Cape Cubes Winter 2025

Results

Podiums All By Person

Scrambles

Date: Aug 2 - 3, 2025
City: Cape Town, South Africa
Venue: Kirstenhof Primary School
Address: 18 Lente Street, Kirstenhof, Cape Town
Details: School hall
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Daniel Rush and Maverick Pearson
WCA Delegates: Anthony Kalaya Rush, Catherine Rush, and Maverick Pearson

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Information: Welcome to Cape Cubes Winter 2025! This competition will focus on a variety of popular events across two days, with a brand new format where we will do all the rounds of each event in a row, then move onto another event. Please look at the Schedule to see what this looks like, and when your events are due to begin.
Don't forget that to participate you need to register for the competition in the "Register" section, and pay for your entry. On-the-spot registration will be accepted, but it is still a good idea to register and pay online. Please see Registration Requirements below.

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

SPECTATORS
Spectators are welcome and can attend for free! Bring your family and friends to support!

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.

IMPORTANT NOTE ON VOLUNTEERING ASSIGNEMENTS
Please also check Competition Groups to see what groups you are in for competing as well as your running, judging and scrambling assignments. If you cannot make any of your assignments, it is your responsibility to find a replacement, and you must have a good reason for not being around for your assignment. Keep Competition Groups open during the day to ensure you never miss an assignment accidentally.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 52

Registration period: Online registration opened and closed .
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There is a competitor limit of 120 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is R100 (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 .
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until on the Register tab.
On the spot registrations will be accepted if there are remaining spots available, with a base registration fee of R120 (South African Rand).

Ticket Prices and Registration

R100 for one day, R150 for both days.

REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS

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

1) The competitor must Login or 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 by purchasing a ticket here:

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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.

After registering for the competition on the WCA website, your registration will be pending. Once the payment through the CubingZA payment portal has been confirmed, your registration will be approved. (Allow up to 48 hours for the organizers to confirm the payment.)
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Daniel Rush won with an average of 7.35 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Jahziel Dominic Alonzo finished second (7.82) and Jesse Osburn finished third (9.70).

African records: Jahziel Dominic Alonzo‎ 2x2x2 Cube 1.59 (average).

3x3x3 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Daniel Rush	6.34	7.35	South Africa	6.90	6.34	8.37	7.37	7.77
2	Jahziel Dominic Alonzo	6.94	7.82	South Africa	10.80	6.94	7.73	7.61	8.11
3	Jesse Osburn	9.31	9.70	South Africa	9.95	9.31	10.36	9.53	9.62

2x2x2 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average		Representing	Solves
1	Daniël Switijnk	1.09	1.34		Netherlands	1.60	1.16	1.09	1.27	2.16
2	Jahziel Dominic Alonzo	1.34	1.59	AfR	South Africa	1.62	1.56	1.59	1.77	1.34
3	Jesse Osburn	1.28	1.93		South Africa	2.24	1.28	1.94	DNF	1.60

3x3x3 Blindfolded

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Tristan Ford	1:34.79	2:13.69	South Africa	3:17.80	1:48.48	1:34.79
2	Daniel Rush	2:01.48	DNF	South Africa	DNF	DNF	2:01.48
3	Jesse Osburn	2:19.74	DNF	South Africa	DNF	DNF	2:19.74

3x3x3 Fewest Moves

#	Name	Best	Representing	Solves
1	Daniel Rush	38	South Africa	38
2	Jesse Osburn	39	South Africa	39
3	Estian Blignaut	50	South Africa	50
3	Daniël Switijnk	50	Netherlands	50

3x3x3 One-Handed

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Jahziel Dominic Alonzo	10.27	14.04	South Africa	10.27	13.10	12.32	24.08	16.69
2	Daniel Rush	11.43	15.50	South Africa	11.43	17.51	14.44	16.26	15.79
3	Maverick Pearson	15.00	17.88	South Africa	17.43	15.00	19.29	19.28	16.94

Clock

#	Name	Best		Average	Representing	Solves
1	Daniel Rush	4.22	NR	7.99	South Africa	8.64	12.47	4.22	10.42	4.90
2	Jahziel Dominic Alonzo	7.97		8.37	South Africa	DNF	8.50	7.97	8.08	8.53
3	Maverick Pearson	7.61		9.12	South Africa	9.19	9.37	7.61	8.81	9.56

Megaminx

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Daniel Rush	51.00	55.38	South Africa	53.50	51.00	57.31	57.57	55.34
2	Jahziel Dominic Alonzo	51.64	59.32	South Africa	DNF	1:03.15	1:00.29	54.52	51.64
3	Jesse Osburn	55.08	1:04.06	South Africa	1:03.61	1:06.28	1:36.68	1:02.30	55.08

Pyraminx

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Caspar Switijnk	2.02	2.71	Netherlands	3.51	2.79	3.20	2.15	2.02
2	Jesse Osburn	1.90	3.90	South Africa	4.19	4.20	3.32	DNF	1.90
3	Jahziel Dominic Alonzo	2.59	4.00	South Africa	4.50	4.36	4.74	2.59	3.13

Skewb

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Estian Blignaut	2.30	4.14	South Africa	4.76	5.27	2.38	2.30	5.85
2	Daniel Rush	3.84	4.48	South Africa	4.44	4.96	3.84	4.04	7.96
3	Daniel David Mizen	2.76	4.77	South Africa	4.35	5.34	5.73	2.76	4.61

3x3x3 Multi-Blind

#	Name	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
1	Maverick Pearson	7/7 38:21				South Africa	7/7 38:21
2	Daniel Rush	6/9 51:02				South Africa	6/9 51:02

Cape Cubes Winter 2025

Ticket Prices and Registration

REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS

Payment Link <-------Pay Here

3x3x3 Cube

2x2x2 Cube

3x3x3 Blindfolded

3x3x3 Fewest Moves

3x3x3 One-Handed

Clock

Megaminx

Pyraminx

Skewb

3x3x3 Multi-Blind