Deep South Solving Cape Town 2024

Date: Apr 6 - 7, 2024
City: Cape Town, South Africa
Venue: Noordhoek Community Center
Address: Avondrust Cir, Chapmans Peak, Cape Town, 7979
Details: A community center
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Anthony Kalaya Rush, Catherine Rush, and Daniel Rush
WCA Delegates: Maverick Pearson and Timothy Lawrance

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Information

INFORMATION
CubingZA is excited to announce Deep South Solving 2024! This competition is mainly focused on the less popular events, from bigger NxNs like 5x5, 6x6 and 7x7, to side events like megaminx and clock, and even blind events!
Don't forget that to participate you need to register for the competition in the "Register" tab, and make payment by buying a ticket. Please see Registration Requirements below.

MYSTERY PRIZES
We will include some fun prizes at this competition and there will be some interesting prizes to claim!

SPECTATORS
Competitors are welcome to bring 1 spectator with them. Please let us know if you need to accommodate more spectators.

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.
Note: this competition has a much smaller competitor limit, meaning most rounds will not need runners as the majority of the rounds will be done with fixed seating.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 14

Registration period: Online registration opened and closed .
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There is a competitor limit of 40 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is R150 (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.
On the spot registrations will be accepted with a base registration fee of R150 (South African Rand).

There is a competitor limit of 40 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is R150 (South African Rand).
If your registration is cancelled before April 05 2024 at 16:00 AM GMT+2 you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee.
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.
Spectators can attend for free.

REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
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 either

a) Bank Transfer of the appropriate amount of R150.00 to the following bank account. DO NOT PAY UNTIL YOU HAVE REGISTERED IN STEP 2 ABOVE PLEASE.
Name of Account: Cubing South Africa.
Bank: First National Bank.
Account number: 6308 5382 596.
Reference: Name and Surname of competitor, and "DSS". Eg. Joshua Marais DSS.
Branch code: 260 300.

b) Online Payments via Credit Card can be done here: CubingZA

Please note: we will be handling the EFT payments manually, so it might take a few days for us to confirm your registration. If you have not recieved a notification from us saying that your registration has been approved within 3 DAYS (72HRS) of making payment, please do not hesitate to contact us. NB. Please use the full name of the COMPETITOR as your reference when making EFT payments
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Daniel Rush won with an average of 52.19 seconds in the 5x5x5 Cube event. Samuel Collett finished second (1:06.84) and Maverick Pearson finished third (1:22.73).

African records: Daniel Rush‎ 6x6x6 Cube 1:20.45 (single), 6x6x6 Cube 1:30.96 (average), 7x7x7 Cube 2:16.23 (single), and 7x7x7 Cube 2:22.80 (average).

Anthony Kalaya Rush - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	First round	14	7:00.29				South Africa	7:00.29	DNS

Catherine Rush - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	Final	10	2:40.31	2:52.09	South Africa	2:59.53	2:40.31	2:41.99	DNF	2:54.76
	First round	10	2:11.96	2:33.67	South Africa	2:11.96	2:54.97	2:33.88	2:36.77	2:30.37
6x6x6 Cube	First round	8	5:43.79		South Africa	5:43.79
Skewb	First round	12	15.35	20.09	South Africa	21.55	16.94	21.78	15.35	DNF

Daniel David Mizen - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	Final	7	1:43.46	1:51.23	South Africa	1:47.83	1:43.46	2:05.16	1:50.86	1:55.01
	First round	7	1:39.04	1:56.01	South Africa	1:59.34	1:39.04	1:52.24	2:04.07	1:56.44
6x6x6 Cube	Final	7	3:16.39	3:58.63	South Africa	4:54.27	3:16.39	3:45.22
	First round	6	3:29.73	3:34.75	South Africa	3:33.50	3:29.73	3:41.03
7x7x7 Cube	Final	6	5:30.92	DNF	South Africa	5:30.92	DNF	6:21.19
	First round	4	5:19.11	5:41.60	South Africa	5:46.60	5:59.10	5:19.11
Clock	Final	5	6.75	10.54	South Africa	DNF	6.75	8.77	12.45	10.41
	First round	2	6.23	7.54	South Africa	8.82	9.91	6.23	6.97	6.84
Megaminx	First round	8	1:48.48	1:57.64	South Africa	1:48.48	2:03.34	1:55.21	1:54.38	2:08.30
Skewb	First round	10	4.31	8.10	South Africa	4.31	7.51	9.50	DNF	7.29
Square-1	Final	5	20.93	25.65	South Africa	26.31	24.70	26.53	25.94	20.93
	First round	6	20.37	26.34	South Africa	27.85	20.37	25.35	25.83	30.27

