Czech Open 2009

Ton said:
AvGalen said:
Erik and I have 2 places left in the car. If you can be at Schiphol at 18:00 or Enschede at 20:00 you can have a free trip.

You have to travel light because we don't have much room for bagage (we are taking a lot of Ton's stuff)

PM me or Erik if you want to join
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Lol, but I have a good reason, as I bring mine and Ron's competition equipment+ Rubik's gift bag and 57 new Rubik's medals
Czech
2006 19 competitors ( 2 timers) 9 events , 1 WR
2007 26 competitors ( 4 timers) 16 events , 5 WRs
2008 44 competitors ( 6 timers) 15 events , 1 WR
2009 55 competitors ( 10 timers) 19 events , 2 WR
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2006 19 competitors ( 2 timers) 9 events , 2 WRs?
 
Czech Open was a great tournament for me personally. I broke some very old PB's that I was afraid wouldn't be broken ever. All of the averages (except OH) I broke were not just PB in competition, but also PB at home!

3x3x3: 20.30 average (was 21.29). It could have been sub 20 if I didn't become so nervous after the first 3 great solves
5x5x5: 2:04.93 average (was 2:08.29)
5x5x5: 1:55.53 single (was 2:02.25). I did my first sub 2 ever with 1:57.53 and then I broke it again. Finally getting sub 2 was SUCH a great feeling
3x3x3_oh: 38.21 (was 39.79). The last two solves were horrible so I hope to break this one soon.
megaminx: 2:37.86 average (was 3:03.89 last week and 3:06.32 before that). I really don't know where this came from. They weren't even good or easy solves
megaminx: 2:29.78 single (was 2:36.90). I can do sub 2:30????
square-1: 55.75 average (was 56.48). The worst solve (for me) was the new WR (for Piotr). I saw that it was a very special scramble and tried to solve it "fmc-style" but failed. Someone has this on camera and I must look like a crazy men, constantly pointing at the puzzle and not turning for many seconds while trying to solve the entire thing in my head (failing)
7x7x7: 6:22.28 average (was 6:50.01). Uhmmmm, what??? Must have been a timer that was running slower. My 7x7x7 turns very bad and pops often but somehow I managed to do decent centers, excellent edges and very good 3x3x3 3 times in a row. I guess Stefan has some catching up to do now ;)
7x7x7: 6:17.94 single (was 6:29.15). This solve had > 4 minutes centers and I was afraid of not making 7 minutes and generally sucking. But my pairing was done in about 1:30 and 3x3x3 in about 35 seconds.

The only bad things were DNF-ing FMC because I wrote down my safety solve wrong (wrong A-Perm) and not qualifying for 6x6x6 (POPperdePOPperdePOP) and 4x4x4 (just not sub 1:20 often enough)

Also, Clement Gallet DNF-ed both his 3x3x3_blind solves for the first time ever and now the statistics page is not working anymore. Coincidence, I think not ;)
 
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I have picture's of Czech Open 2009 , tonight I'll post it and most of pictures are my photo's with Hungarians cubers and Polska cubers ( and special Tom Tom Zaba) and I feel sorry that I have commanded him to cut his hair ;( .

So at WC 2009 he will wear a WIG or he can lean it from Gael Dusser's hair ;)
 
I want to thank you :

AVG , who has carried my Rice cooker , Water cooker, Ton's stuff, my clean cloths , hair dryer, RICE , noodle soups hihihihih in his car so I must thank to your car too ;) so tonight my stuff's will be back to my home .
 
Crazycubemom said:
I want to thank you :

AVG , who has carried my Rice cooker , Water cooker, Ton's stuff, my clean cloths , hair dryer, RICE , noodle soups hihihihih in his car so I must thank to your car too ;) so tonight my stuff's will be back to my home .
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Your stuff will be brought back to your house. Because of all the travelling we should test if it still works. You can test Ton's stuff, the clean clothes and the hair dryer another time ;)
 
joey said:
Wow arnaud, they are some impressive results!
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It was very warm in there and there were many pretty girls and women. I was also feeling very happy after UK Open and I felt "warmed up" from doing solves there. All of these are factors I consider very beneficial to my times.

But getting this many PB's and by such a big margin after many years of cubing was very unexpected. It also really raised the bar for future tournaments :o
 
Not many people can use a competition to "warm up" for their next competiton :p

Did you know?
- joey had text erik, with ":D", about the 5x5 WR before Erik had even done anymore solves :P
 
 
Escher said:
Is it just me, or did Arnaud actually say that if you mess with me then Charlie will mess with you below the waist!?!
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Yes, Arnaud said that "if Oliver would mess with Arnaud, Charlie would mess with him, below the waist".

This might require a little background information:
1) Messin' is the process of putting your hand on someones shoulder followed by a friendly push while saying 'messin'. It was pretty popular during UK Masters and we developed many variations like surprise messin', remote messin', dual messin', pinguin messin', etc
2) Oliver is a giant
3) Charlie is....n't


(I haven't actually watched the video's because youtube is blocked at work)
 
AvGalen said:
Escher said:
Is it just me, or did Arnaud actually say that if you mess with me then Charlie will mess with you below the waist!?!
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Yes, Arnaud said that "if Oliver would mess with Arnaud, Charlie would mess with him, below the waist".

This might require a little background information:
1) Messin' is the process of putting your hand on someones shoulder followed by a friendly push while saying 'messin'. It was pretty popular during UK Masters and we developed many variations like surprise messin', remote messin', dual messin', pinguin messin', etc
2) Oliver is a giant
3) Charlie is....n't


(I haven't actually watched the video's because youtube is blocked at work)
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Haha, okay, I see.
 
it's not that hard compared to saying: nejkulatoulinkatesji really fast ;) (it's Czech meaning 'the most round')

p.s. I actually succeeded on saying it better than a Czech guy who never heard of the word after a while.

p.s. 2


lost: my sunglasses ... :S

Edit: extra did you know:
- that with the 2 9's I got at Czech I now have a total of 10 sub-10's?
 
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