MIT Fall competition 2009

[AlexandertheGreat]

someone lent out a red blindfold and I have it. Email me at [email protected] if it's yours

 

[HowSuneIsNow]

crap. I lost so much stuff...did anyone find a silver and black skullcandy headphones...

and thanks tim for finding my 2x2

I have your headphones

 

[Sa967St]

Did you know that…

• we were planning to walk to the venue from the hotel since it was only 5 minutes away, but we didn't since it rained in the morning?
• Nathan's mom drove him, Stachu and Jules from the hotel to the venue, and was supposed to come back to pick up Justin, Forte and I?
• she didn't come back?
• Jules said it was because they "got lost" ?
• the hotel room had red vases with black stripes?
• we didn't do much team stuff in the hotel since we were chatting with Woner and Meep on Skype?
• Justin was spying on people in the apartment that was across the hotel with his video camera?
• we did some team BLD…OH?
• Justin and I got a 1:18.xx?
• we often talked about Brendon's thread about TWIZZLARZ?
• Justin pushed Forte and he fell over and knocked down his chair?
• Justin, Felix and I each did a 42 cube marathon?
• afterwards, Felix, Forte and I did 3x3 races with cross and F2L on left because it was 2AM and we were bored?
• Ethan actually made that thread 'Kian Meryl'?
• the live results were projected on to a giant screen?
• so were some threads from the speedsolving forum, including 'Kian Meryl'?
• some of us wanted to use gellatinbrain, hi-games and J-fly+qqtimer, but it didn't work so well on that computer there?
• Canadians say team BLD like 'team bee-elle-dee' whereas Americans just call it team blind?
• we all completely forgot to break the habit?
• Laser Bunneh and Whiskers are BFFs?
• Rowe gave out doughnuts after the competition?
• Forte took at least five of them?
• when he was eating his last one at the restaurant, he decided that it was too much effort to finish his pasta and then eat the doughnut separately, so he put pasta onto the doughnut and ate it?
• when he was eating it he said "hmmm…wait no it’s completely disgusting"?
• Justin, Felix and I were grossed out watching him, yet we found it extremely hilarious?
• Justin, Forte, Felix and I played 'name that LL alg' the entire time we were at the restaurant?
• we're not very good at calculating tips?
• or splitting costs?
• Forte paid $13.36, and he didn't have an extra penny to make it 1337?
• Forte and I both carry Japanese currency around?
• just for lols, we gave some Canadian coins?
• Justin and Rowe kept saying "Stop cubing!" to each other
• when we left the restaurants, there were still some doughnuts left?
• Justin saw some guys wearing white and he suggested that we throw the doughnuts that them?
• I found it fun to hop down steps?
• no one seemed to dislike my cube?
• in the first and second 3x3 rounds I started off with a very nice solve, but then the following solve(s) were terrible?
• my second BLD DNF was off by an R perm since I skipped one edge?
• Jules was filming it, and at the end he zoomed into Laser Bunneh who was sitting on top of my hat?
• Forte leaned over and said "'FAIL!" into the camera?
• I will soon upload that video?
• I DNF'd my last 4x4 solve since the timer didn't start?
• I didn't notice until after I finished the solve?
• I find this amusing since this was one of the few solves that I listened to the voice inside my head that keeps telling me to not look down at the timer during a solve?
• Stachu filmed the solve, and I timed it on my camera and it was 57.xx which would have been a PB?
