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German Open?

somebody found a blue c4y centercap?
I lost it Saturday Night at Weberei

I found an extra blue centercap in my cube bag Saturday night back in my room at Holiday Inn, but I don't know if it's from a c4y (at least it doesn't have the two protrusions like in the picture here). If you can PM me your address, I can mail it anyway.

macky

Oh thats very nice somebody found it!
it's actually a blue center cap from a 3x3x5
 
Did you know that
- German Open was my seconds competition?
- I got 6 NR´s, even if I failed at almost everything?
- I am kinda showing off now? :P
- Olivér knows everything about HIMYM?
- I don´t and I felt kinda stupid? ^^
- Maarten has probably had a hard job carrying his cups and medals home?
- He pwnd like everyone of us? :D
- Charlie doesn´t seem to like pillangós that much?
- I used google translator, because i had no idea how to spell pillangó?
- Everyone was really nice and polite?
- A specific scrambler had glimsy fingers?
- Everyone shook hands with me when I got a 1:06 at minx and nobody cared that Erik did a 1:04? :S
- He seemed to be pretty sad the whole time?
- I was in the train and car for 32 hours in total?
- We managed to drive more 2500 Kilometers?
- I high fived Sanio every 100 Kilometers? xD

:D
 
Did you know:

- the road trip seemed shorter then last year?
- maybe because it was awesome! ;)
- Sanio (LL skip guy) is so cool, we talked about HIMYM a lot! :)
- I used to think that David is just another geek youtuber, but it turned out that he is a nice person and a good cuber! ;)
- David Youtube?
- thanks Leonard for the place!
- Brúnó has a gay hair dresser?
- he asked me why do we call it x-cross, not y-cross? :fp :D
- Charlie is still becoming more and more awesome each time we meet?
- her pillangó sceen almost made me wet my pants? :D
- Lars and Erik are very good judges to have!
- I'm sorry Erik, I thought you were around 47-48 competitions only... :(
- Congratulations on the 50.! ;)
- Érik a szőlő, hajlik a vessző? :)
- german language seems serious and a bit angry? :P
- Rama was there!!!!!! :)
- I still rock at jesusin' up?
- except for the 13.11 average...
- I missed my very first sub1 average of 5 on a messed up pll parity algortihm?
- I missed 4x4 bld by 5 pieces? (only two mistakes)
- Ron is still amazingly nice and hard working!
- as well as Hanneke, Berit, Caroline, Sebastian, Ton and many others!
- german competitions are far one of the best organized ones?
- Jöel knows a lot of cool tricks?
- Macky is (still :P) a very nice guy!
- after my 12.11 pyraminx time he didn't understand when I said to him: I did a you! :)
- Cornelius is truly amazing!
- as well as Maarten?
- well, Mats too, but we already knew that? :P
- the McDonald's in Gütersloh still doesn't have any restrooms...
- our team blind with Brúnó entertained a lot of cubers. :P
- our team blind is based on yelling to each other for every mistake. :D
- we still got a 57+2?
- I SAID U, NOT U'!!!!! :D
- we had so much fun at Holiday Inn on sunday night!
- we did a rain dance?
- the receptionist was cold?
- we were messing around with random strangers?
- happy birthday to you? :D
- we did some cuber impersonations? :P
- perfume? :D
- I love you all, guys!

I will extend this list later. ;)
 
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DidYaKnow?
- our (charlie too) plane was cancelled..
- we had to get a lift with greg austin and his dad
- very thankful of that :D
- My only good result was a nonlucky 10.53
- it had a G perm
- so did every other solve in the second round (2/9)^5
- I did my usual bad bad good good okay average in 4x4 (67 61 56 51 48)
- I'm bad at DidYouKnows?

also, I LOST MY CUBE. It's a modded a5 (aka haiyan memory), it has the stickers that come with the cube, and has a logo. I really hope someone just picked it up by accident. If you have it please, PM or something.
 
