Utah Marathon Championship 2026
- Date
- Nov 14, 2026
- City
- Orem, Utah, United States
- Venue
Utah Valley University
- Address
- 800 W University Pkwy, Orem, UT 84097
- Details
Clark Building Room 511
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Cade Beck, Cubing Club at UVU, and Utah Cubing Association
- WCA Delegates
- Brendan Bakker (貝庭笙), Cade Beck, Garrett Webster, Isaac Myers, Joey Day, and Rustin Haderlie
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition does not have 3x3 and is not reccomended for newcomers
This competition is recognized as an official World Cube Association competition. Therefore, all competitors must be familiar with the WCA Regulations.
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- Events
- Competitor limit
- 70
- Number of times bookmarked
- 6
- Registration period
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Online registration will be open from to .
- Registration requirements
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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 70 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 50% 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.
Any spectator can attend for free.
This year our state championship will be held across 3 seperate weekends in order to accomodate venue limitations. All 17 events will be held across all 3 competitions including an additional unnofficial event, FTO. The event distribution is as follows
| Utah Quiet Championship | Utah Marathon Championship | Utah Sprint Championship |
|---|---|---|
| 3x3 Blindfolded | 4x4 | 3x3 |
| 3x3 Multi-Blind | 5x5 | 3x3 One-Handed |
| Fewest Moves | 6x6 | 2x2 |
| 4x4 Blindfolded | 7x7 | Skewb |
| 5x5 Blindfolded | Megaminx | Pyraminx |
| Square-1 | Clock | |
| Face Turning Octahedron |
For those of you new to cubing, welcome!
This event is perfectly fine for cubers of any age and experience. We just ask you to know a couple things before coming to compete.
Please be familiar with the WCA Regulations, which can be found here.
Additionally, this video will explain almost everything one will need to know about competing for the first time; however, it is still required that all competitors are still familiar with the full set of regulations above.
If you are ready to sign up, head over to the registration tab, click register, and fill out the information it asks for. This will help you get registered for the competition, and one step closer to your first WCA competition!
For additional registration information, check the Regsitration and Waitlist Info tab!
Your Registration will NOT be accepted until you pay the registration fee!
How to register
To learn how to register for a competition, watch this video. Please be sure to follow the process, filling out all necessary information, including first and last name. If you fail to complete the registration form and pay the registration fee, then your registration will not be accepted
Registrations
Registrations are first come, first serve based on the order of when payment is recieved. Registrations are manually accepted by the organization team of the competition, so please do not contact the organization team if your registration has not been accepted unless it has been longer than 1 business day since you have completed your registration.
In order to register, please fill out the registration process as detailed in the video above
Waitlist
If the competitor limit has filled, then you will see a banner message on the WCA website that the competitor limit for the competition has been reached. In order to get onto the waitlist, you will need to complete the registration process like normal, including paying the registration fee. If a spot opens up then your registration will be accepted and you will be notified. If a spot does not become available by the time that registration closes, then you will be issued a 100% refund of your registration fee.
Cancellations and Refunds
If you register and later realize you cannot make it the competition, please email us and we will delete your registration and issue a 50% refund. After the refund deadline passes, no refunds will be granted.
Adding/Dropping Events
Competitors may request (by email) to add or remove events from their registration. Events may not be added after the deadline listed on the info page.
Your Registration will NOT be accepted until you pay the registration fee!
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.
Advancement Condition
The number of competitors shown as advancing to the next round is the planned maximum. The actual number may be lower if there are fewer competitors than expected, or if there are ties at the boundary.