Belmont Spring 2025
- Date
- May 24, 2025
- City
- Belmont, California, United States
- Venue
- Address
- 2675 Ralston Ave, Belmont, CA 94002
- Details
Gymnasium
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Sean Greshock and West Coast Cubing LLC Treasurer
- WCA Delegates
- Chris Martin, Mitchell Lane, Nolan Yiu, and Wilson Li (李超雄)
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition is organized in partnership with West Coast Cubing and Speedcubeshop.
- West Coast Cubing LLC presents another Bay Area Speedcubin' competition!
- If we run ahead of schedule, we will start first round events no earlier than 20 minutes, so please show up at least 20 minutes before your first event.
- We will be assigning judging assignments to competitors for the group before or after their own competing groups. Please check your personal competitor cards when we assign them a few days before the competition date for relevant info.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 143
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- Registration requirements
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This competition is over, click here to display the registration requirements it used.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 159 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $30 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 100% 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 by contacting the organization team.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 2 guests.
Adding/Dropping Events
- Competitors may request by email (use the "Contact" link on the home page for this competition) to be added to more events BEFORE registration closes.
- Competitors may not add events after registration closes.
- Competitors may request by email (use the "Contact" link on the home page for this competition) to remove events from their registration. It is also acceptable to not show up for any event you do not wish to compete in, although it is not encouraged.
- Competitors may also adjust their registration details by themselves, without prior approval until the registration deadline
Waitlist: PLEASE CHECK THE COMPETITOR TAB ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE TO SEE HOW MANY COMPETITORS HAVE BEEN APPROVED
If Registration fills up, we will place competitors on a waitlist. In order to get on the waitlist, you must register and pay. You are not on the waitlist until you pay the registration fee. If you do not make it off of the waitlist, you will be fully refunded. If a competitor drops out, the first person on the waitlist will replace them. People can be replaced up until the registration close date indicated above
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Zerui Cheng won with an average of 6.80 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Trevor Mendelson finished second (7.91) and Amahl Weinstein Agrawal finished third (8.31).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Zerui Cheng | 6.44 | 6.80 | United States | 7.05 | 6.74 | 6.44 | 6.60 | 9.02 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Ian Cantius Fredric | 1.19 | 1.82 | India | 1.87 | 1.61 | 3.72 | 1.97 | 1.19 | |||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Nolan Yiu | 23.12 | DNF | United States | 26.64 | 23.12 | DNF | |||||
| Clock | Alex Moscibroda | 2.71 | NR | 3.27 | Switzerland | 5.92 | 2.85 | 2.71 | 3.51 | 3.45 | ||
| Pyraminx | Hrishikesh Kakati | 1.08 | 2.05 | India | 2.88 | 2.13 | 2.18 | 1.83 | 1.08 | |||
| Skewb | Sid Shivnath | 2.10 | 2.74 | United States | 2.15 | 3.40 | 2.10 | 3.59 | 2.68 | |||
By car: Parking is available in the Ralston Middle School parking lot.
By public transportation: Public transportation via Caltrain and SamTrans is available to the venue.
By plane: Competitors can arrive at San Francisco International Airport or San Jose Mineta International Airport.
Food: Many food options are available at Carlmont Shopping Center or Downtown Belmont.
For those of you new to cubing, WELCOME!
We wanted to let you know this event is perfectly fine for cubers of any age and experience. We just ask you know a couple things before coming to compete...
First, please be familiar with the WCA Regulations, found here:
https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/
This video will explain most of what any cuber competing for the first time will need to know. However, it is still the competitors responsibility to be familiar with the full set of regulations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPL3eV-A0ww
If you have any questions after watching this video, we will be having a new competitor tutorial right before 3x3. That would be the perfect time to ask those questions and clear up any confusion.
Head over to the registration tab, if you are ready to sign-up for your first competiton! Click register, and fill out the information that it asks for. This will help you get set up into the WCA's system and one step closer to your first official solve!
Q&A:
Q: Do I use my own cube to compete?
A: YES! You are responsible for your own hardware in order to compete.
Q: What is the normal age of competitors at these events?
A: All ages are welcome, but in general competitors are between 10 and 20 years old. Don't let this stop you though, everyone can and should cube!
Q: What is the competition like?
A; Competitions are a bunch of tables where nerds like us get to sit and discuss our favorite thing, Cubes! Of course in addition there is competing, which will occupy one side of the competition hall, where you will see lots of timers flickering with contestants new personal bests. Most competitions have a break for lunch, and the competing is split up into groups, as to better organize who competes when. (Check the Groups tab and listen at the competition for more info on this.)
Q: How do I find results?
A: All results are posted on the WCA page a couple of days after the competition finishes. However, for the day of competing, search "WCA Live" (https://live.worldcubeassociation.org) to find information about current events. This is also where you will find information about 2nd and 3rd rounds of events.
Q: Why am I not on the registration list yet?
A: Make sure you pay your registration fee in order to be automatically placed on the registered list, which will also guarantee you a spot in the competition. If payment may be any issue, or you are not sure if you can attend, use the contact button to talk to us, and see if we can work out another payment strategy, or have you pay on arrival at the compeition. No matter what you situation may be however, please register online. It is much easier for us to have you register now and pay later, then to have to input information at another time.
Q: Are there age divisions?
A: Nope! All cometitors compete in the same group.
Q: Can I have fun at this event?
A: HECK YES! Cubing is amazing, and we sincerely hope you enjoy the competition!
Groups will be published closer to the competition date.
Want to stay connected with the West Coast community? Join the West Coast Cubing Community Discord Server! Speak with other competitors from NorCal, SoCal, Nevada, Hawaii, and Tijuana and keep in touch with fellow competitors and meet new ones! Find out about competition discussion as it happens in real time, and even announcements for competitions before registration opens!
Click here to be directly taken to the Discord Server!
We also have a NorCal Cubing Community Facebook group!
The competitor limit of 150 has been reached! If you have registered and paid the registration fee, but your name is not on the approved competitors list, you are on the waitlist. The waitlist is ordered based on the time your registration fee was received.
To check your position on the waitlist, please visit the "Register" tab. The deadline to move off the waitlist is May 16, 2025, at 11:59 P.M. PDT. If you do not make it off the waitlist by the deadline, your registration fee will be fully refunded.
This competition will be sponsored by SpeedCubeShop! They will be providing gift-card prizes for this competition. They will not be selling puzzles onsite.
Use code "WCC" for 5% off all orders at SpeedCubeShop?
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).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced (see Regulation A1a2).
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.