US Nationals and Open

I'll be there. I'm looking forward to meeting everyone, American, Canadian, European, or anything else, it'll just be fun to see everyone.

I'm doing 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, 5x5, OH, BLD, MultiBLD, FMC, and Mega

I quailified for everything but 5x5, but I avg 45 seconds under the qualifying time :)
 
philkt731 said:
I'll be there. I'm looking forward to meeting everyone, American, Canadian, European, or anything else, it'll just be fun to see everyone.

I'm doing 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, 5x5, OH, BLD, MultiBLD, FMC, and Mega

I quailified for everything but 5x5, but I avg 45 seconds under the qualifying time :)
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Yeah, it's totally unfair. It's like there are really only 4 slots from the qualifying round, since Phil is guaranteed of getting the first one. :)

I'm hoping I can make it out of qualifiers for 5x5x5, but I certainly won't have as easy a time of doing it as Phil.
 
Mike, a couple of things. It's explained that there are at least 5 people moving on from the qualification round, regardless of pre-qualified people. Also, I'm not sure where you are getting your quotas of people allowed in the first round.
 
I'll be there. I'm signed up for 2x2x2, 3x3x3, 4x4x4, the Magics, Square-1, Pyraminx, and Megaminx. I could have done OH and 5x5x5, but I didn't want to waste the organizer's time. I don't think I'll make it to the second round in anything, but I'll have fun anyway.

You can probably find me helping out Bob at the side events.
 
masterofthebass said:
Mike, a couple of things. It's explained that there are at least 5 people moving on from the qualification round, regardless of pre-qualified people. Also, I'm not sure where you are getting your quotas of people allowed in the first round.
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That's what I'm saying. One of the at least 5 people moving on from the qualification round will be Phil, because he's not pre-qualified. If he had pre-qualified, he wouldn't be in the qualification round, and there would be another slot. It's like there are just 4 people moving on from the qualification round, since Phil is as good as in - if he has 2 TERRIBLE solves, he'll probably still be in first place. And the "at least" part is what leads to the "people allowed in the first round". From the events page: "Additional competitors may advance as well depending on availability." (In case it's leading to confusion, note that the "first round" is the round after the qualification round. There's no quota on the qualification round.)

Anyway, I hope no one thinks I'm actually upset at Phil (or at the US Open people). I put the :) there because I was just joking. Phil totally deserves the spot he'll get; he's had the bad fortune of not being able to compete in a 5x5x5 event anywhere since he's gotten good, so he should be allowed to qualify easily. It's really totally fair; I was just joking because with Phil it's basically a foregone conclusion that he's in.

Sorry if I confused or upset anybody; I meant it as an entirely positive comment towards how good Phil is.
 
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Mike Hughey said:
Anyway, I hope no one thinks I'm actually upset at Phil (or at the US Open people).
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Not Phil, not the US Open people, so you must be mad with me, since I couldn't give Phil the opportunity to pre-qualify for 5x5x5. I was able to get him out of 4x4x4, OH, and BLD qualification rounds though....
 
Bryan said:
Mike Hughey said:
Anyway, I hope no one thinks I'm actually upset at Phil (or at the US Open people).
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Not Phil, not the US Open people, so you must be mad with me, since I couldn't give Phil the opportunity to pre-qualify for 5x5x5. I was able to get him out of 4x4x4, OH, and BLD qualification rounds though....
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:) I think you did great getting the events done that you did there. Sorry I couldn't come to Minnesota, but it's a bit of a trip there, and I had the Cincinnati Open just a short while ago that I was able to go to.

But actually, I have no chance of qualifying for 4x4x4 and OH (I stink at both), and the one event I managed to prequalify for was BLD, so I would have preferred that you skipped the 4x4x4, OH, and BLD events, and just run 5x5x5 instead (since it's the only one I have a chance of getting through the qualification round in). :) Oh, well.
 
Hey, is Charles the European/American equivalent of Carlos?:p

I probably won't be able to go to Atlanta. If I do go, I'll have to stay for about a week since it's my hometown. If I can't go, I wish the best of luck to everyone. If I do go, you're all going down.:p
 
Where did people get the idea that it will be outdoors? We went to Worlds '05. We know better than to inflict that on you.
 
Hey, I'm booking my hotel (The Hampton Inn and Suites Atlanta Downtown. The one on the US Nationals website.) on Expedia and it says the address of the one I booked is 161 Spring St. SW. But on the Nationals website it says 161 Spring ST. NW. Typo? Or are there really two hotels with the same name on the same street?
 
alexc said:
Hey, I'm booking my hotel (The Hampton Inn and Suites Atlanta Downtown. The one on the US Nationals website.) on Expedia and it says the address of the one I booked is 161 Spring St. SW. But on the Nationals website it says 161 Spring ST. NW. Typo? Or are there really two hotels with the same name on the same street?
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The Hampton Inn web site gives the NW address, not the SW address. Google Maps Street View confirms there is Hampton Inn at the NW address. So I think Expedia must have the address wrong. I noticed Hotels.com also gives the SW address.
 
StefanPochmann said:
AvGalen said:
Hadley4000 said:
Very cool, Araund! I look forward to meeting you.
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Nice typo. I guess Arnaud will be around ;)
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Hey, is Arnaud the Dutch/French equivalent of Erno?

And I'll come, too.
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Arnaud might just be the Dutch equivalent of Erno. We should ask someone from Hungary.

So from now on, you can choose between calling me Mr. Angel and Mr Rubik at formal occasions ;)

I will be planning my trip next weekend (as will Lars). We are both thinking about flying on wednesday and staying for about a week, but I might even stay untill saturday or sunday and do a little USA-touring like last year.
 
I have decided that I will make the US Open a mini-vacation like I did last year.

I am planning on flying to and from somewhere "near" Atlanta like Orlando. That way I can:
* Arrive on wednesday "near" Atlanta,
* Do some travelling+sightseeing on thursday+friday,
* Make sure I arrive in Atlanta friday-evening,
* Enjoy the competition saturday-sunday,
* Some more sightseeing in Atlanta on monday+tuesday,
* More travelling+sightseeing wednesday-saturday while moving in the general direction of the "near Atlanta airport again",
* Flying back to The Netherlands on saturday/sunday

For now I am thinking about Orlando as the "near Atlanta" airport (mostly because of Disney World). But Washington or New Orleans seem doable too

If anyone has some ideas for spending 10 days around the Atlanta area, please let me know. I really enjoy travelling, so don't think that "near Atlanta" should mean 50 miles. Last year I did Chicago->New York->Niagara Falls->Chicago in about a week (including the competition)
 
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