SCU IV: Don't Be Blinded by the Solstice 2026


Date
Jun 20, 2026
City
Santa Clara, California, United States
Venue

Santa Clara University

Address
500 El Camino Real Santa Clara, CA 95053
Details

Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation (SCDI Building, 3rd Floor, Room 3302).

Contact
Organization team
Organizers
Abhimanyu Singhal (अभिमन्यु सिंघल), Calvin Nielson, Robert Alan Marks, and West Coast Cubing LLC Treasurer
WCA Delegates
Abhimanyu Singhal (अभिमन्यु सिंघल), Anto Kam (甘浩東), Brandon Lin (林博浩), Calvin Nielson, Robert Alan Marks, and Sherry Tao (陶心仪)
Download all the competition's details as PDF here.
Information

This competition is organized in partnership with West Coast Cubing and Speedcubeshop. Note that it is taking place right before FMC World 2026, and one can register for the Santa Clara University location of FMC World 2026 for free here.

  • Current SCU students may register for a reduced fee or $3.00 by sending Professor Marks (rmarks@scu.edu) an email from their @scu.edu account prior to registering with this site.
  • If we run ahead of schedule, we will start first round events no more than 20 minutes early, so please show up at least 20 minutes before your first event.
Events
Competitors
18
Registration period

Online registration opened and closed .

Registration requirements
This competition is over, click here to display the registration requirements it used.
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 20 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $10 (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 .
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until by contacting the organization team.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.


Lunch is NOT included with the registration fee for this competition. Competitors will be given the option to purchase a group lunch for an additional fee. Arrangements will be made after registration closes, but before the competition date.

All competitors (of any age) must complete and sign Santa Clara University's release of liability form.
One form must be submitted for each competitor.
The form can be submitted by:
(1) Preferred: emailing a scanned in and signed copy to Robert Marks (rmarks@scu.edu) as soon as possible. (You can even submit it before registration opens.)
(2) Bringing a signed paper copy of the form to the competition.
(3) If you forget, blank forms will be available at the competition, but they must be completed before you can participate in the competition.
If you are a minor (under age 18), your parent or legal guardian must complete the form.
If you are a minor, you must be accompanied by an adult at the competition.

Adding/Dropping Events

-When registering, please carefully select the events you intend to compete in; i.e., don't simply select all of them unless that is your intention. Depending on how many competitors there are for each event, we may be able to accept additional competitors for certain events.
- Competitors may update their registration BEFORE registration closes by contacting the organization team. It is also acceptable to not show up for any event you do not wish to compete in, although it is not encouraged.
- Competitors may not add events after registration closes.

Waitlist: PLEASE CHECK THE COMPETITOR TAB ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE TO SEE HOW MANY COMPETITORS HAVE BEEN APPROVED

If Registration fills up, we will place competitors on a waitlist. In order to get on the waitlist, you must register and pay. You are not on the waitlist until you pay the registration fee. If you do not make it off of the waitlist, you will be fully refunded. If a competitor drops out, the first person on the waitlist will replace them. People can be replaced up until the registration close date indicated above.

In a catastrophic event where the competition will be compromised and cancelled, a full refund shall be offered to all competitors, in contrast to the typical 75% registration refunds.

3x3x3 Blindfolded

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Anto Kam (甘浩東) 15.48 DNF Hong Kong, China 16.40DNFDNF22.0615.48
2 Brandon Lin (林博浩) 22.52 DNF United States 22.52DNF27.37DNFDNF
3 Naomi Solnick 25.00 DNF United States 32.7325.0032.30DNFDNF

4x4x4 Blindfolded

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Brandon Lin (林博浩) 3:18.06 DNF United States DNFDNF3:18.06
2 Avi Kumar Agarwal 5:12.92 DNF United States 5:12.926:35.00DNF
3 Oscar Shapiama 8:43.19 8:55.68 Peru 8:57.828:43.199:06.02

5x5x5 Blindfolded

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Brandon Lin (林博浩) 7:09.71 DNF United States DNF7:09.718:10.34
2 Eric Wu (吴典皓) 22:34.00 DNF United States 22:34.00DNFDNF
3 Abhimanyu Singhal (अभिमन्यु सिंघल) 23:14.00 DNF United States DNFDNF23:14.00

3x3x3 Multi-Blind

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Naomi Solnick 26/29 54:36 United States 26/29 54:36
2 Avi Kumar Agarwal 11/13 55:52 United States 11/13 55:52
3 Bowen Deng (邓博文) 9/9 58:03 China 9/9 58:03
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