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Year 2011Year 2011At 3th of January Muhammad Jihan Khalilurrahman won the fisrt Open of 2011, Merapi Open 2011 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Two days later, also in Indonesia, this time in Bogor, Vincent Hartanto Utomo won the Bogor Open 2011 with a great average of 13.05. At this championship Yoga Pancawara broke 2x2 NR with best time of 2.33, Renhard Julindra took also great results because he broke 3x3 with feet NR with 1:08.53 of best time and 1:14.89 in average record. Also David Fang broke a NR at this championship, pyraminx average NR with an incredible time of 5.16.

Indonesian speedcubers were lucky because the third championship in 2011 was also in Indonesia, this time in Surabaya. Roy Tri Afandi won the championship and Marshal Nathan broke Megaminx NR with times of 1:13,97 (best) and 1:20.06 (avg). Michel, the specialist in big cubes, broke 6x6 and 7x7 records with time of 3:10.77(best), 3:21.63(avg) and 4:51.13(best), 5:05.73(avg) respectively.

Cornelius Dieckmann won the championship beating both NR (7.52 best and 9.49 avg). Sebastian Weyer broke 4x4 NR (35.18 best and 43.48 avg). Mat Valk from Netherlands broke de europen record in 3x3 OH average with 17 seconds. Laura Ohrndorf broke Rubik's Clock german records (7.43 best and 8.77 avg). Jascha Bakarinow broke 6x6 best time NR with 2:47.21and 7x7 average NR with 4:21.92. The speedcuber Jan Dickmann broke the Magic best time NR with 0.80s and the european average record with a super great average of 0.82. Kai Gabriel broke Master Magic records (2.18 and 2.50). Finally István Kocza, from Hungary, broke 5x5 blindfolded best time NR with 19:13.00. Dennis Strehlau also broke this record for Germany with a similar time of 19:29.00

The same day, Japan celebrated Kansai New Year 2011 and Sei Sugama won that open. Also in Asia, Thailand celebrated TCA Championship 2011. Piti Pichedpan won the championship and also broke 3x3 OH Asian record (avg) with a great time of16.11. Nipat Charoenpholphant broke the 4x4 NR with 47.86 (avg). Asia Konvittayayotin broke all 5x5 NR with time of 1:15.68(best) and 1:20.06(avg). At last Noppawat Kumdee broke square-1 NR with 16.66s in his best time.

First championship in Europe was Aachen open 2011 in Germany.

Feliks Zemdegs: Wolrd recordman of 2011

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Year 2011Year 2011Chilerubik.cl 2011 was the fisrt South American chapionship in 2011 (15th Jan). Francisco Javier Lemes Sáezwon the championship and also broke 3x3 blindfolded NR (2:03.40 best). Felipe Andrés Sánchez Varas broke 2x2 NR average (4.66). Leopoldo Andrés Ibarra Fuentes broke South American megaminx record (1:10.46 best) and José Garrido also broke a NR at clock (15.80).

Also at 15th of January Menglin Xu won the Beigjin winter open 2011 and Rowe Hesseler the St Joseph's College winter 2011.

Helsinki Open 2011 was an emotionant championship. Morten Arborg won the championship but Simon Westlund broke the megaminz world record (41.81 best time) and 7x7 Swedish records (4:26.59 best time and 4:44.20 avg) Ville Seppänen also broke a WR, 5x5 blindfolded (10:03.00) and an European record (3x3 blindfolded: 39.53). Milán Baticz andTomas Kristiansson also were recordmans.

Zhouheng Sun won the Changzhou Spring Festival Open in China

Dan Cohen won UIUC Spring 2011 in USA. Feliks Zemdegs was the absolute winner at Melbourne Summer open 2011. He won 12 of 18 events and he broke rubik's cube world record (7.87 avg), 5x5 WR (1:07.01 avg), 6x6 WR (2:05.88 best and 2:15.64 avg) and 4x4 blindfold (3:37.80 best).

Also in January Kanneti Sae Han won Breizh Open in Rennes, France and Henrik Buus Aagard the Frederica Open in Denmark beating NR (10.94 best time).

The fisrt championship in February was Waikato Summer Open in Hamilton, New Zeland. Zhaohan Xiong won this championship beating the NR (10.83 best).

There were three opens in India at February: Mumbai Open (Dharmesh Shahu), Indian Open (Pulkit Bansal) and Delhi Open (Ranphoa Ngowa).