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Did you know:
- this was my first German Open ? (Last year I was in Barcelona)
- and definitely not my last ?
- Paris-Gütersloh (in Jean-Louis' car) took 8 hours, but Gütersloh-Paris took only 6 ?
- I sucked at almost every event ?
- the only (sorta) PB I broke was at 5^3 BLD, off by only 10 centers (previous PB was 12) ?
- I still got a sub-2 at 3^3 BLD (I wanted it after my 2:00.00 at French Nationals) ?
- thanks to Joel for his BLD algs (although I didn't use them at the comp because I need to practice them first) ?
- both my 3^3BLD attempts had 10 misoriented edges ?
- I bought a really good V6 for only 20 euros ?
- unfortunately not in time for the 6^3 event ?
- I suck at DYKs too :p
 
Did you know?

-Charlie and Joey had quite the journey. We left at 7pm and 9pm on Thursday night to get a train to where Greg Austin lives. We waited until 4am Friday (a lot of that outside in the cold because the train station closed) to be picked up then drove three hours to the ferry. That then left at 8am and we drove to Gutersloh, arriving at 6pm. Almost 24 hours :O
-We totally thought we'd be able to fly back, but that was wrong, we weren't... and did the whole thing the way back but got stuck in traffic for an hour and a half at least and missed the original ferry we planned to get... :fp
-I cannot pronounce the name of the school to a taxi driver to save my life and Lars had to repeat it about 92 times each phone call. I did successfully book in German though ;)
-The hotel was actually really nice and pretty cheap?
-There was a blue light in the shower that Joey and I kept on all night, just because it was cool.
-We bounced on the beds out of joy for finally being there
-Cornelius apparently looks like me. Since there is a bit of an age gap he can't really be my twin, so maybe he can be my kid/brother. In any case he is SUPER CUTE!
-*lick hand* SLAP SLAP SLAP
-We DID teamsolve that teraminx ;)
-We DID sit in silence, with the odd ice cube down the shirt punishment
-I got a new PB for square-1 of 21.xx seconds but I was annoyed because I fumbled and it could have been sub 20 very easily if I hadn't done cube shape wrong >.<
-Unexpectedly came third for clock!? This keeps happening and I have no idea why.
-Got my pyraminx single NR back, wasn't even lucky... full step 4.46 :| I even exclaimed in German after this :P I got a new average NR too, 6.77 but this only got me 6th place, very very tough pyra competition :o
- BAZMEG PILLANGO
- FOSSOPO PILLANGO CURVA
- Every other event I took part in sucked big time.
-I am not sure how much closer I will get to sub 2 on 5x5 before actually getting it... 2:00.86 is getting silly now.
- Maria <3
- Kai has crazy dance moves
-Karsten has crazy harmonica skills
-Joey and Charlie love to dance to this
- HOBBIT

Will update later... still recovering :p
 
Did you know...that
- Charlie had requested champagne on her and joey's arrival, but I only had Martini?
- this bottle of Martini has now been in four countries (France, Spain, Germany, passed by Belgium...back to France)?
- Cornelius is SUPER CUTE?
- cipőfűző!
- A Japanese dude living in the US but currently studying in France flew from Spain for a competition involving Hungarian plastic toys, where he asked a Dutch guy in German for a Swiss cutting instrument? Europe kicks ass.
- Charlie and joey share a mother? (as I might?)
- it's apparently well known now that an alligator and a Romanian guy are on the side of a river?
- in cubers' hell, the devil makes you scramble 100x100x100 forever and ever, blindfolded? that there is no wca delegate to help you if you make a mistake...you have to solve it?
 
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Did you know...

I came for the food...
But when I saw Joey and Charlie I immediately smiled big time?
Erik registered me for 3x3x3 during round three of 3x3x3?
I still got 12.31 average on the semi final?
Cube amnesia anyone?
One particular woman always seems to smile when you mess it up, POP, DNS or DNF.
You cannot ban someone for telling the truth?
I had Alexander Springhorn's Facebook friend request pending for a looooong time?
It was awesome to meet old friends again and I somehow still remembered all their names. :p
 
Did you know...that
- Charlie had requested champagne on her and joey's arrival, but I only had Martini?
- this bottle of Martini has now been in four countries (France, Spain, Germany, passed by Belgium...back to France)?

