Brugge Beginners Open 2025
- Date
- Mar 22 - 23, 2025
- City
- Brugge, Belgium
- Venue
- Address
- Rijselstraat 7, Brugge
- Details
School cafetaria
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Flor De Meulemeester, Jesse Moens, Joran Pauwels, and Matthias Schegers
- WCA Delegates
- Clara Verbraeken, Lisa Leukemans, and Manu Vereecken
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition is participating in the official WCA Newcomer Month 2025. The registration process will reserve 30 spots for new competitors. New competitors are considered to have no WCA ID or a WCA ID with 2025. Returning competitors are considered to have a WCA ID that is from 2024 or earlier. All competitors must still follow all registration requirements for their registration to be considered complete. Your registration is only complete after paying the registration fee via the WCA website. Registrations will be accepted based on the moment of payment.
Registrations will be accepted based on the following:
* 30 spots are reserved for new competitors.
* Initially, 120 spots are available for returning competitors on a first come, first serve basis.
* If more than 30 new competitors register before 120 spots are filled by returning competitors, any additional new competitors will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis alongside returning competitors.
* If the spots reserved for new competitors are not filled by new competitors before registration closes two weeks prior to the competition, remaining spots, up to the competitor limit, will be accepted from registered returning competitors.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 94
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM UTC and closed Friday, March 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM UTC.
- 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 €12 (Euro).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
If your registration is cancelled before Friday, March 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM UTC you will be refunded 50% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Friday, March 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Friday, March 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM UTC on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Any spectator can attend for free.
This competition is part of WCA Newcomer Month (March 2025). 30 spots are reserved for new competitors or competitors with a 2025 WCA ID.
More info on the registration tab - Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Victor Roets won with an average of 7.76 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Romain Leblond finished second (8.75) and Noah Schoeters finished third (9.30).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Victor Roets | 7.01 | 7.76 | Belgium | 11.04 | 7.68 | 7.41 | 7.01 | 8.19 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Bowen Xie | 2.11 | 2.54 | Belgium | 2.27 | 2.79 | 2.57 | 5.19 | 2.11 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Matthias Schegers | 28.48 | 30.81 | Belgium | 30.28 | 28.48 | 32.69 | 29.45 | DNF | |||
| 5x5x5 Cube | Matthias Schegers | 55.49 | 59.41 | Belgium | 55.49 | 1:04.06 | 55.62 | 58.55 | DNF | |||
| 7x7x7 Cube | Bowen Xie | 2:53.63 | 2:57.59 | Belgium | 3:01.52 | 2:57.61 | 2:53.63 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Tias Claeys | 45.86 | DNF | Belgium | DNF | DNF | 45.86 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Nicolas Dupuis | 30 | Belgium | 30 | ||||||||
| Justin Vinckenbosch | 30 | Belgium | 30 | |||||||||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Le-Duy Vu | 13.74 | 15.86 | Belgium | 13.74 | 17.43 | 14.78 | 17.28 | 15.51 | |||
| Megaminx | Justin Vinckenbosch | 44.64 | 51.23 | Belgium | 53.00 | 48.22 | 54.76 | 52.46 | 44.64 | |||
| Pyraminx | Matthias Schegers | 2.24 | 2.77 | Belgium | 2.24 | 3.06 | 2.38 | 4.95 | 2.87 | |||
| Skewb | Elias Malomgré | 2.41 | 3.95 | Belgium | 2.41 | 6.20 | 4.32 | 5.03 | 2.49 | |||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 3:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:20.00 | |
| 5x5x5 Cube | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 5:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 2:00.00 | |
| 7x7x7 Cube | Final | Mo3 | 18:00.00 cumulative* | ||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Final | Bo3 | 12:00.00 cumulative* | ||
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Final | Bo1 | 1 hour | ||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 2:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 45.00 | |
| Megaminx | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 4:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 2:15.00 | |
| Pyraminx | First round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | |||
| Skewb | First round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 |
This competition is open to everyone. Registration starts on Tuesday, February 18 at 8 pm.
The entry fees for competitors is €12, guests can attend free of charge. This must be paid in advance, by following the instructions below.
This competition is a part of the WCA Newcomer Month 2025. 30 from 150 spots are reserved for new competitors of competitors with a 2025 WCA id. Carefully read the registration instructions below.
When 150 competitors have completed their registration by paying the entry fee, registration will be closed and a waiting list will be started.
How to register
- Fill in the form on this site.
- Pay the entry fee. You can only pay by credit card via the WCA website!
- Then, we will accept your registration and your name will show up on the registration list. Your registration will only be accepted as soon as we have received your payment. Registrations will be accepted based on the moment of payment.
Cancellation
If you registered but are unable to attend for some reason, you can cancel your registration by sending an email to the organizers. If you do this before Friday, 7th of March (two weeks before the competition), we will refund half of your entry fee.
Change events
You can change the events you are registered for on on this site, until the Friday, 7th of March, 8pm.
WCA Newcomer Month 2025
This competition is participating in the official WCA Newcomer Month 2025. The registration process will reserve 30 spots for new competitors. New competitors are considered to have no WCA ID or a WCA ID with 2025. Returning competitors are considered to have a WCA ID that is from 2024 or earlier. All competitors must still follow all registration requirements for their registration to be considered complete. Your registration is only complete after paying the registration fee via the WCA website. Registrations will be accepted based on the moment of payment
Registrations will be accepted based on the following:
* 30 spots are reserved for new competitors.
* Initially, 120 spots are available for returning competitors on a first come, first serve basis.
* If more than 30 new competitors register before 120 spots are filled by returning competitors, any additional new competitors will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis alongside returning competitors.
* If the spots reserved for new competitors are not filled by new competitors before registration closes two weeks prior to the competition, remaining spots, up to the competitor limit, will be accepted from registered returning competitors.
By car
The venue is the cafetaria of KTA Brugge. The entrance of the venue is located at Rijselstraat 7, Brugge.
Parking: there are limited parking spots at the venue. You can also park along the street or in a nearby carpark: https://www.brugge.be/parkeren-bezoekers
Public transport
The venue is located within walking distance of Brugge train station.
Enterance to the venue
Please checke the image below, dont use google maps, the back gate of the school is permanantly closed.
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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.