US Nationals and Open

[Swordsman Kirby]

Some results:

555:
1) Dan Cohen
2) Michael Gottlieb
3) Frank Morris

444:
1) Michael Gottlieb
2) Patrick Jameson
3) Dan Cohen

333:
1) Andrew Kang
2) Ravi Fernando
3) Jason Baum

Rowe Hessler had a 9.13 single, I think.

3x3x3 BLD:
1) Rowe Hessler
2) Chris Hardwick
3) Tyson Mao

Ryan Patricio won OH. Timothy Sun won 2x2x2.

there are some problems with these:
3x3 BLD: lucas garron was second, and chris and tyson were third and fourth.

4x4: dan dzoan was 3rd, dan cohen was 8th

the rest are right. i just didnt want people reading these and getting the wrong information. anyway, all of the official results are already posted anyway.

You have to remember these are US Top 3s. Speaking of top 3, for 2x2x2, all three used SS (if we count Lucas as top 3).

 

[Rama]

Wew, nice results you guys, congratulations to all of you.

Aha, watching the results closer I see that mr. Verdes competed.

 

[jazzthief81]

I'm making a playlist of the 3x3x3 finals:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=535839E95E1AED3C

At the moment I've got the first 15 solves. Hopefully I will have some time later today to upload the remaining solves.

 

[masterofthebass]

Wew, nice results you guys, congratulations to all of you.

Aha, watching the results closer I see that mr. Verdes competed.

Mr Verdes competed as the 100th competitor. Tyson made a mistake and didn't realize that a qualifying round counts. We needed 100 ppl in order to get the 3 full rounds.

 

[jazzthief81]

And here's Rowe's 9.13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUwNKx3I76I

 

[cubekid57]

Awesome competition. I am glad andrew won. I did horrible in the oh event, but everything else went smooth for me. I wish I could have stayed for the second day. I got to test out the v7 and v6 cubes. I thought they were pretty cool.

 

[Hadley4000]

Yeah, I put Rowe's solve up last night. Along with Dan's WR, Rowe's 1:04bld and Mike's 15/15

http://youtube.com/user/HadleyDGRC

 

[Tim Reynolds]

I am so glad I didn't go there..xD
anyway, now I am interested to whom got mugged.
It couldn't have been Bob, or else he would threaten to kill them xDDD

Funny you should say that. It was Bob.

He was in the bathroom and the guy stuck what turned out to be an iPod into his back and said "Give me all your money or I'll shoot you". In the end nothing happened (I don't believe he gave any money), but it was very disturbing to hear.

Besides the sketchiness of the area the venue was in and the things related to that, it went pretty well. I missed the podium for pyraminx by .01 =( but oh well, I didn't do well in that. Let's not talk about my blindfold results though =D

I was the lego building champion =D I think I beat jason in that by 3 seconds, for building a helicopter out of a lego set. That was fun =D

 

[Jack]

I think I actually came third for 4x4, with a 1:03 average, but somehow my 58.94 was entered as a 1:14.16 dropping my average 5 seconds. I've emailed Tyson about it. I was kind of disappointed that only Americans got trophys, because I was looking forward to being first at fewest moves. Now I am actually the only Canadian with an NAR (tied with Tim) because of Rowe's single and Dan's megaminx solves.

 

[Lotsofsloths]

I am so glad I didn't go there..xD
anyway, now I am interested to whom got mugged.
It couldn't have been Bob, or else he would threaten to kill them xDDD

Funny you should say that. It was Bob.

He was in the bathroom and the guy stuck what turned out to be an iPod into his back and said "Give me all your money or I'll shoot you". In the end nothing happened (I don't believe he gave any money), but it was very disturbing to hear.

That's...funny that I should say it was Bob, yet horrible for me to hear that.
Well next time they know they should host it in a better venue...like Williamsburg xDD

 

[fanwuq]

Bob got mugged!? That sucks. Funny that I'm surprised someone dare to mess with Bob. He's like 2nd to Frank Morris. If Frank was getting mugged. All he needs to do is to pop and once the piece hits the guy, he's dead.

