Dallas Open 2009

Bob said:
Anthony said:
Maybe Shelley can come into Dallas on Wednesday or Thursday, then after the competition on Saturday, fly to Kansas City. Any chance, Shelley? Bob would probably be up for it. :) Then she could go to both competitions and visit her parents.
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I hope you don't mean I'm up for the part about coming in before Friday. I have to do that W-word. :/
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You mean.... Wwwworrrk? :eek:. Anyway, I meant that you would probably be willing to go to the Dallas competition and then head out for the Kansas City one. I was suggesting that maybe Shelley could come in early to visit her parents. Sound possible? :)
 
Hey guys,

As the competition draws closer, I just want to post a few quick reminders:

  1. First, if you haven't pre-registered yet and are planning on coming, please pre-register. All the information is available here:

    http://texasspeedcubing.org/events/2009dallasopen.php
  2. At the request of one of the competitors, we have added Square-1 as an event. If you have already signed up and would like to compete in Square-1 as well, please send me an email at [email protected] .
  3. There are still available rooms at the hotel (Hyatt Regency). They are available for $99 a night, so if you are interested, check out the website for more information.
I think that's pretty much it at this point. Make sure to tell all of your friends about the competition (the more, the merrier :)).

Until then, happy cubing.
-Sapan Upadhyay
 
IamWEB said:
Well that was fast! 30 already, so how about 35 before comp. day? 40? 100? OVER 9,000!?
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All I'm hoping for is 35, that's enough to cover all the expenses. Plus, the less we have, the easier it will be to run and things will most likely go more smoothly. At least we'll have Bob there to help out this time. :)
 
Since we can change our events on the morning of the competition, it's safe to assume that we can remove some too.
I want to remove 3x3x3 OH. Even though it can be fun whether you're good or not, I don't want to DNF 2 or 3 solves or go through the whole solve 2 or 3 times because I don't know most of my LL algs move-by-move, that's no fun.

I'm also competing in 2x2x2, which I didn't sign up for originally.
 
This is going to be my first contest. Is their anything I need to know? Also, will there be any opportunity to practice with the timers? Lastly, how many cubes should I bring?
 
@IamWEB: No problem, it shouldn't be a problem.

@James: Well, just make sure to be somewhat familiar with the basics of competition solving. We'll go over everything (and it's really not that hard), but if you just glance at some of the rules it may make the entire process go slightly smoother.

Besides that, there's not much. Bring as many cubes/puzzles/whatever as you want, and plan to have fun!
 
I actually wish the competition didn't get here so fast... I want more practice! :P Just under a week and a half after exams, but I'm trying to make the best of it.
In fact, I'm about to go practice right now.
 
We finally hit 35, 1 more person today signed up. 2 signed up yesterday...

If anyone has any extra cubes they want to sell for like $12 or less, just bring them all!



*cough*Anthony*cough*haha
 
THAT WAS FUN!!!

Nice meeting everyone to. Turns out that I suck at instructing Team BLD, but do pretty good solving.
Anthony I should have stuck with my cube for the 2x2x2 finals, the 4.xx and 5.xx were with my own. And then I use yours and get a 9.xx, DNF, and something else. :P

Why is it that I never saw Bob compete?

For my VERY FIRST competition, I won a medal! 2nd place in 2x2x2 average, right behind you know who... Anthony.

So much fun, I can't wait to go to my next competition. :D

I forgot to ask Takao Hashimoto for an autograph, lol. I wish he could have had success on the Square-1 BLD, his memo time was like 13 minutes! o_o

I got nice footage and nice pictures, too. Unfortunately my camera battery ran down before the 2nd round of the cubes, but there are pictures on phones of my times.

2x2x2: I feel like a beast. 2nd place in the final in my first comp? YEAH. Had some 'decent/bad' solves, and then some really good ones too. Can't wait to have the results up.

3x3x3: I did pretty good considering the nervousness of the first round. I was really hoping for better, but competition times aren't usually as good anyway. So I'm satisfied with the results... but I was SO CLOSE to the getting in the final round.

4x4x4: Had 2 horrible solves in both rounds, bad edge cases and some mistakes during the edges.... But I had some good solves to. Barely made to the final round. :)

Pyraminx: Anthony, tell Trevor that I said thanks for teaching me how to solve the Pyraminx in a matter of a few minutes. Next thing I know I'm competing in it. :P

Judging was interesting, too.

What are the chances of having another competition in the Fall? You already know that the turnout will be good if we have one... Austin had one back in November, and then again back in February. This is Dallas' second competition only, the 1st in 4 years. But now that there's been one again, my hopes are up. :)

I loved today. Best day of the summer so far, might remain that way. I loved this... now time to practice again.

EDIT FROM THE FUTURE: Nope, it wasn't the best day of the summer! Houston Open 2009.
 
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Yeah, it was a lot of fun.

Sapan and I are debating about the next date. July seems too soon, August is when US Nationals is, September is when school is starting up, October is WC, November is a long time away.. So we're not sure yet, I'm sure we'll fit it in somewhere. Hopefully everyone shows up again.

Overall, the competition ran smoother than the last two, but could of been much better. We fell about an 45 minutes behind schedule. :p Oh well, it seemed like everyone enjoyed it and that was the point. Venue was really nice in my opinion, could of been bigger, but extremely nice nonetheless.

I didn't think I would compete as much as I did, I jumped into MultiBLD, Pyraminx, 4x4, and Clock at the last minute, so I didn't do too bad considering I haven't practiced them in a while. I didn't get sub 15 in 3x3 though. :( At least I got slightly closer than my last competition.

Two weeks and I'll be at TOS! I guess I should buy a good 3x3, all mine suck right now..

Time to chill out and practice. :)
 
If you're getting a new cube, I know where the one you just in the final round could go...
July wouldn't be too soon for me. It does kind of seem that way, being next month, but think about it. What about it would make it a problem?

lol we could do July AND November. =P

You may have jumped into events on the spot, but I least you didn't learn 10 minutes before! xD
Early august doesn't sound bad if you really don't want it as early as next month (I want another as early as tomorrow :P). Yes Nationals are in the same month, but come on, that's a 30 days, they could be like 2 weeks apart. :)




EDIT: Sorry about the Me: "F', the other way, F2, U', F', U'" You: "Screw This *removes blindfold*
 
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haha... I love your enthusiasm IamWEB, but having another competition in a month is just too soon. There's quite a lot of work that goes into organizing a competition, and I need a break :/

Though I think that having a competition sometime in mid- to late- October will work out best. Even though that's when the World Championships are taking place, I don't think anyone from Texas will probably go (international flights are just too expensive :/)

It's just a thought, and we're more than happy to take suggestions.

Though it probably will be in Austin, and I don't think that's really up for debate. Unless someone's willing to do the grunt work elsewhere :/
 
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