Euro 2012 - Poland

[antoineccantin]

Michal won every round of 3x3 except the finals, where he placed third. Sound familiar?

Haha, at least Michal doesn't have ER in 3x3.

 

[bamilan]

If anybody found my Piti Pichedpan bag full of cubes please pm me. Thx.

 

[amostay2004]

Congrats to Sergey! 2 Championships in a row!

 

[TMOY]

Yeah, he's for the moment the only cuber who has won two major competitions. Congrats !
It's also the first time that the winner of Worlds/Euro gets a slower average than the winner of the previous year. Looks like times are starting to flatten now.

 

[Remigiusz Durka]

Galleries made by me (with some additional help of friends taking my camera when I had to run):

Mosaic: https://picasaweb.google.com/118382328518206874884/Mosaic?authuser=0&feat=directlink

Three days of Euro 2012 in Wrocław:
https://picasaweb.google.com/118382...shipWrocAw12102012?authuser=0&feat=directlink
https://picasaweb.google.com/118382...shipWrocAw13102012?authuser=0&feat=directlink
https://picasaweb.google.com/118382...shipWrocAw14102012?authuser=0&feat=directlink

From the begining till the end:
https://picasaweb.google.com/118382328518206874884/BeforeAndAfter?authuser=0&feat=directlink

 

[hcfong]

Okay, I'm back home, so time for some DYKs:

Did you know....

This was a great competition?
Rowe was pissed on the final day?
Corny apparently shouted "Don't speak Polish!" to someone working in the pub?
Making British cubers pronounce Dutch cuber's names is really funny? Try Guus Razoux Schultz and Jaap Scherphuis.
I spent about half an hour wondering around this morning looking for the bus stop for the bus to the airport?
Some people have been living off McDonalds for a whole week?
I found out that it is possible for one person (Breandan) to eat 20 McNuggets and french fries and a large coke?
I DNF'd one of my solves because I completely forgot to start the timer before solving?

 

[Sin-H]

I spent about half an hour wondering around this morning looking for the bus stop for the bus to the airport?

same thing here. And when we went to the information corner at the train station to ask for the direction the woman there just sent us to another information corner

 

[scotzbhoy]

That was such an awesome comp. Bit disappointed with my results (magic... grrr!) but at the end of the day I never expected to have a chance of winning anything, for me it was all about meeting new people, seeing cubing friends again and of course improving my comp PBs. Personal highlight was beating my 3x3 pb single by almost 3 seconds with a 10.52
DYK:
Simon, Rob and I had no idea how to get to the hostel from the airport?
Despite us trying to tell the driver several times we didn't speak Polish, he still tried to explain things to us quite quickly in Polish?
Upon arriving at the venue on the first day we weren't sure if the correct venue was the actual venue, or the sports hall down the road. Maarten told us that the correct venue was a mental rehabilitation clinic?
Everything in Poland is so cheap?
Maarten ate 7 hamburgers in one McDonalds sitting?
In my hope to win magic, I went all out in the final. Result: lots of mistakes. 5 safety solves would have almost certainly got me second?
In 2 rounds of 4x4, Dan got 17 parities?
Mollerz is the 3rd fastest at master magic in the UK, and also the 3rd fastest in Surrey?
My bed was ridiculously uncomfortable?
Some cubers planned to go to a strip club on the Sunday evening?
The plan did not go well?
Dan, Mollerz, Rob, Simon and I got followed back to the hostel by a weird Polish backpacker?
McDonalds for dinner every day!
I got about 15 hours sleep over the 4 days?
Wroclaw has so many churches?
Rowe claw?
Rowe got very drunk on the last day?
Gangnam style!!?
Cubers are not good at looking after passports and/or boarding passes at airports?

That's all I can think of for now... sleep time.

 

[nccube]

Does anyone have the 2x2 winning average (2.74) filmed? I remember someone filming in front of me...

 

[Ron]

The time frame allotted to multi was definitely too short, especially considering that it started almost half an hour late once again

For the record, at 9am only 8 of the competitors were in the room. We have a serious discipline problem in our community.

At such a important tournamant at least the 3x3x3 final should be live on the internet.

We are spoiled. The budgets are going down fast. I was really happy we could do this competition this way.

 

[Ron]

The scrambles: http://speedcubing.com/events/euro2012/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Euro2012_scrambles.pdf
(Pyraminx round 1, group 3 is missing, I forgot to generate it so I printed it locally)

 

[Chr]

Some Picture from Euro 2012

Day 1-st
Day 2-nd
Day 3-th
Before Ceremony
Winner Ceremony
After Ceremony

 

[a small kitten]

Results are up. 4x4 final is missing.

 

[antoineccantin]

Results are up. 4x4 final is missing.

Magic 2nd round is too.

 

[MirzaCubing]

Contardi swtiched to yau :'C

 

[lex]

so amazing!!so many people too. it looks like it was really fun! more than great pics

 

[Remigiusz Durka]

See galleries made by Polish people (Mendocha, myself, and first of all by "Chr") on http://kostkarubika.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3910

 

[ottozing]

Contardi swtiched to yau :'C

Contardi switched to yau =D

 

[Ron]

I am aware that Magic and 4x4 final are still missing. They forgot to send them to me. Action has been taken.

 

[JoSpies]

We are spoiled. The budgets are going down fast. I was really happy we could do this competition this way.

since everyone of us benefits from the WCA-activities, why not introduce a WCA-fee on every competition? You can take 1$/1€/1whatever from every participant in a competition and give it to the WCA (or split it for the WCA and the national organizations). For each competitor such a fee is usually nothing to talk about.