George School Open 2019
- Date
- May 11, 2019
- City
- Newtown, Pennsylvania, United States
- Venue
- Address
- 1690 Newtown Langhorne Rd, Newtown, PA 18940
- Details
Fitness & Athletics Center (FAC)
- Contact
- Organizer
- Young He (何嘉炀)
- WCA Delegate
- Evan Liu
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
Registration fee will be waived for George School students, faculty, and staff members. Please leave a comment in your registration if this applies to you.
Clock and skewb finals will only be held if time permits.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 81
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- Registration requirements
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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 $15 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee.
On the spot registrations will be accepted with a base registration fee of $20 (United States Dollar).
Registration is not complete until payment of the registration fee is made.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Patrick Ponce won with an average of 6.95 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Kymberlyn Calderon finished second (8.28) and Daniel Karnaukh finished third (8.66).
North American records: Evan Liu Clock 3.51 (single).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Patrick Ponce | 5.88 | 6.95 | United States | 6.90 | 7.90 | 5.88 | 6.07 | 7.88 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Daniel Karnaukh | 1.50 | 1.89 | United States | 1.50 | 2.17 | 1.64 | 2.57 | 1.86 | |||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Patrick Ponce | 8.85 | 11.76 | United States | 8.85 | 13.07 | 12.23 | 11.64 | 11.41 | |||
| Clock | Aedan Bryant | 4.95 | 6.37 | United States | 6.45 | 6.75 | 5.90 | 6.95 | 4.95 | |||
| Skewb | Luigi Soriano | 2.83 | 3.47 | United States | DNF | 2.83 | 3.20 | 3.30 | 3.91 | |||
| Square-1 | Samuel Fang | 8.53 | 9.40 | United States | 9.91 | 8.53 | 9.31 | 8.98 | 15.57 | |||
Venue:
The Fitness and Athletics Center is located south of the central campus. Please follow the "Admissions" sign and enter through Farm Dr.
Parking:
Parking is available in the FAC parking lot, in front of the venue. Additional parking is available if FAC lot is filled up.
Dining:
Summit Square is available with many restaurants right across Newtown-Langhorne Rd (via Drayton Cir). The walk usually takes 5 to 10 minutes.
Public Transportation:
Bus 130 Frankford & Knights
Newtown-Langhorne Rd & Summit Trace Rd
ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING
For First-Time Competitors
All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. This video gives a basic overview of the rules.
In addition, please read this document before coming to the competition. Huge thanks to Olivér Perge and Niki Placskó for the document!
For All Competitors
When you arrive, you will receive a card with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event. In addition, you will also have judging/scrambling assignments on your card. Every competitor is expected to help out during the event(s) they are registered for. The card will look like the following:
If you do not arrive to help during your scheduled event, and there are not enough staff members, we reserve the right to disqualify you from competing.
As the competitor limit has been reached, we will be creating a waitlist for those intending to compete but was unable to be accomodated in said limit. If a confirmed competitor decides to cancel their registration, we will accept waitlisted competitors ranked according to payment time.
You can access the waitlist here: link
Note: Your registration will NOT be complete until you have paid the registration fee or have it waived (for GS students and faculty). You will NOT be placed on the waitlist if your registration is incomplete.
Many thanks to TheCubicle for sponsoring this competition!
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.