MIT Fall competition 2009

[StachuK1992]

My parents exhibited some empathy for once, and decided that they will drop me off, and not burden me with the restriction of only staying for 3 hours. I should be attending the entire thing, and without my family following me around. =DDDDDDDD I look forward to meeting you all!!! I should come up with something to wear to identify me by, if only I had a panda shirt....

nametag.

Ew, name tags on my videos yuck. How about like a bright red long sleeve and grey skinny jeans? =P

heh
fine

You'll know who I am.
0.o

 

[Sa967St]

My parents exhibited some empathy for once, and decided that they will drop me off, and not burden me with the restriction of only staying for 3 hours. I should be attending the entire thing, and without my family following me around. =DDDDDDDD I look forward to meeting you all!!! I should come up with something to wear to identify me by, if only I had a panda shirt....

nametag.

Ew, name tags on my videos yuck. How about like a bright red long sleeve and grey skinny jeans? =P

we all wear nametags at Canadian competitions...

wear a panda hat or something

 

[JLarsen]

My parents exhibited some empathy for once, and decided that they will drop me off, and not burden me with the restriction of only staying for 3 hours. I should be attending the entire thing, and without my family following me around. =DDDDDDDD I look forward to meeting you all!!! I should come up with something to wear to identify me by, if only I had a panda shirt....

nametag.

Ew, name tags on my videos yuck. How about like a bright red long sleeve and grey skinny jeans? =P

we all wear nametags at Canadian competitions...

wear a panda hat or something

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/king-panda-suit.jpg

 

[rjohnson_8ball]

I am on the MIT list of entries but not on the WCA list, yet. Does someone do this manually? (Was it okay for me to include my middle initial as well as first and last name? Nobody else entered with more than their first and last name. I included my middle initial because there are other people with my name.)

 

[StachuK1992]

People are only added to the database *after* their first comp.

 

[PatrickJameson]

I included my middle initial because there are other people with my name.)

You don't need a middle initial. It's all done by the WCA ID. First four numbers are the year you first competed, followed by the first four digits of your last name(carried over to the first x digits in your first name if you have a short last name), followed by the number of people who also had the same year and four letters as you. For example: http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/p.php?i=2009CHAN17 is the 17th 'CHAN' to compete in 2009.

As for when you get your ID, it is created when the results for the competition have been posted.

 

[AREScuber]

only for trade?
can you sell?

if so I'll take all the magic strings some 3x3 stickers.

Yes I can sell them. Price will probably be a bit less than cubesmith pricing

Mr. Reynolds - Has anything shown up? I literally just need a few feet of floor room for me and a friend. If not, does anyone else happen to have space (You can probably tell I really would rather not sleep in my car ).

Well, in anticipation of the competition, here is my list of puzzles that I am willing to buy or trade in order to get and the puzzles I have to trade or sell:

want to buy or trade for:


any and all 4x4's (Teaching it at my university club so need lots of puzzles)


Puzzles I have to trade:

Alexanders star (1982 revision)
1 disassemble Elemental Neon DIY
2 broken mefferts type 1 pyraminxes (For parts)
Lots of extra 3x3 stickers
1 set of 4x4 stickerx7 stickers
center pieces for a rubik's 4x4
extra magic tiles and strings
1 set of chrome 7
cans of crc silicone spray
Various extra 3x3 pieces

My Goals: Will be completed soon

Ill give you a rubik's 4x4 and eastsheen 4x4 for 3 rubik's center pieces and 4x4 stickers and some specific colors for 3x3 stickers

When you say 3 rubik's center pieces, you mean 4x4 right. Sounds good

*To anyone I am trading or selling with, I will be wearing a Susquehanna sweatshirt or a "Eat,Sleep, Drink, ...Cube" t-shirt at the comp.*

yes

Now i need 4 centers. I cube too hard the center just snapped off my 4x4

 

[Tim Reynolds]

My parents exhibited some empathy for once, and decided that they will drop me off, and not burden me with the restriction of only staying for 3 hours. I should be attending the entire thing, and without my family following me around. =DDDDDDDD I look forward to meeting you all!!! I should come up with something to wear to identify me by, if only I had a panda shirt....

nametag.

Ew, name tags on my videos yuck. How about like a bright red long sleeve and grey skinny jeans? =P

we all wear nametags at Canadian competitions...

wear a panda hat or something

We'll be wearing them this time too...at least the first 80 people registered will, thanks to Seventowns.

I am on the MIT list of entries but not on the WCA list, yet. Does someone do this manually? (Was it okay for me to include my middle initial as well as first and last name? Nobody else entered with more than their first and last name. I included my middle initial because there are other people with my name.)

Uh...so the WCA database seems to be doing strange things. A few days ago it deleted registrants 77-83...I re-added all of them, then it deleted all of them again. I won't bother this time, it keeps resetting and it doesn't matter since everything is in our spreadsheet.

Most people don't bother having middle initials in their name, and there aren't any other Robert Johnsons in the database yet.

