Edmonton Winter 2026

Date: Jan 3, 2026
City: Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada
Venue: Strathcona Community Center
Address: 401 Festival Ln, Sherwood Park, AB T8A 5T8
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Alberta Cubers, Benjamin Ragan, Coda K. Toll, Jason Ragan, and Speedcubing Canada
WCA Delegates: Alex Mutch, Dylan Vaskevicius, Niels Nijstad, Orion Donovan, and Theodore Chow

: Download all the competition's details as PDF here.

Information

Attendance is not required for the entire competition. However, please arrive at least 15 minutes before your event's planned start time. Please bring your own puzzles for the events you are competing in.

First-Time Competitors:

All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. There is a video here for a basic overview of the rules.

Notice of Filming and Photography:

Attendees of Speedcubing Canada competitions consent to their images being used by Speedcubing Canada and its partners in marketing materials, social media and other digital platforms.

Events
Main event

Competitor limit: 150

Number of times bookmarked: 49

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 150 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $30 (Canadian Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 50% 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.

Competitors may bring up to two guests

TBD

Q. How do I register for this competition?
A. Registration for this competition opens on Saturday, November 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM MDT and will be open until Friday, December 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM MST. If this competition fills up exceptionally fast, registration might close earlier. You'll need a WCA Account to register. Once registration has opened, you can register at the register button to your left or at this link. Select the events you'll be competing in and any comments you'd like the organization team to know. After pressing Register, you'll be prompted to pay using Stripe. You must pay your registration fee to be eligible to compete. If there is still space in the competition and you do not receive an email saying your registration has been accepted within 48 hours of paying, please contact the organization team.
Q. How can I prepare for the competition day?
A. Competitors should understand the WCA Regulations before competing. For something a little more digestable, you can read the WCA Competitor Tutorial or watch this video guide. We will have a New Competitor Tutorial at the beginning of the day where you can learn and ask questions.
Q. Who should I ask if I have any questions?
A. Before the competition, you can contact the organization team with any questions with our contact form. During the competition, you can speak to a delegate. Your delegates for this competition are Alex Mutch, Dylan Vaskevicius, Kristopher de Asis, Orion Donovan and Theodore Chow.
Q. What are groups? How can I find which ones I'm in?
A. Groups are how we determine when each competitor competes. During each round, we will have several groups that will be called up in succession. When the group in which you're supposed to compete is called, please come up to the cube dropoff table and submit your solved puzzle. When the group you're judging is called, come up and find an empty station to judge. Groups will be emailed to competitors or in a tab on this website in the week leading up to the competition.
Q. Do competitors need to volunteer? How do I do that?
A. We require that all competitors volunteer as judges, runners or scramblers during the competition day. You will be assigned a group to judge, run or scramble in. We will go over judging in our New Competitor Tutorial.
Q. How old do I have to be to compete?
A. WCA Competitions are open to cubers of any age! We do not have age groups so all competitors compete with each other.
Q. What do I need to bring to the competition?
A. You'll need to bring the puzzles required for any event you'll be competing in. Most competitors like to bring other cubes to warm up with. All timing equipment will be supplied by the WCA Delegates at the competition.
Q. Where can I find results for this competition?
A. Live results will be visible on the WCA Live and will be posted on the WCA Website shortly after the competition. If it's your first competition, you'll get a WCA ID when results are posted to the WCA Website.
Q. How can I have a competition in my hometown?
A. Contact one of the delegates to see what is possible. Since there is already a reasonable number of competitions in Alberta in 2026 it might not be possible to add your hometown competition to the calender right now.

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.