Daniel Rush - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	Final	1	51.21		52.19		South Africa	1:01.38	51.79	52.23	51.21	52.54
	First round	1	51.49		1:00.06		South Africa	DNF	1:03.10	56.72	1:00.37	51.49
6x6x6 Cube	Final	1	1:30.36		1:31.89		South Africa	1:33.41	1:31.91	1:30.36
	First round	1	1:20.45	AfR	1:30.96	AfR	South Africa	1:28.85	1:43.58	1:20.45
7x7x7 Cube	Final	1	2:16.23	AfR	2:22.80	AfR	South Africa	2:26.50	2:25.67	2:16.23
	First round	1	2:24.11		2:29.92		South Africa	2:24.11	2:24.61	2:41.04
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Final	4	DNF		DNF		South Africa	DNF	DNF	DNF
Clock	Final	3	8.49		9.52		South Africa	8.86	9.96	8.49	DNF	9.74
	First round	4	8.01		9.18		South Africa	DNF	9.75	8.20	8.01	9.60
Megaminx	Final	1	46.25		51.28		South Africa	46.25	50.49	53.28	51.68	51.67
	First round	1	44.89		50.44		South Africa	48.69	51.72	44.89	56.79	50.92
Skewb	Final	3	4.16		5.15		South Africa	4.75	4.16	6.73	5.29	5.41
	First round	4	5.38		6.32		South Africa	10.49	6.25	6.02	6.70	5.38
Square-1	Final	2	12.48		15.16		South Africa	12.81	14.27	18.87	18.39	12.48
	First round	1	7.44	NR	11.73		South Africa	14.04	10.38	7.44	11.98	12.83
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Final	2	DNF		DNF		South Africa	DNF	DNF	DNF
3x3x3 Multi-Blind	Final	3	2/4 31:42				South Africa	2/4 31:42	3/6 54:46

Jesse Osburn - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	Final	4	1:21.08	1:27.73	South Africa	1:21.08	1:27.94	1:32.10	1:28.88	1:26.37
	First round	5	1:25.51	1:32.37	South Africa	1:26.82	1:33.56	1:40.25	1:25.51	1:36.73
6x6x6 Cube	Final	4	2:57.55	3:00.98	South Africa	3:07.51	2:57.55	2:57.87
	First round	4	2:53.81	3:07.80	South Africa	3:20.12	3:09.46	2:53.81
7x7x7 Cube	Final	4	5:02.11	5:38.13	South Africa	5:43.46	5:02.11	6:08.81
	First round	3	5:00.82	5:33.10	South Africa	5:00.82	6:09.49	5:29.00
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Final	4	DNF	DNF	South Africa	DNF	DNF	DNF
Clock	First round	9	7.49	DNF	South Africa	8.46	8.63	DNF	7.49	DNF
Megaminx	Final	3	1:11.33	1:16.70	South Africa	1:11.33	1:17.65	1:17.52	1:14.93	1:22.42
	First round	2	1:08.22	1:15.80	South Africa	1:15.73	1:18.84	1:12.84	1:22.17	1:08.22
Skewb	Final	6	6.13	7.38	South Africa	6.13	6.89	8.51	6.74	9.23
	First round	5	4.96	6.48	South Africa	4.96	6.65	8.83	6.09	6.69
Square-1	Final	4	17.42	22.96	South Africa	26.73	24.76	18.40	17.42	25.72
	First round	5	16.62	26.02	South Africa	32.28	16.62	27.40	25.45	25.21

Maverick Pearson - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	Final	3	1:13.49	1:22.73	South Africa	1:33.78	1:13.49	1:22.85	1:19.36	1:25.98
	First round	3	1:12.85	1:29.08	South Africa	1:30.65	1:31.37	1:31.79	1:12.85	1:25.21
6x6x6 Cube	Final	3	2:35.31	2:40.20	South Africa	2:35.31	2:39.76	2:45.52
	First round	3	2:56.48	3:04.11	South Africa	3:14.01	3:01.85	2:56.48
7x7x7 Cube	Final	3	4:24.76	4:43.61	South Africa	5:00.70	4:45.37	4:24.76
	First round	5	4:15.97	DNF	South Africa	4:15.97	4:49.53	DNF
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Final	4	DNF	DNF	South Africa	DNF	DNF	DNF
Clock	Final	4	8.91	10.08	South Africa	DNF	10.16	8.91	10.57	9.50
	First round	6	11.45	14.94	South Africa	17.91	13.21	11.45	DNF	13.69
Megaminx	Final	2	1:07.71	1:15.29	South Africa	1:16.43	1:14.42	1:16.41	1:07.71	1:15.03
	First round	4	1:11.52	1:19.98	South Africa	1:16.27	1:21.94	1:11.52	1:21.73	1:24.38
Skewb	Final	9	6.46	9.58	South Africa	8.62	11.90	8.21	6.46	12.82
	First round	9	6.67	8.00	South Africa	9.43	16.36	6.67	6.75	7.83
Square-1	Final	7	22.87	32.21	South Africa	31.33	22.87	41.76	35.04	30.25
	First round	7	22.97	30.77	South Africa	34.92	25.49	31.91	39.48	22.97
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Final	2	DNF	DNF	South Africa	DNF	DNF	DNF
5x5x5 Blindfolded	Final	2	DNF	DNF	South Africa	DNF	DNF	DNS
3x3x3 Multi-Blind	Final	2	8/9 55:25		South Africa	6/9 53:52	8/9 55:25

