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Welwyn Garden City 2015 (Hertfordshire, UK)

The bag is safe. Unfortunately it probably would've cost more to post than the 130 mile round trip because of the weight.


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DYK

- UK comps are always happy days
- I can't thank Adam enough for the many nice things he's done for me this weekend
- there were lots of bunnies outside the venue and they were hella cute
- so was Joey many years back
- you guys are all "absolute legends"
- never have there been this many "quali'y bants" all at once
- trying to stay under the 30 minute parking limit at Sainsbury's is the thrill of a lifetime
- Sainsbury's actually has amazing hot pizza; absolutely quali'y
- I can't believe James/Jim didn't drink "coco vanille" this time
- outstanding French conversations were had nonetheless
- it's super nice to be able to just take a nap in an actual bed in a 45 minute break between events
- the data entry chocolate was addictive
- I haven't eaten this unhealthy in many months (#noregretstho)
- Ollie is a lad
- Breandan's English accent remains unbeaten; "I am going to take a baaath. I will be back shooortly"
- I got a 1:04.30 5x5 single which is my third fastest solve ever
- I also got a 4:06 7x7 single with Breandan's cube which is by far my best ever; sub-4 hopefully soon
- James is pro at baseball
- he is not pro at team solve because he always rotates the cube like a weirdo
- I'm happy about my 6th consecutive win in the UK
- my final could have been a lot better: 7.08, 7.40, 9.16 (with a corner twist that I'm 85% the scrambler did), (6.92), (11.99 cross mistake)
- I'm still very pleased with my 8.01 and my 7.88 average because I decided to use my OH cube literally one minute before the first round
- I'm really thankful for this community (#cheesy)
 
So uhh- I did a whole bunch of recording of stuff around the competition. I wanted to make a little montage of the weekend in general, so I could point to it at any point and be all like "Yeee, that was my first comp". But being the humongous moron which I am, I wiped the entire memory card while people were doing Multiblind. Silly me.

I did, however, record the 3x3 finals if anyone wants general footage for any reason. Of course, I couldn't record every solve so this is mainly just pointing the camera around, focusing on one or two individuals at a time (Which were mostly people sitting in the front row of tables, for sake of ease, and I never claimed to have a huge attention span anyway.).

Here it is.

Sorry for the bad cameramanship.
 
Thank you all for coming along and making it such a great competition.
I love organising and am happy to do it all over again in the near future.

Special thanks to everyone who judged and scrambled more than they competed.
I kinda wish I didn't have to call for judges as often as I did but hopefully that'll improve in the future, especially at comps when there isn't such a large percentage of new competitors.

I guess some DYKs are in order since I still can't seem to get some much needed sleep.

bank holiday traffic turns 70 min drives into 3 hour ones but I had fully expected it from experience?

great fun in the Beefeater with good friends followed by epic bants in the hotel room results in minimal sleep?

up at 6am both days and waiting for the breakfast to be brought out to help me start to feel human again?

the room would've been set up perfectly if the entire plan had been printed but remarkably well since it hadn't?

at times I wanted to be wearing a T-shirt saying "If your question can be answered by someone less busy please feel free to find someone matching that description" but I guess that's to be expected?

I got asked where to put rubbish when I had just put a black bag at every non competing table and exit?

should've built more time into the schedule to setup but everything ran smoothly from that point onwards so we never fell more than 15 mins behind?

Daniel's secret event was feet?

it showed and CHJ should probably practice to keep his NRs?

4 move 2x2 solve and 5 moves for James?

I only did 4 warm up solves all weekend and they were before 4x4 since I hadn't solved one since the previous comp?

3 solves isn't enough when you have devoted so much time and effort into 5BLD but hopefully the 2x2 lol single helped a bit?

Massive chunk off of my Mo3 pb in 1st round of 3BLD and also haven't practiced at all since last comp?

2 pbs in 6x6 and once again not a single solve since last comp?

Saturday night is a little blurry?

apparently Ethan just sniffed pepper?

was super glad I put 3 quiet events at the beginning of Sunday to get my head back in the game?

I did just about practice 5x5 enough to slice a little off my average but Zak's still better than me according to his WCA stats?

MBLD? =D
I start my final cube at 16:30 and remove my blindfold at 18:00 if you want to skip ahead (I would highly recommend this option). The fail gets 'interesting' at 12:00.

