UIUC Spring 2026
- Date
- Apr 4, 2026
- City
- Urbana, Illinois, United States
- Venue
Illini Union
- Address
- 1401 W Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801
- Details
First Floor, Illini Room AB
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Amey Gaba, Ben Zhao, and Midwest Cubing Association
- WCA Delegate
- Kit Clement
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
ALL MINORS MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A GUARDIAN IN ORDER TO ENTER THE VENUE!!
This competition is supported by the Midwest Cubing Association.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 45
- 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 80 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 95% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
We encourage everyone to register for the events they want to compete in via your online registration, however you may add events to your registration up until the event has started.
On the spot registrations will be accepted if there are remaining spots available, with a base registration fee of $30 (United States Dollar).
Any spectator can attend for free.
By registering for this competition, you agree to the responsibilities outlined in the Competitor Responsibilities tab.
Members of the Illini Cubers RSO at UIUC may register without paying the registration fee. You must mention in your registration comment that you are a member so we can know to verify your membership.
ALL MINORS MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A GUARDIAN IN ORDER TO ENTER THE VENUE!!
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Luke Garrett won with an average of 5.47 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Ben Zhao finished second (6.79) and Carter Thomas finished third (7.00).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Luke Garrett | 4.87 | 5.47 | United States | 5.08 | 4.87 | 5.17 | 7.04 | 6.17 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Luke Garrett | 1.31 | 1.45 | United States | 1.31 | 2.38 | 1.55 | 1.42 | 1.37 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Luke Garrett | 21.85 | 25.18 | United States | 28.48 | 32.40 | 23.63 | 21.85 | 23.42 | |||
| 5x5x5 Cube | Carter Thomas | 41.89 | 45.88 | United States | 41.89 | 44.65 | 47.28 | 45.72 | 51.43 | |||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Luke Garrett | 7.63 | 9.29 | United States | 12.19 | 8.94 | 11.11 | 7.83 | 7.63 | |||
ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING.
FOR FIRST-TIME COMPETITORS:
There are multiple things a first-timer must know before competing. All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. There is a video here for the basic overview of the rules.
In addition, please read this document before coming to the competition to learn about the procedures for judging.
ALL COMPETITORS:
When you arrive, you will receive a card/nametag with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event. In addition, you will also receive staffing assignments. All competitors are expected to help at this competition. For each event you sign up for, you will be assigned to help out for just one group of that event. If you do not arrive to help during your scheduled event, and there are not enough judges/runners to run that group, we reserve the right to disqualify you from competing.
We will provide a judging tutorial at the beginning of the day, right before the start of the 3x3x3 speedsolve event. This will allow anyone with questions about how to judge to be properly prepared when they are expected to help. We hope that this system will fairly divide up the judging of the competition and make the competition run smoothly for all.
We would like to thank the Midwest Cubing Association for managing this competition as our regional organization. We appreciate their support and backing in providing the necessary equipment for the competition.
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).
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.