Dolphin Coast Autumn 2023
- Date
- May 1, 2023
- City
- Salt Rock, South Africa
- Venue
Freedom House Church
- Address
- Burnedale Place, Salt Rock
- Details
Open-air church hall
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Jesse Tipton and Waseem Hoosain
- WCA Delegates
- Maverick Pearson and Timothy Lawrance
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
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".
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 52
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 8:00 AM UTC and closed Sunday, April 30, 2023 at 5:00 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 80 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is R215 (South African Rand).
If your registration is cancelled before Sunday, April 30, 2023 at 9:00 AM UTC you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Sunday, April 30, 2023 at 6:00 PM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Monday, May 1, 2023 at 6:00 PM UTC on the Register tab.
On the spot registrations will be accepted with a base registration fee of R250 (South African Rand).
Any spectator can attend for free.
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
Please note that there are THREE steps you need to take to be entered into this competition:
1) The competitor 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) The competitor must pay the entry fee by buying a ticket on Quicket.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.
Payment
After registering for the competition on the WCA website, your registration will be pending. Once the payment through Quicket has been confirmed, your registration will be approved. (Allow up to 24 hours for the organizers to confirm the payment.)
While we encourage you to register through the WCA website, competitors may instead register on the spot on the day of the competition provided the competitor limit has not been reached. The entry fee for on-the-spot registrations is R250. Please note that if the competitor limit of 80 competitors has been reached, you will not be allowed to register on the day. If you register on May 1st at the competition, you can either pay in cash or use your smartphone or other device with internet access to buy the On-The-Spot ticket on Quicket.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Waseem Hoosain won with an average of 8.53 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Zayd Oomar finished second (11.99) and Pranav Ramraj finished third (12.38).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Waseem Hoosain | 6.89 | 8.53 | South Africa | 11.84 | 6.89 | 8.94 | 8.38 | 8.27 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Waseem Hoosain | 32.37 | 35.09 | South Africa | 38.38 | 33.41 | 34.39 | 37.46 | 32.37 | |||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Timothy Lawrance | 2:15.44 | DNF | South Africa | 2:57.27 | 2:15.44 | DNF | |||||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Waseem Hoosain | 12.37 | 14.63 | South Africa | 13.85 | 12.37 | 18.62 | 15.50 | 14.54 | |||
| Pyraminx | Andre Johannes Goosen | 3.80 | 4.82 | South Africa | 5.63 | 4.59 | 5.04 | 3.80 | 4.84 | |||
| Skewb | Jesse Tipton | 4.82 | 5.48 | South Africa | 6.00 | 6.60 | 4.98 | 4.82 | 5.46 | |||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 24 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 10:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 2:00.00 | |
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Final | Bo3 | 10:00.00 | ||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 10:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:30.00 | Top 12 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 1:30.00 | |||
| Pyraminx | Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | ||
| Skewb | Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 |
If you're a first-time competitior, we would love to have you! It doesn't matter how quickly you can solve the cube - everyone is there to have fun, make new friends, and do their best.
Make sure to arrive at least 15 minutes before Registration ends. This helps us with entering everyone into the system and ensures that you're on time for the New competitor tutorial. As a first-time competitor, you don't want to miss this as we'll be going over all the details of how to participate in this competition.
If you're on the fence about going, take a look at this video giving a bit of insight into what a cube competition is like. If you would like some more information about what to expect, take a look at:
- this tutorial on how you'll complete your solves
- this video on what to expect at your first competition
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to the organisers - we would be happy to help!
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).
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.