Washington DC Open 2010

[F1Z2L3]

I got there about an hour late cuz somethin came up and slow traffic due to the weather. And as soon as i got there it was my turn. It was my first competition. I was surprised at how small and packed the room was. I had horrible times, mostly cuz college doesnt allow me to practice as much and i had about 2 days to get used to this new color scheme on my cube. anyway it was fun to see such amazing talent. and to see the immense amount of concentration and focus for bld solving, it just blew me away.
BTW i was the lost lookin quiet guy in almost all black with the backpack.

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

Winners:
2x2 - Rowe, 3.77 avg
3x3 - Rowe, 11.5x avg (10.38 avg in first round)
3x3 BLD - Tim Sun, 57.30
Clock - Tim Sun, 10.57 avg

Losers:
5x5 BLD - Tim Sun DNF (15:5x)

 

[amostay2004]

CN is such a win today

 

[Mike Hughey]

Winners:
2x2 - Rowe, 3.77 avg
3x3 - Rowe, 11.5x avg (10.38 avg in first round)
3x3 BLD - Tim Sun, 57.30
Clock - Tim Sun, 10.57 avg

Losers:
5x5 BLD - Tim Sun 15:5x

Aww, so close! I was sure you were going to do it.

And I see you still haven't had a 7x7x7 solve yet - still one event short of a success in every event. You really need to find a competition with 7x7x7 soon!

But very much congratulations on the sub-1 3x3x3 BLD solve. It's about time you were officially in the sub-1 group.

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

Winners:
2x2 - Rowe, 3.77 avg
3x3 - Rowe, 11.5x avg (10.38 avg in first round)
3x3 BLD - Tim Sun, 57.30
Clock - Tim Sun, 10.57 avg

Losers:
5x5 BLD - Tim Sun 15:5x

Aww, so close! I was sure you were going to do it.

Loser as in I DNF'd it. Off by ~6 pieces and a D'.

...I should probably clear that up in my previous post.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Winners:
2x2 - Rowe, 3.77 avg
3x3 - Rowe, 11.5x avg (10.38 avg in first round)
3x3 BLD - Tim Sun, 57.30
Clock - Tim Sun, 10.57 avg

Losers:
5x5 BLD - Tim Sun 15:5x

Aww, so close! I was sure you were going to do it.

Loser as in I DNF'd it. Off by ~6 pieces and a D'.

...I should probably clear that up in my previous post.

Uh, yeah. I was sure you got it, and all you were down about was that it wasn't quite WR.

Hey, it was a pretty good try, though! Sorry to hear you missed it.

 

[Bob]

Thank you Bob for not yelling at me!

I would have, but I had already reached my quota.

1) Yelled at a kid for asking me for an autograph.
2) Yelled at a woman for using flash photography.
3) Yelled at everyone for not eating all the pizza.

...I think Yacka did enough yelling for the both of us, though.

 

[chris410]

Thank you Bob for not yelling at me!

I would have, but I had already reached my quota.

1) Yelled at a kid for asking me for an autograph.
2) Yelled at a woman for using flash photography.
3) Yelled at everyone for not eating all the pizza.

...I think Yacka did enough yelling for the both of us, though.

Nice meeting you and good job on vocals!

 

[ElderKingpin]

does the competition count since it didnt finish?

I had a really ugly cube with stickers peeling pretty badly. I still got in though

 

[Evan Liu]

does the competition count since it didnt finish?

I had a really ugly cube with stickers peeling pretty badly. I still got in though

Yes, it still counts. It's just that the events that would have taken place after 1:00 PM were cut. The 2 rounds of 3x3, one round of 2x2, one round of 3x3 BLD, and one round of clock will still count.

 

[Tim Reynolds]

Other losers: Me on clock, DNF average. First solve was 9.21 DNF, though I had an 8.5x non-DNF.

First time I've heard of a competition being snowed out...I'd really have liked to have a chance at FMC, but oh well.

 

[CharlieCooper]

Jeez that sucks that it got cut short. I would be pretty pissed if I had travelled far for that. Nice results Rowe!

