Newcastle-under-Lyme Open 2017
- Date
- Apr 15 - 16, 2017
- City
- Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
- Venue
- Address
- Ashfields New Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, ST5 2SJ
- Details
Main Hall
- Website
- Newcastle-under-Lyme Open 2017 website
- Contact
- Organizer
- Ben Whitmore
- WCA Delegates
- Daniel Sheppard, Evan Liu, and James Molloy
- Information
You must pay the entry fee online via the button on the UKCA site before your registration is approved. This fee is non-refundable, as it represents a commitment to attending the competition. There is a competitor limit of 120. Registration opens at 19:00 on Saturday 28th January and will close at midnight on Sunday 2nd April.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 67
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- Registration requirements
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- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Keaton Ellis won with an average of 8.21 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Ben Whitmore finished second (10.03) and Daniel Sheppard finished third (10.33).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Keaton Ellis | 7.71 | 8.21 | United States | 8.77 | 8.09 | 7.76 | 7.71 | 8.91 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Lewis Byng | 2.18 | 2.89 | United Kingdom | 2.18 | 3.03 | 2.82 | 3.69 | 2.83 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Robert Yau | 29.30 | 31.72 | NR | United Kingdom | 29.30 | 31.84 | 47.97 | 31.87 | 31.44 | ||
| 5x5x5 Cube | Robert Yau | 1:01.47 | 1:03.37 | United Kingdom | 1:01.47 | 1:04.37 | 1:08.15 | 1:03.36 | 1:02.38 | |||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Callum Hales-Jepp | 58.98 | DNF | United Kingdom | DNF | 1:07.86 | 58.98 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Robert Yau | 27 | United Kingdom | 27 | ||||||||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Robert Yau | 12.68 | 14.06 | United Kingdom | 14.17 | 13.63 | 14.37 | 12.68 | 15.50 | |||
| Clock | Evan Liu | 4.58 | 5.74 | United States | 5.69 | 5.71 | 5.81 | 4.58 | 7.36 | |||
| Megaminx | Robert Yau | 49.25 | 59.74 | United Kingdom | 1:01.63 | 1:01.70 | 1:06.47 | 55.89 | 49.25 | |||
| Pyraminx | Evan Liu | 3.20 | 3.63 | United States | 3.20 | 12.93 | 4.13 | 3.50 | 3.26 | |||
| Skewb | George Scholey | 3.07 | 3.58 | NR | United Kingdom | 4.26 | 3.43 | 4.23 | 3.08 | 3.07 | ||
| Square-1 | Charlie Stark | 9.29 | 11.79 | United Kingdom | 12.32 | 9.29 | 12.05 | 11.01 | 13.57 | |||
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | Callum Hales-Jepp | 11:45.00 | DNF | United Kingdom | 11:45.00 | DNF | DNF | |||||
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).
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.