Your top 3 best/worst moments at competitions

[JustinTimeCuber]

Take it to mean whatever you want.

Worst 3:
3. Ruining this average, it could have been sub-15 which would have been awesome at the time.
2. When I trolled Ray Goslow and a few others at Music City 2016 by not being Andrew/CP and thinking I'm funny
1. When I missed a 2x2 soft cutoff because of a +2, also at Music City (don't worry, Music City gets redeemed).

Honorable mentions:
When I quit cubing for 13 months because Minecraft (not really at a competition, at the lack of a competition)
When I failed the 2x2 second round at nats because of a slightly strict judge and being under pressure

Best 3:
3. My first podium, 3rd place in 7x7 (lol)
2. Basically all my 3x3 times at MCC Alpha 2017 (too lazy to finish uploading the vids right now). It was my first time making a fourth round AND I managed to get a counting 8 AND I managed to beat my comp PB single AND average twice AND I almost podiumed in the semifinal and final AND I was 3rd in the first and second round. (honorable mention goes to my first 3x3 solve judging of the day being Blake's 5.89 so that was cool but mostly unrelated)
1. This. First sub-10!

Honorable mention:
My first official sub-12 single, which would have been my PB if I hadn't been cubing in the car on the way to the comp and got a new PB (twice). 3rd best time ever at the time.

 

[WACWCA]

Best 3:
first 2x2 podium @ big apple
First sub 2 average
First 2x2 Win
4th: making nats finals last year
Worst:
ODU 2x2 r1(check Fml thread)
My would have been 1st 3x3 sub 10 but +2
My 19:53 4BLD official dnf by r2

 

[GenTheSnail]

Best 3:
The last solve of my winning Feet mean of 46.30 at MCC Alpha 2017. I think I had had less than 10 sub-50s before so to get one in comp was pretty amazing

My first 3x3 solve at MCC Alpha 2017: 12.91. I had been sub-17 for the previous two comps (Dixon Fall and Michigan 2016), but hadn't even gotten a sub-20 average either time. 12s were pretty rare anyway, and I hadn't had much experience with good 3x3 results in comp before. It was pretty awesome.

3x3 Blindfolded 6:34.22 success at Dixon Fall 2016. This was my third official attempt but I hadn't really known what I was doing before. It felt like my first attempt. My second solve was also, but was over the 15m combined time limit.

Honorable mentions:
14.97 OH single at Wisconsin Winter 2017. Pretty sick
1:14.49 Megaminx Single at MCC A 2017, along with the sub-James average, but not the average in itself. At Dixon Fall, my goal in megaminx had been to beat James. But he had gotten better and I had no chance of beating him there. So I practice more and *beat* him at MCC A 2017. Large personal victory.
Worst 3:
Both my MBLD results. 2/5, unsolved cubes pretty close. SR at the time was only 3/5 and I had a 5/5 at home.

DNFing all my FMC attempts at Michigan 2016. Then blowing the last attempt at WW 2016 and missing out on a mean.

Rushing my 5BLD attempt at MCC A 2017 because I didn't want to run through the scheduled time (I average 50m and 5BLD was scheduled for only 45.) Feet was next, which I knew I could do well in, so I didn't review. Completely scrambled.

Honorable mentions:
45.22 Sq-1 single. Cutoff was 45. Stupid parity
Failing a sub-1 Feet mean because of a 1:16 because of hard floors (I've only practiced on carpeted floors, and no, the mat does not make up for that.)
Signing up for 4x4 at Dixon winter 2016 (my first comp) because I didn't know what a the cutoffs meant. I averaged like 4m+ (I used an old Rubik's brand and redux) and soft/hard were cutoff was 1:30/2:30.

