About
History of the UKCA
The UK was the 15th country to hold a World Cube Association (WCA) competition, UK Open 2006, which was the 68th competition ever held. In the following years there were only a couple of competitions each year until 2012 when the UKCA was founded by Daniel Sheppard, shortly after he became a delegate. The UKCA was to act as a central location for all WCA competitions in the UK, as well as a general hub for UK cubing. Since founding the UKCA, the number of competitions in the UK has increased significantly and has consistently held competitions since, including the UK Championships held in October/November each year.
As of the end of 2022, the UK has held a total of 124 competitions, 3242 competitors have competed under the UK flag, and collectively have broken over 700 National Records, 26 Continental Records, and 18 World Records!
In 2019 the UKCA started looking outside of the main delegates to get some extra help as cubing community has only been getting larger. The UKCA operates under a non-profit basis, where all the workers are volunteers. To see who helps out, check out the team below!
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The UKCA Team
Directors
Sam Spendla - President, ACTING Treasurer, delegate
Sam's first competition was UK Championship 2015. Since then, he became a Delegate in 2018, is a current WCA Results Team member and has worked on the WCA Quality Assurance, and WCA Data Protection Committees previously.
Oliver wheat - vice-president, Junior delegate
Oliver first competed in 2016 and was promoted to a Delegate in 2022. Oliver is well versed in the WCA Regulations, being able to recite them in full by the age of 3. He has since joined the WCA Regulations Committee, where his extensive knowledge can be used to its fullest.
nevins chan - director without portfolio, delegate
Nevins attended his first competition in 2010 in Malaysia, before attending his first UK competition in 2012, and has been competing here regularly since as well as organising some competitions of his own. In 2022 Nevins was promoted to a Delegate, and also joined the WCA Competitions Announcement Team.
Other Delegates
Adam Swaine - junior delegate
Adam started competing in 2017 before organising his first competition in 2019. In early 2022 he joined the UKCA team as Community Manager, and was promoted to a Junior Delegate in just over a year.
Bertie Longden - Delegate
Bertie has been cubing since 2014 and joined the UKCA team to assist in the upkeep of the website. Since then he was promoted to a Delegate. He has also been a member of the WCA Quality Assurance Committee since 2020.
Christopher morris - Delegate
Chris has been competing since 2013 before becoming a Delegate in 2022. He has also been a member of the WCA Disciplinary Committee since 2020.
Eleanor Sinnott - JUNIOR delegate
Eleanor’s first competition was back in 2016, but her cubing career really took off in 2022, where she joined the WCA Results Team, as well as being promoted to a Junior Delegate in the following year, not to mention her rapid lettuce eating abilities!
Oliver Hexter - junior delegate
Oliver’s first competition was in 2022, and he quickly climbed the ranks of the UKCA, being promoted to a Delegate just a year later. Also within that year, Oliver landed a place on the WCA Results Team, who knows what the next few years will bring!
Other Staff
ryan simpson - graphic designer
Ryan’s first competition was in 2016, and after leaving university with a BA (Hons) degree in Illustration, he started work as the graphic designer for the UKCA in 2019. Recently, he has since found further use for his graphic design skills, by joining the WCA Communications Team.
sophie livsey - social media manager
Sophie is a transgender speedcuber who attended her first competition in 2018, joining the UKCA team as one of our Social Media Managers in late 2022. You’ll always find her in the UKCA Discord server sharing pictures of her cat Raven!
Jason harley - social media manager
Jason Harley has been competing the longest of our Social Media team, with his first competition in 2016. Jason also boasts the fastest 3x3 results of the team, including a speedy single of 5.26!
ed scholey - social media manager
Ed attended his first competition just before the pandemic in 2020, the break only made him faster though, making it all the way to the 2022 European Championship finals in Clock! Ed joined the social media team towards the end of 2022.