Davis Winter 2026


Date
Feb 7, 2026
City
Davis, California, United States
Venue

California Hall at UC Davis

Address
205 California Ave, Davis, CA 95616
Details

California Hall

Contact
Organization team
Organizers
Daniel Dinh, Davis Cube Club, Elias Guzman, Hamza Hafeez, Jacob Marinas, Naomi Solnick, Rashad Kadado (رشاد قدادو), and West Coast Cubing LLC Treasurer
WCA Delegates
Chris Martin, Hamza Hafeez, Jacob Vincent Vicente Mangosing, Jason Ostdiek, Michael Larsen, and Mitchell Lane
Download all the competition's details as PDF here.
Information

Davis' Winter competition makes a return!

  • All attendees under the age of 18 are required to be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
  • Competition attendees may appear on livestream and media.
  • If we run ahead of schedule, we will start first round events no earlier than 20 minutes.
  • Competitors may not compete in an event if they miss last call for that event. In general, last call is a few minutes after the last group is called.

This competition is organized in partnership with West Coast Cubing and Speedcubeshop

Events
Main event
Competitors
93
Registration period

Online registration opened and closed .

Registration requirements
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 115 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 100% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
We encourage everyone to register for the events they want to compete in via your online registration, however you may add events to your registration up until the event has started.
On the spot registrations will be accepted if there are remaining spots available, with a base registration fee of $35 (United States Dollar).
Any spectator can attend for free.

Payment

Upon registering, you will receive an email with the subject "Registration Pending: Davis Winter 2026". However, your registration is not complete until you have paid the registration fee. Contact the organizational team if you encounter an issue.

Registration Refunds

If you can no longer make the competition, you may request a full refund by contacting the organizational team before Thursday, January 29, 2026 at 11:00 PM.

Free Registration for UC Davis Students

If you're a UC Davis student that has not competed before at UC Davis, please mention your student status in the registration comments and email organizer Hamza Hafeez (hhafeez@worldcubeassociation.org) with a photo of your UC Davis student ID. Please do not enter any payment information; we will manually approve your registration without payment. Returning student competitors will be expected to help out throughout the competition and will be assigned staffing tasks. If you are unable to staff please contact the organizational team.

Staff Signup Information

If you are interested in staffing, you must fill out the staff interest form. For more information, see the "Staffing" tab. Note that filling out this form does not guarantee a spot on staff.

Highlights
Click here to display the highlights of the competition.

Micah Yeo won with an average of 6.92 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Paul Mahvi finished second (8.12) and Matthias Tam finished third (8.67).

3x3x3 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Micah Yeo 6.53 6.92 United States 6.777.246.756.539.59
2 Paul Mahvi 6.76 8.12 United States 7.266.769.089.098.03
3 Matthias Tam 7.15 8.67 United States 7.159.318.668.039.38

2x2x2 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Benjamin Schaham 0.83 1.65 United States 2.080.831.491.392.48
2 Isaac Modrow 0.90 1.82 United States 1.790.901.652.033.07
3 Matt Mao 0.92 1.84 China 2.380.921.901.592.03

5x5x5 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Paul Mahvi 45.63 55.03 United States 53.591:01.4745.631:02.1050.04
2 Brandon Lugtu 55.06 57.05 United States 56.7757.1657.3757.2155.06
3 Hana Nakano 56.87 1:02.75 United States 1:02.391:05.951:01.9756.871:03.90

3x3x3 One-Handed

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Micah Yeo 9.81 12.13 United States 12.449.8112.8512.3711.59
2 Matt Mao 12.87 13.82 China 18.4813.7512.9712.8714.73
3 Hamza Hafeez 12.57 15.16 United States 14.0315.4418.6812.5716.02

Megaminx

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Varenya Jyotiraditya 33.18 38.23 United States 39.8442.3837.7133.1837.15
2 Matt Mao 41.20 44.87 China 46.4347.7045.6542.5441.20
3 Eli Valera 42.25 45.72 United States 42.2542.9046.5954.1047.67
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