Micah Willenburgh - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	Final	8	1:58.35	2:05.79	South Africa	2:11.49	1:58.35	2:15.17	2:03.04	2:02.84
	First round	8	1:54.18	2:11.08	South Africa	2:11.20	2:22.28	1:54.18	2:09.19	2:12.84
6x6x6 Cube	First round	9	DNF		South Africa	DNF
7x7x7 Cube	First round	7	7:40.31		South Africa	7:40.31
Clock	Final	6	12.27	14.48	South Africa	12.27	14.97	18.48	13.90	14.57
	First round	7	11.05	15.02	South Africa	14.32	15.07	11.05	16.77	15.66
Megaminx	Final	7	1:29.04	1:37.49	South Africa	1:39.18	1:34.24	1:39.04	1:29.04	1:46.10
	First round	6	1:21.60	1:26.29	South Africa	1:35.67	1:21.60	1:26.51	1:30.30	1:22.06
Skewb	Final	4	3.59	5.18	South Africa	5.69	3.59	4.97	DNF	4.87
	First round	3	4.50	5.53	South Africa	DNF	4.86	6.11	4.50	5.63
Square-1	First round	8	20.65	30.93	South Africa	38.20	27.17	36.53	20.65	29.08

Noah Atter - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	First round	12	3:13.08		3:34.83		South Africa	3:33.62	3:13.08	DNF	3:38.32	3:32.54
Skewb	First round	11	5.15		8.98		South Africa	11.72	6.49	11.34	5.15	9.10

Raphael Fast - Canada WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	Final	5	1:29.42	1:35.74	Canada	1:33.02	1:39.46	1:39.65	1:29.42	1:34.75
	First round	4	1:27.96	1:31.68	Canada	1:27.96	1:28.36	1:59.57	1:35.08	1:31.59
6x6x6 Cube	Final	5	3:22.60	3:39.67	Canada	3:45.77	3:22.60	3:50.63
	First round	5	3:26.71	3:34.26	Canada	3:26.71	3:35.13	3:40.95
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Final	3	4:24.35	DNF	Canada	4:24.35	DNF	DNF
Clock	First round	10	13.16	DNF	Canada	DNF	16.02	DNF	13.16	DNF
Megaminx	Final	5	1:12.21	1:22.06	Canada	1:19.09	1:12.21	1:31.57	1:17.66	1:29.42
	First round	3	1:13.43	1:16.13	Canada	1:18.47	1:30.52	1:13.43	1:13.56	1:16.35
Skewb	Final	5	5.51	6.99	Canada	5.51	7.59	7.55	DNF	5.83
	First round	6	5.26	6.56	Canada	6.85	6.41	6.53	6.73	5.26
Square-1	First round	9	49.31	59.12	Canada	49.31	58.65	1:02.45	1:00.82	57.89
3x3x3 Multi-Blind	Final	4	DNF		Canada	DNF	DNF

Rohan Rossouw - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	Final	6	1:30.62		1:49.94		South Africa	1:45.35	1:30.62	2:08.21	1:53.49	1:50.99
	First round	6	1:40.28		1:51.09		South Africa	1:57.39	1:42.68	1:40.28	1:53.21	2:05.49

Samuel Collett - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	Final	2	1:02.48		1:06.84		South Africa	1:07.44	1:02.48	1:05.82	DNF	1:07.26
	First round	2	1:07.92		1:09.20		South Africa	1:08.06	1:15.72	1:07.92	1:10.85	1:08.68
6x6x6 Cube	Final	2	2:03.92		2:16.04		South Africa	2:21.14	2:03.92	2:23.07
	First round	2	2:00.88		2:04.90		South Africa	2:00.88	2:01.15	2:12.67
7x7x7 Cube	Final	2	3:38.84		3:50.86		South Africa	3:56.25	3:38.84	3:57.49
	First round	2	3:23.62		3:57.41		South Africa	4:39.00	3:49.60	3:23.62
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Final	4	DNF		DNF		South Africa	DNF	DNF	DNF
Clock	Final	1	5.56		5.70	NR	South Africa	5.76	5.56	5.60	DNF	5.75
	First round	1	5.10	NR	6.44	NR	South Africa	6.16	6.80	7.56	5.10	6.35
Megaminx	Final	4	1:13.18		1:20.40		South Africa	1:21.54	1:14.02	1:25.64	1:30.88	1:13.18
	First round	7	1:16.61		1:26.94		South Africa	1:37.41	1:36.96	1:16.61	1:21.59	1:22.28
Skewb	Final	2	3.59		4.66		South Africa	3.59	3.76	5.52	DNS	4.71
	First round	2	4.38		4.80		South Africa	8.42	4.62	4.40	4.38	5.37
Square-1	Final	1	13.42		15.04		South Africa	13.42	16.48	14.75	19.29	13.90
	First round	2	9.67		13.68		South Africa	15.65	11.68	13.70	20.75	9.67

