Green School Paarl Open 2022
- Date
- Aug 28, 2022
- City
- Paarl, South Africa
- Venue
Green School South Africa
- Address
- Green School South Africa, R45, Paarl, 7646
- Details
School Hall
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizer
- Kari Doorduin
- WCA Delegate
- Maverick Pearson
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
Register for the first WCA Speedcubing Competition in Paarl, near Cape Town, South Africa!
COVID-19 Safety Measures
While it is no longer a national requirement to wear a face mask or practice social distancing, we encourage you to sanitize regularly and be respectful of personal space. If you are comfortable wearing a mask, please do so!Volunteering
We will need your help as volunteers to support with the running and judging of the day. If you would like to volunteer to help staff at the competition, please contact Maverick Pearson. Groups will be assigned so that volunteer duties don't clash with your competing.Cube Shop
Cape Town's own cube shop, Speedcubes.co.za, will have a stall open at the competition to sell a variety of puzzles. Check out their website to see what's available!Zero-waste Tuck Shop
There will be a tuck shop open near the school hall with healthy and tasty snacks, coffee, and drinks. There will also be a lunch option that can be booked beforehand. We will share the link to this booking closer to the day via email.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 63
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Sunday, July 31, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC and closed Saturday, August 27, 2022 at 11:59 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.
There is a competitor limit of 150 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is R215 (South African Rand).
If your registration is cancelled before Saturday, August 27, 2022 at 11:59 PM UTC you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Saturday, August 27, 2022 at 11:59 PM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Sunday, August 28, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC on the Register tab.
On the spot registrations will be accepted with a base registration fee of R250 (South African Rand).
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
Please note that there are THREE steps you need to take to be entered into this competition:
1) The competitor must create a WCA account if they do not already have one (or their parent/guardian must create one for them).
2) The competitor must register for the competition using their WCA account, specifying which events they want to participate in.
3) The competitor must pay the entry fee by buying the appropriate ticket on Quicket. When purchasing your ticket, make sure that the competitor's name is used as a reference so that we know who the ticket is for.Please note the following:
* if you haven't both registered for the competition (Step 2) and paid for a ticket (Step 3), you will not be able to compete.
* The base registration fee is ZAR215. Spectators may attend for free.
* Please note that on the spot registrations will be accepted for an increased entry fee of ZAR250.Refunds and terms:
If your registration is cancelled before Sunday, 28 August at midnight (00:00) you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee.No refunds will be offered after the cut off date has been reached.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Daniel Rush won with an average of 7.22 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Charlie Cleworth finished second (11.03) and Heinrich de Lange finished third (11.71).
African records: Daniel Rush 3x3x3 Cube 5.58 (single) and 3x3x3 Cube 7.22 (average); Heinrich de Lange Megaminx 37.95 (single).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Daniel Rush | 5.58 | AfR | 7.22 | AfR | South Africa | 8.23 | 7.35 | 5.58 | 6.07 | 8.81 | |
| 2x2x2 Cube | Daniel Rush | 2.35 | 2.84 | South Africa | 3.59 | 2.62 | 2.45 | 3.46 | 2.35 | |||
| Megaminx | Heinrich de Lange | 45.33 | 53.17 | South Africa | 45.33 | 49.44 | DNF | 47.45 | 1:02.61 | |||
| Skewb | Heinrich de Lange | 4.45 | 7.26 | South Africa | 4.45 | 6.21 | 7.13 | 9.09 | 8.44 | |||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 50% advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 12 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 50% advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 12 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| Megaminx | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 10:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 3:00.00 | Top 12 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 4:00.00 | |||
| Skewb | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 10:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:00.00 | Top 12 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 2:00.00 |
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.