FSUbers 5.0 2024


Date
Jan 6 - 7, 2024
City
Tallahassee, Florida, United States
Venue

Florida State University

Address
212 Student Services Building, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32304
Details

2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.

Contact
Organization team
Organizers
Douglas Chaplow, Nancy Hartman, Sean Hartman, Tommy Cherry, and Will McCoy
WCA Delegates
Carter Bitz, Katie Hull, and Nancy Hartman
Download all the competition's details as PDF here.
Information

Due to available space, each competitor can only have one guest. There are a lot of areas to explore around campus to explore for other guests. Please let us know of any concerns or special circumstances, we may or may not be able to accomodate them.
Please don't bring a guest unless you noted so in your registration. Let us know if you are bringing a guest if you didn't note so in your registration so we can add that.

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Events
Main event
Competitors
79
Registration period

Online registration opened and closed .

Registration requirements
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There is a competitor limit of 100 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $35 (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 by contacting the organization team.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 1 guest.

After the competitor limit has been reached, you may still pay and be put on a waiting list. If 100 competitiors are signed up, and you don't see your name as one of them under competitors, then you are on the waiting list.

If you are first/next on the waiting list and someone cancels their registration then your registration will be confirmed. Please, let us know as soon as possible if you are not able to attend to allow another competitor to attend. After the competition all competitors on the waitlist will receive a refund for the registration cost minus tax (90%).

Once registration closes we may add additional round(s) of events as time may permit in the schedule or change the number of competitors to advance to the next round.

Extra Information

  • Please make sure your email associated with your WCA account is one that you regularly check as you will need to see any emails the organization team may send out.
  • To register for this competition, you must pay in full in advance through Stripe. Your registration is not complete until you pay.
  • If you are having payment problems, please contact the organizers for an alternative payment method.
  • To cancel your registration, please email the organizers with your name telling them you want to cancel your registration. You will recieve a 90% refund if you let us know before registration closes. If you are having trouble paying on the website or any other registration problems, please use the contact button to talk to us.
  • If the competition reaches its competitor limit and when registration closes, no additional registrations will be accepted. No exceptions.
  • Be aware, competitions are filling up very quickly. It is recommended to register as soon as possible once registration opens. If you would like tips on how to register faster, please let us know. You can contact organizers or delegates by clicking on their name on the information page.
Highlights
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Nicolás Sánchez won with an average of 6.42 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Sean Hartman finished second (8.17) and Tommy Cherry finished third (8.38).

Event Name Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube Nicolás Sánchez 6.10 6.42 United States 6.347.386.566.376.10
2x2x2 Cube Nicolás Sánchez 1.41 1.69 United States 1.641.412.031.41DNF
4x4x4 Cube Carter Bitz 26.78 28.42 United States 32.3627.6226.7830.6426.99
5x5x5 Cube Heewon Seo 52.01 54.67 United States 53.6853.0959.3952.0157.24
6x6x6 Cube Heewon Seo 1:30.31 1:40.59 United States 1:51.251:40.221:30.31
7x7x7 Cube Carter Bitz 2:37.48 2:43.47 United States 2:37.482:55.312:37.61
3x3x3 Blindfolded Tommy Cherry 16.23 DNF United States 19.86DNF16.23
3x3x3 One-Handed Tommy Cherry 11.16 13.51 United States 13.3711.1613.6813.4718.25
Clock Noah Swor 3.65 4.24 United States 4.274.363.654.08DNF
Megaminx Heewon Seo 29.63 32.37 United States 29.6334.2736.2331.5331.32
Pyraminx Alex Bohac 1.68 2.00 United States 8.101.681.691.792.52
Skewb Tommy Cherry 2.59 3.49 United States 4.913.473.222.593.77
Square-1 Noah Swor 6.29 9.12 United States 10.439.376.2911.647.56
Event Round Format Time limit Cutoff Proceed
3x3x3 Cube First round Ao5 10:00.00 Top 75% advance to next round
Second round Ao5 10:00.00 Top 40 advance to next round
Final Ao5 10:00.00
2x2x2 Cube First round Ao5 10:00.00 Top 75% advance to next round
Second round Ao5 10:00.00 Top 75% advance to next round
Final Ao5 10:00.00
4x4x4 Cube First round Bo2 / Ao5 10:00.00 2 attempts to get < 1:45.00 Top 12 advance to next round
Final Ao5 10:00.00
5x5x5 Cube First round Bo2 / Ao5 10:00.00 2 attempts to get < 2:45.00 Top 12 advance to next round
Final Ao5 10:00.00
6x6x6 Cube Final Bo1 / Mo3 10:00.00 1 attempt to get < 4:30.00
7x7x7 Cube Final Bo1 / Mo3 10:00.00 1 attempt to get < 6:30.00
3x3x3 Blindfolded First round Bo3 20:00.00 cumulative * Top 10 advance to next round
Final Bo3 10:00.00 cumulative *
3x3x3 One-Handed First round Bo2 / Ao5 10:00.00 2 attempts to get < 1:00.00 Top 20 advance to next round
Final Ao5 10:00.00
Clock First round Bo2 / Ao5 10:00.00 2 attempts to get < 1:00.00 Top 10 advance to next round
Final Ao5 10:00.00
Megaminx Final Bo2 / Ao5 10:00.00 2 attempts to get < 2:45.00
Pyraminx First round Ao5 10:00.00 Top 75% advance to next round
Final Ao5 10:00.00
Skewb First round Ao5 10:00.00 Top 40 advance to next round
Final Ao5 10:00.00
Square-1 Final Bo2 / Ao5 10:00.00 2 attempts to get < 1:00.00

