Recent content by ShadenSmith

I usually had to turn away 1-2 stickerless cubes at each of my competitions. I told them that they were not yet allowed under regulations and asked if they had another available.

WCA website Competiton website Events: FMC Multi-BLD 4-BLD 5-BLD This is being held in association with the Fantabulous Michigan Competition! Events will be synchronized (but not results), and an unofficial head-to-head FMC challenge will end the day! See the competition website...

In the context of Lawrence it is not something that I would enforce. It's a 100 person competition with about 50 new competitors. Waiting 60 seconds for a person to hear their name and figure out the process is not in the spirit of that regulation IMHO. Delays between competitors is definitely...

I don't understand everyone's worries about these short events like pyraminx and skewb. Cutoffs don't make these events run shorter. Look at the Lawrence Spring 2015 results and see that *one* person did not make the cutoffs for pyraminx and *zero* competitors did not make cutoffs for skewb. Few...

Official results are posted.

Competition is announced and the CubingUSA website is live: http://www.cubingusa.com/LawrenceSpring2015/index.php

So why waste time on 6x6? If you're not willing to dedicate the time to hold the event properly (with a reasonable cut-off) and you don't think many people will register anyway, why hold it? You're designing the competition around one competitor's wishes. Either use that time on an event people...

Speedup is never guaranteed to be linear. I would be very surprised if you get linear scaling up to 16 cores on a dual socket machine.

I could probably make it to a meeting this weekend.

Hm. This seems like a good idea. Walker? :-)

I'd attend these if they're near the campus area. Most weekends work for me.

I'll be at UMN for the next 3-? years. Basically until I finish or die trying.

You should come to this. I am. October 5th in Minneapolis, MN USA. Events: 2x2 3x3 4x4 5x5 7x7 OH BLD SQ1 Clock (tentative) 6x6 (tentative) Pyra (tentative) Website: http://www.cubingusa.com/cubetcha/index.php

I'll be back in the cities come September and will try to make it to some meetups.

DYK... ...John Brechon?