Evanston Qualifier 2025
- Date
- May 16 - 18, 2025
- City
- Evanston, Illinois, United States
- Venue
Technological Institute, Northwestern University
- Address
- 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208
- Details
Tech M345
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Draco Tong and Midwest Cubing Association
- WCA Delegates
- Abhimanyu Singhal (अभिमन्यु सिंघल), Carter Kucala, Draco Tong, and Luke Selle
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
3x3 will not be held at this competition!
This competition provides one last chance to set qualifying times for the WCA World Championship in July. Please read all tabs before registering.
A music festival (Dillo Day) will take place at Northwestern on Saturday. Parking and traffic may be worse than usual, particularly during and after lunch, so please plan accordingly. If you have not been to Northwestern before, allow at least 15 extra minutes to locate the venue.
This competition is supported by the Midwest Cubing Association.

- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 29
- 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 32 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $50 (United States Dollar).
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 .
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.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Carter Kucala won with a single solve of 3:09.97 in the 4x4x4 Blindfolded event. Brayden Thompson finished second (3:14.86) and Thomas Reinke finished third (3:47.63).
4x4x4 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kate Grahame | 24.23 | 27.85 | United States | 26.91 | 32.64 | 27.01 | 29.63 | 24.23 | |||
| 2 | Brian Johnson | 25.54 | 28.59 | United States | 29.72 | 26.39 | 25.54 | 29.67 | DNF | |||
| 3 | Carter Thomas | 28.01 | 31.75 | United States | 28.01 | 30.69 | 31.81 | 32.75 | DNF | |||
5x5x5 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kate Grahame | 47.84 | 51.40 | United States | 47.84 | 49.78 | 53.26 | 51.16 | 56.42 | |||
| 2 | Brian Johnson | 50.20 | 54.13 | United States | 54.32 | 50.20 | 55.71 | 52.37 | 55.98 | |||
| 3 | Carter Kucala | 55.49 | 58.08 | United States | 1:03.38 | 59.95 | 55.49 | 57.66 | 56.62 | |||
6x6x6 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kate Grahame | 1:26.62 | 1:28.59 | United States | 1:29.46 | 1:29.68 | 1:26.62 | |||||
| 2 | Carter Thomas | 1:28.28 | 1:36.02 | United States | 1:47.53 | 1:28.28 | 1:32.25 | |||||
| 3 | Carter Kucala | 1:41.50 | 1:45.44 | United States | 1:51.85 | 1:42.97 | 1:41.50 | |||||
7x7x7 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kate Grahame | 2:01.78 | 2:05.13 | United States | 2:01.78 | 2:08.83 | 2:04.77 | |||||
| 2 | Carter Thomas | 2:12.64 | 2:19.58 | United States | 2:12.64 | 2:23.72 | 2:22.37 | |||||
| 3 | Lucas Lippman-Bruno | 2:37.60 | 2:39.77 | United States | 2:37.82 | 2:43.90 | 2:37.60 | |||||
3x3x3 Blindfolded
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brayden Thompson | 18.84 | 20.31 | United States | 22.02 | 18.84 | 20.07 | |||||
| 2 | Carter Kucala | 30.02 | DNF | United States | DNF | 30.02 | DNF | |||||
| 3 | Thomas Reinke | 32.94 | DNF | United States | 32.94 | 36.12 | DNF | |||||
3x3x3 Fewest Moves
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brian Johnson | 22 | 24.67 | United States | 24 | 22 | 28 | |||||
| 2 | Abhimanyu Singhal (अभिमन्यु सिंघल) | 26 | 31.00 | United States | 26 | 29 | 38 | |||||
| 3 | Jacob Turrubiartes | 30 | 32.00 | United States | 32 | 34 | 30 | |||||
3x3x3 One-Handed
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brian Johnson | 10.31 | 11.07 | United States | 11.40 | 10.61 | 10.31 | 13.14 | 11.21 | |||
| 2 | Carter Kucala | 10.35 | 13.48 | United States | 16.94 | 10.35 | 10.89 | 13.48 | 16.07 | |||
| 3 | Kate Grahame | 12.95 | 15.87 | United States | 12.95 | 13.72 | 16.73 | 17.17 | DNF | |||
Clock
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carter Thomas | 2.40 | 4.03 | United States | 2.78 | 3.56 | DNF | 2.40 | 5.76 | |||
| 2 | Zachary Cribb | 3.15 | 4.06 | United States | DNF | 5.35 | 3.47 | 3.36 | 3.15 | |||
| 3 | Brayden Thompson | 3.91 | 4.58 | United States | 3.91 | 4.68 | 4.93 | DNF | 4.14 | |||
Square-1
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brian Johnson | 4.10 | 6.05 | United States | 4.10 | 9.51 | 6.65 | 5.85 | 5.65 | |||
| 2 | Carter Kucala | 7.14 | 8.81 | United States | 8.33 | 10.08 | 25.66 | 7.14 | 8.02 | |||
| 3 | Lucas Lippman-Bruno | 7.30 | 9.97 | United States | 9.39 | 15.14 | 7.30 | 9.23 | 11.28 | |||
4x4x4 Blindfolded
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carter Kucala | 3:09.97 | DNF | United States | DNF | 3:09.97 | DNF | |||||
| 2 | Brayden Thompson | 3:14.86 | DNF | United States | DNF | DNF | 3:14.86 | |||||
| 3 | Thomas Reinke | 3:47.63 | 4:13.59 | United States | 3:47.63 | 4:17.99 | 4:35.15 | |||||
5x5x5 Blindfolded
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carter Kucala | 8:10.87 | DNF | United States | 8:10.87 | 9:11.42 | DNF | |||||
| 2 | Thomas Reinke | 8:49.91 | DNF | United States | DNF | DNF | 8:49.91 | |||||
| 3 | Kate Grahame | 21:59.00 | DNF | United States | 21:59.00 | DNS | DNS | |||||
3x3x3 Multi-Blind
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brayden Thompson | 18/21 53:31 | United States | 18/21 53:31 | ||||||||
| 2 | Thomas Reinke | 24/34 1:00:00 | United States | 24/34 1:00:00 | ||||||||
| 3 | Carter Kucala | 25/36 1:00:00 | United States | 25/36 1:00:00 | ||||||||