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What if your first solve in 3x3 BLD is a DNF? I dont think I'll decide to register for BLD but that seems a little unfair, even against the really good people. I think that sub 3:00 on megaminx is a little harsh compared to needing only sub 1:30 to OH. Neither really affect me, but i was sub 1:30 on my first ever average of OH, and I was around 30s at the time, whereas with megaminx it took quite a bit of practice to be around 3min. Just wondering :)

EDIT : very convenient choice of first events on saturday, at least from my viewpoint ;)
 
well i did try to make less popular events first on the saturday :P megaminx updated, that was an error actually, i totally agree with what you said.

i changed BLD, best of 2 or average of 5 (if that's permitted... ?! no idea...) for sub 4. i know joey will like that.
 
CharlieCooper said:
well i did try to make less popular events first on the saturday :P megaminx updated, that was an error actually, i totally agree with what you said.

i changed BLD, best of 2 or average of 5 (if that's permitted... ?! no idea...) for sub 4. i know joey will like that.
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average of 5 is not an official format for 3x3 bld
you can have best of X, where X is <=3 (and that applies to all best of X events)
 
Ughhhh!!! If I see well, it can be 80Ł to travel from East Midlands to Swindon. :eek: Is that right?!
There is less and less probability for me to come. :(
I can survive one more week until a competition.
 
CharlieCooper said:
all done, feedback would be nice :)
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A link to the schedule might be useful

Also, does "Best of 1 for FMC/Best of 20 sandwiches" and "Best of 10 pizza slices/Best of 1 MBF" mean I have to chose between sandwiches or FMC and between pizza and MBF? In that case I choose sandwiches and pizza

"Best of 2/Average of 5 (< 4:00)" should probably be "Mean of 3 (< 4:00)"

For 4 Blind the time-limit is 1 hour, the total time is 1 hour, but you can do best of 2. That doesn't make sense

A time limit of 30:00 for a 3x3x3 and 5:00 for 2x2x2 is just to much, especially because 5x5x5 has a time limit of 7:00

A 15:00 time-limit for 7x7x7 is really nice and should allow everyone to do at least 1 solve. It will require stopwatches and lots of timers though

And does this all mean that you are out of lock down? In that case:
* Where are the photo's of the "do"
* You might have a surprise coming up
 
Edam said:
if i've dropped 4 minutes off my 7x7 average in a month you can do it!
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Thanks for the encouragement but I don't find this to be the case. I don't improve at the rate most people seem to achieve here. I just completed this week's 7x7x7 in the weekly comp and I'm making no real progress: -
2009-13: 7x7x7: 18:58.00, 19:19.00, (21:16.00), (16:05.00), 20:51.00 = 19:42.70
2009-14: 7x7x7: 18:52.00, 19:28.00, 20:24.00, (20:35.00), (16:51) = 19:34.67
2009-15: 7x7x7: (16:32.00), 17:18.00, 21:17.00, 19:57.00, (22:01.00) = 19:30.67
 
CharlieCooper said:
all done, feedback would be nice :)
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wow, I think I've got a lot of feedback

- I don't like that it seems that you have to chose between eating and fewest moves/MBF. You should seriously find a solution for that problem

- Official Megamninx format is Mean of 3, you should make it "Best of 1/Mean of 3 (< 4:00)", that's the usual way

- Timelimit for Pyraminx Average should be 1 minute, you won't really lose time due to that, but beginners will be more glad.

- Best of 3 instead Mean of 3 at 3x3 BLD

- 4x4 BLD Timelimit should be 30 Minutes, not an hour

- I would put 4 minutes Timlimit for 3x3 and 2 minutes for 2x2

- How many people will move to the (Semi-)Final of 3x3?

- Finally I would change a lot considering order and day of an event. For example I would put all the main events on Sunday and the side events on Saturday. A beginner who only does 3x3x and 4x4 should not have to come for 2 days. I would also put Big cubes BLD together on one day, MBF on the other.

Basically you can see what I would do if you look at the Aachen Open schedule that i made. (http://cube.hackvalue.de/ao09/schedule-de). It just doesn't contain MBF which was not 1 hour limit at that time.

Feel free to copy whatever you want.
 
Enter, by that time you probably would have gotten a magic, if not lend mine. Do BLD also, don't worry about DNF's, they arn't that bad.
I think I will enter everything except 7x7x7 4x4 and 5x5 BLD.
 
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