DSK Cube Open 2023
- Date
- Jan 14 - 15, 2023
- City
- Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Venue
DSK School
- Address
- DSK Vishwa Road, Off Sinhagad Road, Dhayari, Pune, Maharashtra 411041, India
- Details
Foyer, Ground Floor
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Aditya Reddy and Mitali Bobdey
- WCA Delegates
- Rahul Venkatesan, Somya Srivastava, and Sukesh Kumar
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
Participants have to bring their own cube for the event.
Please check out all the tabs for additional important information.
COVID-19 Specific Information:
* Wearing masks, Sanitizing hands frequently and following all local goverment orders is mandatory while attending the competition.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 134
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- 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 150 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is ₹1,000 (Indian Rupee).
Registration fees won't be refunded under any circumstance.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until by contacting the organization team.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
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 HERE for 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.
Siddhesh Pore won with an average of 8.67 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Kalidindi Hardhik Varma finished second (8.81) and Ansh Iyer finished third (9.39).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Siddhesh Pore | 7.86 | 8.67 | India | 8.64 | 8.36 | 9.03 | 9.01 | 7.86 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Shubham Maharana | 1.58 | 2.03 | India | 2.13 | 1.58 | 2.75 | 2.06 | 1.91 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Kalidindi Hardhik Varma | 33.05 | 34.16 | India | 33.71 | 33.05 | 36.29 | 34.22 | 34.56 | |||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Abhijeet Ghodgaonkar (अभिजीत घोडगावकर) | 28.36 | 33.94 | India | 37.76 | 35.71 | 28.36 | |||||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Kalidindi Hardhik Varma | 13.47 | 14.20 | India | 13.47 | 13.47 | 14.12 | 18.15 | 15.00 | |||
| Clock | Sukant Koul | 5.31 | 6.73 | India | 6.84 | 6.82 | 6.53 | 11.54 | 5.31 | |||
| Megaminx | Arnav Adani | 42.27 | 44.15 | India | 42.35 | 43.65 | 42.27 | 49.12 | 46.44 | |||
| Pyraminx | Aneesh Sawant | 3.44 | 4.60 | India | 5.01 | 4.23 | 5.36 | 4.55 | 3.44 | |||
| Skewb | Chetan Roger Dhanjal | 2.94 | 3.27 | India | 3.61 | 3.15 | 3.06 | 2.94 | 5.06 | |||
| Square-1 | Parth Chhugani | 7.25 | NR | 9.81 | India | 9.26 | 7.25 | 11.70 | 10.48 | 9.70 | ||
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.
There is a flat fee of 1000INR for this competiton inclusive of all events.
All the Newcomers* are requested to get their valid ID proofs with Date of Birth Mentioned on it.
First time participants
Step 1 - Sign-up on WCA
Step 2 - Register for the competition below after selecting the number of Events that you wish to participate
Step 3 - Once you register on the WCA site for the competition, your name will be in waiting list.
Step 4- After Succefully Registering ON the WCA site you have to make the payment by clicking here
Returning participants
Step 1 - Sign-in using your email that you used for your previous competitions
Step 3 - Once you register on the WCA site for the competition your name will be in waiting list.
Step 4- After Succefully Registering ON the WCA site you have to make the payment by clicking here
Note
Only once your payment is confirmed, your name will appear on the accepted competitors list in 1-2 days.
Those who have registered on WCA but have failed to make payment will be considered as not registered and will not be allowed to participate.
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).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced (see Regulation A1a2).
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.