Another competition is behind us. The Toronto Open, Summer 2009 competition went off on Saturday without a hitch. In fact, instead of being behind schedule like usual, we were so far ahead of schedule, the organizers were not sure what to do with the time. The result was a more dynamic 3x3x3 final round. Competitors squared off two at a time, going head to head in a very exciting round. Spectators were treated to matches of Harris Chan vs. Eric Limeback, Sarah Strong vs. Emily Wang, just to name a few.

Congratulations to all the winners, and all competitors that set personal bests and achieved their own set goals. It was a fun, but tiring, day for all involved. Once again, thank you to all our volunteers for helping make the competition run so smoothly. You are welcome back anytime. Thank you to the parents for allowing the cubers to stay as long as you did. And thank you to the cubers for doing their part to help speed up the day.

Special thanks to Shahriar Ameri, Simba Mai, and Sarah Strong for doing a large portion of the scrambling. And to David Champagne for all his help before and after the competition. Hopefully together we can bring one of these to Halifax.

We will see many of you in about a month's time. Keep practicing!

Okay BC cubers, here is your chance to see the fantastic documentary about the hobby we all love. CUBERS will be playing in Victoria on Monday June 15, 2009 at 6:30 PM as part of the Movie Monday showcase. The theatre is located on the south entrance of the Eric Martin Pavilion, on Fort Street 1900 Block, between Lee Ave and Trent Street.

The admission to the movie is FREE, and will be followed by a question and answer period with our good friend, and director of CUBERS, Richard LeBlanc. There will also be cake served. So please make it out to show some support and see the theatrical version of the film, you won't be disappointed. And be sure to say hi to Richard for us.

The second summer 2009 competition is now open for registration. This year's canadianCUBING Classic will be held on Saturday July 25th, 2009 at the Children's Museum in Kitchener, Ontario.

For complete information, including registration, click here. Please be sure to read all the information, including the cost section. We hope many of you will be able to make it out for this competition. It should be a fun day, and a nice departure from our usual location in Toronto.

This update is to officially announce the next Toronto area speedcubing competition. The Toronto Open, Summer 2009 competition will be held on Saturday June 27th, 2009 at the Seneca Residence and Conference Centre, once again. For complete information and registration, visit the Events section, or click here.

We hope everyone can make it, consider it a great way to start off your summer. Once again, if you are interested in volunteering (and not also competing), please contact us using the form here so we can plan accordingly.

Keep your eyes on this site in the next month for more competition announcements, including C³ 2009, Vancouver Open, and the Canadian Open. If you are a cuber, this summer will be a good one.

Another canadianCUBING competition comes to an end. We hope everyone had a great time today. We would like to once again take the opportunity to thank all the volunteers, from the people that showed up strictly to volunteer their time, to the parents that helped out, and even the cubers themselves. It would not be possible without your help. Our numbers are still growing, I believe the turn out was the highest we have had yet.

The full results will be posted tomorrow. But in the mean time, the winners of the 3x3x3 event were Harris Chan in first place with an average of 11.70 seconds. In second was Eric Limeback with an average of 12.53, and finishing in third was Sarah Strong, with an average of 15.17. There were a few National Records broken at the competition, but no NAR or WR were set.

Congratulations to all the winners. Next up for canadianCUBING is the Motor City Open in Detroit. We hope to see some of you there!

canadianCUBING is sponsoring two competitions over the next couple of months down in the United States. The first one is the Ohio Open 2009, a two day competition in Columbus, Ohio. It is about a 7 hour drive from Toronto. The competition runs March 28-29 2009. Click here for more details

The second competition is the Motor City Open 2009 in Detroit, Michigan. This competition is only about 3.5 hour drive from Toronto. This competition will feature the 7x7 event, so any Canadian going to compete in that event will automatically hold the NR, unless someone travels to another one before it. The competition will be held on April 25, 2009. Click here for more details.

We will obviously be at these events, as will some notable American cubers. We hope some of our cubers can make it down to one of these competitions and help support the cubing community, and show the Americans what we are all about, and what they are missing at our competitions.

After a three month down time for the holidays, we are finally back up and running like we were before the break. We have our first competition of 2009 scheduled for the Toronto area. The Toronto Open, Winter 2009 competition will take place on March 7th, 2009 at our home away from home, Seneca College. For all the relevant information, click here. We hope to see everyone there.

The documentary CUBERS will have its last theatrical screening in Canada on Saturday November 22nd, 2008 at 3PM at The Royal Cinema in Toronto, which is located at 608 College St. West. This will be the only chance for quite sometime for you to see the theatrical version of the film, as the version on TV (which airs on The Lens on CBC on November 25th at 10PM) is 27 minutes shorter.

Please come out to the show, and bring your cubes. We will all give the audience a show of what we do live and in person. We can use this as a chance for a cubers gathering since we won't have another competition until 2009. Be sure to bring your friends and family. This is the chance to show people why you are a cuber, and why it is so much fun. The film is really good, and we are sure to have a good time.

Special thank you to Richard LeBlanc, the director of the film, for making this happen for the Toronto cubing community. You can view the trailer for the film here.

The last canadianCUBING competition of 2008 took place today in Toronto. Good times were had by all. We wish to thank everyone that came out to the competition to make it such a success. As per usual, we would like to thank our amazing volunteers that helped to make the long day run smoothly. Thanks to all the cubers that jumped in to scramble and judge all the subsequent heats after they were done their solves. It makes the competition much better.

We sent the WCA the full results, so expect those to be posted tomorrow sometime. So many National Records were broken, I can't even keep track at this point. Derrick Eide won several events and placed in most of them. To recap the 3x3x3 event, Harris won with an average in the final of 11.92. Eric Limeback was second with 14.27, and Doowon Joo came third with 14.75.

And for the west coast Canadian cubers who are interested in how Kris and Deseree did, Kris won the 5x5 event – no small feat when he had to compete against Derrick Eide and Jack Moseley. And Deseree set a sub 17 average in the second round of the 3x3 event, good enough to move on to the final round - also no small feat in this competitive Toronto market. Congratulations to them, and to all the winners.

Keep checking the website, stay in touch with the Canadian cubing community. We had a great year of competitions, and look to have an even better 2009.

This update is quite extensive. First of all, you are looking at canadianCUBING 2.0. We spent the last few months reworking the entire site. Though a lot of things are structured the same, and found in the same locations, everything has been redone from the ground up. The result is a more flexible site that we will be able to maintain and expand as we move forward. There are a few new sections and some new features that you will be able to figure out as you go along. For the shoutbox addicts, click the title Quick Connect above it to see the last 50 posts. If you find any bugs, let us know via the contact form.

Second on the update list, and probably the most important, is the announcement of the Toronto Open, Fall 2008 competition. To find all the details, click here.