Calling all South African Cubers

[Mikel]

How is the competition organizing going?

 

[christocuboid]

The date is set for the 11th of January 2014. The venue, timers and displays are organized. So things are falling into place. Still need to know how many people will be attending so that we can start the final arrangements.

 

[Cube5r]

I want to attend the comp

Any more South Africans out there?

Hi"I'm from Freestate and i'm 17 I'm new at the site and, been cubing 3 months with my friend and we now getting times around 25sec, we've been trying find other cubers. so we happy to have found u guys, please we'd like to attend the comp also, so you can count us in also. theres a lot to talk about, please drop me an email if there is something you'd like to tell us, mandlaphizondogmail.com.

 

[Bindedsa]

I'm American, but I live in South Africa atm. I'm in Midrand and am Very interested in going to the comp any news on a venue yet?

 

[christocuboid]

Alot of progress has happend with the organizing. Please feel free to email me [email protected] or Donovan [email protected] for any further questions.

 

[anders]

Alot of progress has happend with the organizing. Please feel free to email me [email protected] or Donovan [email protected] for any further questions.

Good to hear!

 

[Bindedsa]

A location has been selected for the South African Open 2014. Join the Speedcube South Africa Facebook group for more information.

 

[Cubedagger]

Finally, I've found some other south african speedcubers! Was starting to think myself and a friend from school were the only ones. I'm from durban, I started nearly two months ago and I just hit my first sub-20 solve today, averaging about 30-35. Does anyone here think it would be a good idea to open a south african speedcube shop? All my times have been with a rubiks v2 storebought because its such a hassle to ship from overseas!

 

[anders]

Cool. It would be great if you could join the competition in Johannesburg on 11 January. It will be epic:

https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/c.php?i=SouthAfricaOpen2014


South Africa cube resoruces:

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/speedcube.southafrica/
Webshop: http://www.speedcubes.co.za/

 

[jossipepe]

Yo yo yo. Was also wondering about SA cubers.
Live in JHB. Started cubing Jan this year, ave is around 45s with a PB of 28.65s using CFOP but i'm still learning....got about 17 OLL's left to learn
Also got a friend in JHB with similar times who is keen to join up with a community here.
I will check out the FB page.

 

[Bindedsa]

Your learning pretty fast if you only have 17 left. There is going to be an unofficial competition in Guateng coming up if your looking to meet up, invite your friend, information is on the FB page.

 

[SACuber]

Cuber

Hey I am a Cuber from the Western Cape and it is really hard to find SA cubers
So I am glad that I found this post.

SACuber

 

[Bindedsa]

Hey I am a Cuber from the Western Cape and it is really hard to find SA cubers
So I am glad that I found this post.

SACuber

Welcome, Most of our discussion is here, a lot of it is just people talking about their times, but it is the first place upcoming competitions are posted.

 

[DonnyStar]

Thanks for keeping this thread alive guys.

Here's some links to the South African Speedcube Community:

facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/speedcube.southafrica
local forum: http://speedcubes.co.za/forum/entry/signin
youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2lfWjV8R0g31xostx5ihIw

 

[superbrick]

SA cubing

Hi, My name is DonnyStar

I am a cuber from Johannesburg, South Africa. I am searching the web for all South African Cubers living inside or outside South Africa.

I have already put together a handful of us already. I would like to grow the community and will even go as far as hosting our own site (once there's enough of us). I'm hoping that this could lead to South Africans getting our own shop, and hosting our own events. That's the first step. Next will be to convince the WCA to give us a shot at an official comp. We have a few sub 20 cubers here that have no chance of getting ranked, due to the fact that the only Africans that are ranked live abroad, or have travelled to the other side of the world.

If you are a South African cuber, or know of any, please contact me with a personal message, or reply here.

Thanks!

Hello, I would like to also join your group as i am also a speed cuber in SA. Please can I conntact you on email.

 

[Funky Bunch]

Me too please. Problem though, I dont have facebook.

Still very new to speedcubing, ie I dont even have a speed cube. Picked up my 'Rubik' brand cube yesterday and it was all stiff and crunchy. Decided its time to get into the faster game.

 

[DonnyStar]

Hey guys

Our facebook group is called Speedcube South Africa. you should find it by searching
Posts with email addresses usually get removed from here. but if you're fast enough, my email is [email protected]

Also if you're in Cape Town, I hope to see you this Sunday at the first competition in the Western Cape.
Look up the Cape Town 2014 competition on the WCA website

Happy Cubing,
Don

 

[AlphaSheep]

Pops Toys Summer 2015

Hey. For any South Africans who stumble on this thread, there's another official competition coming up.

The Pops Toys Summer 2015 will be held in in Benoni, Johannesburg on 21 Feb 2015

Registration is here: https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/c.php?i=PopsToysSummer2015

More details are here: http://www.popstoys.co.za/index.php?id_cms=21&controller=cms

Join our facebook group if you have any questions: https://www.facebook.com/groups/speedcube.southafrica/

 

[DonnyStar]

Next comp in South Africa will be on the 27th of June at the University of Pretoria

https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/c.php?i=TuksWinter2015

2x2, 3x3, 4x4, 5x5, 3x3OH, Mega, Pyra and Skewb

 

[AlexMaass]

It's nice to see you guys get comps, I was theawesomealex on page 3 of the thread lol.