Park Ridge Open 2011

not a good day for me, but congrats to Dan on the NAR for 2x2 :D.
If I remember correctly, these were my PLLs for OH in all of the rounds
1st round: F U T G G (17.8 average)
2nd round: G T G G N(16.75 average)
3rd round: A E Y N V(17.24 average)

such bs

at least i got another sub10 average :D
 
ok... a very good comp for me :D

3x3: 10.07 avg in the first round, and 10.22 in the 2nd (12+, 9.3, 9.2 counting <_<)
4x4: 34 NAR single. Then a 38 with a edge that popped 10 ft away. Then junk after that :/
Multi: another 2/3 :/
Magic: 1.17 avg (last PB was exactly 3 years ago in May 08)

2x2: uh... ya. This was pretty much insane. Here's scrambles and reconstructions:

1. R F2 R F2 R U F2 U
2. R F U' F U' F2 R'
3. R2 F2 U' F R' U2 R2 F2 R'
4. R' U2 R U' R U' F2 U' F2
5. F R' U2 F' U R2 U2 R' F'

1. Obvious EG1 solution. Screwed up a little. (1.96)
2. Bad solve all around. (12.xx)
3. easy layer on white. 1 look solve. 2.13
4. white face EG1. easy case. 2.40
5. meh layer and lucky CLL: x U' B R2 U R2'. FRUR'U'F' U' 2.3x
 
I was showing off in the competition with my Lunhui by doing the MU H perm one handed using table abuse.
 
masterofthebass said:
ok... a very good comp for me :D


2x2: uh... ya. This was pretty much insane. Here's scrambles and reconstructions:

1. R F2 R F2 R U F2 U
2. R F U' F U' F2 R'
3. R2 F2 U' F R' U2 R2 F2 R'
4. R' U2 R U' R U' F2 U' F2
5. F R' U2 F' U R2 U2 R' F'

1. Obvious EG1 solution. Screwed up a little. (1.96)
2. Bad solve all around. (12.xx)
3. easy layer on white. 1 look solve. 2.13
4. white face EG1. easy case. 2.40
5. meh layer and lucky CLL: x U' B R2 U R2'. FRUR'U'F' U' 2.3x
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1. I would have done the same
2. Red side one look eg-2 (easy case for anti-cll)
3. Same
4. Same (good case)
5. I probably would have done yellow side (anti sune case with anti niklas one look)

I am quite frustrateddddddd. I am going to practice intensely. Nice job :)
 
Absolutely attrotious competition for me all around. Multi was the worst. Nothing was sticking and memo was going slow. Started review around 33 or something and ended up finishing review at like 53. When I originally memod I just put the cubes down without taking note of their particular order (such a nub mistake) and finding hte order was relaly hard. I must have screwed up hte order to begin with or something because there was hardly anything solved when I went over the time limit. Felt pretty terrible wasting peoples time like that. Pretty fail for my first multi.

Other fails
Not making 4x4 cutoff. Pop. Yay.
Few acceptable solves in 3x3 and then finishing average with crap. What's new.
OH, sub20 F2Ls finishing at like 32.
DNF magic average
3 DNFS BLD (all meh, 1:40, 1:50, and a 2:50 mega safety DNF)

DYKs tomorrow. Pretty depressed right now.

Edit-Oh, and also those multi scrambles were really hard. Several times my buffer was solved for something along with multiple cycles... I'd like to try and get them asap so I can check them against my memo and see why nothing was solved when I took off my blindfold. Must have been me putting the order wrong. Had to have been.....
 
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Sorry to hear it, Ryan. Don't let it get you down - we all have bad competitions sometimes. I remember for me Chattahoochee 2008 was pretty awful for BLD. Bad single for 3x3x3 BLD and DNFs for 4x4x4 and 5x5x5 BLD, after we drove 8 hours to get to the competition. I couldn't even do well at BLD that night after the competition was over - it was very frustrating! But my next tries in competition at big BLD after that all went great (and I did really well at Nationals), so maybe your next competition will be good. Perhaps you're just saving it up for Nationals.
 
