Belgian Open 2008 - Results

[Karthik]

Why did Matyas not participate in 4x4 BLD and 5x5 BLD?

 

[tim]

Why did Matyas not participate in 4x4 BLD and 5x5 BLD?

He was too tired.

Tim tried to beat Kuti's mutli-BLD....(try again)

Nope, it's quite obvious, that i'm not accurate enough to try it again.

btw. Sorry, Kai, i couldn't resist. (I'll probably post the easy scramble tomorrow, i just have to get some sleep first. You don't get much sleep, if you share your room with such a blindfold freak like Dennis. We both tried several bld relays all night )

 

[Dene]

Have you ever tried FMC at a competition? With 15 minutes left, I once decided to to check my solution, just in case. I couldn't manage to scramble correctly even once by the end of those 15 minutes.
(At least, I'm pretty sure that's how it went. If not, I still had a lot of trouble and got a DNF.)

I WISH! Go to a competition lol? It is my dream...

As for your misfortune, you need to be more careful . You're allowed 3 cubes right? So just have one to the side that is in the scrambled position, and if worst comes to worst, you can use that one to double check.

 

[Lucas Garron]

Have you ever tried FMC at a competition? With 15 minutes left, I once decided to to check my solution, just in case. I couldn't manage to scramble correctly even once by the end of those 15 minutes.
(At least, I'm pretty sure that's how it went. If not, I still had a lot of trouble and got a DNF.)

I WISH! Go to a competition lol? It is my dream...

As for your misfortune, you need to be more careful . You're allowed 3 cubes right? So just have one to the side that is in the scrambled position, and if worst comes to worst, you can use that one to double check.

That wastes a workable cube and wastes time. And you often need more than one to double-check, and things go very much not as planned, etc.

If you DNF your BLD's in comp, I'll tell you to be more careful...

Actually, what I do and see others doing is starting off by scrambling all 3 to have available. Sometimes none of them get scrambled correctly... but let's not get into the logistics and psychology of FMC at a competition...

 

[KJiptner]

btw. Sorry, Kai, i couldn't resist. (I'll probably post the easy scramble tomorrow, i just have to get some sleep first. You don't get much sleep, if you share your room with such a blindfold freak like Dennis. We both tried several bld relays all night )

No problem, you kind of deserved it after I beat you by so little at German Nationals You did a great job Tim! Do the Multi BLD WR next Time!

 

[RobinBloehm]

Yeah, gratz Tim, wanted to be the first German to do the 4x4 BLD in a competition, at German Open, but you were incredibly fast this weekend, no chance to beat you then, we should anyway ask Ron to hold 4x4 BLD competition in Gütersloh, should be at least about 5 competitors

 

[Erik]

At 3x3 I was very unlucky. At the first solve I started PLL after 6 seconds and popped.... And the last one of the avg in the final was a +2 which would give me 1st place and ER average, worst is that I'm very ill now... Oh, and I had 33 moves for FMC but I put down y instead of y' so DNF and the 59 on 4x4 was +2 too.
It was a great tournament though!

 

[guusrs]

Great competition!
Congrats Erik, Eduard & Rama and many others

FMC at competitions is very hard, I had 3 DNF's out of 5 competitions. I one replaced a 29 move solution by a 31 move solution because I counted wrong and I made an error in writing down that 31-move solution.......

Does anyone has the FMC-scramble for the Belgian Open?

 

[Lucas Garron]

Yeah, gratz Tim, wanted to be the first German to do the 4x4 BLD in a competition, at German Open, but you were incredibly fast this weekend, no chance to beat you then

Stupid edges.

 

[adragast]

At 3x3 I was very unlucky. At the first solve I started PLL after 6 seconds and popped.... And the last one of the avg in the final was a +2 which would give me 1st place and ER average, worst is that I'm very ill now... Oh, and I had 33 moves for FMC but I put down y instead of y' so DNF and the 59 on 4x4 was +2 too.
It was a great tournament though!