• I wanted my last OH solve to be a DNF since it was terrible, so I turned off the timer right after the solve?
• Dave was my judge and he saw the time before I turned the timer off, so he didn’t write it down as a DNF?
• I actually only got FOUR DNFs the entire competition?
• I had TWO PLL skips in a row during the 5x5 round?
• they both were sub1:50, which is amazing for me?
• my vision is terrible, but I’m good at reading maps?
• even though I had to keep asking Forte and Justin what the street signs say?
• Jules didn't believe me at first when I said I couldn’t read what it said on the screen even though I was standing close to it?
• Forte accidentally said 'high fives' instead of 'jumping jacks' when were talking about Derrick’s video (Poor Eagle)?
• he explained how he came up with his name (chemistry textbook in a tree) for one of the G perms?
• he told it in Japanese?
• it was based on a story about a guy who went to town to buy some eggs but it rained and so he went to a dango shop?
• the shopkeeper asked the guy if he liked chemistry and he replied "no, not really", and was given a chemistry textbook?
• he finished the story by saying (in English) "and that's how the chemistry textbook got in a tree"?
• Forte sang the Fairly Odd Parents theme song while playing with a 3x3, and posted it in the accomplishment thread?
• some revolving doors reminded him of Digimon?
• he remembered most of the Digimon theme song?
• he violently kicked his 2x2 into a table leg in the hotel, and it exploded?
• he said "something smells like Jig-a-loo" , then noticed that Justin was drinking berry juice/punch ?
• I tried to do team BLD with him in real Japanese (with me calling), but I gave up since there were some things that I couldn't say/explain?
• Jules likes to throw cubes?
• at people?
• he threw one at Justin for no reason?
• he would say "that's what she said!" at the times you least expect?
• he has a silly counter-clockwise U perm?
• when Jules and I were doing teamsolving with Roux, he did most of the first two 1x2x3 blocks on his own since I kept doing U4?
• Jules is terrible at notation?
• this made it tricky to do team BLD?
• he remembered that I promised to give him a hug, and so I gave him a hug?
• but I gave Justin a bigger hug immediately after?
• Mark is an excellent cameraman?
• he puts way too much effort into lubing his 3x3s?
• Chester turns VERY fast and aggressively?
• he was getting sub-60 BLD times during practice?
• he and I were doing a lot of team BLD?
• Josh didn't wear anything Panda-related?
• we recognized him anyway?
• Felix went to the wrong hotel Saturday morning and couldn't find any of us?
• at the hotel that Felix originally went to, there were doors that said 'DOOR' on them?
• Taylor Brock-Fisher's nickname was 'Gwen Stefani'?
• he didn't mind it?
• Gwen confused a T perm with an R perm?
• when Stachu asked if I use 'x,y and z' (ex, why, zee) for team BLD, I replied "No, I use 'x,y,z'(ex, why, zed) because I'm Canadian"?'"
• he didn't succeed in magic OHITABLD, but he did OHITA with a toss?
• I didn't end up having a staring contest with him? (yay!)
• he didn't tell any lame jokes about debating in math?
• he can sound out the alphabet very quickly?
• and I can say the alphabet backwards very quickly?
• and sing it so it rhymes?
• he predicted that I would get two DNFs in BLD, and he was correct?
• he thought that there would be three attempts and I would get one success?
• but actually there were only two attempts and I DNF'd both?