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Schedule for Saturday (January 06, 2024)

From 09:00 AM
To 09:40 AM
Check In and Set Up
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
From 09:40 AM
To 10:00 AM
Tutorial for new competitors/ Judges
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
From 10:00 AM
To 10:50 AM
3x3x3 Cube First round
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
Format
Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
Proceed
Top 75% advance to next round
From 10:50 AM
To 11:55 AM
4x4x4 Cube First round
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
Format
Bo2 / Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
Cutoff
2 attempts to get < 1:45.00
Proceed
Top 12 advance to next round
From 11:55 AM
To 12:50 PM
Lunch
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
From 12:50 PM
To 01:00 PM
Competitor & Staff Picture
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
From 01:00 PM
To 01:30 PM
Skewb First round
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
Format
Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
Proceed
Top 40 advance to next round
From 01:30 PM
To 02:25 PM
Clock First round
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
Format
Bo2 / Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
Cutoff
2 attempts to get < 1:00.00
Proceed
Top 10 advance to next round
From 02:25 PM
To 02:55 PM
Square-1 Final
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
Format
Bo2 / Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
Cutoff
2 attempts to get < 1:00.00
From 02:55 PM
To 03:50 PM
Megaminx Final
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
Format
Bo2 / Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
Cutoff
2 attempts to get < 2:45.00
From 03:50 PM
To 04:10 PM
4x4x4 Cube Final
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
Format
Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
From 04:10 PM
To 04:40 PM
3x3x3 Cube Second round
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
Format
Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
Proceed
Top 40 advance to next round
From 04:40 PM
To 05:05 PM
Skewb Final
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
Format
Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
From 05:05 PM
To 05:25 PM
Clock Final
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
Format
Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
From 05:25 PM
To 05:55 PM
3x3x3 Cube Final
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
Format
Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
From 05:55 PM
To 06:10 PM
Awards
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.

Schedule for Sunday (January 07, 2024)

From 09:00 AM
To 09:10 AM
Check-in
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
From 09:10 AM
To 09:45 AM
2x2x2 Cube First round
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
Format
Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
Proceed
Top 75% advance to next round
From 09:45 AM
To 10:35 AM
5x5x5 Cube First round
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
Format
Bo2 / Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
Cutoff
2 attempts to get < 2:45.00
Proceed
Top 12 advance to next round
From 10:35 AM
To 11:10 AM
3x3x3 One-Handed First round
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
Format
Bo2 / Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
Cutoff
2 attempts to get < 1:00.00
Proceed
Top 20 advance to next round
From 11:10 AM
To 12:00 PM
3x3x3 Blindfolded First round
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
Format
Bo3
Time limit
20:00.00 cumulative *
Proceed
Top 10 advance to next round
From 12:00 PM
To 01:00 PM
Lunch
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
From 01:00 PM
To 01:20 PM
3x3x3 Blindfolded Final
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
Format
Bo3
Time limit
10:00.00 cumulative *
From 01:20 PM
To 01:50 PM
Pyraminx First round
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
Format
Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
Proceed
Top 75% advance to next round
From 01:50 PM
To 02:30 PM
6x6x6 Cube Final
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
Format
Bo1 / Mo3
Time limit
10:00.00
Cutoff
1 attempt to get < 4:30.00
From 02:30 PM
To 03:25 PM
7x7x7 Cube Final
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
Format
Bo1 / Mo3
Time limit
10:00.00
Cutoff
1 attempt to get < 6:30.00
From 03:25 PM
To 03:40 PM
3x3x3 One-Handed Final
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
Format
Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
From 03:40 PM
To 04:10 PM
2x2x2 Cube Second round
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
Format
Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
Proceed
Top 75% advance to next round
From 04:10 PM
To 04:40 PM
5x5x5 Cube Final
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
Format
Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
From 04:40 PM
To 05:05 PM
Pyraminx Final
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
Format
Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
From 05:05 PM
To 05:25 PM
2x2x2 Cube Final
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.
Format
Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
From 05:25 PM
To 05:55 PM
Awards & Clean Up
2nd Floor, enter door facing the red brick road and walk up the stairwell straight inside.

