Logo[Cancelled] Cobb Cubed 2020
- Date
- Apr 18, 2020
- City
- Kennesaw, Georgia, United States
- Venue
- Address
- 3535 Old 41 Highway Kennesaw, GA 30144
- Details
Community Room
- Contact
- Organizer
- Raymond Goslow
- WCA Delegate
- Jacob Ambrose
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Competition will begin before the library opens for the day and end after the library closes. However, competitors will still have access to the Community Room through the main sliding doors of the library.
Additional rounds of 6x6 and 7x7 will be added if time pemits.
Please check your email the week prior to the competition for important information!
- Events
- Main event
- Competitor limit
- 70
- Number of times bookmarked
- 50
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- Registration requirements
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There is a competitor limit of 70 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $12 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 95% of your registration fee.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
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 date of birth
- Incorrect name
- Representing a foreign country and not providing documentation
In all of the above cases, the organizers will email you before accepting the registration to confirm the information provided.After the competitor limit has been reached, you may still pay and be put on a waiting list. If you are first on the waiting list 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. Persons on the waiting list may be accepted up until April 17, 2020, 8:00 PM EDT. After this the competitors list of approved registrations will be final.
We encourage everyone to register for the events they want to compete in via your online registration, however you may add events to your registration up until the event has started.
Staff members will have a waived registration fee. Please contact the organizers if you are interested.
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 36 advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 16 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 6x6x6 Cube | Final | Bo1 / Mo3 | 10:00.00 | 1 attempt to get < 6:30.00 | |
| 7x7x7 Cube | Final | Bo1 / Mo3 | 10:00.00 | 1 attempt to get < 10:00.00 | |
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Final | Bo3 | 10:00.00 cumulative * | ||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | First round | Ao5 | 2:00.00 | Top 16 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 2:00.00 | |||
| Megaminx | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 6:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 2:30.00 | |
| Pyraminx | First round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 16 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 |
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Schedule for Saturday (April 18, 2020)
Important Links
Group Sheet (will be uploaded the week before the competition)
Live Results
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.
- We will be using regulation 9p3).This means that if you do not arrive to compete by the time the event is scheduled to start, your spot may be given up the next competitor in the rankings.
- We will need volunteer help from competitors and their parents. Judging is a very simple task and any staff member can teach anyone at any time. In addition, you can read this document before coming to the competition to learn about the procedures for competing and judging. It's an excellent way to make the time fly by!
- Your delegate for this competition is Jacob Ambrose and your organizer is Raymond Goslow. Ask them if you have any questions throughout the day!
New Competitors
- For a quick introduction to how to compete you can watch Kit Clement's WCA Competitor Tutorial video and read the WCA Competition Tutorial document.
- 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 a delegate.
- In each event we will have rounds. The top competitors will advance to . 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 the competition run efficiently. We will call the groups in order (Group 1, Group 2, etc.), along with a last call during the final group. You will bring your puzzle up and wait in the competitor waiting area as soon as your group is called. You may be denied the ability to compete if you do not come up by the last call.
Location:
North Cobb Regional Library
3535 Old 41 Highway
Kennesaw, GA 30144
IMPORTANT: This facility opened in September 2019; therefore, it may be missing from some mapping/GPS databases. Although the address is on Old 41 Highway, there is no entrance to the parking lot from that road. Instead, turn from Blue Springs Rd onto Quick Water Landing, then take the first right to reach the parking lot.
Room Details: The competition will take place in the library's community room, which is across the hall from the main sliding doors of the library. Access to the rest of the building will be restricted before 10AM and after 5PM, but bathrooms will be available for the whole day.
Parking: There is ample free parking available at the venue. The library would appreciate it if you park farther away from the building in order to leave space for people using the library to park closer.
Lunch: Lunch will not be provided at the venue. There are numerous nearby restaurants in downtown Kennesaw, downtown Acworth, and on Cobb Parkway. You are permitted to bring your lunch into the community room or onto the outside patio, but food must not be taken anywhere else in the library.
Additional Activities: The library will be holding additional activities throughout the day related to the competition: a scavenger hunt, math and science actitivities for little kids, etc. More details TBA.
This competition will be sponsored by TheCubicle.com! They will provide gift card codes for the top three cubers in each event.
Q: Do I use my own cube to compete?
A: YES! You are responsible for providing your own hardware in order to compete.
Q: What are some examples of puzzles that are not allowed?
A: Electronic cubes (such as Giiker or Gan360i), cubes with carbon fiber stickers, cubes with significantly damaged stickers, faces missing stickers (note: completely stickerless cubes are allowed), cubes missing pieces. Please see Article 3 of the regulations for more details.
Q: What is the normal 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: What is a competition like?
A: Competitions are a bunch of tables where nerds like us get to sit and discuss our favorite thing: CUBES! Of course, there is also competing, which will occupy one side of the competition room, where you will see lots of timers flickering with contestants' new personal bests. There will be a break for lunch, and the competitors is split up into groups to organize who competes at what time. (Check the Competitor Information tab and listen at the competition for more info on this.)
Q: How do I find results?
A: All results will be posted on the competition's WCA page a couple of days after the competition finishes. However, on the day of the competition, go to WCA Live to find information about current events. This is also where you will find information about 2nd and 3rd rounds of events.
Q: Why am I not on the competitor list yet? I already registered!
A: Allow up to 48 hours for your name to appear on the competitor list. Registrations have to be approved manually. Make sure you have paid the registration fee. Additionally, you must pay if you are registering for the waiting list. If payment may be an issue, or you are not sure if you can attend, use the contact button to talk to us.
Q: Are there age divisions?
A: Nope! All competitors compete in the same group.
Q: Can I have fun at this event?
A: HECK YES! Cubing is amazing, and we sincerely hope you enjoy the 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).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced (see Regulation 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.