Waihopai Winter 2026
- Date
- Aug 22 - 23, 2026
- 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
- Organizer
- James Dyer
- WCA Delegates
- Daniel Fraser and James Dyer
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
Waihopai Winter 2026 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.
This is the first competition in New Zealand to host dual rounds, meaning that all compeitors will advance to the second round of each event, and the winner/ranking of each round will be determined by the best result of each competitor across the two rounds.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 12
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- Registration requirements
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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 30 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $35 (New Zealand Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
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 .
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until on the Register tab.
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.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Jasper Murray won with an average of 6.40 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Dwyane Ramos finished second (7.14) and Harrison Marsden finished third (9.06).