I left the final cube 1 move from solved intentionally which adds 2 seconds to my official time. I did it accidentally 2 official attempts in a row so now I do it because I want to.

I'm shaking my head so much towards the end of the failed cube because I'm pretty sure I've forgotten to undo a set up move but I didn't have the guts to correct my mistake. I was over thinking it which resulted in me messing up again shortly after.

I seem surprised to see so many people around me when I finish. I was only a couple of minutes under the 1 hour limit, picked up 1st place, was the organiser of the comp and the only person in the room competing at the time. I guess in hindsight I shouldn't've been surprised =P

time to learn TuRBo and actually practice to challenge for gold medals when the likes of CHJ, Ollie and Matt compete?

changed the toner, it then printed 2 sheets before deciding that plain paper would do?

had plenty of spare sheets and only 2 rounds to write out but I'll be having serious talks with my printer about gravity and balconies incase it decides it wants to act up earlier in a comp?

very low catch success rate when it came to chocolate?

missed out on sub 15 yet again?

only needed 15.8 on the last solve but as above no practice leading up to comp so I didn't expect much from any event so really pleased with everything except my parity filled 4x4 rounds?

Conny knocked it out of the park even with a corner twist which I really hope was in the 15%?

also got to chat with him for over 4 hours straight which was awesome?

KT stopped filming just a little too soon?

Greg cares more about getting the equipment home safely than his cubes?

hacky sack would be much easier with table tennis paddles attached to the top of your shoes?

non eventful drive home was exactly what I needed and gratefully received?

I never did get that cheeky Nando's but there's always today?

DYKs have far fewer in jokes when you spend the entire time organising but far more rewarding than chilling with your friends for the weekend?
 
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@Tyler: When you 'wipe' a memory card, you only really wipe a tiny bit (it's quicker for the electronics to do) and recovery of data can be successful. There's several programs around on the net that do this, one clunky but effective one I've used is PhotoRec by Christophe Grenier. Worth a try, there's really nothing to lose.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/
 
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3x3 Group A Round 2... I would have got a 12.68 average holy... I would've made 8th place and qualified for the finals.

Btw, 3x3 Group C Round 2 Scramble 1, lovely xx-cross. I hope lots of people noticed it.
 
James Molloy - 11.26 3x3 av5 - Welwyn Garden City 2015

L2 D2 U2 R2 B' U2 B2 F2 L' D' F2 L R2 B U2 L' F D

x y2 // inspection
R' B' D R' F2 D // cross
U' L U' L2' U L // 1st pair
U2 R U' R' U' L U L' // 2nd pair
R' U' R U y R U' R' // 3rd pair
y' U' R U2 R' U' R U R' // 4th pair
U2 R' F' R U R' U' R' F R2 U' R' U2 R // COLL
R2 U R U R' U' R' U' R' U R' // EPLL
View at alg.cubing.net
Code: 
[B]Step	Time	STM	stps	ETM	etps[/B]
[COLOR="red"]Total	14.53	60	4.13	62	4.27	[/COLOR]	[B][SIZE="4"]%[/SIZE]
							Step		Time	STM	ETM[/B]
F2L	10.60	35	3.30	37	3.49		F2L/Total	73.0%	58.3%	59.7%
LL	3.93	25	6.36	25	6.36		LL/Total	27.0%	41.7%	40.3%

Cross+1	4.20	12	2.86	12	2.86		Cross+1/F2L	39.6%	34.3%	32.4%
OLS	3.92	22	5.61	23	5.87		OLS/Total	27.0%	36.7%	37.1%
PLL	0.88	11	12.50	11	12.50		PLL/LL		22.4%	44.0%	44.0%
R' F U F' D' B2 U' F2 U' B2 L' B2 U2 L2 U2 B L2 B

x' // inspection
D' U2 L F' D2' // cross
L' U L d L U' L' // 1st pair
U R U2 R' U' R U R' // 2nd pair
U L' U L d' L U' L' // 3rd pair
y' R' U' R U R' U' R // 4th pair
U R U R' U' R' F R F' // OLL
U' x' z' R U' R' D R U R' D' R U R' D R U' R' D' // PLL
View at alg.cubing.net
Code: 
[B]Step	Time	STM	stps	ETM	etps[/B]
[COLOR="red"]Total	10.69	61	5.71	64	5.99	[/COLOR]	[B][SIZE="4"]%[/SIZE]
							Step		Time	STM	ETM[/B]
F2L	6.28	35	5.57	36	5.73		F2L/Total	58.7%	57.4%	56.3%
LL	4.41	26	5.90	28	6.35		LL/Total	41.3%	42.6%	43.8%

