UMBC Winter 2026


Date
Feb 14, 2026
City
Catonsville, Maryland, United States
Venue

University Center

Address
1000 Hilltop Cir, Baltimore, MD 21250
Details

University Center 3rd Floor Ballroom

Contact
Organization team
Organizers
Dean Lockett, Jay Leveton, and Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing
WCA Delegates
Rich Tayag and Stone Payne
Download all the competition's details as PDF here.
Information

The competition will take place in the Ballroom on the third floor of the University Center.

Competition is free for all UMBC students, staff, and faculty.

Events
Main event
Competitors
127
Registration period

Online registration opened and closed .

Registration requirements
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 140 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $25 (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 on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 1 guest.

To prevent overcrowding in the venue, we are limiting each competitor to one guest only.

Competition is free for all UMBC students, staff, and faculty. Even though everyone will pay the $25 registration, we are allowing all UMBC students, staff, and faculty to participate free-of-charge by refunding their registration. In order to verify that you are a UMBC student, we ask that you fill out this form with your UMBC email, so that we can verify.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScDDL_3NLfSdrbqFVP4rXGwCmcbRjnPgjrAxmtL0zojjZ10OA/viewform?usp=header

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 Responsibilities" tab.

WAITLIST INFORMATION:
If the competitor limit of 140 has been reached, you can still register and pay the registration fee to secure a spot on the waitlist. During the registration period, any competitor can cancel their registration and allow the first person on the waitlist to take their spot. If you find that you cannot make it to the competition after registering, please contact us so that we can maximize attendance.
All registrants still on the waitlist after the registration period will have their registrations deleted, and will be fully refunded.
We may completely close registration if the waitlist becomes very large.

Highlights
Click here to display the highlights of the competition.

Curtis Chai won with an average of 7.54 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Sanzhar Beisembayev finished second (8.12) and Daniel Greigg finished third (8.54).

3x3x3 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Curtis Chai 6.62 7.54 United States 7.996.856.627.7910.66
2 Sanzhar Beisembayev 6.75 8.12 United States 6.759.256.8210.038.28
3 Daniel Greigg 7.52 8.54 United States 9.109.577.687.528.83

5x5x5 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Curtis Chai 47.80 48.84 United States 48.3149.3159.7647.8048.89
2 Fiona Bao 49.53 54.97 United States 55.6256.7555.1049.5354.19
3 Sanzhar Beisembayev 49.79 57.27 United States 56.5757.9149.791:01.0857.34

3x3x3 One-Handed

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Hassan Khanani 9.13 12.79 United States 13.4111.6513.3214.289.13
2 Curtis Chai 10.56 13.02 United States 10.5613.0415.8211.7914.24
3 Will Venuti 13.05 15.50 United States DNF18.2713.5514.6813.05

Pyraminx

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Leland Pak 1.88 2.37 United States 2.181.883.612.232.70
2 Curtis Chai 1.74 2.53 United States 2.063.101.74DNF2.42
3 Daniel Goodman 2.09 2.85 United States 2.902.092.093.573.79

Square-1

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Hassan Khanani 5.85 6.02 United States 5.856.885.876.096.09
2 Anderson Hong 10.29 12.79 United States 12.0218.5913.0613.3010.29
3 Curtis Chai 11.75 13.35 United States 15.3811.7511.8012.8616.71
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