 

[cuBerBruce]

I had wanted to go, only because of fewest moves (especially since it was to be best of 2), but the registration filled up so early. Now I'm glad I wasn't able to register, because I would have been so bummed to travel all that way for a canceled event.

 

[ElderKingpin]

Other losers: Me on clock, DNF average. First solve was 9.21 DNF, though I had an 8.5x non-DNF.

First time I've heard of a competition being snowed out...I'd really have liked to have a chance at FMC, but oh well.

its probably because it was held at a public place. Other competitions have been held in schools and such, where you cant get canceled because of snow. Oh well T_T i hope theres another one

 

[Evan Liu]

Other losers: Me on clock, DNF average. First solve was 9.21 DNF, though I had an 8.5x non-DNF.

First time I've heard of a competition being snowed out...I'd really have liked to have a chance at FMC, but oh well.

its probably because it was held at a public place. Other competitions have been held in schools and such, where you cant get canceled because of snow. Oh well T_T i hope theres another one

Wrong. The county's schools also get closed for snow, and that was no different today...

 

[CitricAcid]

Ah well, it was great guys.

Although I choked, as my FII's caps kept popping off, so I was stuck using someone's FI, I +2ed once, and that totally screwed my sub-30 av. I am pretty angry. But I got to get KOII stickers.

But yeah, it was nice meeting everyone again, I hope to see some of you a CMU Spring and Discovery Science.

(Also, I was the fail-noob in the black fedora wearing the "I Reject Your Reality And Substitute My Own." T-Shirt.

But yeah, it was great. Even though it stopped early, I enjoyed it more than CMU.

 

[Evan Liu]

Ah well, it was great guys.

Although I chocked, as my FII's caps kept popping off, so I was stuck using someone's FI, I +2ed once, and that totally screwed my sub-30 av. I am pretty angry. But I got to get KOII stickers.

But yeah, it was nice meeting everyone again, I hope to see some of you a CMU Spring and Discovery Science.

(Also, I was the fail-noob in the black fedora wearing the "I Reject Your Reality And Substitute My Own." T-Shirt.

But yeah, it was great. Even though it stopped early, I enjoyed it more than CMU.

*choked
That may be true, but the experience definitely matters much more.

We hope to have another competition in the summer or fall of this year (hmm, what will nature give us this time... hurricane?)

Also, I forgot to mention, I got my first two sub-20 competition solves

 

[CitricAcid]

^Thanks, fail spelling. And congrats on the sub-20s.

I hope you guys can bring us back their. Maybe I'll get a hotel this time.

Also, Instead of a hurricane, we will get a devastating tornado-earthquake combo, causing the ground to swallow King's Park Library, trapping us underground, forcing us to compete for a lifetime to keep us from all losing our minds, and eating each others limbs off. (I volunteer Dene. Even though he most likely won't be there. But he wiiiiiillllll... Muahaha.) Also, we will have to drink shock oil for nutrition. Once we run out of that, we'll be forced to use CRC and Jig-A-Loo. Once we run out of that, we'll have to eat the cubes. Therefore, killing ourselves, if this has not happened already.

How do you like my prediction? lol

 

[Evan Liu]

How do you like my prediction? lol

Imaginative? Yes. Realistic? No.

 

[Kian]

Thank you Bob for not yelling at me!

I would have, but I had already reached my quota.

1) Yelled at a kid for asking me for an autograph.
2) Yelled at a woman for using flash photography.
3) Yelled at everyone for not eating all the pizza.

...I think Yacka did enough yelling for the both of us, though.

1) Ok you did yell, but only to make invalidate my point .3 seconds earlier that you never yell
2) You kindly asked for people to not use the flash
3) You did threaten to randomly delete times if people didn't eat more pizza, so that one is legit.

Anyway, it's too bad about the snow but it's alright, I still had a good time at the comp and the night before. Took Kyle and I nine hours to make what should be a 4 hour drive. Took us 4 hours for the first 50 miles, so we really picked it up later . All that to be awful at the comp, but I'll give it a go again next week!