Any new news on world championship 2009?

[masterofthebass]

Anyone interested in sharing a room? I haven't decided exactly which days I will be staying there, but at the minimum I will be there Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

why not sign up for the dormitory housing? That's where the majority of people will be staying. (i assume)

 

[oskarasbrink]

now it says that the limit is 340 competitors

 

[coinman]

I have booked flights now and I'm curious of how many people have been thinking of staying in a multibed room in the hostel? How does the multibed room thing work? Can I just recerve a bed there although I'll be coming on my own? Are there going to be other cubers in the same room or some "outsiders"?

I'm really exited about coming and I'm sure we'll have lots of fun.

Flights? I thought you planed to walk!

 

[pjk]

Anyone interested in sharing a room? I haven't decided exactly which days I will be staying there, but at the minimum I will be there Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

why not sign up for the dormitory housing? That's where the majority of people will be staying. (i assume)

Are you referring to the City Hostel that is 24.80 euros/night?

 

[AvGalen]

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Some more cubers i miss is Netherland's Arnaud van Galen - he will not win but he is a funny guy!, ...

Just to prove you wrong I signed up. If I will not win, I can always not be a funny guy :rolleyes:

 

[Dene]

Well I'm glad, as I'm now almost certain that I will be able to afford it, so long as I can keep up these hours I'm on for the next few weeks

 

[pjk]

Some more cubers i miss is Netherland's Arnaud van Galen - he will not win but he is a funny guy!, Canada's Harris Chan, USA's Andrew Kang - after al he loves bacon
And of course Sweden's Lars Petrus! He is the only person who has competed in al WC this far so i hope he will not miss this one!

According to a quote he made on Facebook, I don't think he is going:

I would definitely have gone to Hong Kong, but hardly Düsseldorf.

 

[DavidWoner]

And a random sampling of some who are high on other events:
Han-Cyun Chen (3rd on 5x5x5)

A curious statistic to choose, personally I would have gone for 1st on 4x4x4.

Dennis Strehlau (2nd on 3x3x3 multi BLD old; maybe not the same, but still)
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Note I'm not looking for a way for weaker people (like me, for instance) to be able to get in

Oh so 2nd in multiBLD old is good enough but you feel that 4th is inadequate?

 

[Afrobongo]

How does it work?
100 Competitors in 3x3x3 Quali, but 156 to qualify. Drawing lots?

 

[Oliver Wolff]

Hotel

Hi all,

maybe this is interesting at least for some of you:

We just booked a room at the following hotel

http://www.mercure.com/de/hotel-0497-mercure-hotel-duesseldorf-neuss/index.shtml

It´s a 4* hotel and the bed in a double room incl. breakfast (68 € for 3 nights) is even cheaper than in multibed room in the youth hostel. The distance to the venue is about the same as the listed hotels.

However, we book on this site

http://www.kurz-mal-weg.de

a "special" german site we use quite often.
If you book directly on the mercure site it is much more expensive.

I don´t know if it is possible to book from other countries, maybe you want to try it ....

Olli

 

[Mike Hughey]

And a random sampling of some who are high on other events:
Han-Cyun Chen (3rd on 5x5x5)

A curious statistic to choose, personally I would have gone for 1st on 4x4x4.

I figured I probably did something stupid like that. And sure enough I did. Sorry.

Dennis Strehlau (2nd on 3x3x3 multi BLD old; maybe not the same, but still)
...
Note I'm not looking for a way for weaker people (like me, for instance) to be able to get in

Oh so 2nd in multiBLD old is good enough but you feel that 4th is inadequate?

Yep. 2nd is good enough; 4th is inadequate, clearly. But seriously, Dennis's performance was good enough to be top two in the new multi results, while that 4th place guy was way too slow.

 

[Tim Reynolds]

NOTE: Because of the high numbers of registrations for the WC 2009 events, there will be two qualification limits:

* Qualification limit for the qualification rounds
* Qualification limit for the main rounds

The qualification limits for the main rounds are defined on the Events page. The limits for the main rounds of the side events will be updated soon, so that more competitors will be able to compete in the side events.
The qualification limits for the qualification rounds will be defined soon. All competitors on waiting lists will be re-evaluated for the qualification rounds, based on their results on the WCA ranking.

From competitors list page.

 

[Feanaro]

I'll be going, hope to see you all there

 

[cmhardw]

340 competitors registered. I had no idea this many people were going to compete this year. I never would have thought it would fill up so much so quickly.

Do you think we might get to a point where some of us are asked to drop our less serious events? I would do so, if it really came down to it being a problem having so many people competing in so many events.

Chris

 

[pjk]

340 competitors registered. I had no idea this many people were going to compete this year. I never would have thought it would fill up so much so quickly.

Do you think we might get to a point where some of us are asked to drop our less serious events? I would do so, if it really came down to it being a problem having so many people competing in so many events.

Chris

I would be willing to drop my less serious events as well if it became a problem.

 

[Dene]

I definitely think people should be dropping events if it means that other events were to get cancelled. Even the very top guys that want to compete in as much as possible. I wouldn't want to be calling anyone selfish . (But I'll have to if this does cause a problem!)

 

[Tim Reynolds]

Is it possible for someone with access to the databases to make a ranking list for the events for the registrants based in the WCA-ranking? Would be cool to see which place one might expect to get in.

http://web.mit.edu/timreyn/Public/Worlds 2009/
Times used are the ones used to determine qualification (e.g. average for most things, single for BLD and feet, etc.). Only new-style multi blind results are used--it would have been obnoxiously difficult to include both, but in some future update I will list old-style instead for reference. ToS and Berkeley are included but not Poznan or Xi'an.

Gunnar, your best average puts you in 31st in 3x3.

 

[Jh543]

345 registered now,
Have thay change the limit?

 

[Gunnar]

Is it possible for someone with access to the databases to make a ranking list for the events for the registrants based in the WCA-ranking? Would be cool to see which place one might expect to get in.

http://web.mit.edu/timreyn/Public/Worlds 2009/
Times used are the ones used to determine qualification (e.g. average for most things, single for BLD and feet, etc.). Only new-style multi blind results are used--it would have been obnoxiously difficult to include both, but in some future update I will list old-style instead for reference. ToS and Berkeley are included but not Poznan or Xi'an.

Gunnar, your best average puts you in 31st in 3x3.

Thanks a lot!

Interesting statistics. My goal to get to the finals in 3x3 might be hard to reach, but then again that's what goals are for.

OH and 4x4 will be more interesting for me since I've been getting results at home which are much better than my competition times. I'm thinking a top-5 place in OH and 4x4 is reachable for me.

 

[Markus Pirzer]

Yes, very interesting statistics.

After having a look at some lists, I've found some inconsistency:

- Fewest moves:
Why are the people with 47 moves not qualified? According to the official announcement, 47 would be the limit.
Why is instead Stéphane Escaich already qualified with 52 moves?

- 3x3x3:
Péter Pozsgai is in the list of the qualifiers although he recently (12 days ago) achieved a 18.11 average. I think this will get updated in the official list.

Michael Layher already has an official time, he competed in the World Championship in Budapest 2 years ago.