Detroit Competition

[Kit Clement]

If anyone's still thinking of registering, do so ASAP, because the registration will actually be closing a day earlier than anticipated. If you miss it though, you can still register at the door the day of the competition, please arrive on time or early.

 

[Sa967St]

3 days left! *excited*
I have 2 questions,

1) How long will the afterparty last?
We (me, Eric, Bren) are not staying for the night, and so if it goes late, we may not be able to stay the whole time.

2) When is the latest time we can arrive?
We're leaving early in the morning (~5:30am), and Eric is in the first event (2x2) and since I'm not sure how long 'twill take to cross the border, I can't promise that we'll be there by 9:30.

EDIT:
we are actually going to leave at 4:30am, so we *should* be there well before 9:00am, and we are going to head back at 7:00pm.

 

[JustinJ]

*excited* as well

Hopefully I make it to the second round by more than one place this time and unless it takes you forever to cross the border, Sarah, I don't have much of a "buffer zone" this time. XD

I have a couple things to note as well,

I'll have a couple (one black and two white) ES 2x2's available if anyone wants 'em, I don't really care about making a profit, they're just sitting on my shelf anyway. I paid ten bucks each for them and that's what I'll sell them for.

Secondly,
anyone wanna do some team BLD with me?


*kinda off-topic, I ran into Brendon Hemsley on my walk home yesterday

 

[Bob]

Yalow: what do you do for team BLD? I'm kind of good at it. (though admittedly, I'm not the best at calling...)

 

[Sa967St]

Yalow: what do you do for team BLD? I'm kind of good at it. (though admittedly, I'm not the best at calling...)

DOUBLE SUPERMAN FRONT BACK!!

 

[masterofthebass]

Yalow: what do you do for team BLD? I'm kind of good at it. (though admittedly, I'm not the best at calling...)

DOUBLE SUPERMAN FRONT BACK!!

BACK FRONT*

EDGE GOOD! EDGE GOOD!
*jumps around*

 

[Bob]

oh man, i remember that like it was yesterday.

 

[JustinJ]

I'm not very good at it, I've only done it a couple of times. Michael and I worked out a basic system at TOW though, where we'd put the corner in the UFB place, describe it's orientation, where it went, and where it's edge was.

Wow, now I'm super excited! I might get to do some team BLD with Bob Burton!

How long has the schedule been up? I don't remember seeing it.

(http://mcopen.weebly.com/schedule.html)

Edit: I meant UFR:rolleyes:

 

[Sa967St]

I'm not very good at it, I've only done it a couple of times. Michael and I worked out a basic system at TOW though, where we'd put the corner in the UFB place, describe it's orientation, where it went, and where it's edge was.

for OLL, Bren and I describe which cubies are oriented, rather than the shape it resembles. Basically, each sticker on the U layer has a number between 1-9

123
456
789

and so whoever is calling just has to say something like
"3,4,5,6,9" (T-shape), then says how many yellow stickers are on the 3rd layer on the F or R faces. We've only done team bld a few times but this system works out pretty well for us.

 

[Kit Clement]

3 days left! *excited*
1) How long will the afterparty last?
We (me, Eric, Bren) are not staying for the night, and so if it goes late, we may not be able to stay the whole time.

However long people want to stay, or however long we have until Big Boy kicks us out. If you have to go, then you can leave as you please.

2) When is the latest time we can arrive?
We're leaving early in the morning (~5:30am), and Eric is in the first event (2x2) and since I'm not sure how long 'twill take to cross the border, I can't promise that we'll be there by 9:30.

Border crossing early Saturday morning is usually fine, we had no traffic when I was coming to Toronto, but I cross the border much faster than you guys do. I'd reccomend coming through Sarnia/Port Huron (I think I mentioned this already), as their customs are usually faster than the ones in Detroit. Latest time you can technically arrive is when my dad leaves to go pick up the lunch, but so that everyone will have time to do an average of 5 for 3x3x3, I'll say 10:30 AM.

I do TeamBLD with my friend a bit, and we can get sub2 occasionally... >.>

 

[Sa967St]

1) How long will the afterparty last?
We (me, Eric, Bren) are not staying for the night, and so if it goes late, we may not be able to stay the whole time.

However long people want to stay, or however long we have until Big Boy kicks us out. If you have to go, then you can leave as you please.

we'll leave at 7:00pm

2) When is the latest time we can arrive?
We're leaving early in the morning (~5:30am), and Eric is in the first event (2x2) and since I'm not sure how long 'twill take to cross the border, I can't promise that we'll be there by 9:30.

