AML IIT Gandhinagar Open 2025

Date: Nov 8 - 9, 2025
City: Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
Venue: IIT Gandhinagar
Address: Jibaben Patel Memorial Auditorium, Academic block 1 - 103, IIT Gandhinagar
Details: In the Academic Block 1
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Abhinav Shreenivas Khot, Abhishek Deepak Nair, Arjun Anand Mallya, Neev Bharatkumar Patel, Poojan Soni, and Tanish Vinod Yelgoe
WCA Delegate: Pranav Dandgaval

: Download all the competition's details as PDF here.

Information

• If you're participating in a WCA competition for first time or unaware of competition rules, make sure that you attend the tutorial session.

• If you're participating in a WCA competition for first time, please bring your goverment ID card for verification

• Participants must bring their own cubes.

• All the participants are requested to volunteer in the competition and every participant (except newcomers) will be assigned to a particular event they have to either judge, scramble, etc for the group/event.

• In the event of a theft, injury, etc. the organization team will not be held completely or partially responsible.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 63

Registration period

Online registration opened and closed .

Registration requirements

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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 ₹500 (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.

First time participants
Step 1 - Sign-up on WCA. You must mention your full name without any abbreviations while creating your WCA profile.
Step 2 - Register for the competition
Step 3 - Pay here.

Returning participants
Step 1 - Sign-in using your email that you used for your previous competitions.
Step 2 - Register for the competition.
Step 3 - Pay here.

Please check your respective mail ID's through which you will receive all the communications from the organization team.

All the Newcomers are requested to get their valid ID proofs with Date of Birth Mentioned on it.

Early Bid offer :- (If the participant registers and makes the payment on or before 30th Sep 2025)

No. of events	Fees
1 to 5	500
6	550
7	600
8	650
9	700
10	750

Regular Payment :- (If the participant registers and makes the payment on or after 1st Oct 2025)

No. of events	Fees
1 to 5	700
6	750
7	800
8	850
9	900
10	950

Registration for the event will only be accepted if a person has registered on the WCA page AND made the payment.

Notes:
1. You can't change the events once the registration period closes.
2. It is mandatory to pay the registration fees AND register on WCA to complete the full registration process.
3. Wait for 48 hours to get your registration confirmed after payment has been done.

Highlights

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Divyaansh Khatri (दिव्यांश खत्री) won with an average of 9.11 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Harsh Chelani (हर्ष चेलानी) finished second (9.72) and Trishan Gupta finished third (10.25).

Event	Name	Best		Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Divyaansh Khatri (दिव्यांश खत्री)	7.50		9.11	India	9.78	9.95	7.59	7.50	11.41
2x2x2 Cube	Harsh Chelani (हर्ष चेलानी)	2.02		2.47	India	2.02	2.54	2.64	2.24	3.27
4x4x4 Cube	Sukant Koul	32.18		36.05	India	36.09	32.18	33.46	38.60	38.86
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Sukant Koul	22.31		DNF	India	22.31	DNF	26.82
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Divyaansh Khatri (दिव्यांश खत्री)	33			India	33
Clock	Imaad Sohel Ajani	5.38		5.93	India	5.38	6.18	6.57	5.76	5.86
Megaminx	Sukant Koul	44.33		46.22	India	45.38	59.20	44.33	45.72	47.55
Pyraminx	Imaad Sohel Ajani	1.01	NR	2.19	India	1.39	2.86	1.01	3.56	2.33
Skewb	Dhruv M. Sheth	3.25		3.86	India	3.25	5.30	4.15	4.19	3.25
Square-1	Imaad Sohel Ajani	8.65		10.88	India	11.98	10.35	8.65	11.59	10.71

IIT Gandhinagar is situated in Palaj Gandhinagar, You can directly reach Gandhinagar or can take a cab/bus from Ahmedabad.

Distance from Ahmedabad

IIT gandhinagar is 22.6 km from Ahmedabad Airport and 29.8 km from Kalupur (Ahmedabad) Railway Station.

Hotels near IIT Gandhinagar

Hotel Earth Orbit(16 min), Hotel Lake City(17 min) and Hotel Lotus Park(17 min) are located in Kudasan and are nearly 10 km from IIT Gandhinagar.
Hotel Berlin(20 min),and Hotel Skyro Inn(18 min) are located in Sargasan and are nearly 14 km from IIT Gandhinagar.
Jeet Royal Apartments(8 min) around 2.4 km from IIT Gandhinagar.

