US Nationals 2012 (Las Vegas)

[uberCuber]

I'M LIKE 5'9" GO AWAY AND MAKE FUN OF JANELLE

[timspurfan]

Such an awesome competition.
It was great seeing all of you again! I was looking forward to this all summer and I'm so glad it was THIS awesome.

I'm still here until Tuesday evening, so if anyone's sticking around for a few more days, let's cube and stuff.

I'll post DYKs when I get home. I have A LOT.


edit: I forgot to mention that I lost my stackmat timer Friday night. It has my name on the back. If you have it, please let me know.

UHH I think I have your timer...and I think you have my Zhanchi :/
I'm here till Wednesday night, but tomorrow I'll be at the Grand Canyon all day...how shall we settle this?

[ianography]

I'M LIKE 5'9" GO AWAY AND MAKE FUN OF JANELLE

Mitch please

[rickcube]

One thing I really missed this year was the screen. The last two Nats had it and I missed seeing all the times posted up on the screen. Other than that though it was a really amazing competition. Except I missed OH semis because I didn't think a high 21 average would make top 32 and it ended up putting me in 32nd place. Oops.

[Cool Frog]

DYK

-I lost my wallet on the plane back home, and cared more that I lost the stickers Thom gave me more than the $40 I had in it?
-My fingernails made it to the newyork times?
-I found Optimal LL for my second FMC solve
-Thom gives pretty good hugs
- Brest learns algs by reconstructing solves
- There is a sexy alg for noswap FRURUF
- 2/4 Roux users made it to finals
- Everyone loves Rainbow cube
- Brest has terrible judgement on finding places to eat
- Brest is very good at insertions (It is how he got his wife)
- Brest reconstructs dirty videos
- Mitch makes the funniest face when you tell him you don't use OLLCP in your solves.
- <3 stickers
- Going out for a smoke is actually called "Going out for a Wank"
- A salad bar is basically a salad buffet except you can't eat all you want for one set price.
- When your shoe is untied you suffered from a blowout
- Apparently flipping two edges on a pentaminx is frowned upon.
- So is doing a + center 3 cycle on a pentaminx
- Lars Petrus didn't get a sub 20 avg 5... so I didn't get a rubiks plushie
- I have Thom's Sandwich wrapper that he threw onto the floor
- CPcatapilla has a WHOLE new meaning


More later

[Tyson]

One thing I really missed this year was the screen. The last two Nats had it and I missed seeing all the times posted up on the screen. Other than that though it was a really amazing competition. Except I missed OH semis because I didn't think a high 21 average would make top 32 and it ended up putting me in 32nd place. Oops.

Yeah, so did we. Charges at the hotel for putting up a screen/renting a projector would have been pretty outrageous. It would have been cheaper to buy a projector. We looked at the cost of projecting results up on a screen and it just wasn't going to happen. As you can see, it was bare bones in terms of A/V, and the microphones that we had worked well with good sound.

Having a screen would have increased out A/V costs by a multiplier of about 10.

[Anthony]

DYK

$600
$1,000
6'5 250
178th
Sub-10
245 lbs ≠ 14 stone
McKayla Maroney+Kian
Jamaicans
Tattoo
Sumo
Lighting a Cig
Hays is comfy
Weston hogs blankets
Bald
21 in Vegas
Good times at night ≠ good times in the morning
Rowe Hessler still wins
just do lots of solves
Ricci's tps is stupid fast
Audience members don't clap for 9s anymore...not even when it's one handed.
Koreans
cat ears

[Weston]

DYK

Waris is one of the funniest people in the world
Taco Bell diet is a thing
Worlds with Kevin Hays will be fun
The British pub restaurant asks if you would like "chips or fries"
Hays is comfy
Anthony hogs blankets
Some people don't know who had the 3x3 WR before Erik, or that Rowe used to do MBLD
Thom is scary when he's jumping on you
Cheers
There are too many people that I don't know of who are fast at OH

[rickcube]

Yeah, so did we. Charges at the hotel for putting up a screen/renting a projector would have been pretty outrageous. It would have been cheaper to buy a projector. We looked at the cost of projecting results up on a screen and it just wasn't going to happen. As you can see, it was bare bones in terms of A/V, and the microphones that we had worked well with good sound.

Having a screen would have increased out A/V costs by a multiplier of about 10.

Yeah I figured it was a cost issue. Same for wifi access I'm assuming. I image that would have been fairly cost intensive as well. Small sacrifices for the location though.

[Tyson]

Yeah I figured it was a cost issue. Same for wifi access I'm assuming. I image that would have been fairly cost intensive as well. Small sacrifices for the location though.

Lol... you don't even want to know the cost of Wifi... it would cost us something like $50 per person.