World Inter-University Cube Relay 2013-2014
34 teams from 21 institutions and 9 countries participated.
Year of graduation is given in parentheses. (nth grad for graduate student.) Unofficial teams are also listed, but without a rank.
River Hill High School Team A is the first high school team to win this competition!
Links: Speedsolving thread, Facebook event page, scrambles.
Final Results
| Rank | University | Location | Cuber 1 | Cuber 2 | Cuber 3 | Cuber 4 | Result (video link) | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | River Hill High School [Team A] | Clarksville, MD, USA | Andrew Huang (2015) | Andrew Park (2018) | Pavan Ravindra (2017) | Tanzer Balimtas (2015) | 44.69 | See note by admin1 |
| 2 | University of Waterloo [Team A] | Waterloo, ON, Canada | Julian David (2019) | Benjamin Wong (2019) | Jonathan Tan (2015) | Louis Cormier (2019) | 45.52 | Jon +2'd. Best time during practice was 40.09. |
| 3 | National Yang-Ming University | Taipei, Taiwan | Hung Lo (1st Grad) | Meng-Chiao Chou (2020) | Cheng-Chiao Yang (2020) | Yi-Heng Lee (2019) | 47.60 | We also filmed another video after several practice, it was sub-40 haha. |
| 4 | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway | Daniel Gloppestad Bajer (?) | Vegard Karstang (M, 201?) | Henrik Anfinsen (?th grad) | Hilmar Magnusson (M, 201?) | 48.46 | |
| 5 | Cal | Berkeley, CA, USA | Ryan Lim (Super Senior) | Ryan Jew (Freshman) | Edward Liu (Senior) | Chia-Wei Lu (Senior) | 50.47 | sigh |
| - | (Unofficial entry) Kyoto University Team C | Kyoto, Japan | Ryo Ito (2016) | Taku Yanai (2016) | Wataru Hashimura (2016) | Tomoya Yamashita (?) | 50.71 | Unofficial entry2 |
| - | (Unofficial entry) UC Berkeley Alumni | Berkeley, CA, USA | Nick Young (2008) | Dan Dzoan (2007) | Jeremy Fleischman (2010) | Steven Xu (2013) | 50.80 | Reconstruction: Impossible |
| 6 | University of Tsukuba | Ibaraki, Japan | Kohjiro Nishi (2018) | Taku Kaitani (2016) | Tomohiro Tanno (2nd grad) | Shuto Ueno (2016) | 52.11 | Our PB was 51seconds, so this time was very good! |
| 7 | Zhejiang University | Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China | Lingjun Wu (2018) | Yang Tang (2018) | Zhen Tang (2015) | Xiao Hu (2016) | 53.53 | |
| 8 | Kyoto University | Kyoto, Japan | Taku Yanai (2016) | Koji Ito (2018) | Suguru Imazeki (2018) | Wataru Hashimura (2016) | 58.96 | Koji & Suguru began speedcubing in April this year. They are so great newcomer! |
| 9 | University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | Yumu Tabuchi (2016) | Keita Nomura (2016) | Kazuhiro Fukada (2017) | Taihei Okamoto (2017) | 1:00.22 | Our team is the center of the front line in this video. |
| 10 | University of California, Berkeley (Team B) | Berkeley, CA, USA | Erik Cheng (2018) | Jianneng Li (2015 (MEng)) | Benjamin Chu (2016) | Ravi Fernando (1st grad) | 1:03.51 | The Canadian was again to blame. |
| 11 | University of Michigan Team A | MI, USA | Yuxuan Chen (2018) | Ben Zoller (2015) | James Hildreth (2017) | Kit Clement (2nd Grad) | 1:03.62 | Not our best effort (had a 57.xx in practice!) but at least we're improving on last year. |
| 12 | Keio University | Yokohama, Japan | Taishi Matsumoto (2017) | Kai Ito (2017) | Hiroshi Kawabata (2017) | Tomoyuki Hiraide (2016) | 1:06.47 | |
| 13 | University of Waterloo [Team D] | Waterloo, ON, Canada | Wilson Cheang (2017) | Kevin Matthews (2016) | Chen Zhang (2019) | Michael Rose (2017) | 1:08.19 | Better than Team C. |
| 14 | Tampere University of Technology | Tampere, Finland | Ville Kilpeläinen (2017) | Janne Lehtimäki (2017) | Sakari Rautalin (2017) | Juho Saarimaa (2017) | 1:11.81 | Tuu kahville! |
| 15 | Waseda University | Tokyo, Japan | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1:12.53 |
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| 16 | Meiji University | Tokyo, Japan | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1:18.47 |
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| 17 | Kyoto University B | Kyoto, Japan | Kosuke Watarai (2015) | Minato Imai (2018) | Naoko Ogino (2017) | Ryo Ito (2016) | 1:18.68 | Kosuke began speedcubing June 2014 |
| 18 | River Hill High School [Team B] | Clarksville, MD, USA | Osbert Wei (2018) | Maren Kamischke (2015) | Jack Tu (2016) | Kaitlyn Kim (2015) | 1:22.47 | |
| 19 | United States Naval Academy | Annapolis, MD, USA | Dominic Scott (2017) | Dean Corbett (2016) | Ian Leszczynski (2015) | Steven Zakravsky (2017) | 1:23.02 | Thank you for giving us the opportunity to compete. Go Navy Beat Army! |
| 20 | University of Waterloo [Team B] | Waterloo, ON, Canada | Joe Zeng (2016) | Daniel Que (2015) | Paul McVittie (2017) | Michael Shao (2014) | 1:27.72 | Team B(est). |
