A New Year in Auckland 2025

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Date: Jan 17 - 18, 2025
City: Auckland, New Zealand
Venue: Every Nation Auckland City
Address: 9 Karaka Street, Eden Terrace, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
Details: Te Rongopai
Website: A New Year in Auckland 2025 website
Contact: Speedcubing New Zealand
Organizers: Ashley Foster, Elyas Eyou, and Speedcubing New Zealand
WCA Delegates: Caleb Hall, Liam Wadek, and Tim Xie

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Information: A New Year in Auckland 2025 is an official World Cube Association (WCA) sanctioned speedcubing competition.

This competition is open to all competitors regardless of age, experience, or skill. No prior experience in WCA competitions is necessary.

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Events
Main event
Competitors: 89

Registration period: Online registration opened Saturday, November 30, 2024 at 5:00 AM UTC and closed Monday, January 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM UTC.
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Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 120 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $35 (New Zealand Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before Friday, January 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM UTC you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Monday, January 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM UTC by contacting the organization team.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.

Payment is made via the external website with two options to pay, either bank transfer or Paypal.

If registration fills up, a waiting list will be created. The last date to make it off the waiting list would be 24 hours before the competition begins with the conditions being that a spot opens up (someone else pulls out) and payment is completed.

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Chris Mills won with an average of 6.38 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Alexander Vujcich finished second (6.85) and Jasper Murray finished third (7.18).

World records: Lachlan Gibson‎ Clock 1.86 (single).

Oceanian records: Lachlan Gibson‎ Clock 2.58 (average).

3x3x3 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Chris Mills	5.84	6.38	New Zealand	5.84	6.34	8.43	5.90	6.91
2	Alexander Vujcich	6.19	6.85	New Zealand	6.78	7.10	7.01	6.76	6.19
3	Jasper Murray	4.93	7.18	New Zealand	4.93	6.94	8.89	7.77	6.84

2x2x2 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Yuki Gao	1.16	1.46	China	1.84	1.16	1.34	1.21	2.00
2	Jasper Murray	1.35	1.71	New Zealand	2.02	2.78	1.53	1.35	1.59
3	Carol Chai	1.47	1.91	New Zealand	2.28	1.54	2.78	1.47	1.91

4x4x4 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Angela Braganza	24.33	26.39	New Zealand	28.79	27.29	25.14	24.33	26.73
2	Alexander Vujcich	22.83	26.62	New Zealand	25.81	27.40	22.83	26.66	27.75
3	Chris Mills	25.76	27.05	New Zealand	28.25	25.76	26.78	26.11	29.14

5x5x5 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Alexander Vujcich	46.29	47.73	New Zealand	47.50	48.36	47.82	46.29	47.86
2	Jasper Murray	49.58	52.63	New Zealand	54.71	56.33	49.58	52.02	51.15
3	Angela Braganza	49.47	53.04	New Zealand	58.90	49.47	51.36	57.82	49.94

3x3x3 Blindfolded

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Kalvin Lum	1:08.52	DNF	New Zealand	1:08.52	1:59.96	DNF
2	Jerry Jiang	1:16.57	DNF	New Zealand	1:16.57	1:29.55	DNF
3	Xavier Courteau-Laing	2:21.76	DNF	New Zealand	2:55.46	2:21.76	DNF

Clock

#	Name	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
1	Lachlan Gibson	1.86	WR	2.58	OcR	New Zealand	3.77	2.30	1.86	2.97	2.48
2	Edwin Shen	3.19		4.27		New Zealand	4.80	4.00	4.02	3.19	5.04
3	Brandon Harris	3.57		5.47		New Zealand	4.87	DNF	3.57	4.07	7.48

Pyraminx

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Elyas Eyou	1.90	2.27	New Zealand	2.04	2.23	3.87	2.55	1.90
2	Levi Eyou	2.23	2.48	New Zealand	2.54	2.23	3.12	2.64	2.26
3	Jasper Murray	1.83	2.60	New Zealand	2.68	DNF	1.98	3.15	1.83

Square-1

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Camerone Chin	6.40	7.96	Malaysia	9.94	12.00	6.40	6.78	7.16
2	Ashley Foster	7.99	9.52	New Zealand	7.99	9.90	9.76	15.33	8.90
3	Elyas Eyou	8.67	10.93	New Zealand	12.45	11.08	8.67	9.25	14.94