Warm Up Vancouver 2025

Date: Jun 14 - 15, 2025
City: Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Venue: Hilton Vancouver Airport
Address: 5911 Minoru Blvd, Richmond, British Columbia, V6X 4C7, Canada
Details: Ellington Ballroom
Contact: General Inquiry, Sponsorship
Organizers: Heewon Hwang, Joanne Chew, and Speedcubing Canada
WCA Delegates: Heewon Hwang, Kevin Matthews, and Tarandeep Mittal

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

Information

We are excited to announce Warm Up Vancouver 2025! This official WCA competition will take place less than three weeks before the 2025 World Championship in Seattle.

Please review all of the tabs listed on this website. You only need to show up for the events that you're competing in - but we encourage you to show up for longer. Note that we may run ahead of or behind schedule, so please be ready for each event/round about 30 minutes in advance, just in-case.

To get updates about future BC and/or Canadian competitions, join the Speedcubing Canada mailing list.

Notice of filming and photography: Attendees of Speedcubing Canada competitions consent to their images being used by Speedcubing Canada and its partners in marketing materials, social media and other digital platforms.

Masks will be optional. Do not attend if you feel/are sick.

Events
Main event

Competitor limit: 135

Number of times bookmarked: 51

Registration period: Online registration opened Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC and will close Sunday, June 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC.
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 135 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $75 (Canadian Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
If your registration is cancelled before Sunday, June 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC you will be refunded 50% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Sunday, June 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Sunday, June 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 1 guest.

If the competitor limit has been reached and you register and pay for this competition, then you will be on the waitlist. If/when accepted competitors cancel their registrations, spots will open up for people on the waitlist and competitors will be taken in the order they initially completed registration (i.e. paid). If you are accepted from off of the waitlist, you will be notified by receiving an email saying that your registration has been accepted. If you do not make it off the waitlist, then you will be fully refunded your registration fee and, unfortunately, will not be able to compete in the competition.

Event	Round	Format	Time limit	Cutoff	Proceed
3x3x3 Cube	First round	Ao5	10:00.00		Top 72 advance to next round
	Second round	Ao5	10:00.00		Top 48 advance to next round
	Semi Final	Ao5	10:00.00		Top 16 advance to next round
	Final	Ao5	10:00.00
2x2x2 Cube	First round	Ao5	10:00.00		Top 48 advance to next round
	Second round	Ao5	10:00.00		Top 16 advance to next round
	Final	Ao5	10:00.00
4x4x4 Cube	First round	Bo2 / Ao5	10:00.00	2 attempts to get < 2:00.00	Top 16 advance to next round
4x4x4 Cube	Final	Ao5	10:00.00
5x5x5 Cube	Final	Bo2 / Ao5	10:00.00	2 attempts to get < 2:15.00
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Final	Bo3	15:00.00 cumulative*
3x3x3 One-Handed	First round	Bo2 / Ao5	10:00.00	2 attempts to get < 1:00.00	Top 16 advance to next round
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	Ao5	10:00.00
Clock	Final	Bo2 / Ao5	10:00.00	2 attempts to get < 30.00
Megaminx	Final	Bo2 / Ao5	10:00.00	2 attempts to get < 2:30.00
Pyraminx	First round	Ao5	10:00.00		Top 48 advance to next round
	Second round	Ao5	10:00.00		Top 16 advance to next round
	Final	Ao5	10:00.00
Skewb	First round	Ao5	10:00.00		Top 16 advance to next round
Skewb	Final	Ao5	10:00.00
Square-1	Final	Bo2 / Ao5	10:00.00	2 attempts to get < 45.00

Schedules are subject to adjustments, especially once registration totals are known. Registered competitors will be notified by email of any major changes.

You are viewing the schedule for the venue Hilton Vancouver Airport , the sole venue for this competition.

The time zone for this venue is America/Los_Angeles.

Events

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Saturday, June 14, 2025

Sunday, June 15, 2025

Food

CAVU Kitchen Bar is the onsite restaurant. Say you are attending the speedcubing competition to get 15% off.

Richmond Centre Mall is a 5 minute walk away and it has a food court.

McArthur Glen Designer Outlet is a 10 minute drive away and has food options.