| 21 | University of Western Australia | Perth, WA, Australia | Matt Freind (2017) | Nicholas Johnson (2015) | Alex Theobald (2016) | Edward Hollingdale (2017) | 1:32.88 | This was a pretty good time for us. Sub 90s next year hopefully! |
| 22 | University of Virginia [Team A] | Charlottesville, VA, USA | Laurence Meyers (2015) | Daniel Saha (2017) | Justin Dao (2015) | Sesi Cadmus (2017) | 1:45.11 | |
| 23 | University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley, CA, USA | Yon Soo Park (2016) | Tina Tu (2016) | Snigdha Khare (2018) | Qiongyu Zeng (Reta) (?) | 1:57.34 | |
| 24 | Ecole Marie Curie [Team MariCubik] | Hem, France | Christoph Woittequand (teacher) | Samir Lakhdari (CM2) | Djébril Kechout (CM2) | Layna Djemaï (CM1) | 2:27.68 | We need practice... could be better |
| 25 | Mira Mesa High School Team C | San Diego, CA, USA | Jeric Baga (2018) | Anirudh Perubotla (2018) | Wesley Tran (2018) | Kenzie Nguyen (2018) | 2:58.66 | We are the froshman team for MMHS Cubing Club. |
| 26 | Mira Mesa High School Team D | San Diego, CA, USA | Brandon Giang (2018) | Crystal Huynh (2018) | Melvin Ha (2016) | Peter Huang (2016) | 3:13.66 | |
| 27 | Wangenheim Middle School [Team A] | San Diego, CA, USA | Darwin Do (2016) | Adrian Macaraig (2016) | Carl Pasco (2016) | Joshua Pasco (2015) | 3:27.61 | Go Wangenheim Beat Challenger! |
| 28 | University of Technology, Munich | Munich, Bavaria, Germany | Marcel Schumacher (2015) | Frank Schmidt (2015) | Fritz Löhr (2015) | Timo Ludwig (2015) | 3:34.38 | |
| 29 | Burlingame High School [Team B] | Burlingame, CA, USA | Katie Sharp (2018) | Kevin Hee (2017) | Emad Haddad (2015) | Ariana Chin (2018) | 3:41.91 | Yay, Burlingame High School's first complete attempt in history! |
| 30 | Burlingame High School [Team A] | Burlingame, CA, USA | Peter Skidmore (2016) | Ethan Hsieh (2015) | Leon Cheung (2015) | Riley Woo (2015) | DNF (3:42.71) | Riley tried to be Cool, but only ended up Looking like a fool |
| 30 | University of Michigan Team B | MI, USA | Albert Morgese (2018) | Kevin Tocco (2018) | Erik Loyd (2017) | Hiroshi Yamasaki (2nd Grad) | DNF (1:54.xx) | An unfortunate ending to a very good performance for this team -- would have been below a 1:55 without a timer reset. The future is bright for our club! |
| 30 | University of Waterloo [Team C] | Waterloo, ON | Justin Jaffray (2017) | Forte Shinko (2017) | Adrian Cheung (2016) | Sarah Strong (2015) | DNF (1:03.xx) | GG. |
1 Looking at the regulations on the contest page, there's no explicit clause about using a StackMat or not touching the cube when stopping the timer. This is also a clean stop, so (even with Waterloo's +2) I feel River Hill shouldn't be penalized. For next year, I'll add a clause about StackMat and penalities as in the WCA regulations. Sorry for the oversight, and once again, congrats to River Hill!
2 I asked them if I could include this as an unofficial team (some members have already competed on Teams A and B). I'm guessing this is their best team, and that they couldn't get all members for UT Open.
No-Shows =(
| University | Location | Cuber 1 | Cuber 2 | Cuber 3 | Cuber 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Universiti Putra Malaysia | Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia | Faiz Haziq (2018) | Abdu Qayyuum (2019) | Syakir Amin (2018) | Muhammad Syahmi (2019) |
| Chesapeake Science Point Public Charter School | Hanover, MD, USA | Rafee Mirza (2021) | Daniel Prieto (2019) | Christian Hardy (2019) | Ishmam Mirza (2015) |
| Philip Pocock | Mississauga, ON, Canada | Pawel Migdal (11th Grade) | Kasper Swaider (11th Grade) | Jean Roy Napenas (11th Grade) | Ray Vince Ong (11th Grade) |
| École secondaire De La Salle (Team A) | Ottawa, ON, Canada | Frédéric Amdur (2017) | Nicolas Bisaillon (2018) | Darcy Maloney (2020) | Sasha Hayashi (2017) |
| École secondaire De La Salle (Team B) | Ottawa, ON, Canada | Félix Nicol (2017) | Yann McHaffie (2020) | Emma Hayashi (2020) | Noah Staudte (2020) |
| River Hill High School [Team C] | Clarksville, MD, USA | John Newhagen (2017) | Richard Xu (2017) | Chris Kim (2018) | Nathan Ellis (2018) |
| University of Virginia [Team B] | Charlottesville, VA, USA | Lexi Schubert (2017) | Katie Carpenter (2016) | Mark Donehoo (2017) | Korbin Leclair (2017) |
| University of Central Florida | Orlando, FL, USA | Sam Goodwin (2017) | David Wilson (2017) | Alex Nhan (2018) | Calvin Yong (2017) |
| United States Naval Academy (Team B) | Annapolis, MD, USA | Eric Polk (2018) | Nolan Brandon (2018) | JD Barnett (2018) | Andrew Coen (2017) |
| Wangenheim Middle School [Team B] | San Diego, CA, USA | Yogi Raja (2016) | Christine Spaven< (2016) | Isabella Simpson (2016) | Janic Buenafe (2016) |
| Northeastern University | Boston, MA, USA | Tim Wong (2017) | Edward Lin (2019) | Scott Haller (2015) | Lucas Haber (2015) |