Yurii Riabov (Юрій Рябов)Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026 · · 3 solution(s)
This was my first in-person major and i'm honestly really happy with how i did. My goal for this comp was to not go above 23 on any solve and hopefully get a top10, which i did. Overall I missed 1.33 on the set which is a bit better than average for me and 0.67 from my drs which is a bit bad but it's ok.
On a1 i did miss some things but this was expected due to it being my first solve at a major and so many other good people getting a 23 as well softened this a lot. Then the miss on a2 was much worse and essentially cost me second place, but my final solution was so cool that i honestly don't mind, as I've said in the solve comment i regret not finding 22 from my htr more than i do missing the dr for 21. And then a3 couldn't have gone better, getting a 19 in the first half of the attempt and being one of only 5 people to contribute to the woaj on this solve(the least number of people to do so out of the 3 solves).
Congrats once again to Krzysztof for winning with an insane solution on a1 and to Rogo and Moritz on the second place with very solid a2 and a3.
Thanks to everyone whom i got to compete against, I'm so happy to finally have met in person so many people I've been talking to on discord for ages. Hopefully we get to meet again🙂
Abhimanyu Singhal (अभिमन्यु सिंघल)SCU V: Monday Night FMC 2026 · · 3 solution(s)
PR mo3 24.67, was one of my goals for 2026 to get sub 25 mean :) guess i need a new goal now with 4 months left
also has to be PB for DR length mo3, very lucky that the short DRs gave reasonable continuations. don't know if i've ever found so many DRs < 11 in a set before. other than +4 for wrong slice, got very manageable finishes too.
A1: 9+4 -> +6 DF
A2: 10+3 -> +6 to wrong slice, +4 safety
A3: 9+2 -> +7 to slice, +1
do feel like this one is a bit of a scam though, didn't practice at all and just got lucky. don't know if i really deserved it but result is result i guess. to some extent FMC is just about doing more attempts until you get something good so maybe it's fine idk. wonder how long it'll take to get a set like this again
Aedan BryantRubik's WCA North American Championship 2026 · · 3 solution(s)
First win at a major and first major podium since clock 2nd place at US nats 2019 7 years ago!
Solve 1 could have definitly been better, I'm especially proud of solve 2 as that is a particularly hard solution to find and I don't think I could have done better, and I'm glad I didn't miss the 18 on 3.
Chris ChiRubik's WCA North American Championship 2026 · · 3 solution(s)
Very funny mean, I thought I had no chance of podium after starting with 24 25, and even more so after the 18 spawned in on attempt 3. I'm kind of annoyed that I threw an 18 with the other two terrible attempts, but I'm very happy to complete the set of national/continental/world podiums in FMC :P
Joseph GuzmanNon-participantRubik's WCA North American Championship 2026 · · 3 solution(s)
at-home attempts shortly after each scramble was posted. 'if I was there would this be what I got'? eh, 23 and 18 on A2 & A3 seemed quite simple but 21 A1 not so much. out from a flight and under a lot of nerves so early? i might've missed the pure 6c6e case, but the finish is easy. either way i don't really mind.
this was certainly a more skill-based scramble set than FMC Worlds and moreso what i'd like to see at a majors. have the title feel a little more 'earned'