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Competition to celebrate new 3x3x3 ao5 World Record (5.09 by Tymon Kolasiński)

kubesolver

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Idea

Let's celebrate the new Ao5 3x3x3 world record by Tymon Kolasiński with a competition dedicated to it!
The $500 in prizes will be roughly equally divided between the best and random competitors.

Competition rules

it's a fun competition / TPS spam fest / fake solves competition

Solve any scrambles from the record average using exact Tymon's solutions
- it's ok to try it as many times as you want and submit as many times as you want

Scrambles and reconstructions

Prizes
500$ pool in https://www.thecubicle.com/ giftards or similar
5x50$ to winner in each scramble
250$ split between the remaining competitors (at organizers discretion either to random or to dedicated competitors)
- one person can win more than 1 prize.
- the prize submissions should be either filmed or recorded with a smartcube at https://www.cubeast.com/
- wca rules for start and stop but keyboard is allowed

Duration
The competition will last roughly 1 month. It starts now and ends on Friday 21st January 2022 GTM 20:00.
 

kubesolver

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I very much appreciate that you are holding another WR celebration competition, especially because the last one had so few participants.
Once again it's been a lot fun and I'm excited to see the times of others and where the limits are.
My initial goal was to get sub-Tymon and sub-5 on every scramble before entering but I was a bit lazy today and I didn't want to wait another day so this is my entry for now:

Edit: improved scramble 4 to 4.475
 
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kubesolver

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I very much appreciate that you are holding another WR celebration competition, especially because the last one had so few participants.
Once again it's been a lot fun and I'm excited to see the times of others and where the limits are.
My initial goal was to get sub-Tymon and sub-5 on every scramble before entering but I was a bit lazy today and I didn't want to wait another day so this is my entry for now:
Thanks for your submission!
That's really nice. It's interesting observation that you were able to execute sub-tymon while in the previous comp you were unable to get close to sub-ruihang executions.
 

cirnov2

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kubesolver

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Me being 11 without a camera/ smartcube and a total beginner who still doesnt know how to do the third layer in beginner's method.
Following one scramble solution is much easier than learning while last layer in beginner method
 

EngiNerdBrian

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Oh ok, one small issue, I don't have a camera. I could use a phone but the camera is bad on a phone. Plus I can't find a spot.
Are you on a Nokia brick? Many phone models have been capable of 4k quality for years now. During the mid 00's and rise of YouTube 720p or 1080p on phone footage was everywhere. Any footage will do as long as you follow the rules.

Edit: Not trying to sound like a spoiled first world jerk; I'm just saying any smart phone is capable of producing video quality suitable enough for this…and at resolutions that our parents would have only imagined as futuristic nonsense.
 
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kubesolver

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So if my average is 40 seconds on 3x3 right now is it worth competing?
Depends on what do you want to accomplish. I would like to encourage anyone to try to analyse / replay those solves as they are relevant and quite ingenious compared to previous world record averages.

If you want to win prizes it's still worth it because roughly half of a prize pool goes to random competitors.
 
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