Twice the Mini-sota 2025


Date
Jul 12 - 13, 2025
City
Maplewood, Minnesota, United States
Venue

RCL - Maplewood

Address
3025 Southlawn Drive Maplewood, Minnesota 55109
Details

Community Program Room

Contact
Organization team
Organizers
Kyle Kayden Hayles and Shain Papalotl Longbehn
WCA Delegates
Carter Kucala, Lisa Kucala, Shain Papalotl Longbehn, and Walker Welch
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Information

There is no 3x3 at this competition.

This competition is not recommended for new competitors.

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Only 1 guest per competitor is allowed to enter the competing room to ensure we have enough space. Additional guests may relax in the library.

Events
Main event
Competitors
27
Registration period

Online registration opened and closed .

Registration requirements
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Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 32 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $5 (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 .
We encourage everyone to register for the events they want to compete in via your online registration, however you may add events to your registration up until the event has started.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 1 guest.

Payment

The competition fee is $5.

⚠️ Payment must be made via Paypal or Venmo. Registrations will be accepted in the order paid.

⚠️ Send payment to one of the following and write the name of the competitor in the payment description or we cannot accept your registration.

Paypal link: https://paypal.me/shainlongbehn
Venmo username/link: @shainlo | https://venmo.com/u/shainlo

If neither option possible for payment, please contact the organizer here.

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

Highlights
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Carter Kucala won with an average of 11.39 seconds in the 3x3x3 One-Handed event. Andy Wong finished second (12.70) and Tyler Robinson finished third (14.37).

Event Name Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Blindfolded Andy Wong 17.98 DNF United States 20.35DNF17.98
3x3x3 One-Handed Carter Kucala 9.58 11.39 United States 12.159.5814.5610.2811.75
Clock Ivan ThanhDanh Duong 2.31 3.08 United States 2.583.202.313.465.60
Megaminx Tyler Robinson 34.44 39.71 United States 34.4441.3740.4737.4141.24
Pyraminx Carl Overbye 1.73 2.49 United States 1.925.711.732.383.17
Skewb Tyler Robinson 2.17 3.07 United States 3.043.262.173.802.90
Square-1 Nathan Rahn 6.82 7.50 United States 7.967.126.828.337.43

Mini-sota Series

"Mini-sota" is a play on the longstanding Mini Minnesota competition series. These competitions are small, simple, and low-cost events. They focus on essentials, with a simplified setup and a shorter schedule, to keep things relaxed and affordable. The fees collected are only used to pay for dues owed to the WCA, and any excess fees are used to reimburse delegates for their dues, purchase fun awards, and to pay for competition supplies.

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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