Middleton FMC 2023
- Date
- Dec 21, 2023
- City
- Middleton, Wisconsin, United States
- Venue
Lakeview Park Indoor Shelter
- Address
- 6300 Mendota Avenue, Middleton, WI 53562, USA
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Carter Kucala, Midwest Cubing Association, and Simon Kellum
- WCA Delegates
- Carter Kucala and Simon Kellum
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition only holds the Fewest Moves Challenge Event and not the regular 3x3 event. You can find how it works here. There is no registration fee for this competition, so we highly recommend you give it a try!
On Tuesday and Thursday, we will be holding competitions with 3x3 at the same venue in the evening. Those competitions are in series with each other, but you are allowed to compete in one of those as well as this FMC competition.
This competition is supported by the Midwest Cubing Association.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 6
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- Registration requirements
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Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 30 competitors.
Registering for this competition is free.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
- Highlights
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Carter Kucala won with a mean of 25.00 moves in the 3x3x3 Fewest Moves event. Simon Kellum finished second (25.67) and Thomas Reinke finished third (49.67).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Carter Kucala | 23 | 25.00 | United States | 23 | 25 | 27 | |||||
Fewest Moves Challenge, or FMC, is a quiet event where competitors are given a scramble and have one hour to find the shortest solution. The regulations for the event can be found here, but below are the most important things to remember:
- You can only use up to 3 3x3s
- Your solution must be 80 moves or less. Rotations are included in this 80 move limit, but are not counted in the final solution.
- You can only use outer face move turns to solve the puzzle - no slice moves!
- You may use wide moves to move 2 layers at once (e.g. Rw), but they must be written correctly. Rw' is valid notation, but R'w or r' will result in a DNF.
- You may use rotations (x, y, z), but they must be written correctly - x follows R, y follows U, z follows F. Notation such as (x) or [r] is not valid.
If you are interested, we recommend giving it a try!
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).
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.