Save Clock Campaign Appears Outside NAC 2026 Venue

A mobile video truck outside the North American Championship displayed messages urging the WCA to keep Clock as an official event.

A mobile video advertisement truck appeared outside the Rubik’s WCA North American Championship 2026 venue in Raleigh, North Carolina, displaying messages calling for Clock to remain an official WCA event.

The truck showed several rotating messages, including “WCA: Turn Back the Clock,” “Keep WCA Fun! Save Clock,” and “The Community Has Spoken. Will WCA Listen?” The displays also included a QR code linking viewers to a petition calling for Clock to be reinstated.

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The campaign comes shortly after the World Cube Association announced that Clock will be removed from its list of official events following the 2027 WCA World Championship. Face Turning Octahedron is set to become an official WCA event beginning in January 2027.

The truck’s appearance adds another visible layer to the community response around Clock’s removal. A Change.org petition calling for the event to remain official has already reached over 5,000 verified signatures and has been shared widely across the speedcubing community.

Clock has become one of the biggest discussion points entering NAC 2026. The event is still part of the official WCA lineup and will be contested in Raleigh, but under the current WCA timeline, this will be the final North American Championship before Clock enters its last official season.

The WCA has cited scrambling challenges, frequent incidents, different equipment and procedures, spectator concerns, and the event’s fit within the WCA’s broader identity as reasons for removing Clock.

Supporters of the event have argued that Clock still has an active competitive community, improved hardware, recent growth, and a meaningful place in WCA history.

It is not yet clear whether the WCA will revisit the decision. For now, the truck outside NAC shows that the effort to keep Clock official has moved beyond online discussion and into a public campaign at one of the largest competitions of the year.