Bold Solvin' Bloemfontein 2025


Date
Jul 12, 2025
City
Bloemfontein, South Africa
Venue

Pavilion Hall

Address
Showgrounds, Curie Avenue, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Details

Event hall

Contact
Organization team
Organizer
Yusuf Talha Sayed Karim
WCA Delegate
Yusuf Talha Sayed Karim
Download all the competition's details as PDF here.
Information

CubingZA is excited to announce Bold Solvin' Bloemfontein 2025! Don't forget that to participate you need to register for the competition in the "Register" tab, and pay for your ticket to confirm your entry. Please see Registration Requirements below for instructions and when registration opens.

All New Competitors

If this is your first time competing, or the first time your child or ward is competing, please ensure to bring with ID (card, book, passport, birth certificate) so that we can verify that the name is spelled correctly, the Date of Birth is correct, and the Nationality is correct.
Please also ensure you have all the puzzles you need to compete - we do not supply puzzles for competitors. You are welcome to ask other competitors if you can borrow their puzzle for a certain event, but there is no guarantee. If you need a puzzle before the competition, check out https://cubestuff.co.za/ to order your puzzles before the comp!

A huge thanks to Cubestuff for sponsoring this competition! Please see the Sponsors tab for more information, and be sure to support the Cubestuff shop!

Events
Main event
Competitors
28
Registration period

Online registration opened and closed .

Registration requirements
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 60 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is R200 (South African Rand).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 90% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
We encourage everyone to register for the events they want to compete in via your online registration, however you may add events to your registration up until the event has started.
On the spot registrations will be accepted if there are remaining spots available, with a base registration fee of R220 (South African Rand).


REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS

Please note that there are THREE steps you need to take to be entered into this competition:

  1. First-timer competitors must create a WCA account if they do not already have one (or their parent/guardian must create one for them).
  2. The competitor must register for the competition using their WCA account, specifying which events they want to participate in.
  3. The competitor must pay the entry fee of R200.00 on the CubingZA website. DO NOT PAY UNTIL YOU HAVE REGISTERED IN STEP 2 ABOVE PLEASE.

PAYMENT LINK

Please note the following:
* If you haven't both registered for the competition (Step 2) and paid for a ticket (Step 3), you will not be able to compete.
* Please note that on the spot registrations will be accepted for an additional fee (R220 total), but it is still recommended to enter online since there is a competitor limit. Entering online is the best way to secure your place.

Refunds and terms:
If your registration is cancelled before 9 July at midnight (00:00) you will be refunded 90% of your registration fee.
No refunds will be offered after the cut off date has been reached, unless you were already on the competition waiting list and organised to be refunded with the WCA delegate.

Spectators

Competitors are welcome to bring up to two (2) spectators with them for free. If you would like to bring more than that, please contact the Organizers.

Volunteering

Please note that all competitors are required to assist with volunteering during the competition - either in the role of "runner", "judge" or "scrambler". These roles will be explained as part of the "New Competitor Tutorial", but you can take a look at this video.

Prizes

Our sponsors, Cubestuff and CubingZA are offering cash prizes to the podium finishers in each event. There are also prizes for the Best Female cuber and the Best Newcomer(first-time competitors)!

Highlights
Click here to display the highlights of the competition.

Ruben Smith won with an average of 11.11 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Markus Visagie finished second (11.24) and Heinrich de Lange finished third (11.77).

African records: Estian Blignaut‎ Skewb 1.57 (single).

3x3x3 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Ruben Smith 10.57 11.11 South Africa 11.2612.3710.9310.5711.15
2 Markus Visagie 10.84 11.24 South Africa 12.4510.8411.2111.1911.31
3 Heinrich de Lange 10.80 11.77 South Africa 10.8012.0911.2312.0013.27

2x2x2 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Heinrich de Lange 2.83 3.68 South Africa 2.834.774.163.173.70
2 Markus Visagie 3.32 4.51 South Africa 4.824.865.873.323.86
3 Kagoentle Mokhabela 3.93 4.66 South Africa 3.934.854.184.957.31

3x3x3 Blindfolded

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Yusuf Talha Sayed Karim 50.67 DNF South Africa 50.6755.55DNF

Megaminx

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Heinrich de Lange 40.32 45.26 South Africa 49.7543.0640.3248.9743.76
2 Vincent Hazelton-Lagarrigue 53.77 56.54 South Africa 1:01.6154.0358.8153.7756.79
3 Markus Visagie 1:21.96 1:28.78 South Africa 1:32.511:21.961:29.561:31.911:24.86

Pyraminx

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Heinrich de Lange 5.22 6.32 South Africa 5.226.5210.057.165.29
2 Markus Visagie 6.34 7.88 South Africa 7.758.267.626.3410.01
3 Yusuf Talha Sayed Karim 7.62 8.50 South Africa DNF8.508.598.417.62

Skewb

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Estian Blignaut 1.57 AfR 3.02 South Africa 2.713.751.572.613.76
2 Daniel David Mizen 1.63 3.98 South Africa 3.843.881.638.424.22
3 Kagoentle Mokhabela 5.06 5.64 South Africa 6.255.55DNF5.065.11
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