Reno Fall 2017

Date
Nov 11, 2017
City
Reno, Nevada, United States
Venue

University of Nevada, Reno

Address
Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, 1664 N Virginia St Reno, NV 89512
Details

Wells Fargo Auditorium, on the ground floor of the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center.

Contact

Reno Rubik's Cube Club

Organizers
Alex Chau, Ben Streeter, Brandon Harnish, and Mitchell Lane
WCA Delegate
Brandon Harnish
Information

Registration fees for UNR/Davidson Academy students, staff, and faculty are at a reduced price of $10. All registration payments are to be made in cash on the day of the competition. There will be a competitor limit of 75.

Events
Main event
Competitors
28
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 75 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $15 (United States Dollar).
Highlights
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Max Park won with an average of 6.18 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Paul Mahvi finished second (8.49) and Edward Lin finished third (9.25).

North American records: Max Park‎ 3x3x3 Cube 6.18 (average), 4x4x4 Cube 20.13 (single), and 5x5x5 Cube 46.37 (average).

Event Name Best Average Citizen of Solves
3x3x3 Cube Max Park 5.64 6.18 NAR United States 7.506.066.315.646.16
2x2x2 Cube Mitchell Lane 2.92 3.51 United States DNF4.392.942.923.19
4x4x4 Cube Max Park 21.87 23.60 United States 21.8724.0825.5323.7822.95
5x5x5 Cube Max Park 45.35 46.37 NAR United States 45.9445.6547.5245.3551.39
3x3x3 One-Handed Max Park 8.71 10.87 United States 12.3510.299.988.7125.56
Skewb Tyler Howlett 4.15 5.34 United States 5.486.374.154.187.87
Square-1 Mitchell Lane 12.46 16.56 United States 21.3423.6412.4614.0414.30
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 6 advance to next round
Final Ao5 10:00.00
2x2x2 Cube First round Bo2 / Ao5 10:00.00 2 attempts to get < 45.00 Top 12 advance to next round
Final Ao5 10:00.00
4x4x4 Cube First round Ao5 30:00.00 total for 5x5x5 Cube Final and 4x4x4 Cube First round ** Top 6 advance to next round
Final Ao5 10:00.00
5x5x5 Cube Final Ao5 30:00.00 total for 5x5x5 Cube Final and 4x4x4 Cube First round **
3x3x3 One-Handed First round Bo2 / Ao5 10:00.00 2 attempts to get < 1:15.00 Top 6 advance to next round
Final Ao5 10:00.00
Skewb Final Bo2 / Ao5 10:00.00 2 attempts to get < 45.00
Square-1 Final Bo2 / Ao5 2:00.00 2 attempts to get < 1:00.00

Final Schedule

Updated 8 November 2017

Note: All events/rounds after Lunch will begin as soon as the previous round ends.
This is so that we can increase the likelihood of holding the tentative events/rounds.

Time Event Format Cutoff Time Limit
10:30 Welcome/Competitor Tutorial
10:45 Rubik's Cube Round 1 (20 advance) Average of 5 none 10:00 per solve
12:00 Lunch Best of 1
12:30 2x2x2 Cube Combined First Round (12 advance) Average of 5 0:45 in 2 attempts 10:00 per solve
1:15 5x5x5 Cube Final Round Average of 5 none 20:00 cumulative
2:00 4x4x4 Cube First Round (tentative second round) Average of 5 none 20:00 cumulative
3:00 3x3x3 One-Handed Combined First Round (tentative second round) Average of 5 1:15 in 2 attempts 10:00 per solve
3:30 Square-1 Combined Final Round (tentative) Average of 5 1:00 in 2 attempts 2:00 per solve
4:00 Rubik's Cube Round 2 (6 advance) Average of 5 none 10:00 per solve
4:30 Skewb Combined Final Round Average of 5 0:45 in 2 attempts 10:00 per solve
5:00 2x2x2 Cube Final Round Average of 5 none 10:00 per solve
5:20 3x3x3 One-Handed Final Round (tentative) Average of 5 none 1:00 per solve
5:40 4x4x4 Cube Final Round (tentative) Average of 5 none 2:00 per solve
6:00 Rubik's Cube Final Round Average of 5 none 10:00 per solve
6:30 Awards

Tentative events: Square-1 (cutoff 1:00 in 2 attempts, time limit 2:00 per solve).
Tentative rounds: 4x4x4 Cube, 3x3x3 Cube One-Handed

Location

Wells Fargo Auditorium
Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center
University of Nevada, Reno
1664 N Virginia St
Reno, NV 89512
The Wells Fargo Auditorium is on the ground floor of the Knowledge Center beside @One. The ground floor is accessible from the southwest corner of the Knowledge Center.
The usual entrances to the Knowledge Center are on the second floor, so you may need to go downstairs.

Parking

Parking is available in the Brian J. Whalen Parking Complex.
More information about parking is available on the UNR website.

Food

The event is not providing food. Competitors and spectators are responsible for finding food as needed. There are various restaurants open in the Joe Crowley Student Union next door to the competition venue.
For a complete list of open restaurants, please consult the UNR website.
There are also restaurants around campus, such as Jimmy John's (Center and 9th), Laughing Planet (Virginia and 10th), Roberto's (Virginia and 8th), Subway (Virginia and 16th), Raising Cane's (Virginia and 17th).

All registration payments are to be made in cash at the venue, on the day of the competition.
Change will be available but limited, so please try to pay exactly.

The cost to compete is $15, which covers registration for any of our events.
The cost to compete is $10 for UNR/Davidson Academy students, staff, and faculty with ID.

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 across rounds (see Guideline 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.