Chattahoochee!

[ExoCorsair]

Psh, 5x5.

 

[watermelon]

Nice job on the 4x4 Jason! What happened on 3x3 though o.O?

 

[Hadley4000]

Nice job on the 4x4 Jason! What happened on 3x3 though o.O?

Many pops.

 

[Tim Reynolds]

Yeah, I wasn't that happy with the magic results either. The 1.12 was cool though, and the DNF was a 1.21, so that would have been a 1.23 average if the DNF had been a 1.21 solved.

I was exactly a minute behind Chris in the 3x3 BLD =)

Nice job Freddie Yuan, coming in third at his first ever competition. Pretty impressive.

 

[Freddie Yuan]

Hey Tim, thanks for being honest. You did a better job than me throughout the whole competition though.

 

[cubekid57]

Yeah, the competiton was awesome, great job freddie! Sub 20 avgs amaze me! I was the kid with the grey cube shirt that asked you what algs you use. Jason Baum's avg. would have been a ton better if it weren't for the pop and the dnf!

 

[cubekid57]

I got nervous on my 5x5 solves and didn't get one sub 5!

 

[Mike Hughey]

Hi! I've been without internet access for about a week (and still will be for a couple more days), but I have a chance now to get on for a few minutes so I thought I'd give my impressions. So here's my competition report:

It was a great competition! Andrew and company did a great job - he (and his team) went to great efforts to make it all as nice as possible, and they were very successful, in my opinion. It was disappointing for me because of missing all 3 big cubes BLD , but I'm trying to look at it in a positive light. My 2 4x4x4 DNFs were 13:xx and 17:xx, and both were off by just 2 pieces - the first by 2 edges and the second by 2 centers. The second scramble was simply awful - it was even bad for Chris; he was still memorizing at the 7 minute mark (although he finished solving before the 10 minute mark - a DNF, but I don't think it was a bad DNF). I took 9:xx to memorize it. My 5x5x5 DNF was pretty scrambled when I was done; I must have misoriented it. When I finished, I was sure I got it, and put it down excitedly expecting to hear applause, but there wasn't any. Then I pulled off the blindfold and saw it was totally scrambled. At least my memorization was really good. It took 24:5x, so it was a pretty fast solve for me. Chris really had a pretty easy scramble for his world record - there were a bunch of + centers already solved. Still an amazing accomplishment for him!

Due to missing the big cubes BLD and some amazing speed performances, I felt more like a speedcuber than a BLD cuber this time - it was weird. I beat my personal best on a 5x5x5 speed average by something like 15 seconds!!!! How often does that happen? I have no idea why I was so fast. I've only had 3 solves sub-3 on a 5x5x5, and 2 of them were in this competition! And I finally got a sub-30 average on the 3x3x3, in the second round. And the 4x4x4 was sub-2. Amazing speed results for me. And it was nice to get back in the top 100 for 3x3x3 BLD (even if it will probably only last a few weeks).

But the best was my daughters. Marie got into the semifinal round (since they only left out a few people for the semifinals), and she had a really good average for her. And the Magic and Master Magic were fun - Rebecca (my seven-year-old) is now ranked 85th in the world at Master Magic averages. Ahead of Arnaud and Dan Cohen! (I have a feeling they'll be actually practicing Master Magic now before their next competitions.)

After the competition, Chris and I spent about 4 hours talking big cubes BLD at Starbucks. We did a couple of 4x4x4 team BLD solves (12 minutes with Chris making moves, 15 minutes with me making moves), and we both solved for each other to watch a couple of times. I got a couple more DNFs. I was pretty upset about having all DNFs that day, but at the end of the evening Chris and I had a handicap 4x4x4 BLD race. He gave me a 6-minute advantage, and I beat him by 2 minutes, and I FINALLY got one right! My time was 12 minutes, I think.

Since then we've been on vacation, and coincidentally we were going to go to Charleston SC, which is where the Satterfields live. So we visited them, which was fun. Joshua is getting close to learning to do 3x3x3 BLD; he'll probably get his first one in another week or two.

Great times. Just a really fun competition.

 

[masterofthebass]

Thanks Mike... I love how my master magic average is horrific, Especially when my personal best is like 2.38 or something. I've actually had my magic broken since kearny, it's just sitting on a shelf, waiting to be put back together.

Anyway, congratulations on your speed results. Maybe you'll take a break from BLD and start getting good at speed.

 

[Feanaro]

Hey Tim, thanks for being honest. You did a better job than me throughout the whole competition though.

Hey man great job at the competition, you smoked me in blindsolving.....who knew. You must have crammed for like days.