Shuda Huang wins Guangzhou Special 2026 specialty-event meet

Shuda Huang won Pyraminx at Guangzhou Special 2026 with a 1.80 average, leading a podium that fit the meet’s specialty-first identity. Kaixi Guo finished second at 1.90, and Yening Liu took third at 2.06, giving the Guangzhou stop a clean snapshot of how deep the field can get when the spotlight shifts away from 3x3.

The meet was held June 19 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, at Yeo’s Fashion Factory, Meeting Room 220, Block B, No. 9 Andingli Street, in Haizhu District. The World Cube Association results page listed Aite Canton Co., Ltd., the Guangzhou Cubing Organizing Team, and Ming Zheng as organizers, with Jici Liu and Ming Zheng serving as delegates. The program centered on Clock, Megaminx, Pyraminx, Skewb, and Square-1, giving the competition a narrow but deliberate shape that favored event specialists.

That structure made Huang’s win feel like more than a single-event result. Guangzhou Special 2026 was not built as a broad open with a little bit of everything tacked on. Its event tabs and result listings made the specialty focus obvious from the start, and the page included winners, podiums, all results, records, and event-specific breakdowns. In a scene where 3x3 usually dominates attention, this was a meet where the technical depth of the smaller events carried the story.

Huang’s Pyraminx run also linked this result to his recent history. His World Cube Association profile shows 33 completed competitions and 1,137 solves, and his personal bests include a 1.09 single in Pyraminx. A year earlier, at Guangzhou Special 2025, Huang finished third in the same event behind Lingkun Jiang and Tian Xia. In Guangzhou Special 2026, he moved from third to first, with the podium order flipped and the top spot finally his.

Guangzhou’s calendar has already shown how well this kind of meet fits the city. Guangdong Open - Revival & Rival 2026 ran Feb. 6-8 at Southern Airlines Pearl Hotel in Huadu District, and Guangzhou Big Cubes 2026 followed on June 20 at the same Yeo’s Fashion Factory venue, with a competitor limit of 120 and a base registration fee of ¥160. Put together, the results show a city hosting multiple themed weekends, each with its own competitive personality, and Huang’s Pyraminx victory was the sharpest example of that pattern.