Xuzhou Newcomers 2025
- Date
- Mar 30, 2025
- City
- Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Venue
JI Hotel
- Address
- Beijing Road, Quanshan District
- Details
Baihe Hall, 4th Floor
- Website
- Xuzhou Newcomers 2025 website
- Contact
- Organizer
- XZ FengsuCube Ltd.
- WCA Delegates
- Fangyuan Chang (常方圆), Hao Wang (王皓), and Xinyu Chen (陈鑫雨)
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition is participating in the official WCA Newcomer Month 2025. The registration process will reserve N% of spots for new competitors. New competitors are considered to have no WCA ID or a WCA ID with 2025. Returning competitors are considered to have a WCA ID that is from 2024 or earlier. All competitors must still follow all registration requirements for their registration to be considered complete.
Registrations will be accepted based on the following:
- 50% of spots, as defined by the competitor limit, are reserved for new competitors.
- Initially, 50% of spots, as defined by the competitor limit, are available for returning competitors on a first come, first serve basis.
- If greater than 50% of new competitors register before 50% of spots are filled by returning competitors, any additional new competitors will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis alongside returning competitors.
- If the spots reserved for new competitors are not filled by new competitors before registration closes two weeks prior to the competition, remaining spots, up to the competitor limit, will be accepted from registered returning competitors.
Please check the competition website for more information.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitor limit
- 240
- Number of times bookmarked
- 4
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Sunday, February 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM UTC and closed Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM UTC.
- Registration requirements
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Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 240 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is ¥105 (Chinese Renminbi Yuan).
If your registration is cancelled before Monday, March 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM UTC you will be refunded 50% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM UTC on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators can attend paying an entry fee of ¥50 (Chinese Renminbi Yuan).
Competitors may bring at most 1 guest.
- All registration must be done online via cubingchina.com.
- Each player can be accompanied by one free guest.
- For Chinese domestic participants, a completed registration is online registration plus prepaid registration fee.
- For foreign participants, if you can't pay the fee online via Alipay, please contact the delegate by E-mail right after you finish the onlineregistration. Then we will make a reservation for you by manually accepting your registration and you can pay the fee by cash at the venue. Please check the competition website for registration and the other information.
- A waiting list will be in use. Registration will be accepted based on the “Newcomer Month Exceptions for WCRP”.
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 5:00.00 | Top 150 advance to next round | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 5:00.00 | Top 60 advance to next round | ||
| Final | Ao5 | 5:00.00 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 60 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | |||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | First round | Bo3 | 10:00.00 cumulative* | Top 15 advance to next round | |
| Final | Bo3 | 10:00.00 cumulative* | |||
| Pyraminx | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 1:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 40.00 | Top 60 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | |||
| Skewb | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 1:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 40.00 | Top 50 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 |
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).
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.