Benelux Open 2010

[shelley]

HOI MET ARNAUD

Yeah, can someone explain this for all the clueless people on Facebook?

 

[CharlieCooper]

Did you know:
- German Expressions in English? (we found: Glockenspiel, Blitzkrieg, Zugzwang, Sauerkraut, Kindergarten, Autobahn )
- Erik won the " How gay are you today" contest
- Charlie & Lars are defenetly the best Team BLD couple ive seen so far...
- i saw a upcoming video from kai
- kai is very good in beatboxing and freestyle
- i will miss arnauld at competitions
- Tourette syndrome in german ( Arschloch)
- lovly hobbits who dance to harmonica sounds played by me...
- Lars has a Twin brother who lives in Sweden
- Oliver has a younger Brother in the Netherlands
- " The toiletbag"
- i liked charlies bag
- maki has amazing dance skills..
- Ron bid me 25€ for my Square1

WALDSTERBEN

 

[CharlieCooper]

HOI MET ARNAUD

Yeah, can someone explain this for all the clueless people on Facebook?

HOI MET SHELLEY
Basically it's the way Arnaud answers the phone. I developed somewhat of an obsession with imitating this over the weekend (a now well refined skill), which then developed into "hoi met arnaud(or other person)"-mania that then spread like wildfire across all competitors. Then later last night Arnaud decided he would write this on the facebook wall of many cubers...

 

[MTGjumper]

Yeah, that happened to me and I didn't have a clue what he was talking about...

 

[Anthony]

Yeah, that happened to me and I didn't have a clue what he was talking about...

Likewise lol. How is that supposed to be pronounced?

 

[kinch2002]

Did you know:
- I had such an AWESOME time at my first competition abroad
- It was the people that made the event so fun!
- A 2 day competition can easily turn into 96 hours away from home
- After the first round of 3x3 I thought I had Charlie's sub-2 curse, but thankfully it turns out that I don't have it thanks to the semi-final.
- I didn't get any lucky solves in 2x2, and somehow did better than I expected
- I solved a 4x4BLD in one of my slowest times ever (safety solve for a NR)
- I did an extra m2 at before fixing parity for 5x5BLD. Everything was perfect up until then.
- 1:19 should not be 3rd place at 3x3BLD
- Erik took the UK's only ER. Humph. Well done anyway!
- I thought I got 31 in FMC but forgot to count the 6-move edge insertion
- I got 31, 28, 33 in FMC on the way home - thanks Teemu for teaching me!
- Teemu learnt BH for FMC. Crazy
- My 6x6 disappeared
- I got 5.77NR single in Pyraminx. Sorry Charlie for being lucky.
- I got 26.xx in the next solve (thanks to the stupid case I always get wrong)
- We tried to get Macky to enter Pyraminx but he refused. He did his first ever solve in 40 secs or so just before the event

That's all for now

 

[CharlieCooper]

Yeah, that happened to me and I didn't have a clue what he was talking about...

Likewise lol. How is that supposed to be pronounced?

HOY MET ARNAUD... basically.

Did you know:
- I had such an AWESOME time at my first competition abroad
- It was the people that made the event so fun!
- A 2 day competition can easily turn into 96 hours away from home
- After the first round of 3x3 I thought I had Charlie's sub-2 curse, but thankfully it turns out that I don't have it thanks to the semi-final.
- I didn't get any lucky solves in 2x2, and somehow did better than I expected
- I solved a 4x4BLD in one of my slowest times ever (safety solve for a NR)
- I did an extra m2 at before fixing parity for 5x5BLD. Everything was perfect up until then.
- 1:19 should not be 3rd place at 3x3BLD
- Erik took the UK's only ER. Humph. Well done anyway!
- I thought I got 31 in FMC but forgot to count the 6-move edge insertion
- I got 31, 28, 33 in FMC on the way home - thanks Teemu for teaching me!
- Teemu learnt BH for FMC. Crazy
- My 6x6 disappeared
- I got 5.77NR single in Pyraminx. Sorry Charlie for being lucky.
- I got 26.xx in the next solve (thanks to the stupid case I always get wrong)
- We tried to get Macky to enter Pyraminx but he refused. He did his first ever solve in 40 secs or so just before the event

That's all for now

Sub 2 curse. If only I were always on the edge of getting sub 2 3x3 averages

soo... DID YOU KNOW?

