NZ South Island Championship 2026
- Date
- Apr 10 - 12, 2026
- City
- Christchurch, New Zealand
- Venue
Shirley Boys High
- Address
- 209 Travis Road, New Brighton, Christchurch 8083
- Details
Theatre
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Jacob O'Callaghan, James Macdiarmid, and Joel O'Callaghan
- WCA Delegates
- Alex Asbery, Daniel Fraser, Jack Maddigan, and James Dyer
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
NZ South Island Championship 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.
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- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 59
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- Registration requirements
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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 $45 (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 .
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 $50 (New Zealand Dollar).
Any spectator can attend for free.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Dwyane Ramos won the Head-to-Head finals of the 3x3x3 Cube event. Adrien Auvray Matyn finished second and Jasper Murray finished third.
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Dwyane Ramos | 4.48 | New Zealand | |||||||||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Connor Johnson | 1.04 | 1.44 | New Zealand | 1.04 | 1.25 | 1.75 | 2.21 | 1.31 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Dwyane Ramos | 22.77 | 29.56 | New Zealand | 27.21 | 34.11 | 27.36 | 36.14 | 22.77 | |||
| 5x5x5 Cube | Dwyane Ramos | 42.89 | 47.33 | New Zealand | 48.23 | 47.79 | 42.89 | 47.92 | 46.28 | |||
| 6x6x6 Cube | Dwyane Ramos | 1:22.78 | 1:27.64 | New Zealand | 1:22.78 | 1:33.00 | 1:27.14 | |||||
| 7x7x7 Cube | Dwyane Ramos | 2:04.08 | 2:12.82 | New Zealand | 2:22.50 | 2:11.87 | 2:04.08 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Jack Maddigan | 25.57 | 32.53 | New Zealand | 35.41 | DNF | 33.32 | 28.86 | 25.57 | |||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Jasper Murray | 8.98 | 9.28 | New Zealand | 9.03 | 9.28 | 10.91 | 8.98 | 9.53 | |||
| Clock | Zayd Chaudhry | 3.59 | 4.45 | Australia | 3.59 | 5.24 | 3.76 | DNF | 4.36 | |||
| Megaminx | Henry Eyles | 33.56 | 41.23 | New Zealand | 39.21 | 44.66 | 33.56 | 51.80 | 39.82 | |||
| Pyraminx | Jasper Murray | 1.47 | 1.62 | New Zealand | 1.62 | 1.68 | 1.47 | 1.56 | 1.71 | |||
| Skewb | Dwyane Ramos | 1.78 | 2.76 | New Zealand | 3.95 | 1.87 | 1.78 | 4.01 | 2.47 | |||
| Square-1 | Adrien Auvray Matyn | 6.41 | 7.77 | New Zealand | 7.71 | 7.26 | 10.68 | 6.41 | 8.35 | |||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Connor Johnson | 4:42.65 | 5:00.70 | New Zealand | 4:42.65 | 5:01.32 | 5:18.12 | |||||
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | Dylan Himmelfarb | 9:44.71 | DNF | New Zealand | 9:44.71 | DNF | DNS | |||||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Jack Maddigan | 19/21 1:00:00 | New Zealand | 16/21 1:00:00 | 19/21 1:00:00 | |||||||
VENUE
The location for this competition is Shirley Boy's High School.
The competition takes place in the school theater/hall.
There is to be no food/drink in the hall space, with the exception of bottled water. There is an adjacent canteen area which can be used for packed lunches.
Off-street parking is available in the staff carpark, which can be found via the easternmost entrance to SBHS. You will also find bike racks in the staff carpark. Please do not park in any spaces marked as reserved.
Hall building
Car Park entrance
Hall building steet map
NZ South Island Championship 2026 is proudly sponsored by GAN.
As part of this sponsorship we will be having a raffle draw for a number of GAN products. Every registered competitor will be eligible for this draw and it will be drawn during lunch on Saturday the 11th of April.
There will also be prizes for the below indiviuals:
* Fastest newcomer (based on fastest 3x3 average in any round)
* Fastest Female competitor (based on fastest 3x3 average in any round)
* Most helpful individual(s) (This can be a competitor or non competitor based on reccomendations from the competition delegates)
* Others to be announced
For the latest and greatest from GAN visit: https://www.gancube.com/
A massive thank you to GAN for their generous sponsorship of this competition
South Island Championship will be the 2nd ever New Zealand competition to trial the Head-to-Head finals system. The top 8 will qualify, and the rounds will be as follows:
Quarter Final: First to 2 set
Semi Final: First to 2 sets
3rd Place Match: First to 2 sets
Grand Final: First to 3 sets
A full description of the format can be found here
For determining the South Island 3x3 podium, second round rankings will be used as a tiebreak if the podium cannot be determined from h2h.
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).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced across rounds (see Regulation A1a2).
Cutoff
The result to beat to proceed to the second phase of a cutoff round (see Regulation 9g).
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.