Toronto Open Winter '09

Sa967St said:
Reach FTW! I have a Reach tourny in 2 days :D
Oh and good luck with the BLD practice. I need to practice it too >_<
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Wow I didn't even think anybody else on this forum would KNOW what Reach is! :D
(Reach in Toronto is on Mondays and my school practices Wednesday or Thursday).
-- At least we won (SATEC is pro...) all of our games (barely); but hey, I'm on B team (in A division!!!), honestly, we're not great.

Still, I haven't had much time to practice BLD or OH, but I've been getting a lot of 35s singles and averages lately...

Maybe I'm improving and not knowing why?? O_O;;
 
I really hope I can learn to get good at BLD by the competition. I've only had one success and it takes me about 11 minutes... And abr71310 how much would you sell a black YUGA for?
 
abr71310 said:
-- At least we won (SATEC is pro...) all of our games (barely); but hey, I'm on B team (in A division!!!), honestly, we're not great.
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Wow, I was actually considering going to SATEC, but I decided to go to my local school instead (it was decently far away, we had just heard it was a good school).

After hearing how many people here are in Reach I decided to go check it out (a bunch of my friends do it as well), and the teacher wasn't there on that ONE day :rolleyes:. Maybe next time.

BLD practice is painful sometimes. Worst feeling ever: reaching up to pull off the blindfold, and just before you see the cube, thinking "Wait, I had parity, didn't I?" :mad: I was only off by those pieces. Gaaah. Recall is getting easier though, and it takes less time to commit things to memory. I'm getting optimistic about TOW :D

EDIT: Just remembered! Any Torontonian cubers going to the Jonathan Coulton show in April? I figure you guys would know him?
 
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Yalow said:
After hearing how many people here are in Reach I decided to go check it out (a bunch of my friends do it as well), and the teacher wasn't there on that ONE day :rolleyes:. Maybe next time.
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Reach is funnnn, and if you join I'll probably see you at the next tourny (@ Loyola?) :D There was a tourny at Appleby College today, but 3/7 of the schools didn't show up so they were all disqualified XD. I think your school was one of them...
 
I might not sell the Black Yuga, since my friend just offered to buy one for 10 dollars and my math teacher wants an ES 2x2x2 (as well as another friend of mine)...

I definitely will have 2-3 DianShengs to sell, but that might be about it since my brother will steal 1 - 2 YUGAs and I'm using a YUGA for OH (man, I converted... :( DS is still a nice OH practice cube!!).

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@Sarah and Yalow: what region are your schools in? I'm in Toronto East, I think, but in Regionals we have to face the dreaded UTS...

ALSO:
If I bring a camera can somebody film my solve(s)? -- I suck at setting up tripods (for some reason I always end up breaking some part of it... >_>) and I might only be going alone (since my brother refuses to go, despite being as fast / faster than me, and my friends / family are all busy THE DAY BEFORE MY BIRTHDAY (yes, the 8th)... :().
 
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My school's in Halton, it's Abbey Park. I'm planning to film a lot of the comp anyway, so I'd be happy to film your solves as long as we aren't in the same round :p.

And Sa967St, that sounds like those slackers :p

I'm feeling a lot more nervous about popping this time around, because last time I didn't have a DIY and I didn't have to worry about it.
 
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Yalow said:
I'm planning to film a lot of the comp anyway
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sweet, I was going to film stuff too, but I have to leave at 11-11:30am so I'll only be able to film solves from the first rounds >_<. I'll probably upload my best singles/avg5 as well as a complimation of other peoples solves to youtube :)

Yalow said:
And Sa967St, that sounds like those slackers :p
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your school was one of the ones that didn't show up!! XD
 
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Yalow said:
Sa967St said:
sweet, I was going to film stuff too, but I have to leave at 11-11:30am so I'll only be able to film solves from the first rounds >_<
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Aw, dang. What happens if you make it past those?
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I'll have to drop out unless I can make it back on time, which I highly doubt. I'll be back in the afternoon for the afterparty. *sigh* just when I'm determined to make the finals, I can't :(
 
Can anybody tell me how I can contact Dave Campbell directly??

-- I've been trying to sign my brother up for volunteering for the TOW 2009, but haven't gotten an e-mail back and it's been roughly 5 days...
Would he mind if I just used the link on the WCA website and e-mailed him directly? (The "volunteer" sheet on the Canadiancubing site seems to be broken, despite "working" for me... or they're just ignoring me! T_T;;)
 
Do you members from this forum tend to get together and just hang out during everyone's down time or whatever? Or do you all have your own clique of friends who go to the comps with you?
 
abr71310 said:
Can anybody tell me how I can contact Dave Campbell directly??
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look for his email address in the canadiancubing forum

TurbulentTurtle said:
Do you members from this forum tend to get together and just hang out during everyone's down time or whatever? Or do you all have your own clique of friends who go to the comps with you?
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We only see each other during competitions but we've had one get-together last summer, and there's one hopefully going to be one next week. Most of us know each other since we chat on MSN and stuff.
 
abr71310 said:
Can anybody tell me how I can contact Dave Campbell directly??

-- I've been trying to sign my brother up for volunteering for the TOW 2009, but haven't gotten an e-mail back and it's been roughly 5 days...
Would he mind if I just used the link on the WCA website and e-mailed him directly? (The "volunteer" sheet on the Canadiancubing site seems to be broken, despite "working" for me... or they're just ignoring me! T_T;;)
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You don't really have to notify him in advance, you just have to tell him in the morning. If your your brother wants community service hours for volunteering, he'll have to help out for the whole day, it's the only condition under which Dave will sign forms and stuff.
 
Sa967St said:
TurbulentTurtle said:
Do you members from this forum tend to get together and just hang out during everyone's down time or whatever? Or do you all have your own clique of friends who go to the comps with you?
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We only see each other during competitions but we've had one get-together last summer, and there's one hopefully going to be one next week. Most of us know each other since we chat on MSN and stuff.
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I meant during the comp, cause I kinda want to make cubing friends, and it would be nice if they were from this forum too.
 
abr71310 said:
anderson26 said:
I'm officialy signed up! I'll be practicing a good amount of time each day to get prepared for the competition. I'm so excited!
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GL to you mate!!!

-- My average dropped 12 seconds from when I signed up 2 weeks ago from 40 seconds to just under 30 (28!!!)...

Man, is the hype getting to me or am I actually improving? :P
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Geez, man, you're starting to scare me. (just kidding, good luck!)

I'm getting nervous, and I think my average is going all over the place because of it. It could also be because of my new C4Y cubes :D hopefully I'll get used to them soon, but they're really nice. Way nicer than my Type A, I think.
 
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