Big & Blind Pretoria 2024

Date: Jun 15, 2024
City: Pretoria, South Africa
Venue: Brooklyn Gereformeede Kerk Hall
Address: 230 Duxbury Rd, Hillcrest, Pretoria, 0083
Details: Drive to the gates and the guards will let you through, park in any open parking, entrances to the venue will have signs
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Marike Faught and Taariq Hassim
WCA Delegate: Marike Faught

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Information

Information

CubingZA is excited to announce Big & Blind Pretoria 2024! This competition is focused on the the bigger NxNs like 5x5, 6x6 and 7x7 and blind events!
Don't forget that to participate you need to register for the competition in the "Register" tab, and make payment by buying a ticket. Please see payment details below.
If you are competing in multi-blind, please make sure to arrive between 07:30-07:45 for cube submission.

SPECTATORS

Competitors are welcome to bring up to two spectators with them.

VOLUNTEERING

Please note that all competitors are required to assist with volunteering during the competition - either in the role of "runner", "judge" or "scrambler".

If any competitor or competitor's guest is willing to help judge with the blind events, especially multi-blind, please let us know.

About CubingZA

Competitions in South Africa have exploded since the end of COVID, and interest is only getting stronger. CubingZA is a volunteer organisation made up of delegates and community members who have come together to try and ensure that we can sustainably run regular competitions all across the country.

Events
Competitors: 9

Registration period: Online registration opened Friday, May 17, 2024 at 2:00 AM UTC and closed Friday, June 14, 2024 at 2:00 PM UTC.
Registration requirements: This competition is over, click here to display the registration requirements it used.

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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 30 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is R100 (South African Rand).
If your registration is cancelled before Friday, June 14, 2024 at 2:00 PM UTC you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Friday, June 14, 2024 at 2:00 PM UTC.
We encourage everyone to register for the events they want to compete in via your online registration, however you may add events to your registration up until the event has started.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Any spectator can attend for free.

Payment

Please note that there are THREE steps you need to take to be entered into this competition:
1. First-timer competitors must create a WCA account if they do not already have one (or their parent/guardian must create one for them).
2. The competitor must register for the competition using their WCA account, specifying which events they want to participate in.
3. Credit and Debit Card payments for the competition entry fee of R100.00 can be made at THIS LINK
DO NOT PAY UNTIL YOU HAVE REGISTERED IN STEP 2 ABOVE PLEASE.

Please note the following:
* If you haven't both registered for the competition (Step 2) and paid for a ticket (Step 3), you will not be able to compete.
Highlights: Click here to display the highlights of the competition.

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African records: Marike Faught‎ 5x5x5 Blindfolded 12:25.00 (single).

Event	Name	Best		Average	Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	Ruben Grobler	1:02.75		1:07.09	South Africa	1:07.53	1:08.86	1:04.88	1:02.75	1:10.29
6x6x6 Cube	Osman Badroodin	1:54.59		2:02.60	South Africa	2:03.25	1:54.59	2:09.96
7x7x7 Cube	Osman Badroodin	3:17.97		3:20.58	South Africa	3:17.97	3:23.55	3:20.21
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Marike Faught	1:02.80		DNF	South Africa	DNF	1:02.80	DNF
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Marike Faught	4:25.23	NR	DNF	South Africa	6:15.78	DNF	4:25.23
5x5x5 Blindfolded	Marike Faught	12:25.00	AfR	DNF	South Africa	12:25.00	DNF	DNF
3x3x3 Multi-Blind	Taariq Hassim	7/7 50:43			South Africa	7/7 50:43

Event	Round	Format	Time limit	Cutoff	Proceed
5x5x5 Cube	First round	Bo2 / Ao5	10:00.00	2 attempts to get < 4:00.00	Top 75% advance to next round
5x5x5 Cube	Final	Ao5	10:00.00
6x6x6 Cube	Final	Bo1 / Mo3	10:00.00	1 attempt to get < 6:00.00
7x7x7 Cube	Final	Bo1 / Mo3	10:00.00	1 attempt to get < 8:00.00
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Final	Bo3	10:00.00
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Final	Bo3	2:00:00.00 total for 5x5x5 Blindfolded Final, 4x4x4 Blindfolded Final**
5x5x5 Blindfolded	Final	Bo3	2:00:00.00 total for 5x5x5 Blindfolded Final, 4x4x4 Blindfolded Final**
3x3x3 Multi-Blind	Final	Bo1	10:00.00 per cube, up to 60:00.00

Schedules are subject to adjustments, especially once registration totals are known. Registered competitors will be notified by email of any major changes.

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The time zone for this venue is Africa/Johannesburg.

Events

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Saturday, June 15, 2024

9:30 - 11:40

4x4x4 Blindfolded Final

9:30 - 11:40

5x5x5 Blindfolded Final

7:30 - 8:00

Arrive and cube submission for 3x3x3 Multi-Blind

8:00 - 9:30

3x3x3 Multi-Blind Final (Attempt 1)

11:40 - 12:40

3x3x3 Blindfolded Final

12:40 - 1:40

Lunch

1:40 - 3:10

5x5x5 Cube First round

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 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.