Discovery Science Center 2008

since i won' be able to compete because i have something important on the same day, same time. Would i be able to go inside to spectate.
What time would the competition will end?
 
van21691 said:
since i won' be able to compete because i have something important on the same day, same time. Would i be able to go inside to spectate.
What time would the competition will end?
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Of course. Spectators are always welcome. You'll just have to pay the museum entrance fee to get in.

The museum closes at 5pm. Ideally we're supposed to be done by then.
 
w0000t, i managed to con a flight coupon out of my work. i'll be in at 8:30 am tomorrow morning, but i'll have to work out of our lax or sna office until mid/late afternoon. i should have a company vehicle also, so me and the v.c.'s will be there for sure, and free after about 3-5 pm.
 
dChan said:
Shelley, do you know if anything will be happening aftert he competition? Like everyone going somewhere afterwards?
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Nothing's been formally decided yet. We usually figure these things out sometime between the award ceremony and dinner time.
 
Yeah, you can show up and register on Saturday morning, no problem. We have an online pre-registration set up, but that's mostly just to give us an idea of how many people to expect so we can plan our events and scheduling accordingly. Everyone will have to register at the competition anyway.
 
Dan Dzoan, 13.04 1st round average.
Tyson go all 3 BLDs.
Takao won Sq-1...

Most was was bad, really.

qqwref's best 5x5x5 was 1:44. :(

All my results were really bad, except an 11.74 in the finals. :)
(1:37.66 BLD, and was stupid on the next two.)
(Oh, and 2:05 5x5x5, but Kai's probably beaten that. I had a LOT of parities on 4x4x4 - first solve had two center corrections and both parities.)
 
it was pretty cool, I beat all my records. I didn't compete in BLD though.

Also, I played with Clancey's 7x7x7 and 6x6x6, the 7x7x7 was pretty cool, but the 6x6x6 was soo unstable and felt like it would explode any second [which it did, a little]. I'm glad i was able to play with them because it persuaded me to not buy them when they are released, maybe the 5x5x5 though, I didn't get to test it out. :D
 
ThePizzaGuy92 said:
it was pretty cool, I beat all my records. I didn't compete in BLD though.

Also, I played with Clancey's 7x7x7 and 6x6x6, the 7x7x7 was pretty cool, but the 6x6x6 was soo unstable and felt like it would explode any second [which it did, a little]. I'm glad i was able to play with them because it persuaded me to not buy them when they are released, maybe the 5x5x5 though, I didn't get to test it out. :D
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yeah it was a bad for 6x6's , i found out an internal piece was missing that had been popped early in the day, so it was extra unruly and popped easily. most people really enjoyed the 5x5 and 7x7, but the 6 wasn't as popular, i think once people get their own and can learn to actually control it (like any even cube) it won't be such an issue, as frank does sub 4's and i do sub 5's so its not that bad. sorry you had a bad experience, although i wouldn't say it warranted some of the comments you made, i understand the problems with the 6x6. going so far to say that makes it so you won't get any of them, i think you'll be robbing yourself, but if you'd liike another chance to mess with them, i'll be at berkeley.
 
As far as the times the competition went well enough. Nothing really special happened, none of the top averages for any of the events were that good. Lucas got a crazy sub-12 speedsolve though, and I got my first official sub-14.

I got my 4x4 lost though (what is it with me and puzzles seriously). I ended up using my eastsheen for the first two solves (1:15 and 1:07, ewww, I hate ES 4x4) and keemu's 4x4 for the last three (which got me acceptable times at least). So maybe I could have had a better average, if I'd just tried out a bunch of people's rubik's 4x4s before the event. Bah.

Congrats to Dan Cohen for his ridiculous 5x5 times at Cornell. You can totally see my lack of practice in my times. I was even using a V-cube (but you can't claim it's responsible for my speed or anything :P). Oddly enough, a camera crew at the competition filmed my last 5x5 solve as an example, and it turned out it was my best solve of the five.

I have to agree with Clancy, his 7x7 is the best-turning puzzle he has. I spent a lot of time on that thing after the competition, and I'm not quite used to turning it but it's really awesome to play with it. I got 25:04.32 doing it OH, 9:12 something with K4, 3:08.43 on square group, and 6:01.16 on a normal solve (probably 6:30ish average but I didn't keep track). Awesome cube.

(Incidentally, if anyone was wondering, if you have a cube of mine and you are not a member of Team # or the Caltech Cube Club I want it back. If you don't know what Team # is you are not a member.)
 
qqwref said:
(Incidentally, if anyone was wondering, if you have a cube of mine and you are not a member of Team # or the Caltech Cube Club I want it back. If you don't know what Team # is you are not a member.)
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What are you missing? I know at Princeton a lot of people had cubes go missing, and it seems like there was someone actually stealing. Do you think that happened there also?
 
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