LogoWelcome to Olympia 2023
- Date
- Apr 29, 2023
- City
- Olympia, Washington, United States
- Venue
Olympia High School
- Address
- 1302 North Street SE, Olympia, WA 98501
- Details
Main Gym
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Ely Charqueno, Gabe Scarborough, and Nupur Khandelwal
- WCA Delegates
- Anuj Menta, Ben Royce, Benjamin Gottschalk, Cailyn Hoover, Peter Preston, and Rainier Feiler
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- 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 Competitor Responsibilites tab.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 125
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- Registration requirements
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There is a competitor limit of 150 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $20 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 100% 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.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Sameer Aggarwal won with an average of 6.61 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Max Siauw finished second (6.66) and Michael Muething finished third (8.01).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Sameer Aggarwal | 6.48 | 6.61 | United States | 6.48 | 6.60 | 9.35 | 6.73 | 6.51 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Max Siauw | 1.33 | 1.96 | United States | 1.74 | 1.33 | 2.70 | 1.43 | 4.20 | |||
| Megaminx | Ethan Davis | 33.55 | 35.48 | United States | 37.74 | 36.05 | 35.17 | 35.22 | 33.55 | |||
| Skewb | Eli Kirk | 2.61 | 3.77 | United States | 2.61 | 4.01 | 28.13 | 4.31 | 3.00 | |||
| Square-1 | Max Siauw | 5.11 | 5.90 | United States | 5.79 | 5.77 | 6.15 | 5.11 | 8.90 | |||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 90 advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 14 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 40 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| Megaminx | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 5:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 2:30.00 | |
| Skewb | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 12 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| Square-1 | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 1:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 45.00 |
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Schedule for Saturday (April 29, 2023)
PLEASE READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING.
When you register at the competition, you will receive a card/nametag with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event.We will also be relying on competitors to help by judging whenever they are not competing. Judging is very easy and is a great way to make time fly!
We will provide a judging and competitor tutorial at the beginning of the day, right before the start of 3x3. This will allow anyone with questions about how to judge or compete to be properly prepared when they are expected to help or compete!
We will need help judging for the second/final rounds of events as we can not assign staff for those in advance. Spectators are encouraged to learn how to judge; you do not need to know how to cube in order to be a judge. Having enough judges ensures that we stay on schedule and are able to leave on time.
For those of you new to cubing, WELCOME!
We wanted to let you know this event is perfectly fine for cubers of any age and experience. We just ask you know a couple things before coming to compete!
First, please be familiar with the WCA Regulations, found here:
https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/
This video will explain most of what any cuber competing for the first time will need to know, however, it is still required that they are familar with the full set of regulations above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPL3eV-A0ww
If you have any questions after this video, we will be having a new competitor/judge tutorial the morning of the competition. That would be the perfect time to ask those questions and clear up any confusion.
If you are stoked to compete and ready to sign up, head over to the registration tab, click register, and fill out the information it asks for. This will help you get set up the WCA's system and one step closer to your first official solve!
Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: Do I use my own cube to compete?
A: Yes! You are responsible for your own hardware in order to compete. Please refer to section 3 of the WCA Regulations for more information on what puzzles are okay to use in competition. If you have any questions, please reach out!
Q: What is the competition like?
A: Competitions are a ton of fun! Competitions are a great opportuity to meet new cubers, make new friends, and be able to compete and get official times recognized by the World Cube Association. Competitions can be as social of an event as you would like them to be. The communitiy is extremely welcoming and you can always sit at any table and strike up a conversation with another cuber. They are great places to try new cubes as well, just in case you are looking to get a new main cube! Once you walk into the venue, you will most likely see your nametag at a check-in table. If you are a first-timer, you will be asked to verify your information on your registration (name, DOB, country). Once you grab your nametag, go ahead and find a seat and start cubing! There will be a competitor/judge tutorial, which can be found on the schedule. After that, we will begin with the first event and will be calling events up by group. Your group numbers can be found on the back of your nametag. After you compete in an event, you will most likely also be expected to help judge another group (typically the following group). Competitions are very self-sufficient, so we rely heavily on the assitance from other cubers and parents like you! Your assisgned helping groups should also be listed on the back of your nametag. Once you are done competing in your event, you can go back to your table and continnue to socialize! To see if you made it to the next round of an event, you can check your results.
Q: How do I find results?
A: For the day of competing, WCA Live < https://live.worldcubeassociation.org > will have all of the results manually entered throughout the day. Once on WCA Live, scroll to the competition in question and you're good to go! After the competition, official results will be posted typically within a few days to a week after the competition happens.
Q: How do I get a WCA ID?
After official results are posted after the competitions (see question above), you will receive an email with information on your WCA ID.
Q: Why am I not on the registration list yet?
A: Make sure you pay you registration fee in order to be eligible to be placed on the competitor list. If the competitor limit has been reached by the time your registration is completed, you will be placed onto a waitlist, which is listed in the order of when competitors pay. If you are not advanced from the waitlist before the waittlist closes (date found on Register tab), you will be issued a full refund.
Q: What is the typical age of competitors at these events?
A: All ages are welcome, but in general competitors are between 10 and 20 years old. Don't let this stop you though! Everyone can and should cube!
Q: Are there age divisions?
A: Nope! All cometitors compete in the same groups.
There will be NO food allowed inside in the venue. This includes lunch and/or snacks. Competitors and spectators must leave the gym to eat.
Parking: Please park in the parking lot near the commons entrance of the school. (entrance through Carlyon Ave)
Food Nearby:
Vic's Pizzeria Wildwood
https://goo.gl/maps/wqgGcuFu5GFDMceT6
Pellegrino's Italian Kitchen and Catering
https://www.google.com/search?q=pellegrini%27s+italian+restaurant&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#
Papa John's Pizza
https://www.google.com/search?q=papa+johns+pizza&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#
Hotels Nearby:
Hilton Garden Inn Olympia
https://www.google.com/search?q=hilton+garden+jnn+olympia&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#Olympia
Hotel at Capitol Lake
https://www.google.com/search?q=hotel+at+capitol+lake&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#
This competition will be sponsored by TheCubicle! They will be providing gift-card prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in every event. They will not be selling puzzles onsite.
Gift card prizes will be given out to all who place in the top 3 of each event. For 3x3x3, the third prize is $15, second prize is $25, and first prize is $35. For all other events, third prize is $5, second prize is $7, and first prize is $10.
Competitors should not attend the competition if experiencing symptoms of COVID-19, or if they were exposed to someone with COVID-19. If this occurs to you, the organizers will offer the competitor a full refund.
The registration period has ended, so the waitlist has been removed.
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.