Please Be Quiet Pickering Winter 2024

Date: Jan 13, 2024
City: Pickering, Ontario, Canada
Venue: George Ashe Library
Address: 470 Kingston Rd, Pickering, ON
Details: Paris & Franklin Rooms
Contact: Info+PBQ-Pickering-Winter-2024@speedcubingcanada.org
Organizer: Speedcubing Canada
WCA Delegates: Abdullah Gulab, Alyssa Esparaz, Jonathan Esparaz, Michael Zheng, Nicholas McKee, and Shanglin Ye

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Information

Please Be Quiet

This isn't your typical speed solving competition as 3x3x3 Fewest Moves (FMC) and Blindfolded events are the only events. Blindfolded events require a significant amount of learning, practice and concentration, and FMC is an exam-style event in which competitors spend up to an hour finding the shortest solution they can and writing it down on paper. All attendees, including competitors and guests, are asked to please remain quiet at this competition to allow competitors to concentrate.

If you are looking to compete in the traditional 3x3x3 Cube event or other timed events, please look for another competition in Canada.

Note for New Competitors

Although first-timers are welcome to compete if they know how to compete in FMC or solve puzzles blindfolded (please note Regulation 2k6), this might not be the best experience for new competitors. Please consider registering for another competition if this one isn't for you.

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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: 16

Registration period: Online registration opened Friday, November 17, 2023 at 1:00 AM UTC and closed Saturday, January 6, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC.
Registration requirements: This competition is over, click here to display the registration requirements it used.

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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 40 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $30 (Canadian Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Saturday, January 6, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC you will be refunded 95% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Saturday, January 6, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Saturday, January 6, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 1 guest.

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 40 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 5, 2023, 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 5, 2023). The waiting list will close at the same time that registration closes.
Highlights: Click here to display the highlights of the competition.

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Jaren Pellazar won with a single solve of 23.77 seconds in the 3x3x3 Blindfolded event. Nicholas Patterson finished second (1:04.47) and Kai Wen Yang finished third (1:05.06).

Event	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Jaren Pellazar	23.77	DNF	Canada	DNF	23.77	32.82
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Jack Lee	25	30.00	Canada	32	33	25
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Nicholas Patterson	6:43.80	DNF	Canada	6:43.80	8:02.10	DNF
5x5x5 Blindfolded	Nicholas Patterson	17:04.00	DNF	Canada	DNF	17:04.00	DNS

Event	Round	Format	Time limit	Proceed
3x3x3 Blindfolded	First round	Bo3	20:00.00 cumulative*	Top 75% advance to next round
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Final	Bo3	12:00.00 cumulative*
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Final	Mo3	1 hour
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Final	Bo3	1:20:00.00 total for 5x5x5 Blindfolded Final, 4x4x4 Blindfolded Final**
5x5x5 Blindfolded	Final	Bo3	1:20:00.00 total for 5x5x5 Blindfolded Final, 4x4x4 Blindfolded Final**

Schedules are subject to adjustments, especially once registration totals are known. Registered competitors will be notified by email of any major changes.

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The time zone for this venue is America/Toronto.

Events

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Saturday, January 13, 2024

11:00 - 12:30

4x4x4 Blindfolded Final

11:00 - 12:30

5x5x5 Blindfolded Final

9:00 - 9:30

Check-in

9:30 - 10:30

3x3x3 Blindfolded First round

10:30 - 11:00

3x3x3 Blindfolded Final

3x3x3 Fewest Moves Final (Attempt 1)

3:00 - 3:15

Break

3:15 - 4:15

3x3x3 Fewest Moves Final (Attempt 2)

4:15 - 4:30

Break

4:30 - 5:30

3x3x3 Fewest Moves Final (Attempt 3)

Parking is free at the venue. The nearest bus stop is Kingston Rd. @ Rougemount Dr. and the nearest train stations are Rouge Hill GO and Pickering GO.

There are several food options within a ~3-minute drive or ~15-minute walk from the venue, including Burger King, Thai One On, Swiss Chalet, Wendy's or Tim Hortons.

There will be two groups of 3x3x3 Blindfolded in Round 1. You can see which group you are competing in here: https://www.competitiongroups.com/competitions/PBQPickeringWinter2024. If you are in Group 2, please still arrive on time for Group 1, as we will need competitors to judge for the group they are not competing in!

All other events will be done in one group.

Per Regulations 1e2 and 1f2, all competitors must be available to help judge and scramble.

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++).

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.