Please Be Solved Vancouver 2025

Date: Apr 26, 2025
City: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Venue: St. Paul's Hospital
Address: 1081 Burrard Street Vancouver, BC, V6Z 1Y6
Details: SPH 1500, in the basement
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Isaac Davies and Speedcubing Canada
WCA Delegates: Heewon Hwang, Kevin Matthews, and Vianne Chang

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Information

Please review all of the tabs listed on this website. This competition ONLY HAS BLINDFOLDED EVENTS, and is NOT A REGULAR COMPETITION. Note that we may run ahead of or behind schedule, so please be ready for each event/round about 30 minutes in advance, just in case (we will not start the first event early).

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Join the Vancouver Facebook group for BC discussion/announcements.
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This is on the same day as FMC Canada 2025, in the same room.

Events
Main event

Competitor limit: 25

Number of times bookmarked: 12

Registration period: Online registration opened Thursday, March 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM UTC and will close Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM UTC.
Registration requirements: 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 25 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $15 (Canadian Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
If your registration is cancelled before Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Saturday, April 19, 2025 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.

Review all of the tabs listed on this website! This is not a standard competition - we will not have the regular 3x3x3 event.

If you register (including payment) for FMC Canada 2025's Vancouver location, then you may register for this competition for free. If this is the case, register (and pay) for FMC Canada, then register for this competition (without paying) and indicate in your registration comment that you've registered for FMC Canada.

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	20:00.00 cumulative*
3x3x3 Multi-Blind	Final	Bo1	10:00.00 per cube, up to 60:00.00

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/Vancouver.

Events

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Saturday, April 26, 2025

2:20 - 3:10

3x3x3 Blindfolded First round

3:10 - 5:00

3x3x3 Multi-Blind Final (Attempt 1)

5:00 - 5:30

3x3x3 Blindfolded Final

5:30 - 5:45

Awards

This competition is happening right after FMC Canada 2025. Do not show up early, as fewest moves will be ongoing and also requires silence/no distractions.

If you register (including payment) for FMC Canada 2025's Vancouver location, then you may register for this competition for free. If this is the case, register (and pay) for FMC Canada, then register for this competition (without paying) and indicate in your registration comment that you've registered for FMC Canada.

Venue

St. Paul's Hospital - SPH 1500
1081 Burrard Street Vancouver, BC, V6Z 1Y6

Note that this is the same venue/room as FMC Canada 2025 (a multi-venue competition) which is taking place directly before this competition.

Parking

Parking information can be found here.

Public Transit

The venue is accessible by the 2 and 6 buses. Please check Translink's alerts and plan your trip accordingly.

Food

There are many restaurants within walking distance from the venue.

As this is a small competition with only blindfolded events, we will need everyone to help out when not competing - typically, this means you will need to judge when not competing.

Welcome

For those of you new to cubing - we'd like to welcome you to attend a competition, but this is probably NOT a good competition to attend. We only have blindfolded events, and WILL NOT HAVE 3x3x3. Please search for other BC competitions.

Regulations

Note that all competitors are expected to be familiar with the WCA Regulations. Note that the resources above are meant to summarize some of the most prominent regulations, among other things.

Community

Join the Speedcubing Canada mailing list for competition announcements.
Join the Vancouver Facebook group for BC discussion/announcements.
Join the PNW Facebook group for PNW discussion/announcements.

FAQs

Q: What will the competition look like?
A: Unlike normal competitions, this one will be small and quiet. Spectator are welcome, but will need to be quiet/undistracting the entire time.

Q: Who is allowed to compete?
A: Everyone, from all ages are allowed to compete - but for this particular competition, you need to know how to solve a cube blindfolded.

Q: How do I check the results of the competition?
A: Check out WCA Live and search for the competition name to check live results throughout the day. Official results will then be posted within a few days of the end of the competition.

Q: How do I know when I am competing?
A: Group assignments for competing and staffing will be available on Competition Groups a few days before the competition.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact the organizers (see the general info tab).

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).

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.