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Shhhh no more cubes, only gains now

hi guys! long time no cube. this seems like an exciting discussion. cliff notes?

Today, my parents were watching a Chinese TV show and told me to come watch. The show invited Haiyan Zhuang, Shenjia Zhang, Yumu Tabuchi, and another Chinese guy and girl. Shenjia, Yumu, and the other guy had some solves around 10-13 seconds. The girl solved it in 51 seconds. Yumu had a 1:20...

No one realizes how much I had to sacrifice for the competition. I've lost my interest in cubing for a long time. I organized this competition because I promised my friend, who recently recovered from cancer, for 2 years that we would do it and that I wanted give back to the cubing community and...

:fp There's nothing wrong with thanking him. You should have thanked him. Everyone should have thanked him. Did you miss the whole discussion? We could have been been more organized without him. I would have stepped to take control over everything and the people just sitting around would have...

See my final post after that. Qqwref made a clear conclusion. You did your part well and I did my part well. I thanked you many times for your help. We simply had different styles of running things and we should have communicated more during the competition. You are not the reason behind the...

Thanks, qqwref. It really is just different styles not working together. I did not ignore anyone. Dave simply assumed that everyone had his experience. He did his own thing pretty well, but did not bother to share his knowledge in a clear way. If he even gave me as much info as in your post...

No. From the beginning, I suggested 2 scrambling tables. It would have made things a lot faster. However, Dave rejected the idea 2 times. He clearly wanted to be in control. When things don't end up the way he likes, he tries to blame it on me. If he was not there, I could have taken control and...

There were plenty of empty tables at the other side of the room. I could have taken the scramble sheets and started to scramble there.

Dave, I have been receptive to your criticisms. I thank you for your suggestions. Now relax and be a bit more optimistic. A cubing competition is supposed to be fun, not an assembly line. Sure things didn't go perfectly, but it's not like I wasn't working the whole time. I also prepared...

Really? I was concentrating on my solve the whole time, so I did not see anything. I'll speak to him again later. However, from what I understand, Christopher Phillips finished before that. Also, you think really attentive FMC judges exist? It's just that at the typical competition, people don't...

Michael said that he was paying attention during the FMC round and that the only thing he saw was sign language communication between Shane and Christopher Philips during the first 20 minutes of FMC. He thought that Shane was explaining the rules of FMC to Chris. He did not see any cell phone...

Has anyone decided what we are going to do with Shane Rowland's 13.61 for 3x3x3 speed?

1. While it was not the conventional way to do things, what we did for the first event could have worked for everything else. I expected to just call out that an event is starting. People will line up to write their names and put down their puzzles. The scramblers could immediately start...

1. The score sheets were printed ahead of time. Filling in everyone's names ahead of time could have helped, but we did not lose any time there. 2. I'll take the blame for the scheduling. I forgot to put 5x5 in there. 3. The WCA delegate is supposed to provide the scrambles according the the...