Big Cube Battle of Waterloo 2024


Date
Jan 27, 2024
City
Waterloo, Iowa, United States
Venue

Courtyard Marriott Waterloo Cedar Falls

Address
250 Westfield avenue Waterloo, IA 50701
Details

Cedar Oak Banquet Room

Contact
Organization team
Organizers
Carter Kucala, Christopher Turner, Josian Turner, and Midwest Cubing Association
WCA Delegates
Carter Kucala and Simon Kellum
Download all the competition's details as PDF here.
Information

This competition is supported by the Midwest Cubing Association.

Events
Main event
Competitors
90
Registration period

Online registration opened and closed .

Registration requirements
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 100 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $25 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 90% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
We encourage everyone to register for the events they want to compete in via your online registration, however you may add events to your registration up until the event has started.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Any spectator can attend for free.

Highlights
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Brian Johnson won with an average of 7.04 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Nathan Phillips finished second (8.00) and Brody Rhoades finished third (8.02).

Event Name Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube Brian Johnson 5.86 7.04 United States 7.838.696.566.745.86
2x2x2 Cube Carter Kucala 1.17 2.01 United States 1.731.171.542.753.16
4x4x4 Cube Brian Johnson 25.39 28.92 United States 28.3328.0525.3930.9630.38
5x5x5 Cube Ethan Cho 48.91 52.86 United States 57.8248.9155.2854.3248.99
6x6x6 Cube Ethan Cho 1:33.36 1:36.31 United States 1:37.841:33.361:37.72
3x3x3 One-Handed Brian Johnson 10.28 11.14 United States 14.1610.2812.1610.6810.58

Q. How do I register for this competition?
A. Registration for this competition opens on Monday, November 13th at 7:00 pm and will be open until Saturday, January 20th at 11:59 pm. You'll need a WCA Account to register. Once registration has opened, you can register at the register button to your left or at this link. Select the events you'll be competing in and any comments you'd like the organization team to know. After pressing Register, you'll be prompted to pay using Stripe. You must pay your registration fee to be eligible to compete. If there is still space in the competition and you do not receive an email saying your registration has been accepted within 48 hours of paying, please contact the organization team.

A. Competitors should understand the WCA Regulations before competing. For something a little more digestable, you can read the WCA Competitor Tutorial or watch this video guide. We will have a New Competitor Tutorial at the beginning of the day where you can learn and ask questions.

Q. Who should I ask if I have any questions?
A. Your delegate for this competition is Carter Kucala. Please ask them if you have any questions.

Q. What are groups? How can I find which ones I'm in?
A. Groups are how we determine when each competitor competes. During each round, we will have several groups that will be called up in succession. When the group in which you're supposed to compete is called, please come up to the cube dropoff table and submit your puzzle. When the group you're judging is called, come up and find an empty station to judge. Groups will be emailed to competitors or in a tab on this website in the week leading up to the competition.

Q. Do competitors need to volunteer? How do I do that?
A. We require that all competitors volunteer as judges during the competition day. You will be assigned a group to judge in. We will go over judging in our New Competitor Tutorial.

Q. How old do I have to be to compete?
A. WCA Competitions are open to cubers of any age! We do not have age groups so all competitors compete with each other.

Q. What do I need to bring to the competition?
A. You'll need to bring the puzzles required for any event you'll be competing in. Most competitors like to bring other cubes to warm up with. All timing equipment will be supplied by the WCA Delegates at the competition.

Q. Where can I find results for this competition?
A. Live results will be visible on WCA Live and will be posted on the WCA Website shortly after the competition. If it's your first competition, you'll get a WCA ID when results are posted to the WCA Website.

Q. How can I have a competition in my hometown?
A. There are currently no Iowa delegates, but you can contact close delegates that may be willing to delegate competitions in Iowa by email here. We would love to help you organize a comp anywhere in the area!

Venue and Parking
This competition will be held at the Courtyard Marriott in Waterloo, Iowa. We will be in the Cedar Oak Banquet Room. There is plenty of free parking available.

Food
There is a restaurant within the hotel as well as other food locations within a two mile radius. Outside food and drink is allowed in the venue, please help us out by throwing away your trash and cleaning up after yourself.

Hotels
The venue is located in the hotel, there are other hotels within the area.

Travel
The closest airport to the venue is Waterloo airport approximately 5 mi from the venue

For each event, competitors are called to compete one group at a time. To facilitate this, all competitors will be assigned to a specific group to each event. Judging, running, and scrambling assignments for helping out the competition also listed for each competitors.

The competitor cards will be available on the on the lanyard for each competitor at registration in the morning of the competition. All competitors will be required to wear the lanyards throughout the day of the competition.

Group assignments will be announced closer to the competition date.

The restaurant in the hotel where this competition in being held (Starbeck's Smokehouse) is offering a 25% discount to all competitors and their guests. Show them your lanyard from the competition in order to receive the discount.

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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