Competitions · Australia

December Series: Geelong says So-Long 2021

Geelong, Victoria · 28 December 2021 · 9 events · 100 competitors · 154 personal bests

Feliks Zemdegs won four of the nine events (3×3, 4×4, 5×5) and the closest final was the 2×2, won by Phoenix Patterson by 0.06 seconds. 100 competitors produced 154 personal bests, 27 of which still stand today, and 34 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

The day's biggest improvement

Dale Waine took a 3×3 single of 29.79 down to 11.46, 62 percent better in one day.

Four wins

Feliks Zemdegs — 3×3, 4×4, 5×5, 3×3 one-handed

0.06s

closest final — 2×2, Phoenix Patterson over Bryan Eng

154

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Feliks Zemdegs	6.15	7.18
2×2	Phoenix Patterson	0.77	1.80
4×4	Feliks Zemdegs	23.26	26.72
5×5	Feliks Zemdegs	43.07	49.24
3×3 blindfolded	Michael Tripodi	21.68	22.03
3×3 one-handed	Feliks Zemdegs	9.86	11.64
Pyraminx	Junqi Feng (冯骏骐)	1.30	2.67
Skewb	Bryan Eng	3.06	3.60
Square-1	David Epstein	5.38	7.32

The PB harvest

154 set · 27 still standing

Maheran Chowdhury — 2×2 single 1.58: into the top 2.5% of the event's history.
Dale Waine — 2×2 single 2.26: into the top 6.7% of the event's history.
Joe Labas — Pyraminx single 4.09: into the top 8.1% of the event's history.
Jiaming Bob Yi — 3×3 single 10.87: into the top 10.1% of the event's history.
Maheran Chowdhury — 4×4 single 39.67: into the top 11.7% of the event's history.
Liam Heimann — 4×4 single 40.88: into the top 13.1% of the event's history.
Joe Labas — 4×4 single 42.51: into the top 15.1% of the event's history.
Liam Heimann — 3×3 single 13.21: into the top 18.2% of the event's history.

First-timers

34 people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 4,438 people who made their debut in 2021. Start here explains what a first competition is like.

Records watch

No national, continental or world records were set at this competition. That is true of most competitions.

The field

100 competitors · 664 results · 9 events.

Solve this final yourself

how this works →

The 3×3 final here ran on one scramble group, so these five sequences are exactly what the finalists faced. Feliks Zemdegs won it with a 7.18 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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2F2 U2 B2 U2 R U2 F2 L' R2 B2 L F' R' D' F' R' D U' L2 B
3L2 D F2 D' L2 D2 B2 F2 L2 D2 R2 U' R' U' L B R D2 R2 U'
4B2 U' L2 D2 F' B' R2 F' R' U' L2 D F2 R2 D' F2 B2 L' U
5R' D B L D R F2 L' D R' F' B2 L2 U2 R2 U R2 B2 U'

solve 1

solve 2

solve 3

solve 4

solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

100 competitors

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a final is a competition's last round; its order decides the podium · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · every solve starts from a computer-generated scramble, the same for every competitor in a round.