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Confirmed going. Woot.
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Best mystery puzzle planned... ever...
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Wait, did Lucas tell you?
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Looking forward to this ^o^
Why am I still awake? O_o
ALSO! I'll be selling a lot of puzzles, particularly 3x3s (for $5 or less; just ask), Maru Lubes ($3 each; 4 in stock) and Skewbs ($9; 6 in stock). Not that anyone would see this in time ;-;
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Why am I still awake? O_o
ALSO! I'll be selling a lot of puzzles, particularly 3x3s (for $5 or less; just ask), Maru Lubes ($3 each; 4 in stock) and Skewbs ($9; 6 in stock). Not that anyone would see this in time ;-;
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For those who missed it:
The mystery puzzle was a team BLD variant. I'm not sure what it should be called, but I'm calling it "dueling team BLD" for now. Basically, we had several teams do regular team BLD first, and then we took the top two teams (four people) competing in another team BLD solve for one prize. The idea then was that you're competing not only against the other team, but also against your "teammate": the blindfolded team member was supposed to solve the cube, and the caller was supposed to solve it into the superflip. Whoever finished first (and in the correct position) would win.
As it happened, I think it would have been better to just let one team do the second round. The team of Brandon and Nathaniel beat Vincent and Chia-Wei basically by agreeing beforehand to let Nathaniel win--Nathaniel just did a regular solve, then called "do a superflip," and Brandon obliged. We tried it some more at dinner afterwards, though, and I had ridiculous amounts of fun. My favorite methods: 1) Solve into a position with between four and eight edges flipped, then either correct them or flip the others. 2) Roux. 3) Methods weirder than Roux. (Against Lucas, I solved all four F2L pairs first, without the cross, then did COLL and finished with M, U, and S, making sure to incorporate item (1) as well. For his part, he disobeyed some of my instructions, especially when I was telling him things like "flip all edges on L... okay, x'... okay, now flip all edges on D... now flip all edges in the S orbit...")
Oh, also, Lucas organized a mystery puzzle in which Jeremy had to write "Stanford" 20 times (since he'd misspelled it on the scramble sheets or something), and I had to write "Berkeley" 20 times. I won by 2-3 seconds, although someone who joined as a third or fourth competitor beat us both by quite a bit.
The mystery puzzle was a team BLD variant. I'm not sure what it should be called, but I'm calling it "dueling team BLD" for now. Basically, we had several teams do regular team BLD first, and then we took the top two teams (four people) competing in another team BLD solve for one prize. The idea then was that you're competing not only against the other team, but also against your "teammate": the blindfolded team member was supposed to solve the cube, and the caller was supposed to solve it into the superflip. Whoever finished first (and in the correct position) would win.
As it happened, I think it would have been better to just let one team do the second round. The team of Brandon and Nathaniel beat Vincent and Chia-Wei basically by agreeing beforehand to let Nathaniel win--Nathaniel just did a regular solve, then called "do a superflip," and Brandon obliged. We tried it some more at dinner afterwards, though, and I had ridiculous amounts of fun. My favorite methods: 1) Solve into a position with between four and eight edges flipped, then either correct them or flip the others. 2) Roux. 3) Methods weirder than Roux. (Against Lucas, I solved all four F2L pairs first, without the cross, then did COLL and finished with M, U, and S, making sure to incorporate item (1) as well. For his part, he disobeyed some of my instructions, especially when I was telling him things like "flip all edges on L... okay, x'... okay, now flip all edges on D... now flip all edges in the S orbit...")
Oh, also, Lucas organized a mystery puzzle in which Jeremy had to write "Stanford" 20 times (since he'd misspelled it on the scramble sheets or something), and I had to write "Berkeley" 20 times. I won by 2-3 seconds, although someone who joined as a third or fourth competitor beat us both by quite a bit.
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Antagonistic team BLD does work better when it's not timed. Confusing your solver with convoluted methods and random edge flipping is where all the entertainment comes from.
Lucas Garron
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For me, it's all about the disobedient retaliation.
"Flip the four top edges"
* flips only UF and UR
Tim Reynolds
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I don't get it. Everything you're describing sounds like regular Team BLD with Bob.
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