Waihopai Winter 2025

Date: Jul 5 - 6, 2025
City: Invercargill, New Zealand
Venue: Invercargill City Library
Address: 50 Dee Street, Invercargill 9810
Details: Activity Learning Spaces located on the back left of the ground floor from the main entrance
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Gabe Smith, Luis Varias, and Mehul Pankaj Girhotra
WCA Delegates: Daniel Fraser and James Dyer

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Information

Waihopai Winter 2025 is an official World Cube Association (WCA) sanctioned speedcubing competition.

This competition is open to all competitors regardless of age, experience, or skill. No prior experience in WCA competitions is necessary.

Please make sure to read all the information in the FAQ and other tabs before registering. All competitors should be familiar with the information in these tabs.

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Events
Main event
Competitors: 9

Registration period: Online registration opened and closed .
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There is a competitor limit of 30 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $35 (New Zealand Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
We encourage everyone to register for the events they want to compete in via your online registration, however you may add events to your registration up until the event has started.
On the spot registrations will be accepted if there are remaining spots available, with a base registration fee of $40 (New Zealand Dollar).
Any spectator can attend for free.
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Daniel Fraser won with an average of 9.83 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Beau Brittain-Modesto finished second (10.75) and Oscar Childs finished third (12.01).

3x3x3 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Daniel Fraser	9.35	9.83	New Zealand	9.93	9.35	11.53	9.99	9.58
2	Beau Brittain-Modesto	10.18	10.75	Australia	10.98	10.28	10.98	14.67	10.18
3	Oscar Childs	9.90	12.01	New Zealand	17.88	10.42	12.02	13.58	9.90

2x2x2 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Daniel Fraser	2.25	2.59	New Zealand	6.90	2.35	3.15	2.28	2.25
2	Beau Brittain-Modesto	2.12	3.12	Australia	4.37	2.12	DNF	2.56	2.43
3	James Dyer	3.09	3.45	New Zealand	3.21	4.61	3.77	3.09	3.37

4x4x4 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	James Dyer	32.83	36.02	New Zealand	35.04	36.51	43.54	36.50	32.83
2	Daniel Fraser	35.86	38.93	New Zealand	35.86	37.12	41.61	38.93	40.73
3	Oscar Childs	46.20	53.90	New Zealand	1:03.38	46.20	51.91	54.76	55.04

3x3x3 Blindfolded

#	Name	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
1	Gabe Smith	2:30.98		DNF		New Zealand	3:03.97	2:30.98	DNF

3x3x3 One-Handed

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	James Dyer	19.02	20.50	New Zealand	19.02	20.22	21.71	21.34	19.95
2	Daniel Fraser	16.21	20.78	New Zealand	23.27	20.57	16.21	22.56	19.22
3	Beau Brittain-Modesto	20.60	26.79	Australia	20.60	24.58	32.03	24.96	30.82

Megaminx

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Daniel Fraser	1:00.11	1:05.41	New Zealand	1:09.14	1:00.11	1:07.85	1:04.11	1:04.27
2	James Dyer	1:05.52	1:06.93	New Zealand	1:07.53	1:15.03	1:05.52	1:06.70	1:06.56
3	Beau Brittain-Modesto	1:13.73	1:23.87	Australia	1:26.55	1:20.30	1:24.77	1:13.73	1:42.73

Pyraminx

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Beau Brittain-Modesto	1.98	3.27	Australia	1.98	2.05	DNF	3.76	3.99
2	Daniel Fraser	3.59	4.50	New Zealand	4.37	3.59	3.70	5.43	7.59
3	Gabe Smith	4.28	5.56	New Zealand	5.64	4.98	6.05	6.60	4.28

Skewb

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Gabe Smith	3.02	4.08	New Zealand	3.02	5.36	3.81	4.36	4.06
2	Daniel Fraser	3.11	4.39	New Zealand	3.11	5.34	6.47	3.86	3.98
3	Beau Brittain-Modesto	3.66	4.63	Australia	5.14	4.58	3.66	4.35	4.95