Info Register

SCU V: Monday Night FMC 2026

Date: Jul 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 3115).
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Robert Alan Marks and West Coast Cubing LLC Treasurer
WCA Delegates: Abhimanyu Singhal (अभिमन्यु सिंघल), Calvin Nielson, David Karalli (داود قراعلي), 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.

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.

Events
Main event

Competitor limit: 24

Number of times bookmarked: 1

Registration period: Online registration will be open from to .
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 24 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $6.50 (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 .
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.

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.

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 75% registration refunds.

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.

By car:

Note that SCU campus parking is not free this time because the competition is on a weekday. Campus parking is enforced until 8pm on weekdays. It should not be difficult to find street parking in the neighborhoods near campus.

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:

We will not be providing a meal with this competition. Feel free to eat before you arrive and/or bring food with you.

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.

Instead, the competition will only have the fewest moves challenge (FMC) event, where the best solves are determined based on the number of moves/turns used to solve a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube. Competitors have one hour to produce a solution from a given scramble and must write the solution on a piece of paper using appropriate notation. Many FMC enthusiasts describe the event as being similar to taking a written exam, but it is a fun test, and it's not like your result is going to become part of your academic records. If this sounds like an interesting cubing activity to you, feel free to give it a try and register.

If this is your first competition, or if you're not familiar with the FMC event, please familiarize yourself with the WCA regulations for this event.
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!

Click here to be directly taken to the Discord Server!

We also have a NorCal Cubing Community Facebook group!

This competition is in partnership with West Coast Cubing, LLC

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.