Q. How do I register for this competition?

A. Registration for this competition opens on Friday, May 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM MDT and will be open until Friday, September 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM MDT. If this competition fills up exceptionally fast, registration might close earlier. You'll need a WCA Account to register. Once registration has opened, you can register at the register button to your left or at this link. Select the events you'll be competing in and any comments you'd like the organization team to know. After pressing Register, you'll be prompted to pay using Stripe. You must pay your registration fee to be eligible to compete. If there is still space in the competition and you do not receive an email saying your registration has been accepted within 48 hours of paying, please contact the organization team.

Q. How can I prepare for the competition day?

A. Competitors should understand the WCA Regulations before competing. For something a little more digestable, you can read the WCA Competitor Tutorial or watch this video guide. We will have a New Competitor Tutorial at the beginning of the day where you can learn and ask questions.

Q. Who should I ask if I have any questions?

A. Before the competition, you can contact the organization team with any questions with our contact form. During the competition, you can speak to a delegate. Your delegates for this competition are Dylan Vaskevicius, Laura Plourde, Niels Nijstad and Orion Donovan.

Q. What are groups? How can I find which ones I'm in?

A. Groups are how we determine when each competitor competes. During each round, we will have several groups that will be called up in succession. When the group in which you're supposed to compete is called, please come up to the cube dropoff table and submit your solved puzzle. When the group you're judging is called, come up and find an empty station to judge. Groups will be emailed to competitors or in a tab on this website in the week leading up to the competition.

Q. Do competitors need to volunteer? How do I do that?

A. We require that all competitors volunteer as judges, runners or scramblers during the competition day. You will be assigned a group to judge, run or scramble in. We will go over judging in our New Competitor Tutorial.

Q. How old do I have to be to compete?

A. WCA Competitions are open to cubers of any age! We do not have age groups so all competitors compete with each other.

Q. What do I need to bring to the competition?

A. You'll need to bring the puzzles required for any event you'll be competing in. Most competitors like to bring other cubes to warm up with. All timing equipment will be supplied by the WCA Delegates at the competition.

Q. Where can I find results for this competition?

A. Live results will be visible on the WCA Live and will be posted on the WCA Website shortly after the competition. If it's your first competition, you'll get a WCA ID when results are posted to the WCA Website.

Q. How can I have a competition in my hometown?

A. Contact one of the delegates to see what is possible. Since there is already a reasonable number of competitions in Alberta in 2025 it might not be possible to add your hometown competition to the calender right now.

We are happy to announce GAN as the sponsor for this event!

They will provide prizes to the podium winners of all the events!

We would like to thank them for their support and encourage you to check out their website! https://www.gancube.com/

We will be holding 15 Puzzle as an unofficial event during/after lunch in a Ao5 form. You will be contacted by email to pre-register for this event.
Check out the information below to see in what format it will be.

Please make sure to supply your own puzzle for this event as well. If you are sharing this puzzle with another competitor you might not to compete when we're low on time.

Fill in this form to let us know you will be competing in the unofficial event.

The results will be recorded through Cubing Contests, and will then be added to the rankings.

Live Results

Event Details

Rules

Most of you will enter Red Deer through the QE2.
Recommended is taking the 32 ST exit and then immediately turn right / south on College Circle.

Go around the campus and through the residential area till you see the parking for the venue, and look at the added map.

Running Judges
This competition will use a different format from usual competitions in Alberta called "Running Judges." Previous competitions in Alberta use a "Runners and Judges" system where competitors are called to a station by a runner, with a stationary judge.

What is Running Judges?
Running Judges is a system that differs in two primary ways:

The competitor will remain at the same station for all five of their solves
The role of the runner and the judge are combined. The "running judge" will take the cube to the station and judge the competitor.
How does it work?
When your group is called, your scorecard will be at the station number you are scheduled at. You can find the number you are competing at on Competition Groups. Put your puzzle in the cube cover with your scorecard and a running judge will bring your puzzle to the scramble station.

When the cubes are scrambled, the running judges will take a puzzle to the assigned station number on the cover, and judge that competitor's solve as normal. After the competitor is finished, the running judge will take the cube back to the scrambling table, and then either wait for another cube, or grab an upright cube. The running judge should NOT wait for the competitor's cube that they just judged, they should grab the first cube available. This process is repeated until all competitors are done with their solves.