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
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- 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
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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 30 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is R100 (South African Rand).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
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
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
African records: Marike Faught 5x5x5 Blindfolded 12:25.00 (single).
Dhiren Callister Nair - South Africa WCA profile
| Event | Round | # | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5x5x5 Cube | Final | 6 | 2:23.71 | 2:27.63 | South Africa | 2:23.71 | 2:25.81 | 2:37.75 | 2:25.18 | 2:31.90 | |||
| First round | 7 | 2:17.94 | 2:32.59 | South Africa | 2:46.90 | 2:17.94 | 3:06.33 | 2:23.50 | 2:27.36 | ||||
Ian Luies - South Africa WCA profile
| Event | Round | # | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5x5x5 Cube | Final | 3 | 1:16.78 | 1:29.31 | South Africa | 1:31.64 | 1:16.78 | 1:21.04 | 1:43.21 | 1:35.24 | |||
| First round | 4 | 1:21.21 | 1:27.98 | South Africa | 1:28.39 | 1:31.13 | 1:33.53 | 1:21.21 | 1:24.43 | ||||
| 6x6x6 Cube | Final | 5 | 2:34.05 | 2:50.27 | South Africa | 2:57.26 | 2:34.05 | 2:59.50 | |||||
| 7x7x7 Cube | Final | 2 | 3:53.83 | 4:14.64 | South Africa | 3:53.83 | 4:09.49 | 4:40.60 | |||||
Isaac Scheepers - South Africa WCA profile
| Event | Round | # | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5x5x5 Cube | Final | 5 | 1:25.50 | 1:30.69 | South Africa | 1:29.03 | 1:25.50 | 1:33.01 | 1:33.64 | 1:30.03 | |||
| First round | 3 | 1:12.55 | 1:24.55 | South Africa | 1:23.56 | 1:25.05 | 1:25.03 | 1:31.59 | 1:12.55 | ||||
| 6x6x6 Cube | Final | 4 | 2:46.44 | 2:50.19 | South Africa | 2:49.57 | 2:46.44 | 2:54.55 | |||||
| 7x7x7 Cube | Final | 5 | 6:31.72 | 6:52.90 | South Africa | 6:31.72 | 7:04.75 | 7:02.23 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Final | 6 | DNF | DNF | South Africa | DNF | DNF | DNF | |||||
Marike Faught - South Africa WCA profile
| Event | Round | # | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5x5x5 Cube | Final | 4 | 1:22.91 | 1:29.79 | South Africa | 1:27.12 | 1:28.49 | 1:33.77 | 1:22.91 | 1:37.77 | |||
| First round | 5 | 1:20.84 | 1:29.33 | South Africa | 1:28.68 | 1:20.84 | 1:31.05 | 1:40.35 | 1:28.27 | ||||
| 6x6x6 Cube | Final | 3 | 2:39.03 | 2:43.99 | South Africa | 2:52.14 | 2:40.80 | 2:39.03 | |||||
| 7x7x7 Cube | Final | 3 | 4:12.07 | 4:36.66 | South Africa | 5:12.10 | 4:12.07 | 4:25.82 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Final | 1 | 1:02.80 | DNF | South Africa | DNF | 1:02.80 | DNF | |||||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Final | 1 | 4:25.23 | NR | DNF | South Africa | 6:15.78 | DNF | 4:25.23 | ||||
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | Final | 1 | 12:25.00 | AfR | DNF | South Africa | 12:25.00 | DNF | DNF | ||||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Final | 2 | 14/21 55:35 | South Africa | 14/21 55:35 | ||||||||
Osman Badroodin - South Africa WCA profile
| Event | Round | # | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5x5x5 Cube | Final | 2 | 59.84 | 1:08.51 | South Africa | 1:15.48 | 59.84 | 1:07.87 | 1:17.20 | 1:02.18 | |||
| First round | 1 | 59.04 | 1:03.25 | South Africa | 1:05.51 | 1:03.64 | 59.04 | 1:00.61 | 1:14.49 | ||||
| 6x6x6 Cube | Final | 1 | 1:54.59 | 2:02.60 | South Africa | 2:03.25 | 1:54.59 | 2:09.96 | |||||
| 7x7x7 Cube | Final | 1 | 3:17.97 | 3:20.58 | South Africa | 3:17.97 | 3:23.55 | 3:20.21 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Final | 4 | 3:52.11 | DNF | South Africa | DNF | 4:56.71 | 3:52.11 | |||||
Ruben Grobler - South Africa WCA profile
| Event | Round | # | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5x5x5 Cube | Final | 1 | 1:02.75 | 1:07.09 | South Africa | 1:07.53 | 1:08.86 | 1:04.88 | 1:02.75 | 1:10.29 | |||
| First round | 2 | 1:02.91 | 1:08.15 | South Africa | 1:18.48 | 1:10.85 | 1:02.91 | 1:04.27 | 1:09.34 | ||||
| 6x6x6 Cube | Final | 2 | 2:10.68 | 2:17.20 | South Africa | 2:10.68 | 2:13.94 | 2:26.97 | |||||
| 7x7x7 Cube | Final | 6 | DNF | South Africa | DNF | ||||||||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Final | 2 | 1:04.17 | DNF | South Africa | 1:04.17 | 1:22.54 | DNF | |||||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Final | 4 | DNF | DNF | South Africa | DNF | DNF | DNF | |||||
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | Final | 2 | DNF | DNF | South Africa | DNF | DNF | DNS | |||||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Final | 4 | 5/9 41:16 | South Africa | 5/9 41:16 | ||||||||
Taariq Hassim - South Africa WCA profile
| Event | Round | # | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5x5x5 Cube | First round | 6 | 1:53.00 | 1:55.81 | South Africa | 3:15.67 | 1:53.64 | 1:58.19 | 1:53.00 | 1:55.60 | |||
| 6x6x6 Cube | Final | 6 | 4:11.42 | 4:19.51 | South Africa | 4:26.56 | 4:20.56 | 4:11.42 | |||||
| 7x7x7 Cube | Final | 4 | 6:19.48 | 6:52.19 | South Africa | 6:38.23 | 6:19.48 | 7:38.87 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Final | 5 | 4:27.35 | DNF | South Africa | DNF | DNF | 4:27.35 | |||||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Final | 3 | 18:32.00 | DNF | South Africa | DNF | DNF | 18:32.00 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Final | 1 | 7/7 50:43 | South Africa | 7/7 50:43 | ||||||||
Tyrone Pedro - South Africa WCA profile
| Event | Round | # | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5x5x5 Cube | First round | 9 | 2:39.91 | 3:02.23 | South Africa | 2:54.75 | 3:45.91 | 2:39.91 | 2:51.84 | 3:20.11 | |||
Yusuf Talha Sayed Karim - South Africa WCA profile
| Event | Round | # | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5x5x5 Cube | First round | 8 | 2:41.29 | 2:48.32 | South Africa | 3:25.91 | 2:54.27 | 2:41.29 | 2:42.83 | 2:47.87 | |||
| 6x6x6 Cube | Final | 7 | 7:13.32 | South Africa | 7:13.32 | ||||||||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Final | 3 | 1:44.04 | DNF | South Africa | 1:44.04 | DNF | 2:37.10 | |||||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Final | 2 | 14:55.00 | DNF | South Africa | DNF | 14:55.00 | DNF | |||||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Final | 3 | 3/3 22:01 | South Africa | 3/3 22:01 | ||||||||