Melbourne Spring Open 2009 (Unofficial)

Time: 10 AM to 4 PM
Date: Saturday the 5th of September 2009
Venue: 75 Union St, Armadale VIC, Australia
Cost: $2 per person (donation to the Church)
Site: http://speedcubing.com.au

Getting there:
If you're unsure how to get to the venue, I'll be at Flinders Street Station around 9:00 AM on a platform for the Frankston Line (departing 9:20 AM).

9:30 - 10:00
Registration/Setup

10:00 - 10:30
Rubik's Cube: Blindfolded (333bf)
- Feliks Zemdegs
- Matt Wanstall
- Ninja (Mingren Lu)
- Paul (Xuan Pei)
Judges: ?
Scramblers: Tim McMahon
Runners:

10:30 - 11:30
Rubik's Cube (333) [13]
- Bruce
- Damien
- David Edwards
- Feliks Zemdegs
- Jayden (boredommm23)
- Matt Wanstall
- Nick Pappas
- Ninja (Mingren Lu)
- Oskar Zemdegs
- Paul (Xuan Pei)
- Tim McMahon
- Tim (ZB_FTW!!!)
- Wai Keung
Judges: ?
Scramblers: ?
Runners: ?

11:30 - 12:00
2x2x2 Cube (222) [11]
- Bruce
- David Edwards
- Feliks Zemdegs
- Jayden (boredommm23)
- Matt Wanstall
- Nick Pappas
- Ninja (Mingren Lu)
- Oskar Zemdegs
- Paul (Xuan Pei)
- Tim McMahon
- Tim (ZB_FTW!!!)
Judges: Damien, Wai Keung, ?
Scramblers: ?
Runners: ?

12:00 - 12:20
5x5x5 Cube (555) [4]
- David Edwards
- Feliks Zemdegs
- Matt Wanstall
- Nick Pappas
Judges: Bruce, Paul, Tim McMahon, Wai Keung
Scramblers: Tim (ZB_FTW!!!), Ninja
Runners: Bruce, Damien

12:20 - 12:30
Magic (magic) [5]
- David Edwards
- Feliks Zemdegs
- Ninja (Mingren Lu)
- Oskar Zemdegs
- Tim McMahon
Judges: Jayden, Nick Pappas, Paul, Wai Keung

12:30 - 12:45
Pyraminx (pyram) [5]
- David Edwards
- Feliks Zemdegs
- Matt Wanstall
- Nick Pappas
- Tim (ZB_FTW!!!)
Judges: Ninja, Paul, Wai Keung
Scramblers: Tim McMahon
Runners: Bruce, Damien

12:45 - 1:15
Lunch

1:15 - 1:30
Square-1 (sq1) [2]
- Feliks Zemdegs
- Paul (Xuan Pei)
Judges: Tim McMahon, Wai Keung
Scramblers: Matt Wanstall
Runners: Bruce, Jayden

1:30 - 2:00
4x4x4 Cube (444) [8]
- Bruce
- David Edwards
- Feliks Zemdegs
- Matt Wanstall
- Nick Pappas
- Ninja (Mingren Lu)
- Paul (Xuan Pei)
- Tim McMahon
Judges: Damien, Wai Keung
Scramblers: Tim (ZB_FTW!!!)
Runners: Jayden

2:00 - 2:30
Rubik's Cube: One-handed (333oh) [3]
- Feliks Zemdegs
- Ninja (Mingren Lu)
- Tim McMahon
Judges: Bruce, Damien, Jayden
Scramblers: Matt Wanstall
Runners: Nick Pappas, Tim (ZB_FTW!!!), Wai Keung

2:30 - 3:00
Rubik's Cube Final [8]

6x6x6 Cube (666) [1]
- Feliks Zemdegs

7x7x7 Cube (777) [1]
- Feliks Zemdegs

Rubik's Cube: Multiple Blindfolded (333mbf) [1]
- Paul (Xuan Pei)

Competitors:
- Bruce (222, 333, 444)
- Damien (333, magic)
- David Edwards (222, 333, 444, 555, pyram, magic)
- Feliks Zemdegs (222, 333, 444, 555, 333oh, 333bf, pyram, sq1, magic, 666, 777)
- Jayden (boredommm23) (222, 333)
- Matt Wanstall (222, 333, 444, 555, 333bf, pyram)
- Nick Pappas (222, 333, 444, 555, 777, pyram)
- Ninja
- Oskar Zemdegs (222, 333, magic)
- Paul (Xuan Pei) (222, 333, 333bf, 444, 333mbf, sq1)
- Tim McMahon (222, 333, 333oh, 444, magic)
- Tim (ZB_FTW!!!) (222, 333, pyram)
- Wai Keung (333)

If you'd like to come along and participate, please reply to this thread to indicate which events you'd like to compete it and which ones you'd like to scramble for. Once competitors and scramblers have been determined, we can figure out who'd like to judge and be runners. This will be another trial at working out the logistics of running a competition in Melbourne.

