T-Town Showdown 2023

Date: Oct 7, 2023
City: Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
Venue: PARA Belk Activity Center
Address: 2101 Bowers Park Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL 35405
Details: Multipurpose Gym, back left of the facility from the main entrance
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: CubingUSA Treasurer, Jared Stinson, and Roman Wofford
WCA Delegates: Clay Moore, Jacob Ambrose, Jared Stinson, Katie Hull, RJ Gohn, Raymond Goslow, Roman Wofford, and Seth Talbot

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Information: This competition is supported by CubingUSA

Please be aware of all registration/competitor requirements before registering!

Events
Main event
Competitors: 76

Registration period: Online registration opened and closed .
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There is a competitor limit of 90 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 .
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Any spectator can attend for free.

"Registrations must be accepted manually, so if you do not see your name on the competitor list within a business day, then please contact the organizers to resolve the issue.

Registrations may be deferred due to incorrect information when registering. In these cases the organizers will email you before accepting the registration to confirm the information provided. After 24 hours without a response, the registration will not be accepted until the information is clarified.

After the competitor limit has been reached, you may still pay and be put on a waiting list. If you are first on the waitlist and someone cancels their registration, then you will receive an email from the organizers. You must reply to the email and confirm your registration within 24 hours of receiving the email to compete. If no response is heard from you, the next person on the waiting list will be offered your spot. After the competition, all competitors on the waiting list will receive a refund for the registration cost minus processing fees.

Staff members will have a refunded registration fee. All Staff members must pay the registration fee in order to be considered registered. Check out the Staff tab for more info."
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Nicolás Sánchez won with an average of 7.82 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Justin Barker finished second (7.91) and Matias Marcantoni-Nunez finished third (8.46).

Event	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Nicolás Sánchez	6.82	7.82	United States	8.66	7.09	8.92	6.82	7.72
2x2x2 Cube	Nicolás Sánchez	1.49	1.73	United States	1.62	1.56	2.21	1.49	2.00
4x4x4 Cube	Katie Hull	27.08	29.72	United States	27.23	27.08	30.32	33.44	31.62
3x3x3 One-Handed	Dylan Miller	10.97	12.93	United States	13.23	13.44	12.12	10.97	14.29
Clock	Jonathan Pelser	5.26	6.16	United States	5.26	6.50	5.76	8.11	6.21

All Competitors

Please try to arrive at least 30 minutes early for the events you are competing in to ensure that you are on time for that event.
It would be wonderful if we could get some volunteer help from either the competitors or the parents. Judging is a super simple task and any staff member can teach anyone at any time. Judge for however long you'd feel like. It's an excellent way to make the time fly by!
Ask your Delegates if you have any questions throughout the day!

New Competitors

Please try to arrive early to watch the new competitor introduction. If you won't be there then please ask a staff member whenever you arrive to give you a rundown of how the competing process will work.
Additionally you can watch Kit Clement's WCA Competitor Tutorial video.
Please be familiar with all of WCA's regulations, most importantly Article A. If you have any questions about the regulations, feel free to ask us.
In each event we will have rounds. We will take the top competitors onto the subsequent rounds. After a round is completed results will be entered into WCA Live. Your name will be highlighted if you made it to the next round.
Each round will be divided into groups to help them run more efficiently. We will call the groups in order, along with a last call during the last group. Please come bring your puzzle up and wait in the competitor waiting area when your group is called. We are allowed to deny you the ability to compete if you do not come up by the last call.

Group Sheets
Group Cards (PDF)

Live Results

Live Results can be found at WCA Live. Please be familiar with WCA Live as we will use placements to determine groups for subsequent rounds.

Staff has been selected for this 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.