Euro 2010

Italy and Russia are over-nationalistic. When Giovanni Contardi had done his last solve, a bunch of screaming Italians jumped up on the stage, while I was still solving. It was quite annoying. During the informal meeting on Sunday the Russians came in to show the trophy, sat there for a few minutes and left again. Of course, it is nice to win something, but to implicitly brag about it in that way is just pathetic.

Regarding the nice parts of this competition - meeting people I hadn't seen in quite a while (Guus, Daniel), meeting new people (Teemu, Amos) - this was definitely a great competition.

Also, my first round average in clock was the closest I've ever been to a world record. If I had gotten anything below 7.58 on my last solve (which is perfectly doable for me), it would have been a world record average. It was, however, a 29.94 DNF. >_<
 
Stefan said:
How do you know that was "nationalistic" and not just because they're friends?
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The Russians were screaming 'Russia'... About the Italians I'm not sure, but I made that logical conclusion from the fact that they were actually all Italian. Point is, it was annoying to have screaming Italians on the stage while I was still solving.
 
I second what Maarten said, it's no problem to celebrate afterwards but during any round is just distracting. Also people who were still using the flash from their cameras even DURING the finals show disrespect (the announcers asked both in English and Hungarian to turn flash off). Maybe that is also to improve for next EC/WC?
 
I've always enjoyed the great sense of team spirit on the Polish team for example, it just makes it more fun and exciting when people show passion. But running up onto the stage during a round is just rude and against the regulations!
 
whauk said:
has anyone found a black f2 with standard cubesmith stickers (no logo)?
please contact me!
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I saw one in the side event room saturday night, turned pretty good, maybe it was yours... I didn't feel like taking it home and bringing it in next day, I thought the owner knows it is there and will pick it up eventually.
you should contact the organisation team, I think they keep stuff like this. 2 years ago at hungarian open, I also left my favourite cube and I could get it back from them.
 
Erik said:
I second what Maarten said, it's no problem to celebrate afterwards but during any round is just distracting. Also people who were still using the flash from their cameras even DURING the finals show disrespect (the announcers asked both in English and Hungarian to turn flash off). Maybe that is also to improve for next EC/WC?
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Actually, this may cause a drama, but it was one particular Russian guy who I sat next to for a while that was taking photos with a flash (others too, I'm sure). I'm not making any suggestions about deliberate distraction, but maybe he just didn't understand what was being asked of him.
 
KJiptner said:
FMC-Scramble: L D2 B' D2 B R' B' U B L B L2 B2 U2 F2 U R2 D' B2 D' B2
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Winning solve Grzegorz Luczyna:
X Y2 L2 D F' R L2 D' R' U' R D2 R' U' B2 R2 B2 L2 U' R' U L U' L' R U2 L' U' (26)
ZZ-solve with corner insertion
First 12 moves are edge orrientation
Then 4 moves block building
Finishing with alignment blocks and a corner insertion

I you like you can continue this FMC-discussion on the FMC-thread at http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?13599-The-FMC-thread&p=465480&posted=1#post465480

Gus
 
DYK:
- Everyone I met was awesome
- I didn't think anything about the winning ceremony until Daniel told me all the bad stuff and I was like 'ohh yea...'
- Breandan says my guhong is the best cube he's ever tried..
- ..and I have video proof of that
- Conny is totally awesome in comp, and congrats for finally getting on the podium!
- Erik was so focused during 3x3 finals, just sitting there with his headphones on
- I turned a supposed 12 person finals into a 13 person finals xD
- I like how when the emcee was announcing the 3x3 finalists: 'Kanetti, Breandan, Mats Valk, Milan Baticz, Cornelius, Sergey, Tomasz, Oskar, Simon, Erik Akkersdijk, *pauses for 3 seconds* Amos Tay, Paolo...' LOL
- Eduoard is thanking me because he got to enter finals 'because of me' =p
- It was sad seeing Erik getting 2nd place by such small margins
- Breandan is totally awesome, and he knows so many F2L and OLLCP tricks. He's probably put the most effort into Fridrich compared to everyone else I know
- ...and did I mention he thinks my cube is the best cube he's ever tried
- Fabi is awesome and friendly, and has a cool hat
- Daniel and Andrew are awesome roommates
- We were supposed to hang out with Eduoard on Sunday night but apparently he already got drunk and sent a text which went something like 'Come over, we've got wine. Breandan is the kitchen. We're at morrison's 2' LOL. Breandan was on the way home at that time so we didn't know how his name came up
- Everyone is so tall
- I thought Michal Halczuk is a quiet person from his videos, but he's apparently slightly mental and talks a lot
- Kanetti always looks so gentleman-like
- The Italians and Russians are extremely passionate
- The middle row table had the best lighting for solving
- The lube they were selling was awesome. I was averaging sub-2 on 5x5 because of it
- I posted some back to my home and hope it passes the custom because (it's inflammable)
- Daniel is awesome at reading maps and getting directions
- I can't f**king solve a clock
- I now know a pyraminx 2-flip and can solve it sub-1min
- Two cheeseburger meals in McD is cheaper than any one of their other meals
- The competition was way beyond awesome
 
