Berkeley Summer 2010

[shelley]

Did you know...

-If we don't have your scorecard, we can't enter your times. That's the whole point of the scorecards.
-This was not Aidan Wolter's first competition, but it was the first time he competed in Megaminx
-My two fastest solves in Round 2 were Y perms (followed by a U2 AUF), which are definitely not my fastest PLL
-Once I realize it's possible for me to beat my PB average, I crash and burn on the last solve
-After 6 years, I have converted to sitting while solving, at least for speedsolve. Standing for BLD is still the way to go.
-There were two events (3x3 and Pyraminx) in which the third and fourth place competitors had the same average. Third place was decided by fastest single.
-St. Patrick's Day in July: This competition's special dress code was "Green Day". All preregistered competitors got a memo to wear green.
-Darren Kwong won the Green Day award
-The judge who decided the Green Day award won the Colorblind award
-BANADIAN CAKEN?!
-Pugs are pugly
-Optimal average for Fantasy Cubing was 11.47. The winner had 11.98.
-Ronnel should announce all awards forever

 

[oprah62]

Justin got a 12.31 ll skip on OH.

Wat. Doesn't he use MGLS? It would have just been a PLL skip if he did.

Pretty much take out an f2l pair of your cube and that's what he had. He knew there was going to be and oll skip but the pll skip was just a little bonus . anyway, he says he uses mgls only about half the time, when the case is nice.

 

[Vincents]

Did you know...
- That we only had one "mystery" puzzle which isn't really a mystery puzzle anymore...Fantasy Cubing...because we kept running late and going into the extra time I had built into the schedule?
- I thought I had made a scrambling mistake when I saw Aidan's first Megaminx time?
- We would've had 6 timers, but nobody wanted to lend us a mat (just a mat! We already had the timer and display!)
- It was REALLY COLD outside, but inside was REALLY HOT?
- The lights had an auto-timer for X:53 where X is an hour of day, so I had to stop everyone's solve until the lights went off every hour?
- Finals go so much faster on 4 timers than 2?
- I agree with Shelley re: Ronnel's announcing?
- We ran out of notecards twice?
- We only used notecards because we couldn't find the usual scoresheets?
- I shattered my PB for both 3x3 average and single due to the first two scrambles of round 2 being ridiculous?
- But I'm afraid I won't be able to continue my streak of having a PB in something every competition?
- When I got the first scramble for R2 I thought they messed up?
- But I didn't even come up with a solution that was close to optimal?
- Kids these days are too fast?
- Competition team was AWESOME?
- Nobody brought flowers though? =(
- The only shirt I had that had green on it was my Tie-Dye shirt?
- But when Tyson and Macky walked in Tyson called me a hippie? =P

 

[Vincents]

Official results up.

 

[Weston]

I finally have a 2H average that I'm satisfied with (for now).
Great job to You (Vincent) and Dan on running the competition. Everything seemed to go very smoothly (Except the lights ).

 

[Aidan]

I've been practicing the megaminx but I was still suprised for that 12.31 average!!!!

 

[Vincents]

Weston: Thanks for coming! If you have any suggestions (other than the lights haha) I'd be glad to hear them. That goes for the rest of you too.

 

[Aidan]

Weston: Thanks for coming! If you have any suggestions (other than the lights haha) I'd be glad to hear them. That goes for the rest of you too.

You should have megaminx more often. Lol!!!
Maybe even have more than one round if there's enough people

 

[akiramejin]

haha, I left early, even though I got into the 2nd round for 3x3. D:
It went pretty smoothly, except for a random judge asking me to fill in for him when I was about to leave. (which I shouldn't have)

 

[shelley]

Weston: Thanks for coming! If you have any suggestions (other than the lights haha) I'd be glad to hear them. That goes for the rest of you too.

You should have megaminx more often. Lol!!!
Maybe even have more than one round if there's enough people

Had we known we had such a fast megaminxer in the neighborhood, we would have started doing so earlier!

 

[Juf97]

Have anybody the first scramble of the second 3x3 round?

 

[Vincents]

B D F2 D2 R' F2 U R2 F' R B' U' F2 R2 D R2 L2 F2 U' B2 L2

My solution: (start with Yellow on top; orange on front):

X-cross: L u' R' u2 y R2 y'
Pair: R' U' R U' R' U R U2
Pair: y' (R U R' U')x3 y
Pair: R U' R B' R' B R'
OLL: R U R' U' R U2 R' U2
PLL: R' U2 R U2 R' F R U R' U' R' F' R2

Probably faster:
X-cross: L u' R' u2 y R2 y'
Pair: R' U' R U' R' U R U2
Pair: (L' U' L U)x2 L' U' L
Pair: R U' R B' R' B R'
COLL: R U R' U' R U L' U R' U' L U'
PLL: R' U R' U' R' U' R' U R U R2

There's also another solution that gives the easy T OLL...

 

[Ranzha]

B D F2 D2 R' F2 U R2 F' R B' U' F2 R2 D R2 L2 F2 U' B2 L2

^^Lolscramble.

 

[puzzlemaster]

B D F2 D2 R' F2 U R2 F' R B' U' F2 R2 D R2 L2 F2 U' B2 L2

^^Lolscramble.

Lol 10.03.

 

[oprah62]

B D F2 D2 R' F2 U R2 F' R B' U' F2 R2 D R2 L2 F2 U' B2 L2

^^Lolscramble.

Lol 10.03.

lol not in comp or heard about how easy it was before hand.

 

[amostay2004]

9.01

T OLL and Y perm =/

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

B D F2 D2 R' F2 U R2 F' R B' U' F2 R2 D R2 L2 F2 U' B2 L2

^^Lolscramble.

Not the best X-Cross, but it'll do.

 

[nlCuber22]

B D F2 D2 R' F2 U R2 F' R B' U' F2 R2 D R2 L2 F2 U' B2 L2

^^Lolscramble.

Not the best X-Cross, but it'll do.

dude gtfo it's 4 moves.

EDIT: 9.69 wide sune + (Y perm <----) D:

 

[Vincents]

Probably fastest: (start with yellow top red front)

X-Cross: R D R2 F
Pair: R U' R' U2 R U' R'
Pair: L' U L2 U' L'
Pair: U2 L' U L
OLL: U F R U R' U' F'
PLL: F R U' R' U' R U R' U R' F' R U R' U' R' F R F' U2

 

[tsaoenator]

B D F2 D2 R' F2 U R2 F' R B' U' F2 R2 D R2 L2 F2 U' B2 L2

lol 7.69