Newcomers Cape Cube-Fest 2025
- Date
- Mar 8 - 9, 2025
- City
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Venue
Kirstenhof Primary School
- Address
- 18 Lente Street, Kirstenhof, Cape Town
- Details
School hall
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizer
- Maverick Pearson
- WCA Delegates
- Anthony Kalaya Rush and Maverick Pearson
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
Welcome to Newcomers Cape Cube-Fest 2025!
This competition aims to bring new people into the speedcubing community, no matter your speed or experience level! Please see the Newcomer Competitor's Tab for more information.
A huge thanks to Speedcubes for sponsoring this competition! Please see the Sponsors tab for more information, and make sure to support the Speedcubes shop at the competition.

IMPORTANT - Cape Town Cycle Tour Road Closures
Sunday, 9 March is the Cape Town Cycle Tour, which means many roads will be closed throughout the day of the competition. Please ensure you have made travel arrangements to get around these closures. If you stay in an area that is going to be completely cut off due to the road closures, please make accommodation arrangements to stay with someone closer to the venue on Saturday night/Sunday morning so that you can make it to the competition! No refunds can be issued if you discover on the day of the competition that you cannot make it to the venue due to road closures. Please plan accordingly.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 52
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- Registration requirements
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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 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 by contacting the organization team.
On the spot registrations will be accepted if there are remaining spots available, with a base registration fee of R100 (South African Rand).
Ticket Prices and Registration
R100
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:Payment Link <-------Pay Here
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.)
NEWCOMERS and REGISTRATION
You can register and pay on the day of the competition. We recommend signing up and paying online if you can - there is a competitor limit due to the venue capacity, and we cannot accept your entry if you register after the limit is reached! Signing up online secures your spot.
Spectators
Competitors are welcome to bring up to two spectators with them. If you need to bring more, please contact the organizing team.
Volunteering
Please note that 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".
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Daniel Rush won with an average of 6.68 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Justin Zhang finished second (8.91) and Jahziel Dominic Alonzo finished third (10.88).
African records: Daniel Rush 3x3x3 Cube 4.86 (single); Micah Willenburgh Pyraminx 1.78 (single) and Skewb 1.71 (single).
3x3x3 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel Rush | 4.86 | AfR | 6.68 | South Africa | 7.80 | 8.14 | 5.22 | 7.01 | 4.86 | ||
| 2 | Justin Zhang | 7.79 | 8.91 | South Africa | 8.25 | 9.29 | 12.14 | 7.79 | 9.19 | |||
| 3 | Jahziel Dominic Alonzo | 7.34 | 10.88 | South Africa | 12.34 | 9.90 | 13.35 | 10.40 | 7.34 | |||
2x2x2 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel Rush | 1.21 | 1.87 | South Africa | 2.34 | 1.21 | 1.56 | 3.43 | 1.71 | |||
| 2 | Jesse Osburn | 1.18 | 2.27 | South Africa | 2.22 | 1.85 | 1.18 | 7.28 | 2.73 | |||
| 3 | Daniël Switijnk | 1.68 | 2.32 | Netherlands | 3.09 | 1.68 | 1.74 | 2.13 | DNF | |||
4x4x4 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel Rush | 26.94 | 28.31 | South Africa | 30.04 | 26.94 | 27.84 | 27.06 | 31.89 | |||
| 2 | Jahziel Dominic Alonzo | 30.96 | 34.66 | South Africa | 34.72 | 39.95 | 34.99 | 34.27 | 30.96 | |||
| 3 | Jesse Osburn | 37.82 | 41.22 | South Africa | 41.36 | 48.42 | 37.82 | 43.37 | 38.94 | |||
3x3x3 One-Handed
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel Rush | 14.27 | 15.65 | South Africa | 16.54 | 14.27 | 14.52 | 16.23 | 16.20 | |||
| 2 | Jahziel Dominic Alonzo | 15.66 | 17.48 | South Africa | 19.35 | 16.69 | 15.66 | 16.39 | 22.24 | |||
| 3 | Maverick Pearson | 17.16 | 18.94 | South Africa | 19.58 | 20.15 | 18.11 | 17.16 | 19.12 | |||
Pyraminx
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lethabo Moeti | 2.87 | 3.26 | South Africa | 3.63 | 3.38 | 3.40 | 2.87 | 3.01 | |||
| 2 | Jesse Osburn | 2.41 | 3.33 | South Africa | 5.83 | 3.05 | 3.08 | 2.41 | 3.85 | |||
| 3 | Caspar Switijnk | 1.94 | 3.57 | Netherlands | 5.88 | 2.70 | 1.94 | 4.83 | 3.17 | |||
Skewb
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Micah Willenburgh | 4.54 | 4.92 | South Africa | 6.19 | 5.00 | 4.60 | 5.15 | 4.54 | |||
| 2 | Daniel David Mizen | 3.38 | 5.07 | South Africa | 4.90 | 5.07 | 5.23 | 3.38 | 5.61 | |||
| 3 | Tristan Ford | 3.31 | 5.13 | South Africa | 3.31 | 5.60 | 5.61 | 4.17 | 7.54 | |||