Bristol Spring 2010

[scotzbhoy]

By the way Erik, I finally got round to going through all the video I took. Got a bit of footage of you, do you want me to send it to you?

 

[04mucklowd]

An article that is going to go into my school paper
Note: it will probably change
Feel free to comment

On March 26th, two Sixth Form students Andy Coghill and Daniel Mucklow attended the 2 day Spring Rubik’s Cube competition in Bristol. This was a second visit but their first to be completed over 2 days. An early start found lots of other competitors from various countries such as Hungary, Belgium, Holland, Israel, France and even China, already practising speed solving. The main action started at 9am with a competition to solve a Rubik’s cubes blindfolded. There are usually several practice rounds followed by the final competing round. The competitions are under strict timing conditions and are closely monitored.
Both Andy and Daniel competed in most of the events, such as Rubik’s Cube, 2x2 cube, 4x4 cube, 5x5 cube, 6x6 cube, Rubik’s Cube one handed, Rubik’s Magic, Pyraminx cube and even Megaminx cube. Both boys did quite well in these, regularly coming in the top 10.
Daniel was lucky enough to set a National Record in the Megaminx ( 12 sided cube) event with a time of 1 minute and 35 seconds, with an average time of 1 minute and 46 seconds, just edging rival Chris Ness from Scotland, who finished up with an a time of 1 minute and 43 seconds.
Second day saw a world record set by Simon Crawford from Nottingham in the Square-1 event.
The overall competition was won by Erik Akkersdijk from Holland with an average time of 10 seconds. Erik holds 3 world records currently and has formerly held many world records in 5 different events and is a former world champion in the Megaminx event. So, it was not surprising that he won this competition!
The boys are looking forward to attending some more of these events later in the year and hope to set new records in different events.
Daniel is ranked 16th in the UK for the Rubik’s Cube with a time of 14 seconds, with Andrew not far behind ranked 24th with a time of 17 seconds.

 

[kinch2002]

There are usually several practice rounds followed by the final competing round.

Eh?

 

[CharlieCooper]

There are usually several practice rounds followed by the final competing round.

Eh?

Lol another fine example of crap interpretation of cuber comments :rolleyes:

Not quite as bad as the Daily Mail inventing a dialogue I had with my mother aged 6 in Hamley's toy shop...

 

[r_517]

An article that is going to go into my school paper
Note: it will probably change
Feel free to comment

Spoiler

On March 26th, two Sixth Form students Andy Coghill and Daniel Mucklow attended the 2 day Spring Rubik’s Cube competition in Bristol. This was a second visit but their first to be completed over 2 days. An early start found lots of other competitors from various countries such as Hungary, Belgium, Holland, Israel, France and even China, already practising speed solving. The main action started at 9am with a competition to solve a Rubik’s cubes blindfolded. There are usually several practice rounds followed by the final competing round. The competitions are under strict timing conditions and are closely monitored.
Both Andy and Daniel competed in most of the events, such as Rubik’s Cube, 2x2 cube, 4x4 cube, 5x5 cube, 6x6 cube, Rubik’s Cube one handed, Rubik’s Magic, Pyraminx cube and even Megaminx cube. Both boys did quite well in these, regularly coming in the top 10.
Daniel was lucky enough to set a National Record in the Megaminx ( 12 sided cube) event with a time of 1 minute and 35 seconds, with an average time of 1 minute and 46 seconds, just edging rival Chris Ness from Scotland, who finished up with an a time of 1 minute and 43 seconds.
Second day saw a world record set by Simon Crawford from Nottingham in the Square-1 event.
The overall competition was won by Erik Akkersdijk from Holland with an average time of 10 seconds. Erik holds 3 world records currently and has formerly held many world records in 5 different events and is a former world champion in the Megaminx event. So, it was not surprising that he won this competition!
The boys are looking forward to attending some more of these events later in the year and hope to set new records in different events.
Daniel is ranked 16th in the UK for the Rubik’s Cube with a time of 14 seconds, with Andrew not far behind ranked 24th with a time of 17 seconds.

(assuming i'm a non-cuber) this article is weird. what's Magic? is it a finger trick? why a cubing competition has something to do with magic? oh what's a megaminx? how can it have 12 faces??? is it a monster? oh what's a pyraminx? what's Square-one? are there any square two, square three or triangle one, circle one???

i greatly appreciate your courage for showing it to teachers/classmates
every time i wrote something like these on my blog, comments like this are too common and annoyed me a lot so that now i only write them on facebook and cubing forums

 

[MTGjumper]

I am famous Actually, my bit needs padding out a bit more

 

[sutty17]

Pyraminx cube ... Megaminx cube ... 12 sided cube

This use of the word cube always annoys me

 

[04mucklowd]

Yer it problably needs a bit more work...
Also the cubers names that I have put in there, do I have your permission to do so?

This use of the word cube always annoys me

Ill change it don't worry

 

[scotzbhoy]

An article that is going to go into my school paper
Note: it will probably change
Feel free to comment

On March 26th, two Sixth Form students Andy Coghill and Daniel Mucklow attended the 2 day Spring Rubik’s Cube competition in Bristol. This was a second visit but their first to be completed over 2 days. An early start found lots of other competitors from various countries such as Hungary, Belgium, Holland, Israel, France and even China, already practising speed solving. The main action started at 9am with a competition to solve a Rubik’s cubes blindfolded. There are usually several practice rounds followed by the final competing round. The competitions are under strict timing conditions and are closely monitored.
Both Andy and Daniel competed in most of the events, such as Rubik’s Cube, 2x2 cube, 4x4 cube, 5x5 cube, 6x6 cube, Rubik’s Cube one handed, Rubik’s Magic, Pyraminx cube and even Megaminx cube. Both boys did quite well in these, regularly coming in the top 10.
Daniel was lucky enough to set a National Record in the Megaminx ( 12 sided cube) event with a time of 1 minute and 35 seconds, with an average time of 1 minute and 46 seconds, just edging rival Chris Ness from Scotland, who finished up with an a time of 1 minute and 43 seconds.
Second day saw a world record set by Simon Crawford from Nottingham in the Square-1 event.
The overall competition was won by Erik Akkersdijk from Holland with an average time of 10 seconds. Erik holds 3 world records currently and has formerly held many world records in 5 different events and is a former world champion in the Megaminx event. So, it was not surprising that he won this competition!
The boys are looking forward to attending some more of these events later in the year and hope to set new records in different events.
Daniel is ranked 16th in the UK for the Rubik’s Cube with a time of 14 seconds, with Andrew not far behind ranked 24th with a time of 17 seconds.

Wait wait wait... that's going in the school paper?
Where did you hear this?