LogoSlow N Steady Spring 2023
- Date
- Apr 15 - 16, 2023
- City
- College Park, Maryland, United States
- Venue
Adele H. Stamp Student Union
- Address
- 3100 Adele H. Stamp Student Union, College Park, MD 20742
- Details
Grand Ballroom
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Adam Gradess, Adam Martinson, CubingUSA Treasurer, Daniel Greigg, Danny Liu, Liam Chen, and Will Callan
- WCA Delegates
- Blake Thompson, Keaton Ellis, Nick Silvestri, Rich Tayag, Saransh Grover, and Will Callan
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- Information
This competition is a 2-day competition. Saturday's competition will be held in Jimenez Hall room 0220, and Sunday's competition will be held in the Grand Ballroom with the Stamp Student Union.
Please note, as this is a college venue, there must be parent/guardian supervision for minors during the competition.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 264
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- Registration requirements
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There is a competitor limit of 300 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $12 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 95% 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.
Registration for BLD events is first-come, first serve, with the below capacities:
* BLD: 60 competitors
* 4BLD, 5BLD, MBLD: 20 competitorsFree for UMD students, faculty, and staff. Unfortunately, we can no longer waive registration for alumni.
Please keep in mind that registrations are approved manually after payment, so your registration may not be approved immediately.
Your registration is not complete until your registration fee has been paid.
All competitiors must read the "Competitor Information" tab.
Any requested changes to registration before registration closes will be honored.WAITLIST INFORMATION:
If the competitor limit of 300 has been reached, you can still register and pay the registration fee to secure a spot on the waitlist. During the registration period, any competitor can cancel their registration and allow the first person on the waitlist to take their spot. If you find that you cannot make it to the competition after registering, please contact us so that we can maximize attendance.
All registrants still on the waitlist after the registration period will have their registrations deleted, and will be fully refunded. - Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Stanley Chapel won with an average of 6.85 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Michael Nielsen finished second (7.54) and Waden Cho finished third (7.57).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Stanley Chapel | 6.28 | 6.85 | United States | 6.34 | 8.39 | 7.13 | 6.28 | 7.09 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Zayn Khanani | 1.02 | 1.54 | United States | 1.24 | 1.02 | 3.48 | 1.20 | 2.18 | |||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Stanley Chapel | 15.78 | DNF | United States | 15.95 | 15.78 | DNF | |||||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Shaun Mack | 9.41 | 11.86 | United States | 13.86 | 11.83 | 10.21 | 13.53 | 9.41 | |||
| Pyraminx | Michael Nielsen | 1.70 | 1.89 | United States | 1.81 | 1.86 | 2.86 | 1.70 | 1.99 | |||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Josh Weimer | 2:40.03 | 3:24.66 | United States | 3:37.74 | 2:40.03 | 3:56.21 | |||||
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | Rowe Hessler | 8:04.42 | DNF | United States | DNF | DNF | 8:04.42 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Stanley Chapel | 40/42 53:05 | United States | 40/42 53:05 | ||||||||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 144 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 16 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | First round | Bo3 | 15:00.00 cumulative * | Top 75% advance to next round | |
| Final | Bo3 | 15:00.00 cumulative * | |||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 2:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 45.00 | |
| Pyraminx | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 16 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Final | Bo3 | 1:45:00.00 total for 5x5x5 Blindfolded Final and 4x4x4 Blindfolded Final ** | ||
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | Final | Bo3 | 1:45:00.00 total for 5x5x5 Blindfolded Final and 4x4x4 Blindfolded Final ** | ||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Final | Bo1 | 10:00.00 per cube, up to 60:00.00 |
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Schedule for Sunday (April 16, 2023)
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Schedule for Saturday (April 15, 2023)
Note that if you are coming by public transportation, the Green Line Metro stop is not on campus. You will need to take the Shuttle-UM 104 bus from the stop to campus. Please factor this into to your travel time when planning to come to the venue.
The parking map of UMD shows available parking on campus. During the weekend, there is free parking at all green-highlighted parking lots on this list. Lots B(Regents Parking Garage) and Z are the closest free parking lots near campus.
NOTE:
The Saturday competition is being held in Jimenez Hall room 0220.
The Sunday competition is being held in the Grand Ballroom. The Grand Ballroom is located on the first floor on this map.
ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING
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 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/running 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:
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.
There is no official hotel for this competition, and no room blocks will be offered. Below are suggestions for lodging in the area.
There are multiple hotels located on Route 1(Best Western, Hampton Inn, Cambria Hotel, College Park Marriott, and more) located less than five minutes away from the venue. These are not an exclusive list of hotels, nor are these hotels affiliated with, sponsoring, or holding special accommodations for this competition.
Private lodging sites such as AirBnB also offer options in the area.
If you are interested in staff, please fill out the following form.
NOTE: ALL COMPETITORS MUST PAY THE $12 REGISTRATION FEE. If you are selected for staff, you will be refunded the registration fee AFTER the competition has ended.
Staff members will be provided with free registration and lunch for the competition.
Final staff decisions will be made after registration closes.
This competition is sponsored by TheCubicle! Check out their site for cubes, accessories, apparel, and more!
Podium winners of the competition will receive gift cards to TheCubicle.
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Results will be uploaded on WCA Live.
Groups for this competition can be found here: https://www.competitiongroups.com/competitions/SlowNSteadySpring2023
3BLD (limit: 60)
- Nick S
- Rich T
- Will C
- Liam C
- Adam Ma.
- Saransh G
- Daniel G
- Zayn K
- Hassan K
- Stanley C
- Graham L
- Josh W
- Shaun M
- Allie B
- Ryan F
- Currin W
- Anderson H
- Andrew J
- Henry K
- Stephen G
- Dana Y
- Brandon L
- Joey S
- Frederick Z
- Eric Chen
- Grayson M
- Dimitri K
- Jacob W
- Ethan Z
- Henry
- Rowe H
- Julian R
- Jonathan L
- Corey S
- Michael O
- Thiago H
- Michael M
- Chance H
4BLD, 5BLD (limit: 20)
- Nick S
- Rich T
- Will C
- Liam C
- Adam Ma.
- Saransh G
- Daniel G
- Hassan K
- Stanley C
- Josh W
- Ryan F
- Brandon L
- Joey S
- Frederick Z
- Chance H
- Rowe H
- Jonathan L
- Thiago H
MBLD (FULL - limit: 20)
- Nick S
- Rich T
- Will C
- Liam C
- Adam Ma.
- Saransh G
- Daniel G
- Hassan K
- Stanley C
- Josh W
- Shaun M
- Ryan F
- Anderson H
- Stephen G
- Brandon L
- Frederick Z
- Rowe H
- Jonathan L
- Thiago H
- Chance H
MBLD Waitlist
Last updated: 2023-04-08
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).
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.