Cross+1	2.64	12	4.55	12	4.55		Cross+1/F2L	42.0%	34.3%	33.3%
OLS	2.40	16	6.67	17	7.08		OLS/Total	22.5%	26.2%	26.6%
PLL	1.36	17	12.50	19	13.97		PLL/LL		30.8%	65.4%	67.9%
D R L' U' B2 R F' U' L2 U' B U R2 D' F2 D F2 L2 B2

x y2 // inspection
R' U' R' F B U' L2' D2' // partial cross
U L' U' L // 1st pair
y L' U L // 2nd pair
r U' r' // finish cross
y U2' L' U L // 3rd pair
R U2' R' U y' R' U' R // 4th pair
R U R' U R d' R U' R' F' // OLL
U2 R' U' F' R U R' U' R' F R2 U' R' U' R U R' U R U2' // PLL
View at alg.cubing.net
Code: 
[B]Step	Time	STM	stps	ETM	etps[/B]
[COLOR="red"]Total	11.99	59	4.92	64	5.34	[/COLOR]	[B][SIZE="4"]%[/SIZE]
							Step		Time	STM	ETM[/B]
F2L	7.24	29	4.01	33	4.56		F2L/Total	60.4%	49.2%	51.6%
LL	4.75	30	6.32	31	6.53		LL/Total	39.6%	50.8%	48.4%

Cross+1	2.48	12	4.84	12	4.84		Cross+1/F2L	34.3%	41.4%	36.4%
OLS	3.24	17	5.25	18	5.56		OLS/Total	27.0%	28.8%	28.1%
PLL	1.48	20	13.51	21	14.19		PLL/LL		31.2%	66.7%	67.7%

Cross+1 measured until end of 1st pair (even though cross is only partial)
D R L' U' B2 R F' U' L2 U' B U R2 D' F2 D F2 L2 B2

x y2 // inspection
R' U' R' F B U' L2' D2' // partial cross
U L' U' L // 1st pair
y L' U L // 2nd pair
r U' r' // finish cross
U' y U' L' U L // 3rd pair
R U2' R' U y' R' U' R // 4th pair
R U R' U R d' R U' R' F' // OLL
U2 R' U' F' R U R' U' R' F R2 U' R' U' R U R' U R U' U' // PLL
View at alg.cubing.net
F' U' F D' B' R' B' R L F U R' L B2 L2 F2 U2 R L

y2 x // inspection
D L l U' l' D2' // Xcross
U' R U R' U2' R U R' // 2nd pair
U' R' U2 R U' R' U R // 3rd pair
y' R U R' U' R U' R' U2 y' R' U' R // 4th pair
U2' R U R' U' R' F R2 U R' U' F' // OLL
y2' R U R' y' R2 u' R U' R' U R' u R2 // PLL
View at alg.cubing.net
Code: 
[B]Step	Time	STM	stps	ETM	etps[/B]
[COLOR="red"]Total	11.10	58	5.23	67	6.04	[/COLOR]	[B][SIZE="4"]%[/SIZE]
							Step		Time	STM	ETM[/B]
F2L	6.76	33	4.88	38	5.62		F2L/Total	60.9%	56.9%	56.7%
LL	4.34	25	5.76	29	6.68		LL/Total	39.1%	43.1%	43.3%

Cross+1	1.40	6	4.29	7	5.00		Cross+1/F2L	20.7%	18.2%	18.4%
OLS	3.56	23	6.46	27	7.58		OLS/Total	32.1%	39.7%	40.3%
PLL	1.62	13	8.02	16	9.88		PLL/LL		37.3%	52.0%	55.2%
F' U' F D' B' R' B' R L F U R' L B2 L2 F2 U2 R L

y2 x // inspection
D L x' R U' l' D2' // Xcross
U' R U R' U' U' R U R' // 2nd pair
U' R' U2 R U' R' U R // 3rd pair
y' R U R' U' R U' R' U y' U R' U' R // 4th pair
U' U' R U R' U' R' F R2 U R' U' F' // OLL
y' y' R U R' y' R2 u' R U' R2' R U R' u R2 // PLL
View at alg.cubing.net
U B' R' B R2 F U' F R' L U L' D2 R' L2 F2 R' D2 L2

