour of competitions leading up to Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025.

Stay tuned for more information.

This competition will be sponsored by TheCubicle!

They will be providing gift-card prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in every event including FTO.
If you haven't checked out their store already, we highly recommend you do! They will not be selling puzzles onsite.

To be redirected to their site, either click HERE or the logo below!

There will be two rounds of FTO at this competition, one on Saturday and one on Sunday! See the schedule tab for details. If you'd like to participate, sign up at this link.

This competition will also hold unofficial events. The results will be recorded through Cubing Contests, and will then be added to the rankings.

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