Race the Clock Minnesota 2023


Date
Dec 30, 2023
City
Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, United States
Venue

Brooklyn Park Activity Center

Address
5600 85th Ave N, Brooklyn Park, MN 55443
Details

Grand Room

Contact
Organization team
Organizers
Midwest Cubing Association and Shain Papalotl Longbehn
WCA Delegates
Carter Kucala, Lisa Kucala, and Shain Papalotl Longbehn
Download all the competition's details as PDF here.
Information

This will be the final competition of the year in Minnesota! Come celebrate another year of cubing with us!

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.

Events
Main event
Competitor limit
130
Number of times bookmarked
44
Registration period

Online registration will be open from to .

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 130 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 90% 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.


⚠️ Registration is accepted in the order paid. Payment must be made for registration to be considered complete. ⚠️

If all competing spots are filled, a waitlist will begin. Waitlist spots are added in the order paid.

Click here for more information about the waitlist.

Please wait 48 hours for your registration to be manually accepted.

Event Round Format Time limit Cutoff Proceed
3x3x3 Cube First round Ao5 5:00.00 Top 75% advance to next round
Second round Ao5 5:00.00 Top 24 advance to next round
Final Ao5 5:00.00
4x4x4 Cube First round Bo2 / Ao5 2:30.00 2 attempts to get < 1:30.00 Top 12 advance to next round
Final Ao5 2:30.00
Clock First round Bo2 / Ao5 1:30.00 2 attempts to get < 1:00.00 Top 32 advance to next round
Second round Ao5 1:30.00 Top 12 advance to next round
Final Ao5 10:00.00
Megaminx First round Bo2 / Ao5 3:00.00 2 attempts to get < 2:00.00 Top 8 advance to next round
Final Ao5 3:00.00
Skewb First round Ao5 1:00.00 Top 12 advance to next round
Final Ao5 1:00.00

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Schedule for Saturday (December 30, 2023)

From 08:00 AM
To 08:25 AM
Check-in
Grand Room
From 08:25 AM
To 08:45 AM
New Competitor Tutorial
Grand Room
From 08:45 AM
To 10:15 AM
3x3x3 Cube First round
Grand Room
Format
Ao5
Time limit
5:00.00
Proceed
Top 75% advance to next round
From 10:15 AM
To 11:05 AM
Skewb First round
Grand Room
Format
Ao5
Time limit
1:00.00
Proceed
Top 12 advance to next round
From 11:05 AM
To 11:50 AM
Clock First round
Grand Room
Format
Bo2 / Ao5
Time limit
1:30.00
Cutoff
2 attempts to get < 1:00.00
Proceed
Top 32 advance to next round
From 11:50 AM
To 12:50 PM
Lunch
Grand Room
From 12:50 PM
To 01:50 PM
4x4x4 Cube First round
Grand Room
Format
Bo2 / Ao5
Time limit
2:30.00
Cutoff
2 attempts to get < 1:30.00
Proceed
Top 12 advance to next round
From 01:50 PM
To 01:55 PM
New Competitor Awards
Grand Room
From 01:55 PM
To 03:10 PM
3x3x3 Cube Second round
Grand Room
Format
Ao5
Time limit
5:00.00
Proceed
Top 24 advance to next round
From 03:10 PM
To 04:00 PM
Megaminx First round
Grand Room
Format
Bo2 / Ao5
Time limit
3:00.00
Cutoff
2 attempts to get < 2:00.00
Proceed
Top 8 advance to next round
From 04:00 PM
To 04:45 PM
Clock Second round
Grand Room
Format
Ao5
Time limit
1:30.00
Proceed
Top 12 advance to next round
From 04:45 PM
To 05:05 PM
Skewb Final
Grand Room
Format
Ao5
Time limit
1:00.00
From 05:05 PM
To 05:25 PM
4x4x4 Cube Final
Grand Room
Format
Ao5
Time limit
2:30.00
From 05:25 PM
To 05:45 PM
Megaminx Final
Grand Room
Format
Ao5
Time limit
3:00.00
From 05:45 PM
To 06:15 PM
3x3x3 Cube Final
Grand Room
Format
Ao5
Time limit
5:00.00
From 06:15 PM
To 06:35 PM
Clock Final
Grand Room
Format
Ao5
Time limit
10:00.00
From 06:35 PM
To 07:00 PM
Awards/Clean-up
Grand Room

Q. How do I register for this competition?
A. Registration for this competition opens on Sunday, November 19, 2023 at 5:00 PM Central and will be open until uesday, December 26, 2023 at 11:59 PM Central. You'll need a WCA Account to register. Once registration has opened, you can register at the register button to your left or at this link. Select the events you'll be competing in and any comments you'd like the organization team to know. After pressing Register, you'll be prompted to pay using Stripe. You must pay your registration fee to be eligible to compete. If there is still space in the competition and you do not receive an email saying your registration has been accepted within 48 hours of paying, please contact the organization team.

Q. How can I prepare for the competition day?
A. Competitors should understand the WCA Regulations before competing. For something a little more digestable, you can read the WCA Competitor Tutorial or watch this video guide. We will have a New Competitor Tutorial at the beginning of the day where you can learn and ask questions.

Q. Who should I ask if I have any questions?
A. Before the competition, you can contact the organization team with any questions with our contact form. During the competition, you can speak to a delegate. Your delegates for this competition are Shain Longbehn and Lisa Kucala.

Q. What are groups? How can I find which ones I'm in?
A. Groups are how we determine when each competitor competes. During each round, we will have several groups that will be called up in succession. When the group in which you're supposed to compete is called, please come up to the cube dropoff table and submit your puzzle. When the group you're judging is called, come up and find an empty station to judge. Groups will be emailed to competitors or in a tab on this website in the week leading up to the competition.

Q. Do competitors need to volunteer? How do I do that?
A. We require that all competitors volunteer as Judges during the competition day. You will be assigned a group to judge in. We will go over judging in our New Competitor Tutorial.

Q. How old do I have to be to compete?
A. WCA Competitions are open to cubers of any age! We do not have age groups so all competitors compete with each other.

Q. What do I need to bring to the competition?
A. You'll need to bring the puzzles required for any event you'll be competing in. Most competitors like to bring other cubes to warm up with. All timing equipment will be supplied by the WCA Delegates at the competition.

Q. Where can I find results for this competition?
A. Live results will be visible on the WCA Live and will be posted on the WCA Website shortly after the competition. If it's your first competition, you'll get a WCA ID when results are posted to the WCA Website.

Q. How can I have a competition in my hometown?
A. You can contact the Minnesota delegates by email here. We would love to help you organize a comp anywhere in Minnesota and bordering states!

For each event, competitors are called to compete one group at a time. To facilitate this, all competitors will be assigned to a specific group for each event. Judging, running, and scrambling assignments for helping out at the competition are also listed for each competitor.

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

Group assignments will be announced closer to the competition date.

Live results will be available here during the event.

Competitors are added to the waitlist in the order paid

Once registration fills, a waitlist will begin and the link to monitor the status will be in this tab. You must pay the full registration fee to be added to the waitlist. When the waitlist reaches 25 people, registration will close and no more people will be allowed to register.

A link will be available here once a waitlist begins to monitor your status on the waitlist.

Most waitlisters move off the list around 1-2 weeks before the competition. Please keep an eye on your email as the competition gets closer.

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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