 

[cuberkid10]

Best:
First sub-10 average of 9.72 (Peach State Winter 2016)
Female WR 4x4 average of 34.26 (Crossroads Cubing 2017)
First sub-9 average of 8.89 (For the Love of Cubing 2017)

Worst:
9.75 SQ-1 Misscramble -.-
DNFing my 5x5 average (Music City Winter 2016)
This in combination with my 2 official 31's with OLL parity

 

[Draranor]

Worst 3:
3. Only signing up for 3x3 at nats last year
2. Failing to get a qualifying average (for nats this year) in 5x5 at my last comp, because I bombed my last 2 solves
1. Getting a 20(+2) in 3x3 for my first solve, at my first comp, with Drew Brads as my judge. Which was at nats last year

Best 3:
3. Making finals at my last two comps
2. Getting an official sub-3 time in 2x2 I guess?
1. I suppose this counts as a comp moment, but when I got my first sub-2 minute solve on 5x5 while practicing/warming up for the average that I failed to get a qualifying time for

 

[Meow]

Worst:
1. Music City 2017 2x2 R1( WR fail due to lockups and an inspection mistake)
2. Nationals 2016 2x2 R1(Got an 8 then DNFed the last solve)
3. Music city 2017 3x3 finals( +2 cost me 2nd place, DNF cost me podium, and incorrect pll prediction cost me a sub-7)
Honorable mention:
Duke summer 2016 2x2 R1(1.88 avg but timer didn't stop on a solve so would have been about 1.70 avg)
Best:
1. First sub 2 avg on 2x2(1.97 alpharetta open 2016)
2. First sub 7 3x3 single( 6.67 Classic City 2017), although probably could have been low 6 sub-6 with good execution
3. 8.26 official 3x3 avg at Music City 2017( should've been sub8 with less lockups)

 

[CornerCutter]

Best:
1. Getting to meet other cubers for the first time!
2. I got my pb 4x4 single.
3. Getting my average 3x3 times, I wasn't too nervous.

Worst:
1. Giving someone a solved cube my first time judging.
2. Missing the 3x3 and 2x2 final rounds by 1 and 2 places.
3. The scrambler gave us the wrong cubes in Head to Head, so I lost because of that.

 

[Christopher Cabrera]

Worst:
3. Choking a sub-10 skewb average on the fifth solve two times in the same comp(Classic City 2017)
2. Forgetting a megaminx CP alg twice back when mega was my main event (US Nats 2014)
1. Getting a DNF on a clock solve because I somehow managed to solve both sides to 6 instead of 12 (Raleigh Open 2013)
(I later went on to DNF this average)
Best:
3. Getting a counting 49 on 4x4 when I average close to 58 at home (Classic City 2017)
2. Making a surprise second round on 4x4 at US Nats 2014 (ranked 97 out of 100 advancing)
1. Getting 19th at Worlds 2013 for feet and having the 9th ranked mean in the nation for a while

 

[sqAree]

Worst:

3. Missing the cutoff for OH at my first comp because of a cube drop at last turn into DNF. (German Nats 2015)
2. I was about to finally compete in MBLD when my train in the morning got cancelled and the alternative bus decided to just not come. (German Nats 2016)
1. 29 DNF 29 = DNF mean in FMC; had a solution on the DNF but braindead not finding part of my NISS solution on my sheet for more than 30 minutes. (Cubelonia 2017)

bonus. Two pops in a row in Feet after miraculously gotten the cutoff; then, advancing to second round as the only person without a mean, getting another DNF mean in the final because of the time limit. (Hamburg Open 2017)


Best:

3. A 4BLD success with pb time. (Mental Breakdown Germany 2017)
2. Fanboy alert: Feliks signed my cube. (Euro 2016).
1. 16.88 OH single with 21.75 average. Not that special but the first decent OH results after having tried for many comps. (Schwandorf Open 2017)

 

[guysensei1]

Worst:
1)not being allowed to do clock at Singapore Open because of 4BLD, and my sum of ranks still sucks because of this, i want a refund for clock
2) 9/10 MBLD*2, 10/11 MBLD
3)failed sub-3 2x2 avg because of a CLL fail and i missed a 1 move layer on that same scramble (also I dont even know full CLL and I dont average sub-4 at home but hush, a fail is still a fail)

Best:
1) FMC NRs
2) 5x5 NR avg
3) winning 2x2 at Tangerang, despite not being sub-4 at home kek

