CubingZA National Championship 2023

Date: Jun 16 - 18, 2023
City: Johannesburg, South Africa
Venue: BMG World
Address: South Africa, 28 Droste Cres, Droste Park, Johannesburg, 2094
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Anthony Kalaya Rush and Dylan Swarts
WCA Delegates: Duncan Hobbs, Joshua Christian Marais, Marike Faught, Maverick Pearson, and Timothy Lawrance

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Information

CubingZA is excited to announce South Africa's 2023 National Championship. Compete against South Africa's fastest speedcubers and break some records! Don't forget that to participate you need to register for the competition in the "Register" tab, and make payment by buying a ticket on our Quicket page.

COMPETING

This is an open championship - meaning anyone is free to compete. All WCA events except FMC* will be held, with winners in each event being declared the 2023 South African Champion for that event.

SPECTATORS

Competitors are allowed to bring up to 2 guests as spectators. Spectators attend for free.

VOLUNTEERING

Please note that all competitors are required to assist with volunteering during the competition - either in the role of "runner", "judge" or "scrambler". These roles will be explained as part of the "New Competitor Tutorial", but you can take a look at this video.

Parents and spectators are welcome to help out with volunteer tasks as well.

SPONSORS

Massive thanks to the following sponsors, without whom this competition would not be happening.
BMG, who are generously providing their venue at BMG World for the competition, and making Nationals in Joburg a reality.
Speecubes.co.za and CubeCo, South Africa's local cube stores, who will be sponsoring prize money and store vouchers for the competition's winners.
InsightEdge (Pty) Ltd. has also generously offered to sponsor further prize money towards the winners and podium finishers.

*A separate FMC Championship will be held at a later date. This championship will take place simultaneously in multiple locations (CPT, JHB and DBN) to minimise travel requirements.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 116

Registration period: Online registration opened and closed .
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Create a WCA account here if you don't have one.
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Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 120 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is R350 (South African Rand).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.

Please note that there are THREE steps you need to take to be entered into this competition:
1. First-timer competitors must create a WCA account if they do not already have one (or their parent/guardian must create one for them).
2. The competitor must register for the competition using their WCA account, specifying which events they want to participate in.
3. The competitor must pay the entry fee by buying a ticket on Quicket
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Daniel Rush won with an average of 7.65 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Shivaan Harichander finished second (8.15) and Ruben Grobler finished third (8.76).

African records: Daniel Rush‎ 4x4x4 Cube 25.28 (single), 4x4x4 Cube 28.07 (average), 5x5x5 Cube 57.01 (average), and 7x7x7 Cube 2:43.93 (average); Duncan Hobbs‎ 3x3x3 Multi-Blind 25/30 1:00:02 (single); Dylan Swarts‎ 4x4x4 Blindfolded 5:54.20 (average) and 5x5x5 Blindfolded 14:41.00 (single); Heinrich de Lange‎ Megaminx 42.67 (average); Joshua Christian Marais‎ 3x3x3 One-Handed 10.64 (single); Waseem Hoosain‎ 3x3x3 One-Handed 10.66 (single).

3x3x3 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Daniel Rush	6.77	7.65	South Africa	8.62	6.77	7.49	7.06	8.40
2	Shivaan Harichander	7.45	8.15	South Africa	8.16	8.53	8.38	7.90	7.45
3	Ruben Grobler	7.52	8.76	South Africa	7.52	7.98	10.49	8.95	9.35

2x2x2 Cube

#	Name	Best		Average	Representing	Solves
1	Ruben Grobler	1.89		2.19	South Africa	2.05	1.89	2.05	3.15	2.47
2	Daniel Rush	1.33	NR	2.53	South Africa	3.18	2.25	2.35	2.98	1.33
3	Jan-Hendrik Hoogendyk	2.15		2.94	South Africa	3.11	3.93	2.68	3.02	2.15

4x4x4 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average		Representing	Solves
1	Daniel Rush	26.52	28.07	AfR	South Africa	26.52	30.60	29.56	26.80	27.86
2	Waseem Hoosain	26.56	33.98		South Africa	33.76	34.72	33.45	26.56	39.38
3	Ruben Grobler	30.43	37.70		South Africa	41.37	40.08	37.65	30.43	35.37

5x5x5 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average		Representing	Solves
1	Daniel Rush	53.38	57.01	AfR	South Africa	59.12	58.35	1:02.43	53.56	53.38
2	Osman Badroodin	1:05.54	1:11.28		South Africa	1:08.15	1:05.54	1:14.52	1:12.85	1:12.85
3	Ruben Grobler	1:04.06	1:14.31		South Africa	1:04.06	1:12.71	1:19.23	1:19.68	1:10.98

