Langenstein City Blind Open 2025
- Date
- Apr 5 - 6, 2025
- City
- Langenstein, Austria
- Venue
Langenstein Stockhalle
- Address
- Georgestraße 22c, 4222 Gusen, Austria
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Martin Fröhlich, Simon Praschl, Thomas Heiden, and Thomas Strasser
- WCA Delegates
- Jan Křížka, Pranjal Khan, and Šimon Borovský
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 54
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Monday, February 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM UTC and closed Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 7:00 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 70 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is €20 (Euro).
Registration fees won't be refunded under any circumstance.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM UTC on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Any spectator can attend for free.
English version is below
Deutsch:
Eintrittspreise:
2 Tage: 25€
1 Tag: 20€
Das Eintrittsgeld ist nach der Ankunft am „Registration Desk“ vor Antritt des ersten Events im Turnier zu bezahlen.Achtung, eure WCA Registrierung ist erst vollständig sobald euer Name auf der Liste unter "Teilnehmer" erscheint. Ohne dies könnt ihr leider nicht bei diesem Turnier teilnehmen.
Sollte das Turnier bereits voll sein, erhaltet Ihr eine Benachrichtigung via E-Mail, dass Ihr vorerst auf der Warteliste seid. Sollte es zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt wieder verfügbare Plätze zum Teilnehmen geben, meldet sich das Organisationsteam mit einer E-Mail bei euch.Gäste müssen keinen Eintritt bezahlen.
Bitte nicht vergessen, dass Ihr eure E-Mail Postfächer auf E-Mails von Organisationsteam überprüft, da wir noch die letzten wichtigen Infos ca. 1 Woche vor dem Turnier ausschicken.
Sollte es euch nicht möglich sein zu kommen, dann bitte so früh wie möglich uns via E-Mail kontaktieren.
English:
Entree Fee:
2 Days: 25€
1 Day: 20€
The fee has to be paid on the spot, which means directly after your arrival in the venue at the registration desk of the competition.Your WCA registration for this competition is done as soon as your name appears on the list under the tab "competitors".
If the competitor limit is reached, you will receive an e-mail from the organisation team which will state that you’re currently on the „waiting list“. In case a spots opens up on the competitor list, the organisation team will contact the first people of the waiting list via e-mail.Guests don't have to pay an entrance fee.
Please don´t forget to check your e-mails 1 week before the competition, we will send you some information about the competition.
If you can't participate for any reason, please let us know as soon as possible.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Bálint Csengő won with a single solve of 19.52 seconds in the 3x3x3 Blindfolded event. Simon Praschl finished second (20.08) and Noah Kraft finished third (24.11).
Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
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3x3x3 Cube | Alexey Tsvetkov | 5.73 | 5.95 | Russia | 5.84 | 6.13 | 7.38 | 5.73 | 5.88 | |||
2x2x2 Cube | Alexey Tsvetkov | 0.96 | 1.21 | Russia | 3.14 | 0.96 | 1.14 | 1.18 | 1.31 | |||
4x4x4 Cube | Alexey Tsvetkov | 25.85 | 28.76 | Russia | 25.85 | 29.32 | 30.14 | 26.83 | 33.77 | |||
5x5x5 Cube | Bálint Csengő | 50.27 | 56.74 | Hungary | 58.06 | 50.27 | 57.18 | 54.97 | 1:00.27 | |||
3x3x3 Blindfolded | Bálint Csengő | 19.52 | DNF | Hungary | 19.52 | 30.77 | DNF | |||||
3x3x3 One-Handed | Alexey Tsvetkov | 8.87 | 10.72 | Russia | 11.32 | 9.74 | 11.09 | 8.87 | 14.82 | |||
Megaminx | Bálint Csengő | 46.54 | 51.76 | Hungary | 51.12 | 53.28 | 52.30 | 51.85 | 46.54 | |||
Square-1 | Bálint Csengő | 12.90 | 14.40 | Hungary | 14.20 | 15.64 | 16.79 | 13.36 | 12.90 | |||
4x4x4 Blindfolded | Simon Praschl | 1:39.53 | NR | DNF | Austria | DNF | 1:39.53 | DNF | ||||
5x5x5 Blindfolded | Simon Praschl | 3:38.59 | NR | DNF | Austria | 3:38.59 | DNF | DNF | ||||
3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Simon Praschl | 50/59 1:00:00 | Austria | 37/61 1:00:00 | 50/59 1:00:00 |
Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
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3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 75% advance to next round | |
Second round | Ao5 | 2:00.00 | Top 12 advance to next round | ||
Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | |||
2x2x2 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 12 advance to next round | |
Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | |||
4x4x4 Cube | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 3:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:10.00 | Top 12 advance to next round |
Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 2:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 50.00 | ||
5x5x5 Cube | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 3:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:45.00 | |
3x3x3 Blindfolded | First round | Bo3 | 12:00.00 cumulative* | Top 75% advance to next round | |
Final | Bo3 | 9:00.00 cumulative* | |||
3x3x3 One-Handed | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 2:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 40.00 | Top 12 advance to next round |
Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | |||
Megaminx | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 3:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:45.00 | |
Square-1 | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 2:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 45.00 | Top 9 advance to next round |
Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | |||
4x4x4 Blindfolded | Final | Bo3 | 1:30:00.00 total for 4x4x4 Blindfolded Final, 5x5x5 Blindfolded Final** | ||
5x5x5 Blindfolded | Final | Bo3 | 1:30:00.00 total for 4x4x4 Blindfolded Final, 5x5x5 Blindfolded Final** | ||
3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Final | Bo2 | 10:00.00 per cube, up to 60:00.00 |
Sponsor - Cuboss
Langenstein City Blind Open 2025 is sponsored by the cube store Cuboss.com! Cuboss is an online cube store based in Sweden, specializing in speedcubes and other types of puzzles, with worldwide delivery available. Cuboss is sponsoring the competition with gift cards for the medalists in the various event as outlined below:
Winners in all events are awarded gift cards from Cuboss as below:
1st place: EUR 20
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).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced across rounds (see Guideline 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.