Red Deer Favourites 2026

Date: Feb 14, 2026
City: Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
Venue: Cenovus Common, Red Deer Polytechnic
Address: 100 College Boulevard, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada T4N 5H5
Details: Upstairs in the Cenovus Learning Common
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Benjamin Ragan, Cache Adams, Niels Nijstad, Ryan Weatherley, Samuel Edwards, and Speedcubing Canada
WCA Delegates: Dylan Vaskevicius, Laura Plourde, Niels Nijstad, and Orion Donovan

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Information

Attendance is not required for the entire competition. However, please arrive at least 15 minutes before the events that you compete in or help in are planned to start. Please bring your own puzzles for the events you are competing in.

Once your registration has been accepted, you will no longer be able to change your events by yourself. If you would like to change them, send the organization team an email and we will change your events for you as long as you inform us before February 6, 2026 at 6:00 PM MST.

First-Time Competitors: All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. There is a video here for a basic overview of the rules.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 110

Registration period: Online registration opened and closed .
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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 $30 (Canadian Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 50% 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.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Any spectator can attend for free.
Competitors may register in at most 4 events.

⚠️ Registration is accepted in the order paid. Payment must be made for your registration to be considered complete. ⚠️
During your registration please confirm that you understood the "favourites format" in the comment section
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Kyle Santucci won with an average of 6.20 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Caleb dela Fuente finished second (7.19) and Lucas Kuczaj finished third (8.16).

3x3x3 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Kyle Santucci	4.96	6.20	Canada	7.01	4.96	5.55	6.04	7.28
2	Caleb dela Fuente	5.92	7.19	Canada	7.16	6.86	8.20	5.92	7.55
3	Lucas Kuczaj	7.47	8.16	Canada	8.00	7.47	8.38	8.26	8.22

2x2x2 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Benjamin Buchner	1.74	2.69	Canada	4.24	1.93	1.74	1.90	4.47
2	Emmanuel Fraser	1.89	2.75	Canada	3.94	1.89	3.06	2.43	2.76
3	Kyle Santucci	2.21	2.86	Canada	3.65	2.21	5.34	2.41	2.53

4x4x4 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Lucas Kuczaj	23.95	27.05	Canada	25.97	29.45	23.95	33.57	25.73
2	Kyle Santucci	24.03	27.20	Canada	28.54	28.15	24.03	29.84	24.90
3	Benjamin Ragan	27.16	33.88	Canada	31.17	27.16	36.60	33.87	40.05

5x5x5 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Griffin Clem	46.84	52.76	Canada	57.18	51.77	46.84	57.18	49.32
2	Lucas Kuczaj	48.02	56.10	Canada	48.02	50.39	59.04	58.88	1:00.52
3	Benjamin Ragan	58.68	1:01.42	Canada	1:08.08	58.68	58.70	1:03.73	1:01.82

6x6x6 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Benjamin Ragan	1:47.04	1:48.69	Canada	1:47.85	1:51.19	1:47.04
2	Griffin Clem	1:46.92	1:49.54	Canada	1:46.92	1:48.11	1:53.60
3	Micah Enns	2:01.87	2:04.50	Canada	2:08.52	2:03.11	2:01.87

7x7x7 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Griffin Clem	2:08.04	2:10.05	Canada	2:11.54	2:10.58	2:08.04
2	Benjamin Ragan	2:35.47	2:37.65	Canada	2:35.47	2:36.96	2:40.53
3	Micah Enns	3:21.11	3:23.98	Canada	3:21.42	3:29.40	3:21.11

3x3x3 One-Handed

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Kyle Santucci	9.56	11.25	Canada	9.56	11.74	12.09	13.79	9.93
2	Leif Anvik	13.15	14.15	Canada	15.97	15.88	13.40	13.18	13.15
3	Caleb dela Fuente	13.58	14.84	Canada	15.73	13.85	13.58	14.93	17.11

Clock

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Azaro Gorloo	4.14	5.81	Canada	4.89	6.64	4.14	5.89	8.57
2	Max Ulan	5.32	5.96	Canada	5.32	DNF	5.57	5.87	6.44
3	Danny Buschert	4.66	6.17	Canada	6.45	DNF	4.66	7.04	5.03

Megaminx

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Lucas Kuczaj	32.14	37.70	Canada	39.45	35.11	39.10	32.14	38.90
2	Christopher Cervania	1:00.91	1:10.95	Canada	1:09.65	1:00.91	1:13.65	1:09.54	1:19.01
3	Cooper Kurata	1:04.66	1:13.77	Canada	1:18.52	1:16.75	1:15.47	1:09.09	1:04.66

Pyraminx

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Danny Buschert	2.33	3.21	Canada	3.81	3.32	3.25	2.33	3.07
2	Hugo Levancic Seiler	3.15	3.96	Canada	3.15	4.19	4.10	3.58	5.80
3	Shubh Salia-Namboodiri	4.57	5.02	United States	5.75	4.62	6.56	4.69	4.57

Skewb

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Danny Buschert	3.24	4.00	Canada	4.06	4.32	3.63	4.61	3.24
2	Benjamin Buchner	4.22	5.05	Canada	4.24	7.26	4.22	4.64	6.27
3	Hugo Levancic Seiler	4.19	5.67	Canada	4.96	6.30	6.08	4.19	5.96

Square-1

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Danny Buschert	14.68	15.70	Canada	14.96	15.77	21.13	16.38	14.68
2	Aloysius Pade	16.13	17.50	Canada	16.13	18.08	17.53	18.56	16.88
3	Shubh Salia-Namboodiri	14.45	17.86	United States	34.28	19.67	14.45	17.95	15.96