Kind Regards,
Tim.

Feliks Zemdegs (222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, 333oh, 333bf, pyra, minx, sq1, magic

I can scramble for most things as long as I am out of the way first.

Matt Wanstall (222, 333, 444, 555, 333bf, pyra)

Ill scramble for the rest.

If this event does well, I can clearly see a WCA sanctioned event soon. Good luck for this event and hopes it goes well.

I will go in 222, 333, 444, 555, 777.
can i scramble for 222 i like 2x2's

Nick, can you scramble fast?

yes on 222's i can

Cool, we can get your solves out of the way first, then you can scramble for everyone. They will be R U F optimail scrambles (about 8 moves).

sweet i love short scrambles.

Put my name down too please.
I'm coming.
I'll only compete for 3x3x3
Ty
Plus is it Okay if I can come at about 2pm and do my solves?
I have tutor crap I have to go to
Edit: Sorry I might not go because Armadale is too far (About 45 minute drive) and if I go then I can only stay for 1 hour becasue of my tutor ends at 1pm.

Please make another comp later in the year that starts later. TY

We can shuffle the order of events around a bit to accommodate competitors.

We really do need some dedicated scramblers for each event. The fairness of scrambling can be questioned when we do 5 scrambles in a row for a few competitors to get them to scramble the rest. It'd be good if we had enough competitors to justify having two rounds, so that competitors in apposing rounds can scramble the cubes of the other. And anyone else can judge

Last time we tried that, we didn't have enough judges >.<

Tim.

RainbowBoy said:

Put my name down too please.
I'm coming.
I'll only compete for 3x3x3
Ty
Plus is it Okay if I can come at about 2pm and do my solves?
I have tutor crap I have to go to
Edit: Sorry I might not go because Armadale is too far (About 45 minute drive) and if I go then I can only stay for 1 hour becasue of my tutor ends at 1pm.

Please make another comp later in the year that starts later. TY

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Dude, competitions need to be all day. Have you ever heard of a comp just in the morning? Or one just in the afternoon? Nope..

Also, at meetups we have mini comps, as you know, and they are in the afternoon.

As for your idea of another comp, the next one will probably be official, and in December. And yes, it will run for the entire day, or maybe across 2 days. If you can't make it to that, sort out your priorities. (1st official competition in Australia vs tutor) I think that it would be easy to argue which is more important.

TimMc said:

We can shuffle the order of events around a bit to accommodate competitors.
We really do need some dedicated scramblers for each event. The fairness of scrambling can be questioned when we do 5 scrambles in a row for a few competitors to get them to scramble the rest. It'd be good if we had enough competitors to justify having two rounds, so that competitors in apposing rounds can scramble the cubes of the other. And anyone else can judge

Last time we tried that, we didn't have enough judges >.<

Tim.

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#1: Yeah, but to a certain extent.

#2: Yeah, that is how the New Zealand comp was run. If it wasn't for me, there would have been massive scrambling delays.

Also, the 2 group thing we can do for 3x3.

fazrulz said:

Dude, competitions need to be all day. Have you ever heard of a comp just in the morning? Or one just in the afternoon? Nope..

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Nisei Week Open 2009?
San Diego Science Festival 2009?

Competitions which have more than just a few events xD

Oskar Zemdegs: 222, 333, Magic

Ok, some other possibilities are:

A couple more of my friends
Anthony's friend
Judd
2 other guys from the melbourne thread
Paul
Michael
Ninja - he said he was coming I think, along with the others
David - seems fairly inactive atm

Heyy. I live in north melbourne. Can enyone go to this? And is there an end date to when i can enter it?

Anyone can enter, you can register at the door if u want.

fazrulz said:

Anyone can enter, you can register at the door if u want.

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Ah thanks mate thats awesome. Well if i go ill be participating in 2x2x2, 3x3x3 and 4x4x4. Hopefully see you there mate. Take care.

Heyy again. I dont have a stack mat timer. Does that matter? Are they supplied by you for the event? Or is there a chance i can borrow one? Take care.

BruceCubing28 said:

Heyy again. I dont have a stack mat timer. Does that matter? Are they supplied by you for the event? Or is there a chance i can borrow one? Take care.

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We'll have a couple of timers setup for everyone to use at the unofficial competition.

Tim.