Dubai American Academy Open 2025
- Date
- Sep 13, 2025
- City
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Venue
- Address
- Hessa Street - Sheikh Zayed Rd - Al Barsha - Dubai
- Details
Gymnasium, Gate 5
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Chris Hagen, Gabriel Tan, and Niryan Anish Parikh
- WCA Delegates
- Akash Rupela and Baha Alshwaiki
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This event is organized and hosted by GEMS Dubai American Academy school, and to be recognized by the World Cube Association. This event was initiated by it's passionate and enthusiastic students, supervised by school staff representatives and overseen by the WCA Delegate.
Kindly read the competition registration and information carefully.
Please feel free to contact the organizing team for any questions.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 58
- 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 70 competitors.
Registering for this competition is free.
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.
- Make sure to add your Mobile Number in the comments section.
- 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.
- 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.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Jeriel James Thomas won with an average of 7.16 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Gabriel Tan finished second (7.91) and Taehoon Yoo finished third (9.14).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Jeriel James Thomas | 5.40 | 7.16 | Canada | 6.53 | 7.68 | 7.27 | 8.57 | 5.40 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Abdallah Belal Omar | 1.29 | 2.21 | Jordan | 2.19 | 2.00 | 2.44 | 1.29 | 3.70 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Abdallah Belal Omar | 30.62 | 33.78 | NR | Jordan | 35.20 | 30.62 | 37.96 | 31.86 | 34.27 | ||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | Jeriel James Thomas | 10.29 | 11.30 | Canada | 11.56 | 13.14 | 11.90 | 10.29 | 10.44 | |||
| Pyraminx | Rannanjay Singh Kotwal | 3.79 | 4.56 | India | 6.28 | 4.47 | 3.79 | 4.27 | 4.93 | |||
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
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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.