ABHC 2015 - 29-30th August [Hertfordshire, UK]

DYK

Despite not being a morning person, I was out if bed before 7 both comp days
My orange shirt wasn't lucky this comp, but I'll keep wearing it for I am Dutch
This was the first and last comp outside of London where I'll attempt to go back home overnight
I still never had a pop during an official solve
Bertie taught me a new method for pyra the night before, and I immediately was at least 15 seconds faster than I was at home
Zak is recruiting me for the UK Roux army
Cube cover stacking is a thing
No matter how fast you enter times into cubecomps, people will still ask if results are up (sometimes even when the last group is still solving)
I am yet to make a second round in any event
I thought I made the avg cut for OH, but turned out I didn't :(
I CAN'T WAIT FOR CUTHBERTS
 
Berkmann18 said:
2x2: sub1.05 (if possible) / sub5 Complete fail so no
3x3: sub18 / sub26 Not quit / Yes
4x4: sub1 / sub1:30 No / Yes
5x5: sub2:40/sub3 No / No
6x6: sub5:50/sub6:30 No / No
Skewb: sub5/sub9 No / No
3BLD: success/success No (3 failed targets :( ) / No
FMC: sub50 No
Pyraminx: sub10/sub18 Yes / Not quit
OH: sub40/sub50 Yes / Yes
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I didn't achieved all my goals but I'm happy that I got PBs and that I met some people and I enjoyed competing, scrambling and judging.
 
Solves were decent :/
meh.jpg
 
illius said:
Goals:

Event: Single/Average

2x2: sub-7/sub-9 Done
3x3: sub-24/sub-27 Done
4x4: sub-2:35/N/A Done
5x5: sub-4:50/N/A Done
6x6+7x7: sub-when they notice I've gone over the cutoff I didn't go over in 6x6x6, did in 7x7x7
Skewb: sub-30/sub-35 (but reach the soft cut) YES!
Pyraminx: sub-10/sub-16 Not sure but I think so.
FMC: sub-I-don't-know-because-I-have-never-even-attempted-FMC-and-am-just-going-to-use-CFOP-or-my-fail-at-ZZ Yes! Forced OLL skip (WV) and a PLL skip leads to 31 move solutions!
Clock: sub-40/sub-50 (reach the cutoff) Two DNFs
OH: sub-1/sub-1:10 (soft cut) All-time PB in competition! Pure sub-53 average!
BLD: sub-3/maybe a mean, but I am currently concentrated on fast singles, as my memo. takes about 20 seconds, but execution takes ages. 20 seconds was a typo. Sub-3 should have said sub-5. And No.
4BLD: success!Boo hoo
5BLD: success!Boo hoo
MBLD: I don't know how many to do. Maybe aim for 5/5.
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0/5 for life
 
didn't get back until half 12 last night :P

DYK:
I was in school the day I left for the comp
I was in the venue for my previous comp on Friday and in the venue for ABHC the next day
the car my family rented was fancy
in a room across from Adam, Ollie, Cornelius and Andy
Rob an I got a 2:07 mini Guildford
I was kicked out of the bar at quarter past 11
guess why?
the second I walked out of my door on Saturday morning Adam, Ollie, Cornelius and Andy were walking out of their door
waiting outside the venue for a half an hour before the door was opened
Ollie was eating pizza while walking to the venue Saturday morning
Adam needed to borrow two of my mats because of 16 stations
I decided not to give a crap about FMC
I came close to my 2x2 PB average, not NR average but PB average
31.31 4x4 average is GJ
me and Rob are tied for amount of sub 30 4x4 singles in comp
all of his 5 sub 30's are spread over 5 different competitions
all of my 5 sub 30's are spread over 3 rounds in 3 different competitions
3:09.00 7x7 mo3
can you get chocolate for average?
failed 6x6. lets leave it at that
4x4 winning streak has ended :(
7x7 winning streak continuous :)
I was kicked out of the bar Saturday night for the exact same reason as the night before
guess why again?
ran into Harry in the hallway on Saturday night
he couldn't make it the first day because he was in Holiday in Ireland
what the hell was he doing in Ireland? all there is to see is Guinness and 5,000 litres of rain a day
waiting outside the venue again on Sunday for another half an hour waiting for the door to be opened
still no sub 6 3x3 official single
still no sub 1 official 5x5 single
English timers hate me
Zak liked to brag because his 5x5 times started with the same digit as mine
1:03 average in 5x5 first round
5x5 first round wasn't until late afternoon
I came second in pyra overall
101 person comp?
cool OH average
done my 3x3 final early because had to rush to the airport
somehow came second in the final
didn't get my medal because I had already left :(
the moon reflected of the sea on the way home
didn't land until half 11
Dublin airport was busy at half 11 on Sunday
It's not a bank holiday weekend in Ireland
decided not to do this last night because I was so tired
there's a crumb stuck in my key board right now, ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
had to press the t key to get it out

had a really good weekend and thank you to the UKCA team for organising another brilliant comp, and congratulations to them for organising a 100 competitor comp!
can't make it to Cuthbert's but should be going to UKC so hopefully see you all there!
 
