The first Canadian competition of the 2012 season will take place on Saturday February 11t, 2012. The event will be held at the Seneca College’s Senecentre. For those who attended last year’s TOS will be familiar with the room. For complete information, including registration, see the competition page.

The Vancouver Open, Winter 2011 competition took place this past weekend at Science World in Vancouver. As is often the case, Ibrahim Vajgel-Shedid won the competition with an average of 14.44 seconds in the final round. Sittinon Sukhaya finished second with an average of 14.64, and Jacobus Philip Haupt finished in third with a 14.72 second average.

The competition also saw US competitor Kevin Hays show up just long enough to set two world records, one for 6x6x6 single at 1:54.81 and 6x6x6 average at a time of 2:02.13. To see all the results, click here.

There was some media attention as well. You can view the article, photos and video here. Thanks to everyone that came out to make it a fun competition. That’s it for competitions in 2011. We’ll see everyone for more in 2012.

The next Vancouver area competition has now been announced. The Vancouver Open, Winter 2011 competition will take place on Saturday December 10, 2011 at Science World in Vancouver. For complete information, including registration, please visit the information page.

The Vancouver Open, Summer 2011 competition took place this past weekend in BC. Justin Jaffray won the event with an average of 11.13 seconds in the final. Kevin Hays came second with an average of 11.51, and Ibrahim Vajgel-Shedid finished third with 12.52.

Three North American Records were set at the event, as well. Kevin Hays for with the 5x5 average at 1:09.75, Kristopher de Asis for the 5x5 single of 1:02.22 (single), and Matthew Yep for the Square-1 average at 14.32.

We don't normally post videos in the news here, but this one deserves some attention. It is a video by a good friend of canadianCUBING, Justin Eastman, shot over a number of our competitions here in Toronto. The result is a really nice montage that helps show how much fun our events are. Many thanks to Justin for his time and effort to shoot and edit this video.