Discovery Science Center 2009

Yo, sorry to bump a three-month old topic, but we just had this competition.

Did you know...:
- Phillip Espinoza got the fastest time, a sub-10?
- With a connected F2L pair, OLL skip, and U perm?
- And I judged it and started clapping before I even saw the time because it was such a good single solve?
- My sum of the fastest 3x3 time I've had in competition and the fastest 3x3 time I've judged in competition is now only 20.03, probably one of the best in the world?
- I used three different color schemes (ridiculous, Japanese, Western) in the three different rounds? (Am I the first to do this and not do poorly?)
- And still got a sub-17 average in each round?
- Dropping my Type F the wrong way can make seven edge caps fall off?
- This counts as a DNF?
- Leyan Lo finally beat Chris Krueger's BLD time, which means Krueger has to start practicing again?
- Dene got exactly a 1:00.00 OH time (on purpose)? And Adam Zamora got a 1:00.01 OH? (Also Xavier Perez got a 1:00.03 2h, and Arthur Dunn got a 1:00.06 2h.)
- The guy with the fastest Square-1 single ended up with a DNF average?
- Even Dene Beardsley cannot pull off a perfect Square-1 scramble?
- We did 6x6 but due to harsh time constraints only allowed people who were certain to be under 4 minutes to do it?
- I somehow managed to get under 3?
- We didn't have time to do any other bigcubes?
- I finally came in the top three (3rd) in the 3x3 event in a competition?
- I finally came in the top three (3rd) in the 3x3 OH event in a California competition?
- Leyan Lo's girlfriend has all of the letters of "rubik's cube" somewhere in her name?
- It was Adam Zamora's birthday, so he got cake for lunch and free pancakes for dinner?
- Lord of the Rings Trivial Pursuit (film version) is really hard if you haven't seen any of the movies in about six years?
- Devin and I (who both hadn't seen the movies in about six years) both managed to get one question right anyway?
 
That was a great competition. I did very, very badly on my first solve due to not having been to a competition in a year (made me very nervous). I also did not think I made it to the final round so I ended up having to go into the final round with hands that were sticking to the cube(I didn't get to wash my hands). Oh, and darn you, Michael for owning me in the OH round!

Congratulations to all the winners and especially to Tyler who got 3rd place in the blindfolded event! That was an awesome competition.
 
...
- This is the first time I got all three BLD solves since US Open 2007?

- Jeremy Fleischman won the Best Pants Award?

- I almost submitted a perfect worksheet, if not for the fact that Cody Heise forgot to fill in his WCA ID during online pre-registration?

Yeah, partly my fault because I thought I had already checked the people signed up online for IDs, but it turns out I missed one. Still, learn your WCA IDs people. When you don't fill it in, it makes our lives that much harder.

And when I say our, I mean my.

You bums.
 
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dChan said:
I also did not think I made it to the final round so I ended up having to go into the final round with hands that were sticking to the cube(I didn't get to wash my hands).
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You should've asked - there was a bathroom pretty much right outside the doors, and we could've waited a minute for you to wash your hands. I actually washed my hands twice during the competition just because I thought they were getting a bit sticky.
 
Why do I always fail so miserably? I got my first in comp PLL skip... too bad I popped that solve and put an edge back in the wrong way. Gah, I swear Dene is bad luck when he's judging.
 
I washed my hands at least 5 times during that competition :p .

Anyway, I got Jeremy's OH avg on film, and Shelley's last bld solve, which also happened to be her worst time, but oh well. It just so happens that in the background is Leyan getting his 1:11, but because I wasn't on to it, I stopped filming basically at the exact time that he finished. I will get the vids up on YT eventually.
 
That was my first competition ever. 'Twas good times.

btdub that Adam guy (the one with the Disneyland birthday pin) was the silkest i've ever seen.
 
Yeah, I was not sure whether or not you guys were waiting for a while (Tyler called me back into the competition area so I assumed I had been out for a long while). I definitely should have asked for a minute to wash my hands. It would have made things so much better. Still, I had a great time, anyhow.

Dene was actually the only judge I actually knew so it made it a bit easier to solve. So I must disagree with Ellis!
 
Dene said:
I washed my hands at least 5 times during that competition :p .

Anyway, I got Jeremy's OH avg on film, and Shelley's last bld solve, which also happened to be her worst time, but oh well. It just so happens that in the background is Leyan getting his 1:11, but because I wasn't on to it, I stopped filming basically at the exact time that he finished. I will get the vids up on YT eventually.
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I got Leyan's 1:11 but it has pretty bad camera-work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJwb5EMmIyE
 
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