USC Fantastic Memory Challenge 2025

Date: Jul 12 - 13, 2025
City: Los Angeles, California, United States
Venue: Ronald Tutor Campus Center
Address: 3607 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Details: Franklin Suite - Rooms 350/351/352
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Abhimanyu Singhal (अभिमन्यु सिंघल), Nate Minkevich, and West Coast Cubing LLC Treasurer
WCA Delegates: Abhimanyu Singhal (अभिमन्यु सिंघल), Alex Lehman, Andrew French, Dylan Govic, Kyeongmin Choi, Michael Young, Nate Minkevich, Shane Grogan, and Sherry Tao (陶心仪)

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

Information

This competition is recognized as an official World Cube Association competition. Therefore, all competitors are expected to be familiar with the WCA Regulations. This competition WILL NOT have most sighted events, such as 3x3x3 Cube. We recommend first-time competitors not register for this competition. For a more traditional competition experience, please check the West Coast Cubing website for a competition near you.

Current USC students can compete for free! Please indicate so in the comment field during registration and send a photo of your student ID to the organization team to waive the registration fee.

Spectators can attend for free and can come and go as they please! No registration or check-in process is needed for spectating.

This competition is organized by CubeSC, USC's Rubik's Cube Club, in partnership with West Coast Cubing and SpeedCubeShop.

Accessibility and Disabilities
Individuals with disabilities who need accommodations to attend this event may contact CubeSC or the organization team for this competition. We request that individuals requiring accommodations or auxiliary aids such as sign language interpreters and alternative format materials notify us at least 7 days prior to the event. Every reasonable effort will be made to provide reasonable accommodations in an effective and timely manner.

Antidiscrimination Policy
This program is open to all eligible individuals. CubeSC operates all of its programs and activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination https://engage.usc.edu/click?email_links_id=70737&member_id=11807621. Eligibility is not determined based on race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.

Events
Main event

Competitor limit: 40

Number of times bookmarked: 29

Registration period

Online registration opened and will close .

Registration requirements

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 40 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $20 (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 .
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.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Any spectator can attend for free.

Registration Process

Wait until registration opens on April 26th at 5 PM PDT. You cannot register prior to then. You cannot register after July 4th at 5 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.
A member of the organization team will manually accept registrations. Wait for an email confirming your registration has been accepted.

Competitors MUST pay their registration fee before being eligible for a spot in the competition, unless you are a current USC student.

USC students must submit a photo of student ID to the organization team before being eligible for a fee waiver and indicate as such in the comments during registration.

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 July 4th, 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 90 of your registration fee. Refunds are available only until July 4th.

If you would like to edit your registered events or listed guests, you may do so on the Register page.

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.

Accessing Campus

USC is a closed and gated campus. This means you must present ID at one of the pedestrian entrances to gain entry onto campus. You can only enter campus from certain locations and all vehicular traffic must either enter from the McClintock or McCarthy entrances. You can reference the full details via the map on this link: https://www.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Fall-2024-Access-map42.pdf

The organization team will preregister all competitors a couple days before the competition, which will make accessing campus faster as you will receive a QR code via email. All other spectators/guests will be required to show ID at the welcome gates. Minors cannot enter campus by themselves and will need a guardian present. Additional information can be found here: https://www.usc.edu/how-to-access-campus/
Please plan ahead! Give yourself 10-15 minutes extra to get on campus in case of any mishaps. An instructional email will be sent a few days before the competition with full details on how to enter campus.

Parking

It can be difficult to find free street parking in LA, especially near campus on weekends. The McCarthy parking garage on campus is the recommended parking place and campus entrance: it costs $20 per day and is a short (5-10 minute) walk to the competition venue. It is boxed in the below image in red and the path to get to TCC (Tutor Campus Center) is in light blue.

If coming from the west side of the city (via I-10 E), it is recommended to take the Vermont or Hoover exit as the I-10/I-110 intersection is notorious for being confusing and having heavy traffic. If coming via I-110 , you can either take the Adams exit or the Exposition Blvd exit, turn onto Figueroa, then navigate to the the McCarthy entrance.

Public Transit

The Metro E line has several stops along Exposition Boulevard, the closest to the venue is Expo/USC. Note that you will still need to check in at the pedestrian entrance at Trousdale in order to get onto campus. There are some bus options via Vermont and Figueroa as well. If using a ride-share service (Uber, Lyft, etc.), please navigate to the McCarthy entrance, as it is the designated pick up/drop off location for ride-share.

Food

The food court in TCC is closed on the weekends but there are several food options within walking distance to the north, west and, southeast and several more a short drive away. These are boxed in green in the map below. You will have to check back in at one of the pedestrian gates.

ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING.

For this competition, all competitors are required to assist in running the competition due to the smaller scale. Failure to make oneself available to do so may result in disqualification.

Before the competition, you will receive a card/nametag with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event in an email.

This competition will be sponsored by SpeedCubeShop! They will be providing gift-card prizes for this competition. They will not be selling puzzles on-site.

Want to stay connected with the West Coast community? Join the West Coast Cubing Community Discord Server! Speak with other competitors from NorCal, SoCal, Nevada, Hawaii, and Tijuana and keep in touch with fellow competitors and meet new ones! Find out about competition discussion as it happens in real time, and even announcements for competitions before registration opens!

Click here to be directly taken to the Discord Server!

We also have our SoCal Cubing Facebook Group, WCA Forum thread for California, and the West Coast Cubing website.

Accessibility and Disabilities

Individuals with disabilities who need accommodations to attend this event may contact CubeSC or the organization team for this competition. We request that individuals requiring accommodations or auxiliary aids such as sign language interpreters and alternative format materials notify us at least 7 days prior to the event. Every reasonable effort will be made to provide reasonable accommodations in an effective and timely manner.

Antidiscrimination Policy

This program is open to all eligible individuals. CubeSC operates all of its programs and activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination https://engage.usc.edu/click?email_links_id=70737&member_id=11807621. Eligibility is not determined based on race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.

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 (see Regulation A1a2).

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.