It was then neither your week end, nor Matyas one

 

[gillesvdp]

In the 3x3 1st round - 3rd group, 2 scrambles had incredible crosses for Fridrich solvers.
I will post scrambles later on. (3x3 1st round 3rd group & Blindfolded).

I had lots of fun this week-end meeting everyone again.
I managed to do better than Lars in the 2nd round but messed up the final completely. :s :s

Though I managed to get on only one podium, I am very happy about this week-end competition.
My next one will be in Osaka.
I guess I won't have much more chances to win anything there.

 

[Doudou]

Congrats Gilles, and thanks for this perfect competition !
Have fun in Korea !

PS : French Cubing forum : http://www.francocube.com/phpBB2/

 

[Doudou]

Here are my pictures/videos :
http://www.neufgiga.com/index.php?m=c9ae77e8&a=dc18f91e&share=LNK754947a6ee3ec2277

The pictures of the ceremony and
2 videos of my square1 solves

By the way, if anyone has videos of my cubes, it will be really great to post them... I am curious to know how fast my f2l in the final.

 

[TobiasDaneels]

I had also a good tournement, being 2nd Belgian in the finals. Gilles was the very unlucky so...
I succeeded a blindsolve for the first time in comp ever, and I broke several personal records.

I after a while, I finnally have one Belgian record in 2x2x2 single.

Can't wait for Benelux open.

 

[Rama]

19.34 = Normal solve
21.02 = little choke at pll
21.81 = +2
19.13 = normal solve
24.41 = Last U' turn got stuck and because of that I dropped the cube or else it would be sub 20
I'd rather had an normal 22 average then this result for OH!
I also found out the day after the event that I threw my cube so hard on the table that the screws got crooked.

Furthermore it was fun and Team Bins had a modest result.
Ps: Look Arnaud sub 2:30 with AVG!

 

[mrCage]

19.34 = Normal solve
21.02 = little choke at pll
21.81 = +2
19.13 = normal solve
24.41 = Last U' turn got stuck and because of that I dropped the cube or else it would be sub 20
I'd rather had an normal 22 average then this result for OH!
I also found out the day after the event that I threw my cube so hard on the table that the screws got crooked.

Furthermore it was fun and Team Bins had a modest result.
Ps: Look Arnaud sub 2:30 with AVG!

Hi

What is Team Bins ?? And what is AVG?? (I assume it's not the AVG antivirus )

- Per

 

[Rama]

19.34 = Normal solve
21.02 = little choke at pll
21.81 = +2
19.13 = normal solve
24.41 = Last U' turn got stuck and because of that I dropped the cube or else it would be sub 20
I'd rather had an normal 22 average then this result for OH!
I also found out the day after the event that I threw my cube so hard on the table that the screws got crooked.

Furthermore it was fun and Team Bins had a modest result.
Ps: Look Arnaud sub 2:30 with AVG!

Hi

What is Team Bins ?? And what is AVG?? (I assume it's not the AVG antivirus )

- Per

''Team Bins'' is an response team to ''Team De Base Fils''.
Team Bins exists out of: Dan Harris, Joël van Noort and Rama Temmink. It's not certain if Tim ''Bins'' Habermaas is also in our team, he still has to decide.

AVG: Arnaud van Galen method for the 5x5.

 

[Doudou]

At 3x3 I was very unlucky.

You forgot to say that you got a 11 sec with a PLL skip, and on the last solve, a 6-moves OLL (it's like an OLL skip !)
I had V perm twice, F and E in the final. I don't remember the other one.
And a +2 is not a question of luck at all.
I don't think you were so unlucky.


Poor Rama
I think you deserve to have the WR. You'll have it soon, for sure.

 

[Inusagi]

How could he get sooo many DNF and DNS at ONE compitition. He will probably still be a hero, but that was crazy!

 

[AvGalen]

FMC-Scramble: F2 R2 D B' D' U2 B' U2 L R U2 B' R D U F' L2 R2 B F2 U2 L2 R D' U' R' B F' L' U

And yes, doing FMC at a competition is much harder then doing it at home. The stress of 1 hour is huge