The (second) most anticipated event of the summer is being announced today. The Toronto Open, Summer 2010 competition will take place on August 14th, 2010 at our usual locale, Seneca Residence and Conference Centre. For full information and registration, click here.

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This past weekend, the third annual Vancouver Open took place in beautiful British Columbia. The competition was a success and even garnered some media attention. Everyone seemed to have a good time at the competition, and some great performances were had by many.

In the end, it was Ibrahim Vajgel-Shedid once again winning the competition for the third straight year with an average in the final of 13.22 seconds. Deseree Aune took second place with an average of 13.62 seconds. And rounding out the top three, up from the US for his second stint with us, was Kevin Hays with an average of 13.89 seconds.

Deseree also reclaimed the single solve record for fastest female with a 9.13 second solve in the second round, while Forte Shinko set the National Record for the Square-1 average at 18.06 seconds.

Many thanks to all the cubers that made it out, to all the volunteers that spent the day with us and to Science World for graciously allowing us to host the event at their facilities. A very special thank you to Vince Yim for all the effort put in to the event. He did a great job, the result of which was quite evident at the competition.

Next up for canadianCUBING is the Toronto Open, Summer 2010 competition. Stay tuned in the coming days for the official announcement and registration.

This update is to officially announce this year’s Vancouver competition, the Vancouver Open 2010. This year’s competition will be held at Science World. For complete information and registration, visit the Events section. We hope to see many of you there.

Another canadianCUBING competition comes to an end. We had a good turn out, and though the day took longer to complete than anticipated, everyone seemed to have a good time.

Eric Limeback, once again, came out on top with an average of 10.53 seconds in the finals, which included two sub 9 solves. Emily Wang strengthened her grip on the title of fastest female on the planet by coming in second place with an average of 11.97. And Harris Chan rounded out the top three with an average of 12.42. For the full results from the competition, click here.

Thanks to everyone that came out, and to all those that helped make the day possible. The next Toronto area competition will be held on August 14th, 2010. Registration will open for that sometime next month, so keep checking the website.

Today we are announcing the next Toronto area competition, the canadianCUBING CUBEcentric 2010. The premise is that we are focused on CUBES. Big Cubes, to be more precise. The competition will have events from 2x2 up to 7x7. To see the full details, click here.