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Rapid Dash Open 2012. Guildford, UK!

Will you attend Rapidash Open 2012?


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conn9

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I'd just like to say thank you so much guys for putting on the competition. I'm really proud of my BLD success and 13 single (probably would have had an 11 if it wasn't for PLL skip +2 failness). I'm away for WSMO, so I won't be there unfortunately, but thanks again for the comp. It's so friggin weird seeing other people talking about cubing and doing fast solves irl for the first time (hence my amazed stares at Mollerz's house Fri night).

Edit: Just realised I broke my all time best PB and average for 4x4 in comp o_O
 

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It was a lot of fun, thanks for organising :D

I beat all my official PBs and got my best feet solve, using Roux by accident haha. Me, Rob and Thom beat the sum of podium avgs NR or whatever it's called apparently.
The fastest at big cubes and blind were really impressive :)

Can't go to WSM but if there's one this Nov I'll be going. Hope to get a real sub-10 avg this time (this time I got 9.996 lol).
 

Kirjava

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Great to see everyone again! Especially nice to see some oldbies come back.

James was a great host.
Selkie was so unlucky to not get a decent average.
Jude can still pwn comms.
Alex Lau is such a dude.
Arnaud's picture puzzles can gtfo, but the gradient cube is very colourful :3
Nice to meet Odder.
Ben spoke!
SS5 mod isn't that great.
Furries aren't allowed at UK competitions.
 

kinch2002

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DKY...
I wish every weekend was like this :(
I might have a second addiction in life. <3 BBQ sauce
DJ Yau should have had 13, 13, 14 in a Sq-1 round, but messed 2 of those up
Luke Hubbard still can't get pyra NR :( But it will hopefully happen soon :)
Kir 13.90 OH wtf
I beat him to sub-10 official
He has more official sub-10s than me
Joey won bld with awesome fast time
Soon Odder will get sub3 pyra avg
Bandaged 15 puzzle should be official event
Roux is so sexy it should be made compulsory
Glass panes are not always doors
Mollerz should learn how to undo parity setup moves in bigbld
Joey asks odd questions
Zo
Geert met me at Belgian Open 2010, but I didn't remember :/
Chris Ness and Jude came back :)
Charlie (in her own words) is a 'muppet of epic proportions'

Goals:
Magic: It's an event?/I have to solve 5 whole times? 0.09 single improvement=200 rank gain :)
MMagic: Beat Thom/Beat Thom Lolyes/Lolno
2x2: huh?/Get 5 antisunes in one average No/0
3x3: sub10/meh Woop 9.34 :)/12.22pb
4x4: no/blergh no/blerghblergh
5x5: idc/OPB 1:24/1:28 :)
6x6: 3/3:15 Yes/Just, thanks to doing L4E twice on one solve
7x7: 5:15/5:30 4:55/5:21
OH: eh/sub23 Fail/Complete fail
Feet: Eww/Ewww Yucky/Icky
FMC: Anything sub30 again Yay 26
Pyra: lol/keepNR (not that I'll have any choice in the matter) lol/somehow yes
Mega: sub10/sub10 Woohoo!
Sq-1: Finish/Finish 2nd will do
Clock: 4.00/Get success Not quite/Just about
3bld: sub1 or sub40 if I get time to practise DNF
4bld: Whatever happens DNF
5bld: Oh how I hate you 5bld. WR I guess Hehe
Multi: Not sure I'll do an attempt 5/5 in 8 minutes is nice :)
 
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Zoé

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This was definitely a super great week-end ! :)

DYK
- Lube is the ultimate solution to everything.
- I should have spray painted the shop called "Moffats" with an extra R
- 15 puzzles team blind with Odder YAY ! (we sucked at this ^^)
- Michael was awesome for staying up so late to let us in on Friday night and sharing his room with us ! (but he would have been awesome without that anyway)
- Zo indeed
- If you cube any number between 1 and 1000 and give the result to Odder he will find out what was the original number (and he's super fast at it if the first number is between 1 and 100)
- Who is Luke ? It's Him ! Wait... there are two Lukes in the pyra final ! (total confusion)
- I somehow became super fast at 4x4 all of a sudden and even did a sub-50 \O/
- Walking in the streets and finding some pretty cheap promotion for an around the world ticket. Arnaud : "Must be a flight where you just fly around the world and don't stop anywhere". Me : "Really ? O.O" => I need a sarcasm sign.
- Steal all the sugar from Subway
- We got stuck in a traffic jam at 3am on the way to the comp (seriously... 3am ?!?)
- I was like... super lazy for judging (sorry about that).
- I probably did more than 10 PLL in my OH average x)
- 2 times lol-scrambles on 3x3 (super easy 2x2 block. Should have used those for FM)
- First time that I beat Arnaud with all our overall results (good that I didn't do FM) :D
- I now have 23 blind DNF and still no success :/
- My pyraminx popped for no reason in the finals. Without that I would have gotten 3rd place :(
- Arnie was totally awesome for still trying to get into the train Sunday night, even though the "computer" said we were too late to board on it. Saved us 1H of Traveling :D
- and finally : IT NEEDS LUBE !
 

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My nominees for most awesome results of this comp:

5 BLD WR
Kir getting official sub 10
5BLD sub 9
And although very*last but definitely not least: 25 minute 3BLD by Mukunth Suresh!

I'm dead serious if I say that I find this is a very inspiring result. Who cares that it was not fast, you DID it!
Sorry Zoé ;)

* last on world ranking
 

kinch2002

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My nominees for most awesome results of this comp:

Kir getting official sub 10 twice
5BLD sub 9
25 minute 3BLD by Mukunth Suresh!
These were all awesome, although we all expected 5bld to be sub9 :p
More: Thom 13.90 OH
Breandan 1:05/1:11 5x5
Chris Ness official sub-10 after not competing for years
Spef 7x7 fail
My personal solve of the comp goes to: DJ Yau feet pop, repair with edge flipped wrong, solve, flip edge
I'll upload the viedo sometime
 

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Just a check: if that 15.xx solve was great, why is there a 11.36 as well? I don't know her, but by reading your post I get the feeling this is a mistake in the results? (or skippy? :D)

Whoa! I didn't even see that! I was talking to Hannah's mum in a brief excursion to the shops and she was so pleased that Hannah got a 15.xx - I obviously didn't watch her in round 2! Well done Hannah.
 

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If you could send me all/any of these that would be really nice :)

Send me a PM on youtube and I can give you my password if that's easiest, cheers.
I'll send them to you, though I should say that in the 9.21 the cube isn't actually in view for a large part of the solve. Looks like I was too busy watching you and didn't bother watching the viewfinder, so the camera is angled a bit far down :S
But I'll send you the videos and you can decide :) Can you PM me your email address?
 

kinch2002

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Just a check: if that 15.xx solve was great, why is there a 11.36 as well? I don't know her, but by reading your post I get the feeling this is a mistake in the results? (or skippy? :D)
I just checked the scorecard, and there is absolutely no doubt it says 11.36. Indeed it is weird because that was round 1, whereas 15.19 was round 2. I shall email her
 

kinch2002

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Dan, can you get my multibld result changed on the WCA please? It says the time was 17 seconds instead of 17 minutes (I think it was 17:37).

Sorry to be picky, but I've noticed one of my OH results is registered wrong. Round 1, my second solve was 40.83 but it's down as 46.83.
I've requested for both of these to be changed. I checked the scorecards and you're both correct
 
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