Qualifying in Kirstenhof 2024

Date: Aug 17 - 18, 2024
City: Cape Town, South Africa
Venue: Kirstenhof Primary School
Address: 18 Lente Street, Kirstenhof, Cape Town, 7945
Details: School hall
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Anthony Kalaya Rush and Daniel Rush
WCA Delegates: Anthony Kalaya Rush, Catherine Rush, and Maverick Pearson

: Download all the competition's details as PDF here.

Information

CubingZA is excited to announce a new Cape Town competition for 2024. This competition is designed as a warmup/rankings qualifier for the African Championships that is coming up in September, so we will have plenty of events and plenty of rounds. Don't forget that to participate you need to register for the competition in the "Register" tab, and make payment by buying a ticket. Please see Registration Requirements below."

CHANGES TO THE FORMAT

We are wanting to maximise the opportunities for all the cubers in our community and as a result we have decided to make the qualifying criteria for second rounds and finals to be much more achievable. Our goal is to have more people competing in more rounds of solving!!

SPECTATORS

Competitors are welcome to bring 2 spectators with them. Please let us know if you need to accommodate more spectators.

VOLUNTEERING

Please note that all competitors are required to assist with volunteering during the competition - either in the role of "runner", "judge" or "scrambler". These roles will be allocated prior to the event and explained as part of the "New Competitor Tutorial", but you can take a look at this video.

LUCKY DRAW

During prize-giving after 3x3 Finals on Sunday, we will be having a Lucky Draw for two winners to receive R250 Speedcubes.co.za vouchers each with free shipping on their order! If you needed another reason to stick around and watch 3x3 Finals other than the amazing speed of some of Africa's top speedcubers, maybe you could be one of the lucky winners and walk away with some free cubes or apparel courtesy of our local speedcubing store.

Events
Main event

Competitor limit: 100

Number of times bookmarked: 8

Registration period: Online registration will be open from to .
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 100 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is R200 (South African Rand).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 90% of your registration fee.
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.

Registration Requirements

We are introducing a new payment system for our competitions going forward, and trying out tiered payments - this means that for many competitors who are newcomers or only compete in a few events like 3x3 and 2x2, competition ticket prices may decrease from previous competitions. Please see the below instructions for how to pay for your entry, and a description of this tiered pricing system.

Please note that there are THREE steps you need to take to be entered into this competition:
1. First-timer competitors must create a WCA account if they do not already have one (or their parent/guardian must create one for them).
2. The competitor must register for the competition using their WCA account, specifying which events they want to participate in.
3. The competitor must pay the Entry Fee of R200 on the Registration Link. DO NOT PAY UNTIL YOU HAVE REGISTERED IN STEP 2 ABOVE PLEASE.

SPECIAL OFFER

If you have already registered and paid for your entry for the African Championships, you get 50% off your entry for this competition! That means your ticket will be R100 instead. If you would like to make use of this awesome opportunity, head over to the link above and register for African Championships 2024!
* To claim this discount make sure you enter the code AFRICANCHAMPS at the Checkout Page - you will need to do this AFTER you have entered the email address that you used to purchase your African Champs entry.
* Or purchase your African Champs entry at the same time and the discount will be automatically applied

Payment Link

SPONSORSHIP

A big thanks to Speedcubes who are sponsoring vouchers as a part of the prizes for this competition. They will have a stall set up at the venue for you to try out and buy the different speedcubes they have on offer.

About CubingZA

CubingZA is a volunteer organisation made up of delegates and community members who have come together to try and ensure that we can sustainably run regular competitions all across the country. In 2024, we are anticipating being able to host one competition every season in each of the cities of Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban, as well as other regular events in Pretoria, Bloemfontein, Limpopo, and more!

If you'd be interested in helping out in CubingZA's mission to bring competitive speedcubing to the country, please get in touch.

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.