Gem City Pre-Flight Warm Up OH 2025
- Date
- Jun 28 - 29, 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, Evan Brown, Ricky Martin, Simon Kellum, and Zachary Miller
- 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
- 77
- 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 80 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $45 (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.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 2 guests.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Jack Pfeifer won with an average of 7.30 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Elliott Perkins finished second (7.75) and Carson Clark (张卡森) finished third (7.91).
3x3x3 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack Pfeifer | 5.90 | 7.30 | United States | 5.90 | 9.86 | 7.60 | 7.80 | 6.50 | |||
| 2 | Elliott Perkins | 7.23 | 7.75 | United States | 7.43 | 12.83 | 8.28 | 7.23 | 7.54 | |||
| 3 | Carson Clark (张卡森) | 7.08 | 7.91 | United States | 7.93 | 9.09 | 7.08 | 8.21 | 7.59 | |||
2x2x2 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sujan Feist | 1.11 | 1.29 | United States | 1.37 | 1.36 | 1.11 | 1.41 | 1.13 | |||
| 2 | Jacob Bennett | 1.71 | 1.85 | United States | 2.25 | 1.73 | 1.75 | 1.71 | 2.06 | |||
| 3 | Xavier Ye | 1.55 | 2.07 | United States | 1.82 | 1.70 | 1.55 | 3.64 | 2.69 | |||
4x4x4 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack Pfeifer | 24.48 | 27.74 | United States | 29.32 | 26.88 | 24.48 | 27.64 | 28.69 | |||
| 2 | Jacob Bennett | 26.79 | 30.15 | United States | 30.66 | 28.87 | 30.92 | 26.79 | 34.96 | |||
| 3 | Dylan Cossin | 29.35 | 30.89 | United States | 29.75 | 31.06 | 31.85 | 29.35 | DNF | |||
3x3x3 Blindfolded
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carter Kucala | 30.25 | DNF | United States | DNF | DNF | 30.25 | |||||
| 2 | Rafael Sultanaliev | 1:03.77 | DNF | United States | 1:03.77 | 1:25.15 | DNF | |||||
| 3 | David Miguel-Santiago | 1:33.57 | DNF | United States | DNF | 1:33.57 | DNF | |||||
3x3x3 Fewest Moves
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carter Kucala | 22 | 23.67 | United States | 22 | 27 | 22 | |||||
| 2 | Simon Kellum | 23 | 24.33 | United States | 25 | 25 | 23 | |||||
| 3 | Varun Ashok | 29 | 33.00 | United States | 29 | 39 | 31 | |||||
3x3x3 One-Handed
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carter Kucala | 10.52 | 11.48 | United States | 12.94 | 10.52 | 11.00 | 12.05 | 11.40 | |||
| 2 | Jack Pfeifer | 9.80 | 12.33 | United States | 13.22 | 13.35 | 11.08 | 9.80 | 12.68 | |||
| 3 | Jacob Bennett | 11.00 | 12.63 | United States | 13.89 | 13.28 | 11.00 | 11.25 | 13.37 | |||
Megaminx
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack Pfeifer | 40.13 | 44.87 | United States | 45.57 | 40.13 | 51.93 | 46.36 | 42.68 | |||
| 2 | Carter Kucala | 45.42 | 47.90 | United States | 46.60 | 55.51 | 45.42 | 47.64 | 49.47 | |||
| 3 | Jacob Bennett | 43.50 | 48.78 | United States | 49.67 | 48.08 | 43.50 | 49.78 | 48.60 | |||
Pyraminx
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harsha Paladugu | 1.41 | 1.85 | United States | 5.08 | 1.41 | 2.19 | 1.53 | 1.84 | |||
| 2 | Dylan Cossin | 1.85 | 2.24 | United States | 2.91 | 2.63 | 2.16 | 1.92 | 1.85 | |||
| 3 | Xavier Ye | 1.82 | 2.44 | United States | 2.63 | 3.15 | 1.82 | 1.91 | 2.78 | |||
Skewb
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carter Kucala | 1.43 | 2.42 | United States | 1.91 | 1.81 | 3.54 | 1.43 | 4.22 | |||
| 2 | Simon Kellum | 2.18 | 3.21 | United States | 3.16 | 4.89 | 3.68 | 2.18 | 2.79 | |||
| 3 | Jack Pfeifer | 2.31 | 3.26 | United States | 2.31 | 3.02 | DNF | 3.90 | 2.85 | |||
Square-1
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jacob Bennett | 4.38 | 7.36 | United States | 8.38 | 7.35 | 10.37 | 4.38 | 6.36 | |||
| 2 | Carter Kucala | 6.15 | 8.58 | United States | 7.26 | 9.52 | 20.94 | 6.15 | 8.97 | |||
| 3 | Jack Pfeifer | 6.58 | 9.30 | United States | 6.58 | 8.31 | 12.08 | 10.42 | 9.16 | |||