Timothy Lawrance - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	Final	9	2:03.57	2:09.36	South Africa	2:11.83	2:17.91	2:03.57	2:10.12	2:06.14
	First round	9	1:58.82	2:21.49	South Africa	2:32.98	2:14.32	1:58.82	2:19.83	2:30.31
6x6x6 Cube	Final	6	3:44.58	3:53.78	South Africa	3:44.58	4:09.66	3:47.11
	First round	7	4:13.26	4:41.55	South Africa	4:53.48	4:57.92	4:13.26
7x7x7 Cube	Final	5	6:15.05	6:50.55	South Africa	7:17.46	6:15.05	6:59.15
	First round	6	7:31.48		South Africa	7:31.48
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Final	2	3:41.89	DNF	South Africa	DNF	DNF	3:41.89
Clock	First round	8	12.08	15.70	South Africa	17.25	DNF	12.08	14.21	15.64
Megaminx	First round	10	2:16.53	2:35.39	South Africa	2:16.53	2:30.23	2:40.65	3:06.51	2:35.29
Skewb	Final	7	5.18	7.89	South Africa	6.96	5.18	11.08	8.80	7.91
	First round	8	6.13	7.92	South Africa	8.34	6.13	15.69	7.54	7.88
Square-1	Final	6	26.72	29.42	South Africa	29.28	31.47	27.51	26.72	32.14
	First round	3	20.82	24.27	South Africa	23.12	20.82	22.15	29.17	27.53
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Final	1	7:23.26	DNF	South Africa	DNF	DNF	7:23.26
5x5x5 Blindfolded	Final	1	15:50.00	DNF	South Africa	DNF	DNF	15:50.00
3x3x3 Multi-Blind	Final	1	12/15 56:29		South Africa	DNF	12/15 56:29

Tristan Ford - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average		Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	First round	11	2:32.80	2:48.18		South Africa	2:47.69	2:56.39	2:40.45	2:32.80	3:15.03
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Final	1	1:08.37	DNF		South Africa	DNF	1:08.37	DNF
Clock	Final	7	9.12	DNF		South Africa	DNF	DNF	11.02	12.88	9.12
	First round	5	9.16	10.91		South Africa	10.54	9.86	12.33	12.57	9.16
Megaminx	Final	6	1:12.12	1:25.31		South Africa	1:29.92	1:20.40	1:12.12	1:30.50	1:25.60
	First round	5	1:21.57	1:24.76		South Africa	1:23.60	1:25.86	1:21.57	1:30.72	1:24.83
Skewb	Final	1	3.13	3.74	NR	South Africa	3.53	3.13	4.20	3.49	5.17
	First round	1	3.11	4.04		South Africa	5.70	3.11	3.59	4.04	4.48
Square-1	Final	3	15.71	20.27		South Africa	15.71	28.99	19.62	20.33	20.85
	First round	4	23.94	25.49		South Africa	23.94	25.19	26.81	24.46	30.01

Zander Daniel Wessels - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	First round	13	2:21.20	DNF	South Africa	2:21.48	2:30.61	2:21.20	DNF	DNF
6x6x6 Cube	First round	9	DNF		South Africa	DNF
7x7x7 Cube	First round	8	7:58.62		South Africa	7:58.62
Clock	Final	2	6.07	7.46	South Africa	7.61	6.07	6.96	7.81	8.05
	First round	3	6.96	7.65	South Africa	6.96	7.06	7.51	DNF	8.38
Megaminx	First round	9	1:56.36	2:08.60	South Africa	2:39.82	2:11.13	1:57.73	2:16.95	1:56.36
Skewb	Final	8	5.84	9.12	South Africa	8.48	9.05	9.83	5.84	10.57
	First round	7	6.01	6.99	South Africa	8.71	6.88	8.01	6.01	6.08
Square-1	First round	10	34.89	DNF	South Africa	39.66	DNF	34.89	DNF	37.08