Uganda Cubing Open 2025

Date: Feb 1, 2025
City: Kampala, Uganda
Venue: National ICT Innovation Hub, Nakwa Campus
Address: New Porbell Road
Details: Main auditorium
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Ethan Tyaba Kigundu, Fugee Tumwesigye, Grace Namwanje Kigundu, Solomon Tumwesigye, and Tandeka Shiloh
WCA Delegate: Rayan Parmar

: Download all the competition's details as PDF here.

Information

Welcome!

This will be the first ever WCA tournament in Uganda!

Only Ugandan competitors are eligible for prizes and podiums.

All competitors participating for the first time must present an official document with their name, date of birth and nationality for confirmation.

Read all the respective tabs for more information.

Events
Main event

Competitor limit: 80

Number of times bookmarked: 10

Registration period: Online registration opened and will close .
Registration requirements: Create a WCA account here if you don't have one.
If this is not your first competition, associate your WCA ID to your WCA account here.
Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 80 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is 30,000 USh (Ugandan Shilling).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until on the Register tab.
On the spot registrations will be accepted with a base registration fee of 30,000 USh (Ugandan Shilling).

Send the registration fee of 30,000USh via MTN to +256778963558 (Solomon Tumwesigye), OR, via mobile money to 0752004920 (Carl Kigundu), with the name of the competitor as the payment reason.

If this is not an option, please contact the organiser using the contact information. Your registration will be accepted within 48 hours. Please add the payment confirmation message in the comment section when registering, so as to allow easy recognition.

For on the spot registrations, either cash or mobile money will be accepted.

For those of you new to cubing, WELCOME!

First, please be familiar with the WCA Regulations, found here:
https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/

This video will explain most of what any cuber competing for the first time will need to know:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dSuMG--wm8

Close eateries around the venue are less than 10 minutes away, such as Cafe Javas Lugogo, and KFC Lugogo. A one hour period will be allocated for lunch time.

Prota Cubing Club is a youth-led organization based in Kampala, Uganda, dedicated to promoting the intellectual sport of speedcubing among young people.

Founded by Tandeka Tumwesigye (16) and Ethan Kigundu (17), the club fosters creativity, problem-solving, and critical thinking through the art of solving Rubik’s Cubes.

As the driving force behind one of Uganda's first-ever Rubik’s Cubing competitions, Prota Cubing Club aims to establish cubing as a mainstream sport by creating school-based clubs, organizing coaching programs, and hosting regional tournaments. With a vision to position Uganda as a hub for competitive cubing in East Africa, the club is making strides toward hosting many more events and meet-ups, ensuring the sport remains inclusive and accessible to all enthusiasts.

Time limit

If you reach the time limit during your solve, the judge will stop you and your result will be DNF (see Regulation A1a4).

Format

The format describes how to determine the ranking of competitors based on their results. The list of allowed formats per event is described in Regulation 9b. See Regulation 9f for a description of each format.