Aachen Open 2011

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the bus-driver nods his head and says the place is on his route. Frank ends up in the Netherlands

LOL, I laughed so hard when I read this. Best "Aachen Open" story in my book. I don't know how I could miss that on sunday... Hilarious I feel bad for Frank ;-)

 

[Mvcuber12]

Is Mats' 2x2 on vid?

Here you go!
Other videos coming soon.

 

[Yes We Can!]

Nice competition, I had a lot of fun. Kudos to the organizers, good job!

My results were quite good but some of them could have been a lot better.
I'll go over them because I'm bored
3x3:
1st round 10.77 avg :/ 8.97 single
2nd 10.27 with 8.22 NL single. Decent.
3rd 9.66 NR with counting POP and +2 :fp. Might have been ER otherwise. 8.80 single
4th 9.49 NR with 7.52 NR PLL skip single Really nice! 1st place.
4x4:
1st round 50.06 avg fail at sub-50. Counting 5 second POP. 43.44 DP single
2nd 51.27. Failed the first 4 solves but got an awesome 38.90 on my last solve Really happy about that (even good time at home) No parity. 4th place
5x5:
1st round 1:34.32 avg. Decent but not good. 1:23 single, good.
2nd 1:33.33 avg, okay avg. 1:21 single (good) but on a counting solve I had a center twist that took me about 10 seconds to fix. Cost me sub-90 avg :/ 4th place
2x2:
1st round 3.13 avg. Second best in competition but BS scrambles, unlike Mats' round
2nd 3.62 avg, bad but BS scrambles again ^^ 2nd place yay
3x3 BLD:
1st round 1:03.69 success 26th in the world
2nd 1:06.84 1st place! Nice
3x3 OH:
1st round 17.20 avg ER (former). 15.33 single. Would have been sub-17 if I hadn't failed the starting of a CLL. 5 U-Perms O_o First ever sub-20 avg in competition. Insane!
2nd 20.08 avg fail at sub-20 but 2nd place anyway (and another 15 NL single).
FMC:
Found a 42 as backup after 10 minutes and kept searching with no success at all. My start was a 11 move 2x2x3 block. I then failed to write my backup down correctly and got DNF. I don't really care anyway
Pyraminx:
I had practiced a bit of pyra beforehand, so I'm perfectly fine with a 7.89 avg.
Square-1:
31.75 avg, which is actually very good for me. (few parities).
Clock:
16.09 single PB ever YESSSSS!!!!!!!!! but DNF avg. I usually solve clock about 5 times per competition.
7x7:
5:21 centers fail (accidentally destroyed something), 5:08 decent, 4:34.43 with 7 seconds POP and 7 seconds N-Perm (awesome time). 5:01 avg and 3rd place
Magic:
Idc about Magic but I missed a 1.07 avg due to a +2 :/
Master Magic:
Fail avg, 2.84 single... w/e
4x4 BLD:
9:28.00 single. A-W-E-S-O-M-E! Second sub-10 ever 2nd place :tu
5x5 BLD: 31:49.00 success yay 3rd place :tu Reached my goal.

Didn't even bother to compete in Megaminx and 6x6 because I just suck at these/don't have good puzzles.

Congratz to the crazy little 4x4 boy Sebastian, Jan for finally beating my Magic NR (thanks! ), Mats for his first two ERs (pick other ones than mine next time! ^^), and everybody else who accomplished something .

DYK:
-podium WR! 30.98, first sub-31

Looking forward to the next Aachen competition!

 

[jazzthief81]

Lars,
could you please post scramble and your winning solution for FMC?

Scramble: B L2 B2 U2 B2 F' R2 U2 F U2 B R' U' R2 F R U2 B L (19f)

I don't know if this was the original scramble. I made CubeExplorer generate it from my solution.

z2 R B' R' F B2 R

This builds a 2x2x2 block. Notice the edge in the UL position and there is an easy corner-edge pair waiting to be lined up at DFL-DR.

D' L' D' L

This builds a 2x2x3 block by inserting the aforementioned pair.

z2 U' F

This makes a pair at the UFR-UR position and also puts the DF edge in the RF position.