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/

This video will explain most of what any cuber competing for the first time will need to know, however, it is still required that they are familar with the full set of regulations above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dSuMG--wm8

If you have any questions after this video, we will be having a new competitor/judge tutorial the morning of the competition. That would be the perfect time to ask those questions and clear up any confusion.

If you are stoked to compete and ready to sign up, head over to the registration tab, click register, and fill out the information it asks for. This will help you get set up the WCA's system and one step closer to your first official solve!

Frequently Asked Questions:

Q: Do I use my own cube to compete?

A: Yes! You are responsible for your own hardware in order to compete. Please refer to section 3 of the WCA Regulations for more information on what puzzles are okay to use in competition. If you have any questions, please reach out!

Q: What is the competition like?

A: Competitions are a ton of fun! Competitions are a great opportuity to meet new cubers, make new friends, and be able to compete and get official times recognized by the World Cube Association. Competitions can be as social of an event as you would like them to be. The communitiy is extremely welcoming and you can always sit at any table and strike up a conversation with another cuber. They are great places to try new cubes as well, just in case you are looking to get a new main cube! Once you walk into the venue, you will most likely see your nametag at a check-in table. If you are a first-timer, you will be asked to verify your information on your registration (name, DOB, country). Once you grab your nametag, go ahead and find a seat and start cubing! There will be a competitor/judge tutorial, which can be found on the schedule. After that, we will begin with the first event and will be calling events up by group. Your group numbers can be found on the back of your nametag. After you compete in an event, you will most likely also be expected to help judge another group (typically the following group). Competitions are very self-sufficient, so we rely heavily on the assitance from other cubers and parents like you! Your assisgned helping groups should also be listed on the back of your nametag. Once you are done competing in your event, you can go back to your table and continnue to socialize! To see if you made it to the next round of an event, you can check your results.

Q: How do I find results?

A: For the day of competing, WCA Live will have all of the results manually entered throughout the day. Once on WCA Live, scroll to the competition in question and you're good to go! After the competition, official results will be posted typically within a few days to a week after the competition happens.

Q: How do I get a WCA ID?

After official results are posted after the competitions (see question above), you will receive an email with information on your WCA ID.

Q: Why am I not on the registration list yet?

A: Make sure you pay you registration fee in order to be eligible to be placed on the competitor list. If the competitor limit has been reached by the time your registration is completed, you will be placed onto a waitlist, which is listed in the order of when competitors pay. If you are not advanced from the waitlist before the waittlist closes (date found on Register tab), you will be issued a full refund.

Q: What is the typical age of competitors at these events?

A: All ages are welcome, but in general competitors are between 10 and 20 years old. Don't let this stop you though! Everyone can and should cube!

Q: Are there age divisions?

A: Nope! All competitors compete in the same age groups.

Q: Is there anything else I should know before attending my first competition?

A: Yes! Attending your first competition can come with a lot of nerves, so try and focus on having fun and meeting new people. If you aren't as fast as Max Park or Feliks Zemdegs, just remember that all cubers faster than you have been at your speed at some point! People often do slightly worse in competition than at home too, so don't beat yourself up if you don't do as well as you had hoped! Once you lock in your first set of results, you'll have new personal records to break and goals to achieve at every new competition! If you plan on bringing any of your own puzzles, we highly rercommend marking them somehow (sharpie mark under a center cap or something similar) or keeping them in a box/bag. It happens far too often that many cubers bring a bunch of puzzles, put them on a table unattended, and accidentally take someone elses' puzzle, thinking it was theirs. It's easy to lose track of a single puzzle, especially since so many of them look the same at first glance!

All results will be submitted to an auxiliary site (WCA Live) to determine placing for later rounds in the competition. To see the criteria for qualifying onto the next round of an event, check the Events tab for more information. Below you will find the link to our specific WCA site where you can see your individual rankings for this competition.

Link: https://live.worldcubeassociation.org/competitions/

Please keep in mind that all results are entered and submitted manually by a volunteer, so give time for your results to be submited. All results will be done before the following round, or by the end of the competition.

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.