WCA World Championship 2019


Date
Jul 11 - 14, 2019
City
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Venue

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

Address
1 Convention Centre Place, South Wharf VIC 3006
Details

Plenary

Website
WCA World Championship 2019 website
Contact

Speedcubing Australia

Organizers
Edward Hollingdale, Ethan Pride, Jeffrey Hobbs, Kerrie Jarman, Paul N. van de Geest, Speedcubing Australia, and Tim McMahon
WCA Delegates
Alex Asbery, Edward Hollingdale, Ethan Pride, James Macdiarmid, Laura Ohrndorf, Liam Sweet, Nathan Seeto, Philippe Virouleau, and Sebastian Robbins
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Information

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Events
Main event
Competitors
833
Registration period

Online registration opened and closed .

Registration requirements
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There is a competitor limit of 1000 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $70 (Australian Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 50% of your registration fee.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators can attend paying an entry fee of $20 (Australian Dollar).
Competitors may only register for events that they are already qualified for.

If you notify us before 02/06/2019 23:59AEST you will receive a full refund of your event fees but not of your base fee.

The full list of base fees and per event fees can be found on the competition website.

Please note that qualification results apply for this competition. They can be found on the competition website. Competitors must have achieved the qualification result for their events by May 29, 2019.

Guest passes are available for purchase. Each competitor may purchase two (2) 4-day guest passes for $10 (Australian Dollar) each. Additional tickets may be purchased at the competition. Full details can be found on the competition website.

Registration fee includes GST for payments made after February 10th

Highlights
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Philipp Weyer won with an average of 6.74 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Sean Patrick Villanueva finished second (6.78) and Sebastian Weyer finished third (6.81).

World records: Andrew Huang‎ Skewb 0.93 (single); Max Park‎ 7x7x7 Cube 1:44.02 (single) and 7x7x7 Cube 1:50.10 (average); Stanley Chapel‎ 4x4x4 Blindfolded 1:08.07 (single), 4x4x4 Blindfolded 1:21.81 (average), and 5x5x5 Blindfolded 2:38.77 (single).

African records: Timothy Lawrance‎ 3x3x3 Fewest Moves 25 (single) and 3x3x3 Fewest Moves 28.00 (average).

Asian records: Lim Hung (林弘)‎ 3x3x3 With Feet 17.10 (single) and 3x3x3 With Feet 23.29 (average); Makoto Takaoka (高岡誠)‎ Square-1 7.50 (average); Seung Hyuk Nahm (남승혁)‎ 4x4x4 Cube 19.87 (single), 4x4x4 Cube 23.57 (average), 5x5x5 Cube 45.75 (average), 5x5x5 Cube 40.66 (single), 5x5x5 Cube 44.78 (average), and 6x6x6 Cube 1:24.61 (single).

Oceanian records: David Epstein‎ Square-1 8.68 (average); Tom Nelson‎ 3x3x3 Multi-Blind 29/31 57:09 (single).

European records: Amos Nordman‎ Megaminx 34.50 (average); Ciarán Beahan‎ 5x5x5 Cube 38.96 (single) and 6x6x6 Cube 1:27.23 (average); Martin Vædele Egdal‎ 3x3x3 Blindfolded 21.52 (average) and 3x3x3 Blindfolded 19.94 (average).

North American records: Max Hilliard‎ 3x3x3 Blindfolded 16.23 (single).

South American records: Manuel Gutman‎ 3x3x3 Blindfolded 20.81 (average) and 5x5x5 Blindfolded 6:13.53 (single).

Event Name Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube Philipp Weyer 5.97 6.74 Germany 9.637.266.245.976.73
2x2x2 Cube Jiazhou Li (李佳洲) 1.34 1.49 China 1.381.663.661.341.42
4x4x4 Cube Max Park 19.08 21.58 United States 19.7419.0823.2924.1121.72
5x5x5 Cube Max Park 40.79 41.43 United States 41.6440.8140.7941.8342.31
6x6x6 Cube Max Park 1:17.49 1:20.40 United States 1:24.591:17.491:19.12
7x7x7 Cube Max Park 1:44.02 WR 1:50.10 WR United States 1:44.021:50.941:55.33
3x3x3 Blindfolded Manuel Gutman 18.44 20.81 SAR Argentina 21.4222.5718.44
3x3x3 Fewest Moves Firstian Fushada (符逢城) 24 25.33 Indonesia 252724
Christopher Chi 24 25.33 United States 242725
3x3x3 One-Handed Max Park 9.69 10.48 United States 9.699.7110.4211.3212.44
Clock Yunhao Lou (娄云皓) 4.42 4.73 China 4.824.704.67DNF4.42
Megaminx Juan Pablo Huanqui 28.20 33.81 Peru 34.3532.1235.8434.9628.20
Pyraminx Tymon Kolasiński 1.98 2.40 Poland 2.864.141.982.082.25
Skewb Noriyuki Okada (岡田典之) 2.38 3.00 Japan 3.132.522.384.973.35
Square-1 Aiden Bartlett 6.82 7.60 United States 8.066.828.817.267.49
4x4x4 Blindfolded Stanley Chapel 1:08.07 WR 1:21.81 WR United States 1:37.101:08.071:20.27
5x5x5 Blindfolded Stanley Chapel 2:38.77 WR DNF United States DNFDNF2:38.77
3x3x3 Multi-Blind Graham Siggins 51/54 59:06 United States 50/54 1:00:0051/54 59:06
3x3x3 With Feet Lim Hung (林弘) 17.10 AsR 23.29 AsR Malaysia 23.3117.1026.9719.59DNF

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).

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.

Qualification

Qualification times must be set in other WCA competitions in order to compete. Qualification times must be set before No date.

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