Vancouver Big Cubes Open 2019

Results

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Date: Aug 23 - 24, 2019
City: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Venue: AMS Student Nest, UBC
Address: 6133 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
Details: The competition will be held in AMS Great Hall South on the 2nd Floor of the Nest.
Contact: Here
Organizer: Liew Yee Voon (劉倚文)
WCA Delegates: Anthony Brooks and Kevin Matthews

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Information

The events 4x4x4 Blindfolded and 5x5x5 Blindfolded ("big cube BLD") will be held Friday evening, and these are the only events on Friday.
If you are only competing in sighted (non-blindfolded) events, then you only need to come on Satuday.
If you are competing on Friday, then you must finish competing in 4x4x4 Blindfolded before competing in 5x5x5 Blindfolded, and we would appreciate it if you could help us setup all the tables and chairs before/after these events.
The cumulative time limit for 4x4x4 Blindfolded and 5x5x5 Blindfolded may be adjusted down to 2 hours, depending on how many competitors register for these events. If this is the case, affected competitors will be notified by email before the competition.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 86

Registration period: Online registration opened Saturday, July 27, 2019 at 5:00 PM UTC and closed Tuesday, August 20, 2019 at 5:00 PM UTC.
Registration requirements: This competition is over, click here to display the registration requirements it used.

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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 100 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $25 (Canadian Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Tuesday, August 20, 2019 at 5:00 PM UTC you will be refunded 50% of your registration fee.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
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Sameer Aggarwal won with an average of 7.91 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Luke Tycksen finished second (8.08) and Max Siauw finished third (8.13).

Event	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Sameer Aggarwal	6.67	7.91	United States	9.68	8.44	6.67	7.37	7.91
5x5x5 Cube	Kevin Hays	42.36	47.91	United States	51.54	43.98	48.22	55.24	42.36
6x6x6 Cube	Paris Dorn	1:41.25	1:45.87	Canada	1:48.80	1:41.25	1:47.55
7x7x7 Cube	Luke Tycksen	2:29.48	2:37.08	United States	2:47.18	2:34.59	2:29.48
3x3x3 One-Handed	Luke Tycksen	10.87	12.65	United States	10.87	12.48	12.11	13.35	14.92
Square-1	Aiden Bartlett	7.16	7.76	United States	7.60	8.19	7.16	7.50	DNF
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Kevin Matthews	4:56.35	DNF	Canada	4:56.35	DNF	DNF
5x5x5 Blindfolded	Max Siauw	12:15.00	DNF	United States	15:09.00	DNF	12:15.00

Event	Round	Format	Time limit	Cutoff	Proceed
3x3x3 Cube	First round	Ao5	10:00.00		Top 24 advance to next round
3x3x3 Cube	Final	Ao5	10:00.00
5x5x5 Cube	First round	Bo2 / Ao5	10:00.00	2 attempts to get < 2:30.00	Top 12 advance to next round
5x5x5 Cube	Final	Ao5	10:00.00
6x6x6 Cube	First round	Bo1 / Mo3	10:00.00	1 attempt to get < 6:00.00	Top 12 advance to next round
6x6x6 Cube	Final	Mo3	10:00.00
7x7x7 Cube	First round	Bo1 / Mo3	10:00.00	1 attempt to get < 8:00.00	Top 12 advance to next round
7x7x7 Cube	Final	Mo3	10:00.00
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	Bo2 / Ao5	10:00.00	2 attempts to get < 1:00.00
Square-1	Final	Bo2 / Ao5	10:00.00	2 attempts to get < 1:00.00
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Final	Bo3	2:30:00.00 total for 4x4x4 Blindfolded Final, 5x5x5 Blindfolded Final**
5x5x5 Blindfolded	Final	Bo3	2:30:00.00 total for 4x4x4 Blindfolded Final, 5x5x5 Blindfolded Final**

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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Events

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Friday, August 23, 2019

Saturday, August 24, 2019

6:30 - 9:30

4x4x4 Blindfolded Final

6:30 - 9:30

5x5x5 Blindfolded Final

8:30 - 9:15

Name tag pickup

9:00 - 9:15

Tutorial for new competitors

5x5x5 Cube First round

10:35 - 12:05

3x3x3 Cube First round

12:50 - 1:30

Square-1 Final

1:30 - 2:30

6x6x6 Cube First round

2:30 - 3:30

7x7x7 Cube First round

3:30 - 4:30

3x3x3 One-Handed Final

There will be food eateries open at The Nest and Life Building (right beside 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 for the competition!

Prizes (for each event):
First place: $20 gift card
Second place: $15 gift card
Third place: $10 gift card

Raffle Draws:
If you're a first-timer, you're automatically eligible for a mystery gift prize draw!
All volunteers who helped out in this competition are also eligible for raffle draw of CANCube gift cards! There are four gift cards up for grab!

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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).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced across rounds (see Guideline A1a2++).

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.