Vancouver Newcomers 2025


Date
Mar 31, 2025
City
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Venue

Trout Lake Community Centre

Address
3360 Victoria Dr., Vancouver, BC, V5N 4M4
Details

Grandview Room

Contact
Organization team
Organizers
Diedre Sportack, Joanne Chew, and Speedcubing Canada
WCA Delegate
Kevin Matthews
Download all the competition's details as PDF here.
Information

Please review all of the tabs listed on this website.

You are welcome to join the Facebook Group Rubik's Cube Solvers Vancouver. To get updates about future BC and/or Canadian competitions, join the Speedcubing Canada mailing list.

Note that we may run ahead of or behind schedule. You should be present for check-in and the tutorial, and may leave once you're done competing - but we encourage you to stay until awards.

Notice of filming and photography
Attendees of Speedcubing Canada competitions consent to their images being used by Speedcubing Canada and its partners in marketing materials, social media and other digital platforms.

Health and Safety
Masks will be optional at this event. Please stay home if you are sick or feeling unwell.

Events
Main event
Competitor limit
50
Number of times bookmarked
24
Registration period

Online registration will be open from to .

Registration requirements
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 50 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $20 (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 on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 1 guest.

Review all of the tabs listed on this website!

This competition is participating in the official WCA Newcomer Month 2025. The registration process will reserve 25 spots for new competitors. New competitors are considered to have no WCA ID or a WCA ID with 2025. Returning competitors are considered to have a WCA ID that is from 2024 or earlier. All competitors must still follow all registration requirements for their registration to be considered complete. For more info, visit the "Newcomers?" tab.

IMPORTANT: Organizers manually move competitors to the competitors list after payment has been received. This is done based on order of payment - You will receive an email letting you know that payment has been received, but you are not registered for this competition until you receive a second email confirming registration and your name appears on the competitors list.

This competition is participating in the official WCA Newcomer Month 2025. The registration process will reserve 25 spots for new competitors. New competitors are considered to have no WCA ID or a WCA ID with 2025. Returning competitors are considered to have a WCA ID that is from 2024 or earlier. All competitors must still follow all registration requirements for their registration to be considered complete.

Registrations will be accepted based on the following:

25 spots, as defined by the competitor limit, are reserved for new competitors.
Initially, 25 spots, as defined by the competitor limit, are available for returning competitors on a first come, first serve basis.
If greater than 25 new competitors register before 25 spots are filled by returning competitors, any additional new competitors will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis alongside returning competitors.

If the spots reserved for new competitors are not filled by new competitors before registration closes two weeks prior to the competition, remaining spots, up to the competitor limit, will be accepted from registered returning competitors.

Venue

Trout Lake Community Centre - Grandview Room
3360 Victoria Drive,
Vancouver, BC, V5N 4M4

Parking

There is free parking at the Trout Lake community centre parking lot.

Public Transit

Trout Lake Community Centre is a 15 minute walk from Nanaimo Skytrain Station and a 16 minute walk from Commerical-Broadway Skytrain Station.

The 2 closest bus stops are #50686 going southbound and #50717 going northbound. Please check Translink's alerts and plan your trip accordingly.

Food

There are many food options a 5 minute drive away at East Broadway and Commercial Drive, near the Commercial-Broadway Skytrain Station.

Competitor Duties

If this isn't your first competition, you will be assigned some judging and/or running duties throughout the competition. You will only be assigned these tasks in events that you're competing in. If you don't know how to judge or run, make sure to come to the competitor tutorial at the start of the competition.

Your scheduled duties will be on the back of your name tag (explained in the competitor tutorial), so please be aware of when you're expected to come up and help. This is required to keep the competition running smoothly and on time, since it is purely run by volunteeers. For non-first rounds (ie 3x3x3 round 2) there are no assigned duties, so if you see an empty judging seat then please come up and fill it.

Feel free to also watch this video to learn how to judge.

Your competition schedule, which includes all rounds you're competing and staffing in will also be available at Competition Groups about a week before the competition. If you are a confirmed registrant, you will receive a pre-competition email which will contain an updated link to this Competition Groups page, among other useful information. We recommend you keep this link open during the competition, so you can see when you are competing, especially if you've made it past the first round.

We also ask that you keep the venue as tidy as possible as possible - please put garbage/recycling/etc in the appropriate bins when you're leaving.

If you need help or are confused about any of these duties, just ask an organizer or an experienced competitor and they can explain.

We look forward to seeing you at the competition!

Welcome

For those of you new to cubing - WELCOME! This competition is fine for cubers of any age and experience. We just ask you to be aware of these basics before coming to compete.

Resources

If you haven't been to a competition before, we'd strongly recommend looking through all of the below resources. Although there will be a competitor tutorial at the start of the competition (see the Schedule tab), reviewing these in advance is very helpful.

Finally, note that all competitors are expected to be familiar with the WCA Regulations. Note that the resources above are meant to summarize some of the most prominent regulations, among other things.

Community

FAQs

Q: What will the competition look like?
A: A competition usually runs throughout the whole day where cubers meet up and have fun, although you are more than welcome to stay the whole day or leave whenever. You will compete in events you have signed up for, and when not competing you're able to hang out in the audience and interact with other cubers.

Q: Who is allowed to compete?
A: Everyone, from all ages are allowed to compete! (You just need to register within the competitor limit.) Do not be hesitant if you are not experienced with cubing or competing, we encourage newcomers to come along, we will help out.

Q: Whose cubes do I use?
A: When competing, it is ideal to use your own cube. Make sure you have one ready to go when it is time to compete. (The competition will NOT supply you with cubes to compete with.) Please be sure your cubes are compliant with WCA puzzle regulations. Equipment like timers will be there to compete with.

Q: How do I check the results of the competition?
A: Check out WCA Live and search for the competition name to check live results throughout the day. Official results will then be posted within a few days of the end of the competition.

Q: How do I know when I'm competing?
A: Your competition schedule, which includes all rounds you're competing and staffing in will also be available at Competition Groups about a week before the competition.

Q: Can I judge if I have never judged before?
A: Yes, new competitors and spectators can help judge this competition. Please watch this video to learn how to judge.

Do not be intimidated by all these rules and expectations. Competitions are for everyone to have fun! If at any time during the day you have any questions feel free to ask an organizer or other competitors!

If you have any questions or concerns, please go to the "General Info" tab and reach out where it says "Contact." We look forward to seeing you at the competition!

Sponsor & Prizes

This competition is sponsored by QY Toys!

QiYi and X-Man Designs will be providing cubes for our 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishers for each event and for our raffle draws.

Thank you QiYi for sponsoring this competition!

This competition is sponsored by SpeedCubeShop!

SpeedCubeShop will be providing lanyards and decals for each competitor. They will also be providing gift-card prizes to our 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishers for each event.

Unfortunately, they will not be selling puzzles onsite, but they will be providing a special SpeedCubeShop discount code to all competitors!

Thank you SpeedCubeShop for sponsoring this competition!

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).

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.

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