Cubetcha 2023

Date: Oct 28, 2023
City: St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
Venue: Mounds Park Academy
Address: 2051 Larpenteur Ave E, St Paul, MN 55109
Details: Gymnasium - enter through Door 7
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Carter Kucala, Lisa Kucala, and Midwest Cubing Association
WCA Delegates: Carter Kucala, Lisa Kucala, Shain Papalotl Longbehn, Simon Kellum, and Walker Welch

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Information

This competition is supported by the Midwest Cubing Association (MCA).

We have local Facebook groups for our Cubing Area. Feel free to join the Minnesota Cubing Community and follow the Midwest Cubing Assocation for information and announcements on upcoming competitions.

Mounds Park Academy is a PEANUT FREE school, and as such please do not bring food that contains peanuts to the competition.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 147

Registration period: Online registration opened and closed .
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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 170 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 .
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.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
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Carter Kucala won with an average of 6.75 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Kaius Young finished second (8.36) and Brody Meschke finished third (8.40).

Event	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Carter Kucala	5.53	6.75	United States	7.14	6.23	7.97	5.53	6.88
2x2x2 Cube	Nathan Rahn	1.25	2.20	United States	2.32	9.58	2.57	1.70	1.25
4x4x4 Cube	Kaius Young	30.06	31.16	United States	32.24	31.04	30.06	31.52	30.92
7x7x7 Cube	Walker Welch	2:31.06	2:41.41	United States	2:31.06	2:44.25	2:48.91
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Andy Wong	20.79	DNF	United States	DNF	20.79	DNF
Skewb	Carter Kucala	1.42	2.77	United States	2.67	1.59	5.06	1.42	4.05

Venue

This competition will be held at Mounds Park Academy in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Please enter Door #7 (North end of campus) of the Lansing Sports Center.

Parking

Free parking is available in the West and North parking lots of the Lansing Sports Center.

Food

There are several restaurants (fast food and other) within 2-5 miles of the venue. Outside food and drink is allowed in the venue, but please help us out by throwing away your trash and cleaning up after yourself!

*Please note that Mounds Park Academy is a PEANUT FREE school, and as such please do not bring food that contains peanuts to the competition. *

Hotels

There are several hotel options near Mounds Park Academy you can find here.

Travel

The closest airport to the venue is the Minneapolis Airport (MSP), which is about a 25 minute drive away. Public bus routes from the airport are available, with travel time ranging between 1 and 1.5 hours. Uber and Lyft are available as well.

Staff applications are now closed.

For each event, competitors are called to compete one group at a time. To facilitate this, all competitors have been assigned to a specific group for each event. Judging assignments for helping out at the competition are also listed for each competitor. Note that we do have a dedicated staff for this competition and they will be responsible for running and scrambling. If we need additional help with those items we will let you know.

Competition Groups can be found here.

The competition groups will also be available on a lanyard for each competitor at check-in the morning of the competition. All competitors will be required to wear their lanyards throughout the day of the competition.

Live results will be available here during the 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).

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.