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 .
- 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
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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 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.
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
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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 | 7.99 | 6.85 | 6.62 | 7.79 | 10.66 | |||
| 2 | Sanzhar Beisembayev | 6.75 | 8.12 | United States | 6.75 | 9.25 | 6.82 | 10.03 | 8.28 | |||
| 3 | Daniel Greigg | 7.52 | 8.54 | United States | 9.10 | 9.57 | 7.68 | 7.52 | 8.83 | |||
5x5x5 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Curtis Chai | 47.80 | 48.84 | United States | 48.31 | 49.31 | 59.76 | 47.80 | 48.89 | |||
| 2 | Fiona Bao | 49.53 | 54.97 | United States | 55.62 | 56.75 | 55.10 | 49.53 | 54.19 | |||
| 3 | Sanzhar Beisembayev | 49.79 | 57.27 | United States | 56.57 | 57.91 | 49.79 | 1:01.08 | 57.34 | |||
3x3x3 One-Handed
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hassan Khanani | 9.13 | 12.79 | United States | 13.41 | 11.65 | 13.32 | 14.28 | 9.13 | |||
| 2 | Curtis Chai | 10.56 | 13.02 | United States | 10.56 | 13.04 | 15.82 | 11.79 | 14.24 | |||
| 3 | Will Venuti | 13.05 | 15.50 | United States | DNF | 18.27 | 13.55 | 14.68 | 13.05 | |||
Pyraminx
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leland Pak | 1.88 | 2.37 | United States | 2.18 | 1.88 | 3.61 | 2.23 | 2.70 | |||
| 2 | Curtis Chai | 1.74 | 2.53 | United States | 2.06 | 3.10 | 1.74 | DNF | 2.42 | |||
| 3 | Daniel Goodman | 2.09 | 2.85 | United States | 2.90 | 2.09 | 2.09 | 3.57 | 3.79 | |||
Square-1
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hassan Khanani | 5.85 | 6.02 | United States | 5.85 | 6.88 | 5.87 | 6.09 | 6.09 | |||
| 2 | Anderson Hong | 10.29 | 12.79 | United States | 12.02 | 18.59 | 13.06 | 13.30 | 10.29 | |||
| 3 | Curtis Chai | 11.75 | 13.35 | United States | 15.38 | 11.75 | 11.80 | 12.86 | 16.71 | |||