Dutch Open 2008

Hey, what happened to the 6,7 Cubes. I remember seeing them on the registration list.
 
i am back in hannover finally!
i had an awesome time as always :) thank you to trontrontrontrontrontron for organising everything. also to arnaud and joel for being taxis all weekend... and to the woman who made the tasty cube cake!

other things:
i am still a little shaken after joel's scary story. DO YOU HAVE MY WOODEN LEG?
i love max the dog
i love step mania
i have a thing for chocolate coated peanuts now, thanks arnaud.
i am gutted i didn't come first for pyraminx, but i like ron so it's okay :D
i am looking forward to next weekend a lot
i like void cubes
i like solving them with a finger inside
i LOVE laetitia's e-cube thingy
daniel hop is so cute
i have never had so many cheese rolls in my life
i can see why people go on about the soup at dcd, it was nice.
i suck at bowling and driving
arnaud sucks at keeping his cars out of fenced areas
lars has super human strength
i can't speak dutch, but i will repeat slaap lekker and waar gebeurd as many times as possible.

the list goes on.

edit: i did forget to mention something really cool that did happen. JOEY CAME! surprise visit! thank you joey, and well done to everyone keeping the surprise secret, except for joel who decided to make it as obvious as possible.... *sigh*. i did however have my suspicions about whether or not he was going to turn up, but i guess i wasn't suspicious enough to go into detective work. i'll stick to the day job.
 
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Yo Im still at Dennis'. I'll go to Essen tomorrow anyway so its useless to go back.
I had a bit of a crappy competition, good practise times and then horrible times in competition (i.e. 1:12 5x5 in practise and then only bull****).
2 Highlights though for me: a 18.00 sq-1! And my first sub-2 on BLD in competition!!!! 1:38 :D
 
So when will it (or will it ever) be official?
I am predicting 2009.

What about the void cube, I would love to do an unofficial event void cube. For this we need to design a new set. I would love to see a new set PLL's, - since there is a parity- But if you have a new PLL list the parity cases are just an other PLL, also with the F2L new moves are possible, this is fun!!

I would love to see the 6x6 and 7x7, but my cube pops like crazy if I try to go faster. I guess some 6x6 are very good , since with some 6x6 you can turn grazy fast, this is impossible with my 6x6... I hope V-cube will come with an improved version.
 
I think 6^3 and 7^3 are obviously popular enough to be WCA events. On 6^3 I was aiming at a pop-free competition and missed it only by a single piece pop on my second solve :D
About void cube, I won't need new algs for my corners first :p
 
I got back last night and I had a great time.

I sucked at clock, (I should have finished my other solves so I could have had the worst average in the world=) )

I did really good on 3x3, for me. And I met a load of people, Erik, Joel, Rama, Maria, Joey, Charlie, Arnaud. I was loads of fun, and I wasn't expecting this but we went bowling (which I suck at) and I got 4 strikes and won!:eek:

Ya, and I got a nice EC08 bag from Ron.

I was loads of fun.

haha yeah taylor you were awesome at bowling!! i think you were just hiding your secret skills. it was nice to meet a non european at a comp!
 
But Lars is a spy, isn't he?
When we asked him if he was, he answered that he wasn't, and that's just the answer that a spy would have done !!!:D
 
Yes, but Lars already knowed that we know that he is a spy before this post, so he already had to kill us before.
The difference is only for the others forumers who read this post and didn't know that Lars is a spy, so THEY have to ask you to use your mod-powers :p
 
It's a lot simpler than you think.

I opened the gate using the most powerful force known to man. I just looked at it and thought: "I don't see any reason why this gate shouldn't open". And so I did.
The Man Who Thinks He Can

If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you like to win, but you think you can’t. It is almost certain you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you've lost,
For out in the world we find success begins with a fellow's will. It's all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are.
You've got to think high to rise.
You've got to be sure of yourself before you can even win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man
But soon or late the man who wins is the man who thinks he can


Walter D. Wintle
Never forget this! ;)
 
OK.
I just took my megaminx, scrambled it and thought "I don't see any reason why this megaminx shouldn't be solved sub-one"
And I did 1:15.91

That doesn't work :p
 
I see a very good reason why your megaminx shouldn't be solved sub-one: because it pops way too much :p
 
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