New York Minute RelayAAU Junior Olympic Games Sport Stacking Championships

The New York Minute Relay is a new event where teams work together to complete the most Cycles in one minute.

Teams:

• 8 teams made up of 4 stackers each (no alternates will be placed on the teams).
• Teams are formed from the top 24 male and top 8 female stackers, based on prelim cycle times.
• Each team will consist of 3 male and 1 female stacker.
• Teams compete at the same time in an elimination style event.
• Each of the 4 stackers must complete the cycle before looping around again, and the stacking order must stay the same within an attempt or “round”. The order can be switched up between rounds.

Rules:

• Stackers will stack the cycle pattern.
• There is no line. Transitions between stackers happen by forming a 6-6 after the cycle is complete, with the next stacker breaking apart the 6-6 back into a 3-6-3 before beginning.
• Stackers may choose which direction they want to form the 6-stack at the end, but the 3 stack needs to be taken off the same way it was put on.
• Only one stacker can be stacking at a time. The two 6-stacks have to be upright and at rest before the next stacker can begin.
• The cups should be in a 3-6-3 when the timer is started. After that, the cups should always begin and end in a 6-6 for each stacker.
• The last cycle does not need to be completed if the stacker decides they don’t have enough time to finish. They can stop the timer mid-sequence without being penalized, but that cycle will not count as a completed cycle. A cycle is counted as complete after the down stack of the 1-10-1. Cups do not have to be put into a 6-6 before the timer is stopped.

Scoring:

• Single elimination format.
• Teams start at the same time.
• Teams will only receive a point for each clean Cycle in a round.
• After each round, any team(s) that stops the timer after one minute is eliminated (multiple teams could get eliminated in a round for stopping past one minute). If no teams went past one minute, then the team with the least number of cycles completed is eliminated. If 2 or more teams completed the same number of cycles, the team who completed those cycles the slowest (based on time) is eliminated.
• If all teams that remain get eliminated in a round, then it’s considered a tie and all teams run again.
• For the final 2 teams remaining, a team needs to win 2 out of 3 rounds to win the event.