Date: January 28
Location: 145 Dwinelle
Registration Fee: $3*n+1, where n is the number of events you are competing in. $1 from each competitor's complete registration is collected as the WCA fee, and goes towards maintenance of WCA servers and other miscellaneous expenses.
This competition is recognized as an official World Cube Association competition. Therefore, all competitors should be familiar with the WCA regulations. If you are new to competing, you may want to look at CubingUSA's Competitor Tutorial.
01.19.2011: We've added a Mystery Puzzle! Please see the Events page for details on how to participate.
Octodecathlon:
This competition will mark Part 2 of the 2011-2012 Berkeley Octodecathlon Series. Below is a modified text of the original announcement on Speedsolving.com:
Basically, Berkeley will be hosting 3 seasonal competitions this school year: Berkeley Fall 2011, Berkeley Winter 2012, and Berkeley Spring 2012. What's new? These competitions are now going to be a series. Through those 3 competitions, we'll be running 18 of the 19 possible WCA official events (sorry, no feet). Competitors will compete in whichever events they wish to compete in.
Depending on how competitors place in each event, we'll award them points. 10 points for a 1st place finish, 7 points for a 2nd place finish, 5 points for a 3rd place finish, 3 points for a Top-10 finish, and 1 point otherwise.
At the conclusion of the series at Berkeley Spring 2012, we'll award the winner something big. The current proposal is $100 towards a trip to US Nationals 2012 (we would offer the whole trip, but we don't have that kind of money).
The catch? We'll only be taking your results from the top 5 distinct/unique events, so that more people have a chance of winning. This means that you could, theoretically, win by destroying 4BLD, 5BLD, MultiBLD, BLD, and placing decently in one other event.
Should there be a tie, we'll be breaking the tie by fastest 3x3 speedsolve average set in any round at any of the three competitions. Therefore, 3x3 still counts for slightly more, but not so much that someone who dominates at 3x3 is guaranteed a victory.
Some events, such as 3x3 or 3OH, will be run at multiple competitions. This leaves open the possibility that up to 3 different people could use a 1st place finish in 3x3 as one of their point-qualifying events. However, because we are looking at distinct/unique events per person, one person cannot use 3 1st place finishes in 3x3 as 3 of their point-qualifying events.
2nd and 3rd place will tentatively receive $10 and $1, respectively (prizes may be adjusted or modified at any time from now until the Winter competition).
Ties will result in multiple people receiving credit for the place they have tied for. DNF results will not be counted as a part of point totals. Standings will be posted no more than one week after each competition.