Long Beach Fantastic Memory Challenge 2025


Date
Jul 13, 2025
City
Long Beach, California, United States
Venue

T Building

Address
4901 E Carson St, Long Beach, CA 90808
Details

Multipurpose Room T1200

Contact
Organization team
Organizers
Abhimanyu Singhal (अभिमन्यु सिंघल), Nate Minkevich, and West Coast Cubing LLC Treasurer
WCA Delegates
Abhimanyu Singhal (अभिमन्यु सिंघल), Andrew French, Calvin Nielson, Nate Minkevich, and Shane Grogan
Download all the competition's details as PDF here.
Information

This competition has been moved to Long Beach!

This competition is recognized as an official World Cube Association competition. Therefore, all competitors are expected to be familiar with the WCA Regulations. This competition WILL NOT have most sighted events, such as 3x3x3 Cube. We recommend first-time competitors not register for this competition. For a more traditional competition experience, please check the West Coast Cubing website for a competition near you.

Current USC students can compete for free! Please indicate so in the comment field during registration and send a photo of your student ID to the organization team to waive the registration fee.

Spectators can attend for free and can come and go as they please! No registration or check-in process is needed for spectating.

This competition is organized by CubeSC, USC's Rubik's Cube Club, in partnership with West Coast Cubing and SpeedCubeShop.

Events
Main event
Competitors
32
Registration period

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 40 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $20 (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 .
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 with a base registration fee of $20 (United States Dollar).
Any spectator can attend for free.

Registration Process

  1. Wait until registration opens on April 26th at 5 PM PDT. You cannot register prior to then. You cannot register after July 4th at 5 PM PDT. No exceptions to these will be given. If deemed necessary, we may close registration early.
  2. If you have not competed before, create a WCA account here.
  3. Go to the Register link on the competition website.
  4. Fill out the events you will be competing in, any comments you may have about your registration, and press register.
  5. Pay the registration fee via Stripe on the competition website.
  6. A member of the organization team will manually accept registrations. Wait for an email confirming your registration has been accepted.

Competitors MUST pay their registration fee before being eligible for a spot in the competition, unless you are a current USC student.

USC students must submit a photo of student ID to the organization team before being eligible for a fee waiver and indicate as such in the comments during registration.

Waitlist

If the competition is full, a message will be displayed saying such on the competition website. If, after this time, you register and pay for the competition, you will be added to the competition waitlist.

If a competitor cancels their registration, the person at the top of the waitlist will be added to the competitor list.

If you are on the waitlist, you may cancel your registration (see below) at any time for a full refund.

If you are on the waitlist, you will be informed whether you have made it on the competitor list after July 4th, otherwise you will be given a full refund.

Registration Changes

If you would like to cancel your registration, email the organization team with your request and you will be refunded 90 of your registration fee. Refunds are available only until July 4th.

If you would like to edit your registered events or listed guests, you may do so on the Register page.

By registering, competitors agree to the information in the Competitor Responsibilities tab. This tab details the responsibilitIes of all competitors at this competition. Not abiding by these responsibilities can result in disqualification.

Highlights
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Abhimanyu Singhal (अभिमन्यु सिंघल) won with a mean of 27.67 moves in the 3x3x3 Fewest Moves event. Calvin Nielson finished second (31.00) and Timothy Lawrance finished third (32.67).

Event Name Best Average Representing Solves
6x6x6 Cube Jaxon Foster 1:48.96 1:54.91 Australia 1:59.801:55.961:48.96
3x3x3 Blindfolded Calix Tang 16.83 DNF United States DNF19.2416.83
3x3x3 Fewest Moves Abhimanyu Singhal (अभिमन्यु सिंघल) 27 27.67 United States 282728
3x3x3 One-Handed Calix Tang 9.66 12.36 United States 12.3512.369.6612.3714.11
4x4x4 Blindfolded Graham Siggins 1:36.34 DNF United States 1:48.10DNF1:36.34
5x5x5 Blindfolded Graham Siggins 3:17.70 DNF United States 3:17.70DNFDNF
3x3x3 Multi-Blind Graham Siggins 54/65 1:00:00 United States 54/65 1:00:00

Parking

Parking is available throughout campus to guests in Lots H, M, O, and P, as well as in Parking Structure PS1. It is ideal to park in Parking Structure PS1 due to proximity to the venue. Parking on nearby residential streets for is prohibited for non-residents and it is strongly recommended that you purchase a one-day parking permit. Parking costs $2 per day and can be paid by scanning QR codes placed throughout the lots or by texting "PAY" to 77447 to receive a link for purchasing a permit. One-day parking permits for guests are only valid in student parking spaces and not those marked for staff.

Public Transit

Long Beach Transit Bus Routes 93, 101, 103, and 112 have stops adjacent to the Long Beach City College Liberal Arts Campus. All lines also run adjacent to the Metro A (Blue) Line, with Routes 93 and 112 running adjacent to the Downtown Long Beach stop, the Routes 101 and 103 running adjacent to the Willow St. stop.

Food

There are no food options available on campus on weekends, but there are multiple food options within a short walking or driving distance, most notable of which being Long Beach Exchange.

ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING.

For this competition, all competitors are required to assist in running the competition due to the smaller scale. Failure to make oneself available to do so may result in disqualification.

Before the competition, you will receive a card/nametag with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event in an email.

This competition will be sponsored by SpeedCubeShop! They will be providing gift-card prizes for this competition. They will not be selling puzzles on-site.

Want to stay connected with the West Coast community? Join the West Coast Cubing Community Discord Server! Speak with other competitors from NorCal, SoCal, Nevada, Hawaii, and Tijuana and keep in touch with fellow competitors and meet new ones! Find out about competition discussion as it happens in real time, and even announcements for competitions before registration opens!

Click here to be directly taken to the Discord Server!

We also have our SoCal Cubing Facebook Group, WCA Forum thread for California, and the West Coast Cubing website.

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).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced (see Regulation A1a2).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced across rounds (see Guideline A1a2++).

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.

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