x y2 // inspection
R2' F r U (x' y') L' U L D2' // Xcross
y' U L U L' // 2nd pair
R' U2 R L' U L // 3rd pair
U R' U R d' R U' R' // 4th pair
U l' U2 L U L' U l // OLL
U2' R' U L' U2 R U' R' U2 R L U // PLL
View at alg.cubing.net
Code: 
[B]Step	Time	STM	stps	ETM	etps[/B]
[COLOR="red"]Total	9.83	45	4.58	51	5.19	[/COLOR]	[B][SIZE="4"]%[/SIZE]
							Step		Time	STM	ETM[/B]
F2L	6.08	25	4.11	30	4.93		F2L/Total	61.9%	55.6%	58.8%
LL	3.75	20	5.33	21	5.60		LL/Total	38.1%	44.4%	41.2%

Cross+1	1.92	8	4.17	11	5.73		Cross+1/F2L	31.6%	32.0%	36.7%
OLS	3.12	16	5.13	16	5.13		OLS/Total	31.7%	35.6%	31.4%
PLL	1.12	12	10.71	13	11.61		PLL/LL		29.9%	60.0%	61.9%
U B' R' B R2 F U' F R' L U L' D2 R' L2 F2 R' D2 L2

x y2 // inspection
R2' F r U (x' y') L' U L D2' // Xcross
U y' L U L' // 2nd pair
R' U2 R L' U L // 3rd pair
U R' U R d' R U' R' // 4th pair
U l' U2 L U L' U l // OLL
U' U' R' U L' U2 R U' R' U2 R r B // PLL
View at alg.cubing.net
Code: 
Average (removing fastest and slowest solve)

[B]Step	Time	STM	stps	ETM	etps[/B]
[COLOR="red"]Total	11.26	59	5.27	65	5.77	[/COLOR]	[B][SIZE="4"]%[/SIZE]
							Step		Time	STM	ETM[/B]
F2L	6.76	32	4.78	36	5.28		F2L/Total	60.0%	54.5%	54.9%
LL	4.50	27	6.00	29	6.52		LL/Total	40.0%	45.5%	45.1%

Cross+1	2.17	10	4.60	10	4.75		Cross+1/F2L	32.1%	30.9%	29.0%
OLS	3.07	19	6.09	21	6.74		OLS/Total	27.2%	31.5%	31.8%
PLL	1.49	17	11.21	19	12.56		PLL/LL		33.0%	61.7%	63.6%

Code: 
Mean (5/5)

[B]Step	Time	STM	stps	ETM	etps[/B]
[COLOR="red"]Total	11.63	57	4.87	62	5.30	[/COLOR]	[B][SIZE="4"]%[/SIZE]
							Step		Time	STM	ETM[/B]
F2L	7.39	31	4.25	35	4.71		F2L/Total	63.6%	55.5%	56.5%
LL	4.24	25	5.95	27	6.33		LL/Total	36.4%	44.5%	43.5%

Cross+1	2.53	10	3.96	11	4.27		Cross+1/F2L	34.2%	31.8%	31.0%
OLS	3.25	19	5.79	20	6.22		OLS/Total	27.9%	33.2%	32.8%
PLL	1.29	15	11.30	16	12.38		PLL/LL		30.5%	57.9%	59.7%

Code: 
Best from each field

[B]Step	Time	STM	stps	ETM	etps[/B]
[COLOR="red"]Total	9.83	45	5.71	51	6.04[/COLOR]

F2L	6.08	25	5.57	30	5.73
LL	3.75	20	6.36	21	6.68

Cross+1	1.40	6	4.84	7	5.73
OLS	2.40	16	6.67	16	7.58
PLL	0.88	11	13.51	11	14.19
Statistics
Total is the total solve - timed from timer start to timer stop

F2L is the first two layers - timed from timer start to end of 4th pair
LL is the last layer - timed from end of 4th pair to timer stop

Cross+1 is the cross and first pair (or Xcross) - timed from timer start to end of 1st pair
OLS is the last slot (4th pair) and orientation of the last layer (OLL) - timed from end of 3rd pair to end of OLL
PLL is the permutation of last layer - timed from the frame before the first move to the frame after the last move (does not include any pre- or post-AUF/rotations)
 
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