New Zealand Nationals 2019

Date: Dec 13 - 15, 2019
City: Tauranga, New Zealand
Venue: Trustpower Arena
Address: Trustpower Arena, Trustpower Baypark, 81 Truman Lane, Tauranga
Details: Combined Suites within the main building
Website: New Zealand Nationals 2019 website
Contact: https://speedcubing.nz/contact-us/
Organizer: Joshua Brungar
WCA Delegates: Alex Asbery and James Macdiarmid

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Information

New Zealand Nationals 2019 is an official World Cube Association (WCA) sanctioned speedcubing competition. Speedcubing is solving the 3x3x3 Cube or other similar puzzles as quickly as possible. The competition is open to all competitors regardless of experience and skill, but certain event-based time limits will be in place so as to make sure we can stay on schedule and get through the days on time. No prior experience in WCA competitions is necessary, but competitors should be familiar with the WCA regulations.

In addition, New Zealand Nationals 2019 will crown the National Champions in all 18 official events, over the course of 3 days.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 89

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New Zealand Nationals 2019 Cubing Competition

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There is a competitor limit of 120 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $45 (New Zealand Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 50% of your registration fee.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.

If the competitor limit is reached an email will be sent out which will require you to reply in order to confirm attendance to the competition

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Ben Kirby won with an average of 8.64 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Adrien Auvray Matyn finished second (9.08) and Harrison Marsden finished third (9.59).

Oceanian records: Tom Nelson‎ 5x5x5 Blindfolded 4:36.24 (average).

Event	Name	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Ben Kirby	8.03		8.64		New Zealand	8.03	8.12	9.26	8.54	9.87
2x2x2 Cube	Tim Xie	1.30		2.11		New Zealand	2.12	1.30	1.65	6.73	2.55
4x4x4 Cube	Finn Trass	31.22		35.26		New Zealand	37.91	33.16	31.22	35.88	36.74
5x5x5 Cube	Ben Kirby	56.84	NR	1:03.47		New Zealand	1:01.33	56.84	1:03.69	1:08.37	1:05.39
6x6x6 Cube	Tom Stanton-Barnett	2:12.50		2:19.12		New Zealand	2:21.33	2:23.54	2:12.50
7x7x7 Cube	Ben Kirby	3:13.28		3:26.83		New Zealand	3:42.26	3:13.28	3:24.96
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Ethan Pan	27.88		DNF		New Zealand	27.88	DNF	DNF
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Lee Stanton-Barnett	27				New Zealand	27
3x3x3 One-Handed	Chris Mills	12.55		15.15		United Kingdom	12.55	17.19	14.56	16.24	14.64
Clock	Luke Heath-Edwards	8.34		10.50		New Zealand	11.06	11.45	9.66	8.34	10.79
Megaminx	James Macdiarmid	44.72		50.43		New Zealand	49.00	1:12.34	50.70	44.72	51.58
Pyraminx	Cheng-Ru Yang	2.86		4.24		New Zealand	2.86	3.71	4.16	4.85	6.66
Skewb	Dwyane Ramos	2.91		3.29		New Zealand	3.56	3.36	3.03	2.91	3.49
Square-1	Chris Mills	11.38		15.19		United Kingdom	16.29	11.38	13.59	15.69	17.01
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Tom Nelson	1:47.75	NR	DNF		New Zealand	DNF	1:47.75	DNF
5x5x5 Blindfolded	Tom Nelson	4:15.67		4:36.24	OcR	New Zealand	4:31.71	5:01.35	4:15.67
3x3x3 Multi-Blind	Tom Nelson	25/33 54:37				New Zealand	25/33 54:37
3x3x3 With Feet	Chris Mills	45.85		58.94		United Kingdom	1:01.55	1:06.90	45.85	1:12.40	48.36

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.