North American Championship 2024

[Discomantis]

Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024 | World Cube Association

The World Cube Association governs competitions for mechanical puzzles that are operated by twisting groups of pieces, commonly known as 'twisty puzzles'. The most famous of these puzzles is the Rubik's Cube, invented by professor Rubik from Hungary. A selection of these puzzles are chosen as...

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This is the North American, as well as USA national championship.

It will be hosted in Minneapolis and will start July 18th

 

[SpeakCuba]

Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024 | World Cube Association

The World Cube Association governs competitions for mechanical puzzles that are operated by twisting groups of pieces, commonly known as 'twisty puzzles'. The most famous of these puzzles is the Rubik's Cube, invented by professor Rubik from Hungary. A selection of these puzzles are chosen as...

www.worldcubeassociation.org

This is the North American, as well as USA national championship.

It will be hosted in Minneapolis and will start July 18th

Yeah, it's been up for a few days. I wonder why registration starts so early though.

 

[Tabe]

Barring a disaster, I'll be there. I'll be on staff, same as Nats. Was a lot of work but even more fun. Hopefully we get a nice contingent of international folks.

 

[OtaMota]

I predict that someone will get a sub-4 single in the finals.

 

[Jason Tzeng]

I predict that someone will get a sub-4 single in the finals.

I guess 2 sub 4 in comps.
(3.92 and 3.71,both of them are done by North American, and the best 3×3 single for non-North American would be 4.03.)

 

[OtaMota]

I guess 2 sub 4 in comps.
(3.92 and 3.71,both of them are done by North American, and the best 3×3 single for non-North American would be 4.03.

I just guess one 3.96 in the finals.

 

[JDAW6]

I gues 2.94 by park in 3x3 finals

 

[TheSpeedSkewber]

5.22 winning average. Not spectacular, but enough. My prediction.

 

[fes_77]

Should I go hmmmmmmmmmm

 

[FenTheGoat]

5.22 winning average. Not spectacular, but enough. My prediction.

It’s crazy how a 5.22 average isn’t spectacular

 

[SpeakCuba]

I’ll predict Luke Garrett will win 3x3.

 

[OtaMota]

5.22 winning average. Not spectacular, but enough. My prediction.

I agree, but how did you come up with 5.22?

 

[TheSpeedSkewber]

I agree, but how did you come up with 5.22?

It's around the average times that top class speedcubers get in H2H finals. In fact im pretty sure Tymon has a video of a 5.22 average in head to head finals.

Edit: he did

 

[OtaMota]

I got 5.22 by finding the yearly inflation rate of 3x3 averages. In the past 5 years, the average yearly inflation was 1.038x faster every year. 1.077 is every two years, so 5.62 from 2022/ 1.077 is 5.22

 

[An Animating Cuber]

There’s a very slight chance I go, depends on how my parents feel about the registration fee ($140) + cost to travel

 

[Nacho9]

i hope to go, i only live 2 hours away, but i will need to go to more comps to qualify for events.

 

[Discomantis]

I signed up and am probably going to go to this comp.

I qualify for 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, OH, pyramimx, and skewb.

I might qualify for clock as I average 14 and have two upcoming clock comps.

 

[SpeakCuba]

I signed up and am probably going to go to this comp.

I qualify for 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, OH, pyramimx, and skewb.

I might qualify for clock as I average 14 and have two upcoming clock comps.

What do you mean by "qualify"?

 

[Discomantis]

What do you mean by "qualify"?

There are qualification times for each event at this competition


Basically, you have to have under a certain official average in order to compete in each event (except for FMC and MBLD. You have to be top 30 in the world by average to qualify for FMC and top 20 to qualify for MBLD)

You can set these times before June 6th 2024 in order to compete in events

 

[Mike Hughey]

I was concerned when I saw those qualifications. But it looks like that's top 20 and top 30 of competitors registered for this competition, not top 20 and top 30 in the world. Which is good because otherwise it would probably mean only a few people competing in those events, which would be ridiculous for NAC.

As is, I'm still disappointed those numbers are so much smaller than at US Nats this year. You'd think they'd be able to handle a similar number of people.

Especially FMC. How much harder is it to handle 100 FMC competitors vs. 30?