4BLD: 29:23.10.
I'm counting it as my first ever because although I managed one about two or three years ago, it wasn't timed, and I forgot entirely since then.
Thanks Graham Siggins and Mike Hughey for inspiration.
When people hear "national championship", what are they going to think? They're going to think that this is the biggest competition of the year, and that the purpose is to find the best people in each event in the country. Could you at least attempt to go along with that? By the way, I would be...
Then give me a reason why Australian Nationals won't have clock, but will have less popular events, even though it should have every event since it's a national championship. That's the whole point of nationals, to find out the best in every event.
And if it's just a name, why bother calling...
Wait a minute. What if people weren't able to sign up for clock because they registered before it was put in as an optional event, but do want to do clock?
That doesn't even come into it except maybe subconsciously. It's that a national championship should have every event, otherwise why should it be called a national championship??
I mean, if they're strapped for time, do what happened in Canberra this year and have 6 and 7 on simultaneously. That worked really well.
Hell, 4BLD and 5BLD simultaneously if you need to. Don't get rid of quick events that have demand just because you apparently don't like them.
...why? There's obviously demand in the community for Clock at least, and it's the national championships! I made this point last year, do we really have to deal with this again?
Welp. Here goes.
Hi everyone. You may have known me as a boy named Tom for 18, nearly 19 years. Quite a few, thinking about it.
Well, turns out that was a lie.
I'm not a guy. I'm a girl. Tamara. (ta-MAH-ra)
From now on, I'd like you to use she/her pronouns when referring to me. That...
I'm probably gonna get this. My old timer is dead, and this one is a nice incremental upgrade without introducing something stupid. Also, it looks incredibly cool.
The WCA mat looks godawful though, I'll probably get a different one of those.