6x6x6 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Daniel Rush	1:48.57	1:51.82	South Africa	1:56.28	1:48.57	1:50.61
2	Ruben Grobler	2:02.58	2:08.89	South Africa	2:02.58	2:19.04	2:05.04
3	Osman Badroodin	2:12.39	2:18.31	South Africa	2:25.86	2:16.69	2:12.39

7x7x7 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Daniel Rush	2:38.22	2:48.18	South Africa	2:38.22	2:44.89	3:01.43
2	Ruben Grobler	3:17.59	3:20.06	South Africa	3:23.15	3:17.59	3:19.45
3	Osman Badroodin	3:13.98	3:22.42	South Africa	3:19.28	3:34.01	3:13.98

3x3x3 Blindfolded

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Dylan Swarts	41.92	DNF	South Africa	DNF	41.92	DNF
2	Duncan Hobbs	57.02	DNF	South Africa	DNF	57.02	DNF
3	Ruben Grobler	58.46	DNF	South Africa	1:09.75	58.46	DNF

3x3x3 One-Handed

#	Name	Best		Average	Representing	Solves
1	Joshua Christian Marais	10.64	AfR	12.78	South Africa	11.76	13.48	14.08	13.11	10.64
2	Waseem Hoosain	13.49		16.00	South Africa	18.31	17.26	13.49	14.01	16.72
3	Ruben Grobler	14.28		17.36	South Africa	16.63	16.54	14.28	18.92	20.18

Clock

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Joshua Christian Marais	9.18	10.34	South Africa	9.24	12.03	9.18	9.74	12.43
2	Ruben Grobler	9.43	12.07	South Africa	12.70	9.62	19.30	13.88	9.43
3	Jesse Osburn	11.67	12.08	South Africa	12.41	11.67	DNF	12.12	11.71

Megaminx

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Heinrich de Lange	38.24	45.40	South Africa	48.76	50.32	38.24	41.34	46.11
2	Daniel Rush	47.33	56.09	South Africa	1:01.00	47.33	1:16.12	54.03	53.25
3	Ruben Grobler	1:03.46	1:06.54	South Africa	1:14.28	1:03.46	1:06.48	1:03.85	1:09.28

Pyraminx

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Andre Johannes Goosen	3.56	4.81	South Africa	4.04	3.92	6.48	6.87	3.56
2	Lethabo Moeti	4.49	4.92	South Africa	4.49	4.71	5.54	4.52	5.96
3	Maverick Pearson	3.99	5.51	South Africa	5.05	5.33	6.14	3.99	6.19

Skewb

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Ruben Grobler	4.83	5.28	South Africa	5.15	4.83	5.72	6.21	4.96
2	Tristan Ford	3.85	5.52	South Africa	4.63	3.85	7.00	5.94	6.00
3	Estian Blignaut	5.78	6.46	South Africa	7.01	6.34	6.10	5.78	6.95

Square-1

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Osman Badroodin	9.92	12.21	South Africa	DNF	12.81	9.92	10.02	13.79
2	Andreas de Lange	10.97	14.65	South Africa	13.61	12.67	17.68	10.97	18.21
3	Ruben Grobler	9.34	14.92	South Africa	17.26	34.66	13.58	9.34	13.91

4x4x4 Blindfolded

#	Name	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
1	Dylan Swarts	5:04.46	NR	5:54.20	AfR	South Africa	6:11.62	5:04.46	6:26.52
2	Marike Faught	6:21.35		DNF		South Africa	6:21.35	7:21.93	DNF
3	Ruben Grobler	6:37.92		DNF		South Africa	6:37.92	DNF	DNS

5x5x5 Blindfolded

#	Name	Best		Average	Representing	Solves
1	Dylan Swarts	14:41.00	AfR	DNF	South Africa	DNF	DNF	14:41.00
2	Marike Faught	15:45.00		DNF	South Africa	16:39.00	DNF	15:45.00
3	Timothy Lawrance	16:25.00		DNF	South Africa	16:25.00	DNF	DNF

3x3x3 Multi-Blind

#	Name	Best		Representing	Solves
1	Duncan Hobbs	25/30 1:00:02	AfR	South Africa	24/29 57:04	25/30 1:00:02
2	Marike Faught	15/15 54:16		South Africa	11/15 58:32	15/15 54:16
3	Timothy Lawrance	11/13 55:55		South Africa	9/13 52:47	11/13 55:55