Utah Summer Side Events B 2023


Date
Jul 1, 2023
City
Ogden, Utah, United States
Venue

Ogden Eccles Conference Center

Address
2415 Washington Blvd, Ogden, Utah 84401-2315
Details

Grand Ballroom A

Contact
Organization team
Organizers
Brendan Bakker, Brock Burgi, Cade Beck, Isaac Myers, and Ty Jones
WCA Delegates
Bradley Sampson, Cade Beck, and Samuel Baird
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Information
  • This is a twin competition with Utah Summer Side Events A. That means that you can only register for one or the other, but not both.
  • It is recommended you register as soon as possible to save a spot.
  • No outside food and drink is allowed in the venue.
  • Be sure to familiarize yourself with the WCA regulations. If this is your first competition, this video will provide you with much of the information you need.
  • All first-time competitors should be present for the competitor tutorial at 8:30 AM.
Events
Main event
Competitors
134
Registration period

Online registration opened and closed .

Registration requirements
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This competition is part of the Utah Summer Side Events 2023 Competition Series. Other competitions in this Series are: Note: You can submit a registration for all competitions in a Series, but only one of those registrations can be confirmed and accepted. You will only be allowed to compete in one of the Series competitions!
There is a competitor limit of 150 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $25 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 50% 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.


Highlights
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Eric Pesci won with an average of 8.46 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Jacob Levie finished second (10.06) and Trenton Nelson finished third (10.34).

Event Name Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube Eric Pesci 7.58 8.46 United States 8.489.827.669.237.58
2x2x2 Cube Peter Augustine 1.87 2.26 United States 2.3011.872.381.872.09
4x4x4 Cube Eric Pesci 31.17 35.72 United States 43.3835.7536.5131.1734.89
Pyraminx Jacob Levie 4.56 4.99 United States 6.434.764.565.534.67
Skewb Jacob Levie 2.19 2.75 United States 3.062.802.194.102.39

All 2023 Utah competitions are part of the Utah Cubing Cup. Competitors can earn points by competing and will win prizes at the end of the year.

This competition is sponsored by The Cubicle!

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 to 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 familiar 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 the morning of the competition. That would be the perfect time to ask those questions and clear up any confusion.

If you are excited 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 competition!

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 opportunity 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 community 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 cube! Once you walk into the venue, you will most likely see your nametag at a check-in table. 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. Throughout the day we 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 assistance from other cubers and parents like you! Your assigned 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 continue 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: During the competition, WCA Live will have all of the results manually entered throughout the day. Once on WCA Live, scroll to the competition and you will be able to find all of the competition's results! After the competition, official results will be posted typically within a few days 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 waitlist 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 competitors 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 when 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 recommend 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 else's 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!

ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING.

Before 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 in an email. We will be relying on competitors to help by judging whenever they are not competing. Judging is very easy and is a great way to make time fly!

We will provide a judging and competitor tutorial at the beginning of the day, right before the start of 3x3. This will allow anyone with questions about how to judge or compete to be properly prepared when they are expected to help or compete!

We will need help judging for the second/final rounds of events as we can not assign staff for those in advance. 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.

During the day of the competition, WCA Live will have all of the results manually entered throughout the day. After the competition, official results will be posted typically within a few days after the competition happens.

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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