Catskills Summer 2026


Date
Aug 29, 2026
City
Freehold, New York, United States
Venue

Freehold Volunteer Fire Company

Address
9502 NY-32, Freehold, NY 12431
Details

Event Hall

Contact
Organization team
Organizer
Empire State Cubing
WCA Delegates
Chris Chi, Evan Liu, and Steven Wintringham
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Information

This competition is recognized as an official World Cube Association competition. Therefore, all competitors must be familiar with the WCA regulations. If you are new to competing, please refer to the Competition Procedures tab.

Events
Main event
Competitors
26
Registration period

Online registration opened and closed .

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Highlights
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Chris Chi won with an average of 8.46 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Evan Liu finished second (8.82) and Leonardo X. Lazzara finished third (10.14).

3x3x3 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Chris Chi 7.76 8.46 United States 8.287.857.769.979.26
2 Evan Liu 6.49 8.82 United States 6.497.848.4810.1610.15
3 Leonardo X. Lazzara 8.86 10.14 United States 8.869.9811.339.1212.06

4x4x4 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Evan Liu 22.97 33.20 United States 22.9734.9732.5032.1434.99
2 Chris Chi 29.03 33.61 United States 34.5030.7835.56DNF29.03
3 Leonardo X. Lazzara 33.30 37.96 United States 40.9437.0539.2233.3037.62

5x5x5 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Evan Liu 45.91 51.87 United States 45.911:01.6452.8653.6249.13
2 Chris Chi 53.28 1:00.72 United States 53.2856.981:04.651:03.381:01.81
3 Leonardo X. Lazzara 1:11.77 1:17.18 United States 1:18.731:11.771:23.611:15.151:17.65

3x3x3 Blindfolded

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Chris Chi 21.90 DNF United States DNFDNFDNF28.8021.90
2 Evan Liu 57.55 DNF United States DNFDNF57.55DNF1:01.28
3 Christopher Kim 1:31.02 DNF United States 1:31.02DNFDNF1:51.22DNF

Clock

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Angelo Terpening 3.09 4.21 United States 4.284.344.003.094.59
2 Evan Liu 4.41 4.96 United States 4.915.755.524.464.41
3 Nicholas Trofimov 5.24 8.14 United States 5.248.047.978.728.42

Skewb

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Chris Chi 2.87 4.37 United States 2.874.374.853.8911.58
2 Evan Liu 3.48 4.90 United States 3.488.286.343.584.79
3 Ben Colwell 2.81 5.04 United States 5.904.105.122.818.06

Square-1

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Chris Chi 5.91 7.72 United States 7.0611.955.917.938.16
2 Steven Wintringham 13.26 17.88 United States 19.7518.0716.4019.1713.26
3 Evan Liu 13.55 19.44 United States 16.31DNF19.1122.9113.55
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