I'm presuming you all had parity before drinking any of it?
 
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Totally why I love Macky hahaha.

Mark, we were too tired for parity, I just wanted some Martini down my neck ASAP. I did get all parity on 4 and 6 though :p
 
Last edited by macky : 3 Hours Ago at 06:09 PM. Reason: capitalized joey by accident; hyphenated a postpositive "well known" by accident

Totally why I love Macky hahaha.

Mark, we were too tired for parity, I just wanted some Martini down my neck ASAP. I did get all parity on 4 and 6 though :p

Ok that's fair then.
 
Did you know:
- this has always been one of my favorite tournaments?
- during all the 7 times I've been to Gütersloh it has never disappointed me?
- I had a bet with Joël Spang that we would participate in 3x3x3 blindfolded and get a successful solve?
- Joël didn't even turn up?
- I DID practice and take part in 3x3x3 BLD?
- and was 4 flipped edges away on my 2nd attempt?
- this was the first shot I had at blindfolded solving in over two years?
- I somehow did one successful solve in competition many many years ago (Dutch Open '04)?
- Macky is so awesome to have around at competitions and we will miss him over here in Europe?
- Rama takes great photos and should definitely do this more often?
- I scrambled a total of 25 6x6x6's and 28 7x7x7's on Saturday night?
- I actually enjoyed that a lot more than solving those puzzles, which is why I didn't take part?
- it was great to judge Mats Valk in the final and see him reel off such a solid average?
- Mats is now my favorite 3x3x3 cuber?
- I had take a train at 3.40am on Monday to be at work on time (9am)?
- I could go on and on?
 
Did you know:

- This German Open was my 2nd :)
- GO09 was my first competition
- It was incredible fun again and awesome to meet new people
- I broke the German NR! :D
- I won an event for the first time (magic)
- Macky's cubing fingertricks look very funny and weird
- He's is still very fast and very consistent
- I was super nervous during the finals...
- After two horrible solves I just pretended I was at home practising and everything went well :p
- At my last solve I started my T-Perm at around 8.3x (no AUF!)
- Normally my T-Perm is around 1.3 seconds
- This time it took me 2.3 :fp
- I still got 13.30 avg and 5th place
- Congrats to Mats for the NR 10.47
- it was a very disappointing competition for Erik (no good results)
- Maarten got extremely good at everything
- He was on the podium at like every event
- 5 of them were 1st place (!)
- In my 2x2 solves I had 4/5 Y-Perms!!! (I hate Y-Perms on 2x2) and still got 4.34 avg, which gave me 3rd place
- I look like Charlie O_o
- British accent is really really hard for me to understand (Joey: "Where is joouur cube?")
- The hotel was nice
- There was a shock cube at the competition which gave you an electric shock when turning it
- I dropped it but before I was able to apologize to the seller, he laughed :D
- I can solve the cube, can you solve the cube?
- I got some really nice times during practise (8.22 PLL skip, 8.6x NL while lunch :p)
- I raced many people :)
- Everyone was nice
- 1st 3x3 round took AGES!!!
- Olivér is very nice and friendly, even though he wants to kill me
- I had to give an autograph :eek:
- Erik can close a cardoor without touching it (only driving :p)
- I broke my home-PB-avg of 5x5 by 4 seconds in the competition!
- I am so sad that it's over
- and I am looking forward to meet you all again at GO11 / next competition

Cornelius
 
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- I look like Charlie O_o
- British accent is really really hard for me to understand (Joey: "Where is joouur cube?")

Yes, I tried to find you after the ceremony to take a photo but you had left already :(

Joey's accent is hard for me to understand, don't feel bad ;) Just ask Olivér and Macky, they have to get me to translate from Joey's English into regular English so that they can understand him :p
 
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