Polish Open 2009

[DavidWoner]

congrats tomasz! 10.07 is incredible. what happened in the 2x2 rounds? since no ones said anything im guessing my record still stands....i get so nervous every weekend

Lukasz got 3.55 and 3.78

live results were at http://live.speedcubing.com.pl/ in case anyone wants to see other stuff.

 

[Erik]

Bad competition for me
It was either plain crap (3x3 for example), or just-not-it (4x4 and 5x5).
Nice thing that there were so many rounds for a lot of puzzles.
Just got home after about 13 hours of driving (yay I'm tired).

Tomasz is insane... he got quite a few jelly beans (you got a jelly bean for each sub-10 you did )

12.85 average is deep deep deep shame :fp :fp :fp
On 4x4 I was very unlucky, the fastest 41 had OLL parity and the 42 and other 41 had PLL parity. Also parity on the other 2 solves, I did 5 pairs on the last solve and shaked so I messed up.
On 5x5, w/e it was just not it again, on the last solve I could've gotten WR average if I didn't pair 2 pairs wrong, so 6 F2L pairs in total...
Magic was also fail with: 1.00, 1.00, DNF, 1.19, DNF....
4x4 BLD was fail, 2 centres and some edges off.
2x2 second round was good with 3.64 average. OH was ok with 21 average. Megaminx sucked due to a mistake resulting in a 1:20 time. Feet was going well untill everything went wrong on the 3rd solve. 6x6 -> POPS, 7x7 -> POPS
3x3 BLD was very good with 2x a sub-2

That's basically it. Now I just have to stop making mistakes and start pwning instead of sucking... :rolleyes:

 

[Yichen]

Erik,I think you are too nervous or you can break the record of 4by4.
And Rowe Hessler,keep nervous because of the Guangdong Open on Oct 2..

 

[coinman]

That's basically it. Now I just have to stop making mistakes and start pwning instead of sucking... :rolleyes:

Yes you suck

 

[KJiptner]

Kai Jiptner 4x4x4 BLD: 7:03.00 - third in the world. Congratulations, Kai!

Thanks Mike! Scramble wasn't too hard. Lot's of centers in place and edges were one big cycle.

Did you know:

- 1h of sleep is no problem for speed events?
- 1h of sleep is a big problem for BLD events?
- Arnaud went to work after the 13h drive home?
- Tomasz Zolnowski is the real deal?
- You can just call him "Zaba" if you can't pronounce his name?
- The 10.07 had two timer malfunctions?
- 16 cubes in an hour is really, really tough (for now)?
- chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie?
- Fischers Fritz, fischt frische Fische?
- We actually got real medals in poland?
- Rafal Guzewicz is better then you might think?
- Not WR in a random event = Erik is running amok?

 

[AvGalen]

Personal highlights:
* Getting to the competition (from work) 5 minutes before the competition starts (after a 16 hour drive)
* Getting to work (from the competition) 15 minutes before my normal arrival time (after a 15 hour drive)
* Doing my first EVER sub 6 solve solve on 7x7x7
* Getting really close to a decent multi-blind with 2/3 in 25 minutes (7 edges cycled in the wrong direction)
* Getting on the podium for Clock and Master Magic
* Doing an insane amount of official solves on the first day AND doing the entire weekly competition as well.

I failed on FMC and 4x4x4 though

I think all of Tomasz WR-solves are on my phone. I will check tonight and upload them if nobody else has done so by then.

 

[Shortey]

I think all of Tomasz WR-solves are on my phone. I will check tonight and upload them if nobody else has done so by then.

Upload them now! =D I want to see.

 

[Mr Cubism]

On 4x4 I was very unlucky, the fastest 41 had OLL parity and the 42 and other 41 had PLL parity. Also parity on the other 2 solves, I did 5 pairs on the last solve and shaked so I messed up.

So many parities + a DNF and you broke your own avarage record with over 3 seconds :confused:......the WR has to watch up!

And congrats Tomasz to the remarkable, stunning, insane WR 10.07 ! That time has put the 3x3 avarage in a new level. (like Eriks single 7.08 did)

 

[Piotr]

@ WC I'd expect, seeing as about 3 people attending have done low 9 averages of 12

Unofficial averages mean nothing. Real cubing starts at competition.

