Kericho Open 2023
- Date
- Sep 16, 2023
- City
- Kericho, Kenya
- Venue
A.C.K. Grace Conference Centre
- Address
- A.C.K. Grace Conference Centre, Kericho, Kenya
- Details
Trinity hall
- Contact
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+254 700 919601 or skamauthegreat@gmail.com
- Organizers
- Michael Nziwa Makanga, Rayan Parmar, and Samuel Kamau
- WCA Delegate
- Rayan Parmar
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
Welcome! This will be the first WCA competition we will have in Kericho... and we will plan on organising many more in the future.
We will be glad to see all the cubers from around this region, and you'll all have a great time.
More information under their respective tabs.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 83
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- 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 100 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is KSh500 (Kenyan Shilling).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until on the Register tab.
On the spot registrations will be accepted with a base registration fee of KSh500 (Kenyan Shilling).
Any spectator can attend for free.
ksh 500
Payment information - PAYBILL - 522522
- AC NO - 1295677164Please forward the transaction message after payment to 0700 919 601
And please mention in the comments the name of the person paying. (The person's name who will appear in the MPESA message.)
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Mugambi Simon won with an average of 14.25 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. John Muthee Karichu finished second (14.26) and Teddy Mbingo finished third (14.76).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Mugambi Simon | 11.76 | 14.25 | Kenya | 17.76 | 15.74 | 12.57 | 11.76 | 14.44 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | John Muthee Karichu | 3.95 | 5.31 | Kenya | 7.04 | 4.40 | 3.95 | 5.57 | 5.96 | |||
| Pyraminx | John Muthee Karichu | 5.87 | 9.25 | Kenya | 10.04 | 9.14 | 5.87 | 9.19 | 9.43 | |||
For those of you new to cubing, WELCOME!
First, please be familiar with the WCA Regulations, found here:
https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/
This video will explain most of what any cuber competing for the first time will need to know:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPL3eV-A0ww
There is a hotel located in the site where you can buy your lunch from. Light snacks will be provided for participants and spectators.
Those who are not aware of the area, for example, those who will be coming all the way from Nairobi, please use the location from Google maps to help you navigate.
Those who plan on using public transport, there are multiple bus stops near the main road.
For those who will be coming with private vehicles, there will be plenty of secure parking.
Follow this link for the Cubing Kenya facebook page: https://web.facebook.com/Cubing.Kenya/
Follow this link for the Cubing Kenya instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/cubing.kenya/
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).
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.