Oman Open 2023
- Date
- Mar 11, 2023
- City
- Muscat, Oman
- Venue
- Address
- Al Matar St Muscat 111, 128, Oman
- Details
room Oryx 1
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Baha Alshwaiki, Farah Omar Alomar, and Ron van Bruchem
- WCA Delegates
- Aysha Jamsheer, Baha Alshwaiki, and Ron van Bruchem
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This is the first WCA competition in Oman.
The competition is the national championship of Oman for the year 2023.
The competition is open to all persons from all countries.There will be prizes and honours:
- top 3 competitors with the nationality of Oman
- competitors without the nationality of Oman, who finish in top 3 of an event
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 28
- 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 60 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is ر.ع.5 (Omani Rial).
Registration fees won't be refunded under any circumstance.
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.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
In the two weeks before the competition you will receive an email with latest news about the competition. You will be requested to reply to the email to confirm or cancel your participation. If you do not reply, we may decide to remove your registration, to give your place to someone on the waiting list. So please check your mail account and your spam box in the two weeks before the competition.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Mihir Narayan won with an average of 8.96 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Niko Ronkainen finished second (9.48) and Mohammed Al Said finished third (11.21).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Mihir Narayan | 7.14 | 8.96 | India | 9.60 | 8.27 | 10.28 | 7.14 | 9.00 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Niko Ronkainen | 1.62 | 2.49 | Finland | 1.98 | 2.37 | 1.62 | 5.57 | 3.11 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Mihir Narayan | 28.84 | 32.49 | India | 28.84 | 32.38 | 34.64 | 32.82 | 32.27 | |||
| 5x5x5 Cube | Mihir Narayan | 1:01.14 | 1:04.26 | India | 1:04.28 | 1:01.14 | 1:03.52 | 1:06.16 | 1:04.97 | |||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Mihir Narayan | 12.18 | 13.12 | India | 12.18 | 12.25 | 13.89 | 13.23 | 14.73 | |||
- Payment of registration fees will be done during on-site registration, in cash only.
- Please make sure you arrive 30 minutes before your first event starts.
- Discount code for staying in the hotel: GBSCC
If this is your first WCA competition, you need to bring an id card with your name, date-of-birth and a photo.
We will check your data during on-site registration.
Please ensure to read the WCA regulations before the competition. The regulations link can be found below.
https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/
You can also watch the following video to have a better idea on how a competition works
https://youtu.be/dPL3eV-A0ww
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.