Cornell Spring Competition Results

[ExoCorsair]

What I can remember; I may have missed some.

NaRs:
2x2x2 average - Erik Johnson (4.31)
2x2x2 single - Rowe Hessler (2.90)
Fewest Moves - Tim Reynolds (31)
5x5x5 single - Dan Cohen (1:27.02)

Winners:
3x3x3 - Rowe Hessler
3x3x3 OH - Dan Cohen
3x3x3 BLD - Rowe Hessler
4x4x4 - Dan Cohen
5x5x5 - Dan Cohen
Fewest Moves - Tim Reynolds
4x4x4 BLD - Daniel Beyer
5x5x5 BLD - Daniel Beyer

Edit: Mystery event (solve cube without turning it) - Daniel Beyer

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

Time to practice 2x2...

 

[pcharles93]

Wow, 4 people won all of the competition.

 

[ExoCorsair]

Time to practice 2x2...

Like it's time for me to practice 5x5x5?

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

Wow, 4 people won all of the competition.

At Beijing Open, four people also won all the competition... would've been three if I decided to compete in Sq-1.

 

[Karthik]

Wow, 4 people won all of the competition.

At Indian Open, two people won all the competitions.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Wow - Dan on the 5x5x5! Amazing!

And wow Daniel on the big cubes BLD - got them both!

 

[ExoCorsair]

And wow Daniel on the big cubes BLD - got them both!

Because Bob wasn't there...

 

[Mike Hughey]

And wow Daniel on the big cubes BLD - got them both!

Because Bob wasn't there...

Apparently this is an inside joke I don't understand - care to explain?

 

[ExoCorsair]

Dan mentioned this the night before the VA Open... Looking back at the WC2007 and Rutgers Spring 2007, which were two competitions that both he and Bob were at, Dan DNF'd all BLD solves (including those in his multi-blind attempt).

 

[tim]

Great work, Daniel! It's really hard to get a successful 5x5 bld at a competition...

 

[pjk]

Cornell Spring competition 2008 Results

From http://www.speedcubing.com :
Rowe Hessler won the Cornell Spring 2008 with an average of 14.88 seconds. Jim Mertens finished second (15.42) and Erik Johnson finished third (15.58).
North American records: Dan Cohen 5x5 1:27.02 (single), Erik Johnson 2x2 4.32 (average), Tim Reynolds Rubik's Cube Fewest Moves 31 (single).

Full results here.

 

[philkt731]

Gah if only there had been a competition anywhere remotely near me anytime between January and April, that 2x2 avg NAR could've been mine pretty easily, now I'll have to work a lot harder, but nice Job with the 4.32 Erik

 

[pjk]

Dan, where did that 1:02 4x4 avg come from? You got insanely quick very fast.

 

[sam]

Rowe got PWND in bld XD.

 

[Tim Reynolds]

He had a sub-1 DNF...it was a really easy solve, edges were a 9-cycle plus some orientation and corners were a 3-cycle and a 5-cycle. He dropped the cube I think, he finished rotated wrong.

 

[cuBerBruce]

I think the time for my first solve on 5x5x5 is in error. I don't think I've ever gotten a time that fast, even when just practicing. I'm wondering if it was 8:03.75 instead of 5:03.75. It doesn't look to me that this would have changed my advancing to the combined final (for the first time I advanced in an event!) , or ranking in the final result. (Also, I got my first 5x5x5 average!) But I think the scorecard should be double-checked, because I think this is probably a 3-minute error on that one solve.

EDIT: OK, I see it's been corrected now in the speedcubing.com database. (So with the correction, my one average in 5x5x5 isn't better than Macky's.)

 

[masterofthebass]

Pat, about a month ago, my times dropped down to like a 1:05 average. I got a 1:03 avg12, and now anything above 1:10 is like a horrible time. I think it was the fact that I switched back to an old rubik's. If you didn't know, both the 1:04 and 1:05 were +2s... so if one of them didn't have the penalty, I would've had the NaR.

 

[Rama]

Great results and I like the 5x5x5 NAR single time.

 

[masterofthebass]

Thanks Rama... It was my second sub-1:30 ever. I had the first 10 minutes before that one.