Illini Cubers Spring 2026
- Date
- May 1, 2026
- City
- Urbana, Illinois, United States
- Venue
Illini Union
- Address
- 1401 W Green St
- Details
Room 210
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Amey Gaba, Ben Zhao, and Midwest Cubing Association
- WCA Delegate
- Kit Clement
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
Join the Illini Cubers Registered Student Organization at the University of Illinois where we will hold three official rounds of 3x3x3 during a weekly meeting.
Any minors must be accomanpied by a guardian while in the venue.
This competition is supported by the Midwest Cubing Association.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitor limit
- 32
- Number of times bookmarked
- 6
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- 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 32 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 95% of your registration fee.
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.
By registering for this competition, you agree to the responsibilities outlined in the Competitor Responsibilities tab.
Members of the Illini Cubers RSO at UIUC may register without paying the registration fee. You must mention in your registration comment that you are a member so we can know to verify your membership.
ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING.
FOR FIRST-TIME COMPETITORS:
There are multiple things a first-timer must know before competing. All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. There is a video here for the basic overview of the rules.
In addition, please read this document before coming to the competition to learn about the procedures for judging.
ALL COMPETITORS:
Because this is a small competition, we will create groups in advance but they will not be given out on nametags. You will be able to view your group assignment online in advance, and we will also call up all names with groups. All competitors are expected to help at this competition as well. You will be assgined some task in the group immediately after you compete, or in the first group if you are competing last. If you do not arrive to help during your scheduled event, and there are not enough judges/runners to run that group, we reserve the right to disqualify you from competing.
We will provide a judging tutorial upon request to any competitor right before the start of the 3x3x3 speedsolve event. This will allow anyone with questions about how to judge to be properly prepared when they are expected to help. We hope that this system will fairly divide up the judging of the competition and make the competition run smoothly for all.
This competition is planning to test the new dual round system. This allows everyone to compete in the first two rounds of our 3x3x3 event, regardless of how you place in the first round, unlike under previous formats where at most 75% of competitors can advance to future rounds. The events page may still note that there is a 75% advancement to the second round, but our plan is to allow everyone to complete two 3x3x3 averages.
Dual rounds require us to use the new WCA integrated scoring system as opposed to WCA Live. You can track the results in this new system at the link here: https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/competitions/IlliniCubersSpring2026/live
Because this is a new feature and we are running this system as a test for the software team, there is some chance that we will be unable to run the dual round as intended. In case of technical difficulties, two normal rounds will take place, with an advancement criteria for the second round being top 75%. All competitors will be informed as soon as possible if this is the case.
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.