New Zealand Nationals 2018

General Info
Events

Date: Dec 14 - 16, 2018
City: Auckland, New Zealand
Venue: AUT City Campus
Address: Room WA224, AUT City Campus, 55 Wellesley Street East, Auckland
Details: Room WA224, This is the Wellesley Street east (City campus), Building A, on the second floor room 05
Website: New Zealand Nationals 2018 website
Contact: https://www.speedcubing.nz/event/new-zealand-nationals-2018/contact
Organizer: Joshua Brungar
WCA Delegate: Alex Asbery

Information

New Zealand Nationals 2018 is an official World Cube Association (WCA) sanctioned speedcubing competition. Speedcubing is solving the 3x3x3 Cube or other similar puzzles as quickly as possible. The competition is open to all competitors regardless of experience and skill, but certain event-based time limits will be in place so as to make sure we can stay on schedule and get through the days on time. No prior experience in WCA competitions is necessary, but competitors should be familiar with the WCA regulations.

In Addition New Zealand Nationals 2018 will crown the National Champions in 17 events of the World Cube Associations 18 over the course of 3 days.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 90

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New Zealand Nationals 2018 Cubing Competition

Registration period: Online registration opened and closed .
Registration requirements: This competition is over, click here to display the registration requirements it used.

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There is a competitor limit of 120 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $45 (New Zealand Dollar).
Registration fees won't be refunded under any circumstance.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.

If the competitor limit is reached an email will be sent out which will require you to reply in order to confirm attendance to the competition
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Tomoya Firman won with an average of 8.77 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Ben Kirby finished second (8.88) and Simon Geertsema finished third (9.57).

Oceanian records: Lucas O'Connell‎ Pyraminx 2.99 (average).

Event	Name	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Tomoya Firman	7.03		8.77		Australia	8.75	8.81	7.03	9.76	8.76
2x2x2 Cube	Benjamin Agnew	2.56		2.76		New Zealand	2.84	2.69	2.56	2.76	3.06
4x4x4 Cube	Tomoya Firman	30.44		32.63		Australia	30.44	31.44	35.86	35.59	30.87
5x5x5 Cube	Tomoya Firman	1:01.60		1:07.20		Australia	1:03.68	1:01.60	1:09.28	1:08.64	1:10.65
6x6x6 Cube	Tom Stanton-Barnett	2:16.34		2:20.51		New Zealand	2:24.56	2:16.34	2:20.63
7x7x7 Cube	Ben Kirby	3:23.25		3:27.53	NR	New Zealand	3:23.25	3:24.30	3:35.03
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Tomoya Firman	25.31		DNF		Australia	26.34	25.31	DNF
3x3x3 One-Handed	Tomoya Firman	11.74		15.60		Australia	17.02	17.96	11.74	14.05	15.73
Clock	Aneurin Hunt	10.25		11.24		New Zealand	DNF	10.89	10.87	10.25	11.96
Megaminx	James Macdiarmid	45.44		46.68		New Zealand	46.21	48.30	45.54	45.44	55.19
Pyraminx	Lucas O'Connell	2.55		2.99	OcR	New Zealand	2.70	3.68	3.60	2.67	2.55
Skewb	Lucas O'Connell	3.76		5.08		New Zealand	6.30	4.44	3.76	5.71	5.09
Square-1	Lucas O'Connell	13.32		15.07		New Zealand	17.86	13.32	16.53	14.30	14.38
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Tom Nelson	1:55.14	NR	DNF		New Zealand	DNF	DNF	1:55.14
5x5x5 Blindfolded	Tom Nelson	4:13.41		DNF		New Zealand	4:23.19	4:13.41	DNF
3x3x3 Multi-Blind	Tom Nelson	21/33 1:00:00				New Zealand	21/33 1:00:00
3x3x3 With Feet	Tom Nelson	56.17		1:07.91	NR	New Zealand	2:03.76	56.17	1:12.65	59.23	1:11.84

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.