 

[AlphaSheep]

Lots of best moments. It's hard to choose

1. Getting a blindfolded success on my very first official attempt. It was the first time BLD was ever held In Africa and there were over 100 people watching. It was so slow, but just getting the success felt amazing.
2. When I realised I had a solution that beat the FMC AfR single with 20 minutes to spare. I had a little quiet celebration to myself, then carried on searching for a better cancellation (cancelled 1 more move afterwards). Probably the only time I've ever reacted to a solve with anything more than a shrug of my shoulders.
3. The 5th solve of the AfR Skewb average. I realised I'd already beaten the average after the 4th solve, so the last solve didn't matter. All pressure was off, so of course the solve went beautifully.

Close runner up was the LL skip in my first competition, and when my first comp as a solo delegate finished 20 minutes early.

Only a few worst moments though.

1. Literally every time I've had to DNF a solve for something small. It's the worst part of a delegates job, but rules are rules. Especially if it's a new or very young competitor.
2. Both times I got 0/2 in MBLD. Both were fairly close.
3. That time I couldn't remember how to do a V perm and couldn't even get a sub-30 average in OH.

 

[xyzzy]

Probably doesn't mean much since I've only been to three comps (two official, one unofficial).

Best:

1. FMC single/average (former) NRs. During the prize presentation, someone came up to me to ask for an autograph, which was pretty cool!
   
2. Getting a sub-15 single at an unofficial comp with a 2GLL finish.
   
3. Not messing up too badly on my 333 solves at my last comp. Sub-20 official average!

Worst:

1. DNF'd my last FMC mean because of poor time control, aaargh. I thought I had an F2L solution and was going to just finish it off with 2LLL or something, but I annotated it wrong and it was actually an L5C skeleton. The most awful thing is that I actually had a 38-move backup solution written out (albeit in NISS form) and… I somehow forgot about it.
   
2. Missing the soft cutoffs for 444 and OH by just a few seconds.
3. Screwing up CP parity on squan multiple times in the same solve, in both attempts. I wasn't expecting to hit the soft cutoff anyway, but this was really dumb.

 

[tx789]

Best 3:
Going to my second comp since it was 2 and a half years after my first.
Winning 2x2 again at NZ Nats after having failed at 2x2 for a year's worth of comps.
Finally getting offical sub 15 at my last comp.

Worst:
Being exhaused at the end of my last comp likely due to dehydration, not eating much, and lack of sleep.
Getting a counting 1:42.00 (this was nerves, my first offical solve) 2x2 solve at my first comp due to issues with the timer since I hadn't used them before.
My 2x2 results from NZ Nats 2015 to NZ Nats 2016. DNFing Clock, Feet, and FMC mean/average first time is annoying.

 

[biscuit]

Best:

3. The time I accidentally was the 16th/16 people to advance in skewb, making me realize I was okay at skewb

2. My past couple skewb results. First two podiums!

3. 9.52 single, at my own competition! It beat my previous official single by ~1.5 seconds.

Honorable mentions:

Every post comp staff dinner. Getting to spend time talking with amazing people who also happen to cube is easily the best part of the comp. It would be 3rd, or maybe even 2nd if it happened during the competitions.

That time I threw a skewb at Logan McGraw. Just amazing.

Worst:

3. Bld at mega Minnesota. All but one of my DNF's were off by 2-4 pieces. Should've been my first mean (ever).

2. Clock at Mars Mixup. Just no.

1. Whenever I make one to many jokes, and I can tell it's getting old. I'm trying to get better at this.

I don't have much in the way of honorable mentions. All of my fails have been fairly minor. Competitions are just that great.

