Groundhog Day in Somerfield 2024

Date: Nov 9 - 10, 2024
City: Christchurch, New Zealand
Venue: Somerfield Community Centre
Address: 47 Studholme Street, Somerfield, Christchurch 8024
Details: Main Hall
Website: Groundhog Day in Somerfield 2024 website
Contact: Speedcubing New Zealand
Organizers: Dwyane Ramos, Jasper Murray, and Speedcubing New Zealand
WCA Delegates: Daniel Fraser and Finn Trass

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Information

Groundhog Day in Somerfield 2024 is an official World Cube Association (WCA) sanctioned speedcubing competition.

This competition is open to all competitors regardless of age, experience, or skill. No prior experience in WCA competitions is necessary.

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Events
Main event
Competitors: 15

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There is a competitor limit of 40 competitors.
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Dwyane Ramos won with an average of 7.05 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Jasper Murray finished second (7.26) and Connor Johnson finished third (8.23).

Oceanian records: Connor Johnson‎ Pyraminx 0.82 (single); Dwyane Ramos‎ 3x3x3 One-Handed 8.86 (average).

Bryn Gordon - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	4	7.71	9.06	New Zealand	9.46	9.85	9.46	8.26	7.71
	First round	3	6.97	8.66	New Zealand	8.20	6.97	9.53	8.25	10.18
2x2x2 Cube	Final	8	2.54	4.28	New Zealand	3.64	2.54	DNF	6.05	3.15
	First round	8	1.98	3.19	New Zealand	1.98	3.51	4.11	2.94	3.12
5x5x5 Cube	Final	8	1:35.77	1:45.68	New Zealand	1:53.79	1:38.57	1:58.06	1:44.67	1:35.77
	First round	8	1:29.89	1:38.07	New Zealand	1:46.70	1:29.89	1:33.64	1:37.33	1:43.24
6x6x6 Cube	Final	6	3:48.69	4:01.41	New Zealand	3:48.69	4:07.84	4:07.70
	First round	7	3:21.17	3:41.79	New Zealand	3:26.67	3:21.17	4:17.52
7x7x7 Cube	First round	8	DNF		New Zealand	DNF
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	8	15.82	19.34	New Zealand	15.82	20.04	DNF	20.65	17.34
	First round	8	14.21	18.13	New Zealand	16.27	23.92	20.95	14.21	17.16
Clock	First round	10	9.21	DNF	New Zealand	10.04	DNF	DNF	9.21	9.80
Pyraminx	Final	7	4.64	5.34	New Zealand	5.07	4.64	5.46	9.58	5.50
	First round	5	3.41	4.71	New Zealand	5.50	3.41	4.99	7.61	3.65

Connor Johnson - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	3	7.89		8.23	New Zealand	7.89	8.09	8.11	9.79	8.49
	First round	4	8.34		9.59	New Zealand	10.49	8.34	9.70	9.52	9.54
2x2x2 Cube	Final	1	1.08		1.71	New Zealand	1.67	1.08	2.35	1.47	1.99
	First round	1	1.15		1.55	New Zealand	1.29	1.61	1.76	1.15	3.78
5x5x5 Cube	Final	5	1:09.43		1:13.37	New Zealand	1:09.98	1:09.43	1:15.18	1:15.72	1:14.96
	First round	5	1:10.33		1:14.47	New Zealand	1:14.82	1:19.20	1:10.33	1:10.88	1:17.72
6x6x6 Cube	Final	3	2:33.61		2:44.98	New Zealand	2:33.61	2:46.15	2:55.17
	First round	4	2:39.25		2:46.52	New Zealand	2:54.02	2:39.25	2:46.28
7x7x7 Cube	Final	4	4:36.05		4:48.52	New Zealand	5:00.54	4:48.97	4:36.05
	First round	5	4:06.39		4:28.88	New Zealand	4:47.86	4:06.39	4:32.38
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	3	12.97		15.10	New Zealand	14.05	18.82	16.60	12.97	14.66
	First round	4	14.32		15.62	New Zealand	16.28	21.62	16.05	14.54	14.32
Clock	Final	1	4.78		5.30	New Zealand	5.51	5.12	5.27	5.61	4.78
	First round	1	4.54		4.70	New Zealand	4.97	4.57	4.56	5.21	4.54
Pyraminx	Final	2	1.70		1.98	New Zealand	2.06	2.29	2.11	1.76	1.70
	First round	2	0.82	OcR	2.14	New Zealand	3.87	2.18	1.80	2.45	0.82

