French Open 2009
- Date
- Mar 14 - 15, 2009
- City
- Serris (Paris), France
- Venue
- Address
- 7 cours du Danube 77700 Serris
- Website
- French Open 2009 website
- Contact
- Organizers
- Clément Gallet and Jean-Louis Mathieu
- WCA Delegate
- Clément Gallet
- Information
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 102
- Registration requirements
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- Highlights
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Breandan Vallance won with an average of 12.06 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Jimmy Coll finished second (13.48) and Mats Valk finished third (13.67).
Oceanian records: Jonathan Adlam 3x3x3 Fewest Moves 42 (single).
South American records: Gabriel Eduardo Núñez Serna 4x4x4 Cube 1:00.83 (single), 5x5x5 Cube 2:09.78 (single), 5x5x5 Cube 2:12.82 (average), 6x6x6 Cube 4:22.28 (single), 6x6x6 Cube 4:38.19 (average), 7x7x7 Cube 6:48.25 (single), 7x7x7 Cube 7:25.69 (average), and Clock 30.19 (average).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Breandan Vallance | 11.59 | 12.06 | NR | United Kingdom | 15.22 | 12.28 | 11.59 | 12.15 | 11.75 | ||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Benjamin Sintes | 2.94 | 4.33 | France | 4.66 | 2.94 | 4.78 | 3.55 | DNF | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Christopher Ness | 53.94 | 56.46 | NR | United Kingdom | 1:03.59 | 56.53 | 57.40 | 55.46 | 53.94 | ||
| 5x5x5 Cube | Jimmy Coll | 1:32.46 | 1:37.40 | Belgium | 1:35.15 | 1:32.46 | 1:44.18 | 1:32.88 | 1:45.09 | |||
| 6x6x6 Cube | Bence Barát | 3:09.66 | NR | 3:15.18 | NR | Hungary | 3:09.66 | 3:25.83 | 3:10.05 | |||
| 7x7x7 Cube | Bence Barát | 4:31.90 | NR | 4:59.34 | NR | Hungary | 5:06.58 | 4:31.90 | 5:19.55 | |||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Guillain Potron | 1:34.16 | France | 1:34.16 | DNF | |||||||
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Mats Valk | 28 | Netherlands | 28 | ||||||||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Nico Kupfer | 17.78 | 20.43 | NR | Spain | 17.78 | 22.68 | 20.52 | 22.00 | 18.77 | ||
| Clock | Gaël Dusser | 9.72 | 10.61 | NR | France | 9.86 | 12.84 | 11.78 | 9.72 | 10.18 | ||
| Megaminx | Bence Barát | 1:18.96 | 1:24.95 | NR | Hungary | 1:18.96 | 1:25.22 | 1:30.68 | ||||
| Pyraminx | Alejandro Riveiro Rodríguez | 6.91 | 8.91 | Spain | 12.69 | 8.00 | 10.44 | 6.91 | 8.30 | |||
| Square-1 | Bence Barát | 14.93 | NR | 20.29 | NR | Hungary | 24.66 | 16.44 | 14.93 | 23.81 | 20.61 | |
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Sébastien Auroux | 24:33.00 | Germany | 24:33.00 | DNS | |||||||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Georges Poinsot | 4/5 50:00 | France | 4/5 50:00 | ||||||||
| Magic | Olivér Perge | 0.90 | 0.97 | Hungary | 0.90 | 0.90 | 0.91 | 1.11 | DNF | |||
| Master Magic | Bence Barát | 3.25 | 3.69 | Hungary | 4.16 | 3.25 | 3.44 | 4.46 | 3.47 | |||
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.