Welcome to Washington D.C. 2026

Date
Apr 25, 2026
City
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Venue

Alice Deal Middle School

Address
3815 Fort Dr NW, Washington, DC 20016
Details

Cafeteria

Contact
Organization team
Organizers
James O’Connell, Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing, and Stone Payne
WCA Delegates
Austin Reed, Benjamin Christie, Pierce Tickle, Rich Tayag, Ryland Wilson, Siddharth Suresh, and Stone Payne
Download all the competition's details as PDF here.
Information

This competition will take place in the Cafeteria.

This competition is being held in the Mid-Atlantic Region (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA, VA, WV). See the regions on CubingUSA's website.

Events
Main event
Competitor limit
140
Number of times bookmarked
64
Registration period

Online registration will be open from to .

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 140 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $10 (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.


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.

ALL COMPETITORS MUST READ THIS TAB BEFORE REGISTERING

For First-Time Competitors

All newcomers must be familiar with the WCA Regulations before competing. This video gives a basic overview of the rules. In addition, please read this document before coming to the competition.

For All Competitors

When you arrive, you will receive a card with personalized information detailing your events and what group you will be competing in for each event. In addition, you will also have judging/scrambling/running assignments on your card. Every competitor is expected to help out during the event(s) they are registered for. The card will look like the following:

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If you do not arrive to help during your scheduled event, and there are not enough staff members, we reserve the right to disqualify you from competing.

Stationary Competing

This competition will be using a fixed-seating setup for competing – this is different from how many other competitions in the U.S. operate. With fixed seating, competitors stay at their stations for the duration of their attempts – there will be no waiting area. The general process is as follows:

  1. When the competitor’s group is called, the competitor goes up to that stage’s scorecard table and collects their scorecard.

  2. Competitor goes to any open solving station with their scorecard and puzzle.

  3. If there are no open stations, please wait a couple of minutes or see a Delegate to see if there are open stations at other stages. A station may open up as competitors from the previous group finish.

  4. Competitor makes sure they have the correctly numbered cover at their station. Competitor puts their puzzle and their scorecard in the numbered cube cover and holds it for a “running judge” to pick up. Competitor will stay in this spot throughout the entire round.

  5. A running judge takes the cube to the scramblers.

  6. The running judge drops off the puzzle and takes the next available scrambled puzzle to the corresponding competitor/station based on the number on the cube cover and proceeds to judge their attempt.

NOTE: The running judge may not judge the same competitor each time.

  1. After each attempt, the running judge packs the solved cube and competitor scorecard in the cube cover and brings this to the scramblers.

  2. Repeat this process until all competitors in the group have completed all their attempts.

As a reminder to all competitors: you are not allowed to watch your neighboring competitors complete their solves, as this raises concerns about gaining additional information about the scrambles. Competitors who are suspected of attempting to gain an advantage may be subject to disqualification.

We will be demonstrating the Running Judges system during the new-competitor tutorial before 3x3x3 on Saturday. Throughout the competition, delegates will be stationed to address any questions you may have.

Groups and Live Results TBA

This competition is being held in the Mid-Atlantic Region (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA, VA, WV). See the regions on CubingUSA's website.

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.

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