For anyone who cares, I took a picture of Ryans face with my phone after taking off his blindfold. He had only got through like 4 or so cubes IIRC before he was stopped. There were around 20 people all looking at him when he finished
okmufp.jpg

I also failed in 4x4, first solve was weird, felt like I couldnt look ahead. Second solve had pop and DP and so it was like 1:20 so didn't get to finish an average.

BLD was weird for me, It took to find my mistakes, and that wasnt even a success. I was off by a U perm somehow..? I think I'm going to practice 3x3 now, I'm tired of only truly practicing 3x3 on the day of competitions
 
Mike Hughey said:
Sorry to hear it, Ryan. Don't let it get you down - we all have bad competitions sometimes. I remember for me Chattahoochee 2008 was pretty awful for BLD. Bad single for 3x3x3 BLD and DNFs for 4x4x4 and 5x5x5 BLD, after we drove 8 hours to get to the competition. I couldn't even do well at BLD that night after the competition was over - it was very frustrating! But my next tries in competition at big BLD after that all went great (and I did really well at Nationals), so maybe your next competition will be good. Perhaps you're just saving it up for Nationals.
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Hopefully I don't continue failing like this. If it happens again I'm definitely taking a break :P. Was actually thinking of taking a break from cubing until I heard arons first attempt in comp was 1/10 so that makes me feel slightly better. And knowing those scrambles were really bad makes me think that maybe next time I'll get somewhat easier.

Damn, after all that pestering of Andy I had to do to get a chance, and it ended like that.
 
masterofthebass said:
3. R2 F2 U' F R' U2 R2 F2 R'
3. easy layer on white. 1 look solve.
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Oh wow, I've somehow never thought to make a layer like that. So easy to 1-look.

-_-

Mike Hughey said:
Congratulations! But what happened to Ryan? I was thinking he might take my record today.
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Thanks a lot. I've only attempted 3 cubes 3 times in my life. Somehow all 3 were 3/3. I've never tried 2 cubes though.
 
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masterofthebass said:
ok... a very good comp for me :D

3x3: 10.07 avg in the first round, and 10.22 in the 2nd (12+, 9.3, 9.2 counting <_<)
4x4: 34 NAR single. Then a 38 with a edge that popped 10 ft away. Then junk after that :/
Multi: another 2/3 :/
Magic: 1.17 avg (last PB was exactly 3 years ago in May 08)

2x2: uh... ya. This was pretty much insane. Here's scrambles and reconstructions:

1. R F2 R F2 R U F2 U
2. R F U' F U' F2 R'
3. R2 F2 U' F R' U2 R2 F2 R'
4. R' U2 R U' R U' F2 U' F2
5. F R' U2 F' U R2 U2 R' F'

1. Obvious EG1 solution. Screwed up a little. (1.96)
2. Bad solve all around. (12.xx)
3. easy layer on white. 1 look solve. 2.13
4. white face EG1. easy case. 2.40
5. meh layer and lucky CLL: x U' B R2 U R2'. FRUR'U'F' U' 2.3x
Click to expand...


I guess I should have posted the solutions too:

1. y U' R' U R' U' R U' R' U' R2 (10 moves/1.96s = 5.1 tps)
2. z U' R U R F2 R2 then I messed up CLL
3. y x' R' U R2 U' x R U' R U' R' U R' F' R U2 (14 moves/2.13s = 6.57 tps)
4. z' x' R' U R' y U R U R' F' R U R' U' R U R' U' (16 moves/2.40s = 6.67 tps)
5. x U' B R2 U R2' F R U R' U' F' U' (12 moves/2.31s = 5.19 tps)
 
To the person who I let borrow my Z-Grip Zebra mechanical pencil with a red grip: Please let me know if you have it, and PM me so you can return it to me.
 
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