Minnesota Slice 2026
- Date
- Dec 19, 2026
- City
- Eagan, Minnesota, United States
- Venue
Eagan Community Center
- Address
- 1501 Central Pkwy, Eagan, MN 55121
- Details
Oaks Banquet Room
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Midwest Cubing Association and Shain Papalotl Longbehn
- WCA Delegates
- Lisa Kucala and Walker Welch
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition is supported by the Midwest Cubing Association.
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We have local Facebook groups for our Cubing Area. Feel free to join the Minnesota Cubing Community and follow the Midwest Cubing Assocation for information and announcements on upcoming competitions.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitor limit
- 100
- Number of times bookmarked
- 14
- Registration period
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Online registration will be open from to .
- 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 100 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $30 (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.
Venue and Parking
This competition will be held at the Eagan Community Center in Eagan, Minnesota. We will be in the Oaks Banquet Room, which is down the stairs on the left when you enter the community center. An elevator is also available. There is plenty of free parking available.
Food
There are several restaurants (fast food and other) within 1-2 miles of the venue. Outside food and drink is allowed in the venue, but please help us out by throwing away your trash and cleaning up after yourself!
Hotels
There are several hotel options near in Eagan and the surrounding areas. You can find the closest hotels here.
Travel
The closest airport to the venue is the Minneapolis Airport (MSP), which is about a 15 minute drive away. Public bus routes from the airport are available, with travel time of approximately an hour. Uber and Lyft are available as well.
Minnesota Slice is an annual competition that started in 2023 with Square-1 as the main event. The name is a play on "Minnesota Nice" and a "Slice" turn. Winners will be catalogued here.
| Competition | Date | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| Minnesota Slice 2025 | Jun 15, 2025 | Brian Johnson, 6.25 avg |
| Minnesota Slice 2024 | Apr 20, 2024 | Brian Johnson, 5.72 avg |
| Minnesota Slice 2023 | Apr 15, 2023 | Brian Johnson, 7.71 avg |
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Info coming soon!
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.