Okay, comp's over and time to recap.
First off, congrats to Max on his 5x5 WRs. I was judging Brendyn and we all got jumpscared by the 100 kids who started screaming and crowding the table. Thankfully, only two people were solving at the time. (I'm also pretty sure that this WR was louder than the 3.13)
The funny thing with Max's WRs is that he has a relatively minor celebration (the usual slight table slam, clap, and "yes!"). However, the main noise and celebration is the 100 kids (most of them started cubing this year, so Max intrigues them) screaming and clapping and crowding around. It's also absolutely silent while he's solving, which makes it very tense.
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Second, big congrats to
@tetraaa . He managed to get a 6.28 3x3 single (not sub-mitch smh), PR by 1.26, and his first PR single in nearly 18 months!
He also got a ridiculous 0.81 2x2 single in finals (I'll talk about it later) so congrats to him!!
For context, I woke up late on the comp day because I went to bed pretty late so I already got off to a bad start. On top of that, I was assigned to run NINE GROUPS. I walked 7.5 miles yesterday. I came to the comp two minutes before my group started so I just quickly ran to get my cube and submit it, without warming up.
3x3 Round 1 (immediately after arriving): horrible, no sub-10 single
3x3 Round 2: decent mid-10 average, a very smooth 9 with an n-perm too lol
5x5 Round 1: horrid, counted a 2:29
Mega Round 1: i'm done at this point
Squan Round 1: didn't even do the last solve bc I DNFed solves 3 and 4
2x2 Round 1: actually decent until I got WPA sadly, the 1 was nice though!
2x2 Final, probably the most eventful round of the whole competition.
I expected to get 5th-6th place, but I didn't expect what was to happen next.
Solve 1: 2.73 (relatively average scramble, average solve haha)
Solve 2: 1.92 (solid solve ngl)
Solve 3: 1.41 (14 mover, very good turning and nearly PR, still PR2)
Solve 4: 2.31 (where it all went wrong)
About solve 4:
I was warming up to do the solve and Brendyn (Dunagan) was doing the same solve next to me. I was trying to look away (so I didn't see the scramble). I didn't know he started the solve, but all I heard was a chair slamming on the floor and "NOOOOOOO". I saw that he DNFed by not starting the timer, and he said that it would have been a 0.8.
I then began my inspection and started to panic because I couldn't find anything. I saw the SAME 9-mover, but I ended up overlooking it because I thought that the 2-move layer led to a different, worse case. With a few seconds of inspection left, I did a 5-move layer into a CLL. However, I panicked so much that I ended up doing OLL and PLL on 2x2 instead of the CLL.
This was also the scramble where
@tetraaa got the 0.81 haha
28 moves in 2.31 seconds = 12.12 TPS
(the fact that a 2.31 had 12 TPS shows how bad my solution was)
Solve 5: 2.8x (one of them had to be bad)
I didn't actually know if it was PR or not, so I calculated it and it was 2.3233333, which rounds to 2.32 (PR by 0.01)
This was my only PR of the comp, and it happened on my last solve of the comp lol
anyway, it was a pretty mid comp except 2x2, and I'll upload the average soon. See you all soon!
