Bristol Spring 2010

[Toad]

I wish people would sign their name at the end of text messages because often I get them and have no idea who they are from?
How do these people get my telephone number?

I texted you once I think... And you gave me your number and I'm sure you've got mine...?

 

[r_517]

I wish people would sign their name at the end of text messages because often I get them and have no idea who they are from?
How do these people get my telephone number?

I texted you once I think... And you gave me your number and I'm sure you've got mine...?

just as i thought maybe Charlie still didnt know which message was sent from me

 

[MichaelErskine]

Did you know?
- I'm going to have to do this in three separate posts
- I decided, with 2 hours before departure, to start making name badges that take 5 hours to make
- Simon's mum insisted Simon brought cake and cereal for everyone
- the £50 satnav is a two-edged sword: saving time, wasting time, finding places, losing places, informing, confusing...
- Rowan and Jude were easy to find. I discover whilst driving over Snake Pass that Jude makes a living fleecing chumps at online poker and has bizarre sleep cycles that must be reprogrammed over the weekend
- Joey is small and hard to find: his labyrinthine burrow cannot be navigated by human technology! When we found him (well, he found us) he had run around the block trying to spot us and I thought our next destination might have to be A&E!
- our original estimation, that AndyT must be small because he was young and called "Andy", was proven wrong when we had to use a shoehorn to get everyone into the people-carrier
- Simon lost a Square-1 edge in the car and I for a while felt the fear of missing what I knew would be a new WR
- the outward journey when pretty well and we got there at 23:08 as predicted
- I then spent the next 2 hours driving everyone to their sleepy-places before I could enjoy my beer
- Kris Atwood is a super cool co-host with some craaaaazzy magnets
- Chris Ness is a puzzle superhero who can develop a new Fisher-Cube speedsolving method in 2 hours at 2am
- Jude, Rowan, and Chris speed-fisher-cubed until lights out
- I can make 20 name badges in 2 hours until 4am before losing the will to exist (LESSON: don't take on an unknown-duration, all-or-nothing task at the last minute!)
- I left Simon's sleeping bag in the car at the overnight car park, half a mile away from the couch where it was needed
- Chris had no sleeping bag either and just curled up on the floor
- Charlie's floor is surprisingly comfortable for such a solid surface but becomes progressively more uncomfortable overnight
- When Saturday morning came (3.5 hrs later) I was both glad and... not-glad :confused:
- I had to get up to go get the car and Parking was more expensive this year
- Charlie was sweet and made me a sandwich for my lunch
- the Ludlows (being stars) had already set up the tables - we sort of expected this and we are beginning to rely on this happening!
- the Stackmat competition displays had arrived without batteries -- each one needs 8 D cells which for some reason are priced on their equivalent weight in antimatter
- I still had a gajillion score cards to hand write and results spreadsheets to prepare for the latest schedule (LESSON: write a program to do this for me)
- the printer had me scared for a good hour - damn you Microsoft Windows!
- somebody pointed out the terrible spelling mistake on my badges -
- considering it was a cubing competition I managed to do absolutely no practice for any event other than 10 magic solves totalling less than 30 seconds!
- I have many more things to write about Saturday afternoon and ABSOLUTELY TONS to write about Saturday night! Now I need another rest

 

[Kirjava]

DYK

- Michael was brilliant with helping us travel and helping organise the competition.
- Lars goes to lots more comps than I realised O_O. He kept ours running nice and smoothly.
- Charlie was as brilliant as ever. Great comp, great host, evoked the lols in us all.
- Leon is supercute, and reminds us of Link.
- Kris can sleep through a lot. (Thanks for putting up with us!)
- Erik We are beast.
- Sometimes you have to roll twice, just to be sure.
- Most europeans don't understand the word 'womb'.
- Kolos has a watch of undetermined status.
- OMG ROWAN IM SO PROUD OF YOU
- The time limit for 2 cubes multibld is 20 mins, not 10 >_>
- Type FIIs don't smash when you throw them on the floor. They just pop lots of caps.
- Jude is so unlucky at bigbld. Good work in multi though!
- Daniel scared the **** out of me at the end of 5BLD.
- Sébastien is also badass at BLD just generally. He owned me racing 2x3x3, too
- Everyone finds Roux OH hilarious.
- I should learn full 3x3x3 ELL. (I am doing)
- U2E'L2M'U2E'L2M'U2E'L2M'
- Antislice is fine for teamsolves.
- Chris Ness had some insane singles this comp, but it's a shame he didn't have blond hair like the last comp, it was cute. (and is really nice, thanks for the AV)
- Edouard's turning style looks faster IRL.
- Oliver's lame jokes are great
- People should've really just carried on talking when Simon was solving Sq1. >_>
- He started with the cube on the table!
- Rob Yau smokes crack! (Probably why his OLL -> PLL transition is so good)
- Like like like like like etc.
- I was sorta annoyed that my Master Magic NR didn't get broken yet, c'mon James
- The toilets at bristol zoo smell more strongly of **** than the monkey enclosure.
- I have videos to upload! I shall do it sometime tomorrow, probz.
- Paper covers rock!

