Gobbler Cube Day Winter at VT 2026
- Date
- Feb 21, 2026
- City
- Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
- Venue
- Address
- 150 Kent St, Blacksburg, VA 24060
- Details
Owens Hall Ballroom
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Joshua Gao, Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing, and Siddharth Suresh
- WCA Delegates
- Andrew Clippinger, Benjamin Christie, Pierce Tickle, and Siddharth Suresh
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
Check out the VT Rubik's Cube Club Here: https://gobblerconnect.vt.edu/organization/cubing
- Events
- Main event
- Competitor limit
- 80
- Number of times bookmarked
- 34
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and will close .
- Registration requirements
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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 80 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 90% 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.
Registration is free for VT students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Please read the "Competitor Information" tab before registering.
Competitors are limited to 1 guest
Parking:
Parking Information
Parking Locations
Notice that parking is free on weekends anywhere that is orange in this pdf. The lots labled Squires Lot F/S/V and Architecture Annex/Media Lots (top righ hand corner) are the closest lots to the venue. Metered parking spaces are also available for short–term visitors on–campus. Visitors with parking permits may not park free at parking meters.
Hotels:
There are many hotels located around Virginia Tech and are very closeby.
Food:
There are many places for dining during lunch inside the venue (Owens dining hall) and around the town of Blacksburg and Christiansburg.
ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING
For First-Time Competitors
All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. This video gives a basic overview of the rules. In addition, please read this document before coming to the competition.
For All Competitors
When you arrive, you will receive a card with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event. In addition, you may also have judging/scrambling/running assignments on your card. Every competitor is expected to help out during the event(s) they are registered for. The card will look like the following:
If you do not arrive to help during your scheduled event, and there are not enough staff members, we reserve the right to disqualify you from competing.
We will be using running judges for this competition
If you are a VT Student/Staff you MUST pay the registration fee AND attend the competition to recieve your refund after the competition!
This competition is being held in the Mid-Atlantic Region (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA, VA, WV). See the regions on CubingUSA's website.
- Join the Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Discord server
- Join the Tri-State Cubing Facebook group (NJ, NY, PA)
- See the Mid-Atlantic Region Organizational Spreadsheet
- See upcoming competitions:
- in Delaware
- in Maryland
- in New Jersey
- in New York
- in Pennsylvania
- in Virginia
- in West Virginia
Groups can be found on Competition Groups - LINK WILL BE POSTED AT A LATER DATE
Live results can be found on WCA Live - LINK WILL BE POSTED AT A LATER DATE
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.