Australian Games Expo Rubik's 3x3 Championship

Haha yeah I was at questacon a few weeks ago and noticed those cubes. Wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole if i were you, didn't have any particular colour format and you could probably get better turning out of a rubik's revolution.
 
More details? Avg5? 2nd, 3rd?

The event was a Best of 5.

I determined the ranking manually by marking the fastest times on the scorecards and sorting them. We were pressed for time, to announce the winners, so we didn't enter the times into a spreadsheet.

Averages were roughly:
- 1st: Feliks, 10.4
- 2nd: Richard, 18
- 3rd: Tim Major, 23

Best were:
- 1st: Feliks, 8.65
- 2nd: Richard, 14.x
- 3rd: Tim Major, 20.x

They final results will probably be uploaded. I don't have the scorecards so it'll be up to Craig if he wants to publish the results online with photos of the event. :)

Kind Regards,
Tim.
 
Some did you know's:

- Yay for 1 thousand dollars.
- I was epically shaking on my first solve, after watching Richard get tons of applause of a smooth 14 second first solve.
- Which led me to get a 12 second solve, with the Erik G perm.
- Jonny, Tom, Thomas, and the others there were all cool and it was fun hanging out.
- *Richard brings out D.I.Y cubes* "Put them away."
- The 8 second solve was good, but my last 2 solves should have been sub 10. (Both low 10, with pll recognition errors)
- My avg was 12, 8, low 11, low 10, low 10 iirc.
- I realised how much my rubik's brand sucks compared to richard and zb ftw's
- Congrats to Richard and Tim for the places! Enjoy your touch cubes!!
- Also, not that many people even showed up, but the crowd was big, and Craig (the organiser), was a very good host, entertaining the crowd well.
- Thanks goes to tim for being a great official, and running it fairly smoothly, even though Craig interviewed everyone before their solves. (which relaxed me)
- All in all, it was pretty fun, but Melbourne will be epic.
- (which Tim advertised there :p)

Yeah, I'm quite tired, after waking up at 7am, and doing 5x5 solves for 2 hours.
 
Oh yeah, how I will spend my 1000. I won't really spend it on myself.

100 goes to my brother, for giving me his rubik's brand cube to use.
300, goes to my dad, to pay for airfares, and accommodation.
200 or so, will go towards my ipod touch, which I have been wanting to buy for a while. (I got a few vouchers for christmas and birthday)

I will spend the rest on things for us australian cubers. ($400)

The first thing will be logos for aussie cubers to put on their cubes. These will probably have a picture of an australian flag, or another design, and they can be used on all cubes. (I'll be custom ordering them for all sizes of cubes, and giving them away for free to whoever needs them).

Now, I need some ideas from you guys in Melbourne (and Sydney, and Canberra)
 
You could invest it in a savings account with high interest or some cool cubing stuff for yourself. It's really good to start saving when you're 16+

I'll try to setup a non-profit organisation for Australian cubers and get sponsorship. But yeah, Australian stickers would be cool :-P

Maybe Seven Towns could give us permission to use their Rubik's CUBE wording with an outline of the Australian continent above it or around it.

Tim.
 
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