Evanston Qualifier 2026
- Date
- May 17, 2026
- 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
- Carter Thomas, Draco Tong, James Wang (王俊杰), and Sebastian Carrillo
- 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 North American Championship in July. Please read all tabs before registering. If you have not been to Northwestern before, allow at least 15 extra minutes to locate the venue.
Each competitor may register for at most 6 events.
This competition is supported by the Midwest Cubing Association.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 37
- 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 40 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 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.
Any spectator can attend for free.
Competitors may register in at most 6 events.
Current students of Northwestern University may register for free. Please see the Registration and Waitlist tab for details.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Max Walaszek won with an average of 53.43 seconds in the 5x5x5 Cube event. Brian Johnson finished second (55.68) and Lucas Lippman-Bruno finished third (56.44).
World records: Brian Johnson Square-1 2.85 (single).