FMC Cheltenham Autumn 2024
- Date
- Sep 7, 2024
- City
- Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
- Venue
St Mark's Church Hall
- Address
- Church Hall, St Mark's, Cheltenham GL51 7AL
- Details
Church hall at St Mark's CofE (not St Mark's Methodist), to the left of the main Church.
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Oliver Wheat and UK Cube Association
- WCA Delegates
- AJ Nicholls and Oliver Wheat
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This is a FMC-only competition and is not recommended for new competitors. 3x3x3 Fewest Moves will be the only WCA event held. There will be no traditional speedsolving events.
Guests will be allowed but we do not recommend this event for spectators.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitor limit
- 20
- Number of times bookmarked
- 16
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and will close .
- Registration requirements
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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 20 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is £15 (British Pound).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 75% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Make sure to register and pay for the competition to be accepted. We will not accept any registrations at the competition.
Once you have been accepted, you will receive a confirmation email. If registration is full by the time you pay then you will not receive this confirmation email and you will be on the waiting list, which will be visible on the waiting list tab. If you do not make the competitor list by the limit date for refunds (specified above), then you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee.
If you can no longer attend, let us know as soon as possible through the contact link on the General Info page. We often have waiting lists so letting us know you cannot attend allows us to add another person to the competition.
Registration deletions will only be processed after a request through the contact form. We will not accept any changes to registrations via any other platform.
If you have any problems check out the FAQ, or feel free to contact us.
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New Competitors
If you're a new competitor, we do not recommend this competition for you. This competition only has 3x3 Fewest Moves, where you are given an hour to write down a solution to a 3x3 scramble in as few moves as possible. If you're looking for a first competition, please see the UKCA's list of upcoming competitions for more options.
Spectators
We do not recommend spectating this competition as it involves sitting in a room with 20 people writing down moves on a piece of paper in total silence for 6 hours.
Information for All Competitors
- During the rounds, please stay silent within the venue. These events require a high amount of concentration and any noise can be distracting. We will announce when the silence will begin and when you may talk within the venue again. When you are finished with the attempt, you may go out into the foyer but please keep to whispers unless you leave the building entirely.
- Please treat the venue with respect, put all of your rubbish in bins, black bin bags, or take it home with you and keep your area tidy.
- We may be taking videos and photographs of the competition and the environment for our social media pages and website. By attending the competition as a competitor or a guest, you are accepting that you may be filmed or photographed for these purposes.
Venue
The competition will take place at St Mark's Church hall. Please note this is St Mark's C of E (not St Mark's Methodist, which is about a similarly short walk from the railway station). W3W is ///mirror.cakes.ranged. The Church Hall is at the bottom of the left driveway:
For lunch, there is a Tesco Express by the railway station as well as a couple of other small takeaways.
Travel
Car: The postcode is GL51 7AL, on Church Road. There is no parking on site, but you may be able to find some free spots on the surrounding roads.
Train: The venue is only an 8 minute walk from Cheltenham Spa, which has frequent direct trains to Bristol Temple Meads, Birmingham New Street and London Paddington.
Coach: The nearest coach station is Royal Well, a 30 minute walk from the venue. There are relatively cheap coaches here from London Victoria and other places.
Bus: The 94, 99 and D buses all have stops very close to the venue.
Accommodation
- Premier Inn Cheltenham Central (West/A40) is only a 3 minute walk away. There is also a Premier Inn in the town centre and another further away.
- Travelodge Cheltenham is a 30 minute walk away, or 12 minutes by bus (94).
Disabled Access
The venue is fully accessible for anyone disabled as there are no steps involved.
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).
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.