VERK I 2025

Date: Feb 2, 2025
City: Helsinki, Finland
Venue: VERK
Address: Sörnäistenkatu 1
Details: Instructions emailed to registered competitors
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Niko Ronkainen and Tomi Ronkainen
WCA Delegates: Niko Ronkainen and Tomi Ronkainen

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Information

Please read through the regulations before the competition.
We highly recommend not bringing any guests. However, we're required to allow 1 guest per competitor.

Lue säännöt (englanniksi, suomeksi) ennen kilpailua.
Suosittelemme saapumaan ilman vieraita. Joudumme kuitenkin sallimaan yhden vieraan per kilpailija.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 19

Registration period: Online registration opened Saturday, December 28, 2024 at 8:00 PM UTC and closed Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM UTC.
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There is a competitor limit of 22 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is €5 (Euro).
If your registration is cancelled before Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM UTC you will be refunded 90% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM UTC.
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No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 1 guest.

The waiting list will be ordered by time of payment.

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Lauri Korhonen won with an average of 14.02 seconds in the 3x3x3 One-Handed event. Luukas Lempinen finished second (18.03) and Aarni Salakari finished third (18.04).

5x5x5 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Lauri Korhonen	45.45	48.08	Finland	45.45	46.05	49.84	48.35	52.19
2	Luukas Lempinen	55.75	1:04.81	Finland	1:05.58	1:08.66	1:02.85	1:06.01	55.75
3	Arttu Puttonen	1:02.18	1:11.23	Finland	1:08.00	1:12.28	1:02.18	1:14.67	1:13.41

6x6x6 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average		Representing	Solves
1	Lauri Korhonen	1:21.31	1:27.02	NR	Finland	1:28.07	1:21.31	1:31.69
2	Luukas Lempinen	1:42.20	1:49.42		Finland	1:54.51	1:51.55	1:42.20
3	Urho Kinnunen	1:50.58	1:54.12		Finland	1:50.58	1:54.03	1:57.75

7x7x7 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Lauri Korhonen	2:26.40	2:39.37	Finland	2:55.09	2:26.40	2:36.62
2	Luukas Lempinen	2:49.71	2:58.24	Finland	2:49.71	3:07.95	2:57.07
3	Andreas Wagner	3:11.62	3:18.80	Austria	3:11.62	3:23.86	3:20.93

3x3x3 One-Handed

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Lauri Korhonen	11.51	14.02	Finland	11.51	17.92	14.31	14.46	13.29
2	Luukas Lempinen	14.12	18.03	Finland	18.53	16.86	18.69	14.12	39.21
3	Aarni Salakari	17.51	18.04	Finland	18.62	17.84	17.66	22.13	17.51

Clock

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Leo Alanen	3.79	4.88	Finland	5.22	4.65	9.46	4.76	3.79
2	Niko Ronkainen	6.08	6.26	Finland	6.42	6.08	7.85	6.10	6.27
3	Aarni Salakari	3.14	6.63	Finland	DNF	7.08	6.49	3.14	6.32

Megaminx

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Lauri Korhonen	48.25	51.66	Finland	48.25	1:01.90	52.21	50.04	52.73
2	Luukas Lempinen	54.71	1:01.58	Finland	54.71	1:04.68	1:04.28	59.34	1:01.12
3	Ahti Isohanni	1:00.28	1:04.94	Finland	1:00.28	1:07.52	1:08.92	1:04.46	1:02.85

Square-1

#	Name	Best	Average		Representing	Solves
1	Niilo Eskelinen	6.55	6.92	NR	Finland	9.22	7.37	6.56	6.83	6.55
2	Luukas Lempinen	6.78	8.41		Finland	9.72	6.78	7.21	9.38	8.63
3	Aarni Salakari	10.33	11.44		Finland	10.33	11.64	12.41	11.08	11.61