Wellington Mind Games 2025

Date: Jan 26, 2025
City: Wellington, New Zealand
Venue: Ngaio Town Hall
Address: 1 Ottawa Road, Ngaio, Wellington 6035
Details: Hall
Website: Wellington Mind Games 2025 website
Contact: Speedcubing New Zealand
Organizers: Jack Maddigan and Speedcubing New Zealand
WCA Delegates: Alex Asbery, Jack Maddigan, and Liam Wadek

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Information

Wellington Mind Games 2025 is an official World Cube Association (WCA) sanctioned speedcubing competition. It is focused on some of the more mentally demanding events, that are given less of a focus in normal competitions - blindfolded and fewest moves solving, specifically.

The competition is open to all competitors regardless of experience or skill. There will also be event-based time limits in place, to ensure we stay on schedule, especially given the time taken by fewest moves solving. No prior experience in WCA competitions is necessary, but competitors should be familiar with the WCA regulations.

The main event of this competition is Fewest Moves

Events
Main event
Competitors: 15

Registration period: Online registration opened Monday, November 25, 2024 at 5:00 AM UTC and closed Tuesday, January 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM UTC.
Registration requirements: This competition is over, click here to display the registration requirements it used.

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Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 40 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $35 (New Zealand Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Friday, January 17, 2025 at 10:59 AM UTC you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Tuesday, January 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM UTC by contacting the organization team.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Any spectator can attend for free.

Payment is made via the external website with two options to pay, either bank transfer or Paypal.

If registration fills up, a waiting list will be created. The last date to make it off the waiting list would be 24 hours before the competition begins with the conditions being that a spot opens up (someone else pulls out) and payment is completed.

Competitors may make changes to their registered events up until the end of registration.
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Aneurin Hunt won with a mean of 28.33 moves in the 3x3x3 Fewest Moves event. Jack Maddigan finished second (31.00) and Jack McDougall finished third (34.00).

3x3x3 Blindfolded

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	James Macdiarmid	20.56	DNF	New Zealand	25.80	DNF	20.56
2	Jack McDougall	27.71	41.44	New Zealand	35.56	1:01.05	27.71
3	Tom Nelson	29.88	34.41	New Zealand	36.96	29.88	36.40

3x3x3 Fewest Moves

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Aneurin Hunt	25	28.33	New Zealand	27	33	25
2	Jack Maddigan	28	31.00	New Zealand	33	28	32
3	Jack McDougall	29	34.00	New Zealand	38	35	29

4x4x4 Blindfolded

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Tom Nelson	2:02.37	2:21.15	New Zealand	2:36.48	2:24.61	2:02.37
2	Jack McDougall	3:59.06	DNF	New Zealand	DNF	3:59.06	3:59.94
3	James Moore	8:05.53	9:06.36	New Zealand	8:05.53	9:27.82	9:45.72

5x5x5 Blindfolded

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Jack McDougall	12:43.00	15:06.00	New Zealand	16:31.00	12:43.00	16:03.00
2	James Moore	15:43.00	DNF	New Zealand	DNF	15:43.00	DNF
3	Oscar Childs	18:27.00	DNF	New Zealand	18:27.00	DNF	DNS

3x3x3 Multi-Blind

#	Name	Best	Representing	Solves
1	James Macdiarmid	45/51 59:39	New Zealand	45/51 59:39	43/51 58:39
2	Tom Nelson	24/28 54:14	New Zealand	24/28 54:14	DNF
3	Jack McDougall	16/18 58:13	New Zealand	12/14 46:47	16/18 58:13