Princeton Open 2008

I've seen your video's, sloths. My youtube account is zTheNiko, you've probably seen my comments. I don't have a video, but I have an old myspace page. myspace.com/nikogecko

I'm a little over 5' tall and look pretty much like the picture there (a little older).

-niKo
 
Everyone is going to be at the scrambling table XD.

Hope for snow guys!
 
I can't believe 5x5x5 was cut at a competition Michael Gottlieb and I were at.

(had to came home early, if you were wondering; I don't have 3x3x3 final round results.)

Edit: Also thought that this was the most disappointing competition I've had so far (mostly due to the first statement of this post). I also popped a wing on my 4x4x4 during the cross after something like a 40 second reduction, costing me about 20 seconds and it pushed my time past the 1:30 requirement.

Plus there were a ton of people. Not that this was Sam's fault, but people really need to preregister at least a week ahead of time. Maybe combined 3x3x3 (Bo2) rounds should be considered for one-day competitions with so many people.

Pyraminx round was highly discouraging; it was very disorganized. I think having separate scrambles for judges would have streamlined the event much better. <end rant>

Although, it was fun and the first 3x3x3 round had some nice scrambles. Free food was awesome too. :D
 
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yeah, i honestly was really mad about having to cancel 5x5 but there wasn't enough time to fit it in.
Overall it was a great competition:

Results: (For the most part, at least)

3x3- Harris chan, sy-dar lui and mitchell stern, all sub 14 averages.
4x4- michael gottlieb, mitchell stern and patrick jameson (I think)
3x3OH- Harris chan,
2x2- Mitchell stern, Alex cook (i think), Alex yu
3x3BLD- Alex Yu (WORLD RECORD :D!!!! 1:00.72 AND 1:05.XX), Sy-dar lui, alex cook (i think, again, i dont remember)
Magic- Sam Boyles, Reiza Mativo, (i forget) (Takao hashimoto)
Master Magic- Sam Boyles (2.22 NaR), Rhodri Mativo, (i forget)
FMC- Anthony Hsu(41), Erik Johnson(45), (i forget)
Multi-BLD- Alex Yu(3/3), Alex Cook (2/2), Anthony Hsu (2/2)
Sq-1- Takao Hashimoto, Jason Baum, i forget


I probably forgot a lot of stuff...

Oh yeah! over 80 people in the first 3x3 round...Took 3 hours XD.

Great competition! Thanks a ton guys for helping out so much,
Especially Doowon Joo for scrambling a ton and also to Bill Berry for Providing me with tons of cube covers and all the judging and help.
Bob and his girlfriend were also a ton of help and i really just want to thank everyone for coming out and having a great day cubing!!

Sam
 
I did pretty awesome on OH, 21.98 single and a 25.07 average :O 4x4 was OK, but I hoped to do better. I got a best single of 56, that's good, but on the last solve if I hadn't messed up and done 2 OLL parities (put an F2L edge in wrong :mad:) I probably would have walked away with NaR avg...

Also I lost my 5x5 supercube. Seriously, like, if anyone finds it or knows who has it, send me a PM, because you're going to have to mail it to me or something. I need that thing back so I can... uh... break the UWR on it.
 
I was very happy with my performance. I did even better than I did at home.
3x3 1st round: 17.34 average
3x3 final: idk yet, but I think it is in the 16's. :)
4x4: Didn't get under 1:30, so I didn't get an average.
2x2: 2nd place!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D Wow, I don't believe it! ;)
3x3bld: 3rd place, 2:00.11 (Congrats to Alex Yu, he is very good! :))
3x3multibld: 2nd place, 2/2 in 10:03.4 :D
I thought it was a great comp, except for the 3x3 1st round and the venue was a little cramped for 80+ people.

I was surprised that Harris Chan didn't get any sub 10s. :( The first solve in the finals had an extremely easy X cross and I was able to get a 14.xx (Don't remember) on it. There was also another solve where the first 3 f2l pairs were all like R U R', and U R U' R'.
Jason Baum was SOOOO close to a sub 11 single (10.87) but it was a +2. :(
There was also an 18.xx OH single by someone who I can't remember. :p
 
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I might be wrong but i think Doowon Joo had the 18.xx OH solve.

I was very disappointed about 5x5, I practiced alot of 5x5 last week and got to the point where the majority of my solves are sub 3. There is another competition near here soon though. I'll make it up then.

I has happy with my 3x3 solves. I have some control over my nerves and I only messed up my last solve. It was awesome seeing Erik Johnson and Anthony Hsu do sub 15 petrus solves, it was inspiring. I saw Erik do a sub 11 in the back. wow.

It was also very awesome just meeting you guys. and Harris thanks for taking the time to talk to those people from Syracuse. That girl was too nervous to ask you to pose for a picture.
overall it was so awesome that i obviously just feel like talking about it more...I taught a few people how to solve the cube, did awesome 2:40-2:50 5x5 solves in the back, tried some puzzles I've never seen before, got a BLD success and got 2 slices of pizza for free.

I also tried a few people ES 5x5s. I gotta get one of those.
 
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Great competition Sam!
If anybody happened to realize that they have a 3x3 (black) square-1 (white) or pyraminx (white) that doesn't belong to them, please contact me immediatly. Of course, the fact that the supercube wasn't found leads me to believe that there was some theft, but other than that, it was fun!

I did break several Pbs today. If only I can get some consistency on 3x3 :p
 
Pedro said:
btw, how did Jason do on 3x3? and OH?
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Terrible. I'm officially garbabe in competition and it's really frustrating. But I have Chattahoochie next week to try and make up for it.

I had a 13.49 average in the first round and something really bad in the final. OH started out okay for me (26.xx, 21.10), but went all downhill after that...

Maybe next week!

edit: This post sounded kind of bitter so I just wanted to say that I had a great time at the competition! Sam did a really great job of organizing everything, especially with the much larger than expected turnout. It was really awesome meeting Harris as well... he is way better than me.
 
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