-Joey is still at my house and as of yet is showing no signs of leaving... (he arrived on Wednesday...) which kind of makes this 2 day competition a week long.
-Hoi met Arnaud?
-Arnaud is seriously addicted to facebook chat? He was showing great withdrawal symptoms all weekend while we were in the forest?
-The playground was so amazingly good even if it meant getting wet bums, frostbitten hands and runny noses
-Ron is violent with juggling balls
-I got a sub 20 average etc, good stuffs but sucked otherwise.
-I like Germans with harmonicas
-I like Germans with literature in their boot
-I like Belgians with purple jumpers
-I like Hungarians that have hands twice the size of mine
-I like Hungarians called Slash
-I like many people from the Netherlands
-Arnaud will always, no matter where we are, have some kind of incident with girls in the middle of the night. On this occasion it involved orange juice and cheese graters.
-Frank decided he would stay in the Joel/Daniel/Arnaud/Lars/Macky/Chris/Charlie/Joey room on the first night and crept out at about 7am, a bit confused as to why he'd been sleeping in Lars' bed all night.
-Poor old Macky has been completely corrupted by our European ways but I think he secretly loves it.
-Doing yoyo with Robin is fun.
-Lars fell asleep with his face on his Iphone in a very cute fashion.
-There was a huge fire at Benelux that weekend. Nobody saw it with their eyes, but there is photographic evidence.
-If you breathe outside in the cold while trying to take a photo, it is pretty impossible to see anything.
-Nora is seriously good! Nice one
-Erik is also good... at pulling shocked faces.
-Skype is great for six way bed conversations.
-Lost a pyraminx single NR because Daniel got a lucky solve, which I have never had in competition! I don't mind though because he's nice!
-Daniel is also awesome for getting 4x4BLD and I feel terrible about his 5x5! So unlucky.
-I don't think I will be able to eat warm bread rolls with cheese/ham ever again. At least until next year
-Robin tricked me into putting buttermilk onto my cereal... It was vile.
-There are so many unpleasant sweets in Holland, they look harmless but they taste bloody awful.
-Arnaud is very good at making inappropriate jokes. (That's why you hate them right Arnaud? There are so many of them?)
-Arnaud's speech at dinner was lovely
-Macky looks so cute when he eats things
-There was basically a brawl to get to the dessert platter on Saturday, which wasn't even that tasty
-Kate has a sub 7 average for 3x3, she's that good, she just hasn't competed
-Robin is very good at organising pizza deliveries
-Maria is so nice
-We miss Rama. RAMA COME BACK!
-We miss Joel. JOEL COME BACK! WOODEN LEG.
-I had a bit of a mishap in Arnaud's shower on Friday morning where the head came off, leaving the hose to fly around the shower cubicle uncontrollably. I then blamed the nearest Greek.
-My camera got a good workout!
-Lars looks nice in purple, and NO not just ANY jumper with a hood qualifies you to be in our special club.
-Joey keeps leaning on my chair as I write this and I am about to strangle him it is so annoying.
-Macky is sick on a dance mat. By that I mean he has skills, not that he actually vomited on the mat. I know who vomited on the sofa though
-Those sofas are comfortable but slide apart and are a weird shape?
-Frank brought loads of lollies from Denmark, which I thought made your tongue go green. Turns out they don't and they taste bad. Never trust sweets from foreign boys called Robin or Frank.
-Daniel looks great with short hair! He looks like Lars.
-Dick looks like a younger Olivér
-MAARTEN! WHERE WERE YOU!
-Berlin is actually the capital of SCHOERmany, not Germany.
-Erik had a horrible pop for 6x6 which was pretty fun to watch him put back together.
-Fabien is good at backflips on swings and people (I have a video coming!)
-I still have all of Arnaud's details on my phone
-Teemu is great at doing big grins.
-Henrik is cool, Joey agrees. We especially like his jumper.
-I successfully kept away from buying anything from Will, normally something I cannot resist!
-We really didn't like it that Chris Ness couldn't come BOO!
-There are automatic lights everywhere in that venue, but something if you don't move for a while in the shower the light goes off and you have to do a silly dance to get it to come back on again. Just me? Oh...
-Karsten likes my bag, but I will only trade it for a Cd of harmonica music for Joey and I to hobbit dance to
-On the way back to Arnauds we were 7 in the car, and though Macky is small, I didn't breathe too much with him and Joey on top of me. I did manage to nap though

This is far too long, I'm sure there are more... I'll post later when he stops leaning on my chair.