 

[AREScuber]

My parents exhibited some empathy for once, and decided that they will drop me off, and not burden me with the restriction of only staying for 3 hours. I should be attending the entire thing, and without my family following me around. =DDDDDDDD I look forward to meeting you all!!! I should come up with something to wear to identify me by, if only I had a panda shirt....

nametag.

Ew, name tags on my videos yuck. How about like a bright red long sleeve and grey skinny jeans? =P

we all wear nametags at Canadian competitions...

wear a panda hat or something

We'll be wearing them this time too...at least the first 80 people registered will, thanks to Seventowns.

I am on the MIT list of entries but not on the WCA list, yet. Does someone do this manually? (Was it okay for me to include my middle initial as well as first and last name? Nobody else entered with more than their first and last name. I included my middle initial because there are other people with my name.)

Uh...so the WCA database seems to be doing strange things. A few days ago it deleted registrants 77-83...I re-added all of them, then it deleted all of them again. I won't bother this time, it keeps resetting and it doesn't matter since everything is in our spreadsheet.

Most people don't bother having middle initials in their name, and there aren't any other Robert Johnsons in the database yet.

Yeah it just unregistered me for the competition but i still have a profile. Im still technically preregistered, right?

 

[Tim Reynolds]

Anyone who filled out the registration form is fine. Jackson, you're in our list of people who registered, so you're fine.

Anyone who didn't fill out the registration form is not fine. Fill out the registration form if you haven't already.

 

[Bryan]

Nobody else entered with more than their first and last name. I included my middle initial because there are other people with my name.)

This is why the WCA asks for your birthday, because it helps to uniquely identify you. As long as you use your WCA ID on future registrations, you'll be good.

 

[TimeFreeze]

I'm going and I'm using my new Taiyan II with a red-blue type a edge!

It's a type a edge because my order was screwed up and I got 11 edges and 9 corners.

 

[Tim Reynolds]

I'm going and I'm using my new Taiyan II with a red-blue type a edge!

It's a type a edge because my order was screwed up and I got 11 edges and 9 corners.

Aman, did you pre-register? Please do so...we really would rather have people preregistered then to register new people at the competition.

In general, you should register at least a week in advance. At this point I've already made scorecards and have a rough idea of how many people are going. Registering now helps make day-of registration run faster, and alerts us if there's going to be a huge number of people and we didn't realize it.

 

[salshort]

alright, ty.

Hey, can someone sign me in the MIT open for the 2x2x2 for 4x4x4, I have everything else registered but just realized these i will be competing in.

Sure...but it won't let me update it on the WCA page. Don't worry, we have it down on the registration sheet.

 

[Tim Reynolds]

Update: Live results are available (thanks to Jim Mertens) at http://cubeclub.scripts.mit.edu/

The list of competitors is old--don't worry if your name isn't on there or your events are wrong. It'll be correct during the competition.

 

[ender9994]

AREScuber: 4 rubik's centers and various stickers it is. I will try and find you at the competition.

Waffle=jim: I have about 30 magic strings. Do you want the tiles as well? Also, it turns out I will only have about 3 or 4 extra 3x3 sticker sets available.

*I will be wearing a susquehanna University sweatshirt or a "eat,sleep, drink, cube shirt" for anyone trying to find me*

Tim: Can you switch me from master magic (mine broke ) to multi-blind? sorry for the late notification.

ErikJ: Have you decided on a price for the 6x6? (so I know how much cash to bring)

Tyson: Please disregard my private message.

For anyone looking for overnight parking, I'm using a place called the "commons garage" which is only about 1 mile from the competition and costs $22 for the night

 

[JBCM627]

Update: Live results are available (thanks to Jim Mertens) at http://cubeclub.scripts.mit.edu/

The list of competitors is old--don't worry if your name isn't on there or your events are wrong. It'll be correct during the competition.

Cool. Good luck, everyone.

 

[rjohnson_8ball]

People are only added to the database *after* their first comp.

Not what I said. It looks to me like the list of registered competitors contains orange names (from WCA database) and black names (not yet in WCA). For example, Zach Connoly is written in black on that page and is not in WCA. I was asking why my name still is not yet on that page, but is in the MIT list of competitors. There are just a few other people missing too. My guess is that the list is due to be manually updated from MIT. See

http://www.worldcubeassociation.org...stered+Competitiors&competitionId=MITFall2009

and the lists at the bottom of
http://mit.edu/cubeclub/#tab=compete
such as
http://web.mit.edu/cubeclub/rankings/333.txt

Tim -- I assume by "Jackson" you mean "Johnson".

 

[Tim Reynolds]

Tim -- I assume by "Jackson" you mean "Johnson".

I was talking to Jackson actually (ARESCuber). But you're on our list of registrants too, so don't worry.

 

[ErikJ]

tim, I highly recommend you do best of 3 instead of average of 5 for the first round of 3x3. I don't want this to end up like princeton 08. where the first round of 3x3 took 3.5 hours.