2010 Oklahoma Open

[Mike Hughey]

It seems to me that competitions should simply be focused on the things that you as the organizer want to focus on. There are plenty of competitions these days in the US, so there's no reason why we can't vary the "focus events" from competition to competition. So for instance, one competition could ignore BLD, and the next one could focus on BLD. (Guess which one I'll be coming to? )

 

[Anthony]

It seems to me that competitions should simply be focused on the things that you as the organizer want to focus on. There are plenty of competitions these days in the US, so there's no reason why we can't vary the "focus events" from competition to competition. So for instance, one competition could ignore BLD, and the next one could focus on BLD. (Guess which one I'll be coming to? )

Yeah, that's something David and I were talking about earlier.
In that case, it's up to Zach.

 

[DavidWoner]

I may have asked this somewhere before, but how many timers are we going to have?

 

[cubekid]

We'll have 6 main timers. We can probably use other timers if we do stuff out in the hall or something, but they won't have displays with them.

 

[Hiero]

Not to be rude, but I think it was pretty stupid to adjust cutoff times after they had already been set and people have registered. I had some students who just got into cubing and I encouraged them to go seeing as everyone says that it's not about how fast or slow you are. How can you adjust times if people have already registered assuming the cutoffs are what they said when they registered?

 

[The3point14]

Not to be rude, but I think it was pretty stupid to adjust cutoff times after they had already been set and people have registered. I had some students who just got into cubing and I encouraged them to go seeing as everyone says that it's not about how fast or slow you are. How can you adjust times if people have already registered assuming the cutoffs are what they said when they registered?

I completely agree, we shouldn't go back on anything after announcing the competition and allowing people to register. That's pretty lame of us to do to those who just got started and are interested in competing.

The only people that I've seen complain about this are the people who are good and would rather not wait until their next event and the people who will be running the competition. I can understand wanting to remain on schedule but the former set of people can be patient and wait the extra 15 minutes that the 1 minute cutoffs would delay us.

 

[cubekid]

I'm really sorry about the times; you have every right to be upset with them being changed. The only cutoff time that I think has ever really been enforced is 5x5x5. 3x3x3 and 4x4x4 are usually not that big of a deal, but even then, I shouldn't have done it in the middle like this.

I have gone ahead and changed it back. However, during the competition, we may change the 5x5x5 cutoff times if we are running behind.

And I think in the future we may start lowering the cutoff times to 2 minutes for 3x3x3, 4 minutes for 4x4x4, and 5 minutes for 5x5x5.

Again, sorry about that sudden change =/

 

[Hiero]

Cool, thank you. I know you are stuck between a rock and a hard place with this. Most of the people writing on here are the top group of people going. Someone's gotta stand up for the 20-30 people going that are not battling for the top spots and just happy to be in it.

 

[DavidWoner]

Even if they don't meet the cutoff they still get the first two solves.

Also I'm going to need to borrow a 5x5 from someone. And maybe an AV/Haiyan-mem for OH.

 

[Anthony]

Woner: If you don't care that it's white, I have a Haiyan-Memory you can use.

 

[ottothedog]

I might have a spare 5x5 for you to use (if i get my new one before comp.), although it is rubiks, i don't have one of those 3x3's listed

 

[IamWEB]

I've got a spare storebought you could use for OH.

 

[ottothedog]

Anthony, if you did not see my post on blnd eg, do you have any advice for me to blnd 3x3 (saw your vid of first blnd solve on youtube), or put tips on your website.

 

[Anthony]

Anthony, if you did not see my post on blnd eg, do you have any advice for me to blnd 3x3 (saw your vid of first blnd solve on youtube), or put tips on your website.

Don't get frustrated and just take it one step at a time. I would recommend learning Old Pochmann.

 

[DavidWoner]

I might have a spare 5x5 for you to use (if i get my new one before comp.), although it is rubiks,

Why don't you just offer to poop on the timer instead. That'd be equally helpful.

 

[ottothedog]

only 5x5 i have (sorry)

(Anthony) Thanks

 

[IamWEB]

I might have a spare 5x5 for you to use (if i get my new one before comp.), although it is rubiks,

Why don't you just offer to poop on the timer instead. That'd be equally helpful.

Note to self: Rubik's 5x5x5 = Bad speedsolving material.

 

[cubekid]

You can more than likely borrow my V5, since I probably won't be competing in 5x5x5.

Oh, and check out the tsc website, Alex Goldberg sent me an updated banner which I think is pretty snazzy.

 

[Rpotts]

anyone have a good type a3f i could borrow/possibly buy? really any well tuned speedcube might do, I just love woner's a3f. The FII I'm using is really good, but damn

 

[MichaelP.]

David, you can borrow my white V cube 5, also if anybody needs any other spares of any sort (2x2, 3x3, everything.) most of you have seen my collection, but lets just say I have plenty to go round.

Oh and my goals are:

2x2: sub 7 (long shot).
3x3: sub 18 for all rounds.
4x4: sub 2:15.
OH: sub 45 solve.
BLD: don't dnf all of them.
MBLD: 2/2 in the time.