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Dear awesome members of the speedcubing community,

I would like to say thank you for everyone who helped during this weekend. We had quite a few volunteer judges, who helped all three days and even though they have nothing to do with cubing, they were so kind and most of the time they made good decisions. :P

Thanks also for the competitors who helped as well in judging ands scrambling, even if it wasn't their turn! I wish I could give an "OFFICIAL" T-shirt to all of them, but unfortunately we didn't have that much. :S Special thanks to Maria Oey who was a big help, as usual and also to the russian team who I met the first time but they helped anytime they could.

Thank you also for the competitors who helped in organising, especially Radu Faciu who has been a delegate only for a few monht, but already has the WCA spirit, Ton Dennenbroek who was supposed to be a spectator only, but helped me anytime I asked and JLM with his lovely wife who made the mosaic and puzzle building happen!

Special thanks to: Laura Héjja, Éva Baticz and Nikolett Placskó who typed in most of the results. They did a great job and were available during the whole weekend!

Also: Chrisi and Dave from 7towns who are always a joy to meet, they make me want to do my job as good as I can with a smile on my face. :)

Biggest thank to: Ron van Bruchem who not only trusted me and put in charge on the big stage, but he was mentoring me during this weekend and even before, so we can make it happen. Ron, you are a great guy, a fun man and an amazing colleague! ;) It was an honour working with you!

Sorry for being a bit bossy during EC, a few of you mentioned that I'm not behaving like in other small competitions, well yeah, but it was not a small competition, now, was it? :)

I am also sorry for everyone who I didn't have time to have fun with, especially Edouard Chambon, Erik Akkersdijk and Charlie Cooper who were there the whole time and yet I missed them a lot.

All in all in my opinion, it was a great weekend, but didn't feel like EC at all. It was a very big "small competition" with some very nice results and with a bad venue. I do apologize on behalf of everyone who made the winning ceremony horrible, believe me, it felt sad and embarrasing to be the one giving you the medals and certificates (if they were available...:fp), however I feel even more sad for the guys who should have had the best day of their lifes, who should have gotten what they very well deserved and yet ended up with a poor moment of glory. I am sincerely sorry for you guys! If you are angry I can totally understand that.

I tried to do the best I could and make the right decisions at the right time, I hope it worked out well. I already got a lot of compliments from you guys, and it feels great, I was working for your success and your happines, without you I wouldn't be able to do that.

To sum up, I still have mixed feelings about the whole thing, but mostly I am happy we got that through successfully, despite the pathetic winning ceremony.

Congratulations for the winners, thank you for everyone!

Enjoy cubing and see all at EC2012! (Trust me, it's gonna be even better! ;))

Kind Regards,

Olivér Perge
 
Olivér Perge said:
I am also sorry for everyone who I didn't have time to have fun with, especially Edouard Chambon, Erik Akkersdijk and Charlie Cooper who were there the whole time and yet I missed them a lot.
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Everything you did was awesome, you were not like other competitions, but that is a good thing because you were in a position where you had to be 'professional' and you totally pulled it off. I'm sad we didn't get to hang out like normal but it's okay, soon! Thanks so much for all of your hard work, I think it would be hard to see everyone else having a more relaxed time and having to remain in control of the situation. You did a great job.
 
Great competition! Tons of fun!
Great thanks to organizers. I know, it is very great and difficult work to organize such action!

There were minuses (the light in the main scene, the deficiency of judges during multiblind and big cubes blind events, narrowness during the fewest moves event), but the pluses outweighted them strongly! Thank you, Oliver, Ron and others!

It was very great to meet many new people and famous cubers. We have made friends with cubers from different countries. In particular with polish cubers, who are really friendly people.

Russians are not nationalistic. We are just great friends!! And Ukranian, Belarus and Russian teams were as one team! We are very big friends! We always supported each other, especially during final 3x3, when more than 15 people were very much worried about Sergey Ryabko!

Maarten, On Sunday evening we came to the informal meeting not to demonstrate a trophy, but just because Ton invited us. But there were only 3 persons on the meeting, and after few minutes we decided to go to our rooms.
And, as far as I remember, we never screamed Russia, we just sometimes said "Russian Bears", it is the playful name of our team :)

I'm sorry, if some of us sometimes used flash in cameras. i'm sure, it was not special.

I congratulate all winners, recordholders, and everybody who showed good results.


Mikhail Rostovikov, on behalf of Russian team.

p.s. sorry for my english))
 
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