Singapore Newcomers 2025
- Date
- Mar 22, 2025
- City
- Singapore, Singapore
- Venue
- Address
- 30 Orange Grove Road, Singapore 258352
- Details
Auditorium
- Contact
- Organizers
- Carmen Teo Bin Jie (张斌婕), Chang Hong Liang (张泓量), Cubewerkz, Dylan Seah Tze Siang (谢智翔), Sandra Devi, Tan Kuo Ping (陈果彬), and Wendy Lau Li Peng
- WCA Delegate
- Zhou Yichen (周奕臣)
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition is participating in the official WCA Newcomer Month 2025. The registration process will reserve 50% of spots for new competitors. New competitors are considered to have no WCA ID or a WCA ID with 2025. Returning competitors are considered to have a WCA ID that is from 2024 or earlier. All competitors must still follow all registration requirements for their registration to be considered complete.
Registrations will be accepted based on the following:
- 50% of spots, as defined by the competitor limit, are reserved for new competitors. Initially, 50% of spots, as defined by the competitor limit, are available for returning competitors on a first come, first serve basis.
- If greater than 50% of new competitors register before 50% of spots are filled by returning competitors, any additional new competitors will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis alongside returning competitors.
- If the spots reserved for new competitors are not filled by new competitors before registration closes, remaining spots, up to the competitor limit, will be accepted from registered returning competitors.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 182
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Friday, January 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM UTC and closed Friday, January 31, 2025 at 11:59 AM UTC.
- Registration requirements
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This competition is over, click here to display the registration requirements it used.Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 240 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $28 (Singapore Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Friday, January 31, 2025 at 11:59 AM UTC you will be refunded 64% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Friday, January 31, 2025 at 11:59 AM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Friday, January 31, 2025 at 11:59 AM UTC on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
- Go to the registration website
- Login with your WCA account
- Register for the competition by clicking the "Register" button at the bottom of the page
- Select the events you want to register for, the registration fees will be automatically calculated. Then click "Continue to Payment''
- Make the payment on Stripe, you will be directed back to the registration website after payment is completed.
- After registration completion, you may update or withdraw your registration at the registration website.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Gabriel Neo Jun Yi won with an average of 7.47 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Viraj Dhameja finished second (7.86) and Tristan Chua Yong finished third (7.92).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Gabriel Neo Jun Yi | 6.75 | 7.47 | Singapore | 9.20 | 6.75 | 7.08 | 8.22 | 7.10 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Nigel Phang | 0.90 | 1.51 | Singapore | 2.73 | 1.49 | 0.90 | 1.53 | 1.52 | |||
| Pyraminx | Lim Jia Ying | 2.01 | 2.30 | Singapore | 3.19 | 2.18 | 2.51 | 2.20 | 2.01 | |||
| Skewb | Luis Tan Hong Yi (陈宏溢) | 1.70 | 2.05 | NR | Singapore | 1.96 | 1.81 | 1.70 | 3.47 | 2.39 | ||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 32 advance to next round |
| Second round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 16 advance to next round | |
| Semi Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 8 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | ||
| 2x2x2 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 24 advance to next round |
| Second round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 8 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | ||
| Pyraminx | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 24 advance to next round |
| Second round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 8 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | ||
| Skewb | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 16 advance to next round |
| Second round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 8 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 |
Singapore Newcomers 2025 is sponsored by Cubewerkz and Yuxin Toys.
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The main prizes are sponsored by Yuxin and will be given to the top 3 participants of each event in these two categories:
- Overall category (all participants)
- Newcomer category (participants without WCA ID or with a 2025 WCA ID)
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).
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.