Peace Country Cubing 2025

The competitive floor at D-Company Armouries in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada was filled with intense focus as timers started across a packed single-day schedule on April 5, 2025. Competitors adjusted their setups and studied scrambled puzzles across seven different events, bracing for a tight timeline of twelve total rounds. The structure of each event set the tone early, balancing single-round shootouts with multi-stage progressions that demanded consistent precision under the official match rules.

A tight schedule of rounds dictated the flow of Peace Country Cubing 2025, where twenty-four competitors navigated differing cutoffs and multi-round brackets. The main 3x3x3 Cube contest offered the longest road to victory, narrowing the field across three separate rounds. In contrast, longer puzzles and specialty categories featured direct final rounds where every single solve counted immediately toward the podium standings, testing each solver adaptability under varying round pressures.

Kyle Santucci delivered a commanding performance across multiple disciplines, claiming victory in four separate categories throughout the day. In the premier 3x3x3 Cube event, Santucci led the field through all stages, securing the title with a 7.06 winning average and logging the day best single of 5.61. Benjamin Ragan finished as runner-up with an 8.03 average, while Kye Riddell rounded out the podium spots in third place with a 12.24 mark to finalize the official 3x3 results.

Santucci continued his dominant run in the 2x2x2 Cube competition, progressing through two rounds of competition to win with an average of 2.22 and a best single time of 1.50. Benjamin Ragan again claimed second place with a 3.22 average, while Colby Trotter secured third with 4.49. Santucci also topped the 3x3x3 One-Handed bracket across two stages, taking first with a 10.64 average over Ragan in second at 16.21 and Dylan Vaskevicius in third with a 22.46 mark.

In the single-round 4x4x4 Cube contest, where participants had no preliminary stage to ease into competition, Kyle Santucci claimed top honors with a 29.47 winning average and a single solve of 26.28. Benjamin Ragan finished in second place with an average of 36.00, followed by Dylan Vaskevicius who secured third place with 44.40. The direct final format placed maximum emphasis on clean execution, rewarding solvers who avoided mistakes on the larger Rubik's Cube mechanism without the safety net of preliminary rounds.

Beyond the top podium spots, several competitors made substantial strides in personal development at Peace Country Cubing 2025. Bryce Miller entered six events and notched a sixth-place finish in Megaminx while achieving a 3:11.43 personal best, an improvement 37.4 percent faster than their prior record, alongside a 3.5 percent drop in 4x4x4 Cube to 1:45.54. Loxley Grewal shaved 30 percent off their Pyraminx mark down to 8.66 to finish seventh, also improving 23.1 percent in 2x2x2 Cube with a 5.65. Gael Akinsulire finished ninth in 3x3x3 Cube with a personal best 17.80, a 19.7 percent reduction, and logged a 6.68 personal best in 2x2x2 Cube.

For several participants, this WCA competition marked their first official entry into competitive speed cubing. Milo Noonan-Johnston completed their first tournament across four events, finishing fifth in Pyraminx with a 6.72 first attempt, a 5.31 in 2x2x2 Cube, and a 42.23 in 3x3x3 One-Handed. Liam Simard took on four events, producing a 10.46 first attempt in 2x2x2 Cube to place twelfth, alongside a 30.28 3x3x3 Cube attempt and 13.77 in Pyraminx. Lucas Armstrong took on three events with first attempts of 12.99 in 2x2x2 Cube, 23.87 in Pyraminx, and 1:23.86 in 3x3x3 Cube. Nichole Simard registered a 12.51 first attempt in Pyraminx and 29.49 in 2x2x2 Cube across three events, while Drew Marcus Comaling completed first attempts of 38.09 in 3x3x3 Cube and 2:23.00 in 3x3x3 One-Handed.

Side events brought varied solving dynamics to the Grande Prairie floor. In Megaminx, Benjamin Ragan won the single-round final with an average of 1:01.14 and a single of 59.25, finishing ahead of Kye Riddell at 1:12.79 and Dylan Vaskevicius at 1:38.32. Pyraminx saw Vaskevicius capture the title over two rounds with a 4.53 winning average, narrowly holding off Ragan at 4.64 and Trey Tonneson at 7.52. In 3x3x3 Blindfolded, where pure memorisation is tested without visual tracking during turns, Rex Kotovich secured victory with a winning single time of 2:00.11, while Vaskevicius placed second with 4:15.26.

The one-day event delivered intense speedcubing action across all twelve rounds of play, showcasing technical mastery from regional solvers. With twenty-two total podium places awarded to Canadian competitors, the tournament illustrated how different round constraints shape competitive outcomes. Peace Country Cubing 2025 closed with strong marks and notable personal progression across every puzzle discipline.