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Toronto Open, Winter 2012
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.
Vancouver Winter Results
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.
Vancouver Winter Annouced
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.
Vancouver Summer Results
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.
Speedcubing Video
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.
1/27/2012 4:19:14 PM
Michael
Even if I don't need anything I always end up buying something :P Appreciate the Cubesmith sticker monopoly on the merch page :)
1/27/2012 2:26:07 PM
Sahid Velji
@ Simone: Of course! I already made a list of things to buy.
1/27/2012 11:33:39 AM
Simone
Looking forward to seeing the TO cube folk. Make sure you come visit the merch table to say hi. ... and buy something ;)
1/27/2012 12:30:36 AM
Anton A.
Any estimated date/month of the next Toronto Open? Unfortuantely i cannot attend the Winter one, but I'm hoping for a spring one sometime in March-May. :)
1/25/2012 4:07:07 PM
Malvin
@Sahid Some asian malls have them, in the stores where people rent out little cubes to sell there own things. Like First Markham Place and Pacific Mall, there are very few but they do sell other brands. First markham place had like lan lans and maru etc.
1/25/2012 10:58:19 AM
Michael
@Peter I would recommend V-Cube for sure. @Sahid Never. Every single non-Rubik's puzzle I have had to be ordered online or bought from the comps. Probably a waste to try looking for anything decent in retail...
1/24/2012 11:33:43 PM
Sahid Velji
Have any of you seen puzzles of any other brand than Rubik's around the GTA area? Like V-cube or Mefferts,etc. I've heard that a someone found a QJ pyraminx at a Zellers before.
1/24/2012 9:30:00 PM
Thompson
@Peter: ShengShou!
1/24/2012 6:53:19 PM
moose
@Brandon; by now people in this forum are getting used to me taking every opportunaty to mention our 2nd annual WCA-sanctionned Ottawa competition (NCR 2012 in May) ;-) March 14-16, people from the local cube club will be at the Science & Tech museum to promote [speed]cubing... so if you're in Ottawa those days, come and see members from the club!
1/24/2012 5:12:54 PM
Peter D.
The best 5x5x5 cube to buy is......
1/23/2012 3:56:45 PM
Dave
We've done Guelph, Kitchener, Niagara, Ottawa, and Saint John, NB in addition to Toronto and Vancouver, actually. The biggest reason is that there aren't that many people who competitively cube elsewhere.
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