SCU VI: Big Feast 2026
- Date
- Nov 27 - 29, 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, Rooms 3301 & 3302)
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Abhimanyu Singhal (अभिमन्यु सिंघल), Robert Alan Marks, and West Coast Cubing
- WCA Delegates
- Abhimanyu Singhal (अभिमन्यु सिंघल), Calvin Nielson, Hamza Hafeez, Robert Alan Marks, Sherry Tao (陶心仪), and TJ Kelly
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition is organized in partnership with West Coast Cubing and SpeedCubeShop.
- Current SCU students may register for a reduced fee of $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
- Competitor limit
- 20
- Number of times bookmarked
- 15
- 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 20 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 by contacting the organization team.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Lunch on Saturday and pie for competitors are included with registration. Please see the Travel, Parking, Food tab for more information.
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 adjust their registration details by themselves to add or remove events 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
If additional spots open up, competitors will be accepted to the competition in the following order.
If you do not make it off the waitlist as of the close of registration, you will be issued a full refund.
Waitlist has not begun yet as registration is not full
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. Note that Friday, November 27, 2026 is a university holiday, and the garage may be used on this day as well. 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:
Friday: we will have a pie break between the 2nd & 3rd FMC attempts. Any leftover pie may be available at other points throughout the competition.
Saturday: lunch, most likely from Pizza My Heart is included with registration. More details on this will be provided later.
Sunday: lunch is not included with registration; however, a separate buy-in option (most likely Chipotle) will be made available.
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 certain events for this competition, and competitors do not need to participate in every event, only those that they select during the registration process. But please be aware that this competition only features "quiet" solving events, where unsuccessful attempts (DNFs) are not uncommon. Even if you learn to do these events successfully at home, don't be discouraged if you are unsuccessful in competition since it is perfectly natural to be nervous during competition, especially your first one.
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, WCA Forum thread for California, and the West Coast Cubing website.!
This competition will be sponsored by SpeedCubeShop! They will be providing gift-card prizes for this competition. They will not be selling puzzles onsite.
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).
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.