Battle of Alberta 2026
- Date
- May 9, 2026
- City
- Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
- Venue
Cenovus Common, Red Deer Polytechnic
- Address
- 100 College Boulevard, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada T4N 5H5
- Details
Upstairs in the Cenovus Learning Common
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Cache Adams, Coda K. Toll, Griffin Clem, Mateo Domini Lubuguin, Niels Nijstad, and Speedcubing Canada
- WCA Delegates
- Dylan Vaskevicius, Laura Plourde, Niels Nijstad, and Orion Donovan
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
Attendance is not required for the entire competition. However, please arrive at least 15 minutes before the events that you compete in. Please bring your own puzzles for the events you are competing in.
First-Time Competitors: All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. There is a video here for a basic overview of the rules.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitor limit
- 140
- Number of times bookmarked
- 22
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and will close .
- Registration requirements
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Create a WCA account here if you don't have one.
If this is not your first competition, associate your WCA ID to your WCA account here.
Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 140 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $30 (Canadian Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 50% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Any spectator can attend for free.
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Registration is accepted in the order paid. Payment must be made for your registration to be considered complete.⚠️
Most visitors will arrive in Red Deer via the QE2 Highway.
Take the 32 Street exit, then turn right (South) onto Donald Blvd. From there, you can either turn left immediately onto College Circle to reach Parking Lot 5 and the east side of Lot 1, or continue straight on Donald Blvd and take the next left to access the west side of Lot 1. The recommended parking areas are Lot 5 and Lot 1 on both sides.
On the map below, you can see the suggested route as well as a red star marking the closest doors to the venue. 
Time limit
If you reach the time limit during your solve, the judge will stop you and your result will be DNF (see Regulation A1a4).
Cutoff
The result to beat to proceed to the second phase of a cutoff round (see Regulation 9g).
Format
The format describes how to determine the ranking of competitors based on their results. The list of allowed formats per event is described in Regulation 9b. See Regulation 9f for a description of each format.