Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026
- Date
- Jul 2 - 5, 2026
- City
- Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
- Venue
Raleigh Convention Center
- Address
- 500 S Salisbury St
- Details
Hall B
- Website
- Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026 website
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Cady Shields, Carter Kucala, CubingUSA Nationals Organization Team, CubingUSA Treasurer, David Krasne, Jackson Warley, Jacob Ambrose, James Hildreth, Katie Hull, Kevin Hays, Matthew Dickman, Michael S. Lander, Michael Young, Roman Wofford, Rubén López de Juan, Shelley Chang, Stephen Griggs, Tim Reynolds, Vincent Sheu, Walker Welch, Zachary Garber, and Zeke Mackay
- WCA Delegates
- Cady Shields, Carter Kucala, David Krasne, Jacob Ambrose, Katie Hull, Matthew Dickman, Michael S. Lander, Michael Young, Roman Wofford, Shelley Chang, Stephen Griggs, Tim Reynolds, Walker Welch, Zachary Garber, and Zeke Mackay
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- Information
We are pleased to announce that the 2026 North American Championship will take place in Raleigh, North Carolina! This competition will serve as both the US National Championship and the North American Championship.
Please note that all spectators must have a spectator ticket. Competitors will receive one free spectator ticket as part of their registration. Additional tickets can be purchased on Ticketor; limited quantities are available so make sure to purchase your spectator tickets early!
All events have qualifying times; please refer to the CubingUSA site for full details. Note that the qualifying times currently listed on the events tab are the early qualifying times; these will be updated after January 14 to reflect the final qualifying times.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitor limit
- 1200
- Number of times bookmarked
- 224
- 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 1200 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $150 (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 50% 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.
Spectators can attend paying an entry fee of $25 (United States Dollar).
Competitors may only register for events that they are already qualified for.
All competitors automatically receive one spectator ticket. Additional tickets can be purchased on Ticketor; limited quantities are available so make sure to purchase your spectator tickets early!
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).
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.
Qualification
Qualification times must be set in other WCA competitions in order to compete. Qualification times must be set on or before May 19, 2026.