 

[Ton]

Did you know:
-This was my 60th competition
-I broke my PR 3x3 average to 17.37, without practice? (I was playing COD4 all week
-Not practicing did not effect my time on the 4x4 and 5x5 much, I was even close to break my 5x5 average
-I have proven again that at age 49+ you can still do a sub 18 sec , age is not an excuse
-Maria does not eat white eggs - now I know-
-Arnaud was again late the next day, Ron and I made a prediction that he would not show up for the 4x4Bld/5x5Bld , our estimate was a 100% change he will not show up. We are always right
-on the new printer I use for the competitions , when it says cartridge is empty it means you can still print 100 full color pages??? What is the use of these indicators???

 

[Pitzu]

Did you know:
- Sunday dinner was very good.
- The caretaker forgot to switch on heating until we asked him.
- So we (Péter, Daniel, Di & me) drunk the 1.5 l liquid coat (Rose) you left there.
- There still wasn't any heating in C10 so we moved to Tim's place (C2).
- Teemu & Bertalan had a great talk about commutators.
- Derivation doesn't pain.
- I had a 11 solve success streak since october in single blind. In my first solve When I realized after some 1 min that I messed up my edge-memo, I decided to have a safety-solve.
- I messed up it anyway (with some resetup-mistake or something.)
- As well as my second solve.
- After that everybody said I can solve 7 cubes, but not 1.
- In 4x4bld my aim was to have a sub-Slash time.
- I failed but at least I had a sub-Shelley & sub-Reynaldo.
- Daniel is always wearing 3/4 trousers.
- I collect neck-pillows. (You can buy a blindfold with a neck-pillow together in Tesco. I lost my first blindfold on Belgian Open 2007 and now I lost my second blindfold.)
- My blindfold is dark blue with a copper-yellow pin on it.
- The caretaker remembered me from Benelux Open 2008.
- I was Erik's judge in 7x7 on Saturday evening and we clinked glasses before and after his solve.
- We tried team-juggling with Frank.
- We are going to organize "János Kovács closed 2010"

 

[Olivér Perge]

Did you know that:

- my plane ticket costed 35 EUR.
- I met Macky and he is awesome!
- Ton has an amazing 5x5x5! Thanks again Ton!
- Bertalan broke the bld NR for the third time but that was the first time it survived until the end of the competition.
- I basically jesus'd up every single event except for FMC.
- I mastered jesusing up the official 3x3x3 solves! (first 3 solves: 1. done the OLL alg wrong, 2. POP, 3. +2) Video will follow later.
- all of my clock solves were lucky except for the 8.40 of course.
- I missed a 3 edge group on clock...
- I had only one edge to flip at 4:07 on my third 7x7x7 solve...
- I got third with a 32 FMC (Fridrich of course ). Congrats Teemu and Gus!
- Charlie is sub-20!!!
- Daniel solved the 4x4x4 blindfolded and got UK NR!
- Henrik solved the 5x5x5 blindfolded and got Danish NR!
- István solved everything blindfolded but the 3x3x3 single.
- his 7/7 and 4x4x4, 5x5x5 blindfolded are not impressive anymore, they are more like usual now.
- I met new cubers and most of them are very nice!
- I love the cubers I already knew even more now!
- Ton and Ron are amazing organizers, respect for them!
- this venue is one of the best I've ever been!
- I finally slept at Arnaud's place.
- we are going to miss Arnaud!!!
- we are lucky to know him and now many asian and australian people will be lucky to meet him too.
- I love you all!
- I'm going to meet a few of you again in Paris, meanwhile I'm not goint to meet my older brother.

- Oliver has a younger Brother in the Netherlands

-Dick looks like a younger Olivér

Does he? Well you saw me more then I did. Let's just say we look a bit similar but that's all...

 

[LarsN]

Did you know that:


- Henrik solved the 5x5x5 blindfolded and got Danish NR!

No, he was not fast enough. I still have my only NR with 5x5x5BLD

http://www.worldcubeassociation.org...Denmark&years=&show=100+Persons&single=Single

 

[Crazycubemom]

Did you know :

# I want to thank you all to make Benelux Open this year happen and BIG kiss for my lovely husband Ton who really works HARD at home to prepared everything , Papers works, and carrying Stackmates etc ( about 30 kg) and Printer etc and did shopping drinks etc.


