Dutch Open 2008

[CharlieCooper]

No certainly not Arnaud, I would love to stay at you place.

It's just the fact that you already offered to a number of people and I know a some of them are (poor) students who have to travel a lot further than I do, so I didn't want to intervene.

But if no one bites, I'll do

how thoughtful!

i'll go with the majority, whatever that may be, i just need to know kind of in advance so i can book a train to either eindhoven/arnaud's place

 

[Erik]

I still need to book a room as well and so did Erik

Anyone else?

affirmative, though I only need a room at sat-sun...

 

[jazzthief81]

I still need to book a room as well and so did Erik

Anyone else?

affirmative, though I only need a room at sat-sun...

Now that we got the ball rolling: let's discuss this on MSN

 

[TobiasDaneels]

I just enrolled myself for the Dutch Open.
I will only be participating on Sunday.

I'm really looking forward to seeing you guys next week.

 

[AvGalen]

I just enrolled myself for the Dutch Open.
I will only be participating on Sunday.

I'm really looking forward to seeing you guys next week.

Damn, now I have no chance of winning

 

[CharlieCooper]

arnaud, i am dying of boredom. i want it to be friday now please!

 

[AvGalen]

arnaud, i am dying of boredom. i want it to be friday now please!

Sorry, but you should ask Frank Morris to make that happen.

 

[Kenny]

The 4 of us are arriving early Friday to Valkenswaard (where the place to stay at is supposed to be...I guess)...if nothing goes wrong. (by us meaning Hungarians ) But I take it everyone's gonna be "partying" at Arnaud's , so we won't have anyone to meet that day later on.

 

[AvGalen]

The 4 of us are arriving early Friday to Valkenswaard (where the place to stay at is supposed to be...I guess)...if nothing goes wrong. (by us meaning Hungarians ) But I take it everyone's gonna be "partying" at Arnaud's , so we won't have anyone to meet that day later on.

Sorry, but I "stole" about 6 or 7 people that will stay at my place on Friday and Saturdaynight. But I promise we will not just race back to my place after the competition is over so there will be plenty of fun on saturday and sunday as well.

 

[Ton]

Sorry, but I "stole" about 6 or 7 people that will stay at my place on Friday and Saturdaynight. But I promise we will not just race back to my place after the competition is over so there will be plenty of fun on saturday and sunday as well.

*** Warning **** this means , fun ,go to sleep very late ....


btw make sure Arnaud leaves on time....

 

[CharlieCooper]

btw make sure Arnaud leaves on time....

if arnaud has got me to the airport on time before, i'm sure he can manage this... right?? :confused::confused:

edit: having said that, it doesn't seem that arnaud can get *himself* to the airport on time, yet he can others

 

[AvGalen]

btw make sure Arnaud leaves on time....

if arnaud has got me to the airport on time before, i'm sure he can manage this... right?? :confused::confused:

edit: having said that, it doesn't seem that arnaud can get *himself* to the airport on time, yet he can others

.....It was all Joëls fault

 

[Erik]

I'll probably won't be able to stay at Arnaud's after all
Dennis has no transportation so I guess I have to go to his and drive him and Anika. If he can get the car that is..

 

[Laetitia]

So, Dennis, please keep Erik awake
Charlie and I want him to get bad times at minxes (pyra and mega)

 

[AvGalen]

I'll probably won't be able to stay at Arnaud's after all
Dennis has no transportation so I guess I have to go to his and drive him and Anika. If he can get the car that is..

Erik is becoming Dennis private chauffeur
Now we need to make a whole new plan to get everyone in my house because Erik won't be there to show people where I live.

(I am trying to get on MSN, but it won't work. Any other suggestion for discussing?)

 

[Raffael]

Hey Guys / Gals!

I just wanted to ask if anyone who is going to Dutch Open and German Nationals/V_Competition would be willing to buy me one or two sets of Magic strings at the Dutch Open and bring them to Essen next weekend.
Of course I will give you the money back then.

 

[AvGalen]

Hey Guys / Gals!

I just wanted to ask if anyone who is going to Dutch Open and German Nationals/V_Competition would be willing to buy me one or two sets of Magic strings at the Dutch Open and bring them to Essen next weekend.
Of course I will give you the money back then.

What if I will just give you 2 strings in Essen?
Or wait, how many strings are in a set? 16?

Answer the question and the answer to your previous question will became "yes I will"

 

[Raffael]

oh great!!

16 is correct.

Thanx in advance

 

[guusrs]

FMC scramble

Hi Guys,

Back from Dutch Open, I had a great day.
No WR's (yet) but many PB's and NR's

I only joined to enter FMC.
Not my best solve, I played save, my goal was not to DNF.
Ron (!) won FMC with a one-minute-linear-solve: 31 moves.
Me 2nd: 33 moves.
Gilles vd P. 3th: 35 moves.

The FMC scramble was: D' L2 D2 L2 R2 D' R' U' F L' R' D L' B2 L2 B' F L' D'

****** SPOILER ********
Ron 's solution (select text to unhide)
D F D' L U R2
F2 D2 L
F D' F' L2 F'
z U R U' B U B' U R'
y' L F R' F' L' F R F' U (31)

Appearantly Ron doesn't know about corner insertions. Because for that last 11 moves he could simply have done:
U.U R D R' U' R D' R'.R' U (corner insertion between dots)
which makes 29 moves.

Nevertheless congratz Ron.

Gus

 

[TobiasDaneels]

Hi Guys,just back from Dutch Open.

First things first, this was my first competition ever where there were no world records. A bit sad but we had fun.
As suspected Erik won nearly everything. Also Ron won two events I think, with a great 31 moves solution on FMC.

See you guys next year, or somewhere else off course.