Puzzles in Pinehurst 2025


Date
Jan 18 - 19, 2025
City
Cape Town, South Africa
Venue

Meridian Pinehurst

Address
6 Campus Way, Pinehurst Dr, Durbanville, Cape Town, 7569, South Africa
Details

School hall

Contact

arush@worldcubeassociation.org

Organizers
Anthony Kalaya Rush, Catherine Rush, Daniel David Mizen, and Daniel Rush
WCA Delegates
Anthony Kalaya Rush and Catherine Rush
Download all the competition's details as PDF here.
Information

CubingZA is excited to announce the final Cape Town competition for 2024 - Cape Cubes Challenge! This competition will focus on a variety of popular events across two days.
Don't forget that to participate you need to register for the competition in the "Register" section, and pay for your entry. Please see Registration Requirements below.

Please keep in mind that we will not be accepting on-the-day registration. We are going to be using printed nametags and the Competition Groups website for competitor roles and duties and to do this we will need to close the registration period before the competition begins.

Events
Main event
Competitors
42
Registration period

Online registration opened and closed .

Registration requirements
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 on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.


Ticket Prices and Registration

R100 for one of the days, R200 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 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.)

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
Click here to display the highlights of the competition.

Daniel Rush won with an average of 7.52 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Jahziel Dominic Alonzo finished second (9.21) and Jesse Osburn finished third (9.66).

African records: Daniel Rush‎ 5x5x5 Cube 46.48 (average).

3x3x3 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Daniel Rush 6.06 7.52 South Africa 7.916.068.076.847.81
2 Jahziel Dominic Alonzo 8.06 9.21 South Africa 9.969.029.718.068.89
3 Jesse Osburn 8.50 9.66 South Africa 11.049.878.5010.208.92

2x2x2 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Jesse Osburn 1.88 2.50 South Africa 1.883.382.173.491.96
2 Daniel Rush 1.46 2.79 South Africa 3.021.464.283.651.69
3 Milan Blaauw 2.45 3.16 South Africa 3.642.453.902.713.13

4x4x4 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Daniel Rush 25.65 27.92 South Africa 25.9031.9228.6825.6529.19
2 Jahziel Dominic Alonzo 33.58 39.34 South Africa 33.5843.7043.0835.6739.28
3 Jesse Osburn 36.86 41.98 South Africa 36.8640.8244.4440.6950.61

5x5x5 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Daniel Rush 44.77 47.41 South Africa 50.3553.6146.1645.7244.77
2 Jahziel Dominic Alonzo 1:01.42 1:08.51 South Africa 1:15.641:14.301:05.541:01.421:05.70
3 Jesse Osburn 1:06.86 1:16.41 South Africa 1:23.591:15.641:18.101:15.501:06.86

6x6x6 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Daniel Rush 1:22.08 1:32.92 South Africa 1:22.081:24.411:52.28
2 Jesse Osburn 2:14.37 2:31.06 South Africa 2:14.372:28.332:50.49
3 Jahziel Dominic Alonzo 2:21.76 2:35.10 South Africa 2:36.202:47.332:21.76

7x7x7 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Jesse Osburn 4:09.07 4:14.52 South Africa 4:13.634:09.074:20.86
2 Jahziel Dominic Alonzo 3:43.41 4:29.72 South Africa 4:53.634:52.123:43.41
3 Daniel David Mizen 4:45.48 5:07.46 South Africa 5:02.975:33.944:45.48

3x3x3 Blindfolded

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Tristan Ford 1:40.04 DNF South Africa DNF1:40.04DNF
2 Daniel Rush 2:08.20 DNF South Africa DNFDNF2:08.20
3 Jesse Osburn 3:29.60 DNF South Africa DNFDNF3:29.60

Clock

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Catherine Rush 7.84 8.87 South Africa DNF8.217.8410.318.08
2 Tristan Ford 7.72 9.62 South Africa 10.538.757.7210.189.94
3 Daniel David Mizen 7.79 10.66 South Africa DNF9.707.7912.1910.09

Pyraminx

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Lethabo Moeti 3.06 3.14 South Africa 3.783.063.263.073.09
2 Jesse Osburn 2.50 3.41 South Africa 4.923.203.912.503.12
3 Daniel Rush 2.12 3.51 South Africa 4.082.124.842.893.55

Skewb

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Tristan Ford 2.96 3.45 South Africa 4.073.183.092.965.71
2 Micah Willenburgh 3.22 4.12 South Africa 3.984.553.223.844.69
3 Daniel David Mizen 3.62 4.25 South Africa 10.533.623.774.374.60

Square-1

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Daniel Rush 11.72 13.52 South Africa 16.8712.2013.3111.7215.06
2 Daniel David Mizen 13.26 17.23 South Africa 16.6423.6214.8313.2620.22
3 Tristan Ford 19.54 21.49 South Africa 19.5419.9532.9619.6724.85
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