 

[FastCubeMaster]

Well I've only been to 3 comps so I could edit this later i guess
Best:
-Coming 2nd in Pyra at Nats beating 3rd by 0.01 who I knew well.
-making 2x2 Finals at my first comp in 2015 with a 5.00 average
-Had a conversation with Feliks, Tomoya and other crazy fast people
Worst:
-Very slightly distracting a fast person at other events (he mentioned after the solve) during my first time being a judge by continuing to tilt my head to see if he had gone over cutoff. No timer displays.
-Getting a counting 6 in 2x2 Round 2 at nats when I could've easily made finals.
-DNFing a solve in 3x3 semi-finals at nats cos I got the same scramble and wasn't thinking clearly so I stopped the timer and solved the cube to give it back to the scramblers (Facepalm)

 

[WACWCA]

Adding another honorable mention for worst: Ledgewood 2x2 all rounds 7/15 solves did wrong algs or cancelled wrong, r1 was worst, easy 1.5/6 avg

 

[Rcuber123]

I'm gonna do 5 each
Best:
5. Skewb at Israeli nationals 2016:
Didn't really care about Skewb. Got second place as I expected because lack of competition but with a surprisingly good average (and also a lol single).
4. Mega at Israeli nationals 2014:
Was my first competition and first event of the day so first time I ever competed. I forgot my mega at home so I borrowed a mega from someone. His mega was WAYYYYYY better than mine so I broke all my overall PB SINGLE.
3. Pyra at Israeli nationals 2015:
The best pyra solver didn't come so I won even tho I did horribly lol. Was first I won (also first podium)
2. 2x2 at Israeli nationals 2015:
Unlike pyra I actually had competition this time so felt great about getting second place. I beat the guy who won the first round by 0.03 seconds
1. 2x2 at Israeli nationals 2016:
I was in the last heat and the two people that did the best were extremely tight (3.79 and 3.77 averages) I averaged around 3 second but I have a HUGE history of failing in comps so I was extremely nervous. Ended up getting a 3.23 NR average and beat them by over half a second so I was extremely happy.

Worst:
5. 3x3 first round at Israeli nationals 2014:
First comp. Started well either an 18 single (I averaged 22 seconds at the time) but then got a 31 and a 33...
4. 3x3 final at Israeli nationals 2016:
Was extremely cold and a few judges asked me what cube I was using during inspection... ended up getting a 16.65 average (I averaged 12.5 at the time)
3. Pyra at Israeli nationals 2015:
DNFed my first solve at was my main event at the time...
2. 4x4 at at Israeli nationals 2015:
My 4x4 broke so I borrowed from someone. While solving a had a huge explosion...
1. Pyra finals at Israeli nationals 2016:
I failed the first round really badly. I did way worse in the end... I averaged sub 4.5 at the time and got a 7.16. Started the average with two 7s and a DNF...

 

[joshsailscga]

-DNFing a solve in 3x3 semi-finals at nats cos I got the same scramble and wasn't thinking clearly so I stopped the timer and solved the cube to give it back to the scramblers (Facepalm)

Obviously can't do anything about it now, but shouldn't you have been able to get the correct scramble even if you had already started the solve? Like back in 2015 when Collin got a 5.21 but it was the wrong scramble, the solve wasn't DNF'd, he got a resolve with the correct scramble.

 

[JustinTimeCuber]

Worst:
1)not being allowed to do clock at Singapore Open because of 4BLD, and my sum of ranks still sucks because of this, i want a refund for clock
2) 9/10 MBLD*2, 10/11 MBLD
3)failed sub-3 2x2 avg because of a CLL fail and i missed a 1 move layer on that same scramble (also I dont even know full CLL and I dont average sub-4 at home but hush, a fail is still a fail)

Best:
1) FMC NRs
2) 5x5 NR avg
3) winning 2x2 at Tangerang, despite not being sub-4 at home kek

*gets a 10/11 MBLD*
*goes home crying*
lol

for me it's more like
*almost gets a blind success*
*happy for the rest of the day*

 

[FastCubeMaster]

Obviously can't do anything about it now, but shouldn't you have been able to get the correct scramble even if you had already started the solve? Like back in 2015 when Collin got a 5.21 but it was the wrong scramble, the solve wasn't DNF'd, he got a resolve with the correct scramble.

I'm not sure if this makes a difference, but I also stopped the timer (started like a normal solve) and solved the cube, then after I realised: how would they know that it was the same scramble