canadianCUBING Classic 2009

Zaxef said:
3 mins would have been fair, imo
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Why is 3:00 fair? Because you can achieve that? Many people can get 3:00 without too much work. If that means that an extra 20 people are going to get an extra 3 solves, that 60 more scrambles and solves that needs to be worked into the schedule. There's always a tradeoff. Would you prefer to have a longer 4x4x4 round and no 5x5 round?

miniGOINGS said:
NOO!!! I'm unable to go to Ontario and might not get the chance of a comp for quite a while! :(
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You should've been like Connor and come to the Minnesota Open. Are there a lot of cubers in Winnipeg that would come down to Fargo or Grand Forks?
 
gee.....

i had to leave early cuz we're still getting everything into the new house :(

did i miss anything??


(BTW i was acting kinda awakward today :p)
 
Did you know...

-Brendon is the man of 1000 averages?
-You can make yellow?
-Eric Limeback bribed all three Oakvillian cubers to use one of their cubes?
-Sarah really is the DNF princess?
-Kit and I raced for almost every 4x4 solve?
-Sarah and I are amazing at teamsolving when we cheat?
-Daniel (Zaxef) is a pretty cool guy?
-Eric is amazing at BLD? His third solve (which DNF'd, unfortunately) was 23 second memo?
-Right before the finals (that Eric won) he kept saying how he was going to do terrible because his cube was bad?
-Brendon placed in every event he entered?
-I fail at 4x4?
-Peter Stulp won magic AGAIN?
-Eric is really, really good at 4x4 if he has a good cube?

and I like 2x2.
 
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Yalow said:
Did you know...

-Brendon is the man of 1000 averages?
-You can make yellow?
-Eric Limeback bribed all three Oakvillian cubers to use one of their cubes?
-Sarah really is the DNF princess?
-Kit and I raced for almost every 4x4 solve?
-Sarah and I are amazing at teamsolving when we cheat?
-Daniel (Zaxef) is a pretty cool guy.
-Eric is amazing at BLD. His third solve (which DNF'd, unfortunately, was 23 second memo)
-Right before the finals (that Eric won) he kept saying how he was going to do terrible because his cube was bad?
-Brendon placed in every event he entered?
-I fail at 4x4?
-Peter Stulp won magic AGAIN?
-Eric is really, really good at 4x4 if he has a good cube?

and I like 2x2.
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-during lunch, Kit, Justin, Jai and I searched for a Tim Horton's which didn't exist?
- I DNF'd in 4x4 because I slammed down the cube during the last two solves, which caused them to turn?
-Eric carries around lots of quaters, and gives them to people who lend him their cubes?
-I have 9 consecutive official DNFs in BLD
-Sam Lambert didn't come
-only 1 new person signed my canadiancubing shirt?
-only 5 people stayed for 'the afterparty'?
 
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Sa967St said:
Yalow said:
Did you know...

-Brendon is the man of 1000 averages?
-You can make yellow?
-Eric Limeback bribed all three Oakvillian cubers to use one of their cubes?
-Sarah really is the DNF princess?
-Kit and I raced for almost every 4x4 solve?
-Sarah and I are amazing at teamsolving when we cheat?
-Daniel (Zaxef) is a pretty cool guy.
-Eric is amazing at BLD. His third solve (which DNF'd, unfortunately, was 23 second memo)
-Right before the finals (that Eric won) he kept saying how he was going to do terrible because his cube was bad?
-Brendon placed in every event he entered?
-I fail at 4x4?
-Peter Stulp won magic AGAIN?
-Eric is really, really good at 4x4 if he has a good cube?

and I like 2x2.
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-during lunch, Kit, Justin, Jai and I searched for a Tim Horton's which didn't exist?
- I DNF'd in 4x4 because I slammed down the cube during the last two solves, which caused them to turn?
-Eric carries around lots of quaters, and gives them to people who lend him their cubes?
-I have 9 consecutive official DNF's in BLD
-Sam Lambert didn't come
-only 1 new person signed my canadiancubing shirt?
-only 5 people stayed for 'the afterparty'?
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-non of my cubes are lubed?
-everyone seemed to be playing with the 360 all the time
 
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Sa967St said:
Yalow said:
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-That we lost Brendon during our search for the mysterious Tim Horton's?
-I got 4.5 on a 2x2 scramble that I probably could have done sub 3? :(
-I was pretty sure my first round 2x2 average was sub 4 (it wasn't)
-In the middle of one of Eric's 5x5 solves Bill yelled (while playing with a Rubik's 360) "YES! I GOT ONE IN!" sitting right next to Eric.
-That the story behind "making yellow" is that Brendon had done 3 of his 5x5 solves, and was playing with the colouring screen on the wall. Simone asked him if he was finished his 5x5 solves to which he replied "HOW DO YOU MAKE YELLOW?"?
-That he later drew a picture of a Unicorn on that wall?
-That he also drew a Giraffe with another Unicorn asking "WHAT UP G-RAFF?"
-Kit introduced Bill and I to a game in which you have to swap your hands on a stackmat as fast as possible?
-I lent out both my 2x2's during the first round?
-I suspected who Zaxef was for a while, and was debating with Thompson whether or not to call out his name? When I did, he turned to someone and said "Oh, he was right here all along."? XD (I was selling him a 2x2)
 
more:

