Warm Up Vancouver 2025

Date: Jun 14 - 15, 2025
City: Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Venue: Hilton Vancouver Airport
Address: 5911 Minoru Blvd, Richmond, British Columbia, V6X 4C7, Canada
Details: Ellington Ballroom
Contact: General Inquiry, Sponsorship
Organizers: CubingBC, Ethan Rusnak, Heewon Hwang, Joanne Chew, and Speedcubing Canada
WCA Delegates: Heewon Hwang, Kevin Matthews, and Tarandeep Mittal

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Information

We are excited to announce Warm Up Vancouver 2025! This official WCA competition will take place less than three weeks before the 2025 World Championship in Seattle.

Please review all of the tabs listed on this website. You only need to show up for the events that you're competing in - but we encourage you to show up for longer. Note that we may run ahead of or behind schedule, so please be ready for each event/round about 30 minutes in advance, just in-case.

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Masks will be optional. Do not attend if you feel/are sick.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 125

Registration period: Online registration opened and closed .
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There is a competitor limit of 135 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $75 (Canadian Dollar).
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.

If the competitor limit has been reached and you register and pay for this competition, then you will be on the waitlist. If/when accepted competitors cancel their registrations, spots will open up for people on the waitlist and competitors will be taken in the order they initially completed registration (i.e. paid). If you are accepted from off of the waitlist, you will be notified by receiving an email saying that your registration has been accepted. If you do not make it off the waitlist, then you will be fully refunded your registration fee and, unfortunately, will not be able to compete in the competition.
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Sameer Aggarwal won with an average of 6.76 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Brian Sun finished second (7.44) and Ethan Rusnak finished third (7.52).

3x3x3 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Sameer Aggarwal	5.94	6.76	United States	5.99	7.16	7.18	7.14	5.94
2	Brian Sun	5.89	7.44	Canada	7.33	5.89	8.97	7.84	7.16
3	Ethan Rusnak	6.96	7.52	Canada	7.70	7.62	7.23	6.96	8.08

2x2x2 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Ron G. Arama	1.48	1.85	United States	1.67	2.03	1.86	2.20	1.48
2	Thamawit Tangtanawat	1.61	1.91	Thailand	1.61	2.05	2.82	1.80	1.87
3	Peter Barnwell	1.61	2.04	Canada	2.04	2.15	2.48	1.61	1.92

4x4x4 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Jose Miguel Valdes Rodriguez	25.44	27.79	Canada	25.90	35.35	25.44	30.48	26.99
2	Jack Anderson	29.57	32.06	United States	29.57	29.72	40.11	35.00	31.47
3	Greyson James	29.29	33.76	United States	32.56	34.22	34.51	35.67	29.29

5x5x5 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Jack Anderson	51.40	56.33	United States	56.90	57.21	54.89	51.40	1:04.85
2	Sameer Aggarwal	54.17	1:01.14	United States	58.08	1:05.07	1:08.64	54.17	1:00.26
3	Ron G. Arama	56.62	1:02.00	United States	1:03.14	1:12.97	56.62	59.92	1:02.93

3x3x3 Blindfolded

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Jayce Li	18.67	DNF	Canada	18.67	DNF	DNF
2	Jimbo Cai	22.22	DNF	Canada	22.22	DNF	DNF
3	Kevin Matthews	36.16	DNF	Canada	36.16	DNF	DNF

3x3x3 One-Handed

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Zhouheng Sun (孙舟横)	9.83	10.58	China	9.83	10.50	11.74	10.32	10.93
2	Sameer Aggarwal	10.65	12.91	United States	12.00	14.23	12.51	10.65	17.95
3	Greyson James	12.89	14.75	United States	18.45	16.56	14.23	12.89	13.45

Clock

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Greyson James	2.73	3.55	United States	3.73	2.95	2.73	DNF	3.97
2	Ron G. Arama	3.97	4.40	United States	4.55	3.97	4.42	5.85	4.24
3	Jose Miguel Valdes Rodriguez	3.70	4.87	Canada	4.86	3.70	3.96	6.78	5.78

Megaminx

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Peter Barnwell	45.17	47.81	Canada	46.11	45.17	47.29	52.15	50.04
2	Ethan Rusnak	46.20	48.49	Canada	48.39	46.20	49.15	52.60	47.93
3	Jack Anderson	45.03	51.61	United States	57.11	54.34	45.52	54.97	45.03

Pyraminx

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Nathan Wang (王思文)	1.87	2.47	China	2.53	1.87	2.57	2.31	4.58
2	Ron G. Arama	2.07	2.89	United States	2.91	2.07	5.65	2.56	3.21
3	Ash Chen	1.60	2.92	Canada	2.35	1.60	5.25	2.69	3.72

Skewb

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Tonnam Tantikamnerdkul (ต้นน้ำ ตันติกำเนิดกุล)	2.38	3.31	Thailand	3.01	3.32	5.32	3.59	2.38
2	Kevin Lê	2.91	3.47	Canada	2.91	5.79	3.35	3.81	3.24
3	Greyson James	2.89	3.89	United States	3.78	6.31	3.59	4.30	2.89

Square-1

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Sameer Aggarwal	4.41	5.24	United States	6.33	4.41	4.76	5.42	5.53
2	Greyson James	8.16	8.41	United States	8.74	8.25	10.25	8.25	8.16
3	Eeshir Pannun	7.85	9.59	Canada	9.48	9.49	7.85	9.81	12.15