Turning in Townsville 2021
- Date
- May 8 - 9, 2021
- City
- Townsville, Queensland, Australia
- Venue
Townsville High School
- Address
- 36 Boundary St, Townsville
- Details
Gymnasium
- Contact
- Organizers
- Jayden McNeill, Lynette Svanosio, and Speedcubing Australia
- WCA Delegate
- Kerrie Jarman
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- 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 75 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $25 (Australian Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Payment:
Upon registering you will receive an email stating “Your registration for Turning in Townsville 2021 is submitted and pending approval”. This does NOT mean that you are on the registration list. Competitors will not be approved until payment has been made.
Please ensure you have paid the registration fees via Stripe on the register page. Your registration is not complete and will not be processed until you have paid the $25 registration fee. Contact the organisational team if you encounter an issue.
Waiting List:
- Once the competitor limit of 60 has filled, the waiting list will be opened.
- You must pay the $25 registration fee to be added to the waiting list.
- New registrations will be added to a waitlist and sorted in the order of payment.
- Waitlisted competitors will only be added to the competition if an existing competitors withdraws.
- All competitors still on the waiting list after 30/04/2021 will be removed and provided with a full refund.
- You may enquire about your position on the waiting list by contacting the organisational team.
Deleting Registration/Refunds:
- If you can no longer make the competition you may request a refund.
- To receive a full refund you must contact the organisational team by 30/04/2021.
- Withdrawing enables us to maximise attendance and for competitors on the waiting list to attend.
- Refunds will only be issued after this date if you are feeling unwell with COVID-19 symptoms or are awaiting a COVID test and can no longer attend the competition.
You may change the events you are registered for by contacting the organisational team by 30/04/2021. After this date it is no longer possible to add events. It is also acceptable to not show up for any event you do not wish to compete in.
Communications from us:
- There will be important messages from the organisational team regarding your registration. Please ensure you whitelist our domain speedcubing.org.au in your email program.
- Once the competitor limit of 60 has filled, the waiting list will be opened.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Feliks Zemdegs won with an average of 6.52 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Jayden McNeill finished second (8.55) and Charlie Eggins finished third (9.19).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Feliks Zemdegs | 5.60 | 6.52 | Australia | 9.28 | 7.06 | 6.56 | 5.94 | 5.60 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Benjamin Warry | 1.67 | 2.07 | Australia | 1.67 | 2.20 | 1.84 | 2.24 | 2.17 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Feliks Zemdegs | 22.82 | 24.59 | Australia | 23.86 | 22.82 | 32.45 | 24.05 | 25.85 | |||
| 5x5x5 Cube | Feliks Zemdegs | 38.84 | 46.28 | Australia | 43.00 | 38.84 | 48.39 | 49.42 | 47.45 | |||
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Jack Love | 22 | 24.00 | Australia | 27 | 23 | 22 | |||||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Feliks Zemdegs | 8.58 | 11.16 | Australia | 12.51 | 12.50 | 9.91 | 8.58 | 11.08 | |||
| Pyraminx | Benjamin Warry | 2.28 | 3.63 | Australia | 2.28 | 10.10 | 2.95 | 3.48 | 4.45 | |||
| Skewb | Benjamin Warry | 3.59 | 4.19 | Australia | 3.64 | 4.09 | 4.83 | 4.86 | 3.59 | |||
By car
The competition venue is located at 36 Boundary Street Townsville Qld 4810. There is a carpark located next to the hall with plenty of free parking.
Townsville State High is 4.4 kms from the Strand.
We are excited to confirm that DailyPuzzles will be sponsoring Turning in Townsville 2021
Thanks to their generosity, all competitors will receive a free gift, a cube cover, a cube stand, and an exclusive discount code to use at dailypuzzles.com.au.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. How can I change my events?
You must make any change to your registered events by 30/04/2021. Contact the organisational team detailing your event changes.
Q. What time should I arrive at the competition?
If you are competing in Fewest Move Challenge (FMC) you should arrive at 9am. For all other event you should arrive for registration at 1pm. You should always be at the venue ready to compete 30 minutes before you are scheduled. Please note the schedule is subject to change on the day.
Q. How old do I have to be to compete?
Anyone can compete at any age! We encourage anyone considering to compete to register as it will be a great experience regardless of age.
Q. How fast do I have to be to compete?
To compete you only need to know how to solve the cube! Please check the events tab for information in time limits for each event.
Q. What do I need to know before the competition day?
Before attending you should have read and understood the WCA regulations . We also recommend that you watch this helpful competitor guide and read this competition tutorial. You should also know when your events are scheduled throughout the day.
Q. How do I find out if I've progressed to the second round?
Times will be uploaded through the day. Please allow up to an hour from finishing your solves to them being uploaded. After all the times of a round has been entered, you can see if you are in the following round.
Q. Who can I ask for help on the day?
Your Delegate for this competition is Kerrie Jarman, and your organisers are Lynette Svanosio and Jayden McNeill, feel free to ask them any questions you may have on the day.
Q. Can I help on the day?
Of course! Throughout the day we will need judges and runners so please see our Delegates to ask how you can best assist.
Q. How do I find out about other upcoming competitions in Australia?
You can find out about upcoming competitions in Australia by signing up to the Speedcubing Australia mailing list.
Q. Where can I ask other questions?
The organisational team can answer all your questions.
Live Results
Live results will be provided via WCALive. It may take up to an hour between times being set and them appearing online.
The first rounds of all events will be run in groups. These groups are pre-determined. It is important that you know which groups of each event you are in.
A summary of groups can be found here while you can find an individual card with your groups here. Each competitor will be provided with a printed copy of their invididual group numbers at registration.
Throughout the competition we will also need judges, runners and scramblers. Do not hesitate to ask if you can be helpful in some way!
If you have any questions about the groups please contact us here
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.