Welcome Back Hamilton 2026


Date
May 9 - 10, 2026
City
Hamilton, New Zealand
Venue

The Hardy Centre

Address
Hardy Guide Centre 18 Hungerford Crescent, Hamilton East, Hamilton 3216
Details

Main Room

Contact
Organization team
Organizers
Benjamin Gardner, Dylan Heerikhuisen, and Elyas Eyou
WCA Delegates
Caleb Hall and Cheng-Ru Yang
Download all the competition's details as PDF here.
Information

Hamilton Open 2026 is an official World Cubing Association (WCA) competition. Events include 3x3x3 (Main Event), 2x2x2, 4x4x4, 3x3x3 Blindfolded, 3x3x3 One-Handed, Clock and Pyraminx. This will be the first WCA competition located in Hamilton in over 3 years. No prior experience in WCA competitions is necessary, but competitors should be familiar with the WCA regulations.

Events
Main event
Competitors
48
Registration period

Online registration opened and closed .

Registration requirements
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 48 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $45 (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 by contacting the organization team.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.

Highlights
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Jesse Brooke won with an average of 8.25 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Levi Eyou finished second (8.71) and Brandon Harris finished third (8.83).

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