LogoKoalafication Sydney 2019
- Date
- Mar 16 - 17, 2019
- City
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Venue
- Address
- 104 Maxwell Street, Turramurra NSW 2074
- Details
School Hall
- Contact
- Organizers
- Edward Hollingdale, Feliks Zemdegs, Paul N. van de Geest, and Speedcubing Australia
- WCA Delegates
- Edward Hollingdale, Nathan Seeto, and Sebastian Robbins
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition is part of a series of events around Australia to enable competitors to obtain qualifying results for the upcoming WCA World Championship 2019 in Melbourne. For more information, visit the WCA World Championship 2019 website.
Contact Us
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 113
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- Registration requirements
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This competition is over, click here to display the registration requirements it used.Create a WCA account here if you don't have one.
If this is not your first competition, associate your WCA ID to your WCA account here.
Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 150 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $22 (Australian Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Upon registering you will receive an email stating “Your registration for Koalafication Sydney 2019 is submitted and pending approval” Please ensure you have paid the registration fees via stripe on the register page. Your registration will not be processed until you have paid the registration fees.
Once the competitor limit has filled new registrations will be added to a waitlist to be sorted in the order of payment. Waitlisted competitors will only be accepted provided one of the accepted competitors withdraws from the competition by emailing the organisation team at support@speedcubing.org.au. All competitors still on the waiting list after the 11th of March will be removed and issued a full refund.
Refunds will only be issued if we reach the competitor limit.
To receive a refund you must email the organisational team at support@speedcubing.org.au before the 11th of March. Refunds will not be issued after this date for any reason. If the competitor limit is not reached we will not issue refunds if you withdraw.Registration fee includes GST
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Feliks Zemdegs won with an average of 6.36 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Bryan Eng finished second (9.05) and Kirt Protacio finished third (9.85).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
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| 3x3x3 Cube | Feliks Zemdegs | 6.21 | 6.36 | Australia | 6.21 | 6.75 | 6.24 | 6.56 | 6.28 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Caleb Clark | 1.41 | 2.10 | Australia | 1.96 | 1.41 | 2.69 | 2.37 | 1.96 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Feliks Zemdegs | 23.50 | 23.95 | Australia | 23.50 | 23.81 | 25.96 | 23.86 | 24.18 | |||
| 5x5x5 Cube | Feliks Zemdegs | 43.16 | 47.53 | Australia | 46.04 | 55.64 | 48.63 | 43.16 | 47.93 | |||
| 6x6x6 Cube | Feliks Zemdegs | 1:28.01 | 1:29.55 | Australia | 1:29.47 | 1:31.17 | 1:28.01 | |||||
| 7x7x7 Cube | Feliks Zemdegs | 1:57.52 | 2:02.17 | Australia | 2:04.51 | 2:04.47 | 1:57.52 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Jack Cai | 20.27 | DNF | Australia | 20.27 | DNF | DNF | |||||
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Feliks Zemdegs | 24 | 29.33 | Australia | 24 | 30 | 34 | |||||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Feliks Zemdegs | 9.81 | 11.43 | Australia | 9.81 | 13.51 | 12.63 | 11.79 | 9.86 | |||
| Pyraminx | Caleb Clark | 4.11 | 4.42 | Australia | 4.52 | 4.22 | 4.53 | 4.11 | 6.30 | |||
| Skewb | Dylan Johnston | 3.34 | 3.54 | Australia | 3.76 | 3.36 | 3.49 | 3.34 | 5.13 | |||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Feliks Zemdegs | 6:24.55 | DNF | Australia | DNF | DNF | 6:24.55 | |||||
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | Nam Anh Dang | 16:28.00 | DNF | Australia | 16:28.00 | DNF | DNS | |||||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Jack Cai | 21/24 1:00:00 | Australia | 21/24 1:00:00 | ||||||||
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. What time should I arrive at the competition?
You should aim to arrive for registration at 9:30 on the Saturday for Registration, unless you are competing in 4x4 Blindfolded or 5x5 Blindfolded. You should be at the venue ready to compete 30 minutes before the scheduled start time of that event. Please note the schedule is subject to change on the day.
Q. How do I find out if I've progressed to the second round?
Your times will be uploaded to cubecomps.com - please allow up to an hour from finishing your solves to them being uploaded. After all the times of a round has been entered, you can see if you are in the following round.
Q. How old do I have to be to compete?
Anyone can compete at any age! We encourage anyone considering to compete to register as it will be a great experience regardless of age.
Q. How fast do I have to be to compete?
To compete you only need to know how to solve the cube! Please check the events tab for information in time limits for each event.
Q. What do I need to know before the competition day?
Before attending you should have read and understood the WCA regulations . We also recommend that you watch this helpful competitor guide. You should also know when your events are scheduled throughout the day.
Q. Who can I ask for help on the day?
Your Delegates for this competition are Edward Hollingdale and Nathan Seeto and they will be happy to answer your questions.
Competitor Groups
Each round will involve multiple competitor groups at the competition. These groups have been generated by an algorythm and can be viewed here. Please note that the exact timings of the groups may vary slightly. Competitors must be ready to compete up to 20 minutes before their scheduled group.
Individual schedules can be found here. Each competitor will receive a printed copy of their individual schedule at registration on the Sunday.
Live results will be provided via cubecomps. It may take up to an hour between times being set and them appearing online.
Time limit
If you reach the time limit during your solve, the judge will stop you and your result will be DNF (see Regulation A1a4).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced (see Regulation A1a2).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced across rounds (see Guideline A1a2++).
Cutoff
The result to beat to proceed to the second phase of a cutoff round (see Regulation 9g).
Format
The format describes how to determine the ranking of competitors based on their results. The list of allowed formats per event is described in Regulation 9b. See Regulation 9f for a description of each format.