UCSD Unofficial Events 2025
- Date
- Oct 25, 2025
- City
- San Diego, California, United States
- Venue
UC San Diego
- Address
- Price Center, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093
- Details
Ballroom West AB
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Dylan Govic, Jason Chang (章維祐), Rubik's Cube Club @ UCSD, Sherry Tao (陶心仪), Timothy Zhang (张学义), and West Coast Cubing LLC Treasurer
- WCA Delegates
- Alex Lehman, Dylan Govic, Jason Chang (章維祐), Kaoushik Murugan, Michael Young, Ruby Lu (卢红), Shane Grogan, Sherry Tao (陶心仪), and TJ Kelly
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition is recognized as an official World Cube Association competition. Therefore, all competitors must be familiar with the WCA Regulations. If you are new to competing, please refer to the Competitor Responsibilities tab.
This competition is primarily an Unofficial Events competition. You can register for unofficial events here
Spectators can attend for free and can come and go as they please! No registration or check-in process is needed for spectating.
UCSD students can get their registration fee waived! More details in the "UCSD Student Registration Fee Waiver" tab.
This competition is organized in partnership with West Coast Cubing and SpeedCubeShop.

A portion of the profits from this competition will be donated to the Rubik's Cube Club @ UC San Diego, a registered UC San Diego Student Organization.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 89
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- Registration requirements
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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 150 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $28 (United States Dollar).
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 on the Register tab.
On the spot registrations will be accepted if there are remaining spots available, with a base registration fee of $28 (United States Dollar).
Any spectator can attend for free.
Registration Process
UCSD students can get their registration fee waived! More details in the UCSD Student Registration Fee Waiver tab.
- Wait until registration opens on Wednesday, July 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM PDT. You cannot register prior to then. You cannot register after Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM PDT. No exceptions to these will be given. If deemed necessary, we may close registration early.
- If you have not competed before, create a WCA account here.
- Go to the Register link on the competition website.
- Fill out the events you will be competing in, any comments you may have about your registration, and press register.
- Pay the registration fee via Stripe on the competition website.
Competitors MUST pay their registration fee before being eligible for a spot in the competition.
Unofficial Events
This competition will have primarily unofficial event. If you are competing in unofficial events, please familiarize yourself with the descriptions and regulations below. To sign up for unofficial events, go to the Unofficial Events SIgnup page. Only competitors of the competition competing in official WCA events can sign up for unofficial events.
Waitlist
If the competition is full, a message will be displayed saying such on the competition website. If, after this time, you register and pay for the competition, you will be added to the competition waitlist.
If a competitor cancels their registration, the person at the top of the waitlist will be added to the competitor list.
If you are on the waitlist, you may cancel your registration (see below) at any time for a full refund.
If you are on the waitlist, you will be informed whether you have made it on the competitor list after Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM PDT, otherwise you will be given a full refund.
Registration Changes
If you would like to cancel your registration, email the organization team with your request and you will be refunded 75% of your registration fee. Refunds are available only until Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM PDT.
If you would like to edit your registered events or listed guests, you may do so on the Register page. This can only be done prior to Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM PDT.
By registering, competitors agree to the information in the Competitor Responsibilities tab. This tab details the responsibilitIes of all competitors at this competition. Not abiding by these responsibilities can result in disqualification.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Jackson Stempke won with an average of 7.76 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Kavin Tangtartharakul finished second (8.19) and Yichen Sheng finished third (8.20).
3x3x3 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jackson Stempke | 6.71 | 7.76 | United States | 8.06 | 6.71 | 7.48 | 7.73 | 8.09 | |||
| 2 | Kavin Tangtartharakul | 7.09 | 8.19 | United States | 8.89 | 8.62 | 7.85 | 7.09 | 8.11 | |||
| 3 | Yichen Sheng | 7.29 | 8.20 | United States | 7.29 | 7.35 | 8.96 | 8.28 | DNF | |||
2x2x2 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joel Kim | 2.23 | 2.72 | United States | 4.91 | 2.48 | 2.23 | 2.79 | 2.89 | |||
| 2 | Shane Grogan | 2.20 | 2.74 | United States | 2.73 | 2.66 | 5.01 | 2.83 | 2.20 | |||
| 3 | Ethan Yeh | 1.95 | 3.28 | United States | 1.95 | 3.37 | 3.70 | 3.40 | 3.08 | |||