European Rubik's Cube Championship 2008

sheriff said:
I missed the 12 middle edges in my 5x5bld (4th attempt of my life), I had memoed them but f****ing forgot to solve them. I was really really pissed, it would have been podium.
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I HATE when that happens with the middle edges - I've done it at least twice - once on a 5x5x5 and once on a 7x7x7. So upsetting. Congratulations on coming close, anyway!
 
gogozerg said:
FL2D'U2L'ULB'LUL2R2F2 was looking very good after 20 minutes.
40 minutes later, it wasn't anymore. It was leading to 36. I prefer DNF.

Gilles.
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Piercy said:
U2 R2 F2 U' B D' R B2 L D' B' R2 U F2 R2 U L2 U2 F2
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In the competition I scrambled blue on top and solved white on top (I have white opposite blue) leading to horrible 44 moves. While waiting for the taxi to the airport today I tried scrambling and solving white on top and whitin 5 minutes I found this almost normal speedsolving solution:

U R' "L2" U D B2 R2 B' D' F D F2 D' F D2 F' D F L' D' L D L' D2 L B' D2 B D B' D B

Only the "L2" was inserted when I saw that after 7 moves there was nothing good to continue for fewest moves. After the "L2" it turned out to be a normal solve with only 32 moves.
 
Hey,
I just got at Dennis place now.
We got like the worst possible trip back imaginable.
We got with a cab to the airport. Got the airplane. Airplane landed. All on time.... So far so good.

We got at the airport. Dennis' brother couldn't pick us up. We both had no money on our cellphone to call with anymore etc.
We got the train from the airport to Dortmund. I found out there was no train back to my home again.
The horror becan.
We ate some rubbish at mc donalds. Then tried if Dennis' brother could pick us up from the Dortmund trainstation. Didn't answer the phone.
So the plan was to go by train to Dortmund Mengende and then a bus to Waltrop.
Missed the train by 5 seconds to Dortmund Mengende (which would only take 6 min).
Then had to wait 20 min for the next train to there, but it would take 20 minute to there.
Then we didn't hear that it was mengende, so we suddenly found out that we went too far.
Took the bus from that trainstation to there, but halfway the bus just stopped driving because it was so late in the evening. So we ended up calling a cab (actually the bus driver was so friendly to call one for us) to Dennis' place.
Finally got..... not home xD

The tournament was great btw. I won feet!!! :D
I'll miss everything so much. Great atmosphere great people great weather, great venue too, everything so great!
Too bad about 3x3 :(, but kudos to Tomasz!
Couldn't do the 5x5 BLD try btw, no time for it...
 
Very good week-end :)

I again popped in megaminx... on the first solve, while doing my first star...
I am happy to be on the podium with the very bad times I did !
I will practice megaminx again, I want to be sub-1 :p

At fewest moves, I was 30 min late (because coming to Derio from Bilbao is loooong). I found a 43-moves solutions.
10 minutes after the end, I was trying to improve my solution and I found a 33-moves solutions...:(

I was totally drunk on sunday evening and I don't remember everything... Thanks to Arnaud for helping me going back to the hostel...
 
Hi every one.

First of all, it was a great weekend.

I broke nearly every personal record and even a Belgian record. I had a great average in the 1st round of the 3x3x3 and ended up being 16th. In the semi's, I was incredibly stressed and messed up two solves. This way, I wasn't in the best 16 anymore, so I had to forget about the finals. This was the only bad thing.
In the 2x2x2, I ended up being sixth with a new personal (and belgian) best. For that I'm very pleased.

Also thanks to Lorenzo for bringing his sister to the champs, so I didn't had to smoke alone outside. :)

And off course it was nice meeting you all, and then I mean everyone I only knew from this forum. Nico, Joey, Charlie, Jean, Doudou, Thibaut, ...
 
Hello,

I would like to agree with everyone that it was a great weekend, and the best atmosphere of any cube competition I have been to. However, the atmosphere outside the competition was a lot different to what I have gotten used to over the past 6 years, I guess it is a consequence of everyone getting older and the community getting larger as a whole.

I set a few personal records, (highlights were joining the sub-2 club for 5x5x5, and my 1:05 average in the 4x4x4 final), but I have also seen that I have a lot of catching up to do to keep up with the new UK faces that are appearing on the tournament circuit. That for me is the greatest motivation :)

It was really good to see everyone again, both cubers who I have met many times before, and new faces alike, and it was a pleasure to share such a good tournament with you all. I am disappointed to not have seen Stefan at the tournament though, where were you! Was it because of the smoking? I'm looking forward to seeing all the photos and videos that will pop up in the next few weeks, I will put mine up very soon.

DanH :)

P.S. - Tobias, did you know Lorenzo's sister is 15 years old, so I think that makes it illegal for her to smoke, and you an accessory to the crime. tsk tsk. You should try to quit :)
 
Laetitia said:
I was totally drunk on sunday evening and I don't remember everything...
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Note that even when Laetitia is really drunk, she can still easily tell her megaminx from another one. That's not funny :D
Anyway it was a great WE and a great competition. The biggest surprise for me was my very good second solve in the 5^3 qualification round
, with which I ended up being the last qualified :p I really didn't expect such a qualification...
In 3^3 I got my first unlucky sub-30 solve in competition. (My 29.61 in Dutch Masters was a bit lucky.)
My 2^3 was, as usual, totally weird. I got three +2 penalties out of five solves and still managed to break my best average in competition by over a second. I should practice my +2's, I want five of them next time :D
The bad newd were that I missed the combined finals in both megaminx and square-1 :mad:. But both were quite far from certain anyway.
And of course I enjoyed once again meeting nice cubers, the ones I already knew as well as the ones I didn't know yet. That's one of the best aspects of competitions :)
 
Thanks all for a great weekend.
I finaly on my 3rd try got a FMC down to a national record only a tie but still a good feeling.
I did really bad on the Magic events (although I finally got that sub-1) even my sister beat me, so now I have some practice to do.
It was fun hanging round all of you again.
And for Dennis: You don't need the Rabbit. ;)
I have to get a better memo, better at Magic and better at 2x2.

