Dear WCA Community,

We are happy to announce that Sherry Tao will become the new Leader of the WCA Archive Team (WAT). Sherry was already working as a Member of the WAT.

Sherry was selected by the WCA Board and approved in a vote, as described in Section 5 of our Motion about WCA Committees and Teams. This appointment is effective as of August 14, 2026.

We thank William Gan for the work he has done as the Leader, and wish Sherry the best of luck in fulfilling her new duties.

Sherry’s public application can be viewed here. We also received several applications from potential future members of the WAT; we look forward to seeing the Team grow and carry out its duties under Sherry’s leadership.

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Dear WCA Community,

We are happy to announce that Glenn Koster will become the new Leader of the WCA Appeals Committee (WAC). Glenn was already working as a Senior Member of the WAC.

Glenn was selected by the WCA Board and approved in a vote, as described in Section 5 of our Motion about WCA Committees and Teams. This appointment is effective as of August 26, 2026.

We thank Rui Reis, who will remain as a Senior Member of WAC, for the work he has done as the Leader, and wish Glenn the best of luck in fulfilling his new duties.

Glenn’s application was the only one received. You can view Glenn’s candidacy document here.

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Dear WCA Community,

We are happy to announce that Roxana Johnson has been appointed as the new Leader of the WCA Quality Assurance Committee (WQAC). Roxana was already working as a Senior Member of the WQAC.

Roxana was selected by the WCA Board and approved in a vote, as described in Section 5 of our Motion about WCA Committees and Teams. This appointment is effective as of July 13, 2026.

We would like to thank Dan Smith, who had taken on an interim leadership role for the team while a new Leader was being appointed, and wish Roxana the best of luck in her new role. Dan will remain as a Senior Member of the WQAC for a short while.

Roxana was the only applicant for the role, and her successful candidacy document can be found here.

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Dear WCA Community,

The Board is providing notice, as required by Bylaw 2.12, of the 2026 annual meeting of the members which will be held on September 27 at 17:00 UTC. Members will be able to tune into this meeting via a livestream hosted on the WCA’s Twitch. In this folder, you will find the information packet related to the annual meeting which contains all relevant documentation which will be discussed at the meeting.

We look forward to your participation in the upcoming annual meeting.

Kind Regards,
Oliver Hexter, on behalf of the Board of Directors

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Dear WCA Community,

From January 2, 2027, all official WCA attempts performed with a speedsolving timer will be required to use a Speed Stacks G5 StackMat™ Pro Timer in 4-pad mode. The adoption of 4-pad mode will provide greater certainty that official times are achieved in accordance with the WCA Regulations and will strengthen the integrity of the results recognized by the WCA.

Since our formation, the WCA has recorded times based on a speedsolving timer with two sensor pads. Although these timers are capable of precise measurement, the accuracy of this measurement in timing a speedsolving attempt requires the timer to be started and stopped in accordance with the WCA Regulations.

It has become clear that the use of speedsolving timers with two sensor pads causes difficulties in enforcing these Regulations, especially since Regulation infractions may not be visible to a judge when viewed live. Frame-by-frame video offers one route around this, but performing this analysis is time consuming and reliant on high quality video being available. No viable changes to the current Regulations wording or other suitable means have been identified that would provide a satisfactory resolution using existing timer requirements.

The WCA has therefore decided that switching to 4-pad represents the best solution to these challenges. This new requirement will replace the existing requirements in the WCA Approved Timer List, which currently requires 2-pad mode, and also allows for use of the G4 StackMat™ Pro Timer and G3 StackMat™ Pro Timer.

4-pad mode will require changes to the Regulations for starting and stopping the speedsolving timer. Draft Regulations changes will be published for community feedback in September, as part of the annual Regulations cycle.

Time differences between 2-pad results and 4-pad results are negligible for the vast majority of competitors and events. As such, existing records will stand until broken under 4-pad mode and 4-pad results will be ranked alongside 2-pad results. Although no record reset is considered necessary, the WCA Rankings page will be updated to support filtering between all results and 4-pad results for 2×2, Clock, Pyraminx, and Skewb.

All regions which are currently using timers without 4-pad capability will have Speed Stacks G5 timers provided in time for the effective date of this change. Costs will be covered and logistics will be handled by the WCA.

For more information on the factors behind this change and the process followed by the WCA to arrive at this decision, please refer to the 4-Pad Decision Process Explainer Document.

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