Gem City Ohio Showdown 2025
- Date
- Jan 11, 2025
- City
- Dayton, Ohio, United States
- Venue
Hindu Temple of Dayton
- Address
- 2615 Temple Ln, Beavercreek, OH 45431
- Details
Competition is through the back entrance.
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Cubing Frontiers LLC and Harsha Paladugu
- WCA Delegates
- Braden Richards and Evan Brown
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information

This competition will be taking place inside a Hindu Temple. No outside food is to be brought onto the premises. Lunch and snacks will be provided, see Food tab for more information.
New competitors should plan to arrive before 8:25 to ensure you do not miss the competitor tutorial.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 55
- 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 75 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $25 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 90% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
We encourage everyone to register for the events they want to compete in via your online registration, however you may add events to your registration up until the event has started.
On the spot registrations will be accepted if there are remaining spots available, with a base registration fee of $25 (United States Dollar).
Any spectator can attend for free.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Luke Garrett won with an average of 1.74 seconds in the Pyraminx event. Elliott Perkins finished second (2.08) and Xavier Ye finished third (2.15).
World records: Sameer Aggarwal Square-1 4.69 (average).
3x3x3 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luke Garrett | 4.92 | 5.12 | United States | 5.08 | 4.92 | 5.10 | 5.18 | 7.33 | |||
| 2 | Sameer Aggarwal | 4.36 | 6.90 | United States | 4.36 | 6.47 | 7.21 | 9.73 | 7.01 | |||
| 3 | Jacob Bennett | 6.99 | 7.48 | United States | 7.68 | 7.08 | 6.99 | 7.69 | 8.71 | |||
2x2x2 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sujan Feist | 1.12 | 1.63 | United States | 2.71 | 1.12 | 1.68 | 1.42 | 1.79 | |||
| 2 | Jack Pfeifer | 1.58 | 1.80 | United States | 1.58 | 1.86 | 1.83 | 2.27 | 1.70 | |||
| 3 | Luke Garrett | 1.51 | 1.99 | United States | 2.55 | 1.51 | 2.32 | 1.54 | 2.12 | |||
Pyraminx
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luke Garrett | 1.31 | 1.74 | United States | 2.04 | 1.60 | 1.31 | 2.27 | 1.59 | |||
| 2 | Elliott Perkins | 1.50 | 2.08 | United States | 2.03 | 4.44 | 1.50 | 2.43 | 1.78 | |||
| 3 | Xavier Ye | 1.51 | 2.15 | United States | 1.81 | 3.10 | 2.03 | 2.61 | 1.51 | |||
Square-1
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sameer Aggarwal | 4.24 | 6.22 | United States | 4.24 | 4.93 | 7.33 | 6.41 | 8.50 | |||
| 2 | Jacob Bennett | 6.97 | 7.32 | United States | 7.41 | 6.97 | 8.72 | 7.31 | 7.24 | |||
| 3 | Jack Pfeifer | 8.02 | 9.33 | United States | 8.02 | 10.10 | 11.09 | 8.05 | 9.84 | |||