UBC Open 2019
- Date
- Jan 5, 2019
- City
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Venue
- Address
- 6133 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
- Details
The competition will be held in AMS Great Hall North on the 2nd Floor of the Nest.
- Contact
- Organizer
- Liew Yee Voon (劉倚文)
- WCA Delegates
- Kevin Matthews and Kristopher De Asis
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 116
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Saturday, December 8, 2018 at 6:00 PM UTC and closed Thursday, January 3, 2019 at 6:00 PM UTC.
- 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 120 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $25 (Canadian Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Thursday, January 3, 2019 at 6:00 PM UTC you will be refunded 50% of your registration fee.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Max Siauw won with an average of 7.48 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Kenny Zhong finished second (8.77) and Anthony Brooks finished third (8.86).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Max Siauw | 6.98 | 7.48 | United States | 9.95 | 7.81 | 6.98 | 7.50 | 7.14 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Max Siauw | 2.05 | 2.51 | United States | 2.50 | 2.19 | 2.83 | 2.05 | 3.06 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Max Siauw | 27.60 | 30.65 | United States | 29.00 | 29.69 | 33.26 | 27.60 | 37.11 | |||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Kenny Zhong | 10.56 | 15.10 | Canada | 17.24 | 13.90 | 10.56 | 14.15 | 17.62 | |||
| Megaminx | Max Siauw | 45.56 | 59.87 | United States | 1:01.27 | 56.95 | 1:01.38 | 45.56 | 1:01.85 | |||
| Pyraminx | Marcus Kamen | 2.63 | 2.96 | United States | 2.63 | 3.24 | 3.05 | 2.78 | 3.04 | |||
| Square-1 | Ethan Rusnak | 9.74 | 11.71 | Canada | 10.18 | 9.74 | 13.11 | 11.85 | 15.16 | |||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 48 advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | Top 12 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 10:00.00 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 10:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 30.00 | |
| 4x4x4 Cube | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 10:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:15.00 | |
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 10:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 45.00 | |
| Megaminx | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 10:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 2:30.00 | |
| Pyraminx | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 10:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 30.00 | |
| Square-1 | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 10:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 45.00 |
There will be food eateries open at The Nest, as well as the University Village within a few minutes walk.
Parking information can be found here. The parking rate is at most $8 on weekends.
We are very delighted to have CANCube sponsoring the Prizes and Vending Cubes at the competition!
Here is their store link: https://cancube.ca/
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.