Don't DNF Davis 2026
- Date
- Feb 21, 2026
- City
- Davis, California, United States
- Venue
- Address
- 482 Hutchison Dr, Davis, CA 95616
- Details
Classroom 1218, First Floor
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Hamza Hafeez, Jacob Marinas, Naomi Solnick, and West Coast Cubing LLC Treasurer
- WCA Delegates
- Abhimanyu Singhal (अभिमन्यु सिंघल), Chris Martin, Hamza Hafeez, Jacob Vincent Vicente Mangosing, Robert Alan Marks, and Wilson Li (李超雄)
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
Davis' first ever competition featuring blindfolded events, fewest moves, and clock - Don't DNF!
This competition will be specializing in quiet events and will not have 3x3 or typical events found in traditional competitions.
New competitors are welcome — for Clock solvers, we highly encourage you to explore and take on the challenge of blindfolded and fewest moves!
- 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.
- 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
- 24
- 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 35 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $15 (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 80% 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.
Payment
Upon registering, you will receive an email with the subject "Registration Pending: Don't DNF Davis 2026". However, your registration is not complete until you have paid the registration fee. Contact the organizational team if you encounter an issue.
Waitlist
Once the competitor limit has been reached, new registrations will be added to a waitlist and sorted in the order of payment.
Waitlisted competitors will be fully refunded if new spots are not available by Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:00 PM.
You can see your position on the waitlist by checking the Waitlist Tab)Registration Refunds
If you can no longer make the competition, you may request a full refund by contacting the organizational team before Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:00 PM.
Event Changes
Competitors may add or remove events using the Register tab until Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:00 PM. It is also acceptable to not show up for any event you do not wish to compete in.
Free Registration for UC Davis Students
If you're a UC Davis student, please mention your student status in the registration comments and email organizer Hamza Hafeez (hyhafeez@ucdavis.edu) with a photo of your UC Davis student ID. Please do not enter any payment information; we will manually approve your registration without payment.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Sebastian Stone won with an average of 4.32 seconds in the Clock event. Naomi Solnick finished second (4.78) and Mason Wong finished third (5.41).