Bay Area Slowcubin' 2025


Date
Feb 22, 2025
City
San Jose, California, United States
Venue

John Muir Middle School

Address
1260 Branham Ln, San Jose, CA 95118
Details

Multi-Purpose Room

Contact
Organization team
Organizers
David Karalli (داود قراعلي), Draco Tong, Ruby Lu (卢红), and West Coast Cubing LLC Treasurer
WCA Delegates
David Karalli (داود قراعلي), Draco Tong, Nolan Yiu, Ruby Lu (卢红), Samuel Martin, Sherry Tao (陶心仪), and Wilson Li (李超雄)
Download all the competition's details as PDF here.
Information

This competition is organized in partnership with West Coast Cubing and SpeedCubeShop.

Get ready for a day of big cubes and blindfolded solving in San Jose!

This competition does NOT have 3x3x3 Cube. If you'd like to compete in 3x3, see Bay Area Side Events Day 2025.

All attendees are required to be quiet during blindfolded events, as these events require lots of concentration. If you would like to talk during a blindfolded event, please step outside of the venue first.

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.

If you're interested in unofficial events, check out Bay Area Side Events Day 2025, a competition in San Jose on the same weekend!

Events
Main event
Competitor limit
80
Number of times bookmarked
30
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 80 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $25 (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 80% 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.


Payment:

  • Upon registering, you will receive an email with the subject "Registration Pending: Bay Area Slowcubin' 2025". This does NOT mean that you are on the registration list. Competitors will not be approved until the payment has been made.
  • Please ensure you have paid the registration fees via Stripe on the "Register" page. Your registration is not complete and will not be processed until you have paid the registration fee. Contact the organizational team if you encounter an issue.

Waitlist:

  • Once the competitor limit has been reached, the waitlist will be opened.
  • You must pay the registration fee to be added to the waitlist.
  • New registrations will be added to a waitlist and sorted in the order of payment.
  • Waitlisted competitors will only be added to the competition if an existing competitors withdraws.
  • All competitors still on the waiting list after Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM PST will be removed and provided with a full refund.
  • You can see your position on the waitlist by checking the "Waitlist" tab.

Deleting Registration/Refunds:

  • If you can no longer make the competition, you may request a partial refund.
  • To receive a partial refund, you must contact the organizational team by Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM PST.
  • Withdrawing enables us to maximize attendance and allows competitors on the waiting list to attend.

You may change the events you are registered for by contacting the organizational team by Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM PST. After this date it is not possible to add events. It is also acceptable to not show up for any event you do not wish to compete in.

Please note, there will be no staff fee reimbursement for this competition.

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 a NorCal Cubing Community Facebook group!

Waitlist not yet created.

In the case of a waitlist, registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM PST.

Wondering if you made it to the next round? Click here to check live results on WCA Live. All data has to be entered manually before your final ranking for a round is available, so please be patient as we work hard to enter results.

This competition is sponsored by SpeedCubeShop! They will be providing gift card prizes for the top 3 competitors in every event.

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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