Greater Toronto 2024
- Date
- Feb 18, 2024
- City
- Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
- Venue
Ontario Tech University/Durham College
- Address
- 21 Avenue of Champions, Oshawa, ON L1G 8C4
- Details
Campus Recreation and Wellness Centre
- Contact
- Organizer
- Speedcubing Canada
- WCA Delegates
- Abdullah Gulab, Hevelyn Sato, Jonathan Esparaz, Michael Zheng, Nicholas McKee, Sarah Strong, Shanglin Ye, and Tarandeep Mittal
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
Registration Reminders
You must register and pay the registration fee before your registration can be accepted. Unpaid registrations will not be accepted. See the Competitor List and Waiting List sections near the bottom of this page for more details.
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- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 298
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Thursday, December 7, 2023 at 12:00 AM UTC and closed Friday, February 9, 2024 at 12:00 AM 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 350 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $32 (Canadian Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 12:00 AM UTC you will be refunded 75% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 12:00 AM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 12:00 AM UTC on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Any spectator can attend for free.
Competitor List
Registrants must pay the registration fee in order to be added to the competitor list. Unpaid registrations will not be accepted. Organizers manually accept registrations one at a time in the order the registration fees are paid, so you may have to wait a while before your name could show up on the competitor list.
Once the competitor list reaches the 350 competitor limit, registrants who pay the registration fee will be added to the waiting list instead of the competitor list. Due to the competitor limit, completing your registration within the initial registration period does not guarantee you a spot on the competitor list.
Waiting List
The waiting list is ordered based on the timestamp that registrants paid the registration fee. If you are added to the waiting list you will be informed via an email. Additionally, you can ask about your position on the waiting list by emailing Speedcubing Canada.
If anyone on the competitor list deletes their registration, the person at the top of the waiting list will be moved to the competitor list. After February 9th, 2024, the competitor list will be finalized and registrants who are still on the waiting list will be refunded 100% of their registration fee. Anyone on the waiting list may email Speedcubing Canada at any time to have their registration deleted (forfeiting your spot on the waiting list) and be refunded 100% of their registration fee.
If the competitor list fills up quickly, registration could close earlier than the originally listed date (February 9th, 2024). The waiting list will close at the same time that registration closes.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Stanley Wang won with an average of 7.05 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Brennen Lin finished second (7.20) and Burno Li Chak Kwan (李澤堃) finished third (7.28).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Stanley Wang | 6.40 | 7.05 | Canada | 7.29 | 10.55 | 6.99 | 6.40 | 6.88 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Arhaan Sareen | 1.25 | 1.84 | Canada | 1.88 | 2.10 | 1.63 | 1.25 | 2.00 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Burno Li Chak Kwan (李澤堃) | 22.47 | 24.97 | Hong Kong, China | 23.42 | 26.43 | 25.06 | 22.47 | 30.74 | |||
| Pyraminx | Harsha Paladugu | 1.55 | 2.36 | United States | 3.52 | 2.10 | 2.60 | 2.37 | 1.55 | |||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 10:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:00.00 | |
| Pyraminx | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 20 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 |
Vending
SpeedCubeShop will be on site selling a selection of WCA and non-WCA puzzles, lube, and other accessories. Cash and credit cards are accepted.
Prizes
SpeedCubeShop is sponsoring this competition and will provide gift cards to all podium finishers for use at their online store:
1st place: $15.00
2nd place: $10.00
3rd place: $5.00
The Fastest First-Time Competitor in 3x3x3 Cube Round 1 at this competition will be provided a $30.00 gift card from SpeedCubeShop!
You can find your group assignments here: https://www.competitiongroups.com/competitions/GreaterToronto2024
These "groups" are when you are assigned to compete, judge and/or scramble during an event you are registered for.
Per Regulations 1e2 and 1f2, all competitors must be available to help judge and scramble. If you're unsure how to judge, please review the WCA Regulations, watch this video, or ask one of the WCA Delegates at the competition.
Please plan to arrive to each of your groups five minutes before it is scheduled to begin. Showing up excessively late to your group may result in not being allowed to compete in that event.
Venue
The competition will be held in Triple Gymnasium in the Campus Recreation and Wellness Centre (CRWC), noted in pink in the map above.
Parking
Parking is available in Founders' Parking Lot 2, marked in blue. The small parking lots that are north and south of the CRWC are parking by permit only, and cannot be used by visitors. A map of the campus can be found here.
Public Transit
The venue is serviced by GO bus routes and Durham Region Transit. All buses noted below will stop at the stop marked in green noted in map above.
- Highway 407 Terminal, Unionville GO, Cornell Bus Terminal - connect to the GO Bus 52 Eastbound bus towards Oshawa
- From Union Station (option 1) - take the Lakeshore East train to DC Oshawa GO and connect to the GO Bus 52 Westbound
- From Union Station (option 2) - take the Lakeshore East train to Whitby GO and connect to the DRT 905 or 302 bus (free transfer with Presto)
Food
There are many options within a 15 minute walk along Simcoe Street.
When does the competition start? When should I arrive at the venue?
The check-in desk opens at 8:30 AM and the first event (4x4x4 Cube) starts at 9:15 AM. Morning Announcements will take place at 10:35 AM, right before 3x3x3 Cube starts at 10:50 AM. Please see the schedule for full details.
What should I expect at my first competition?
Please watch these short videos:
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.