Parking

Hourly parking at the venue ranges from $4 CAD - $10 CAD, depending on the hours selected. Daily parking is $21 CAD.

If you are staying at the venue, please inquire with the Hilton about reduced parking rates.

There are additional parking options nearby.

Airport

The Vancouver International Airport (YVR) is a 7 minute drive to/from the venue, and is also easily accessible via Skytrain.

Accommodations

The Hilton is offering a discounted rate of $339 CAD + tax. Reservations need to be made by April 14th, 2025 and are subject to room availability. Reach out to the organizers for how to book at this rate.

Competitor Duties

If this isn't your first competition, you will be assigned some judging and/or running duties throughout the competition. You will only be assigned these tasks in events that you're competing in.

If you don't know how to judge or run, make sure to come to the competitor tutorial at the start of the competition. These duties will be on the back of your name tag (explained in the competitor tutorial), so please be aware of when you're expected to come up and help. This is required to keep the competition running smoothly and on time, since it is purely run by volunteeers.

For non-first rounds (ie 3x3x3 round 2) there are no assigned duties, so if you see an empty judging seat then please come up and fill it.

Feel free to also watch this video to learn how to judge.

Your competition schedule, which includes all rounds you're competing and staffing in will also be available at Competition Groups about a week before the competition. If you are a confirmed registrant, you will receive a pre-competition email which will contain an updated link to this Competition Groups page, among other useful information. We recommend you keep this link open during the competition, so you can see when you are competing, especially if you've made it past the first round.

We also ask that you keep the venue as tidy as possible as possible - please put garbage/recycling/etc in the appropriate bins when you're leaving.

If you need help or are confused about any of these duties, just ask an organizer or an experienced competitor and they can explain.

Welcome

For those of you new to cubing - WELCOME! This competition is fine for cubers of any age and experience. We just ask you to be aware of these basics before coming to compete.

Resources

If you haven't been to a competition before, we'd strongly recommend looking through all of the below resources. Although there will be a competitor tutorial at the start of the competition (see the Schedule tab), reviewing these in advance is very helpful.

The WCA has a WCA Competition Tutorial pdf.
Speedcubing Canada has a New Competitor Tutorials playlist (from 2023).
US Cubers Chris, Kit, and Lauren have a WCA Competitor Tutorial video (from 2015).

Finally, note that all competitors are expected to be familiar with the WCA Regulations. Note that the resources above are meant to summarize some of the most prominent regulations, among other things.

Community

For Canada-wide or BC-only competition updates, subscribe to the Speedcubing Canada mailing list.
For those interested in more of the B.C cubing community, see Vancouver's cubing Facebook group.
There is also a PNW (Pacific Northwest) cubing Facebook group.

FAQs

Q: What will the competition look like?
A: A competition usually runs throughout the whole day where cubers meet up and have fun, although you are more than welcome to stay the whole day or leave whenever. You will compete in events you have signed up for, and when not competing you're able to hang out in the audience and interact with other cubers.

Q: Who is allowed to compete?
A: Everyone, from all ages are allowed to compete! (You just need to register within the competitor limit.) Do not be hesitant if you are not experienced with cubing or competing, we encourage newcomers to come along, we will help out.

Q: Whose cubes do I use?
A: When competing, it is ideal to use your own cube. Make sure you have one ready to go when it is time to compete. (The competition will NOT supply you with cubes to compete with.) Equipment like timers will be there to compete with.

Q: How do I check the results of the competition?
A: Check out WCA Live and search for the competition name to check live results throughout the day. Official results will then be posted within a few days of the end of the competition.

Do not be intimidated by all these rules and expectations. Competitions are for everyone to have fun! If at any time during the day you have any questions feel free to ask an organizer or other competitors!

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact the organizers (see the general info tab).

MoYu Culture

We would like to thank MoYu Culture for sponsoring Warm Up Vancouver 2025. They will be awarding puzzles for the top 3 competitors in each event.

Website: http://moyucube.com/

If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, please reach out: Sponsorship Contact

Unofficial Events

Unofficial events will be taking place on Saturday evening, so stay tuned for more information!

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).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced (see Regulation A1a2).

Cutoff

The result to beat to proceed to the second phase of a cutoff round (see Regulation 9g).

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.