 

[amostay2004]

And congrats Tomasz to the remarkable, stunning, insane WR 10.07 ! That time has put the 3x3 avarage in a new level. (like Eriks single 7.08 did)

No, not yet. Not until a sub-9.5 average

 

[(X)]

@ WC I'd expect, seeing as about 3 people attending have done low 9 averages of 12

Unofficial averages mean nothing. Real cubing starts at competition.

Agreed I can't really see Breandan winning the WC...

 

[joey]

@ WC I'd expect, seeing as about 3 people attending have done low 9 averages of 12

Unofficial averages mean nothing. Real cubing starts at competition.

Agreed I can't really see Breandan winning the WC...

I don't see why not... UK ftw!

 

[Shortey]

@ WC I'd expect, seeing as about 3 people attending have done low 9 averages of 12

Unofficial averages mean nothing. Real cubing starts at competition.

Agreed I can't really see Breandan winning the WC...

I don't see why not... UK ftw!

Breandan got a 13.00 avg at a competition.

Breandan rocks, but he wont win WC or get a world record.

 

[Escher]

@ WC I'd expect, seeing as about 3 people attending have done low 9 averages of 12

Unofficial averages mean nothing. Real cubing starts at competition.

Agreed I can't really see Breandan winning the WC...

I don't see why not... UK ftw!

Breandan got a 13.00 avg at a competition.

Breandan rocks, but he wont win WC or get a world record.

Hey now, that 13.00 average was due to the 34 degree heat in italy If you look at places with a comparable to Deutschland (such as UK Masters) he get's 11.6 averages

 

[(X)]

@ WC I'd expect, seeing as about 3 people attending have done low 9 averages of 12

Unofficial averages mean nothing. Real cubing starts at competition.

Agreed I can't really see Breandan winning the WC...

I don't see why not... UK ftw!

Breandan got a 13.00 avg at a competition.

Breandan rocks, but he wont win WC or get a world record.

Hey now, that 13.00 average was due to the 34 degree heat in italy If you look at places with a comparable to Deutschland (such as UK Masters) he get's 11.6 averages

Yeah, hmm Germany is pretty comparable to Germany

EDIT: I know he has improved in competitions, I just answered to Escher's post

 

[Jason]

I don't expect to see many world records broken at the WC, a lot of people get too nervous and freak out at comparable big comps

 

[Mr Cubism]

Personal highlights:
* Getting to the competition (from work) 5 minutes before the competition starts (after a 16 hour drive)

....like anywere else; important people arrive late

Nice that you got there in time, good planing!

 

[Yichen]

Kai Jiptner 4x4x4 BLD: 7:03.00 - third in the world. Congratulations, Kai!

Thanks Mike! Scramble wasn't too hard. Lot's of centers in place and edges were one big cycle.

Did you know:

- 1h of sleep is no problem for speed events?
- 1h of sleep is a big problem for BLD events?
- Arnaud went to work after the 13h drive home?
- Tomasz Zolnowski is the real deal?
- You can just call him "Zaba" if you can't pronounce his name?
- The 10.07 had two timer malfunctions?
- 16 cubes in an hour is really, really tough (for now)?
- chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie?
- Fischers Fritz, fischt frische Fische?
- We actually got real medals in poland?
- Rafal Guzewicz is better then you might think?
- Not WR in a random event = Eriks is running amok?

What means by"The 10.07 had two timer malfunctions"?
Do you mean that some of the results are not true?
Do you mean that he could get a better result or a worse result without the timer malfunctions

 

[Mike Hughey]

- 1h of sleep is a big problem for BLD events?
- 16 cubes in an hour is really, really tough (for now)?

Ah - I wondered what happened on multi. I have a feeling the answer lies in these two comments. So care to tell us details on how the multi attempt actually went? I'd love to hear the whole story.

 

[AvGalen]

"two timer malfunctions": On two of the solves the timer stopped after 0.xx seconds so two additional attempts were given. The five counting times were naturally official attempts

Kai was stopped after 1 hour when he had only finished solving 10 out of 16 cubes. He was moved to another and was allowed to unofficialy finish the other 6 cubes which took about 6 more minutes. I believe the result would have been 11/16 including those last 6 cubes. 1 of the bad cubes looked like a bad attempt for a Fridrich speedblind, the other 4 bad cubes had misoriented pieces.

(please correct me if I made a mistake Kai)