UMBC Fall 2024

Date
Sep 21, 2024
City
Catonsville, Maryland, United States
Venue

University Center

Address
1000 Hilltop Cir, Baltimore, MD 21250
Details

Ballroom

Contact
Organization team
Organizers
Brad Hoffman, Jay Leveton, Reanne Salazar, and Samuel Du
WCA Delegates
Blake Thompson, José Leonardo Chaparro Prieto, Pierce Tickle, Rich Tayag, and Stone Payne
Download all the competition's details as PDF here.
Information

The competition will take place in the Ballroom on the third floor of the University Center.

To prevent overcrowding in the venue, we are limiting each competitor to one guest only.

Competition is free for all UMBC students, staff, and faculty.

This competition is being held in the Mid-Atlantic Region (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA, VA, WV). See the regions on CubingUSA's website.

Events
Main event
Competitor limit
150
Number of times bookmarked
15
Registration period

Online registration will be open from to .

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 150 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $30 (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 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 on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 1 guest.

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 Responsibilities" tab.

WAITLIST INFORMATION:
If the competitor limit of 150 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.
We may completely close registration if the waitlist becomes very large.

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 may 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:

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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.

Stationary/Fixed Seating w/ Running Judges

In this format, there is no competitor waiting area and competitors will complete all their solves for the round at the same solving station. Each solving station is numbered and a cube cover will be already at the station with a matching number.

  1. When the competitor’s group is called, the competitor goes up to that stage’s scorecard table and collects their scorecard.

  2. Competitor goes to any open solving station with their scorecard and puzzle.
    If there are no open stations, please wait a couple of minutes or see a Delegate to see if there are open stations at other stages. A station may open up as competitors from the previous group finish.

  3. Competitor makes sure they have the correct numbered cover at their station. Competitor puts their puzzle and their scorecard in the numbered cube cover and holds it for a “running judge” to pick up. Competitor will stay in this spot throughout the entire round.

  4. Running judge takes the cube cover(s) to the scramblers.

  5. Running judge drops off their puzzle(s) and takes the next available scrambled puzzle to the corresponding competitor/station based on the number on the cube cover and proceeds to judge their attempt.
    NOTE: The running judge may not be judging the same competitor each time.

  6. After each attempt, the running judge packs the solved cube and competitor scorecard in the cube cover and brings this to the scramblers.

  7. Repeat this process until all competitors in the group have completed all their attempts.

Groups and live results links will be posted here at a later date.

This competition is being held in the Mid-Atlantic Region (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA, VA, WV). See the regions on CubingUSA's website.

PARKING
Parking is free on the weekends. We recommend parking in the parking garage, near the administration building.

FOOD
Lunch options on campus include True Grit's dining hall, and Chik-fil-A. Note that other restaurants on campus such as Starbucks will not be open during the competition, nor will most restaurants in the Commons be open.
For more information about on-campus dining options visit https://dineoncampus.com/UMBC

There are also many off-campus options nearby in Arbutus and Catonsville.

If you are interested in staff, please fill out the following form.

NOTE: ALL COMPETITORS MUST PAY THE $30 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.

Even though everyone will pay the $30 registration, we are allowing all UMBC students, staff, and faculty to participate free-of-charge by refunding their registration. In order to verify that you are a UMBC student, we ask that you fill out this form with your UMBC email, so that we can verify.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfB0t1hoZ0RBCW_T6pFgswTbY1T7lS9NlOcAQwdm2qHfO6xIg/viewform?usp=sf_link

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.

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