US Nationals 2012 (Las Vegas)

[flee135]

Seminars are uploaded. I'm not going to embed them since there's a bunch, but here are the links to all of them.

OH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05Nkcb_1huY
BLD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zslXVlj0kcU
How to get fast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGzWaluqREs
F2L: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeXFkiQw2qY
F2L part 2 (thanks to Jonathan Cookmeyer): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrHonMJj-sE
Organizing Competition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP2q9YgdiS0

[deathbypapercutz]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/sc...?_r=1&emc=eta1

wow, what an amazing specimen of woman in that picture at the top!!!!!!

on a more serious note, this is one of the most germane and factually accurate news articles about cubing I've ever read. I imagine this is indicative of a higher level of journalism in general at the New York Times than at some local newspaper in Armpit, Minnesota.

It's nothing. Thompson was trolling when he put that in his accomplishments.

I'm a little hurt that Tyson read all of Thompson's trolls out loud, but refused to read the awesome stuff I wrote down for Andy...

- that Berkeley might try to organize a Berkeley Fall on September 2 as a mini-Nats reunion?
...
- Jeremy's backpack was surreptitiously filled with ads for hookers and blow?
- ...and we still don't know who did it?

1. one week sooner please - I am going back to school on September 1 k thanks
2. they weren't ads for hookers and blow; they were those baseball cards except with strippers instead of baseball players. I suppose those are basically the same thing, though.

[rowehessler]

did you know?

Spoiler:

you should never walk into a tattoo parlor while intoxicated?

[Sa967St]

- There were a couple of new things we tried this year. Some worked, some didn't. What was your opinion on these changes? (e.g. T-shirt vendor, seminars, unofficial competition, etc. Especially the T-shirt vendor because that's a project I'm in charge of and I want to know your thoughts!)

The seminars and the unofficial competition were both awesome. I look forward to more of that in future competitions. The only thing that bothered be about the unofficial competition was the "best of 1" and "mean of 3" formats. Best of 3 would have been a lot nicer for events like Team BLD and Team solving, and average of 5 would have been a lot nicer for skewb. There were obviously some issues with having enough time to hold everything, so hopefully if you decide to run an unofficial competition again there will be more time to hold all the anticipated events.

- How did a ton of people find out about the penthouse suite last night? It was supposed to be a score-checking staff gathering, but we somehow got a ton of random people.

Word of mouth. I heard it from someone who heard it from someone, etc. I don't know who's responsible for giving your room number away in the first place.

- How many hours of sleep did you get from Thursday to Monday?

15 I think. Much better than last year, which was probably 2 hours over 4 days.

[masterofthebass]

did you know?

Spoiler:

you should never walk into a tattoo parlor while intoxicated?

no you didnt

[blah]

no you didnt

oh you have no idea what else happened

[blackzabbathfan]

I guess I have a few DYKs

Did you know. . . . .

I was mistaken for Collin Burns at least twice?
The pool area at the Riviera played surprisingly good music?
Ernie Pulchny had me on his back for at least an hour throughout the competition?
Slender?
Mitches Please?
Voice crack? (Worse than Zach Goldman's)

I'll try to think of more later.

[bluecloe45]

no you didnt

Im guessing he got a tattoo of Jack Black, his newest look alike.

[Riley]

- that Berkeley might try to organize a Berkeley Fall on September 2 as a mini-Nats reunion?

That's labor day weekend, so a lot of people might be on vacation.

[Kian]

no you didnt

Oh, he did. He did so much.