SoutheastCubing.org

The new Southeast Cubing website is home to all kinds of information about cubing in the Southeast including:

Southeast Cubing is also on social media!

Florida Cubing:

Florida Cubing Facebook Group: https://m.facebook.com/groups/floridacubing
Competition Email list: https://forms.gle/2r77SYz1gkmUuDpu6.

Amount of competitors moving to subsequent rounds may change after registration closes/fills

Important Links

(Links will be updated closer to the competition)
Group Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BQW5rhykveuokjm0nFxKS5A0ceASdGEfPMgVSm-tkU8/edit?usp=sharing
Live Results: https://live.worldcubeassociation.org/competitions/4082

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 your events
  • We will use regulation 9p3 as much as we can, so if you do not arrive to compete by the event is ending your spot may be given up to the next competitor in the rankings.
  • Your Delegates for this competition are: Carter Bitz, Jacob Ambrose, Katie Hull, Nancy Hartman, and Nathan Graves. Ask them if you have any questions throughout the day!
  • To keep the competition running on time and to ensure we can keep all events we will be requiring competitors to also judge. Pay attention to the group assignment sheet - If you are in the first group of an event you will then judge the second group, if in the second group you will judge the third group and so on - if you are in the last group you will judge the first group. This is essential to keep the events on schedule. We also invite any parents or guests to also help to judge - thank you for your support. Please arrive to attend the Competitor & Judges tutorial.*

New Competitors

  • You will need to arrive on time to watch the new competitor introduction at 8:45am.
  • You can watch Kit Clement's WCA Competitor Tutorial Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPL3eV-A0ww
  • 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.
  • In each event we will have rounds. We will take the top competitors into subsequent rounds. After a round is completed it will be entered into live.worldcubeassociation.org. Your name will be highlited if you are advancing to the next round.
  • Each round will be divided into groups to help them run more efficiently. We will call the groups in order with a last call during the last group. Please bring your puzzle up when your group is called. We are allowed to deny you the ability to compete if you do not come up by the last call.

Competitors under the Age of 18:

We would appreciate if you fill this out and send a scan or picture to us, or bring it to the competition. We will also have some available at the competition to fill out. There is no actual risks outlined in this waiver, it is required for minors attending events at FSU.

https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:c335904e-9c26-49a1-b33a-ec4517e6c875

Accessibility

Reach out the organization team if you require any accomodations. We are happy to work with you to the best of our ability! The regulations recommend you reach out 2 weeks beforehand so we can best prepare for it. Let us know if you have any questions or concerns.

Staff

Please fill out this staff form if you are interested: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7MM-2pJg4K_Qife2mKvJU69XfLFC4JtqKvnWW7Oq7Y5kBag/viewform?usp=sf_link. Staff will be provided lunch and a refund of their registration fee after the competition. Thanks for your support!

Awards

Podium will be provided a medal and certificate as well as a gift card code to speedcubeshop!

There are multiple parking garages around campus, the closest one to the venue is the Traditions Way Garage Traditions Way Garage, Tallahassee, FL 32304(https://bit.ly/3qhu4KD).

We will have signs directing you to the venue nearby the parking garage, and here is a video showing how to go from the parking garage to the venue if you are still unable to find it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qsWxS8gXoA.

The Tallahassee International Airport (TLH) is ~6 miles from the venue(although it is an international airport, it actually doesn't fly nonstop to very many places and flights tend to be expensive, but depending on your location there may be decent options).

This competition is sponsored by Speedcubeshop!

The most convenient place is The Den, which is on the first floor of the venue. But of now, they are only scheduled to open on Sunday.

The closest alternative options are at 1851 in the bottom floor of Azalea Hall(824 W Jefferson St). There are multiple food options here. There is also the student union nearby(75 N Woodward Avenue), which also has multiple food options, finally there are multiple options across the Landis Green such as Suwanee(William Johnston Building, 143 Honors Way, Tallahassee, FL 32304).

You can see what is currently open on campus here: https://seminoledining.campusdish.com

Nearby off campus, the College Town area had multiple food options and is a 10 minute walk away.

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.

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