Farewell Strathclyde University brings final speedcubing meet to Glasgow
Strathclyde’s last meet drew 81 accepted cubers to a four-day Glasgow sendoff, and Daniel Rush still left with four continental records.
The final speedcubing meet at Strathclyde University ran from June 27 to June 30 in Glasgow, turning the Learning and Teaching Building at 49 Richmond Street into a four-day sendoff for a venue that had already hosted 32 previous competitions. Farewell Strathclyde University 2026 was built as both a contest and a goodbye, with the more popular events concentrated on Saturday and Sunday while competitors were free to attend as many days as they wanted.
Eleanor Sinnott and UK Cube Association organized the event, and the World Cube Association listed a 90-competitor cap. Registration opened on February 18, 2026 and closed on June 22, with no on-the-spot registrations accepted. Spectators were allowed free of charge, a small but important detail for a farewell meet that invited alumni, families and newer solvers back into a room they already knew. The registration list showed 8 first-timers and 77 returners, while the results page listed 81 accepted competitors. The event also kept smaller caps on technically demanding side events, with 4x4 blindfolded, 5x5 blindfolded and 3x3 multi-blind each limited to 20 entrants.
The closing weekend did not play like a sentimental exhibition. Daniel Rush of South Africa set continental records in 6x6 single, 6x6 average, 7x7 single and 7x7 average, while Mattheo de Wit of the Netherlands posted a national record average in Skewb. Those results gave the meet the same competitive edge as any major cubing weekend, even with the venue’s last chapter hanging over it.
Strathclyde’s Learning and Teaching Building had become a familiar stop for Glasgow cubing, hosting multiple other World Cube Association competitions in 2025 and 2026, including blindfold and side-event meets. That repeat use is what made the farewell feel bigger than a single competition at TL328 and TL329: it marked the end of a place where the same faces kept coming back, and where a free spectator seat still meant one more chance to watch the room do what it had done 32 times before.
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