World Championships 2013 - Las Vegas

[David Zemdegs]

Yes it was really me in the chat. How could I not be glued to the screen?

 

[amostay2004]

Particularly loved how Faz, Mats and Sebastian dominated the podium for 4x4 in all rounds. They're clearly a class above everyone else!

Also sad that BLD podium seems worse than in 2011

 

[Username]

Particularly loved how Faz, Mats and Sebastian dominated the podium for 4x4 in all rounds. They're clearly a class above everyone else!

Also sad that BLD podium seems worse than in 2011

They also took 3x3 podium

 

[KarlCubing]

fazdad or feliks himself, what cube did feliks use!?

 

[Username]

fazdad or feliks himself, what cube did feliks use!?

Probably a Zhanchi, but why does it matter?

 

[KarlCubing]

Probably a Zhanchi, but why does it matter?

I just wanted to know because I might get a new cube and I want to know what he used because I heard they are both really good and since I cant decide, I want to choose the one feliks used to win the world championship

 

[Username]

I just wanted to know because I might get a new cube and I want to know what he used because I heard they are both really good and since I cant decide, I want to choose the one feliks used to win the world championship

Why? All cubes don't suit all styles...

 

[KarlCubing]

Why? All cubes don't suit all styles...

Well, wont know till we try...

 

[amostay2004]

They also took 3x3 podium

Well yea but not all rounds

 

[PeelingStickers]

Damn I thought Mats won OH, looks like he screwed up his earlier solves. Bit harsh that he didn't win anything, especially 3x3 where he practically lost by a millimetre :/

 

[Ton]

Massive thanks to Chris and Austin for running the live stream all weekend, I know we in the chat probably ruined the experience for you but it was excellent to watch and talk to other cubers, albeit about BS half the time. You did a great job in the finals especially considering that we could see each solve with poor quality cameras.

Congratulations to all that won. Kevin Hays was a beast at big cubes, I felt a bit sorry for faz when he lost 5x5 finals despite winning the three rounds before it. 3x3 finals was too epic, not one sub 7 yet it was probably the most intense cubing I've seen, all the finalists did fantastic under pressure.

@fazdad: was that really you in the chat?

Yes thanks guys, must have been a lot of stress, the final we could follow and for sure live camera is a great addition to major events, we should invest and create a camera tooling package so we could reuse in more events
Can you share what is need, so we all may think on how to improve live coverage

btw I love the chat with the google doc with the results, thanks for the one who shared it with us

 

[Noahaha]

3 in the morning... I don't feel like sleeping.

I want to thank all of the organizers and staff for making worlds a very smooth competition. I was able to meet and hang out with an incredibly wide variety of cubers, and that in itself made it worth it to be here.

Having two podiums and two national champion titles is pretty cool, but is only the icing on the very delicious cake that was the worlds experience.

I'm going to miss it...

 

[AvGalen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY1TdB-tG2c&feature=youtu.be

Does anyone have a better video? This one really doesn't do a final like this justice

 

[Noahaha]

Does anyone have a better video? This one really doesn't do a final like this justice

There were literally 100 people with cameras/phones including some very professional-looking equipment, and two cameras on the stage itself. I'm sure there will be many high-quality videos from many angles.

 

[David Zemdegs]

Felik's mum videod the whole thing. They are back in Australia Wednesday morning. Give it till next weekend and Im sure Feliks will post something on his youtube channel.

 

[KarlCubing]

here is a good one I found

 

[Vincents]

It's 3:50 AM here at the Riviera. I'm really really tired - running on ~9 hours of sleep over the last 4 nights.

Tyson *was* passed out on my couch, but just left. The entire staff team is basically dead/DGAF because everything is done.

I believe we just showed the world what an awesome staff is capable of doing - 5000? scorecards (I got through 3,4,5,2 and lost count at 2500), literally tens of thousands of solves, only a minor hiccup here and there, on 24 main timers + sparsely used 8 side-stage timers.

Every single member of the staff team deserves major props. I've taken the liberty of publishing the entire staff list here. You'll probably see many of these people at your local competitions. At the very least, give them a shout out and a pat on the back if you do.

They deserve it.

Organizers
Tyson Mao
Tim Reynolds
Jim Mertens
Bob Burton
Kian Barry
Felix Lee
Ilkyoo Choi
Vincent Sheu
Shelley Chang

Staff
Jim's Team
Aaron Abramowitz
Ashley Couch
Chester Lian
Evan Liu
James LaChance
Kit Clement
Natan Riggenbach
Shaden Smith
Sarah Strong

Bob's Team
Anthony Hsu
Chris Hardwick
Daniel Lo
Dene Beardsley
Jennifer Tang
Kevin Zhou
Zheng Li

Kian's Team
Tim Sun
Jasmine Lee
Peter Still
Nathan Kearney
Dave Campbell
Ian Winokur

Felix's Team
Jonathan Cookmeyer
Corey Sakowski
Nick Rech
Arthur Adams
Harris Karsch
Ajay Mysore
Richard Meyer

Ilkyoo's Team
Jeong Jong-Ho
Jun Doo-Young
Kim Jae-Min
Mike Hughey
Marie Hughey
Rebecca Hughey
John Brechon
Sébastien Auroux
Oscar Alberto Ceballos Contreras
Radu Făciu
Jean-Louis Mathieu
Sylviane Mathieu

Vincent's Team
Jeremy Fleischman
Steven Xu
Ryan Lim
Chia-Wei Lu
Nick Young
Patricia Li
Amy Tai
David Gomes
Michael Young
Alex Ho
Everest Shi
James Hamory
Courtney Louie
Richard Jay S. Apagar

Shelley's Team
Ambie Valdés
Casey Pernsteiner
Chris Krueger
Chris Dzoan
Dan Dzoan
John George
Lucas Garron
Patrick Kelly
Shonathon Collins
Shotaro Makisumi
Toby Mao
Fangyuan Chang

Goodnight, all.

 

[AvGalen]

Thanks for that video. It gave me a nice lunchtime

Mats 1st PLL was slow (2 seconds) and had a lock. Same for Feliks last one.
I need a slomo of that +2 because when I stopped the timer the video the first time it looked like Mats finger was perfectly where it should be for the last U-move and the drop actually caused the +2

So close between these 2 dominators of modern day cubing

 

[KarlCubing]

Thanks for that video. It gave me a nice lunchtime

Mats 1st PLL was slow (2 seconds) and had a lock. Same for Feliks last one.
I need a slomo of that +2 because when I stopped the timer the video the first time it looked like Mats finger was perfectly where it should be for the last U-move and the drop actually caused the +2

So close between these 2 dominators of modern day cubing

Hahaha no problem. Yea hopefully someone makes a slow-mo of the solves

 

[Ninja Storm]

Thanks to everyone who worked on that stream! You guys did a great job(although stream 2 going off seconds before the finals gave me a heart attack).
Thanks to all the people who organized the event, including those I'm good friends with
Also, big shoutout to Ishmam for popping his 7x7 on stream with my entire house of "friends who couldn't go to Worlds" watching ;D