Geel Beginners Sunday 2024
- Date
- Mar 17, 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 Saturday 2024. You can only register for one of day!
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 58
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- Registration requirements
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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 you will be refunded 50% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until 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.
Andrey Che won with an average of 6.35 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Bruno Vervoort finished second (9.13) and Elias Meynckens finished third (9.30).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Andrey Che | 6.01 | 6.35 | Russia | 6.01 | 6.48 | 7.30 | 6.25 | 6.33 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Andrey Che | 1.05 | 1.69 | Russia | 1.88 | 1.56 | 1.62 | 1.05 | 1.97 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Andrey Che | 30.62 | 32.04 | Russia | 33.38 | 34.61 | 31.38 | 31.37 | 30.62 | |||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Andrey Che | 8.61 | 10.94 | Russia | 10.04 | 8.61 | 10.20 | 12.58 | 13.35 | |||
| Pyraminx | Andrey Che | 2.60 | 3.37 | Russia | 4.18 | 2.60 | 3.10 | 3.55 | 3.45 | |||
| Skewb | Andrey Che | 3.65 | 4.70 | Russia | 3.65 | 5.85 | 5.51 | 4.33 | 4.27 | |||
This competition is open to everyone. Registration starts on Tuesday, February 13 at 8 pm. This competition is a twin competition with Geel Beginners Saturday 2024. You can only register for one of day!
The entry fees for competitors is €10, 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 2024. 20 from 60 spots are reserved for new competitors of competitors with a 2024 WCA id. Carefully read the registration instructions below.
When 60 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, 8th of March at 8pm (the Friday 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, 8th of March at 8pm.
40 returning competitors reached
We have reached 40 returning competitors (2023 WCA id or older). This means that we will only accept new competitors (newcomers or 2024 WCA id) until Friday, March 1, 8pm. If we don't reach the competitor limit by Friday, March 1, 8pm, we will accept returning competitors off the waiting list.
New competitors will still be accepted until we reach the competitor limit!
Returning competitors can still register for the Saturday competition!
Waiting list (returning competitors):
1. Lodewijk Vandueren
2. Mathias Imans
3. Gaston Van Asbroeck
4. Hubert Braconnier
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'.
By car: Navigate to Gasthuisstraat 4, 2440 Geel. Street parking is free on Sunday.
Public transportation: The venue is a 20 minute walk from Geel train station, which has direct connections from Antwerp. 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).
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.