Georgetown FMC 2025

Date: Dec 21, 2025
City: Georgetown, Texas, United States
Venue: Georgetown Public Library
Address: 402 W 8th St, Georgetown, TX 78626
Details: Classroom
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Ryan Pilat and Southern Cubing LLC
WCA Delegates: Michael Conard and Tristan Patrick

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Information

THIS EVENT IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH OR SPONSORED BY THE GEORGETOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY OR THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN.

This competition is supported by Southern Cubing LLC. To learn more about cubing in the Southern USA, including other competitions, visit Southern Cubing.

Events
Main event

Competitor limit: 20

Number of times bookmarked: 6

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 20 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $5 (United States Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
Registration fees won't be refunded under any circumstance.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Any spectator can attend for free.

Materials Fee

This competition requires a $5 Materials Fee to complete your registration.
Please pay using the PayPal link here

Your registration will not be considered complete until the Materials fee is paid.

There will be no refund to no-shows or cancelled registrations.

Waitlist

If the competitor limit has been reached, the waitlist opens. You can enter the waitlist by registering and paying the fee. Competitors will be accepted from the waitlist in the order that they paid.
Competitors who do not make it off of the waitlist before the deadline (Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM CST) will receive a full refund shortly before the competition.
No more registrations will be accepted from the waitlist after Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM CST.

Please follow all instructions or else your registration may be delayed.

In 48 hours, if you do NOT see your name on the Competitor List, then please reach out to us using the contact link on the General Info tab.

If the competitor limit is filled, you may still register and pay the registration fee if you wish, but you will be placed on a waitlist. Your registration will not be accepted unless a spot opens up.

Fewest Moves Challenge, or FMC, is a quiet event where competitors are given a scramble and have one hour to find the shortest solution. The regulations for the event can be found here, but below are the most important things to remember:

You can only use up to 3 3x3s
Your solution must be 80 moves or less. Rotations are included in this 80 move limit, but are not counted in the final solution.
You can only use outer face move turns to solve the puzzle - no slice moves!
You may use wide moves to move 2 layers at once (e.g. Rw), but they must be written correctly. Rw' is valid notation, but R'w or r' will result in a DNF.
You may use rotations (x, y, z), but they must be written correctly - x follows R, y follows U, z follows F. Notation such as (x) or [r] is not valid.

If you are interested, we recommend giving it a try!

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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).

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.