At the same month there were the follow championships: Buenos Aires Open (Francisco J. Lemes), Jakarta Speedcubing (Heribertus Ariando), Brown Cubing Day at Rhode Island (Rowe Hessler), Aalborg Open

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(Henrik Buus Aagaard), Perth Summer Open (Tim Major), Taiwan Winter Open (Yi-Heng Lee), Caltech (California) Winter (Deven Nadudvari), Barkeley (Ravi Fernando), Lodz Open in Poland (Michal Pleskowicz), Bandung Open (Claudio Kevin), Norwegian Open (Joar Mellström), XinXiang Spring Festival Open (Mulun Yin), East Borneo Open (Yahya Reza), Washington DC Winter (Mitchell Stern), Neptune Open 2011 in France (Kanneti Sae Han), Beijing Open (Fubo Wang), Pragya Cube (Bernett Orlando) NUS Singapore (Teo Kai Xiang), Mall of America (Dan Cohen), Colorado Springs Open (Patrick Kelly), Eartquake Open (Francisco J. Lemes), EPGY Stanford (Edward Lin), Malang Speedsolving (Roy Tri Afandi).

For the rest of the year competitions and winners were:

March:APOGEE Open (John Louis)Osaka (Yumu Tabuchi)French Open (Kanneti Sae Han)Grudziadz Open (Tomasz Cyrklaff) Utah Spring (Niklaus Parcell) One-to-eight Cubes, China (Chio Wai Cheng)Full Sail Spring, USA (Chris Foster)Beijing After Dark (Jibo Zhao) Newark Head to Head , USA, (Andy Smith)Big Cubes BC Canada (Kevin Hays)Petrosains (Amos Tay Swee Hui)Mantua Spring (Giovanni Contardi) Xi'an Spring (Mulun Yin) Murcia Open (Alejandro Aguado)MIT Spring USA (Dan Cohen)Milan Cube Open (Stefan Huber)Cube Ta Bai (Chia-Wei Lu)Toronto Winter (Harris Chan)Dayton Blind, USA (Chester Lian)

Altbier (Björn Korbanka)Medan Open (Willy Hericson)SSCC Open (Matias Macaya)

April:Thailand Open (Piti Pichedpan)Castellon Open (Carlos Méndez) Hamburg Open (Cornelius Dieckmann)Auckland Autumn (Anson Lin)Peru Open (Tyson Mao)Israel Championship (Shai Ziv)Guangzhou Haizhu (Yuhui Xu)Cornell Spring (Kevin Zhou)Beijing Spring (Haowei Fan)Danish Open (Erik Akkersdijk)France (Kanneti Sae Han)Italian Championship (Giovanni Contardi)Vidar Open (Ravi Fernando)Guadalajara (Jonathan E. Rivera)Iowa Open (Christopher Olson) Bialystok Open (Michał Pleskowicz) Toronto Spring (Justin Jaffray)Diñs Open France (Kanneti Sae Han)Caltech Prefrosh USA (Alexander Lin)Matsudo Spring (Yu Sajima) Xi'an Summer (Haowei Fan )Shanghai Spring (Xiaozhe Yan)German Open (Mats Valk)NEMO Amsterdam Open (Mats Valk)Harvard Spring (Andy Tsao)Kotka Open (Anssi Vanhala)Dallas Open USA, (Anthony Brooks)UIndy Open, USA (Chester Lian)Taiwan Spring (Hao-Zheng Lin)Vejstrup Open (Oscar Roth Andersen)

May:Montpellier Open (Kanneti Sae Han)Colombia MetodoGenius (José L. Chaparro)San Diego (Jeremy Fleischman)Rubik's Baires 2.0 (Tianshu Wang)Captain's Cove USA, (Dan Cohen)

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GHS Ingenhovenpark Open (Sebastian Weyer)National Capital Region (Derrick Eide)Stanford Spring (Ravi Fernando)Taiyuan (Xiaobo Jin)Romanian Open (Milán Baticz)West Japan Big Cubes (Takumi Yoshida)Kirkkonummi Open (Ville Seppänen)Houston Spring , (Anthony Brooks)Beijing Footsteps , (Jibo Zhao)Vesoul Open France, (Pierre Lemerle)Caltech Spring USA, (Deven Nadudvari)Cuberos.cl 2nd Anniversary (Matias Macaya)Valenzuela Summer (Lorenzo Bonoan)Nanjing Spring China, (Bo Li)Park Ridge Open USA, (Rowe Hessler)Kyiv Open (Sergey Ryabko)Belgian Open (Maximilian Neitzel)Roma Open (Giovanni Contardi)Kubaroo Open Australia, (Feliks Zemdegs)Guelph Spring Canada, (Justin Jaffray)Kansas Cube-Off , (Waris Ali)Bandung Magic Day (Stephen Adhisaputra)Shenzhen University China, (Kailong Li )Floating Clouds China, (Mulun Yin)

