Reno Side & Blind Summer 2024


Date
Jun 1, 2024
City
Reno, Nevada, United States
Venue

University of Nevada, Reno

Address
Ansari Business Bldg, 1664 N Virginia St, Reno, NV 89557
Details

Ansari Business Building, First Floor, Room 102

Contact

Reno Rubik's Cube Club

Organizers
Jason Ostdiek, Michael Larsen, and West Coast Cubing LLC Treasurer
WCA Delegates
Chris Martin, David Karalli (داود قراعلي), Jason Ostdiek, Michael Larsen, and Ruby Lu (卢红)
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Information

This competition is in partnership with West Coast Cubing, LLC

This competition will not have the typical events like a normal competition. Please see Reno Summer 2024 for information on a regular competition the day after.

  • Registrants will be accepted in the order that they pay, not the order that they register. Please be patient with us as we manually accept all eligible competitors.
  • Competitors may only bring one guest maximum due to venue size constraints.

Competition Day Timing
- The competition will begin at the scheduled start time.
- Lunch will end at the scheduled time.
- Events will begin as soon as the previous event is wrapping up. Exception: All First Round events will not start more than 20 minutes early.
- Competitors may not compete in an event if they miss last call for that event. In general, last call is a few minutes after the last group is called.

Events
Main event
Competitor limit
40
Number of times bookmarked
12
Registration period

Online registration opened and will close .

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 40 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $10 (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.
On the spot registrations will be accepted with a base registration fee of $10 (United States Dollar).
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.

Registration requirements listed here are for this competition only. Other competitions may have different registration requirements.

If you are a minor (below the age of 18) and wish to attend this competition you must be accompanied by a legal parent/guardian.

Competitors above the age of 18 must read through and sign UNR's Policy on the Protection of Children Information Packet. The document will be sent out via email before the competition.

Waitlist

If the registration has completely filled, competitors will be placed on a waitlist. Competitors on the waitlist will be notified by March 1st if they have been removed from the waitlist.

Event Round Format Time limit Cutoff Proceed
5x5x5 Cube First round Bo2 / Ao5 3:30.00 2 attempts to get < 2:30.00 Top 6 advance to next round
Final Ao5 3:30.00
7x7x7 Cube Final Bo1 / Mo3 7:00.00 1 attempt to get < 5:30.00
3x3x3 Blindfolded First round Bo3 10:00.00 cumulative * Top 50% advance to next round
Second round Bo3 10:00.00 cumulative * Top 6 advance to next round
Final Bo3 10:00.00 cumulative *
Clock First round Bo2 / Ao5 1:00.00 2 attempts to get < 30.00 Top 6 advance to next round
Final Ao5 1:00.00
4x4x4 Blindfolded Final Bo3 2:00:00.00 total for 4x4x4 Blindfolded Final and 5x5x5 Blindfolded Final **
5x5x5 Blindfolded Final Bo3 2:00:00.00 total for 4x4x4 Blindfolded Final and 5x5x5 Blindfolded Final **

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Schedule for Saturday (June 01, 2024)

From 09:30 AM
To 10:00 AM
Check-in/Setup
AB 102
From 10:00 AM
To 10:45 AM
3x3x3 Blindfolded First round
AB 102
Format
Bo3
Time limit
10:00.00 cumulative *
Proceed
Top 50% advance to next round
From 10:45 AM
To 01:00 PM
4x4x4 Blindfolded Final
AB 102
Format
Bo3
Time limit
2:00:00.00 total for 4x4x4 Blindfolded Final and 5x5x5 Blindfolded Final **
From 10:45 AM
To 01:00 PM
5x5x5 Blindfolded Final
AB 102
Format
Bo3
Time limit
2:00:00.00 total for 4x4x4 Blindfolded Final and 5x5x5 Blindfolded Final **
From 01:00 PM
To 02:00 PM
Lunch
AB 102
From 02:00 PM
To 02:30 PM
3x3x3 Blindfolded Second round
AB 102
Format
Bo3
Time limit
10:00.00 cumulative *
Proceed
Top 6 advance to next round
From 02:30 PM
To 03:00 PM
Face Turning Octahedron
AB 102
From 03:00 PM
To 03:35 PM
Clock First round
AB 102
Format
Bo2 / Ao5
Time limit
1:00.00
Cutoff
2 attempts to get < 30.00
Proceed
Top 6 advance to next round
From 03:35 PM
To 04:20 PM
5x5x5 Cube First round
AB 102
Format
Bo2 / Ao5
Time limit
3:30.00
Cutoff
2 attempts to get < 2:30.00
Proceed
Top 6 advance to next round
From 04:20 PM
To 05:05 PM
7x7x7 Cube Final
AB 102
Format
Bo1 / Mo3
Time limit
7:00.00
Cutoff
1 attempt to get < 5:30.00
From 05:05 PM
To 05:20 PM
Clock Final
AB 102
Format
Ao5
Time limit
1:00.00
From 05:20 PM
To 05:40 PM
5x5x5 Cube Final
AB 102
Format
Ao5
Time limit
3:30.00
From 05:40 PM
To 06:00 PM
3x3x3 Blindfolded Final
AB 102
Format
Bo3
Time limit
10:00.00 cumulative *
From 06:00 PM
To 06:30 PM
Awards/Clean Up
AB 102

Location

University of Nevada, Reno
1664 N Virginia St
Reno, NV 89557

Parking

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

Food

This competition is not providing food to attendees.

There are various restaurants open in the Joe Crowley Student Union.
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)
* Raising Cane's (Virginia and 17th)
* Ike's Love and Sandwiches (Virginia and 17th)

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This competition is in partnership with West Coast Cubing, LLC

This is where you'll register for the upcoming unofficial FTO round at Reno Blind & Side Spring 2024! You must be registered for the official WCA competition first to compete in FTO.

The cutoff for the average is 2:30 (within 2 attempts), and the time limit for each solve is 4 minutes.

Results will be posted on Cubing Contests.

Signup Form: https://forms.gle/JfviEpVu1cDLQ9Mn7

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.

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