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- This was hands down the most laid back competition I've ever been to. Besides the Berkeley/Caltech crew, there were only 5 other people.
- OMG it's Ryan Zheng!
- Jeremy and I worked out a way to do team BLD with cross on left.
- We've decided to make distinctions between PB (personal best time recorded at home) and PR (personal best time recorded in competition)
- One car left the Bay Area late and got owned by traffic and weather. They left at 8pm and arrived in Reno at 5am the morning of the competition.
- BLD failures were generally attributed to sleep deprivation
- The last (and previously only) time Leyan DNFed all three BLD solves in competition was the final round of Worlds 2007.
- Not expecting to make the final round, I took a 20 minute walk to my car to get cubes that people wanted to buy. I got back to find that the final round was almost over and I was the last person to go. I was completely not warmed up and got owned.
- The second FMC scramble had blocks everywhere. Unfortunately after a 20 move F2L I couldn't work out a decent last layer, so I took a DNF.
- Skiing is awesome. I can do black diamonds now!
- Once you get enough speed, flying isn't a problem.
It's the landing that's difficult.
- Tip for Bay Area folks who go skiing at Northstar: renting locally is way cheaper than renting on the mountain if you have the means to get your equipment up there. Sports Basement has some good deals.
- On the way to the ski resort on Sunday, we were in such heavy traffic that I was able to call a team BLD solve while sitting in the driver's seat. To say I was driving would have been a bit of an exaggeration; we moved forward maybe once during the solve.
- Patrick is addicted to gambling.
- Circus Circus has carnival games (i.e. gambling for kids), one of which involves tossing rings onto coke bottles. Since winning is extremely unlikely, the prizes are huge. Tyson said if anyone won one of the giant plush toys, he would ski down the mountain with it on Sunday, so a bunch of us chipped in for a bucket of rings. Tyson took the first toss and made it. It was amazing.
