Competitions · India

Carte Blanche Kube Open 2014

Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu · 15 February 2014 · 7 events · 122 competitors · 113 personal bests

Kesava Kirupa won two of the seven events (3×3, 5×5) and the closest final was the 3×3, won by Kesava Kirupa by 0.20 seconds. 122 competitors produced 113 personal bests, 26 of which still stand today, and 63 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

A national record

Swaminathan Chandrasekaran set the Pyraminx single national record: 2.59.

Two wins

Kesava Kirupa — 3×3, 5×5

0.20s

closest final — 3×3, Kesava Kirupa over Nithin Babu

113

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Kesava Kirupa	11.13	11.61
2×2	Nithin Babu	1.66	2.86
4×4	Nithin Babu	46.68	49.97
5×5	Kesava Kirupa	1:23.06	1:44.11
3×3 blindfolded	Bhargav Narasimhan	1:59.03	—
3×3 one-handed	Bhargav Narasimhan	12.98	14.69
Pyraminx	Swaminathan Chandrasekaran	2.59	6.66

The PB harvest

113 set · 26 still standing

Swaminathan Chandrasekaran — Pyraminx single 2.59: into the top 2.4% of the event's history.
Siddharth Sriraman — 3×3 single 10.59: into the top 9.2% of the event's history.
Vedantha Sai — 3×3 single 13.14: into the top 17.9% of the event's history.
Varada Desikan — 3×3 single 16.36: into the top 29.0% of the event's history.
Sanjay Seetharaman — Pyraminx single 7.87: into the top 35.1% of the event's history.
Siddharth Sriraman — 4×4 single 1:03.05: into the top 39.7% of the event's history.
Krishna Kanakaraj — 3×3 single 20.16: into the top 40.4% of the event's history.
Kiran Krishna — 2×2 single 5.60: into the top 46.5% of the event's history.

First-timers

63 people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 9,275 people who made their debut in 2014. Start here explains what a first competition is like.

Records watch

2 regional records were set at this competition.

The field

122 competitors · 390 results · 7 events.

Everyone who competed

122 competitors

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a final is a competition's last round; its order decides the podium · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · every solve starts from a computer-generated scramble, the same for every competitor in a round.