DIA EH Cube for Change Dubai A 2026

Date: Jan 31, 2026
City: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Venue: Dubai International Academy - Emirates Hills
Address: School-MDB - شارع الخيل الأول - 1 Julnar Street - Dubai
Details: Secondary School Sports Hall
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Aryan Shah, Rishab Malpani, Vidur Arun, and Vihaan Deshpande
WCA Delegates: Akash Rupela and Baha Alshwaiki

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Information

This event is organized and hosted by Dubai International Academy Emirates Hills, and to be recognized by the World Cube Association.

Kindly read the competition registration and information carefully.

Entry fees are used to cover expenses of the competition, and remainings will be used for charity donations

Please feel free to contact the organizing team for any questions.

Events
Main event

Competitor limit: 100

Number of times bookmarked: 25

Registration period

Online registration opened and will close .

Registration requirements

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.
This competition is part of the DIA EH Cube for Change Dubai II 2026 Competition Series. Other competitions in this Series are:

DIA EH Cube for Change Dubai B 2026

Note: You can submit a registration for all competitions in a Series, but only one of those registrations can be confirmed and accepted. You will only be allowed to compete in one of the Series competitions!
There is a competitor limit of 100 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is 40 د.إ (United Arab Emirates Dirham).
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 on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 2 guests.

Please Read Carefully:

Payment will be via Cash on the spot. Please make sure you have an exact amount of AED 40.
Make sure to register with your first name and last name exactly like your ID card/passport. If you are a UAE resident, kindly choose your nationality as the country of representation and not the UAE.
If you're not able to attend the competition after your registration is approved kindly inform the organizers, to accommodate other competitors for this event. If the competitor fails to inform the organizer before registration deadline is over, then the competitor future registrations in future competitions will not be taken seriously.
Kindly ensure to read all the tabs of this competition, WCA regulations, and that you regularly check your email for any communication from the organizers.

You can pay the entry fees using in-person at the event venue using cash, on the day of the competition. No registration payments prior to the competition date will be accepted.

Note: The registration fee of this competition is AED 40. Please make sure to bring the exact amount.

First-Time Competitors / المتسابقين الجدد
Please ensure to read the WCA regulations before the competition. The regulations link can be found below.
يرجى من المتسابقين الجدد قراءة قوانين وانظمة المنظمة قبل المشاركة، جميع القوانين موجودة في هذا الرابط

https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/

Please also click the YouTube link below to learn about the tournament mode
يرجى أيضًا النقر على رابط YouTube أدناه للتعرف على وضع البطولة

WCA Competitor Tutorial

DIA EH Cube for Change Dubai 2026 is a charity event, where we foster a 'Change' through gathering the 'Cube'ing community. Therefore, the remaining monetary recieved from the series event, will be given to the Dubai Cares philanthropic organization, through Innoventure Education's GIVE Foundation.

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.