Zottegem Open 2025
- Date
- Nov 1 - 2, 2025
- City
- Zottegem, Belgium
- Venue
Onze-Lieve-Vrouwcollege Zottegem
- Address
- Ooststraat 44, 9620 Zottegem
- Details
On the first floor, more info on Travel tab
- Contact
- Organizers
- Aron De Vrieze, Bruno De Vrieze, Joran Pauwels, and Matthias Schegers
- WCA Delegates
- Clara Verbraeken and Lisa Leukemans
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
English :
Don't forget to read the different tabs.
Show up at least 30 mn before your first event.
For the new competitors, be present for the tutorial.Nederlands :
Vergeet niet de andere tabs te lezen.
Wees aanwezig minstens 30 mn voor je eerste event.
Voor de niewe deelnemers, wees aanwezig voor de tutorial.Français :
N'oubliez pas de consulter les differents onglets.
Présentez-vous au moins 30 mn avant votre première épreuve.
Pour les nouveaux compétiteurs, soyez présents pour le tuto.A part of your registration fee will be donated to charity. Please see the "Goede doel" tab for more info.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 71
- 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 80 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is €20 (Euro).
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.
Any spectator can attend for free.
More info on the Registration tab
- Highlights
-
Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Andrey Che won with an average of 6.76 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Victor Roets finished second (8.34) and Maximilian van der Straten finished third (8.78).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Andrey Che | 4.98 | 6.76 | Russia | 6.23 | 4.98 | 7.58 | 6.89 | 7.15 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Andrey Che | 1.39 | 1.53 | Russia | 1.48 | 1.49 | 1.62 | 1.39 | 4.82 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Andrey Che | 20.31 | 28.22 | Russia | 32.13 | 20.31 | 28.91 | 28.10 | 27.65 | |||
| 5x5x5 Cube | Andrey Che | 46.27 | 49.09 | Russia | 50.32 | 50.29 | 46.65 | 46.27 | 56.66 | |||
| 6x6x6 Cube | Matthias Schegers | 1:38.01 | 1:40.33 | NR | Belgium | 1:38.42 | 1:44.56 | 1:38.01 | ||||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Tias Claeys | 1:00.02 | DNF | Belgium | 1:00.02 | DNF | DNF | |||||
| Clock | Joran Pauwels | 2.85 | 3.16 | NR | Belgium | 3.07 | 2.85 | DNF | 3.33 | 3.07 | ||
| Megaminx | Imanuel Müller | 38.08 | 41.53 | Germany | 43.22 | 38.08 | 41.74 | 39.63 | 45.64 | |||
| Pyraminx | Andrey Che | 1.68 | 2.34 | Russia | 7.56 | 2.08 | 2.85 | 2.10 | 1.68 | |||
| Skewb | Lennert Smeets | 3.09 | 4.19 | Belgium | 5.56 | 3.99 | 4.83 | 3.74 | 3.09 | |||
| Square-1 | Nikita Frétay--Bayart | 6.44 | 7.03 | France | 10.38 | 7.28 | 7.23 | 6.59 | 6.44 | |||
We have reached the competitor limit of 80, so if you register, you will be added to the waiting list.
The entry fees for competitors is €20, guests can attend free of charge.
How to register for the waiting list
- Fill in the form on this site.
- Pay the entry fee.
- You are now on the waiting list. Whenever a spot becomes available, we will send the first person on the waiting list an e-mail. You can claim the spot if you reply within 48 hours after we send you the e-mail.
If your registration is not accepted before the competition, we will refund your entry fee.
Cancellation
If you registered but are unable to attend for some reason, you can cancel your registration by sending an email to the organizers. If you do this before October 24, 2025, we will refund half of your entry fee.
Change events
You can change the events you are registered for on on this site, until the Friday before the competition.
English
If it's your first time attending a WCA competition:
- You must register or login on the WCA website.
- You must register to the competition (tab "General info" on the competition page).,
- Please have a look at this video, explaining how competitions work. There will also be a tutorial for new competitors right before the 3x3x3 event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPL3eV-A0ww&t
Français
Si c'est votre première compétition WCA:
- Vous devez vous inscrire ou vous connecter sur le site de WCA.
- Vous devez vous inscrire à la compétition (sur la page de la compétition, onglet "Information générale").
- Merci de jeter un oeil à cette vidéo, explicant le déroulement d'une compétition. Il y aura aussi un tutoriel pour les nouveaux compétiteurs avant que le 3x3x3 ne commence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPL3eV-A0ww&t
Nederlands
Als dit je eerste WCA competitie is:
- Maak een account of login op de WCA website
- Schrijf je in voor de wedstrijd (tab "Algemene informatie" op de wedstrijdpagina)
- Kijk even naar deze video, die uitlegt hoe een wedstrijd verloopt. Er zal ook een uitleg zijn voor nieuwe deelnemers net voor 3x3x3.
Competitors for each event are divided into groups. Some events (like 2x2 and 3x3) will have a lot of competitors and therefore many groups, while others (like megaminx) will only have 2 groups. At the competition, we will announce when a group starts so you can bring up your puzzle to the scrambling table and place it on the scorecard that has your name.
When arriving at the competition, go to the registration desk to receive the overview of the groups you are competing in and judging, scrambling or running for, during the first rounds. This is the minimum amount you should be helping out. If you want to help out more, you are always welcome to fill an empty judge seat. We appreciate this enormously as it helps us running the competition smoothly!

