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  1. ShadenSmith

    New 2015 WCA Regulations (Effective July 1, 2015)

    I usually had to turn away 1-2 stickerless cubes at each of my competitions. I told them that they were not yet allowed under regulations and asked if they had another available.
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    Fantabulous Minnesota Competition -- Minneapolis, MN USA -- June 21st, 2015

    WCA website Competiton website Events: FMC Multi-BLD 4-BLD 5-BLD This is being held in association with the Fantabulous Michigan Competition! Events will be synchronized (but not results), and an unofficial head-to-head FMC challenge will end the day! See the competition website...
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    KCubing (Kansas city cubing group)

    In the context of Lawrence it is not something that I would enforce. It's a 100 person competition with about 50 new competitors. Waiting 60 seconds for a person to hear their name and figure out the process is not in the spirit of that regulation IMHO. Delays between competitors is definitely...
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    KCubing (Kansas city cubing group)

    I don't understand everyone's worries about these short events like pyraminx and skewb. Cutoffs don't make these events run shorter. Look at the Lawrence Spring 2015 results and see that *one* person did not make the cutoffs for pyraminx and *zero* competitors did not make cutoffs for skewb. Few...
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    Lawrence Spring Open 2015 (Kansas, USA)

    Official results are posted.
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    Lawrence Spring Open 2015 (Kansas, USA)

    Competition is announced and the CubingUSA website is live: http://www.cubingusa.com/LawrenceSpring2015/index.php
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    Lawrence Spring Open 2015 (Kansas, USA)

    So why waste time on 6x6? If you're not willing to dedicate the time to hold the event properly (with a reasonable cut-off) and you don't think many people will register anyway, why hold it? You're designing the competition around one competitor's wishes. Either use that time on an event people...
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    Announcing: New 4x4x4 Brute Force Solver

    Speedup is never guaranteed to be linear. I would be very surprised if you get linear scaling up to 16 cores on a dual socket machine.
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    Minnesota Cubing Club

    I could probably make it to a meeting this weekend.
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    UIUC Fall 2013 (Now with officialness!)

    Hm. This seems like a good idea. Walker? :-)
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    Minnesota Cubing Club

    I'd attend these if they're near the campus area. Most weekends work for me.
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    Speedcubing in Minnesota

    I'll be at UMN for the next 3-? years. Basically until I finish or die trying.
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    Cubetcha 2013

    You should come to this. I am. October 5th in Minneapolis, MN USA. Events: 2x2 3x3 4x4 5x5 7x7 OH BLD SQ1 Clock (tentative) 6x6 (tentative) Pyra (tentative) Website: http://www.cubingusa.com/cubetcha/index.php
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    Minnesota Cubing Club

    I'll be back in the cities come September and will try to make it to some meetups.
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    Cupcake's Winona Open 2013

    DYK... ...John Brechon?
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    Cupcake's Winona Open 2013

    Wee I'm excited to compete again :)
  17. ShadenSmith

    Indiana 2011

    Hope you guys have fun at this one. I have a different competition to attend this Saturday.
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    Dayton Fall 2011

    http://koii.cubingusa.com/dayton2011/index.php October 15th, 2011. Dayton, OH. Be there, or be square(-1). Also, someone drive me.
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    Indiana 2011

    Perhaps I will make it to this one.
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    Ohio Open 2011 - June 18th

    Hey, someone drive Chestie and I. The route Lexington -> Dayton -> Columbus is really the route you want to take, regardless of where you're coming from.
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