Ohio State Mental Madness 2026

Date: Mar 20, 2026
City: Columbus, Ohio, United States
Venue: Ohio Union, The Ohio State University
Address: 1739 N. High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43210
Details: First Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Carson Miller, Cubing Frontiers LLC, Jack Bohning, Keenan Darkins, and The Rubik's Cube Club at Ohio State
WCA Delegates: Braden Richards and Evan Brown

: Download all the competition's details as PDF here.

Information

This competition only features 3x3x3 Fewest Moves

As a result, this competition is not recommended for those looking for a typical competition experience. However, new competitors are still welcome to sign up :)
Please consider instead any of the many other competitions happening in Ohio.

All competitors who attend will receive a special "I Survived Ohio State Mental Madness 2026" pen.

Unofficial Event Info
This competition will also feature an unofficial Linear FMC Head-to-Head Bracket. More information and the sign-up link can be found on the Unofficial Event tab.

Events
Main event

Competitor limit: 40

Number of times bookmarked: 20

Registration period: Online registration opened and will close .
Registration requirements: 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 $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 .
On the spot registrations will be accepted if there are remaining spots available, with a base registration fee of $15 (United States Dollar).
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 2 guests.

Ohio State University students and alumni will be able to compete in this competition for free. If you are attending or graduated from The Ohio State University, register for the competition as normal and pay the full registration fee to be accepted. Your registration will not be accepted if the full fee is not paid. Once accepted, please contact the Organizers at ohiostatecubeclub@gmail.com with a picture of your BuckID or some other valid proof of current or previous attendance. Refunds will be sent out immediately following the competition date, and attending the competition is required to receive the refund. You will not receive a refund if you sign up and then no-show.

Link to live results on WCA Live will be released closer to the competition date.

This competition will feature an unofficial head-to-head Linear FMC Battle Royale, where competitors will face each other on the same scramble using an interval timer, performing 1 move at a time until 50% of the competitors have solved the cube or the timer runs out. This process will repeat until a podium is declared. More information can be found in the Rules section below

Note: This event and its results will not be uploaded to CubingContests or any other unofficial event website. This is a novel idea we are testing at this competition, and results will be posted to this website tab after the competition has concluded.

Interest Form

Rules:

Each competitors will start the round receiving a scrambled cube under a cube cover.
All competitors will lift the covers at the same time and a timer will start.
The timer will count up to 3 minutes and will beep at every 3 second interval.
On every beep, competitors must make a move.
- Competitors can choose not to do a move for a beep but it will still count towards their overall time/movecount, and they have to wait for the next beep to do their next move.
Competitors will continue this process making one move every 3 seconds.
After 50% of the competitors have solved the cube or the timer reaches 3 minutes, the round ends and all competitors who have not solved their cube are eliminated.
- This 50% is subject to change based on time constraints.
This process then restarts until only 1 person remains
We may run this event several times as 1 round will likely take a lot shorter than the 45 minute time allotted.

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.