World Championships Experience Thread!

[masterofthebass]

Did you know...

...Dan has been secretly practising 4x4

completely wrong. That solve was my PB EVER by 2 seconds, and my PB with robert's method by like 5... I got to the LL at 30 and had sune + u perm. I only had to do 2 algorithms to solve the last 8 edges

so back to the experiences...

The finals/3x3 semi-finals were REALLY stressful. They had us lined up by ranking from the first round, so during 4x4 I had about 5 cameras right in my face... After failing in 3x3 and 4x4, I calmed down and just relaxed during 5x5 and it worked out.

 

[Robert-Y]

How did you end up with only 8 edges left? Was the last cross dedge already solved after the centres by chance?

EDIT: And congratulations Dan! (I completely forgot lol)

 

[CharlieCooper]

So I'm finally home after the weekend and I had a pretty awesome time. It was nice to see old friends and also to make new ones.

Highlights:

Breandan winning
Free beer
Anthony and Eric team bld 18.09 (cookie, little crisp, chameleon SOLVED)
Making music with toothbrushes
YOGHURT OMGZ

Un-Highlights

My pyraminx being totally ruined for me and therefore costing me a podium place
The distance of the venue, getting the bus was not that cool
The room smelling of unpleasant things
Free beer

Thank you to everyone that organised this competition, and everyone that I had fun with.

I hope to see lots of you next week at Dutch Open, I can't wait!

 

[Sa967St]

Anthony and Eric team bld 18.09 (cookie, little crisp, chameleon SOLVED)

R U' R' U R U' R'
R U R' U R U' R'
Lw' U' L U R U' R'w F ?

 

[CharlieCooper]

Anthony and Eric team bld 18.09 (cookie, little crisp, chameleon SOLVED)

R U' R' U R U' R'
R U R' U R U' R'
Lw' U' L U R U' R'w F ?

Something like that... it was amazing.

 

[gasmus]

There are no words that fully describe my exerience at WC09. Thank you everyone for helping to make this one of the best experiences of my life!

 

[TMOY]

Did you know that:
- it really was a great competition ? (Yes you already know that )
- a C4Y mini-3^3 can be really good for speedsolving ? (At least for me)
- there happened to be a stupidly lucky (4-move solution) scramble for the first group of the 2^3 first round ? (Unfortunately I was in the second group)
- the fastest 2^3 solve of the competition (and 3rd fastest ever) was made on that scramble by the guy who holds the 2^3 FMC competition on the French forum ?
- Laetitia didn't compete in megaminx ?
- She really refused to compete even when a lot of people tried to convince her ?
- Antoine Simon-Chautemps (another French cuber) looks very much like Stefan Pochmann ? (Although I know both of them I never noticed that before but apparently Antoine can easily be mistaken for Stefan).
- I now own 2 360's and I still don't care about that stupid puzzle ?
- The V7 Illusion can actually be scrambled ? (But it's still not a very interesting puzzle)
- I'm running out of ideas for a "Did you know" so I'll stop here ?

 

[masterofthebass]

How did you end up with only 8 edges left? Was the last cross dedge already solved after the centres by chance?

EDIT: And congratulations Dan! (I completely forgot lol)

nah... I didn't really count the alg I used to solve the cross. I think I did solve 2 edges in that alg though, resulting in 1 edge solved after centers, and doing the remaining 8 in 3 algorithms.

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

- Timothy Sun is awesomely cool?

Yay!

Did you know... I was first in the first round of two events, and ended up third in the finals for both?

 

[Tyson]

You mean *one* event right?

 

[Mike Hughey]

Did you know... I was first in the first round of two events, and ended up third in the finals for both?

You mean *one* event right?

Ha ha, Tyson, you're so funny.

He also finished third in another event, but I'm not sure you count that one either.

 

[cmhardw]

Did you know...

... that Chris mailed all his cubing stuff to his home address in the USA, and is now backpacking around Germany?

... that Chris wishes the championship wasn't over so quickly?

... that the French guys and gals have some really great innovations for speedcubing ideas?

... that the Spanish guys and gals are a lot of fun to hang out with?

... that the Norwegian and Swedish guys and gals are fun to hang out with in front of the venue while waiting for the staff to let you in?

... that Chris would love to say more right now, but his internet time is about to run out?

There is much more to say, but right now I must go! I'll post again soon, once I am back in the States!

Worlds was awesome, and the people there were so great! Hope to see everybody, and more, in 2 years!

Chris

 

[Paris]

Did you know that:
-French cubers like to ride horses?
-Dan wanted to steal my beer?
-Aile is 17 years old?
-Ron told me that i cant put anything on my timer because its against the wca rules :fp and i messed all my solves?
-Balint Bodor could put anything on his timer?
-Balints megaminx is very loose and sucky ?
-Dan is a really cool guy to hang out with?
-That Bruno has taught me many Hungarian swears?
-I am a half pirate?
-Chris Dzoan is almost as cool as Dan?
-Ben je klaar "hokoumers" in her "kutsie"? (srry for my dutch )
-Riding the first bus on Friday was so much fun with Rama and Maria?
-Erik own3d me?
-I own Nakajima in megaminx?
-Jumping instead of watching feet solving is much more fun? gratuláció Oliver!
-Adam Zamora owned that guy in the movie?
-Adam can do a U2 with one finger on every cube apart from Arnauds best type F ?
-Yu Araki loves frogs?
-Yumu is always calm when he is solving OH?
-Eric Limeback's gf is so so so so hot? *lucky bastard*
-playing against Frank Morris in table football is a suicide?
-the joker from mosaic was f*ckin awesome?
-I think i cant remember more of that stuff?