-I used a colour scheme that had purple instead of yellow, and yellow instead of orange?
-I was hoping to buy light blue stickers, so I wouldn't confuse the dark blue with the purple?
-they were sold out of the light blue stickers?
-I messed up F2L a few times, because I got blue and purple mixed up?
-I found out during 'the afterparty' that Kit had light blue stickers?


edit:

-at the museum, we could hear an ocarina playing "Song of Storms", and we found out that LOTS of us has played The Legend of Zelda; The Ocarina of Time (and Kit thinks it's because we're all nerds)
 
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Sa967St said:
-during lunch, Kit, Justin, Jai and I searched for a Tim Horton's which didn't exist?
- I DNF'd in 4x4 because I slammed down the cube during the last two solves, which caused them to turn?
-Eric carries around lots of quaters, and gives them to people who lend him their cubes?
-I have 9 consecutive official DNFs in BLD
-Sam Lambert didn't come
-only 1 new person signed my canadiancubing shirt?
-only 5 people stayed for 'the afterparty'?
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Yeah, I found the Tim Horton's on the way back home. It's far, far away, near the highway. Also, Sam accidentally registered for C3 (he confused it with CO, where he actually will be at), and could not remove his registration because he had deleted his registration email.
Edit: Yeah, Justin, that one ball that Bill got in while Eric was doing 5x5 was a complete fluke - I was there with him. :p
 
Zaxef said:
Vault312 said:
Zaxef said:
omg... I just looked at the site...
2:30 limit for 5x5 and 1:30 limit for 4x4? Since when :/
I'm so boned...

There are only 17 people in Canada that can do it under 2:30..
http://www.worldcubeassociation.org...=Canada&years=&show=100+Persons&single=Single

I don't think that's really fair... :/
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I think its very fair, I'd even say a bit generous. Dave has a schedule to keep, and he can't have someone tying up a timer with a bunch of 4-5 minute solves.

This is clearly your first competition, you will understand afterward.
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I'm not 4-5 mins... I got 2:42 and 2:49 >_>
3 mins would have been fair, imo
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No, 3 minutes would have been in your interest. The only way it's unfair is if different people need to meet different standards at the same competition. It's fair, you just don't like it.
 
-that there are about three different streets named 'King Street' in Kitchener?
-that this makes it very difficult to get home?
-that James would probably make being an arrogant American a criminal offense in Canada? (and that he doesn't wake up in the morning)
-that there will be pandas in the prize packs for CO?
-that I accidently took one of the stopwatches with me afterwards?
-that I left it with Sarah/Justin/Brendon despite incidentally running into Dave 10 minutes later?
-that US Customs get bored with their job and ask you to solve cubes to give them entertainment?
 
Ok, I just tried your damn scrambles (thank you Justin):

F U' F U' F U' R F2 U
R2 U2 R' F' U2 F2 U' R U'
U2 F U2 F R' F2 U F' U2
U F2 R' F2 R U R U'
R F' U2 F' R2 F2 U' F' U2


Average: 2.32
Standard Deviation: 0.41
Individual Times:
1. (3.81)
2. (1.11)
3. 1.77
4. 2.42
5. 2.77

I would actually have killed for these in UK Masters, I really would :P
Still, very well done Justin for the new NR and sub 4 average (and you didn't even get the 2nd scramble :O) :)

EDIT: Solutions:

1. y2 F' R' F R (U2) L' U2 L U2 R U' L' U (13)
2. x2 F' (R' F R2 U' R2 F R) U (9)
3. z2 L' U2 (F' R F2 U2 R F) U2 (9)
4. x y R U' R' U' (RUR'U' R'FRF') (12)
5. y L2 U L2 (U2) R2 U' R' U' R U' R' U R' (13)

gives an average of 11.2 moves per solve, which is rather nice :)
 
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-Daniel (Zaxef) is a pretty cool guy.
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:D

-I suspected who Zaxef was for a while, and was debating with Thompson whether or not to call out his name? When I did, he turned to someone and said "Oh, he was right here all along."? XD (I was selling him a 2x2)
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Lol I was looking at people's nametags.. I felt so creepy.. and I looked at you like 10 times.. I figured you heard me telling my mom I was looking for someone to buy a 2x2 from :p
Thanks again btw ;)

Yay I have a WCA profile now :)

Did you know..
- I have the most inconsistent times of all the competitors? (3x3) :P
- I had never solved a 2x2 in my life before the day of the competition
- I had never solved a 4x4 either!
- My 5x5 times were only ~20 seconds slower than my 4x4 :|

Overall, for my first competition, I'm quite pleased.. My 2x2 and 4x4 times weren't that great, and some of my 3x3 times were horrendous, but I still got around my usual 26-28 average on some solves where I wasn't REALLY nervous or messing up (see 1:01.33 solve LOL -_-)... but my 5x5 is right around what I average so I was really pleased with that one..
Solving beside Harris Chan made me really nervous on the second solve though haha :(
 
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