The Weekend Preview: June 12-14, 2026
Highlighting competitions from around the world of speedcubing.
A major U.S. regional championship, the biggest competition on the South American calendar, and another stop in Poland’s Cube Factory League headline the weekend across speedcubing.
GAN Southern Championship 2026
GAN Southern Championship 2026 takes place June 11-14 in Fort Worth, Texas, at the Will Rogers Memorial Center. The competition has a 320-competitor limit and is one of the major U.S. regional championships on the CubingUSA calendar.
Like other CubingUSA regional championships, Southern adds a second layer to the weekend beyond overall event wins. The highest-placing resident of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, or Texas in each event will be recognized as the Southern Champion.
The title races should be especially interesting with several defending champions listed from last year, including Dylan Miller in 3x3 and Megaminx, Ryan Pilat across multiple events, Ignacio Montilla in Clock, and Fletcher Berry in 3x3 Multi-Blind.
The 3x3 field also gets a major headline name with Matty Hiroto Inaba registered to compete. Inaba can win the event overall, but because he is not from the Southern Region, he cannot claim the Southern Championship title.
Southern will also feature a traditional head-to-head-style 3x3 final, similar to the format used at previous major championships. It will not use the newer WCA Head-to-Head format, but the final should still add a direct-matchup feel to one of the weekend’s biggest events.
WCA South American Championship 2026
WCA South American Championship 2026 runs June 12-15 in Bogotá, Colombia, at Colegio Teresiano. The competition has a 500-competitor limit and is being presented by Speedcubing Colombia and the Ecuadorian Speedcubing Association as the largest and most important competition on the South American continent.
This year’s championship is especially notable because it is being held in Colombia for the first time. That gives the event added significance beyond the results themselves, bringing the continental championship to one of South America’s most active speedcubing communities.
3x3 should be one of the main events to watch. Last year’s final was won by Caio Hideaki Sato with a 6.11 average, ahead of Vicenzo Guerino Cecchini and Francisco Moraes Mandalozzo.
Sato enters this year as the top-ranked South American competitor by average, with a 5.44 personal best, followed by Claudio Matias Cancino Bruna at 5.83, Theo Goluboff at 5.95, and Juan Miguel Saboya Soto at 6.09.
That makes Sato the clear name to beat on paper, but the field behind him is close enough to make the 3x3 final one of the most interesting title races of the championship.
The competition page also notes a separate FMC SAC 2026 championship held simultaneously in several cities across South America, adding another layer to the broader championship weekend.
Cube Factory League Kalisz 2026
Cube Factory League Kalisz 2026 takes place June 13-14 in Kalisz, Poland, at Hala widowiskowo-sportowa. The event has a 150-competitor limit and is part of the 2026 Cube Factory League season.
The competition page describes Kalisz as Poland’s oldest city, giving this league stop a different feel from the larger championship events happening elsewhere this weekend. It may not have the same competitor limit as Southern or SAC, but Poland has been one of the strongest current countries in speedcubing, especially in 3x3 and big cube events.
The biggest storyline is 3x3, where Poland’s current top three are all registered: Teodor Zajder, Tymon Kolasiński, and Olaf Kuźmiński.
Kuźmiński enters the weekend coming off one of the biggest results of his career, after becoming the 16th person to record a sub-5 3x3 average with a 4.95 at Cube4fun in Bełchatów 2026. The result moved him to third in Polish history, behind only Zajder and Kolasiński.
Kolasiński recently praised Kuźmiński’s breakthrough during his appearance on The Millisecond Podcast, saying he expects more big things from Olaf.
With Zajder holding the Polish record, Kolasiński still firmly near the top of the world rankings, and Kuźmiński coming off a major personal breakthrough, Kalisz should be one of the most interesting 3x3 fields of the weekend.