Winnipeg Big & Blind 2024

Date: Nov 23, 2024
City: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Venue: East Elmwood Community Centre
Address: 490 Keenleyside St, Winnipeg, MB R2K 4A1
Details: Multi-Purpose Room
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Mia Willow Pahl and Speedcubing Canada
WCA Delegates: Shain Papalotl Longbehn and Walker Welch

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Information

This competition has no 3x3 and is not recommended for newcomers.

We are working hard on announcing a typical competition experience in Manitoba as soon as possible. Stay tuned!

This competition is in conjuction with FMC Canada 2024, a multi-location, synchronous FMC competition across Canada. Winnipeg will take part from 11am-3:30pm. Check out FMC Canada 2024 for more info!

Notice of Filming and Photography

Attendees of Speedcubing Canada competitions consent to their images being used by Speedcubing Canada and its partners in marketing materials, social media and other digital platforms.

Events

Competitor limit: 25

Number of times bookmarked: 8

Registration period: Online registration opened and will close .
Registration requirements: 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 25 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $25 (Canadian Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 90% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
We encourage everyone to register for the events they want to compete in via your online registration, however you may add events to your registration up until the event has started.
On the spot registrations will be accepted with a base registration fee of $25 (Canadian Dollar).
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 1 guest.

⚠️ Registration is accepted in the order paid. Payment must be made for registration to be considered complete. ⚠️

If all competing spots are filled, a waitlist will begin. Waitlist spots are added in the order paid.

Click here for more information about the waitlist.

Please wait 48 hours for your registration to be manually accepted.

Live results will be available here during the event.

Competitors are added to the waitlist in the order paid

If registration fills, a waitlist will begin and the link to monitor the status will be in this tab. You must pay the full registration fee to be added to the waitlist. If the waitlist reaches 10 people, registration will close and no more people will be allowed to register.

A link will be available here once a waitlist begins to monitor your status on the waitlist.

Most waitlisters move off the list around 1-2 weeks before the competition. Please keep an eye on your email that states your registration was accepted as the competition gets closer.

We will be holding 15 puzzle as an unofficial event at this competition! There will be one round held during the afternoon break between FMC Canada Attempts 2 and 3, approximately 1:50 pm to 2:20 pm.

You must be registered for this competition to compete in this event, but there is no separate registration required. Just be sure to bring your 15 puzzle along!

Format: Average of 5, with a cutoff of 2:30 and a time limit of 4:00.

The results will be recorded through Cubing Contests, and will then be added to the rankings.

Live Results

Event Details

Rules

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

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.