Cooper Jones - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	10	9.86	12.15	New Zealand	10.48	9.86	13.59	13.92	12.38
	First round	9	9.72	10.72	New Zealand	10.48	9.72	10.12	21.78	11.56
2x2x2 Cube	Final	3	1.60	2.15	New Zealand	1.60	6.79	1.85	1.97	2.63
	First round	7	1.57	3.13	New Zealand	3.11	2.49	4.44	1.57	3.79
5x5x5 Cube	First round	10	1:58.46	2:09.35	New Zealand	2:18.92	2:05.06	2:13.22	2:09.78	1:58.46
6x6x6 Cube	First round	8	4:16.09	4:38.09	New Zealand	4:16.09	4:54.40	4:43.78
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	9	18.05	22.03	New Zealand	26.95	18.05	21.72	21.06	23.31
	First round	9	15.42	22.12	New Zealand	15.42	19.68	23.92	22.76	26.23
Clock	Final	4	5.51	6.54	New Zealand	8.23	5.51	6.41	6.72	6.50
	First round	6	6.28	8.54	New Zealand	7.82	11.00	6.28	11.86	6.79
Pyraminx	Final	3	2.05	3.34	New Zealand	3.43	2.05	3.06	3.59	3.53
	First round	3	2.16	3.22	New Zealand	4.18	3.84	2.45	2.16	3.37

Daniel Fraser - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	6	9.98	11.16	New Zealand	12.48	10.31	11.08	9.98	12.09
	First round	7	9.80	10.64	New Zealand	10.09	11.24	10.58	9.80	12.32
2x2x2 Cube	Final	4	2.45	2.99	New Zealand	2.45	3.36	2.64	2.98	4.00
	First round	6	2.67	3.08	New Zealand	3.21	2.67	2.82	3.90	3.20
5x5x5 Cube	Final	4	1:06.91	1:11.58	New Zealand	1:06.91	1:08.86	1:12.93	1:12.94	1:19.23
	First round	4	1:02.90	1:06.03	New Zealand	1:03.08	1:07.57	1:07.44	1:08.09	1:02.90
6x6x6 Cube	Final	2	2:09.34	2:19.91	New Zealand	2:09.34	2:27.53	2:22.85
	First round	3	2:03.74	2:10.65	New Zealand	2:21.18	2:03.74	2:07.04
7x7x7 Cube	Final	3	3:41.80	3:51.86	New Zealand	4:00.64	3:53.13	3:41.80
	First round	4	3:18.83	3:34.63	New Zealand	3:54.52	3:30.53	3:18.83
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	7	16.49	18.49	New Zealand	25.06	16.85	18.49	16.49	20.13
	First round	5	14.10	16.05	New Zealand	19.85	15.09	14.76	18.30	14.10
Clock	Final	5	5.38	8.21	New Zealand	DNF	5.78	5.38	11.78	7.06
	First round	7	8.01	8.65	New Zealand	8.88	DNF	8.99	8.07	8.01
Pyraminx	Final	5	3.14	4.42	New Zealand	5.04	3.14	6.76	3.31	4.90
	First round	4	3.79	4.40	New Zealand	5.92	4.75	4.52	3.79	3.92

Dwyane Ramos - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	1	6.00		7.05		New Zealand	8.91	6.00	6.40	8.74	6.00
	First round	1	5.93		6.61		New Zealand	6.28	5.93	6.30	8.00	7.24
2x2x2 Cube	Final	5	2.29		3.30		New Zealand	9.32	4.30	3.15	2.45	2.29
	First round	4	1.26		2.45		New Zealand	1.26	2.08	3.87	1.39	4.48
5x5x5 Cube	Final	1	45.03		48.51		New Zealand	49.89	45.03	49.41	48.46	47.67
	First round	2	52.05		52.85		New Zealand	52.72	53.53	52.05	54.33	52.31
6x6x6 Cube	Final	1	1:29.51		1:32.36		New Zealand	1:29.51	1:31.88	1:35.68
	First round	1	1:22.38	NR	1:28.50	NR	New Zealand	1:34.64	1:22.38	1:28.48
7x7x7 Cube	Final	1	2:29.42		2:46.78		New Zealand	3:07.36	2:29.42	2:43.56
	First round	1	2:35.97		2:44.17		New Zealand	2:39.94	2:56.60	2:35.97
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	1	8.59		9.09		New Zealand	9.28	8.59	9.62	9.12	8.87
	First round	1	7.15	NR	8.86	OcR	New Zealand	8.14	10.83	9.81	7.15	8.64
Clock	Final	2	4.46		6.30		New Zealand	4.46	6.16	4.57	8.17	DNF
	First round	5	3.83		8.19		New Zealand	7.53	3.83	6.43	DNF	10.61
Pyraminx	Final	4	1.79		3.47		New Zealand	1.79	2.78	3.83	4.29	3.81
	First round	6	3.30		5.01		New Zealand	4.53	5.52	4.97	3.30	6.82

