Kentucky Championship 2026

Results

Podiums All By Person

Scrambles

Date
City: Highland Heights, Kentucky, United States
Venue: NKU Student Union
Address: 20 Kenton Dr, Highland Heights, KY 41076
Details: Student Union Ballroom
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Evan Brown, Garrett Hadaway, Glenn Koster, Harsha Paladugu, Javier Gonzalez-Napoleoni, and Midwest Cubing Association
WCA Delegates: Evan Brown, Felix J. Santiago Melendez, Garrett Hadaway, Glenn Koster, and Javier Gonzalez-Napoleoni

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Information

Only competitors from Kentucky are eligible for the title of Kentucky Champion.

This competition is supported by the Midwest Cubing Association.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 81

Registration period: Online registration opened and closed .
Registration requirements: This competition is over, click here to display the registration requirements it used.

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Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 150 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $65 (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 75% 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.
On the spot registrations will be accepted if there are remaining spots available, with a base registration fee of $65 (United States Dollar).
Any spectator can attend for free.
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Nolan Wood won with an average of 6.26 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Luke Griesser finished second (6.38) and Jack Pfeifer finished third (6.66).

Event	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Nolan Wood	5.64	6.26	United States	5.64	6.90	5.83	6.05	17.09
2x2x2 Cube	Sujan Feist	0.90	1.06	United States	1.44	0.92	0.90	1.17	1.09
4x4x4 Cube	Jack Pfeifer	25.93	27.13	United States	25.93	27.92	29.93	26.74	26.74
5x5x5 Cube	Jack Pfeifer	43.94	46.47	United States	43.94	48.66	45.99	47.63	45.78
6x6x6 Cube	Jack Pfeifer	1:11.92	1:16.08	United States	1:20.56	1:15.76	1:11.92
7x7x7 Cube	Jack Pfeifer	1:45.42	1:53.06	United States	1:45.42	1:52.58	2:01.19
3x3x3 One-Handed	Nolan Wood	9.59	10.64	United States	10.60	16.23	9.59	10.71	10.61
Clock	Roland Ababat	3.28	4.16	United States	3.81	3.28	4.36	9.23	4.30
Megaminx	Lucy Grace Bryson	32.67	34.07	United States	32.67	35.47	38.84	33.45	33.29
Pyraminx	Harsha Paladugu	1.62	1.88	United States	2.33	1.69	1.62	3.96	1.62
Skewb	Milan Vincent Andric	2.49	3.17	United States	2.49	2.88	4.64	2.85	3.77
Square-1	Justin Poole	6.04	7.46	United States	6.04	7.76	7.05	7.56	8.42

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 made by popular YouTuber CubeHead also gives a fun overview of the rules.

In addition, please read this document before coming to the competition.
This document is also useful: Competing, Judging, and Running Tutorial

Finally, please be familiar with how to judge at a cubing competition. All competitors will be required to judge in at least one of the events they are competing in. This video gives a basic overview of how to judge, and does include more up-to-date information.

For All Competitors

Before you arrive, you will recieve an email with competition information including your groups for the competition. This could be displayed in one of two ways, either as a pdf or as a website link to competitiongroups.com.
If you recieve a pdf, it will contain multiple competitor cards. Find the card with your name on it, and it will contain personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event, along with judging/scrambling assignments. Every competitor is expected to help out during the event(s) they are registered for. The card will look similar to the following:

If you recieve a website link to competitiongroups.com, click on the link (or head to the Groups tab on this website) and login to your WCA account. Then, find the competition and scroll to your name. Your list of groups will look similar to 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.

Volunteer Applications Link

We will be accepting volunteers to help ensure this competition runs smoothly. You will get lunch, registration fees refunded, and a volunteer shirt.

T-shirts and hoodies will be available for purchase at the competition!

We will be holding a costume contest on Saturday after 3x3 Round 1.

TheCubicle will provide gift codes to the top 3 best costumes!

Wearing a costume is not required, but feel free to join along and have fun with us on Halloween by wearing your best costume!

The blue arrow points to the student union, and the red arrow to the parking garage on Kenton Drive.

The maximum daily parking rate s $12.00. Please see here for more information on parking.

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.

Advancement Condition

The number of competitors shown as advancing to the next round is the planned maximum. The actual number may be lower if there are fewer competitors than expected, or if there are ties at the boundary.