DYK
I followed one of the roads that citymapper (android sat-nav app which is useless outside of London) that caused me 2h of delay on Saturday (so I missed FMC and Clock :() because the trains (3 actually) didn't bothered to stop at WGC and I was relying too much on the station count to know how many stops I had left.
I slept only 2h Saturday night and I could have died of suffocation from a fire gas in my room while I was sleeping but I wasn't feeling sleepy at all throughout the day
I got a few decent clock PBs straight after testing the one I bought from James
I screw the hell up of 2x2 (even when I made it into final) certainly because of how annoyed I was and at the border of a nervous breakdown (because of being late as I hate it)
I screwed up again my 3BLD attempts
I used 4 methods in a single 3x3 average (guess which ones)
I used my TH method combination for OH instead of my actual OH main method.
I officially use Hoya for all big cubes (apart from 7x7 which I can't compete in yet)
 
DYK

-I've pretty much hit the wall, but somehow managed to get 4PB's
-Ultra consistent at 5x5, although got PB
-All sub-1:48 average in second round.]
-Managed a 4x4 single PB even with parity, despite not practising and using a new cube.
-4.24 single in Skewb, I'm hoping the 10.05 average will prevent me from falling too far in Kinchranks.
-If you don't get a success at home, you're not likely to get on in competition.
-Hotel claimed our room was flooded, though I suspect they had overbooked, and rebooked us in at a bad hotel.
-Didn't have any tea :/
-Still love the venue though.
-Going to get a HuaChuang after trying Chris'
-Quite a profitable bank holiday weekend :D
 

Conor I may have borrowed the last clip from your video, sorry :P

GJ Harry and everyone else, great competition :)
 
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DYK:

Ireland's weather is wierd?
Kerry is the smallest airport I have ever seen?
I didn't seem to miss much on the first day?
Skewb NR with Eli's skewb?
Scrambles weren't amazing either?
I didn't do super well on 3x3 round 1?
Pyraminx... Yeah
2.76 single... Off by a slice turn?
Scramble in the final's second group that if I had got it I would have got 2.20?
3x3 round 2 was good?
First sub 10...

8.65?
And a sub 12 average, just :p?
Skewb final was BJ because Eli was selfish and used his own Skewb :(?
Oh, OH happened...?
13.35 single?
With a 24 average?
13 followed by a 35?
3x3 round 3 was VVVVVVGJ?
11.08 average?
Bernard got a sub 11 average?
I MADE FINALS!?
And a good average then as well?
And finished with a sub 10?
Hint for getting sub 10s: tell your judge beforehand that you are going to get a sub 10, then it will happen?

Thanks for an amazing comp everyone, PBs in almost all events :)
 
Hssandwich said:
Oh, OH happened...?
13.35 single?
With a 24 average?
13 followed by a 35?
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oh cool

accomplishments:
-won OH, came close to NR and severely improved my world ranking :)
- another sub9 avg in 3x3
- im getting more comfortable at getting sub10 (and sub9) averages...i.e. im less nervous during 3x3
- 1:09 5x5 avg despite not really practising and not doing anything special in those solves
- im ranked in the top100 for all the events I care about: 234567OH
- and top50 in 2567OH

Really enjoyed this comp...one of the best ever for me.
 
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Reconstructed my 10.14 Official Solve.

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x' z2 //inspection
U' D L' D' x' R' F //cross
U y2 R U2 R2 U' R//1st pair
y' R U' R' U R' U' R//2nd pair
y' U2 R' U R2 U R'//3rd pair
y R U' R' U y' R' U R//4th pair
x U' L U R' U' L' U R x'//OLL (bowtie)
F R U' R' U' R U R' F' R U R' U' R' F R F'//PLL

57 moves / 10.14 = 5.621 tps

View on alg.cubing.net

Yes, I know, I rotate way too much during F2L. I will eventually improve.
 
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