# I just realized that my favorite Female cuber is Charlie THE Cooper , she is so lovely so if KFC knows How to do with Chicken, Charlie knows How to do with Cuber(s).

# The first time in my life that I drank 1 bottle beer and till Monday I got headache, I must to thank to Kai , Frank S and Florian. Ton also got 1 bottle of beer, but I could play a table Tennis with Charlie and Nora.

# Play Table Tennis with Nora is AMAZED never seen in my life that someone played table tennis using her leg , hand just like hand ball etc justr like Thai Boxing heheheh, Nora is funny.

# Hungarians team were sleeping at the front of my room and they are shower every morning cause I woke up early and listen who got shower and Oliver also hates smelly people.

# a day before 3x3x3 , I practised so well I've got many times sub 20 and I thought I would break my PB and avrg but maybe because my head was still jdbkivbifbivbgivg hihihihihihi.

# Kai is going to kill me if I'm not finish with my bld before German Open 2010, so tomorrow I will start with seriously bld, thank you Kai for your times.

# Someone has distracted my my Lunch at Sunday when he came to my table and joined me with Lunch because he is so smell so I run after Ton and had my Lunch out side ( could could could ).

# Daniel Lundwall just like Lars with his new coupe.

# Hendrik and Mads Mohr and Frank just like The Three Muskateers from Denmark.

# me with my worst judge got lol at Benelux , and he gave me a nice Magic with a photo from my 2 lovely boy's Erik and Rama, so Erik asking me to solve it and I said noooooo I will put on my puzzle's collection at home so Thank you Robin Kwant, I think Robin knows How to do with Maria hahahahaha.

# Robin loves my Hot chilly sauced ( I made it by myself ).

# Tim was disappointed with my results, sorry Tim because of beer.

# Robin Blohm and Monika Zimmerman will get married in 2 years and I invited so I have to do diet program.

# Kai is doing Diet program since November 2009 but his belly looks like 4 months hahahahahaha.

Now I have to Stop because Macky and Rama and Ton will get our Dinner , Macky is in MaRaTon's house.

 

[CharlieCooper]

# I just realized that my favorite Female cuber is Charlie THE Cooper , she is so lovely so if KFC knows How to do with Chicken, Charlie knows How to do with Cuber(s).

Thank you Maria, you are too kind I hope you get a sub 20 single in competition soon, I know how difficult it is to do for the first time, so very good luck! Look after Macky and send my love to Rama too, we missed him

 

[TMOY]

Did you know:
- Zonnewende is still a great venue for a competition ?
- I had to take 4 different trains to get from Paris to Den Bosch ? (should have been 3 but because of the train problems in Belgium I had to change once more)
- I got totally unexpected new average PBs in clock and pyra ? (Haven't practised them for ages)
- my square-1 average was faster than my 3^3 average ?
- when I woke up on Sunday morning, I saw people going to bed ?
- both my 4^3 BLD attempts were really awful, but strangely my 5^3 BLD attempt went much smoother ?
- I still didn't succeed, but once again it's fun to DNF in a time which is sub-Clément by 15 minutes ? (Someday I'll get that NR )
- for French Open I thinlk I will try to get a little more than 4 hours of sleep the night before the big BLDs ?
- Olivier V. and I are the worst team-BLD pair ever ?
- we still managed to get a successful solve after 16 minutes and a LOT of messups ?
- Christophe has a Lanlan 2^3 which is really good ?
- he still didn't compete in 2^3 because he can attend competitions only on Sunday ?
- Jaap's teraminx turns much better than any gigaminx I ever tried ?
- I really can't wait for French Open now ?

 

[Olivér Perge]

Did you know that:


- Henrik solved the 5x5x5 blindfolded and got Danish NR!

No, he was not fast enough. I still have my only NR with 5x5x5BLD

http://www.worldcubeassociation.org...Denmark&years=&show=100+Persons&single=Single

Well I obviously meant this: Henrik solved the 5x5x5 blindfolded, and got the Danish NR on clock and master magic!

Just kidding, my fault but in my defence I was so excited he got it that I forgot you got it too. Your 4x4x4 DNF strike confuses me every time.

 

[LarsN]

Did you know that:


- Henrik solved the 5x5x5 blindfolded and got Danish NR!

