VERK III 2025

Date: Mar 8 - 9, 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, February 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM UTC and closed Sunday, March 2, 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 Sunday, March 2, 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 Sunday, March 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Sunday, March 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM UTC on the Register tab.
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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Aarni Salakari won with an average of 4.20 seconds in the Clock event. Niilo Eskelinen finished second (5.23) and Niko Ronkainen finished third (6.77).

Event	Name	Best		Average	Representing	Solves
4x4x4 Cube	Luukas Lempinen	31.80		33.61	Finland	34.92	31.80	38.52	32.39	33.53
5x5x5 Cube	Luukas Lempinen	52.96		1:04.33	Finland	1:10.75	DNF	1:01.04	1:01.19	52.96
6x6x6 Cube	Luukas Lempinen	1:40.86		1:46.48	Finland	1:52.02	1:46.57	1:40.86
7x7x7 Cube	Federico Chiarello	2:47.67		2:50.49	Italy	2:55.86	2:47.67	2:47.94
3x3x3 One-Handed	Viljo Elo	9.76		10.93	Finland	11.73	9.76	10.90	11.39	10.51
Clock	Aarni Salakari	2.65	NR	4.20	Finland	5.38	4.07	2.65	3.16	DNF
Megaminx	Antto Pitkänen	47.21		49.95	Finland	47.21	49.39	49.76	50.70	57.96
Square-1	Luukas Lempinen	6.67		8.15	Finland	6.67	7.11	8.02	9.33	DNF

Event	Round	Format	Time limit	Cutoff	Proceed
4x4x4 Cube	First round	Bo2 / Ao5	4:00.00	2 attempts to get < 50.00	Top 75% advance to next round
	Second round	Bo2 / Ao5	4:00.00	2 attempts to get < 50.00	Top 75% advance to next round
	Final	Ao5	4:00.00
5x5x5 Cube	First round	Bo2 / Ao5	5:00.00	2 attempts to get < 1:40.00	Top 75% advance to next round
	Second round	Bo2 / Ao5	5:00.00	2 attempts to get < 1:40.00	Top 75% advance to next round
	Final	Ao5	5:00.00
6x6x6 Cube	First round	Bo1 / Mo3	10:00.00	1 attempt to get < 2:45.00	Top 8 advance to next round
6x6x6 Cube	Final	Mo3	10:00.00
7x7x7 Cube	First round	Bo1 / Mo3	10:00.00	1 attempt to get < 4:20.00	Top 8 advance to next round
7x7x7 Cube	Final	Mo3	10:00.00
3x3x3 One-Handed	First round	Bo2 / Ao5	2:00.00	2 attempts to get < 30.00	Top 75% advance to next round
	Second round	Ao5	2:00.00		Top 75% advance to next round
	Final	Ao5	2:00.00
Clock	First round	Bo2 / Ao5	2:00.00	2 attempts to get < 20.00	Top 75% advance to next round
	Second round	Ao5	2:00.00		Top 75% advance to next round
	Final	Ao5	2:00.00
Megaminx	First round	Bo2 / Ao5	5:00.00	2 attempts to get < 1:40.00	Top 75% advance to next round
	Second round	Bo2 / Ao5	5:00.00	2 attempts to get < 1:40.00	Top 75% advance to next round
	Final	Ao5	5:00.00
Square-1	First round	Bo2 / Ao5	2:00.00	2 attempts to get < 30.00	Top 75% advance to next round
Square-1	Final	Ao5	2:00.00

Schedules are subject to adjustments, especially once registration totals are known. Registered competitors will be notified by email of any major changes.

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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.