Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2025

Date: Sep 27 - 28, 2025
City: College Park, Maryland, United States
Venue: Adele H. Stamp Student Union
Address: 3100 Adele H. Stamp Student Union, College Park, MD 20742
Details: Grand Ballroom
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Adam Martinson, Frederick Zheng, and Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing
WCA Delegates: José Leonardo Chaparro Prieto, Pierce Tickle, Rich Tayag, Siddharth Suresh, and Stone Payne

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

Information

This competition is a 2-day competition. Saturday's competition will be held in the Grand Ballroom and Sunday's competition will be held in the Prince George's Room. Both rooms are in the Stamp Student Union.

Please note, as this is a college venue, there must be parent/guardian supervision for minors during the competition.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 207

Registration period: Online registration opened and closed .
Registration requirements: This competition is over, click here to display the registration requirements it used.

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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 240 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $20 (United States Dollar).
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.
Any spectator can attend for free.

Free for UMD students, faculty, and staff. Unfortunately, we can no longer waive registration for alumni.
Please keep in mind that registrations are approved manually after payment, so your registration may not be approved immediately.
Your registration is not complete until your registration fee has been paid.
All competitiors must read the "Competitor Information" tab.
Any requested changes to registration before registration closes will be honored.

Due to space constraints in our Sunday venue, we are imposing a competitor limit on 3BLD, 4/5BLD, and Multi-Blind respectively. If any of these limits are reached before registration closes, we will keep a "waitlist" of competitors who wish to register for each of these events. The following competitor limits will apply:
- 3x3x3 Blindfolded: limit 40
- 4x4x4 Blindfolded: limit 20
- 5x5x5 Blindfolded: limit 20
- Multi-Blind: limit 20

Competitors must register for blindfolded events if they wish to compete in them or be included on the waitlist. If you do not make it off of the waitlist for one of these events, it will be removed from your registration before the competition.
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Sam Popp won with an average of 7.42 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Caleb Wen finished second (7.43) and Drew Duong finished third (8.02).

Event	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Sam Popp	6.51	7.42	United States	7.85	6.51	6.86	10.24	7.55
4x4x4 Cube	Drew Duong	25.41	28.59	United States	29.92	30.10	27.78	25.41	28.07
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Liam Chen	16.41	DNF	United States	DNF	16.41	16.59
3x3x3 One-Handed	Knut Peterson	12.27	13.03	United States	13.01	13.07	12.27	16.78	13.02
Square-1	Hassan Khanani	4.76	5.47	United States	8.26	5.60	5.12	4.76	5.68
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Rui Yang (杨睿)	5:37.46	DNF	China	5:59.10	5:37.46	DNF
5x5x5 Blindfolded	Rui Yang (杨睿)	15:12.00	DNF	China	17:32.00	15:12.00	DNF
3x3x3 Multi-Blind	Liam Chen	25/30 59:32		United States	25/30 59:32

Getting to Campus

Note that if you are coming by public transportation, the Green Line Metro stop is not on campus. You will need to take the Shuttle-UM 104 bus from the stop to campus. Please factor this into to your travel time when planning to come to the venue.

The parking map of UMD shows available parking on campus. During the weekend, there is free parking at all green-highlighted parking lots on this list. Lots B (Regents Parking Garage) and Z are the closest free parking lots near campus.

NOTE: The competition is being held in the Grand Ballroom. The Grand Ballroom is located on the first floor on this map.

ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING

For First-Time Competitors

All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. This video gives a basic overview of the rules. In addition, please read this document before coming to the competition.

For All Competitors

When you arrive, you will receive a card with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event. In addition, you may also have judging/scrambling/running assignments on your card. Every competitor is expected to help out during the event(s) they are registered for. The card will look like the following:

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If you do not arrive to help during your scheduled event, and there are not enough staff members, we reserve the right to disqualify you from competing.

Stationary/Fixed Seating with Running Judges

In this format, there is no competitor waiting area and competitors will complete all their solves for the round at the same solving station. Each solving station is numbered and a cube cover will be already at the station with a matching number.

When the competitor’s group is called, the competitor goes up to that stage’s scorecard table and collects their scorecard.
Competitor goes to any open solving station with their scorecard and puzzle.
If there are no open stations, please wait a couple of minutes or see a Delegate to see if there are open stations at other stages. A station may open up as competitors from the previous group finish.
Competitor makes sure they have the correct numbered cover at their station. Competitor puts their puzzle and their scorecard in the numbered cube cover and holds it for a “running judge” to pick up. Competitor will stay in this spot throughout the entire round.
Running judge takes the cube cover(s) to the scramblers.
Running judge drops off their puzzle(s) and takes the next available scrambled puzzle to the corresponding competitor/station based on the number on the cube cover and proceeds to judge their attempt.
NOTE: The running judge may not be judging the same competitor each time.
After each attempt, the running judge packs the solved cube and competitor scorecard in the cube cover and brings this to the scramblers.
Repeat this process until all competitors in the group have completed all their attempts.

Stationary/Fixed Seating with Running Judges

When the competitor’s group is called, the competitor goes up to that stage’s scorecard table and collects their scorecard.
Competitor goes to any open solving station with their scorecard and puzzle.
If there are no open stations, please wait a couple of minutes or see a Delegate to see if there are open stations at other stages. A station may open up as competitors from the previous group finish.
Competitor makes sure they have the correct numbered cover at their station. Competitor puts their puzzle and their scorecard in the numbered cube cover and holds it for a “running judge” to pick up. Competitor will stay in this spot throughout the entire round.
Running judge takes the cube cover(s) to the scramblers.
Running judge drops off their puzzle(s) and takes the next available scrambled puzzle to the corresponding competitor/station based on the number on the cube cover and proceeds to judge their attempt.
NOTE: The running judge may not be judging the same competitor each time.
After each attempt, the running judge packs the solved cube and competitor scorecard in the cube cover and brings this to the scramblers.
Repeat this process until all competitors in the group have completed all their attempts.

There is no official hotel for this competition, and no room blocks will be offered. Below are suggestions for lodging in the area.

There are multiple hotels located on Route 1 (Best Western, Hampton Inn, Cambria Hotel, College Park Marriott, and more) located less than five minutes away from the venue. These are not an exclusive list of hotels, nor are these hotels affiliated with, sponsoring, or holding special accommodations for this competition.

Private lodging sites such as AirBnB also offer options in the area.

This competition is being held in the Mid-Atlantic Region (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA, VA, WV). See the regions on CubingUSA's website.

Join the Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Discord server
Follow the Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Instagram account
Join the Tri-State Cubing Facebook group (NJ, NY, PA)
See the Mid-Atlantic Region Organizational Spreadsheet
See upcoming competitions:
- in Delaware
- in Maryland
- in New Jersey
- in New York
- in Pennsylvania
- in Virginia
- in West Virginia

Group assignments can be accessed here: https://www.competitiongroups.com/competitions/SlowNSteadyUMDFall2025

Live results can be accessed here: https://live.worldcubeassociation.org/competitions/8848

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 Regulation 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.