US Nationals 2015 -- July 31 - August 2, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

lol, my bj Pyra second round though. It was cool seeing all of you, hype for next Nats!

E: Also, is anyone missing a MeiYing? I picked one up after 3x3 Finals thinking it was mine, but by the time I got back to my house, I had realized that I had two :/
 
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Well, we did it. I think after 4 days of adrenaline my body did not take coming down from that very well, but a good night's sleep tonight in my own bed will help.

Thank you to everyone on staff for doing a great job and to those of you who came, this was definitely the best crowd we've had in terms of respecting our requests. I look forward to next year in... a place to be determined. :P

Also, a special thanks to Tim Reynolds and Jim Mertens. There are 50+ staff and 10ish organizers, but nobody does more work than them. You guys can't imagine how much they did for you.
 
Botch Botch Botch.

Nats looked so amazing this year, and I am a bit upset that I did not decide to go. Next year, hopefully, if college choices do go my way.
 
Weston Mizumoto - 9.71+2 3x3OH single - US Nationals 2015

D2 B' U2 R2 D2 U' R D2 B2 L' U' L U F' R' F' D'

y2 z // inspection
D2 U' R2 // cross
z U2' R' U R // 1st pair
y' U' R' U R U y' R U R' // 2nd pair
y U' R' U' R U' R' U' R // 3rd pair
U R U' R' U' R U R' // 4th pair
U' r' R U' r U2' r' U' R U' R2 r // OLL
R' U' R U' R U R U' R' U R U R2 U' R' U' // PLL
View at alg.cubing.net
Code: 
[B]Step	Time	QTM	qtps	ETM	etps[/B]
[COLOR="red"]Total	9.71	65	6.69	65	6.69	[/COLOR]	[B][SIZE="4"]%[/SIZE]
							Step		Time	QTM	ETM[/B]
F2L	5.46	34	6.23	36	6.59		F2L/Total	56.2%	52.3%	55.4%
LL	4.25	31	7.29	29	6.82		LL/Total	43.8%	47.7%	44.6%

Cross+1	1.78	10	5.62	9	5.06		Cross+1/F2L	32.6%	29.4%	25.0%
OLS	3.13	22	7.03	21	6.71		OLS/Total	32.2%	33.8%	32.3%
PLL	1.29	16	12.40	15	11.63		PLL/LL		30.4%	51.6%	51.7%
D2 B' U2 R2 D2 U' R D2 B2 L' U' L U F' R' F' D'

y2 z // inspection
D2 U' R2 // cross
z U' U' R' U R // 1st pair
y' U' R' U R U y' R U R' // 2nd pair
y U' R' U' R U' R' U' R // 3rd pair
U R U' R' U' R U R' // 4th pair
U' r' R U' r U' U' r' U' R U' R2 r // OLL
R' U' R U' R U R U' R' U R U R2 U' R' U' // PLL
View at alg.cubing.net
 
Thanks to all who helped make this weekend possible! :)

I had a great time! Was awesome to see everyone enjoying themselves and getting in some great times!

Glad to have an official sub 10 (finally...)! Though 3BLD didn't pan out as I had hoped, I'm sure, like last year, this will just give me more fuel to work on getting better! :)
 
Iggy said:
Jakub Kipa 28.56 Feet ER mean

Also gj Riley for becoming the new US champ!
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Ty!

Isaac Lai said:
Wat his previous PB average was like 1:26! VGJ to him. He must have practised a lot.
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Lol I did 89 solves total. The first average of 20 was done on carpet and was 1:01. The rest was about a 1:20 average done on hard floor. Good thing the comp had a soft carpet. :) For megaminx, I did about 1200 solves (that's not counting the other 1000 last March :p ).

A huge thanks to staff for making this all possible!!! As always, Nats was well-organized and super fun.
 
Hey so for people who were there live for finals: We experimented this year with projecting live standings from Cubecomps between each pair of finalists, so you'd have a sense of what the time to beat was. How did you feel about that? Any thoughts?
 
ToastyKen said:
Hey so for people who were there live for finals: We experimented this year with projecting live standings from Cubecomps between each pair of finalists, so you'd have a sense of what the time to beat was. How did you feel about that? Any thoughts?
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It was shown for like 10 seconds, which was definitely not enough time to digest the information given. It was a good idea though, because the venue wifi usually worked about once an hour, so it was hard to keep track of results(though Jeremy had his laptop open doing all the results in front of me, so I felt a little spoiled.)
 
This is late, but I just wanted to say that last weekend was awesome. The competition ran super smoothly (I think I was called within 5 minutes from the scheduled time on my badge every time). Huge thanks to the organisers. I can't imagine how much work must have gone into this.

The venue was really good. Free parking and so close to the beach. I finished my last event on Saturday and was swimming in the ocean a few minutes later.

@ToastyKen: That was really nice. But I agree with Keaton, maybe just a few seconds longer. :)

Thanks again to everyone! You're awesome.

Also, I just remembered a suggestion I wanted to make. I feel like podiums at national championships should be the de facto top 3 plus the competitor(s) of the respective country (in this case USA) needed to fill up a national podium. This way foreigners (like myself) don't steal citizens' podium ranking.

I loved being on the podium for 3x3, but I think it could have been a four person podium:
1st: Drew Brads (USA)
2nd: Cornelius Dieckmann (GER)
3rd: Lucas Etter (USA)
4th/3rd best American: Athony Brooks (USA)

In this example, I kind of stole Anthony's spotlight. Hope you're not mad, buddy.

If I'm not mistaken, the way I'm suggesting is also the way it has been done at Euro as well as German Nationals. I remember Euro 2014, when Sei Sugama (JAP) came third at OH, and Michal Pleskowicz (POL) came fourth. We were four people on that podium, because Michal had won the bronze medal for the European Championship.

A similar issue is how many citizens go to the final. This year at US Nationals, it was 16 competitors (4 non-Americans, 12 Americans). At Euro, it is usually the 12/16 (whatever the organisers decide on) fastest Europeans plus non-Europeans who were faster. This way no one eligible for titles loses their opportunity. But obviously this is would consume some time, wheras the first suggestion I made could be realised much more easily.
 
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Also, I just remembered a suggestion I wanted to make. I feel like podiums at national championships should be the de facto top 3 plus the competitor(s) of the respective country (in this case USA) needed to fill up a national podium. This way foreigners (like myself) don't steal citizens' podium ranking.

I loved being on the podium for 3x3, but I think it could have been a four person podium:
1st: Drew Brads (USA)
2nd: Cornelius Dieckmann (GER)
3rd: Lucas Etter (USA)
4th/3rd best American: Athony Brooks (USA)

In this example, I kind of stole Anthony's spotlight. Hope you're not mad, buddy.

If I'm not mistaken, the way I'm suggesting is also the way it has been done at Euro as well as German Nationals. I remember Euro 2014, when Sei Sugama (JAP) came third at OH, and Michal Pleskowicz (POL) came fourth. We were four people on that podium, because Michal had won the bronze medal for the European Championship.

A similar issue is how many citizens go to the final. This year at US Nationals, it was 16 competitors (4 non-Americans, 12 Americans). At Euro, it is usually the 12/16 (whatever the organisers decide on) fastest Europeans plus non-Europeans who were faster. This way no one eligible for titles loses their opportunity. But obviously this is would consume some time, wheras the first suggestion I made could be realised much more easily.
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I won 4BLD at Euros, and they made me stand off to the side of the podium. They also didn't give any sort of prizes to non-Europeans. I was more there for the experience, so it was all good.
 
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