June:Skårup Last Chance (Henrik Buus Aagaard)Zhengzhou Open (Haowei Fan)Semarang Fun Cube (Muhammad J. K.)Schleswig-Holstein Open (Cornelius Dieckmann)Melbourne Winter Open (Feliks Zemdegs)Minnesota Open (Christopher Olson)Cyclops Open China, (Fubo Wang)Chonburi Open (Nipat Charoenpholphan)Yingkou Open China, (Yuanxu Han)Henan University Open (Yongan Liu)Vårgårda Open Sweden, (Robert Yau)River Hill Spring USA, (Kamaru-Deen L.)Tallinn Open (Anssi Vanhala)Ohio Open (Ethan Crislip)Big CubingItaly Open (Paolo Moriello) Cyber Open (Jonathan T. Wei X.)Dixon Open (Austin Moore)Alania Open (Sebastian Weyer)Cubik Box Cup Taiwan, (Hao-Zheng Lin)CUBEcentric Canada, (Harris Chan)Arizona Open (Marco Mendoza)Aplicarubick Open (Leopoldo A. Ibarra)3Mola Open Poland, (Michał Pleskowicz)

July:Shandong Open China (Menglin Xu)Beijing Summer Open (Yu Byeong-Seon)

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Guangzhou Summer Vacation (Weixing Zhang)Korean Championship (Yu Byeong-Seon)Japan Open (Yu Nakajima)Guildford Summer Open (Breandan Vallance)Marietta Open USA, (Andrew Kang)Hanoi Open (Pham The Quyen)Hackley Summer USA, (Andy Tsao)Robinsons Metro East (Simon Lim)Khon Kaen Open (Asia Konvittayayotin)Barcelona Open (Carlos Méndez)Castelbelforte Cube Battle (Paolo Moriello)MNW Open Russia, (Sergey Ryabko)Swierklany Open (Piotr Tomczyk)Indonesian Open (Vincent H. Utomo) Arequipa Open (Daniel A. Ninaquispe)Hefei Open (Kevin Zhou)Xiamen Open China, (Lin Chen)Toronto Summer (Harris Chan)Auckland Winter Open (Zhaohan Xiong)SESC/Santos Brazil,(Gabriel Dechichi)Czech Open (Milán Baticz)Kendari Open (Muhammad J.K.)Lampang Open (Nipat Charoenpholphant )Veneto Open (Riccardo Simone) SCMU (Dharmesh Shahu)Dolmen Open (Kanneti Sae Han)Cube Canada (Justin Jaffray)

August:Trinoma Open (Richard Jay S. Apagar) Australian Nationals (Feliks Zemdegs)Russia Open (Sergey Ryabko)Cubic City Mex. (Jorge L. Sánchez)Vancouver Summer (Justin Jaffray)Cube Fever Mal. (Francis Wong Jia Yen)Trujillo Open (José L. Chaparro)Uberlandia Open (Gabriel D. Barbar)Shanghai Meatball Fall (Zhouheng Sun)Hua Hin Open (Nipat Charoenpholphant)Taiwan Summer (Yi-Heng Lee)Fun Fasting Day Ind. (Vincent H. Utomo)Canadian Open (Breandan Vallance)Danish Special (Erik Akkersdijk) Phitsanulok Open (Asia Konvittayayotin)Hangzhou Open (Zhouheng Sun)Bangalore Challenge (Bernett Orlando) Cube Camp Kanazawa (Yu Nakajima)Xi'an Lucky Open (Yan Jin) Válgame Open Spain (Pau Vela)Polish Nationals (Michał Pleskowicz)Düsseldorf Open (Cornelius Dieckmann), Robinsons Galleria (Durben J. Virtucio)US Nationals (Brendan Vallance)Berkeley Summer (Patricia Li)

Ho Chi Minh City (Tu Nghi Phan)2nd Bogota Open (José J. Chaparro),Krung Thep Open (Piti Pichedpan)Blind Open France (Antoine Piau)Xining Summer Open (Pengju Li)

