Cubing East Auckland Newcomer Open 2026
- Date
- Apr 18 - 19, 2026
- City
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Venue
Macleans College
- Address
- 2 Macleans Road, Eastern Beach, Auckland 2012
- Details
Barbara Kendall Gymnasium
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizer
- Richard Yiheng Tao
- WCA Delegates
- Caleb Hall, Cheng-Ru Yang, David Lim, Nick Ng, and Richard Yiheng Tao
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- Information
Cubing East Auckland Newcomer Open 2026 is an official World Cube Association (WCA) sanctioned speedcubing competition.
This competition is specifically designed to provide the best possible experience for new competitiors, featuring generous cutoffs and progression.
For this competition, registration will be FREE for all first-time competitors. If this is your first competition, simply register here, but do not complete payment. The organisation team will then manually approve your free registration.


- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 147
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- Registration requirements
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This competition is over, click here to display the registration requirements it used.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 200 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $20 (New Zealand Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
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.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Any spectator can attend for free.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Richard Yiheng Tao won with an average of 6.14 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Alexander Vujcich finished second (6.72) and Lachlan Gibson finished third (7.85).