 

[flee135]

Did you know that…

• Felix went to the wrong hotel on Friday?

Not sure if that's what you meant to say, but I actually arrived Saturday morning and looked for you guys at the hotel. I didn't stay at the wrong hotel for a whole night.

 

[JustinJ]

Canadians say team BLD like 'team bee-elle-dee' whereas Americans just call it team blind?

I say team blind or team blindfold.

we all completely forgot to break the habit?

I keep telling you I didn't forget...:rolleyes:

he threw one at Justin for no reason?

He threw it hard too...

Did you know that I totally called that Jules and Forte would make an awesome pair?
and that Patrick Jameson's real man's average of 10 for magic was one of the coolest things I've ever seen?
and that Felix is awesome, and he totally deserves his NAR

 

[blah]

• that she has an awesome blindfold with glitter beads on it?
• and is really comfortable to put on because it's really cushiony and stuff?

more people complimented my pretty blindfold than my cube hat or 1x1 earrings

Because we got to put your pretty blindfold on, but not your cube hat or your 1x1x1 earrings?

• that there are dead guys on cubes?
• and frying pans?
• and broken frying pans?
• that angelfishes actually look like "R"s?

I love my OLL nicknames

You forgot the best one - retarded fishy

• that when Ian says spin right he means a y' rotation and when Sarah says spin right he means a y rotation?
• that it's really hard to go back and forth between them for team BLD?

ohhhhh. I think of spin right as y since R becomes F, I hear it as "spin (right)". I guess y' would make more sense since it would be spinning towards the right, hah.

No actually your idea of spin right makes much more sense to me because that's exactly how I think of it too

Canadians say team BLD like 'team bee-elle-dee' whereas Americans just call it team blind?

I say team blind or team blindfold.

we all completely forgot to break the habit?

I keep telling you I didn't forget...:rolleyes:

he threw one at Justin for no reason?

He threw it hard too...

Did you know that I totally called that Jules and Forte would make an awesome pair?
and that Patrick Jameson's real man's average of 10 for magic was one of the coolest things I've ever seen?
and that Felix is awesome, and he totally deserves his NAR

Yalow!

 

[Sa967St]

• that there are dead guys on cubes?
• and frying pans?
• and broken frying pans?
• that angelfishes actually look like "R"s?

I love my OLL nicknames

You forgot the best one - retarded fishy

haha, which one is that, the Y shape? I call that the decapitated frying pan.

 

[waffle=ijm]

DID YOU KNOW...

• Patrick said my magic hurts him?
• Stachu can't believe that I break more magic tiles than strings?
• Panda challenged me to OH. I popped his cube during scrambling and I put them in randomly and I won that way?
• During breakfast, Sarah's V5 popped and landed on the floor around some scrambled eggs?
• I told her to stop picking up the eggs?
• My fastest 2x2 solve was solved with random moves?
• My mom called me in the middle of my 2x2 average>
• So I was on the phone told her to wait about 10 seconds and then pick up again?
• Justin and I failed hard on teamBLD with Roux?
• But Panda and I didn't?
• During teamBLD with Sarah (she was calling), I got G-Perm and took about 40 seconds for her to tell me how turn by turn how to do it?
• Chester and I both use Pochmann centers on 4x4?
• But I failed at that?
• I was racing with Rowe and Justin on 4x4?
• I was always last?
• Because I use Roux?
• and Rowe, like everyone, questioned why?
• I can sub-30 OH Petrus?
• But I used Roux for OH instead?
• Ethan, John, and pretty much anyone went up to the computer and gave nicknames to everyone?
• Patrick's nickname was once "Patrick "PatrickJameson" Jameson?
• Kian loves Meryl?
• and treehuggers?
• I got some people to sign a Rubik's Icon?
• Tim didn't want to since they needed to get of there?
• and spent a while complaining about it?
• longer than it would have to sign the damn thing?
• Forte and I sang?
• and we ruled?
• Forte and I also sang in the rain?
• we're just cool like that?
• I restrung Stachu's magic?
• and took some strings as repayment?
• and I went Magic string crazy and bought as much as I can from random people?
• Forte, Justin and Sarah were just in the rooms down the hall from mine?
• Stachu found out by asking the hotel lobby guy for anyone with their last names and Forte's mom came up and we asked her where Forte was and she said that he was with Justin and asked which room they were staying in?
• Whiskers the tiny tiger, went up for all my solves?
• At one point, I was convinced that Whiskers tackled Laser Bunneh?
• He was just giving Laser Bunneh a hug?
• I asked Sarah where the lasers from Laser Bunneh came from?
• She told me to imagine?
• I saw them and I gasped?
• Forte took a cup outside in the rain and collected rainwater?
• Panda and pretty much everyone complained about my 6x6 being too loose?
• Panda thought I couldn't turn more than 1.5 tps with my 6x6?
• I did?
• One of the seats there said, AYBABTU?
• Sarah tried to scare me in morning?
• I was too tired to scream?
• Justin tried to give me handshake when we met?
• I gangsta'd that up?
• I tried to pop my Pyraminix at Tim?
• He ran away?
• Erik Johnson would have had a sub-10...if he ended up in the finals?
• Someone, I think it was Forte or Justin, asked me if I was high when I made the picture of waffle?
• Sarah saw that I had an ELL case while I was going Roux, she re-learned them the other night, so she was like and said "gimme gimme gimme, I want that case, ect."