September:Lyon Open (Bence Barát)Princeton Fall (Andrew Ricci)Poznan Open (Michał Pleskowicz)Austrian Open (Stefan Huber)UKDW Open (Muhammad B. Ababil)Appalachia USA (Ethan Crislip)Swedish Championship (Oskar Åsbrink) Basauri Open Spain (Ting Sheng Bao Yang)Galeries Lafayette Open (Kanneti Sae Han)DJ Speedcubing India (Dharmesh Shahu)Yale Fall USA (Rowe Hessler)Milan Blind Day (Paolo Moriello) Hungarian Open (Milán Baticz)Philippine Open (Durben J. Virtucio)Iran Open (Armin Soleimani)

October:Nanjing Autumn (?)Dutch Open (Mats Valk)Cubetcha USA (Christopher Olson)Engineer Open (Manasij Venkatesh)Reto Chignahuapan (Uriel Gayosso)Naoned Open (Antonie Piau)Harvard Fall (Andy Tsao)Jakarta Open (Renhard Julindra)V-CUBE Spiel (Björn Korbanka) Dayton Fall (Anthony Brooks)World Championship (Michał Pleskowicz)Taipei Open (Cornelius Dieckmann)Goiania Open (Gabriel D. Barbar) Amstelveen Open (Erik Akkersdijk)Estonian Open (Anssi Vanhala) ShenYang Open (Meng Wan) Suzhou Open (Lin Chen)Guangzhou Cube Day (Kailong Li)III Open Colombia (José L. Chaparro)Italian Open (Giovanni Contardi)Xi'an Autumn Open (Haowei Fan)Shaastra Cube Open (Bernett Orlando)

November:Changsha Open (Nipat Charoenpholphant)UT Open Japan (Yu Nakajima)MPEI Open Russia (Sergey Ryabko)Munich Open (Jan Smarschevski)Bandung Dua Tujuh (Stephen Adhisaputra)

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Melbourne Cube Day (Durben J. Virtucio)Spørring Cube Days (Oscar R. Andersen)Campeonato Nacional Chile (Leopoldo A. Ibarra)Swedish Cubedays (Simon Westlund) Shanghai Port Open (Nipat Charoenpholphant)Zhengzhou Autumn (Dongdong Qu)Pekanbaru Indonesia (Wilson Alvis)Croatian Open (Milán Baticz)Novo Hamburgo Open (Renan M. Cerpe) Caltech Fall USA (Phillip Espinoza)Kyotanabe Open (Yu Nakajima ) Trondheim Fall (Vegard S. Karstang)Spols Open Belgium (Mats Valk)Stanford Fall (Edward Lin) UK Open (Breandan Vallance)Trentin Open (Stefano Bevacqua)Buenos Aires Open III (Tomás Mansilla)Xhina FM Beijin (Shuang Chen)China FM Shanghai (Xiaobo Jin) China FM Guangzhou (Lee Poon Kit)China FM Xi'an (Mulun Yin)China FM Shenyang (Linsong Qi)China FM Zhengzhou (Yiliang Lu)Indiana (Anthony Brooks)Liberty Science (Rowe Hessler)Cachan Open (Erik Akkersdijk)Lima Open (Marvin Castañeda)Matsudo Autumn (Yu Nakajima)Cube Factory (Tomasz � ołnowski)

December:Cubing Korea December (ongoing)Tianjin Open China (ongoing)Hokuriku Eve Japan (Yu Nakajima)Cubing Korea Xmas Eve (Lee Jin-Hyung)Shanghai Winter (Yinghao Wang)II Arequipa Open (Jael Riggenbach)MIT Fall USA (Rowe Hessler)Puy de Dome Open (Kanneti Sae Han)Mantua Winter Italy (Giovanni Contardi)Dutch Nationals (Mats Valk)Celebes Open (Muhammad Badruddin)Cebu Open (Durben J. Virtucio)Magic Open France (Abdelhak Kaddour)Spanish Championship (Carlos Méndez)Roma Winter Open (Massimiliano Iovane)Finnish Open (Anssi Vanhala)Ohio Fall (Ethan Crislip)Perth Puzzle Championship (Chloe Vo)German Nationals (Cornelius Dieckmann)Human Rights Day (Yu Nakajima)Vancouver Winter (Ibrahim V-Shedid)Tartu Open Estonia (Anti Ingel)Berkeley Fall (Edward Lin)Arizona Showdown (Phillip Espinoza)Bridgewater Open (Rowe Hessler)Guangzhou Winter (Kailong Li)

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