Dear WCA Community,

The WCA Regulations Committee would like to inform you about a new version of the WCA Regulations. This version will be in effect for competitions beginning on, or after, April 1st, 2026. The changes to the Regulations in this version are limited in scope and only affect the handling of incidents in which puzzles were not correctly scrambled (misscrambles).

In summary, these changes:

• Remove championship finals from the scope of the firmer Extra/DNS misscramble approach in Regulation 11i1. While scramble integrity remains important, this prioritizes the competitive integrity and spectacle of these rounds.
• Also remove record/top 50 results in championship finals from this scope, as long as scramble double checking takes place. This avoids potentially unfair scenarios in which championship finals could still be affected, while encouraging measures to support correct scrambles in these contexts.
• Provide support to ensure results still subject to stricter misscramble requirements (top results not in championship finals) can be checked once they take place, to minimise the chance of later DNS changes, and allowing subsequent round results not to be removed even if a misscramble is found after the competition.

You can review the wording changes in this comparison on GitHub, where changes and additions are marked green and removals are marked red.

You can read a detailed description of changes in this explainer document. The final changes made remain consistent with the draft changes circulated in February 2026, with no further amendments made.