Aachen Open 2009

Hey guys,

as you should have read in our e-mail, we are considering multi blind. That is only possible if there are enough judges! So, if you dont compete in either multi blind nor 6x6 or 7x7, please be kind enough to stay anyway and dont leave after the winner ceremony and help judge :-)

Thank you
 
CharlieCooper said:
18:10? gosh that is precise for you arnaud!
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Oldest plan: Arnaud picks up Erik "around 5"
Previous plan: Arnaud picks up Erik and Hakan at 18:07 + walking time (Hakan couldn't make it earlier)
Current plan: Arnaud picks up Hakan at 18:07 + walking time and Erik "around 7" (Erik couldn't make it earlier)
Future prediction: Everyone things Arnaud+Hakan+Erik arrive late because Arnaud was late :p

So yes, Arnaud will be much later than expected, but don't blame him
(also, Arnaud comes bringing beer)
 
Great competition! I really enjoyed both days, and look forward to the next edition ;) Thanks to all those who organized this great event and to those who showed up to make it such a fabulous first competition (for me) :)
 
Awesome Results! I'm really sorry I couldn't come. At least I learned how to play Go this weekend. And beat a highest rank CPU opponent in Virtua Fighter 4 Evo. :P And finished large parts of my university stuff of course :P Next comp for me is maybe Benelux with Janine? Otherwise Gütersloh of course ;) Congratulations Erik on the WRs! Also congrats to Jens, Tim, Robin and Stefan for their NRs! Now Stefan tell us about that 3x3 solve! :)
 
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KJiptner said:
At least I learned how to play Go this weekend.
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Ooh! I, uh, skipped Go club this weekend. :p

I was checking lotsa pages this weekend (ski trip, only had my iPhone), but couldn't find any news until the results got posted after I got back.

Anyhow, 3x3x3 single is insane. Already sent a congratulatory email to Stefan. I have no idea how he managed to get it, but he's been wanting to annoy me so much that he deserves it. :)

While I'm at it:
4x4x4 single: I've been failing at 4x4x4 in competition. I would complain about my cube, except Andy set NAR on it.
4x4x4 BLD: I've probably given up on it by now, especially since easy ER is long gone. And I still don't know what accuracy tastes like.
Pyra: Uh, yeah. Still don't know how I ever held it.
 
CharlieCooper said:
18:10? gosh that is precise for you arnaud!
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Final time of picking up Erik: About 19:45 :o
But you were even later (and Lars' excuse for showing up hours later because of "no trains" makes me wonder if the two of you having anything to share with the rest of the community :p)

Stefan's 3x3x3 NR (16.83 17.94 17.80 9.56 17.00) was an easy F2L and PLL skip.

Stefan also beat me on 5x5x5 and 7x7x7, but I beat his "hope to get skip" method on 2x2x2.

Unofficial events are not up yet: http://speedcubing.com/results/competitions.php
 
Lol mefferts powerrr. It's even harder to do well when there's a massive camera on half a meter :)
Anyway 1st solve, 1 par (not sure which), 2nd solve both par, 3rd solve OLL par, 4th solve (WR) PLL par but no PLL, 5th solve 1 par (not sure which) with a calm ending.

1st round of 3x3 was ok, after the pop (28) I just did some slow solving to make sure not to get a horrible average which it wasn't :)

2nd round, no comment
final, hmf

5x5: good start, could be WR if I didn't take 5 sec to do the PLL (took slow solving a bit too serious on that) rest was crap. Thanks to Tobias Christlieb for lending his 5x5 to me :)

2x2: some solves to try out CLL.

OH: horrible horrible horrible :mad:

BLD: I was too tired, at least I got one :D

FMC: good! this is PB in competition. I lost my solution but I still know it if someone can post the scramble (which I also lost :P)

Magic: after 2DNF's I just wanted to get a single sub-1

Minx: the star on the 2nd solve took me 20+ seconds according to Sebastien xD

Pyraminx: that 12 messed up everything. Congrats goes out to Ron :)

4x4 BLD: almost got it! :( but almost is not good enough.

Finally: 6 and 7. Not much special but I got a 4:44.41 on 7x7 :)

Really nice competition. Kudos for the organisers!
 
I will post the FMC tonight

I got 38 (no DNF's for me this year) with a decent beginning but very unlucky last layer. 9 moves double x-cross. 9 more moves for last 2 pairs. (10 minutes)
But I found no way to get a decent last layer or to solve the last layer without at least 3 look (I tried about 50 combinations of 6+7 move OLL's and both possible pre-moves)
 
How is it possible that the Aachen Open 2009 becomes the "speedcubing world championship": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72PRote6HGw

Anyway, that were great 2 days for me.
I wanna thank all of the organizers for holding this competition and I also wanna give congratulations to Erik for his two new world records and his best official average of 11.38. Also I wanna give credit to Stefan Pochmann for the first German to achieve a sub 10 single time in competition.
Special thanks goes to Arnaud van Galen for giving me my first team-solve experiences and for giving me a tough challenge on the Rubik's Cube.

Greetings to everyone I saw at the Aachen Open

Michael
 
KJiptner said:
Awesome Results!
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I agree except for the master magic results.

KJiptner said:
I'm really sorry I couldn't come. At least I learned how to play Go this weekend. And beat a highest rank CPU opponent in Virtua Fighter 4 Evo. :P And finished large parts of my university stuff of course :P Next comp for me is maybe Benelux with Janine? Otherwise Gütersloh of course ;) Congratulations Erik on the WRs! Also congrats to Jens, Tim, Robin and Stefan for their NRs! Now Stefan tell us about that 3x3 solve! :)
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I'm also sorry that I wasn't able to come, especially when I see the master magic results: Even with me worst official time I would have won.

@Eric: Congratulation to your world records
@Stefan: Congratulation to your amazing 3x3x3 single solve
 
Markus Pirzer said:
KJiptner said:
Awesome Results!
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I agree except for the master magic results.

KJiptner said:
I'm really sorry I couldn't come. At least I learned how to play Go this weekend. And beat a highest rank CPU opponent in Virtua Fighter 4 Evo. :P And finished large parts of my university stuff of course :P Next comp for me is maybe Benelux with Janine? Otherwise Gütersloh of course ;) Congratulations Erik on the WRs! Also congrats to Jens, Tim, Robin and Stefan for their NRs! Now Stefan tell us about that 3x3 solve! :)
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I'm also sorry that I wasn't able to come, especially when I see the master magic results: Even with me worst official time I would have won.

@Eric: Congratulation to your world records
@Stefan: Congratulation to your amazing 3x3x3 single solve
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Lars had some extremely hard scrambles on Magic that nobody else seemed to have :rolleyes:
 
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