 

[Hadley4000]

I was the lego building champion =D I think I beat jason in that by 3 seconds,

And beat Sam by 3 days

 

[Dene]

And here's Rowe's 9.13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUwNKx3I76I

It looks like he got the 6 move T OLL into a PLL skip with no AUF. Kind of easy, but still insanely fast!

 

[alexc]

Wow, that comp was AWESOME!!!! I got a 15.33 3x3 average in the second round. 13/14 multi bld. 8:19 4x4 bld. DNF 5x5 bld. DNF all of the 3x3 blds, but one of them was a 54.71! 1:14 4x4 average. Huge explosion sort of POP on 5th solve of the 1st 5x5 round and I think I lost some pieces. (Now, I can get a V cube 5!) Don't want to talk about 2x2. In OH, I think I get a sub 30 average.

Anyway, it was cool meeting people like Andrew Kang, Mike Hughey, Chris Hardwick, Arnaud, Stefan, and many others.

 

[MistArts]

I am so glad I didn't go there..xD
anyway, now I am interested to whom got mugged.
It couldn't have been Bob, or else he would threaten to kill them xDDD

Funny you should say that. It was Bob.

He was in the bathroom and the guy stuck what turned out to be an iPod into his back and said "Give me all your money or I'll shoot you". In the end nothing happened (I don't believe he gave any money), but it was very disturbing to hear.

That's...funny that I should say it was Bob, yet horrible for me to hear that.
Well next time they know they should host it in a better venue...like Williamsburg xDD

Why? So you can mug Bob?

 

[cuBerBruce]

I've uploaded my video of Rowe Hessler's 9.13 solve to Rapidshare.com. The file is MPEG-2 format and about 5.6MB in size. The link is:

http://rapidshare.com/files/131477042/USNatls08_RoweH_333_9_13.mpg.html

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

And here's Rowe's 9.13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUwNKx3I76I

It looks like he got the 6 move T OLL into a PLL skip with no AUF. Kind of easy, but still insanely fast!

r U r' R U R' U' r U' r', actually.

 

[Lofty]

Yay, great competition and great fun!
I got to meet a lot of your guys which was awesome, witnessed a couple or WR's and NAR's (Congrats to Mike on his multiBLD!) and brought my OH ranking up a bit
One of my times was inputted wrong as well although mine doesnt affect my ranking at all as Ryan and I were the only ones sub-25 in the finals. My result should be around 22.5 or so so not faster than Ryan but still much better than the 24 it looks like I got now...
I'm quite happy with my 16.90 solve getting Lucky is not a crime! I dont remember all the details of it except it ended with a J perm and I think OLL skip though Jason says I did an OLL... I really don't remember as I was very very nervous, I probably just did one of the tricks I know for edge control to force an OLL skip. But it was very good to meet Ryan! He was very very nice and we got to do loads of OH racing and solves together.
Edit: oh yea, I was also very happy with how I did at speedsovle. I didn't expect to even qualify but I ended up making it and getting past the first round with a 15.9x average fast than i have ever had at home.

 

[Dene]

And here's Rowe's 9.13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUwNKx3I76I

It looks like he got the 6 move T OLL into a PLL skip with no AUF. Kind of easy, but still insanely fast!

r U r' R U R' U' r U' r', actually.

Ah, that explains why the algorithm looked funny. (You have to admit though, the pattern from that view is very similar)

 

[philkt731]

Yeah definitely an awesome competition. I hope they decide to do another US Open next year.

I had very mixed results. I was very happy with my 5x5 times, 1:44 single and 1:53 average (17th and 15th in the world). My 4x4 results were okay, could've been faster but all my solves in the finals had O parity. I learned magic the day before I competed and I had never touched a clock before I competed in it, so that was fun. I was also really happy with my 1:31 blind, my best ever even at home.

My OH times were forgetable. Also my 3x3 times were not up to par, although I am happy about etting to the finals and getting 9th. I am very disappointed in the 2x2 results. I would've won with a 4.00 average but I +2ed the first solve and that pushed my avg up to 4.57 and to third place (2nd in US) and costing me a full set of VCubes as well as national champion. Both Tim and Lucas had a +2, but it was on their fastest solve, not affecting their average. Why did that have to happen to me?