Captains Cove 2011

[a small kitten]

Welcome to the club.

 

[JyH]

Decent competition for me. PB single and average (3x3), although they still were not very good.
Funny Moments:
"Andy, see how fast you can do R,U x63."
*13.xx, non-cuber lady and her friends come over*
"THAT WAS AMAZING!!! DO THAT AGAIN!"
Oh, non-cubers...The joy of outdoor competitions...

Also, while I was practicing, and man just stared at me solving. Said he was an LA TV producer or something, and started filming...Of course he says I might be cheating, so he takes the cube and scrambles it. Then he gives it do Adomes, WTF! Of course Adomes fails, and gets a 30.xx :fp.

 

[Andrew Ricci]

Decent competition for me. PB single and average (3x3), although they still were not very good.
Funny Moments:
"Andy, see how fast you can do R,U x63."
*13.xx, non-cuber lady and her friends come over*
"THAT WAS AMAZING!!! DO THAT AGAIN!"
Oh, non-cubers...The joy of outdoor competitions...

That was really stupid. xD I tried to tell them that I didn't actually solve it, but that lady wouldn't listen.

 

[Kian]

Excellent story at Kian's expense:

On the fourth solve in the semifinal, Kian was solving, and because it was a bit windy, the scorecard blew off the table onto Kian's cube. He got a 16.xx on the solve. But this was pretty clearly an unfair distraction, so in accordance with the WCA regulations, we gave him a replacement solve. On the replacement, he got a 20.xx. Now, since Kian had already gotten a 23.xx, the 20 counted. So, because he did the replacement solve, Kian's average was more than a second worse. He missed the finals by about .3 seconds.

The best part of this story is that I wasn't going to take an extra solve and actually just said "eh, whatever it's no big deal" to Bob when he suggested I do one. Then Tim convinced me to, though. Thanks, Tim.