Halifax Fall 2023
- Date
- Nov 25, 2023
- City
- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Venue
Dalhousie University, Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Building
- Address
- 6135 University Avenue, Halifax NS
- Details
Scotiabank Auditorium, on the left when entering via University Avenue
- Contact
- Organizers
- Liam Orovec, Sarah Strong, and Speedcubing Canada
- WCA Delegates
- Liam Orovec, Nicholas McKee, 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. 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
- 69
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Tuesday, September 12, 2023 at 11:00 PM UTC and closed Sunday, November 12, 2023 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 80 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $30 (Canadian Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Sunday, November 12, 2023 at 12:00 AM UTC you will be refunded 90% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Sunday, November 12, 2023 at 12:00 AM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Sunday, November 12, 2023 at 12:00 AM UTC on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 2 guests.
Guest Limit
Space is limited in the venue and our priority is allowing as many competitors as possible to compete within our limited venue space.
Competitors may bring at most two (2) guests.
Competitor List
Registrants must pay the registration fee in order to be added to the competitor list. 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 80 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. For privacy reasons, this list is not available to the public. If you are added to the waiting list you will be informed via an email from the Organization team.
Anyone on the waiting list who wishes to be removed from the waiting list may contact the organizers to delete their registration and be refunded 100% of their registration fee.
If the competitor list fills up quickly, registration could close earlier than the originally listed date (November 11, 2023). The waiting list will close at the same time that registration closes.
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 November 11, 2023, the competitor list will be finalized and registrants who are still on the waiting list will be refunded 100% of their registration fee.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Seungmin Lee won with an average of 10.19 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Russell Ansems finished second (10.52) and Evan Meunier finished third (11.36).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Seungmin Lee | 9.81 | 10.19 | Canada | 12.16 | 9.81 | 9.99 | 10.71 | 9.88 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Evan Meunier | 2.29 | 3.12 | Canada | 3.07 | 4.82 | 2.77 | 3.51 | 2.29 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Liam Orovec | 39.30 | 41.30 | Canada | 39.30 | 41.10 | 41.17 | 46.00 | 41.64 | |||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Russell Ansems | 3:55.21 | DNF | Canada | DNF | DNF | 3:55.21 | |||||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Aidan Lo | 16.83 | 19.22 | Canada | 20.29 | 16.83 | 19.37 | 19.15 | 19.15 | |||
| Pyraminx | Kyle Sardovia | 4.63 | 5.88 | Canada | 5.34 | 4.65 | 4.63 | 8.93 | 7.64 | |||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 6 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 6 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 10:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:30.00 | Top 6 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Final | Bo3 | 20:00.00 cumulative* | ||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 10:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 45.00 | |
| Pyraminx | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 6 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 |
The following bus routes have stops near or on the Dalhousie Studley campus: 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 24, 90.
We recommend parking in the Dunn lot (Lot 3 on Studley Campus diagram), which is free on weekends, CSB (Lots 10 and 11) are also good options. Street Parking in Halifax is also free on weekends but there is not much near the campus building.
https://www.dal.ca/campus-maps/parking.html
There are lots of restaurants a quick 5 minute walk away at the corner of Robie St and Spring Garden Rd and even more options if you go further down Spring Garden Rd.
You can find your assignments for competiting and staffing here: https://www.competitiongroups.com/competitions/HalifaxFall2023
As per Regulations 1e2 and 1f2, all competitors must be available to help judge and scramble.
Live results for the competition can be found here: https://live.worldcubeassociation.org/competitions/3837
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).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced (see Regulation A1a2).
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.