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SCU II: Double-Scoop of FMC 2025

Date: Aug 17, 2025
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, Rooms 3115 & 3116)
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Robert Alan Marks and West Coast Cubing LLC Treasurer
WCA Delegates: Abhimanyu Singhal (अभिमन्यु सिंघल), Calvin Nielson, Chris Martin, Jason Chang (章維祐), Nolan Yiu, and Ruby Lu (卢红)

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Information

This competition is organized in partnership with West Coast Cubing and Speedcubeshop.

Current SCU students may register for free 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 earlier than 20 minutes, so please show up at least 20 minutes before your first event.
We will be assigning judging assignments to competitors for the group before or after their own competing groups.

Events
Main event

Competitor limit: 40

Number of times bookmarked: 24

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 $24 (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 .
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.

Lunch and ice cream will be provided for all competitors per the competition schedule. Further details are provided under Travel, Parking, Food.

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

Competitors may update their registration BEFORE registration closes. 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 event will be compromised and cancelled, a full refund shall be offered to all competitors, in contrast to the typical 95% registration refunds.

By car:

Parking is available in the Main Parking structure adjacent to the Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation (SCDI) building. Parking in this garage is free on weekends, no permit is required. Should the main garage be full, other campus parking can be used for free as well. There are a few types of spaces you should avoid, including those marked "Reserved" and "Tow-Away". There are several types of spaces labeled for campus residents, but I don't believe there are any in the Main Parking structure. These are detailed on the university website here. I believe most of the spots in the Main Parking structure are labeled either B, E, or F, and those are fine.

By public transportation:

The Santa Clara Caltrain station is very close to the main entrance (Palm Dr./Franklin St.) to campus, just across El Camino Real.

By plane:

San Jose Mineta International Airport is very close to the venue.

Food:

Lunch, most likely pizza, as well as ice cream will be provided for all competitors as indicated in the competition schedule. After registration has closed, we will send out a survey to obtain preferences and dietary restrictions so that we may appropriately order for everyone.

While anyone is welcome to register for this competition, it is not especially intended for new competitors.
In particular, note that this competition does not have the very popular 3x3x3 cube speed solving event.
If we did, we could probably attract over 100 competitors on a weekend, and the space we've reserved simply doesn't have that capacity.

That being said, it is possible that one could, within a month or two time frame, learn how to compete in the events for this competition, and
competitors do not need to participate in every event, only those that they select during the registration process. In fact, one of the organizers of this competition
will not be competing in the Square-1 puzzle event.

Most important, if you haven't been to a competition before or if it's been a while and you could use a refresher, we ask that you be familiar with the WCA regulations for any event in which you intend to compete.
These can be found here:
https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/

If you prefer to start out in a more conventional manner, i.e., in a 3x3x3 cube speed solving event, you can likely find other competions in the Northern California area as well as Southern California, Nevada, and Hawaii that will have this event
here.

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!

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We also have a NorCal Cubing Community Facebook group!

This competition is in partnership with West Coast Cubing, LLC

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

Use code "WCC" for 5% off all orders at SpeedCubeShop?

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 across rounds (see Guideline 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.