U2 F U' F'

This pairs up another pair (the 4th F2L pair if you like) at the UFR-UR position and keeps the other pair (the 3rd F2L pair) intact. The last "cross piece" is still at the RF position. Now I'm trying to solve the F2L while forcing a good last layer.

U2 L F L'

Moves the 4th pair out of the way and inserts the 3rd pair.

U' F' U F

Inserts the last F2L pair while keeping the last layer edges oriented correctly.

R' U2 R U R' U R U

Holy moly! It was just a Sune from the back. A rather easy/lucky finish, but surely 32 moves isn't enough to win at such a large competition. :rolleyes:

 

[Erik]

The other winning solution:
Scramble: B L2 B2 U2 B2 F' R2 U2 F U2 B R' U' R2 F R U2 B L (19f)

U B' L B L2 F L
F2 B U' B'
F' U2 F U2 F' bit ugly, but whatever
U2 F U F' played something with the pairs and found PLL skip -.-
U2 R U' R'
F' L F L' U' L' U L 32 hmhh not a very beautiful solution, then again it was my safety

 

[Cubenovice]

Thx guys, I will have a go at this scramble before reading your solutions.
Just in time because my FMC-fingers are getting itchy waiting for the weekly 04...

 

[Vincents]

Just random...
I kept reading this as Aschen Open. And kept getting chills.

 

[Crazycubemom]

First of all I want to say Congratulations to all the winners and all people who has break their own record's and also Big Thanks to The Greatest Aachen team

Did you know:

The Final 3x3x3 so Exited! the first time I'm so nervous to watch the Final

Aachen team really a Dream team

Jóel is coached by Ton and Maria well done Jóel and he broke his 2 PB's( sub 10) and avrg's ( next time sub 10 too)

I missed Charlie

Was nice to see Lars, Kai, Stefan Pochmann, Stefan Hubbie, Tim and Katja,Erik and Nora, Laura "Queen of Clock", Ayano, Bruno, István, Tromby, Conor and the rest competitors who had talked with me and Ton.

This was my first competition WITHOUT DNF! wow I'm so happy though I didn't touched my 2x2 and just learned Pyraminx but I'm not DNF lover again but I'm still missing my sub 20 and avrg sub 25 ( next competition it will be happend cause at home I got easily sub 20 and sub 25 avrg


If his wife shopping almost 100 Euro's for perfume but Ton was shopping for puzzles almost 100 Euro's hahaahahahahah

We have to wait till Aachen team in grove again ...... and can't waittttt.

 

[Ton]

Did you noticed;

Joel joint the table with the other Dutchies in the age vs speed results, We now have 5 Dutch cubers who can say that there is no one older and faster them him.

And did you know
I trained only 3 hours... and still got a decent result ...I must have some talent after all. I think I will practice for the next competition to beat my PB records

 

[blakedacuber]

i wasnt ther but
DYK connor baumann broke both my single and avg NR for 4x4

 

[Cubenovice]

Aaarghh... could have been a top 10 in FMC: 35 HTM

premove U +1
B' L' # F U2 B2 L 2x2x2 6+1
L' U2 L R' U2 R 2x2x3 cancel two moves L L' 10+1
F U' F' U2 R L' U' L R' U F2L (origin premove U) 20+1
couldn't find a good continuation...
took back last two moves R' U and worked edges:
U R' F' U F' U' R' F R F' 28 + 1
U undo premove leaves 3 corners 29

at # insert R B R' F R B' R' F' to cancel 2 moves F'- F

B' L' R B R' F R B' R' U2 B2 U2 L R' U2 R F U' F' U2 R L' U' L U R' F' U F' U' R' F R F' U 35 HTM

 

[CharlieCooper]

Did you know:


I missed Charlie

I missed you too Maria :'( I will come to the Netherlands soon, I promise! Well done for no DNF!

 

[JDspeedcuber]

Jan for finally beating my Magic NR (thanks! )

yes and don't forget the Magic ER, 0.82 avg!