 

[JustinJ]

Yalow!

blah!

I forgot, Chester is awesome too

It was really cool to meet you blah, great job on your awesome BLD.

 

[Sa967St]

DID YOU KNOW...

• During teamBLD with Sarah (she was calling), I got G-Perm and took about 40 seconds for her to tell me how turn by turn how to do it?

because you fail at notation!

• Forte and I sang?
• and we ruled?
• Forte and I also sang in the rain?
• we're just cool like that?

that was amazing I sooo wish I filmed it

• Forte took a cup outside in the rain and collected rainwater?

LOL, I forgot about that one

• Sarah tried to scare me in morning?
• I was too tired to scream?

you barely reacted at all

 

[rjohnson_8ball]

I know I didn't do so well in 4x4 but could someone re-check the handwriting on the results card? I thought I saw 3:11.86 on the timer when I signed the card, but I notice the MIT results logged it as 3:17.86. Did I see things wrong? Is it clearly written on the card? - Robert D. Johnson

 

[Tim Reynolds]

I know I didn't do so well in 4x4 but could someone re-check the handwriting on the results card? I thought I saw 3:11.86 on the timer when I signed the card, but I notice the MIT results logged it as 3:17.86. Did I see things wrong? Is it clearly written on the card? - Robert D. Johnson

I checked your scorecard and it says 3:17.86. Especially because of the 1 right next to it, the 7 is clearly a 7. Sorry, but the time on the results is correct, unless the judge wrote it down wrong (which I don't think is easy to check...)

 

[rjohnson_8ball]

I know I didn't do so well in 4x4 but could someone re-check the handwriting on the results card? I thought I saw 3:11.86 on the timer when I signed the card, but I notice the MIT results logged it as 3:17.86. Did I see things wrong? Is it clearly written on the card? - Robert D. Johnson

I checked your scorecard and it says 3:17.86. Especially because of the 1 right next to it, the 7 is clearly a 7. Sorry, but the time on the results is correct, unless the judge wrote it down wrong (which I don't think is easy to check...)

Thanks! I probably made the mistake.

 

[HumungousLake]

who was the person that spent most of the time scrambling? He was the only one that scrambled for the 3x3 final round.

 

[Tim Reynolds]

who was the person that spent most of the time scrambling? He was the only one that scrambled for the 3x3 final round.

Dave Campbell?

 

[Kian]

who was the person that spent most of the time scrambling? He was the only one that scrambled for the 3x3 final round.

Dave Campbell?

Yes, that was definitely Dave.

Also, thanks to Tim, Alex, and everyone else in the MIT club for their unbelievable job. We flew through the tournament and didn't have to cut anything, even with the huge number of competitors (a great deal of whom hadn't competed before, too).

It was also great to meet some new people. I had a wonderful time.

And yes, Rowe should have won. He plus +2ed his first two solves in the finals. It was tough to see. Thankfully you can be happy with two nasty OH averages, though, Rowe.

And I don't know why Meryl Streep and I are apparently in love, but I would certainly be willing to take half her money in a divorce.

 

[HumungousLake]

who was the person that spent most of the time scrambling? He was the only one that scrambled for the 3x3 final round.

Dave Campbell?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qtkD7Cl2eg

sorry i don't know how to embed

 

[JBCM627]

who was the person that spent most of the time scrambling? He was the only one that scrambled for the 3x3 final round.

Dave Campbell?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qtkD7Cl2eg

sorry i don't know how to embed

Assuming you aren't talking about the girl, yes that is Dave.

 

[Forte]

Yeah that's Dave.

 

[Kian]

Also, I hope that anyone that has any video from the competition would link it in this thread. I'd be interested some of the many great solves again.

I took about half an hour of video before realizing I hadn't put my memory card back in my camera and had left it home, so I won't be able to contribute, sadly.