See you all

Henrik
 
Yeah... What a nice competition !!!

Such a pressure ! It's strange to go back and to be back to "normal" life.
My favourite day was Friday, I was like flying on 2x2. That's strange that I really got pressure on the last solve, as I already had WR. It was not a difficult solve, and it should have been sub3.5.
C'est la vie...
By the way Lukasz Cialon is such a nice guy !!!! I love his mind about the 2 weeks of travelling and hitch-hiking. I am disappointed he did not get better, like a sub4 average, which he deserved to do.
Thanks to my friend Thibaut, which really supported me before the final... Joey, are you jealous ? :-) I'm sure you were... :-p You even wanted to pay...

Saturday was bad for me... As I only dreamt 2 hours in the night, because of Friday's WR... It was so fun at 2 AM to see Arnoud and Joel searching for a room... It was a pleasure to be on your video trip, Arnoud. Even if you said you would beat WR in FM :-p

Sunday was very nice. The 8.66 was crazy (if someone has the video ??) and I think less lucky than the 9.18. I just had an incredible feeling after this solve.
My OH final could have really been better with normal LL algs, I was to unlucky. But the 3 guys faster deserve this podium, and I'm very very happy for both Thibaut and Nico.

Let's go to 3x3 final... It was awesome. I just loved this format. Such a big pressure, I just loved it. I really had a good result, since I did not practice 3x3 for the last 6 months. Getting a PLL skip in the finals is just unfair, and that's why I'm not second. And congrats to Tomazs for these amazing times. After getting a pop on the 1st solve, doing what you did is just incredible. You deserve victory 100%.

Congrats to Guillain, Mr Blindfold french champion, and now 2nd in Europe. Rafal was too fast. ;-) I'm just disappointed with my friend Jeannot, which deserved better in BLD. Congrats to Clément too.

Tobias, keep your mind. It's kind a french mind about cubing. :-)

Thanks and congrats to both Oliver and Milan, with who I really had a nice time during all the champ. Thanks to Robert, which made me laughing a lot Sunday night just before the final.

I will not talk about Sunday night, just because I can not do it, I do not remember of part of the night. Just remember I made Lars smiling... :-D
 
Doudou said:
Let's go to 3x3 final... It was awesome. I just loved this format. Such a big pressure, I just loved it. I really had a good result, since I did not practice 3x3 for the last 6 months. Getting a PLL skip in the finals is just unfair, and that's why I'm not second. And congrats to Tomazs for these amazing times. After getting a pop on the 1st solve, doing what you did is just incredible. You deserve victory 100%.
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yeah sure start this again Doudou, you didn't hear me complain about your lucky 8.66 did you??
You can't 'IF' anyhting. MAYBE if I did a 14 I would be even more motivated and only did 10's after that, you never know!
Srsly, you should quit this crap talk, you never realised you earned more money with 3x3 than me, is that what this is about?
Tomasz Popped on the first one and then he said he just went freely, if I had a bad time on the first I did the same, maybe maybe maybe. You only want to hear one maybe, it's stupid and childish IMHO.

Don't think I overreact now; you were already *** with me at the after party too when you were drunk. And after the finals too. And now you just had to drop it again in the thread, why?? (luck is not a crime btw ;) )

Tomasz really deserved the title, it was so hard to do good under these hard surcomstances at the finals! Many congratulations to him!

Also many congratulations to Doudou for the great 2x2 WR, really consistent and really good, and that even without real colour neutralness!!

I hope didn't have a too big headache at Monday Laetitia!
Also I hope Jean Louis' head is fine again!
I just heared from Gidy (nice Hungarian cuber) that Robert didn't break his foot and that he's a bit better now. Although Gidy said: 'He propably lost 50% of his brain' xD

I just got the link to the last part of the 1:18 on 5x5 from an Italian cuber:
Thanks for videotaping!

Also the same account has 2 of Doudou's solves on 2x2:
I hope there will be so many more videos!
Lars told me that he got aobut 75% of the 3x3 finals on tape and then his battery died. Sven continued to videotape after that if I'm right?

Anyone knows what this DVD of the competition exactly will contain and how to get it? From what I've heard it'll be really nice, I hope I'll be able to get one!

The girls in spain were very nice. Too bad of the 'fan' girls were way too young and the ones I tried to talk to didn't really speak much English at all...
Misa said she would think about me at Sunday to bring luck, I guess it worked out! :D
 
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Disapointing results for me(my cube is TERRIBLE!) but i really enjoyed meeting everyone! you're all so nice!:)

congratz to everyone! especially Tomasz, Erik, Doudou(8.66:eek:), Milan, and Charlie(for the only UK medal:p)

btw apologies to Lorenzo for popping his cube so many times:S

Hope to see some of you again in Manchester:)
 
Erik said:
I just got the link to the last part of the 1:18 on 5x5 from an Italian cuber:
Thanks for videotaping!
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Italian??? xD

I'm Victor Torrecilla from SPAIN :)

PS: Congratulations for another World Record ;)


Erik said:
Lars told me that he got aobut 75% of the 3x3 finals on tape and then his battery died. Sven continued to videotape after that if I'm right?
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I also have the 100% of the 3x3 final but it's 1hour long, too long for youtube. I'm performing 12 videos with the 5 solves of each of you but please be patient because I'm not plenty of time...
 
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