Benelux Open 2009

Friday: I locked my front door and put my keys in my pocket and when I almost turned around I realized that I forgot my puzzles... but out of pure laziness I just went to the car.

Saturday: I overslept till 11:30 (my mom woke me up for lunch). :P

Sunday: After borrowing everyone's cubes I realized when I got home my cube still rocks. :P

Congratulations to Erik! Madame Jeanette FTW!

Ps. I wanna thank Stefan Pochmann for selling me some of his DIY's and I hope that someday, I can do you the favor back and give you a flying pony.
 
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Lovely lovely competition!

Kai and Janine are staying here still, they are sleeping now, I should go too soon.
In short, the 3x3 WR:
9: easily forced OLL skip (normal J)
10: good, held back a bit on the PLL (cool J)
12: crappy, I think I did 5 pairs here (misslotted) (dunno the perm)
12+2: more crappy, edge flipped on F2L so again 5 pairs (A perm I think)
10: good, don't know the perm anymore

yay

Weirdest thing that happened the competition was...
1:30 in the morning.. it's saturday night.
Suddenly 5 quite tipsy/drunken girls come in. They see cubes, we all chat and stuff. We end up singing: 'we can do the cube, can you do the cube?' while playing revolution in the dark. After that we (Dix, Rama, AvG and me) hang around at their room and then went to bed at like 4...
I guess 4 hours of sleep is good for WR's?
 
Erik said:
In short, the 3x3 WR:
9: easily forced OLL skip (normal J)
10: good, held back a bit on the PLL (cool J)
12: crappy, I think I did 5 pairs here (misslotted) (dunno the perm)
12+2: more crappy, edge flipped on F2L so again 5 pairs (A perm I think)
10: good, don't know the perm anymore
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We can has video?

I wanna reconstruct!
(But only if you have all 5 recorded. And people better not be missing any of Erik's solves.)
 
tim said:
Kai tried 10 cubes blindfolded? o_O
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Yes... 2 flipped edges, 2 twisted corners and the other 3 didn't have much more than a 3 cycle of something wrong. I don't really remember it, though. I felt pretty secure about the attempt, memo went pretty fluid and I recalled everything perfectly during execution. Probably stupid mistakes (as always). Too bad, this way nobody cares about the world class time :P. The bigcubes BLD wasn't much nicer. 2nd 4x4 was only 2 centers away (but slow), the other attempts pretty much sucked. All speed events went awesome for me. I couldn't do much better.
 
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KJiptner said:
Yes... 2 flipped edges, 2 twisted corners and the other 3 didn't have much more than a 3 cycle of something wrong. I don't really remember it, though. I felt pretty secure about the attempt, memo went pretty fluid and I recalled everything perfectly during execution. Probably stupid mistakes (as always). Too bad, this way nobody cares about the world class time :P. The bigcubes BLD wasn't much nicer. 2nd 4x4 was only 2 centers away (but slow), the other attempts pretty much sucked. All speed events went awesome for me. I couldn't do much better.
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You had a 376 moves solution for the FMC :confused::confused::confused:
 
tim said:
KJiptner said:
Too bad, this way nobody cares about the world class time :P.
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I do :). Nice job!
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I do as well, but getting some more successes next time will get you much more caring. You were lucky I did the correct 3-cycle of edges on 3 wrong edges, otherwise I would have been the new WR-holder :eek:. (now I got 1/2 in 17 minutes, 0 points, but still 3rd place behind Stefan's 0 points)

And Anssi was 2/3 right Stefan.
1. Nervous (wrong)
2. Tired (correct, even though I trained Erik in the art of planning to go to bed at 01:00, but actually going to bed at ...... well >>> 01:00)
3. Hungry (correct, he always is)

I DNF'ed FMC again. I found a nice start, that gave a 20 move F2L + LL-edges solved. But I got unlucky again (I have had a 20 move F2L + LL-edges solved with 2 bad corners) and had 4 bad corners. Someday I will get that WR.

I will post that 20 move solution later tonight. If anyone knows any short algs that permute 4 corners (without changing the rest of the cube) please let me know. Doing 2 corner-3-cycle-insertions within the time-limit isn't something I can do normally
 
AvGalen said:
tim said:
KJiptner said:
Too bad, this way nobody cares about the world class time :P.
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I do :). Nice job!
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I do as well, but getting some more successes next time will get you much more caring. You were lucky I did the correct 3-cycle of edges on 3 wrong edges, otherwise I would have been the new WR-holder :eek:. (now I got 1/2 in 17 minutes, 0 points, but still 3rd place behind Stefan's 0 points)
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Dennis' next competition is this weekend, so there it goes the chance of a world record for free ;).
 
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Darn, only now do I see we actually do have a new separate multiblind category in the WCA results now. Why didn't anybody tell me before I decided to make a mistake?
 
StefanPochmann said:
Darn, only now do I see we actually do have a new separate multiblind category in the WCA results now. Why didn't anybody tell me before I decided to make a mistake?
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Because we assumed you would know about the WCA rules AND had some insider-information about the WCA-result database AND because we don't want you to be nr. 1 ;)
 
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