Australian Nationals 2012

[andojay]

DYK
I need to learn square-1 parity
Brock Hamman did freaking amazing!!
Dene Breadsly
This is my first DYK

Tell me about it (in regards to learning sq-1)
Brock is awesome! I enjoyed writing his name on the certificates (maybe it has "ham" in it ?_?")
I was hoping no one noticed about Dene's Certificate... I might have been hungry when i wrote it =/
Good work on your first DYK

It's right:

aa0bbbbcc

aa = 99-points
0 = 0
bbbb = time in seconds
cc = cubes wrong

so for 3/5 in 25:04 is 980150402

OMG Thank you for explaining that!
I've always wondered what it all meant!


I'll quickly say:

• Thanks for everyone for coming to the competition
• Thanks to the competitors and other volunteers - You guys are the reason why I enjoy organising these competitions
• Congratulations to Jack O'Mahony for Most Improved with 36% since last year's best average
• Massive Thank you to Isabella, You helped greatly with Judging and running. I hope you enjoy your book and maybe pick up a 3x3 at the next competition?
• I Forgot to mention Brendan for scrambling, I ran out of volunteer certificates when I got up to your name Sorry
• @Jono and Sarah (his wife) Thank you so much for helping! especially Sarah for keeping calm and less stress
• OMG almost forgot to mention Feliks WR, Congratulations!
• @Brock Great on solve on your 4x4 blindfold!
• Good work on the guys who did FMC. It was interesting to see how many moves in your solve takes for the same scramble
• I could go on and on... but one more: I got a nice 30.55 on 3x3 by taking it slow since i haven't actually practiced since I've been sick and busy ... enough! so I'll leave it there

Overall, It was a fun and successful competition
I'd just like to remind everyone that competitions are about beating yourself AND having a go but don't forget to have fun along the way!

Hope to see you all next time!

Andrea

 

[Ollie]

I want to see Zane & Feliks' 3BLD solves in the final!

 

[Dene]

I know it's hard to mention everyone who helped a lot, and I think it was great to see some people recognised, although I'd also like to put in a special mention for Christian, Ciaran and Alistair (I don't think any of them got certificates?). These three stood out for me personally as helping out heaps throughout the days.

 

[Mikel]

CAMERON, WHEN WILL YOU STOP FAILING AND START BEATING 2x2 AVG WR?

Maybe he'll wait until Chris Olson beats it. Then he will take it away the week after.

 

[god of rubic 2]

I think we should also thanks, Tim, Dene, Andrea, David and all the others who organised this competition.

Not only it was very fun, it was very successful and right on schedule.

 

[Rubiks560]

Maybe he'll wait until Chris Olson beats it. Then he will take it away the week after.

I don't think that's what he's trying to do. I KNOW that's what he's trying to do.

 

[drewsopchak]

Why didn't Zane do Mutli? Too bad he DNFed 4 and 5bld.

 

[Crazycubemom]

Congrats to all the winners ( takes it all) and The Organizer

Big Kiss to Alexandra Daryl Ariawan, you are hot babe AWESOME! you've beaten all the guy's @ Megaminx, Sq-1 and Magic hahahahahahahahahahaha. I'm so proud on you!

 

[Robert-Y]

Congrats to Kirt for beating Faz on 2 333 solves (Assuming they were the same scramble)

 

[DennisStrehlau]

How many cubes did Zane try in MULTI BLD?
And how many did he exactly get right?
Thanks!

Dennis

 

[Goosly]

How many cubes did Zane try in MULTI BLD?
And how many did he exactly get right?

I remember reading 0/25 because of picking up a wrong cube

 

[uberCuber]

Why didn't Zane do Mutli?

He did. He just didn't solve any cubes.


According to live.cubing.net, he got 0/25 first attempt and 0/2 second.

 

[DennisStrehlau]

I remember reading 0/25 because of picking up a wrong cube

WHAAAAT?!
I cant believe that!
Dennis

 

[Noahaha]

Am I missing something, or is there supposed to be a video of the 3x3 average WR?

 

[David Zemdegs]

There is a video. Its just not been uploaded yet..should be there today sometime.

 

[Tim Major]

Good competition everyone, though I'm pretty damn terrible now due to no practice.

Thanks to all volunteers, the competition ran very smoothly.

My only complaint is the judging in the 2x2 finals, where a 2x2 at about 50 degrees was just flicked to solved and ignored, which ended up costing me top 3. However, this didn't contribute to their best competition average so it won't affect standings, just prizes.

Nonetheless, good comp everyone.

 

[TimMc]

2x2

My only complaint is the judging in the 2x2 finals, where a 2x2 at about 50 degrees was just flicked to solved and ignored, which ended up costing me top 3.

I was called across by the judge to give my opinion and inspected it from four different angles:

• birds eye view overhead
• front-on with the D layer lined up straight
• slightly to the left while front-on
• slightly to the right while front-on

It looked like it was on 45 degrees, not 50 degrees:


*yellow is 45
*red is 50

I decided not apply a +2 penalty because:

• It looked like it was on 45 degrees;
• The stickers were large and the narrow black lines lined up;
• The stickers didn't overlap.

Tim.

 

[Ickenicke]

There is a video. Its just not been uploaded yet..should be there today sometime.

0.88 2x2 solve?

 

[ottozing]

this didn't contribute to their best competition average so it won't affect standings, just prizes.

We didn't even get prizes for 2x2 (Unless you consider a certificate with your name on it a prize)

 

[JHB]

My only complaint is the judging in the 2x2 finals, where a 2x2 at about 50 degrees was just flicked to solved and ignored.......

Respecfully; that's a pretty disappointing comment. I am the judge in question. I called over the first WCA delegate I saw. After the verdict was reached I apologised profusely to both Jayden and Tim Mc because I thought I had wasted their time in calling Tim over to deliberate. I felt silly doing so, but I wanted to be sure. It was nice that Jayden said, "That's okay. You were only doing your job." I don't judge too many 2.63 second solves and hadn't judged in a final before. This makes me not want to do so again. Anyway, well done to both Jayden and Tim Major- hopefully one day I will be as good at cubing as you two.