Cardinal Country KY Cubing 2026

Date: Jul 11, 2026
City: Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Venue: Sawyer Hayes Community Center
Address: 2201 Lakeland Rd, Louisville KY 40241
Details: Main Room
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Javier Gonzalez-Napoleoni and Midwest Cubing Association
WCA Delegates: Garrett Hadaway, Glenn Koster, and Javier Gonzalez-Napoleoni

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Information

Cardinal Country KY Cubing 2026 is supported by the Midwest Cubing Association

Cardinal Country KY Cubing 2026 will be done in a stationary format, this format will be explained before the competition starts, and during the newcomer tutorial.

Events
Main event

Competitor limit: 100

Number of times bookmarked: 28

Registration period: Online registration opened and will close .
Registration requirements: 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 100 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $30 (United States Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 90% 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.

ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING

For First-Time Competitors

All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. This video gives a basic overview of the rules. Note that this video is fairly old and some information may be outdated.

In addition, please read this document before coming to the competition.
This document is also useful: Competing, Judging, and Running Tutorial

Finally, please be familiar with how to judge at a cubing competition. All competitors will be required to judge in at least one of the events they are competing in. This video gives a basic overview of how to judge, and does include more up-to-date information.

For All Competitors

When you arrive, you will receive a card with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event. In addition, you will also have judging/scrambling assignments on your card. Every competitor is expected to help out during the event(s) they are registered for. The card will look like the following:

If you do not arrive to help during your scheduled event, and there are not enough staff members, we reserve the right to disqualify you from competing.

TBA

We will be accepting 8 dedicated volunteer members for this competition.
Volunteer Benefits will include: Free Lunch, Registration Reimbursement

The volunteer application can be found (insert link here).

TBD

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.