Colombo Cubing Revival 2025
- Date
- Mar 8 - 9, 2025
- City
- Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Venue
Ananda College
- Address
- Ananda College, Colombo 10, Western Province, Sri Lanka
- Details
Olcott Hall, Ground Floor
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Duneth Nisala Praveen Ranaweera, Lithum Damviru Perera, Nadeesh Peiris, Samath Keppitiyagama, and Sirima Witharanage Sathmika Navoda
- WCA Delegates
- Duneth Nisala Praveen Ranaweera, Samath Keppitiyagama, Sirima Witharanage Sathmika Navoda, and Somya Srivastava
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
Participants have to carry their own puzzles (cubes)
Check out all the other tabs for more information.
We will be able to max accomodate only 2 guests per participant due to venue space limitations.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 105
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Friday, January 31, 2025 at 6:30 AM UTC and closed Monday, March 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM UTC.
- Registration requirements
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This competition is over, click here to display the registration requirements it used.Create a WCA account here if you don't have one.
If this is not your first competition, associate your WCA ID to your WCA account here.
Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 110 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is 3,500 ₨ (Sri Lankan Rupee).
Registration fees won't be refunded under any circumstance.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Monday, March 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Monday, March 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM UTC by contacting the organization team.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 2 guests.
Please check your respective mail ID's through which you will receive all the communications from the organising team.
All the Newcomers are requested to get their valid ID proofs with Date of Birth Mentioned on it.
For the Returning Participants: Please claim your WCA ID if you have not claimed it yet. Link is provided below.
Click the Registration and Payment process
Notes :
1. It is mandatory to both pay the registration fees & register on WCA to complete the full registration process.
2. Wait for 48 hours to get your registration confirmed after payment has been done.
3. Those who have registered on WCA but have failed to make payment or those those who just make the payment and do not register on WCA will be considered as NOT REGISTERED and will not be allowed to participate. - Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Theviru Vihansith Samaraweera won with an average of 10.11 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Sithupa Sanudaya finished second (10.61) and Pinindu Liyanage finished third (10.84).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Theviru Vihansith Samaraweera | 8.02 | 10.11 | Sri Lanka | 9.12 | 8.02 | 11.32 | 9.90 | 15.49 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Sithupa Sanudaya | 1.20 | 2.56 | Sri Lanka | 1.20 | 2.63 | 3.03 | 2.02 | 3.96 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Samath Keppitiyagama | 36.23 | 37.01 | Sri Lanka | 43.80 | 37.14 | 36.23 | 37.15 | 36.73 | |||
| 5x5x5 Cube | Jeyanthan Nathushaan | 1:00.39 | 1:06.21 | Sri Lanka | 1:02.18 | 1:31.05 | 1:02.70 | 1:00.39 | 1:13.76 | |||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Samath Keppitiyagama | 11.83 | 15.80 | Sri Lanka | 16.77 | 15.85 | 11.83 | 15.29 | 16.26 | |||
| Clock | Lithum Damviru Perera | 7.18 | 8.07 | Sri Lanka | 7.18 | 8.27 | 7.85 | 9.22 | 8.09 | |||
| Pyraminx | Santhiviraj Harikesh | 2.17 | 2.91 | NR | Sri Lanka | 3.08 | 2.17 | 2.49 | 3.21 | 3.15 | ||
| Skewb | Sirima Witharanage Sathmika Navoda | 3.06 | 4.06 | NR | Sri Lanka | 3.06 | 3.18 | 4.28 | 5.43 | 4.72 | ||
| Square-1 | Evin Insitha Gunawardhana | 15.22 | 19.42 | NR | Sri Lanka | 17.31 | 15.22 | 21.47 | 20.69 | 20.26 | ||
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 5:00.00 | Top 16 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 5:00.00 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 3:00.00 | Top 14 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 3:00.00 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 5:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 2:15.00 | |
| 5x5x5 Cube | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 7:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 4:30.00 | |
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 4:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:30.00 | |
| Clock | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 2:30.00 | 2 attempts to get < 45.00 | |
| Pyraminx | First round | Ao5 | 3:00.00 | Top 14 advance to next round | |
| Final | Ao5 | 3:00.00 | |||
| Skewb | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 3:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:30.00 | Top 12 advance to next round |
| Final | Ao5 | 3:00.00 | |||
| Square-1 | Final | Bo2 / Ao5 | 3:30.00 | 2 attempts to get < 2:00.00 |
Registration Fees:
Tier 1 :- 3500 LKR : 1-4 events
Tier 2 :- 4000 LKR : 5-9 events
Early bird discount of 500 off LKR on the base price for each tier for participants who register between 30th Jan - 4th Feb
Registration Method(s):
1. For Local/National Participants:
Bank transfer to:
8010915826
H G D N P RANAWEERA
Commercial Bank
Balangoda
Once you completed the payment, please send a screenshot or a photo of the payment slip with the competitor's name to,
dunethranaweera@gmail.com or
Whatsapp it to :- +94 70 2296502
- For Interantional Partcipants: Contact the organsiation team directly over email and they will guide you on the payment method.
Coming Soon
For those of you new to cubing, WELCOME!
We wanted to let you know this event is perfectly fine for cubers of ANY age and experience. We just ask you know a couple things before coming to compete...
First, please be familiar with the WCA Regulations, found here:
https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/
We have a video made specifically for new cubers, just to show them the basics of competing. This video will explain most of what any cuber competing for the first time will need to know:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=dPL3eV-A0ww
If you are stoked to compete and ready to sign up, head over to the 'Registration & Payment' tab and it will guide you to the registration.
FAQs
Q: Do I use my own cube to compete?
A: YES! You are responsible for your own hardware in order to compete. This means you should bring your own cube.
Q: What is the normal age of competitors at these events?
A: All ages are welcome, but in general competitors are between 8 and 20 years old. Don't let this stop you though, everyone can and should cube! In previous competitions participants who were just 5 years of age also solved the cubes.
Q: How do I find results?
A: All results are posted on the WCA page within a week after the competition finishes. However, for the day of competing, go to Cubecomps.com to find information about current events. This is also where you will find information about upcoming rounds of events. Remember, the results are entered by a human so please be patient if you do not see your results immediately.
Q: Are there age divisions?
A: Nope! All competitors compete together.
Q: I want to attend, or I have friends/family who want to attend, but not compete. Do they need to pay as well?
A: No. All spectators are free to view the competition at no cost. There is payment only to compete. But in some cases, venue will be having restriction to allow spectators depending on the competition.
Q: Can I have fun at this event?
A: HECK YES! Cubing is amazing, and we sincerely hope you enjoy the competition!
If you have any further queries, please do mail the organizers & the delegate.
Time limit
If you reach the time limit during your solve, the judge will stop you and your result will be DNF (see Regulation A1a4).
Cutoff
The result to beat to proceed to the second phase of a cutoff round (see Regulation 9g).
Format
The format describes how to determine the ranking of competitors based on their results. The list of allowed formats per event is described in Regulation 9b. See Regulation 9f for a description of each format.