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 here.
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.
Speedcubes

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

Online registration opened and closed .

Registration requirements
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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:

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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.)

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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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 7.808.145.227.014.86
2 Justin Zhang 7.79 8.91 South Africa 8.259.2912.147.799.19
3 Jahziel Dominic Alonzo 7.34 10.88 South Africa 12.349.9013.3510.407.34

2x2x2 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Daniel Rush 1.21 1.87 South Africa 2.341.211.563.431.71
2 Jesse Osburn 1.18 2.27 South Africa 2.221.851.187.282.73
3 Daniël Switijnk 1.68 2.32 Netherlands 3.091.681.742.13DNF

4x4x4 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Daniel Rush 26.94 28.31 South Africa 30.0426.9427.8427.0631.89
2 Jahziel Dominic Alonzo 30.96 34.66 South Africa 34.7239.9534.9934.2730.96
3 Jesse Osburn 37.82 41.22 South Africa 41.3648.4237.8243.3738.94

3x3x3 One-Handed

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Daniel Rush 14.27 15.65 South Africa 16.5414.2714.5216.2316.20
2 Jahziel Dominic Alonzo 15.66 17.48 South Africa 19.3516.6915.6616.3922.24
3 Maverick Pearson 17.16 18.94 South Africa 19.5820.1518.1117.1619.12

Pyraminx

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Lethabo Moeti 2.87 3.26 South Africa 3.633.383.402.873.01
2 Jesse Osburn 2.41 3.33 South Africa 5.833.053.082.413.85
3 Caspar Switijnk 1.94 3.57 Netherlands 5.882.701.944.833.17

Skewb

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Micah Willenburgh 4.54 4.92 South Africa 6.195.004.605.154.54
2 Daniel David Mizen 3.38 5.07 South Africa 4.905.075.233.385.61
3 Tristan Ford 3.31 5.13 South Africa 3.315.605.614.177.54
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