Saskatchewan Newcomers 2025

Date: Mar 22, 2025
City: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Venue: Rosewood Park Alliance Church
Address: 1300 N Courtney St, Regina, SK S4Y 0C5
Details: Gym
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Carol Preece, Laura Plourde, and Speedcubing Canada
WCA Delegate: Laura Plourde

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Information

This competition features easy and popular events, making it perfect for newcomers.

First Time Competitors:
All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. There is a video here for a basic rundown of a competition.

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.

Judging:
All competitors are expected to help at this competition. We will have a judging tutorial at the beginning of the day. All competitors will be assigned to judge 1 group of each of the events they are competing in. There will also be draw prizes throughout the day to encourage competitors to stay after their round is done.

Mystery event:
There will be a mystery event at lunch. You only need to know how to solve a 3x3 to participate.

4x4
There will be no cutoff for 4x4 at this competition. The cumulative time limit is 20 minutes. You may take over 10 minutes to do a single solve if you let your judge know beforehand. 4x4 is scheduled such that overflow into lunch is acceptable so everyone can get results.

We ask attendees to limit themselves to one guest per competitor if possible so that we do not go over capacity limits for this venue which is 160 people.
Attendance is not required for the entire competition, however please arrive at least 15 minutes before your event's planned start time.
Please bring your own cubes for the events you are competing in.

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Events
Main event
Competitors: 44

Registration period: Online registration opened and closed .
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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 70 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $30 (Canadian Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 50% 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 if there are remaining spots available, with a base registration fee of $30 (Canadian Dollar).
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 1 guest.

On the spot registrations will be accepted only if the competitor limit was not reached during pre-registration.

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.
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Jonathan Petry won with an average of 9.79 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Karl Sebastien Haw finished second (10.21) and Jack Granger finished third (10.97).

3x3x3 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Jonathan Petry	8.36	9.79	Canada	10.41	10.14	8.36	8.95	10.29
2	Karl Sebastien Haw	8.95	10.21	Philippines	9.78	8.95	9.68	11.73	11.18
3	Jack Granger	10.16	10.97	Canada	10.81	12.69	11.32	10.16	10.79

2x2x2 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Zach Ramer	2.78	3.25	Canada	2.78	2.86	6.73	3.00	3.90
2	Jack Granger	2.88	3.51	Canada	4.89	3.28	3.10	2.88	4.14
3	Wilmer Daniel Almazan Cabrera	2.86	3.55	Canada	3.81	2.86	3.23	4.92	3.62

4x4x4 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Jonathan Petry	34.54	37.40	Canada	42.13	35.02	37.57	34.54	39.61
2	Zach Ramer	36.27	38.59	Canada	36.27	38.88	43.17	37.63	39.26
3	Karl Sebastien Haw	42.69	46.69	Philippines	45.69	48.00	42.69	58.19	46.39

Pyraminx

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Zach Ramer	4.05	4.60	Canada	4.76	5.10	4.17	4.87	4.05
2	Karl Sebastien Haw	4.44	6.97	Philippines	8.13	8.14	8.60	4.65	4.44
3	DaYeong Kim (김다영)	7.14	7.75	Republic of Korea	7.27	8.53	7.45	7.14	8.92