Finn Trass - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	6	8.14	10.42	New Zealand	9.94	11.69	9.64	13.22	8.14
5x5x5 Cube	Final	3	51.28	52.74	New Zealand	1:08.38	51.99	54.28	51.96	51.28
	First round	3	55.11	57.88	New Zealand	55.90	1:02.72	59.56	58.18	55.11
6x6x6 Cube	First round	2	1:53.20	1:55.37	New Zealand	1:54.22	1:58.68	1:53.20
7x7x7 Cube	Final	2	2:41.92	2:58.76	New Zealand	2:41.92	3:02.90	3:11.47
	First round	2	2:49.72	2:56.88	New Zealand	2:58.29	2:49.72	3:02.63
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	4	13.69	15.65	New Zealand	13.69	20.35	14.34	15.51	17.10
	First round	3	13.86	15.43	New Zealand	15.69	16.37	14.23	16.64	13.86

Jacob O'Callaghan - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	9	10.40	11.65	New Zealand	11.58	10.40	12.69	14.28	10.69
	First round	11	11.41	13.42	New Zealand	13.47	11.41	13.96	12.86	13.94
2x2x2 Cube	Final	7	2.68	3.73	New Zealand	3.42	2.68	3.80	3.96	4.16
	First round	10	3.56	4.43	New Zealand	3.79	5.25	7.29	3.56	4.25
5x5x5 Cube	First round	12	2:49.09		New Zealand	3:35.78	2:49.09
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	11	25.54	30.64	New Zealand	32.63	32.97	29.70	29.60	25.54
	First round	11	26.73	32.31	New Zealand	26.73	27.06	36.75	37.48	33.12
Clock	Final	6	14.02	17.65	New Zealand	14.02	18.47	16.97	17.52	19.41
	First round	8	13.70	16.71	New Zealand	21.21	16.21	17.59	13.70	16.32
Pyraminx	Final	9	6.10	8.54	New Zealand	9.22	6.10	6.76	12.55	9.63
	First round	8	3.48	7.72	New Zealand	8.66	11.13	5.19	9.30	3.48

Jasper Murray - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	2	5.76	7.26	New Zealand	5.76	7.62	8.88	6.88	7.28
	First round	2	6.07	6.68	New Zealand	6.20	6.73	7.11	7.19	6.07
2x2x2 Cube	Final	2	1.61	2.14	New Zealand	1.61	1.62	2.47	DNF	2.32
	First round	2	1.23	1.67	New Zealand	1.23	2.14	4.74	1.41	1.45
5x5x5 Cube	Final	2	48.54	51.79	New Zealand	56.60	51.06	51.28	48.54	53.02
	First round	1	49.32	50.34	New Zealand	49.58	51.46	49.98	49.32	53.50
7x7x7 Cube	First round	3	2:50.67	3:03.76	New Zealand	3:15.60	2:50.67	3:05.00
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	2	8.86	11.40	New Zealand	8.86	13.74	12.35	8.98	12.88
	First round	2	10.80	12.21	New Zealand	10.80	11.49	11.65	13.49	15.70
Clock	Final	3	4.54	6.42	New Zealand	4.54	DNF	6.36	5.77	7.14
	First round	2	4.36	5.51	New Zealand	6.69	4.36	6.04	4.60	5.90
Pyraminx	Final	1	1.08	1.83	New Zealand	1.39	1.08	1.75	2.60	2.34
	First round	1	0.83	1.60	New Zealand	1.78	1.48	1.54	1.84	0.83

Jayden Smith - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	14	26.06	32.05	New Zealand	32.14	32.98	26.06	31.02	35.76
2x2x2 Cube	First round	14	7.64	10.23	New Zealand	7.64	9.31	12.07	17.35	9.31
5x5x5 Cube	First round	11	2:35.15		New Zealand	2:59.44	2:35.15
3x3x3 One-Handed	First round	15	1:01.43	DNF	New Zealand	1:01.43	DNF	DNF	1:18.01	1:21.97

Jigs Ibarra - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	13	14.91	19.84	New Zealand	23.07	17.03	14.91	23.12	19.41
2x2x2 Cube	First round	13	6.54	7.34	New Zealand	6.54	14.67	6.75	7.88	7.38
3x3x3 One-Handed	First round	14	1:00.57	1:18.90	New Zealand	1:15.12	1:00.57	1:29.37	DNF	1:12.20
Clock	First round	11	48.79	DNF	New Zealand	DNF	48.79	DNF	DNF	59.06
Pyraminx	First round	12	11.23	14.99	New Zealand	18.53	11.23	16.08	13.32	15.58