No, he was not fast enough. I still have my only NR with 5x5x5BLD

http://www.worldcubeassociation.org...Denmark&years=&show=100+Persons&single=Single

Well I obviously meant this: Henrik solved the 5x5x5 blindfolded, and got the Danish NR on clock and master magic!

Just kidding, my fault but in my defence I was so excited he got it that I forgot you got it too. Your 4x4x4 DNF strike confuses me every time.

Not to mention he got NR on 3x3x3 avg

And I hope to clear up your confusion on my DNF's this weekend

 

[Olivér Perge]

Not to mention he got NR on 3x3x3 avg

Double facepalm... Didn't see the light letters.

And I hope to clear up your confusion on my DNF's this weekend

Can't wait!

 

[CharlieCooper]

- when I woke up on Sunday morning, I saw people going to bed ?

Sorry about that, I tried to be quiet

 

[Slash]

Did you know?
-I'm writing this post for the second time cause I escaped the page accidentally?
-Zonnewende is an awesome venue?
-Not to mention the playground?
-It should have been the place of the winners ceremony cause everybody was playing there?
-It was very cold for me but Daniel wore shorts all the weekend?
-We successfully met him at Eindhoven airport?
-He solved 4x4 blindfolded?
-And I failed with two wings swapped on one of my solves?
-I failed in 2x2, 5x5, 6x6, 7x7, Clock, Multi, and 5x5 blind?
-I thought I could do seven cubes blindfolded?
-But I can't?
-But I can solve one, not as Pitzu?
-Pitzu couldn't beat my NR muhahahahhaaa?
-Congrats to Henrik!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Ron is the emergency-exit-lamp breaker?
-He will organize a competition called "János Kovács Closed 2010"(not seriously...")
-English guys were awesome?
-Charlie's hand's size is the half of mine?
-She can say many good Hungarian words?(Charlie, it's "cápázás" which you can't remember)
-Charlie wanted a photo with the Hungarian crew, but Erik wanted to be in the picture, so they started arguing in Hungarian like: >>E:"Beszélek magyarul!" C:"Rágcsálnivaló!" E:"Nem vagyok buzi!" C:"Pillangó!" E:"Szeretlek!" C:"Szívószál!" E:"Hogy vagy!" C:"cá.... cá... oh damnit I forgot it"<<
-Erik is in the picture though?
-I have a picture with Charlie and it look like Charlie is sitting and I'm standing

It was my best competition ever, even though I failed in lots of events, but I was in the 3x3 finals for the first time in my life, and the most important:
Everybody was awesome!!!

 

[CharlieCooper]

Did you know?
-I'm writing this post for the second time cause I escaped the page accidentally?
-Zonnewende is an awesome venue?
-Not to mention the playground?
-It should have been the place of the winners ceremony cause everybody was playing there?
-It was very cold for me but Daniel wore shorts all the weekend?
-We successfully met him at Eindhoven airport?
-He solved 4x4 blindfolded?
-And I failed with two wings swapped on one of my solves?
-I failed in 2x2, 5x5, 6x6, 7x7, Clock, Multi, and 5x5 blind?
-I thought I could do seven cubes blindfolded?
-But I can't?
-But I can solve one, not as Pitzu?
-Pitzu couldn't beat my NR muhahahahhaaa?
-Congrats to Henrik!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Ron is the emergency-exit-lamp breaker?
-He will organize a competition called "János Kovács Closed 2010"(not seriously...")
-English guys were awesome?
-Charlie's hand's size is the half of mine?
-She can say many good Hungarian words?(Charlie, it's "cápázás" which you can't remember)
-Charlie wanted a photo with the Hungarian crew, but Erik wanted to be in the picture, so they started arguing in Hungarian like: >>E:"Beszélek magyarul!" C:"Rágcsálnivaló!" E:"Nem vagyok buzi!" C:"Pillangó!" E:"Szeretlek!" C:"Szívószál!" E:"Hogy vagy!" C:"cá.... cá... oh damnit I forgot it"<<
-Erik is in the picture though?
-I have a picture with Charlie and it look like Charlie is sitting and I'm standing

It was my best competition ever, even though I failed in lots of events, but I was in the 3x3 finals for the first time in my life, and the most important:
Everybody was awesome!!!

It was a really great competition, you are right You need to translate that argument because I don't know what Erik said at all Will you upload your photos? Your camera is awesome!