European Rubik's Cube Championship 2008

[Crazycubemom]

Tom Tom "ZABA" don't forget 10% for me ( as your supporter ). I love it BIG Trophy goes to POLAND. GO Poland go Poland go .

 

[Simboubou]

Does anyone know the whole Multiblind results ?

 

[Jai]

Congrats to Doudou for pulling a Nakaji and getting 8.66 twice in the semifinals

EDIT: read my second post.

 

[tim]

Congrats to Doudou for pulling a Nakaji and getting 8.66 twice in the semifinals

Where's the second 8.66?

 

[Cerberus]

hehe he missread I think there is another 8.66 under category "best"
I would wonder when he gets no awesome average with an counting 8.66

 

[Harris Chan]

Congrats to Doudou for pulling a Nakaji and getting 8.66 twice in the semifinals

Where's the second 8.66?

Yah, where? Was it lucky? :O Congrats to Tomasz for the sub 12 too!

 

[Jai]

OOPS, I didn't read the second last column.. it said "Best". xD

 

[guusrs]

Well done Poland
Well done Netherlands
Well done France
(and well done to every country for coloring this EC)

NB does anyone have the FMC scramble for me, I'll give it a try.

 

[Piercy]

U2 R2 F2 U' B D' R B2 L D' B' R2 U F2 R2 U L2 U2 F2

 

[guusrs]

U2 R2 F2 U' B D' R B2 L D' B' R2 U F2 R2 U L2 U2 F2

Piercy
Thanx
Gus

 

[Henxu]

The Ec was very funny.
The final 3x3 was awesome .

I have one thing, I've lost my black v-cube 5x5 in the EC I don't know if anyone have pickup it. It has some scratches on some orange stickers.
Please, contact me if you have pick up it.

thanks.

 

[tim]

The multi bld results are online. More than 50% of all competitiors dnfed! o_O

 

[CharlieCooper]

i had an aweeeeeeeeeeeeeesome weekend!

i liked:
meeting the nice new people and seeing some friends!

ARNAUD VAN GALEN's first *ever* violent outburst. n.b. this is not a highlight because jean louis got hurt, but because it was a strange side of arnaud to see no more mr nice guy.

sven's little jew

my pyraminx results, totally didn't expect the results i got, let alone a podium place :O

two uk cubers in the final!

erik's "hat", which i think helped him a lot in the competition.


i didn't like:

the dog outside the after party. (daniel has video footage of this i think)

the bed in the hostel.

jean louis' pain

joey's BLD dnfs

the fact that i lost my timer/it "lost" itself (if anyone has found one, it has a blob of super glue on the left hand side)

the buses and taxis to the hostel. argh.

tortilla. eggs. egg sandwiches. egg burgers. eggs. eggs. eggs. I WILL NEVER EAT AN EGG AGAIN.

i am looking forward to seeing the video!

 

[KJiptner]

The multi bld results are online. More than 50% of all competitiors dnfed! o_O

People should start using the loci-method finally.

Btw.:
in addition to the DNFs nobody got a 100% attempt...
Henrik Buus Aagaard 6/10 14:27
...
14:27 for 6/10?!?

The FMC results are also very interessting... Winner is Gunnar Krig with a masterful 3600 mover...

 

[Gunnar]

The FMC results are also very interessting... Winner is Gunnar Krig with a masterful 3600 mover...

I'm very happy to be the winner of fewest moves. Didn't expect it. That morning I said to Kåre and Daniel that if I'm winning fewest moves I'll give away beers to the swedes and danes, being sure that such a thing woudn't happen. I guess buying six beers is a small price to pay for winning.

Also, I found the winning solution in 5 minutes, and left after 20 more minutes, after not having found anything better. I don't have the scramble but my solution was:

DL2D'L2FD2U'B'U'L'U'L2U2B2LU'RL'B2R'BLB'R'FR'F'R'B'L2BR'B'L2B2U2

All in all I set four new swedish records. The 48.40 single on 4x4 is a new personal best for me. I also had a totally awesome non-lucky 8.58 just a few minutes before the finals in 3x3. :-D

 

[AvGalen]

Joël and I got home half an hour ago. We also missed the return flight :confused: That means that Joël now has a 3/4 score of missing the last flight.

I want to appologize to Jean-Louis Mathieu again for throwing Laëtitias MegaMinx to his head last night. I feel awful about what happened to him and about what happened to her MegaMinx. That was one joke that went very sour . I hope your head is feeling better JLM. (I also hope Robert and Laëtitia are feeling much better today)

Aside from that stupidity, FMC and the continuous plane missing (that last one had nice side effects) it was another highlight in my cubing history (and general life as well)

I am pretty tired so I won't upload the video tonight. It will take one or two more days. I will post here when it is online

 

[Ton]

missing the last flight.

throwing

yep I confirm , Arnaud has some bad habits, throwing a heavy juggling ball against Ram's head at the Brussels Open , which resulted in loosing his concentration for his event OH

And again Arnaud was late for his event, as always....so I am not surprised he missed his plain

If he could only not doing these things...

 

[tim]

What happened to the friendly cubing community i'm used to?

Dennis: Congrats to your first place. I hope you aren't too pissed off, because you missed the WR. It was still an amazingly fast attempt.

 

[gogozerg]

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.

 

[sheriff]

I had a really good time and got to know some people from round the forum like Dennis , KConny, Istvan... And have a chat with some that I already knew. We had a very good time, both in competition and hotel.

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. My 4th place in BLD was incredible, I didn't expect it at all with a 2:06 solve and 3OP hahah.

Thanks everyone for making EC soooooo nice. Hope to meet you guys as soon as possible again.

pd: I didn't enter 3x3finals by 0.02secs.