Cairns Open 2026


Date
City
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Venue

Newman Catholic College

Address
C2, 14-88 McGregor Rd, Smithfield QLD 4878
Details

Sports Hall

Contact

Speedcubing Australia

Organizers
Leonard Hasani and Speedcubing Australia
WCA Delegates
David McLean and Kaidyn De Luca-Mazza
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Information

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Speedcubing Australia acknowledges the traditional owners of this land, the Yirrganydji people, and pays respect to the elders, past and present for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and hopes of Aboriginal Australia.

Events
Main event
Competitors
18
Registration period

Online registration opened and closed .

Registration requirements
This competition is over, click here to display the registration requirements it used.
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Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 60 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $32 (Australian Dollar).
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 .
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 $32 (Australian Dollar).
Any spectator can attend for free.

Payment:

Upon registering you will receive an email stating “Registration Pending: Cairns Open 2026”. This does NOT mean that you are on the registration list. Competitors will not be approved until payment has been made.

Please ensure you have paid the registration fees via Stripe on the register page. Your registration is not complete and will not be processed until you have paid the $32 registration fee. Contact the organisational team if you encounter an issue.

Waiting List:

  • Once the competitor limit of 60 has filled, the waiting list will be opened.
  • You must pay the $32 registration fee to be added to the waiting list.
  • New registrations will be added to a waitlist and sorted in the order of payment.
  • Waitlisted competitors will only be added to the competition if existing competitors withdraw.
  • All competitors still on the waiting list after Sunday 27th September will be removed and provided with a full refund.
  • You may enquire about your position on the waiting list by contacting the organisational team.

Deleting Registration/Refunds:

  • If you can no longer make the competition you may request a refund.
  • To receive a full refund you must contact the organisational team by Sunday 27th September.
  • Withdrawing enables us to maximise attendance and for competitors on the waiting list to attend.

You may change the events you are registered on the Register tab by Sunday 27th September. After this date it is not possible to add further events. It is also acceptable to not show up for any event you do not wish to compete in.

Highlights
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Richard Albert Li won with an average of 8.70 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Kaidyn De Luca-Mazza finished second (13.37) and David McLean finished third (14.39).

3x3x3 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Richard Albert Li 8.19 8.70 Australia 8.808.569.008.198.75
2 Kaidyn De Luca-Mazza 11.74 13.37 Australia 15.4513.9211.7412.5213.66
3 David McLean 11.42 14.39 Australia 13.3014.6415.2311.4221.04

2x2x2 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Richard Albert Li 2.27 2.75 Australia 2.493.082.273.682.68
2 Max Alidenes 3.69 4.12 Australia 3.854.783.983.694.52
3 Kaidyn De Luca-Mazza 3.50 4.15 Australia 3.614.543.504.314.78

4x4x4 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 David McLean 42.20 47.27 Australia 42.2045.5151.6752.1144.64
2 Kaidyn De Luca-Mazza 44.53 47.88 Australia 50.3147.7946.3149.5444.53
3 Richard Albert Li 44.27 50.90 Australia 47.3155.5056.3844.2749.89

5x5x5 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 David McLean 1:23.18 1:27.77 Australia 1:31.021:23.181:33.561:27.971:24.33
2 Kaidyn De Luca-Mazza 1:35.74 1:47.18 Australia 1:51.161:35.741:38.841:51.552:21.68
3 Richard Albert Li 2:05.22 2:25.35 Australia 2:30.272:05.222:27.112:34.032:18.67

3x3x3 One-Handed

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Richard Albert Li 16.17 19.78 Australia 20.7725.3616.1717.8820.69
2 Kaidyn De Luca-Mazza 18.13 23.50 Australia 27.4918.1329.9122.1220.89
3 Liam Camarlinghi 22.80 26.11 Australia 26.9924.3726.9730.4022.80

Pyraminx

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Richard Albert Li 4.45 5.79 Australia 4.457.539.405.304.53
2 Max Alidenes 7.72 9.78 Australia 7.7211.4713.768.789.09
3 Lincoln Alexander Calcutt 9.08 12.11 Australia 9.7510.8619.0515.729.08

Skewb

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Kaidyn De Luca-Mazza 4.62 5.40 Australia 5.804.626.455.744.65
2 Max Alidenes 5.17 6.10 Australia 5.176.277.886.085.95
3 Fletcher Hollier 5.66 8.53 Australia 7.267.7911.8310.555.66
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