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

Did you know... I was first in the first round of two events, and ended up third in the finals for both?

You mean *one* event right?

Ha ha, Tyson, you're so funny.

He also finished third in another event, but I'm not sure you count that one either.

Well, for multi, I'm very happy I even placed, because there were people like Kai, Rafal, and Eric Limeback that were really close to getting third as well.

- Guus has a really cool method?
- He does F2L on green?

http://www.ws.binghamton.edu/fridrich/gus.html

 

[Stini]

Did you know that...

- the fastest (and only) Icelandic cuber wore Norway's team shirt while receiving the prize for the fastest Icelandic cuber?

- cubers have an obsession for timing pretty much everything, for example team alphabeting was quite popular (one person saying alphabets one by one in one's native language and the other one trying to repeat them)

- I spoke Finnish, English, Swedish, French and even little Japanese during the competition, but not German

- I got 1:08.66 in 4x4 qualification round with a PLL parity, breaking my previous official record by almost 20 seconds and I still didn't qualify (lost by 0.25 seconds)

- my best magic solve in the competition was 2.96, yey

- they sold wasabi chocolate at the airport o_O

- I had a splendid time with the British and Norwegian (+ Icelandic) cubers and also with the rest of the team Finland, Aili was really fun to travel with

- I will definitely try to come to EC 2010 and possibly WC 2011 as well!

 

[Ton]

Well personally I missed out the 4x4 first round for which I trained very hard, a best of 2 the luck factor counts..... I had double parity and a OLL parity with a 1:10.71, compared to my best time 1:08.97 without parity. I can say I perform well on the 4x4. But the 1:10.71 was not enough to qualify

Next competition my goal is a sub 1:15 average.

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

- Koen is the first ever Dutch world champion?

Ahem?????

lololololololol

In 2003 Jaap won clock, magic and master magic.

In 2005 Alexander Ooms won magic.

In 2007 Erik won megaminx.

Bleh, I didn't bother to check, Guus told me.

 

[Carrot]

Did you know that:
- Tomasz Kiedrowicz can turn 3 out 4 tips on pyraminx in one move.
- Brúnó knew who I was just by telling him my competition average in pyraminx.
- Frank has learned Tomasz to say "kælling" (***** in danish -.-)
- Tomasz pronounced it like "kylling" (which means chicken xD)
- Polish people trying to say "Kæmpe Kæppe knækker næppe" sounds like "Kæmpe kæppe knepper nække" (first sentence means: large sticks rarely breaks, second sentence is something like large stick ****s nække...)
- Brúnó know swearwords on nearly each language
- Yohei Oka knows a really nice method for pyraminx O___O
- Owidiusz had hard time turning my pyraminx with two hands... but made it look easy when he turned it one handed -.-
- I didn't show up at the first round of 2x2x2 because I wanted to see Henrik Buus Aagaard do 5x5x5 BLD.. and he was like "YES!!" when he took the blindfold off.. and then he realized that it was DNF haha xD
- I thought I was going to get 5th or something like that in pyraminx before Brúnó told me he was third with 6.76 average xD (I think I waited like 30-60 minutes between 1st and 2nd scramble O___O no one scrambled it lol xD)
- Kiedrowicz did 2.2x full step when trying to convince himself that his method is faster than Oka's...
- Oka doesn't use Oka when he solves pyraminx... he uses a similiar method that is much faster =D
- Kiedrowicz thought I was crazy/insane/weird/fast when I showed him my pyraminx method (1st example: LL skip, 2nd example: 4-5 moves top+bottom centers.. and easy LL case, 3rd example: LL skip again) xD
- I like pyraminx xD

 

[Ewks]

Did you know that

...The brits are really cool?
...Adam and Aili are a really good team for team solving when they're doing the same alg's or the same pairs?
... Aili had only bad 3x3x3s with her until she bought a type C which is great?
... Racing with people is really fun?
... Doing team alphabet is really fun?
... There's really not much to see in Düsseldorf except for cubers?
... The swedes are really cool?
... Aili's luggage got lost by the airport people but she got it back today?
... Cubers are really cool to hang out with?
... Aili didn't know her name was so hard to pronounce?
... Aili didn't know that she really looked older than 17?
... Lars and Charlie are really good at team blind?
... Aili still thinks in english?
... Aili's phone is still in english?

 

[Edam]

Did you know that

.. The Finns are really cool,
.. Teemu is now called Tim,
.. Charlie is now called Charlie Salmon Face.
.. Aili and Adam really are a great team for team solving but sometimes we're looking at completely different pairs.
.. Saying 999,999,999 in Finnish takes ages.
.. Adam Zamora would get naked on stage if you payed him.
.. I failed badly at magic and broke 2, but still set a NR single.
.. Me and Arnaud came 199 and 198th for 3x3.
.. Charlie can get her chin in to a lot of photos.
.. At no point over the weekend did I open a cupboard and final Arnaud in his underwear.
.. Adam can pronounce Aili's name pretty well apparently.
.. Noone wanted to do a team blind solve with me using a 4x4.
.. Free beer is awesome.
.. The hostel had amazing sweet yoghurt one day, but it was never quite as good the other days.