Northern Irish Open 2013

[CubeRoots]

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo my single pb

 

[kinch2002]

DYK...
- Nevins is a good person
- Laurence is a forgetful person
- Billy is the same great person
- The Titanic sunk
- Laurence forgot where his keys were
- A sink full of ice is good improvisation for beer cooling
- Laurence + Billy + Nevins < Rob Yau
- Laurence forgot where his cubes were
- All Irish cubers have terrible cubes
- A Panshi is a big improvement for them
- Laurence uses half a bottle of maru in each cube once per day
- His cubes are fast. 10 times too fast
- Laurence forgot where his keys were again
- Subway is not open at dinner time
- Nevins got a lot of Subway loyalty points at lunchtime
- Pizza Piccolo's waitress
- Nevins was not showering with the bathroom door open and all his clothes on
- Elaine (owner of the B&B) was quite talkative but also lovely
- In Northern Ireland, when a shop/pub has black blinds over the windows and door, that means it's open
- Laurence forgot where his cubes were again
- Bus stops do not exist in Northern Ireland
- I won a leg of darts against Billy. Greatest (darts-related) moment of my life, and probably the worst of his life.
- Joey's bar
- We invented Ballymoney pool (a game for 3 players)
- Billy can F2L better now
- The security guard looked away just as my bag went past the scanner at the airport. Phew.

 

[kinch2002]

Yay for Billy http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/10350315.Video__Rubik_s_cube_genius_wins_silver_in_contest/
Some inaccuracies as usual

 

[ben1996123]

Yay for Billy http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/10350315.Video__Rubik_s_cube_genius_wins_silver_in_contest/
Some inaccuracies as usual

"There are 19 official competition events in the world of Cubik’s Cube solving including one handed and fewest moves."

what

 

[NevinsCPH]

- Nevins got a lot of Subway loyalty points and straws at lunchtime

DYK
-Ballymoney is a really small town
-Nothing except bars or pubs or tesco and chinese takeaway open after 7pm.
-fall asleep during the roadtrip to the B&B
-the room is awesome
-I could use more english breakfast
-this place constantly remind me of resident evil or similar movie of the same genre, the 'town' is too quiet.
-awesome accent
-so tired....and had beer
-wake someone up from next door
-laurence doesn't really need the room he booked
-cantonese pizza
-waitress
-fail multi and almost all the bld in the first day due to less than 10hours of sleep in past 60hours and cubing.
-got a ride on sunday morning to the venue
-Billy hates chinese.
-epic fail at attempting to surpass Mr. Yau teaming up with Laurence and Billy
-All nr broken are Ireland's, I think.
-Things are expensive in here
-Sunday, took train, taxi, a flight back to Manchester, and finally, bus and walk home. First time ever taking so many different transport in same day for me.
-All tired and beat up
-6x6 fail could make me cry.
-flight got delay
-no McDonald.
-Massive subway with ice-cream bar.
-Mega team bld is killing me.
-start my final 4bld attempt right after my last 5bld attempt to push myself.

 

[kelseymckenna]

Head to Head Videos

Part One
Part Two

 

[Tao Yu]

DYK
-I can never remember to sign my scorecard and always have to be called back
-One move cross on a 9.05 lol
-Ciaran has gotten really fast
-I don't know how to pyraminx..
-F R U' R' U' R U R' F' R U R' U' R' F R Fw' (Cause of final DNF)
-James Hamm DNF'd in the second round for the same reason
-I was kinda glad I didn't get into the pyra final because it meant I didn't have to find anyone to borrow it from...
-Laurence consistently fails to make it into finals by one place...
-Spent last few minutes of FMC replacing a J perm with a different one to make the solution one move shorter...
-Spent way too long trying to mirror a different J perm.
-Not all stones in the Giant Causeway are hexagonal
-Thought subway was abandoned because I saw it during the evening.
-Ate small sandwich from costcutter the following day
-Must remember to get footlong subway in future
-I hate James' 5x5
-Got the weirdest lockup on it
-Used my Zhanchi in the head to head because I didn't trust my Panshi
-I'm still not sure I trust my Panshi

 

[kelseymckenna]

Newspaper Article

Here is a short article about the competition.

There are the usual spelling mistakes, absence of apostrophes, and inaccuracies, but who cares! (I do)

 

[ben1996123]

Here is a short article about the competition.

There are the usual spelling mistakes, absence of apostrophes, and inaccuracies, but who cares! (I do)

they even spelt "the" incorrectly lol