Auckland Winter Open 2026
- Date
- Jun 20, 2026
- City
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Venue
Freemans Bay Community Hall
- Address
- 52 Hepburn Street
- Details
Council Hall
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Cooper Jones and Yuki Gao
- WCA Delegates
- Caleb Hall, Cheng-Ru Yang, Nick Ng, and Richard Yiheng Tao
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
Auckland Winter Open 2026 is an official World Cube Association (WCA) sanctioned speedcubing competition.
This competition is open to all competitors regardless of age, experience, or skill. No prior experience in WCA competitions is necessary.
Please make sure to read all the information in the FAQ and other tabs before registering. All competitors should be familiar with the information in these tabs.

- Events
- Main event
- Competitor limit
- 100
- Number of times bookmarked
- 11
- 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 100 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $35 (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 by contacting the organization team.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Any spectator can attend for free.
Speedcubing New Zealand is a not-for-profit, incorporated society run entirely by volunteers. We support the growth of the speedcubing community in New Zealand by organising events, providing resources, and fostering a positive environment for cubers of all skill levels.
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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.