River Hill Spring 2011

[flee135]

Felix, what was our deal again? I said I would give you a mf8+Dayan 4x4 for what?
Oh, and do you think I can back out of MM and 5x5? My MM broke and I suck a 5x5.

Taiyan and FTO.

Yeah, I'll take you out of MM and 5x5. Thanks for letting me know in advance.

 

[RyanReese09]

Good luck everyone . Should be a fun competition.

 

[OMGitsSolved]

Just left my hotel. On my way to the high school. Anybody expect anything? I expect that Felix will get a sub 4.5 average. And Ryan R. will be getting a 15 second average. Good luck to everyone.

 

[EricReese]

Definately my favorite comp I have ever been to. Did decent in everything except 4x4 avg (lol)

Can we expect another? River Hill comp soon?

 

[RyanReese09]

What about me?

DYK

Mike uses Haiyan movement to remember CLL
Sniffing people
Kian was pro in finals


Also I think something needs to be mentioned, to everyone, don't just touch random cubes. I had several kids touch my cubes (along with several others at the table) and popping happened. Ask permission first, it's common courtesy.

 

[That70sShowDude]

Also I think something needs to be mentioned, to everyone, don't just touch random cubes. I had several kids touch my cubes (along with several others at the table) and popping happened. Ask permission first, it's common courtesy.

If you touch Phil Yu's cubes, prepare your anus.

 

[RyanReese09]

If you touch Phil Yu's cubes, prepare your anus.

I'm going to start taking up Phils way of handling crap like that .

 

[cuberkid10]

I'm going to start taking up Phils way of handling crap like that .

Pun intended?

 

[RyanReese09]

Pun intended?

Nope, just random typing lol.

 

[OMGitsSolved]

What about me?

DYK

Mike uses Haiyan movement to remember CLL
Sniffing people
Kian was pro in finals


Also I think something needs to be mentioned, to everyone, don't just touch random cubes. I had several kids touch my cubes (along with several others at the table) and popping happened. Ask permission first, it's common courtesy.

Definitely agreed. One more thing guys. Anyone else have a problem of random kids repeatedly asking you if you were speedsolving forums and what your username was? I swear I was asked that like 20 times. I answered most of the time by saying no or yes and before hey could ask what my username was I walked.

Guess none of my predictions came true.
And I failed in Pyraminx which just tore me down. I guess I'll keep practicing.
I did get a 1:04 minute 4x4 solve and a 13 second 3x3 solve.
It was also fun judging Eric in 3BLD and Kian was fun (more like funny) to judge in 2x2 (another puzzle I failed in lol) finals. And your not kidding about Phil. He came up to the scrambling table to tell us to only let someone "careful" scramble it.

This was an amazingly fun competition. I hear a River Hill Fall coming? But yet again the beginning was awkward because no one was talking to eachother. O and I met Evan Liu who is crazy fast at 4x4. Okay I'm done rambling.

 

[EricReese]

Yea sorry Nick, I memo'd edges and had 8 targets, but memo'd corners and only had 7, so I had to basically re memo edges, only to realize I had to add on the letter C at the end of my memo (basically just do an M2 at end of edges lolz) and I wasted like 3 minutes doing that. Then during execution I did the wrong alg, and failed undoing it, so it was a waste of time <_<

 

[OMGitsSolved]

Yea sorry Nick, I memo'd edges and had 8 targets, but memo'd corners and only had 7, so I had to basically re memo edges, only to realize I had to add on the letter C at the end of my memo (basically just do an M2 at end of edges lolz) and I wasted like 3 minutes doing that. Then during execution I did the wrong alg, and failed undoing it, so it was a waste of time <_<

I was mad that you stopped. Me and Ryan spent ten minutes watching you just for you to stop.

 

[Kian]

1st Kamaru-Deen Lawal 12.5ish
2nd Mike Kotch 13.03
3rd Me 13.26

 

[EricReese]

I was mad that you stopped. Me and Ryan spent ten minutes watching you just for you to stop.

I knew it was going to be DNF. no point continuing

 

[OMGitsSolved]

I knew it was going to be DNF. no point continuing

We knew that. We just wanted to see yo get a success.

 

[a small kitten]

And your not kidding about Phil. He came up to the scrambling table to tell us to only let someone "careful" scramble it.

I do that because my cubes are extremely loose. A lot of the time people don't take it seriously. They just dismiss the idea entirely and end up popping like crazy. I spend a lot of time modding and caring for my puzzles so I try my best to make sure nothing goes wrong when it's out of my sight and in some other person's hands. When I ask for careful scrambling I don't mean to offend anyone or suggest that any individual is careless.

If you touch Phil Yu's cubes, prepare your anus.

Is this good or bad?

 

[RyanReese09]

Is this good or bad?

Depends on how the person handles the cube .

 

[a small kitten]

Oh. Very true.

Anyway, I thought the competition was pretty well-run. Events were neatly organized and the lunch was very generous. The only thing I was slightly uncomfortable with was getting to the site. Luckily my father and I drove down to MD. Can't imagine getting there using public transportation.

 

[Tim Reynolds]

Results are posted. I thoroughly enjoyed this competition.

I am a complete failure at pyraminx. Somehow I got a 13.xx average in the finals, after an 8.xx in the first round. Bleh.

Why is the B cutoff for worlds in 4x4 a 1:05.00? This is too low. I may or may not be biased by my 1:05.01 average.

My third BLD attempt was a 2:01.xx. At the end I had (UB BR) (FR RD). I felt lazy so I did U' (z perm on left) (4 flip on left) U. But the Z perm I did was the RU z perm that usually starts and ends with U. I knew I was starting in the wrong position, so I didn't do the U at the beginning. But I only did a U at the end, instead of a U2...so the cube was off by U' L' U.

 

[dimwmuni]

Why is only the final for 2x2x2 posted and not the first round?