NYU Winter 2024


Date
Mar 2, 2024
City
New York, New York, United States
Venue

NYU Global Center for Academic & Spiritual Life

Address
238 Thompson St, New York, NY 10012
Details

Room 573: Grand Hall

Contact

nyu.rubiks@gmail.com

Organizers
Dan Lu, Empire State Cubing, and Olivia Lee
WCA Delegates
Austin Reed and Evan Liu
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Information

This competition is recognized as an official World Cube Association competition. Therefore, all competitors must be familiar with the WCA regulations. If you are new to competing, please refer to the Competition Procedures tab.

NYU ID POLICY: New York University requires all adults to bring a government issued ID to sign in to NYU buildings. The organizers of this competition will have to submit a list of all visitors (which includes the competitor and their adult chaperone if the competitor is a minor) to the NYU visitor system after registration has been finalized. Read more about the NYU Visitor Policy here.

MINORS POLICY: New York University requires chaperones for all minors participating in on-campus events. Therefore, any child under 18 in the venue must be accompanied by a parent or other adult, who will be required to bring a government issued ID and sign in.

GUEST POLICY: Each competitor is allowed to bring only 1 guest. If you would like to bring additional guests, please reach out to the organizers and we will let you know if there are any extra guest slots.

Events
Main event
Competitors
61
Registration period

Online registration opened and closed .

Registration requirements
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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 70 competitors.
Registering for this competition is free.
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.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 1 guest.

There is no registration fee for this competition.

Highlights
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Carson Widjaja won with an average of 6.60 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Alexei Sinyavin finished second (7.62) and Zayn Khanani finished third (7.73).

Event Name Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube Carson Widjaja 4.80 6.60 United States 7.164.806.866.336.61
2x2x2 Cube Zayn Khanani 0.86 1.07 United States 1.111.631.070.861.04
4x4x4 Cube Alexei Sinyavin 27.33 29.31 United States 27.7527.3341.6829.8130.38
3x3x3 One-Handed Minghao Zhang 9.86 12.50 China 10.0412.8914.5817.589.86
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 16 advance to next round
Final Ao5 10:00.00
2x2x2 Cube First round Ao5 10:00.00 Top 50% advance to next round
Second round Ao5 10:00.00 Top 16 advance to next round
Final Ao5 10:00.00
4x4x4 Cube Final Bo2 / Ao5 3:00.00 2 attempts to get < 1:30.00
3x3x3 One-Handed Final Bo2 / Ao5 2:00.00 2 attempts to get < 45.00

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Schedule for Saturday (March 02, 2024)

From 01:25 PM
To 01:45 PM
Check-in
Room 573: Grand Hall
From 01:45 PM
To 02:00 PM
Tutorial for new competitors
Room 573: Grand Hall
From 02:00 PM
To 03:00 PM
2x2x2 Cube First round
Room 573: Grand Hall
Format
Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
Proceed
Top 50% advance to next round
From 03:00 PM
To 04:00 PM
3x3x3 Cube First round
Room 573: Grand Hall
Format
Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
Proceed
Top 75% advance to next round
From 04:00 PM
To 05:00 PM
4x4x4 Cube Final
Room 573: Grand Hall
Format
Bo2 / Ao5
Time limit
3:00.00
Cutoff
2 attempts to get < 1:30.00
From 05:00 PM
To 06:00 PM
3x3x3 One-Handed Final
Room 573: Grand Hall
Format
Bo2 / Ao5
Time limit
2:00.00
Cutoff
2 attempts to get < 45.00
From 06:00 PM
To 06:30 PM
2x2x2 Cube Second round
Room 573: Grand Hall
Format
Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
Proceed
Top 16 advance to next round
From 06:30 PM
To 07:00 PM
3x3x3 Cube Second round
Room 573: Grand Hall
Format
Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
Proceed
Top 16 advance to next round
From 07:00 PM
To 07:30 PM
2x2x2 Cube Final
Room 573: Grand Hall
Format
Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
From 07:30 PM
To 08:00 PM
3x3x3 Cube Final
Room 573: Grand Hall
Format
Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00

Please note that NYU is not affliated with anything listed below.

Airports in the area:
1) Newark Liberty International Airport (12 miles west of NYU)
2) JFK International Airport (16 miles southeast of NYU)
3) LaGuardia Airport (10 miles northeast of NYU)

Train:
NYC Subway System
https://new.mta.info/maps

The nearest subway exits to NYU Global Center for Academic & Spiritual Life:
9th street PATH station (this line connects New Jersey to Manhattan)
8th street NYU station (yellow line N,Q,R,W)
Astor place station (green line 4,6) (note that 4 and 6 are the names of subway lines)
W 4 St-Wash Sq station (orange line B,D,F,M) (blue line A,C,E)

Parking (Not Affiliated with NYU):
There are many parking options in the city. Some examples are listed below:
Park-it Lafayette St. Parking, LLC (410 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10003)
MPG Parking (445 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10003)
11 5th Ave, New York, NY 10003 (11 5th Ave, New York, NY 10003)
Park-it Thompson St. Parking Corp (221 Thompson St, New York, NY 10012)

Food (Not Affiliated with NYU):
There are many food options in the city. Some examples are listed below:
Space Market (1 University Pl #1, New York, NY 10003)
Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers (20 Astor Pl, New York, NY 10003)
Joe's Pizza (7 Carmine St, New York, NY 10014)

For First-Time Competitors

All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. This video gives a basic overview of the rules.

In addition, please read this tutorial document before coming to the competition.

For All Competitors

When you arrive, you will receive a card with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event. In addition, you will also have judging/scrambling assignments on your card. Every competitor is expected to help out during the event(s) they are registered for. The card will look like the following:

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If you do not arrive to help during your scheduled event, and there are not enough staff members, we reserve the right to disqualify you from competing.

Registration Process

Before You Register

All prospective registrants need a WCA account. New competitors can create their own WCA account by clicking here and entering the required information.

How to Register Online

Prospective competitors register by:
1. Signing into their WCA account;
2. Clicking "Register" on the left side of this webpage, selecting the events they would like to compete in, and submitting their registration;

The competitor limit for this competition is 70. The list of approved competitors can be found by clicking "Competitors" on the left side of this webpage. If there are already 70 competitors on that list, it means the competition is full, and any future registrants will be placed on the waitlist.

Competitors MUST register online in order to compete. No at-the-door registrations will be accepted.

Any requested changes to registration before 11:59 PM EST on Saturday, February 25 will be honored. Your registration is not complete until your name shows up on the list.

Waitlist Information

We will be keeping a waitlist for this competition. If a competitor emails us to drop out before 11:59 PM EST on Saturday, February 25, you will be notified if you are the next competitor on the waitlist. After that deadline, all remaining competitors on the waitlist will be emailed letting them know they did not get off the waitlist.

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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).

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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