 

[miniGOINGS]

- Everyone finds Roux OH hilarious.

They way you use the table for LSE is brilliant. I would never try such a feat.

 

[MichaelErskine]

- considering it was a cubing competition I managed to do absolutely no practice for any event other than 10 magic solves totalling less than 30 seconds!

Aha, I now remember Jesús, Thom S, Charlie and me did some pyraminx racing and I also had to solve some improperly scrambled clocks -- so I got a bit of practice there!

 

[MTGjumper]

Did you know?
- Jude, Simon, and Chris speed-fisher-cubed until lights out

Corrected Rowan just gave up straight away.

 

[MichaelErskine]

Did you know?
- Jude, Simon, and Chris speed-fisher-cubed until lights out

Corrected Rowan just gave up straight away.

Sorry 'bout that - I tried not to get too involved! I really want a Fisher Cube now though!

 

[CharlieCooper]

Did you know?
- Jude, Simon, and Chris speed-fisher-cubed until lights out

Corrected Rowan just gave up straight away.

Sorry 'bout that - I tried not to get too involved! I really want a Fisher Cube now though!

Lol not only did Rowan give up but whispered something along the lines of "they're inventing some kind of bloody speed Fischer cube method at 3am" to me

 

[chrisness]

who can develop a new Fisher-Cube speedsolving method in 2 hours at 2am

Nah, it was just CFOP, it took a while to figure out how to solve it as a 3x3 though. We were kinda slow and kept getting confused by the PLLs at first.

Cool puzzle though, highly recommended Michael!

 

[CharlieCooper]

who can develop a new Fisher-Cube speedsolving method in 2 hours at 2am

Nah, it was just CFOP, it took a while to figure out how to solve it as a 3x3 though. We were kinda slow and kept getting confused by the PLLs at first.

Cool puzzle though, highly recommended Michael!

I'm glad you all made use of it, I certainly haven't yet

 

[joey]

-Joey got a nice 3x3 average and now we are next to each other in the rankings
-Joey and I can't get sub 50 on 4x4 to save ourselves

The last solve of your average is the time of my average
So many 50.xx 51.xx and 52.xx but you beat me to the sub-50 that night!
And congrats for pulling out awesome times on the day

Joey - Constantly tells me how slow I am at bld. I will get fast. I promise! Nice to see you get a decent 3x3x3 average

Yeah, but you know I'm just trying to encourage you

- Being with Joey made me speak like him (ending sentences on a high, and using "like" a lot) but I've stopped now?

Hehe

FMC scramble: D2 L U2 F2 L D' R2 B' D R2 B U' F' L2 R' D2 F L'

My 37 moves:
x' D2 F' R D B' (5)
R' U R (3)
L2 U L2 U' L F' U F L (9)
U2 F U' F' U2 F' U F U' F' U' (11)
y' R F R' F U F' R F U' (9)

 

[CharlieCooper]

- Being with Joey made me speak like him (ending sentences on a high, and
- Charlie says I have a strong accent?

Yes, I get that effect (at the end of a sentence...)

and YOU DO.

To recap. "My name is Joey Gouly and I'm fram Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeds"

 

[Kirjava]

Ok, so. I've been uploading video today for Joey, Charlie and Jude.

If anyone else wants anything, gimmie a shout if you can remember being filmed. I mostly have video of Rob and Erik.

 

[James Ludlow]

Ok, so. I've been uploading video today for Joey, Charlie and Jude.

If anyone else wants anything, gimmie a shout if you can remember being filmed. I mostly have video of Rob and Erik.

Flexing?

 

[Robert-Y]

Ok, so. I've been uploading video today for Joey, Charlie and Jude.

If anyone else wants anything, gimmie a shout if you can remember being filmed. I mostly have video of Rob and Erik.

Do you by any chance have my 10.80 average on video?

 

[Erik]

I think I filmed at least 4 of your solves with Kirjava's cam, but the battery died somewhere during that round, maybe Thom can find the solves still

 

[andyt1992]

my zooming in and out with kirs cam was epic. Theres a video erik made where the cube hes filming isnt on the screen lol, then i pushed his arm up to save the video :s

 

[chrisness]

Ok, so. I've been uploading video today for Joey, Charlie and Jude.

If anyone else wants anything, gimmie a shout if you can remember being filmed. I mostly have video of Rob and Erik.

Yo, I vaguely remember seeing the camera floating around during my 4x4 final average. Any footage from that?x

 

[Olivér Perge]

Did you know:

- how to pronounce the cool North American cubers' name? Thank you Chester!