Kingston Winter 2024
- Date
- Jan 27, 2024
- City
- Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- Venue
- Address
- 100 Portsmouth Avenue, Kingston, ON K7L 5A6
- Details
Gymnasium on the ground floor
- Contact
- Organizer
- Speedcubing Canada
- WCA Delegates
- Abdullah Gulab, Alyssa Esparaz, Ben Bergen, Jonathan Esparaz, Michael Zheng, Nicholas McKee, Sarah Strong, and Shanglin Ye
- 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
- 72
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Wednesday, November 29, 2023 at 12:30 AM UTC and closed Sunday, January 21, 2024 at 12:30 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 175 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $35 (Canadian Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Sunday, January 21, 2024 at 12:30 AM UTC you will be refunded 95% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Sunday, January 21, 2024 at 12:30 AM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Sunday, January 21, 2024 at 12:30 AM UTC by contacting the organization team.
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 your name may not appear on the competitor list immediately.
Once the competitor list reaches the 175 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 January 20, 2024, the competitor list will be finalized and registrants who are still on the waiting list will be refunded 100% of their registration fee. Registrants on the waiting list may email Speedcubing Canada at any time to forfeit their 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 (January 20, 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.
Brennen Lin won with an average of 7.60 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Ryan Wu finished second (7.75) and Maxence Leboeuf finished third (8.38).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Brennen Lin | 6.56 | 7.60 | Canada | 8.06 | 6.56 | 7.21 | 7.54 | 8.23 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Andrew Mao | 1.21 | 1.50 | Canada | 1.59 | 1.64 | 2.30 | 1.21 | 1.28 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Ryan Wu | 27.89 | 30.62 | Canada | 27.89 | 1:18.73 | 32.24 | 28.20 | 31.42 | |||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Ryan Wu | 49.64 | DNF | Canada | DNF | 49.64 | 2:37.63 | |||||
| Skewb | Andrew Mao | 1.64 | 3.34 | Canada | 3.06 | 5.53 | 1.64 | 3.62 | 3.34 | |||
| 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 12 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 12 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 10:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:15.00 | |
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Final | Bo3 | 15:00.00 cumulative* | ||
| Skewb | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 12 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 |
When does the competition start? When should I arrive at the venue?
The check-in desk opens at 9:30 AM, morning announcements are at 11:00 AM, and the first round of 3x3x3 Cube starts at 11:10 AM. If your first event of the day is 3x3x3 Cube, we recommend arriving around 10:30 AM.
Please see the schedule for full details.
What should I expect at my first competition?
Please watch these short videos:
The main parking lot is on the north side of campus. You can enter the building, then walk through the main complex to find the gynasium on south side of the Yellow Wing.
Daily parking permits are available via the Honk Mobile app. Full details on parking are available here.
Please find you groups and judging assignments here: https://www.competitiongroups.com/competitions/KingstonWinter2024. 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 at the venue at least 30 minutes before the start of your first group and be ready to compete 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.
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.