Agoura SpookCubing 2023 Information

🎃 Costumes

• Competitors and attendees alike are HIGHLY encouraged to dress up in costume.

🎟️ Raffle Entry

• If you wear a costume, you will receive a raffle ticket for a chance to win a prize! All competitors and guests are eligible to earn a raffle ticket and enter the drawing.

🍬 Complimentary Refreshments

• All competitors and guests may enjoy a variety of refreshments throughout the event.

🎉 Activities

• Exciting games & activities for all ages!

And Much More! The registration fee may be higher, but the experience is worth every penny!

As this competition is primarily unofficial events, some events have special regulations that are quite different from any official WCA event. If you are competing in any of the following events, please familiarize yourself with the descriptions and regulations below. To sign up for these events, please register with the Google Form found on the “Special Event Signup” tab.

Results for unoffical events will be posted on Cubing Contests

Magic

Description

• The old removed Magic event. All regulations are the same as the former official event.

Format: Average of 5
No Cutoff
Time Limit: 1:00

Regulations

• Submit one Three Ring Magic Folding Puzzle
• Ao5 Format
• The competitor may do practice solves on the competition timer. When the judge and competitor mutually agree, the official solves will begin. At that point, all solves will be treated as official solves.
• The puzzle is not scrambled.
• The puzzle is not covered by the judge.
• There is no inspection phase.
• The puzzles must be completely flat on the surface, with either of the two sides on top.

3x3 Scramble Sight-Reading

Description

• The competitor is given a piece of paper with a scramble written in standard move notation, and must read and execute the scramble as fast as they can.

Format: Average of 5
Cutoff: Two attempts to get sub 30 seconds
Time Limit: 1:00

Regulations

• Submit one 3x3 (standard 3x3 regulations apply)
• Ao5 Format
• The competitor must use the scramble given on the paper. AUF penalties are a DNF, not a +2. Finished cube must match the scrambled cube exactly.
• After each attempt, the competitor must solve their scrambled 3x3 in preparation for the next attempt.

Mirror Cube/Bump Cube

Description

• The competitor must solve a 3x3 Mirror Cube shape shifting puzzle as fast as possible

Format: Average of 5
Cutoff: Two attempts to get sub 3:00
Time Limit: 5:00

Regulations

• Submit one 3x3 Mirror Cube/Bump Cube
• Ao5 Format
• Cube must not have stickers/markings that visually differentiate any of the sides. (Exception: A logo is allowed on one center cap).
• Standard 3x3 regulations apply

Team Blindfolded

Description

• Two competitors must collaborate to solve a 3x3 cube, with one competitor turning the puzzle, and the other giving directions.

Format: Best of 3
No Cutoff
Time Limit: 9:00 Cumulative (Sum of the three solves must not exceed 9:00)

Regulations

• Submit one 3x3 Cube
• Bo3 Format
• Before the attempt starts, the competitors must decide who is is the caller (cannot touch the cube) and solver (blindfolded)
• The solver must put on their blindfold before the attempt starts
• The caller gets 15 seconds of inspection. During this time, they may touch the cube. Once they set the cube down for the solver to pick up, they may not touch the cube for the remainder of the attempt.
• Both competitors may talk during the entire attempt

This tab will be updated to include the Unofficial Event registration google forms when registration for the competition opens, so please check back in on Monday, September 25, 2023 at 7:00 PM PDT!

Unofficial Event Form: https://forms.gle/V9WnVikopddzmf1N6
Team Blind Form: https://forms.gle/WBvKS8C1VTi8jh6x9

Lunch

Lunch from Novo Café will be served on-site for those who purchase meal tickets in advance. An email with meal ticket details, menu options, and payment info will be sent as the event date draws nearer.
There will be a limited availability of meal tickets to purchase on-site. Vegetarian options will be available.

Food

There will be complimentary light refreshments available for all competitors and guests to enjoy throughout the entire competition.

Parking

There is parking directly in front of the venue as well as street parking available. No permit is needed for parking and parking is free.

The venue is the Multi-Purpose Room, which is circled in the map.

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.

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 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 familar with the full set of regulations above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dSuMG--wm8

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 stoked 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 solve!

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 opportuity 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 communitiy 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. If you are a first-timer, you will be asked to verify your information on your registration (name, DOB, country). 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. After that, we will begin with the first event and 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 assitance from other cubers and parents like you! Your assisgned 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 continnue 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: For the day of competing, WCA Live will have all of the results manually entered throughout the day. Once on WCA Live, scroll to the competition in question and you're good to go! After the competition, official results will be posted typically within a few days to a week 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 waittlist 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 cometitors 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 whe 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 rercommend 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 elses' 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!

This competition will be sponsored by SpeedCubeShop! They will be providing gift-card prizes for this competition. They will not be selling puzzles onsite.

Want to stay connected with the West Coast community? Join the West Coast Cubing Community Discord Server! Speak with other competitors from NorCal, SoCal, Nevada, Hawaii, and Tijuana and keep in touch with fellow competitors and meet new ones! Find out about competition discussion as it happens in real time, and even announcements for competitions before registration opens!

Click here to be directly taken to the Discord Server!

We also have our SoCal Cubing Facebook Group, WCA Forum thread for California, and the SoCal Cubing website.