[NAR] Alejandro Orozco 41.96 3x3 blindfolded single

[gpt_kibutz]

Hello, this is a video from the Guadalajara Open 2010 that was held today in Mexico. Alejandro Orozco broke the NAR 3x3 blindfolded record with a single time of 41.96''
Enjoy!

 

[Forte]

What in the world?! Craaaaaaaaazy

 

[JeffDelucia]

Omg...

 

[Anthony]

WOAOOOHAOAHAHAOH?

ALEJANDRO JUST PUT MEXICO ON THE MAP.

 

[gpt_kibutz]

He has practiced for a long long time, but he hadn't been able to attend a competition Everybody was hoping for him to get the WR (hope Haiyan doesn't break it soon)

 

[Mitch15]

wow

 

[Sa967St]

O_O

 

[StachuK1992]

Dude.
Congrats. Like, wow.

 

[Anthony]

You know, I live so far south in Texas that I'm proud to call this place "North Mexico" for once.

Felicidades Hermano!

 

[qqwref]

What? Who? I'm amazed by his speed, but it's extra impressive since I hadn't heard of him before.

It looks like this would be the second NAR ever done in Mexico, after a lucky 2x2 single.

 

[mati rubik]

increible NAR, recuerdo cuando me dijo por msn que queria hacer el WR de 3x3 bld (hace varios meses ya), y hace cosa de una semana me dijo "el proximo fin de semana es el dia", sabia que podria hacer algo interesante, ojala en su proxima competencia logre hacer el WR que tanto quiere

 

[ardi4nto]

that's insane..
insane..

 

[ThatGuy]

Good job

 

[anders]

Great achievement! However, the rule

A6e) The competitor must not touch or move the puzzle until the judge has inspected the puzzle. Penalty: disqualification of the solve.

seems to be defunct.

 

[Anthony]

Actually, if you want to get that technical, Anders, you never actually saw him touch the puzzle.

Plus, in this case I really don't think there's any reason to penalize him, it's obviously solved properly.

However, I may just be too lenient.

 

[DavidWoner]

Great achievement! However, the rule

A6e) The competitor must not touch or move the puzzle until the judge has inspected the puzzle. Penalty: disqualification of the solve.

seems to be defunct.

This has been brought up in the past, and it has been made clear that the judge does not need to touch the puzzle to inspect it.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Actually, if you want to get that technical, Anders, you never actually saw him touch the puzzle.

Plus, in this case I really don't think there's any reason to penalize him, it's obviously solved properly.

However, I may just be too lenient.

The technical point that we can't judge here is "until the judge has inspected the puzzle". If the judge claims he inspected the puzzle before the competitor touched it, then the solve is perfectly valid. Nowhere is it required that the judge actually touch the puzzle to inspect it, so it's capable of being a purely visual thing (and therefore not able to be invalidated from video).

In other words, there's nothing about this video that would invalidate the solve. Only the judge can do that (by claiming that the competitor touched it before he inspected it). But this is good advice for competitors - don't ever touch the puzzle when you're done until you're sure the judge thinks it's a valid solve!!!

Congratulations - an amazing solve!

 

[qqwref]

Maybe I am too lenient too, but I would say that the judge has already inspected the puzzle enough to determine that if all the pieces are in the right place there is no misalignment penalty. When I am judging BLD solves I can generally tell if the puzzle is solved as soon as the timer is stopped if not before, so I would say there is no problem and the judge has already inspected the puzzle, even though they did not formally announce this.

I'd like the rules to be clarified a bit, though. I think it's natural for a BLD competitor to want to see if they solved the cube, so if we want to severely penalize a competitor for picking up the cube we should instruct judges to actively prevent competitors from doing this. If we don't want people to touch their cubes to check if they are solved, perhaps we should tell judges to pick the cube up as soon as it hits the table.

 

[dabmasta]

Don't call my name
Alejandro
I'm not your babe
I'm not your babe, Fernando

 

[anders]

I will not make any hypothesis to which extent the judge inspected the cube in this particular case. The point is rather that a top cuber should be aware of the fact that he is supposed not to touch the cube until he has an ok from the jugde. I agree that the rule needs some clarification. I know about at least one case where the cuber was awarded an DNF in exactly the same situation as here. On the other hand, I know many others where the solves have been accepted.