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My main point is I have no official solves because I did nothing at Lawrence but I am also not super comfortable with 3x3 yet still only having 3-5 sub 30 solves in my life. I know it doesn't matter a lot but I think I will stick to just practicing until the next comp rolls around in Kansas. Maybe by then I will know full PLL and most of OLL and actually be decent at the cross. I will also hopefully know enough about 2x2 to compete in that. Once I am sub 20 in the 3x3 I am going to learn blind solving and move up to bigger cubes so Rocky and I can be nemesis for the rest of our cubing careers.
 
Psyph3r said:
I have not heard of this competition in Solon is it something I should look into or should I just stick to my guns at home and practice up for the future.
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You haven't official competed. Solon (does that supposed to rhythm with 'colon', is 5 hrs way by Mini van (with a Mustang, 4 hrs). I wouldn't recommend it for ppl who have to occasionally work on Saturday, especially during the time when the 2x2 and 3x3 events are going on, 4-hr of driving back and forth isn't going to cut it. However, it's April 18, and that is after tax season for most accountants. So bring your guns and cubes and let see what you can do on your first official comp. ;p
 
I thought it was this weekend. If it is the 18th I can probably make it to that no problem. Are you guys making the trip a single day thing? If so I could go halfsies on gas and ride along. We will see as the comp gets closer.
 
Psyph3r said:
I thought it was this weekend. If it is the 18th I can probably make it to that no problem. Are you guys making the trip a single day thing? If so I could go halfsies on gas and ride along. We will see as the comp gets closer.
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Yup, there's and back in one day. But I'm going to definitely nap in the van after dropping you all off so that I can be plenty focused on the drive back. I kind of like driving at night, because of the peace and quietness.
 
5 hours to a competition is a long way. Would need to get the buy in of the ole fiancé first but hopefully she won't mind. Plus maybe by then I will be sub 30 and won't make a complete fool of myself haha.
 
Psyph3r said:
5 hours to a competition is a long way. Would need to get the buy in of the ole fiancé first but hopefully she won't mind. Plus maybe by then I will be sub 30 and won't make a complete fool of myself haha.
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I got 56th with a 26.0x average at the Lawrence comp so I think your fine

EDIT: Ohh and it's only 4 1/2 hours but that's with 3 construction zones. If any of the construction is gone by then it will be faster
 
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Psyph3r said:
5 hours to a competition is a long way. Would need to get the buy in of the ole fiancé first but hopefully she won't mind. Plus maybe by then I will be sub 30 and won't make a complete fool of myself haha.
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We can strap her on top of the van.
 
biscuit said:
I got 56th with a 26.0x average at the Lawrence comp so I think your fine

EDIT: Ohh and it's only 4 1/2 hours but that's with 3 construction zones. If any of the construction is gone by then it will be faster
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This is probably a small comp, so 26-s will probably get you 20th place, and Psyph3r will get 21st (last place). ha, ha...Sorry, it's the 1st and I'm full of it today!
 
shadowkiller168 said:
In all seriousness, there needs to be some work done. As I previously stated, the Pyra and Skewb cutoffs are too lenient. They're supposed to be short events; don't let them be longer than they need to and hold you back.
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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 people are even outliers in those results and thus we would not have saved time by making them more strict. These events take a long time because a lot of people compete in these events. You spend more time scrambling + running + judging than the competitor does solving.
 
shadowkiller168 said:
Nonononononononononononono!! Do NOT make the same mistake I did! Pyraminx was THE reason why we were so far behind! It was because of so many little kids and their crack addict fingers (courtesy of Ryan Potts for that remark) that could barely solve the pyraminx that slowed us down so much!

0:30 soft 0:45-0:50 hard is more than reasonable. Pyraminx is a very easy and fast event, and it's not like it's hard to be about sub-30. You just need to filter out the people who learned it like the night before or something.

Edit: Skewb's cutoffs/time limits should be mildly harsher. I would say 0:30 soft and 0:50 hard should be reasonable.
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Wait, hang on. You cannot actually be serious. Did you look at your results?

https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/c.php?i=LawrenceSpring2015&allResults=1#pyram

Moving the cutoff from 45 to 30 would have saved you a total of three competitors from getting an average -- a total of 4 minutes and 42 seconds of solving time distributed across multiple stations. Congratulations, this saved maybe a minute of total time.

Strict cutoffs on fast events save you actually next to nothing. Just make sure nobody takes several minutes solving the puzzle, and you're fine. Hell, just setting it at 1 minute and letting everyone get an average would have been fine.

Also, as a supposed leader of a community, describing your members as having fingers of "crack addicts" is not appropriate behavior, whether you said it originally or not.

EDIT: Also, regarding the discussion of displays mentioned earlier, the regulations make no reference to displays anywhere. Any display setup is fine -- full speedstacks displays, no displays, or even custom displays.
 
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Im not sure what the word supposed leader is meant to accomplish in your post other than being derogatory. I do not disagree with your overall point, however, and would posit that the real reason for the comp going over schedule was the 100+ competitor field.

This led to issues all across the comp that no one was ready for. Scramblers and runners were too few multiple times, there were breaks due to equipment failure, and there were simply more people to push through. All of hat said I think a good job was done by all getting the competition through all the stages and everyone seemed to have fun which was the whole point.
 
Psyph3r said:
Im not sure what the word supposed leader is meant to accomplish in your post other than being derogatory. I do not disagree with your overall point, however, and would posit that the real reason for the comp going over schedule was the 100+ competitor field.

This led to issues all across the comp that no one was ready for. Scramblers and runners were too few multiple times, there were breaks due to equipment failure, and there were simply more people to push through. All of hat said I think a good job was done by all getting the competition through all the stages and everyone seemed to have fun which was the whole point.
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I think another big problem was people not coming when their name was called. If a station has to wait 2 minutes because someone didn't pay attention, that holds everyone back.
 
A3b1) When the judge believes the competitor is ready, he asks "READY?". The competitor must be ready to start the attempt within one minute of being called, else he forfeits his attempt (DNS), at the discretion of the judge.
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This needs to be enforced. To be fair I really do think it was just shear amount of people to timers. Also maybe getting a few more scramblers could help. Not so sure about that one though.
 
biscuit said:
This needs to be enforced. To be fair I really do think it was just shear amount of people to timers. Also maybe getting a few more scramblers could help. Not so sure about that one though.
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I don't think it was so much the amount of people as opposed to them not paying attention. Some people were very good, coming as soon as they were called, even if it was from the other end of the room. Others had to be called 5-6 times.
 
shadowkiller168 said:
I don't think it was so much the amount of people as opposed to them not paying attention. Some people were very good, coming as soon as they were called, even if it was from the other end of the room. Others had to be called 5-6 times.
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If they are called that many times and they don't come then it's a DNS. It's that simple they forfeit their solve. This should be made clear at the start of the comp. Can a delegate confirm how this should be kept track of? Should a judge start their stop watch when the competitor is called?
 
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