Geel Beginners Saturday 2024
- Date
- Mar 16, 2024
- City
- Geel, Belgium
- Venue
Sint-Dimpnacollege Geel
- Address
- Gasthuisstraat 4, 2440 Geel
- Details
Cafetaria "de Club"
- Contact
- Organizers
- Elias Malomgré, Giles Mampaey, and Matthias Schegers
- WCA Delegate
- Bruno Vervoort
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition is participating in the official WCA Newcomer Month 2024. The registration process will reserve 20 spots for new competitors. New competitors are considered to have no WCA ID or a WCA ID with 2024. Returning competitors are considered to have a WCA ID that is from 2023 or earlier. Carefully read the instructions on the WCA Newcomer Month tab.Your registration is only complete after paying the registration fee via the WCA website. Registrations will be accepted based on the moment of payment. Carefully read the registration instructions.
This competition is a twin competition with Geel Beginners Sunday 2024. You can only register for one day!
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 54
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at 7:00 PM UTC and closed Friday, March 8, 2024 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.
This competition is part of the Geel Beginners 2023 Competition Series. Other competitions in this Series are: Note: You can submit a registration for all competitions in a Series, but only one of those registrations can be confirmed and accepted. You will only be allowed to compete in one of the Series competitions!
There is a competitor limit of 60 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is €10 (Euro).
If your registration is cancelled before Friday, March 8, 2024 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 8, 2024 at 7:00 PM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Friday, March 8, 2024 at 7:00 PM UTC on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
This competition is part of WCA Newcomer Month (March 2024).** 20 spots are reserved for new competitors or competitors with a 2024 WCA ID. **
More info on the registration tab - Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Imanuel Leonid Müller won with an average of 8.86 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Christofor Gabriel Costea finished second (11.21) and Nikita Frétay--Bayart finished third (11.22).
Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
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3x3x3 Cube | Imanuel Leonid Müller | 5.80 | 8.86 | Germany | 11.05 | 10.13 | 5.80 | 8.70 | 7.76 | |||
2x2x2 Cube | Christofor Gabriel Costea | 1.31 | 1.45 | Romania | 1.31 | 4.65 | 1.56 | 1.37 | 1.42 | |||
Pyraminx | Tim van Huet | 2.20 | 3.60 | Netherlands | 4.05 | 4.33 | 2.88 | 2.20 | 3.87 | |||
Skewb | Elias Malomgré | 2.26 | 3.61 | Belgium | 4.49 | 3.61 | 3.91 | 3.31 | 2.26 |
Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Proceed |
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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 | ||
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 |
We have reached the competitor limit of 60 competitors.
The entry fees for competitors is €10, guests can attend free of charge.
If you are on the waiting list: we will send the first person on the waiting list an e-mail whenever a spot becomes available. You can claim the spot if you reply within 48 hours after we send you the e-mail. If your registration is not accepted before the competition, we will refund your entry fee.
This competition is a part of the WCA Newcomer Month 2024. 20 from 60 spots are reserved for new competitors of competitors with a 2024 WCA id. This competition is a twin competition with Geel Beginners Sunday 2024. **You can only register for one day!
How to register for the waiting list
- 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 complete 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, March 8 at 8PM, we will refund half of your entry fee.
Change events
If you want to change the events you're registered for, you can do so yourself on the same place where you registered. You can do this until Friday, March 8 at 8PM.
Waiting list
- Johan Arley Ruiz Restrepo
This competition is participating in the official WCA Newcomer Month 2024. The registration process will reserve 20 spots for new competitors. New competitors are considered to have no WCA ID or a WCA ID with 2024. Returning competitors are considered to have a WCA ID that is from 2023 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:
* 20 spots are reserved for new competitors.
* Initially, 40 spots are available for returning competitors on a first come, first serve basis.
* If more than 20 new competitors register before 40 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.
The venue is located in school cafetaria 'the Club' (Gasthuisstraat 4, 2440 Geel)
By car: There is a free parking lot nearby the school (image below). The entrance to this parking lot is located at Logen 5, Geel. You can use the big parking lot (large green square) and the school’s parking lot, located in the Amandus De Vosstraat (small green square). From here, it’s a 5 minute walk (300m) to the venue.
For other parking options, check https://www.geel.be/parkeerzones-en--tarieven.
Public transportation: The venue is a 20 minute walk from Geel train station, which has direct connections from Antwerp. There will be construction works during the weekend. A replacement bus will be in use. Plan your train trip on https://www.belgiantrain.be.
By bus: bus stop 'Geel Ziekenhuis': lines 19, 32a, 490, 510
bus stop 'Geel Sint-Dimpnaplein': lines 98, 380, 381
Plan your bus trip on https://www.delijn.be/.
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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).
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.