CubingZA Cape Cubes Summer 2023

Date: Jan 28 - 29, 2023
City: Cape Town, South Africa
Venue: Kirstenhof Primary School
Address: Kirstenhof Primary School, Kirstenhof
Details: School hall and side classroom for MBLD
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Brent Boswell, Daniel David Mizen, Duncan Hobbs, Dylan Swarts, and Maverick Pearson
WCA Delegates: Brent Boswell, Duncan Hobbs, Maverick Pearson, and Timothy Lawrance

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Information

CubingZA is excited to announce the first Cape Town competition for 2023. Dust off your cubes and get ready to set some PB's - or even records! Don't forget that to participate you need to register for the competition in the "Register" tab, and make payment by buying a ticket on our Quicket page.

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". These roles will be explained as part of the "New Competitor Tutorial", but you can take a look at this video.

SPONSORSHIP

A big thanks to Speedcubes who are sponsoring vouchers as a part of the prizes for this competition. They will have a stall set up at the venue for you to try out and buy the different speedcubes they have on offer.

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.

If you'd be interested in helping out, please get in touch. We are particularly looking for help with communications, and graphic design.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 96

Registration period

Online registration opened Sunday, December 18, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC and closed Thursday, January 26, 2023 at 6:48 AM UTC.

Registration requirements

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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 100 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is R250 (South African Rand).
If your registration is cancelled before Sunday, January 22, 2023 at 8:00 PM UTC you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Thursday, January 26, 2023 at 8:00 PM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Thursday, January 26, 2023 at 9:01 PM UTC on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 2 guests.

REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS

Please note that there are THREE steps you need to take to be entered into this competition:

First-timer competitors must create a WCA account if they do not already have one (or their parent/guardian must create one for them).
The competitor must register for the competition using their WCA account, specifying which events they want to participate in.
The competitor must pay the entry fee by buying a ticket on Quicket.

Highlights

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Daniel Rush won with an average of 7.64 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Raphael Fast finished second (10.40) and Abdul Darries finished third (10.41).

African records: Daniel Rush‎ 4x4x4 Cube 26.84 (single) and 4x4x4 Cube 28.57 (average); Dylan Swarts‎ 3x3x3 Multi-Blind 22/27 57:22 (single).

3x3x3 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Daniel Rush	6.88	7.64	South Africa	7.51	7.82	8.22	7.58	6.88
2	Raphael Fast	10.04	10.40	Canada	10.38	12.54	10.04	10.08	10.73
3	Abdul Darries	8.41	10.41	South Africa	12.20	9.58	10.90	8.41	10.74

2x2x2 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Maverick Pearson	2.81	3.49	South Africa	3.54	2.81	3.24	DNF	3.68
2	Raphael Fast	2.94	3.53	Canada	3.79	3.17	5.16	2.94	3.62
3	Samuel Collett	2.13	3.60	South Africa	3.82	2.13	3.00	3.97	4.01

4x4x4 Cube

#	Name	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
1	Daniel Rush	26.84	AfR	28.57	AfR	South Africa	27.78	30.90	27.02	32.48	26.84
2	Maverick Pearson	40.74		42.34		South Africa	52.27	43.11	43.01	40.74	40.90
3	Dylan Swarts	42.02		44.80		South Africa	43.18	42.02	45.13	46.27	46.10

3x3x3 Blindfolded

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Duncan Hobbs	40.53	46.92	South Africa	42.15	58.08	40.53
2	Dylan Swarts	41.94	DNF	South Africa	DNF	41.94	42.30
3	Maverick Pearson	2:02.98	DNF	South Africa	DNF	DNF	2:02.98

3x3x3 One-Handed

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Maverick Pearson	18.75	21.06	South Africa	21.42	18.75	21.78	27.37	19.98
2	Calum Visagie	15.62	21.99	South Africa	35.80	15.62	22.95	22.34	20.68
3	Daniel Rush	18.39	22.69	South Africa	26.38	22.69	19.01	28.19	18.39

Megaminx

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Daniel Rush	45.56	54.52	South Africa	53.38	56.18	45.56	54.00	1:02.65
2	Dylan Swarts	1:08.04	1:18.11	South Africa	1:16.36	1:20.86	1:17.57	1:08.04	1:20.39
3	Maverick Pearson	1:10.56	1:20.98	South Africa	1:20.03	1:10.56	1:27.65	1:22.52	1:20.39

Skewb

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Tristan Ford	4.14	5.25	South Africa	12.87	4.14	6.79	4.67	4.28
2	Tymon Sozański	5.16	6.13	Poland	5.16	6.65	6.11	5.63	12.64
3	Samuel Collett	5.16	6.23	South Africa	8.20	5.87	5.16	5.87	6.96

3x3x3 Multi-Blind

#	Name	Best		Representing	Solves
1	Dylan Swarts	22/27 57:22	AfR	South Africa	DNF	22/27 57:22
2	Duncan Hobbs	21/25 1:00:00		South Africa	21/25 1:00:00	20/27 55:47
3	Timothy Lawrance	8/8 44:31		South Africa	8/11 49:19	8/8 44:31