Reno Side & Blind Summer 2024


Date
Jun 1, 2024
City
Reno, Nevada, United States
Venue

University of Nevada, Reno

Address
Ansari Business Bldg, 1664 N Virginia St, Reno, NV 89557
Details

Ansari Business Building, First Floor, Room 102

Contact

Reno Rubik's Cube Club

Organizers
Jason Ostdiek, Michael Larsen, and West Coast Cubing LLC Treasurer
WCA Delegates
Chris Martin, David Karalli (داود قراعلي), Jason Ostdiek, Michael Larsen, and Ruby Lu (卢红)
Download all the competition's details as PDF here.
Information

This competition is in partnership with West Coast Cubing, LLC

This competition will not have the typical events like a normal competition. Please see Reno Summer 2024 for information on a regular competition the day after.

  • Registrants will be accepted in the order that they pay, not the order that they register. Please be patient with us as we manually accept all eligible competitors.
  • Competitors may only bring one guest maximum due to venue size constraints.

Competition Day Timing
- The competition will begin at the scheduled start time.
- Lunch will end at the scheduled time.
- Events will begin as soon as the previous event is wrapping up. Exception: All First Round events will not start more than 20 minutes early.
- Competitors may not compete in an event if they miss last call for that event. In general, last call is a few minutes after the last group is called.

Events
Main event
Competitor limit
40
Number of times bookmarked
12
Registration period

Online registration opened and will close .

Registration requirements
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 40 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $10 (United States Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
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 .
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until on the Register tab.
On the spot registrations will be accepted with a base registration fee of $10 (United States Dollar).
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.

Registration requirements listed here are for this competition only. Other competitions may have different registration requirements.

If you are a minor (below the age of 18) and wish to attend this competition you must be accompanied by a legal parent/guardian.

Competitors above the age of 18 must read through and sign UNR's Policy on the Protection of Children Information Packet. The document will be sent out via email before the competition.

Waitlist

If the registration has completely filled, competitors will be placed on a waitlist. Competitors on the waitlist will be notified by March 1st if they have been removed from the waitlist.

Location

University of Nevada, Reno
1664 N Virginia St
Reno, NV 89557

Parking

Parking is available in the Brian J. Whalen Parking Complex.
More information about parking is available on the UNR website.

Food

This competition is not providing food to attendees.

There are various restaurants open in the Joe Crowley Student Union.
For a complete list of open restaurants, please consult the UNR website.
There are also restaurants around campus, such as:
* Jimmy John's (Center and 9th)
* Laughing Planet (Virginia and 10th)
* Roberto's (Virginia and 8th)
* Raising Cane's (Virginia and 17th)
* Ike's Love and Sandwiches (Virginia and 17th)

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This competition is in partnership with West Coast Cubing, LLC

This is where you'll register for the upcoming unofficial FTO round at Reno Blind & Side Spring 2024! You must be registered for the official WCA competition first to compete in FTO.

The cutoff for the average is 2:30 (within 2 attempts), and the time limit for each solve is 4 minutes.

Results will be posted on Cubing Contests.

Signup Form: https://forms.gle/JfviEpVu1cDLQ9Mn7

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).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced (see Regulation A1a2).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced across rounds (see Guideline A1a2++).

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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