Joey Connor - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	12	12.53	13.70	New Zealand	13.48	12.53	14.97	12.65	14.97
2x2x2 Cube	Final	9	3.97	4.83	New Zealand	5.12	3.97	4.46	7.25	4.91
	First round	9	2.37	3.59	New Zealand	2.84	3.68	4.24	2.37	6.14
5x5x5 Cube	First round	9	1:56.63	2:02.44	New Zealand	1:56.63	2:12.08	2:02.77	2:00.57	2:03.99
3x3x3 One-Handed	First round	13	25.81	37.34	New Zealand	41.12	25.81	44.35	33.48	37.42
Clock	First round	9	26.34	28.73	New Zealand	28.08	30.03	DNF	26.34	28.07
Pyraminx	Final	8	5.28	8.46	New Zealand	5.28	11.26	5.60	14.77	8.52
	First round	9	4.93	10.66	New Zealand	9.13	9.80	13.60	13.06	4.93

Jordan Harvey - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	7	10.44	11.24	New Zealand	12.21	10.84	10.44	10.66	13.09
	First round	5	9.57	10.33	New Zealand	9.75	9.57	10.27	10.98	14.88
2x2x2 Cube	First round	11	4.06	5.12	New Zealand	5.36	4.06	6.12	4.19	5.82
5x5x5 Cube	Final	6	1:10.43	1:29.56	New Zealand	1:25.75	1:10.43	1:28.29	1:34.64	1:42.43
	First round	6	1:19.51	1:24.02	New Zealand	1:28.37	1:24.26	1:24.60	1:19.51	1:23.20
6x6x6 Cube	Final	5	3:02.58	3:18.39	New Zealand	3:37.69	3:02.58	3:14.90
	First round	5	2:49.18	3:04.77	New Zealand	3:26.64	2:58.48	2:49.18
7x7x7 Cube	First round	7	5:43.87		New Zealand	5:43.87
3x3x3 One-Handed	First round	12	29.95	34.14	New Zealand	35.71	29.95	33.48	54.47	33.22
Pyraminx	First round	10	8.75	12.02	New Zealand	13.72	12.82	8.75	14.30	9.51

Oliver Jenks - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	5	9.06	10.36	New Zealand	9.50	12.64	9.06	10.33	11.26
	First round	8	9.10	10.68	New Zealand	9.10	10.67	10.87	10.51	11.70
2x2x2 Cube	First round	12	4.63	5.82	New Zealand	4.68	4.63	6.77	6.02	7.17
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	5	12.22	16.95	New Zealand	19.56	22.44	12.22	15.96	15.33
	First round	7	10.87	17.74	New Zealand	18.61	10.87	21.07	16.29	18.31
Pyraminx	First round	11	6.19	14.86	New Zealand	16.99	20.79	6.81	DNF	6.19

Ryan Lau - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	8	9.92	11.31	New Zealand	11.46	9.92	12.49	11.27	11.20
	First round	10	10.67	11.62	New Zealand	13.43	10.67	11.44	11.78	11.64
2x2x2 Cube	Final	6	2.03	3.54	New Zealand	3.91	3.09	3.62	2.03	4.66
	First round	3	1.26	2.10	New Zealand	1.26	2.20	4.55	2.04	2.05
5x5x5 Cube	Final	7	1:25.29	1:30.91	New Zealand	1:34.42	1:27.73	1:30.58	1:36.20	1:25.29
	First round	7	1:15.69	1:31.01	New Zealand	1:15.69	1:37.25	1:36.01	DNF	1:19.76
6x6x6 Cube	Final	4	2:40.80	2:56.99	New Zealand	3:11.19	2:58.98	2:40.80
	First round	6	2:40.36	3:15.51	New Zealand	3:45.12	2:40.36	3:21.04
7x7x7 Cube	Final	5	4:48.37	4:58.19	New Zealand	5:06.43	4:48.37	4:59.76
	First round	6	4:47.14	4:57.97	New Zealand	4:53.43	4:47.14	5:13.35
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	6	14.78	18.45	New Zealand	20.58	17.60	17.16	14.78	21.03
	First round	6	16.15	16.95	New Zealand	17.33	18.71	16.56	16.97	16.15
Clock	Final	7	7.04	DNF	New Zealand	DNF	8.10	DNF	7.48	7.04
	First round	3	6.02	6.93	New Zealand	19.80	6.02	6.88	6.50	7.42
Pyraminx	Final	6	3.63	4.61	New Zealand	7.98	3.63	4.97	3.98	4.88
	First round	7	4.45	5.32	New Zealand	8.02	4.69	5.53	4.45	5.74

Zee Capangpangan - Philippines WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
2x2x2 Cube	First round	5	1.86	3.00	Philippines	4.27	29.66	2.39	2.35	1.86
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	10	21.98	29.46	Philippines	31.94	38.99	21.98	28.09	28.36
	First round	10	21.43	31.51	Philippines	34.53	32.50	27.50	40.90	21.43
Clock	First round	4	5.84	7.31	Philippines	5.95	DNF	7.81	5.84	8.18