Border crossing early Saturday morning is usually fine, we had no traffic when I was coming to Toronto, but I cross the border much faster than you guys do. I'd reccomend coming through Sarnia/Port Huron (I think I mentioned this already), as their customs are usually faster than the ones in Detroit. Latest time you can technically arrive is when my dad leaves to go pick up the lunch, but so that everyone will have time to do an average of 5 for 3x3x3, I'll say 10:30 AM.

we're actually leaving earlier (4:30am) and yeah we're taking the 402 through Sarnia, so we should be okay.


EDIT: 2 days left w00t! I have no school tomorrow, so I'll be practicing ALL DAY

 

[Dave Campbell]

What Kit means to say is that we won't turn anyone away at anytime, especially if you are traveling from out of town. Obviously, however, we cannot let you do your 3x3 solves if we have already started the second round of it. Other than that, we will do our best to accommodate.

And generally speaking, Kit is also right that you shouldn't run into too much trouble crossing the border at that time (unless you have Bill Li in the car). However, i will point out that it is not the same as when Kit crossed as you are dealing with the US customs when you go from Canada to the US, and Canadian customs when you go US to Canada. I have never, ever, had an issue coming from US to Canada. But i have had many issues going from Canada to US. The Canadians are much more relaxed and personable (surprised?).

And Kit, dare i ask why you cross the border much faster than we shall? Is your family a Nexus card holder or something?

See you guys soon. Oh, and Sarah, practice 4x4 scrambling!

 

[Kit Clement]

What Kit means to say is that we won't turn anyone away at anytime, especially if you are traveling from out of town. Obviously, however, we cannot let you do your 3x3 solves if we have already started the second round of it. Other than that, we will do our best to accommodate.

And generally speaking, Kit is also right that you shouldn't run into too much trouble crossing the border at that time (unless you have Bill Li in the car). However, i will point out that it is not the same as when Kit crossed as you are dealing with the US customs when you go from Canada to the US, and Canadian customs when you go US to Canada. I have never, ever, had an issue coming from US to Canada. But i have had many issues going from Canada to US. The Canadians are much more relaxed and personable (surprised?).

And Kit, dare i ask why you cross the border much faster than we shall? Is your family a Nexus card holder or something?

See you guys soon. Oh, and Sarah, practice 4x4 scrambling!

Yeah, what Dave said. xP

And no, we don't have a nexus card or anything, I just get to the border faster than you guys do since I'm closer, and it's practically empty at customs at 5am. Not that it's that much busier during the brighter times of the morning. >.>

And I know what you mean about the customs being completely different depending on what country you're entering, getting back into the US can be quite the pain in the ass at times. We almost got stuck in Sarnia on our band trip to Toronto because some people didn't bring passable identification.

But yeah, I can guarantee registration tables will be open until we go to pick up lunch, but of course, we can accept anyone anytime as long as you come to do 3x3x3 once we start the second round of 3x3x3.

 

[elimescube]

But yeah, I can guarantee registration tables will be open until we go to pick up lunch, but of course, we can accept anyone anytime as long as you come to do 3x3x3 once we start the second round of 3x3x3.

What is for lunch, Kit? I almost feel guilty paying just $5 for a meal, is that still the outrageously awesome case?

 

[Sa967St]

What is for lunch, Kit? I almost feel guilty paying just $5 for a meal, is that still the outrageously awesome case?

$5.00 USD is about $6.20 CAD

 

[elimescube]

What is for lunch, Kit? I almost feel guilty paying just $5 for a meal, is that still the outrageously awesome case?

$5.00 USD is about $6.20 CAD

I exchanged some money a week ago at 1.21 USD to the CAD, so only $6.05 for me

I can buy a pixie stick with that 15 cents I saved!

 

[Kit Clement]

Yeah, registration/lunch is still $5, there will be pizza/subs as well as chips/pop to go with that. I got some nice deals getting things in bulk.

 

[Bob]

I do TeamBLD with my friend a bit, and we can get sub2 occasionally... >.>

We'll get sub-1 within a couple tries.

 

[elimescube]

Yeah, registration/lunch is still $5, there will be pizza/subs as well as chips/pop to go with that. I got some nice deals getting things in bulk.

Fantastic

 

[ShadenSmith]

I'm leaving for the tournament now. First stop is Columbus to grab Jim, then on we go!