DFW Cubing Summer 2026


Date
Aug 29 - 30, 2026
City
Grapevine, Texas, United States
Venue

Grapevine Convention Center

Address
1209 S Main St, Grapevine, TX 76051
Details

Concord Ballroom

Contact
Organization team
Organizers
John Wanger II, Ryan Pilat, Shreyansh Tiwari, and Southern Cubing LLC
WCA Delegates
Casey Ngo, Derek Herrera, James Wang (王俊杰), Ryan Pilat, and Thai Bui
Download all the competition's details as PDF here.
Information

Cubing returns to the Grapevine Convention Center for DFW Cubing Summer 2026!

Please note that no outside food/drink will be permitted in the venue.

This competition is supported by Southern Cubing LLC. To learn more about cubing in the Southern USA, including other competitions, visit Southern Cubing.

Events
Main event
Competitors
186
Registration period

Online registration opened and closed .

Registration requirements
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There is a competitor limit of 200 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $50 (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.

Registration is first come, first served based on when payment is received.

This competition will use tiered registration pricing, which also determines how many raffle tickets you receive:

  • Early Bird Registration – $40
    April 15, 2026 – April 22, 2026
    Includes 3 raffle tickets

  • Standard Registration – $50
    April 23, 2026 – August 15, 2026
    Includes 2 raffle tickets

  • Late Registration – $60
    August 16, 2026 – August 23, 2026
    Includes 1 raffle ticket

Registration will close on Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:59 PM CDT.

There will be no refunds for no-shows unless cancelled before the refund deadline.

If you register and later realize you cannot attend the competition, you may request a 90% refund via the contact link on the General Info tab before Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:59 PM CDT. No refunds will be granted after this deadline.

If the competitor limit has been reached, you may still register and pay the registration fee if you wish, but you will be placed on a waitlist. Competitors will be accepted from the waitlist in the order that payment was received. Competitors who do not make it off the waitlist before the deadline will receive a full refund shortly before the competition. No more registrations will be accepted from the waitlist after Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:59 PM CDT.

Please follow all instructions carefully or your registration may be delayed.

Highlights
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Ryan Pilat won with an average of 5.66 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Siddharth Reddy finished second (5.84) and Ray Bai finished third (7.26).

3x3x3 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Ryan Pilat 5.33 5.66 United States 5.595.455.339.155.93
2 Siddharth Reddy 5.54 5.84 United States 5.545.546.176.735.82
3 Ray Bai 5.97 7.26 United States 5.977.436.397.969.59

2x2x2 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Ryan Pilat 1.67 1.96 United States 2.661.812.091.671.99
2 Ayushmaan Arora 1.87 2.05 United States 2.142.701.971.872.03
3 John Wanger II 2.07 2.21 United States 2.092.112.422.072.45

4x4x4 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Ryan Pilat 23.20 25.35 United States 23.2026.9726.3724.3125.36
2 Ray Bai 21.32 26.13 United States 26.6621.3227.2728.9124.45
3 Jadon Castillo 27.07 29.09 United States 28.7727.9533.5427.0730.54

5x5x5 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Ray Bai 43.89 47.70 United States 46.9850.5549.1346.9843.89
2 Ryan Pilat 46.23 48.29 United States 50.7849.2348.4046.2347.23
3 Jadon Castillo 47.16 54.60 United States 54.6454.4554.7255.8547.16

3x3x3 One-Handed

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Ray Bai 9.20 10.57 United States 9.209.3411.3611.0211.57
2 Ryan Pilat 9.33 11.49 United States 9.7411.5018.4913.239.33
3 Tyler Gee 10.91 12.18 United States 12.6811.0812.7710.9114.33

Pyraminx

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Ryan Pilat 1.62 2.81 United States 3.601.623.412.422.61
2 Minh Tran 3.04 3.53 United States 3.043.986.013.243.36
3 AJ Le 2.64 3.58 United States 3.842.644.192.705.15

Skewb

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Joseph Hirsch 2.06 2.50 United States 2.573.032.532.392.06
2 Brendon Hatfield 2.55 3.75 United States 3.392.554.823.694.16
3 Abhinav Agarwal 4.08 4.68 United States 4.194.086.825.254.61

Square-1

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Ryan Pilat 5.33 6.17 United States 6.016.825.687.945.33
2 Alejandro Kolster Passos 6.03 8.12 Argentina 7.647.976.0313.208.75
3 Shreyansh Tiwari 9.65 10.85 India 20.559.6510.0711.8710.61
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