Competitions in Belgium are run with the help of Speedcubing Belgium's team. Our goal is to increase the number and size of competitions. If you want to organize a competition yourself, or just help us out a bit during a competition weekend, feel free get in touch!
You can find us on the social media platforms below. All new competitions are announced on Facebook, so follow us there if you never want to miss out on them!
Per deelnemer zal €10 gedoneerd worden aan Team Bart voor Kom Op Tegen Kanker.
Meer informatie op Team Bart
For each competitor, €10 will be donated to Team Bart voor Kom Op Tegen Kanker.
More information on Team Bart

Twee weken voor het event sturen we nog per e-mail een bestellingsformulier voor broodjes te bestellen voor beide dagen aan 4 euro. Je kan dan ook het beleg voor de broodjes kiezen.
Two weeks before the competition we'll sent an order form by mail for sandwiches for both saturday and sunday at the price of 4 euro. You can then choose the topping too.
Het formulier is al beschikbaar/The forms are already open:
Bestelling zaterdag/Order saturday: https://forms.gle/LjhfbYdprfWBKhcF9
Bestelling zondag/Order sunday: https://forms.gle/L5Hcn4PzsEvYhdgz8
Options:
Kaas/Cheese
Hesp/Ham
Smos (kaas en hesp)/Ham and cheese
Prepare Americain
Kip curry/chicken curry
Boulet
Tonijn/tuna
Eiersalade/Egg salad (veggie)
Mozarella (veggie)
Wit of bruin/White or grey
Met of zonder groentjes/with or without vergetables
UPDATE
Door werken is de ingang van de voorbije twee jaren afgesloten.
De ingang is via de poort aan de Ooststraat, u kan nog steeds parkeren op de parkeerplaats aan de Kollegestraat.

Due to construction works, the entrance we used the past two years has been closed.
The entrance is now via the gate on Ooststraat; you can still park in the parking lot on Kollegestraat."
De zaal ligt vlakbij het station van Zottegem op vijf minuten wandelen met goede verbindingen richting Brussel en Gent.
De ingang is via de poort aan de Kollegestraat, verder doorstappen naar de speelplaats. Er zal bewegwijzigering worden voorzien.
Er is ruime gratis parkeerplaats aan de school in de Kollegestraat.
The venue is located near the Zottegem train station at five minutes walk with good connections to Brussels and Ghent.
The entrance is through the gate on Kollegestraat, on to the playground. And then follow the signs.
There is free parking at the school in de Kollegestraat.

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).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced (see Regulation A1a2).
Cutoff
The result to beat to proceed to the second phase of a cutoff round (see Regulation 9g).
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.

