Benelux Open 2008 16,17 feb

[Erik]

lol yah that was funny.. walking around during solving xD xD

 

[KJiptner]

Meeting Kai again was also very cool! Too bad he didn't achieve his potential at BLD.... Keep on going Kai!!

Thank you! I really liked meeting you again too! That greek food caused me stomach problems for the entire weekend btw

Further I felt sorry for Kai, he did awsome times unofficial but had 2 flipped edges on the 1:09 and I felt sorry for me with 3 flipped corners on 1:44 BLD

It was sooo cool to hang out with you at your place and to break my PBs with your (niiice) cubes Thank you for that SLAM FM max. volume!!!

That was indeed too bad for Kai, I hope he can correct it at his next competition.

I hope so too. Your OH performance was soooo nice RELAAAAAAX

Benelux Open 2008 was a great tournament. The venue was great, everybody was staying at that venue (not spread over different hotels), breakfast/lunch/dinner was all arranged and food/drinks/snacks during the competition was free.

I totally agree!

My highlights:
Having incredible fun at 2am playing Revolution with Lars, Erik, Joel, Arnaud and Rama. Each person a finger at the button. We still could not beat Stefans/Drors record Well I would not have liked to do this for 1 hour anyway

Throwing like 7 pillows at Rama when he came back into our room from shower.

Getting 2nd place at Magic with like 5 min practice since worlds. Successful 3 Cubes Multiblind. Breaking Home-Records at Competition. Minx 2:50, 4x4 1:05, 5x5 2:33 (I had to make Arnaud proud)
Sub 15 3x3 Single. Sitting in the chair like I was doing hardcore-relaxing during 3x3 finals and get my best competition Avg ever that way.

All in all it was a really really fun competition. I always had the feeling of beeing at a class-trip with my school. It was really about having fun and not taking things too serious. (except for BLD but oh well )

 

[KConny]

Awesome competition. Nothing to worry about except cubing and having fun. I broke all of my PB's except for the BLD events. 6 DNF's . I tried like 15 3x3BLD solves this weekend and only got one successfull on the flight back to Stockholm.

The last night was awesome (sunday night). The swedes+Istvan invented a lot of new events and got a whole bunch or WR's. I've got some of the new events on video.

Rama: Ceiling cat is watching you..

 

[AvGalen]

It would have been perfect if everyone could have stayed for that last night. When I left on sunday evening I felt like I left all foreigners in a house in the middle of nowhere in a strange country . I would have like to get some of those newly invented WR's and look forward to seeing some of them on video.

This weekend truely showed how great the cubing community is.

P.S. 1: Kai, I am proud of your 5x5x5 time!
P.S. 2: Playing revolution with 6 people at the same time is a lot of fun, but holding your arm up for 15 minutes to press the bottom light (I was lying on the ground, under a table) is very tiring.
P.S. 3: Welterusten Lars..................................... Welterusten Joël.................................... Welterusten Rama................................... Welterusten Kai................................................ Welterusten Erik........................................... Welterusten Istvan

 

[Erik]

Welterusten Istvan........................ Istvan??

 

[Stefan]

Having incredible fun at 2am playing Revolution with Lars, Erik, Joel, Arnaud and Rama. Each person a finger at the button. We still could not beat Stefans/Drors record Well I would not have liked to do this for 1 hour anyway

1) You didn't beat our record because it's unbeatable or you didn't even get 999?
2) It took Dror and me about 25 minutes.
3) Since six people can instantly see and press the light, you should be quicker.
4) There should be a speed record, fastest time to get 999.
5) I obviously missed a lot of fun. Gnah.

 

[AvGalen]

We didn't beat the record because of reason 1a) and 1b). Unless they make an update to the Revolution nobody can beat 999, but we got to about 315 or 350 (couldn't hear because we were making to much noise).

The main reason we failed was because of someone on the left pushing the light so hard that the light on the right pushes the person on the right.

2) Impressive
3) In theory, yes
4) No, you and Dror should be/stay the only ones that have beaten it. I will personally DNF at 998 on purpose
5) Yes, you did! But I will take my Revolution with me to every competition, so maybe at the German Open?

 

[Stefan]

5) Yes, you did! But I will take my Revolution with me to every competition, so maybe at the German Open?

Oh no... I actually meant the pillows and the other stuff. More competitions should be organized like that...