Fuglsangpark Open 09 (FSPO)

Nice competition, thanks to Holger and Aksel for organising it
Did you know that:
- it's really difficult to read a map with a black path printed on dark grey when it's night ?
- I was still the first (apart from the organisers) to arrive at the venue ?
- The venue was at Fuglsangpark 16 and the showers at Fuglsangpark 149, which is not that fun when you're not warned and you're only wearing a T-shirt ? (Fortunately the weather was not really cold.)
- there were a lot of competitors in 4^3 BLD (I've never seen so many of them compared to the size of the competition), but only 2 of them succeeded ?
- Oliver spent more time watching Istvan's attempts than memorizing his own cube ?
- Istvan is now working on Square-1 BLD ?
- I got 5 parities in 5 solves at Square-1 (not BLD) :mad:
- ... but I ended up in the top 3 anyway ? ;)
- my 24.46 average in round 1 of 3^3 was my first sub-25 average ever ?
- my fastest time in 2nd round was slower than my slowest time in 1st round ?
- Tomasz discovered on Sunday evening that he likes megaminx ?
- I'm still in Copenhagen now ? (posting from the airport)
 
Did you know that:
- To help people find the venue, rubiks cube sacks were taped to trees and the like on the rute?
- That the organizers ran out of sacks for the last 700 meters of the rather complex rute?
- I found the venue anyway, but nearly got lost when leaving the venue sunday?
- that because of internal 6x6 lockups I DNFed 6x6, and later quit as a 6x6 scrambler knowing that I would never buy a 6x6?
- I got PB singles in every speed event ?
- I got PW singles in (nearly) every speed event?
- I now have a 50% succesrate at 5x5BLD?
- I now have 33.33% succesrate at 3x3BLD?
- I now have 0% succesrate at 4x4BLD (5 attempts)?
- Hungarian names possible can't be pronounced correctly by non-hungarians?
- But they are pretty cool about it?
- that 5x5BLD was schedueled for 18:00, but was started aprox. 22:00?
- during Istvans multi (which I was judging) I memoed for my very first speedBLD?
- That I failed it after the 4th f2l pair?
- Frank can catch cubes on the back of his hand even though Gunnar made some mad tosses?
- in the final I made a 4 piece pop, spraying cubes over the audience?
- Kirstine yelled at the audience to not touch the cubies, possibly frightning some small children? ;)
- On the way home some guy on the train gave me 100 kr (20 USD) because he was so impressed by my solves?
- I've just ordered a CII and a FII for those money?
- Thomazs CII felt so nice?
 
Did you know that:
- Nodody cheered when Thomaz did a solve over 10 sec.?
- All the food at the competition was really great?
- Phillips collection of puzzles is amazing and a great excuse to buy more?
- I think i was the only one using springs i my 2x2?
- That made it possible for me to make the finals in 2x2 using layer+OLL+PLL?
- I have no idea what to do with a skrewb, but a golden cube is "easier"?
- Mads is a really fair judge giving Daniel an extra solve when Gunnar hit his head on the rafter?
- All the chair at the venue was "syveren" by Arne Jacobsen (the man behind the egg and swan-chair) which cost approx. 300$ each?
- The Swedes have misunderstod the whole twisty puzzle thing (they were doing jigsaw puzzle all weekend...)?
- I pop'ed a quarter of my 6x6... BUT I DON'T GET INTERNAL LOCKUPS!!! (confounded modders...)

Well, thank you all for a good weekend. See you in 2010!
 
Did you know that:
- The jigsaw team-solve ended with a DNF as one piece was missing?
- That Gunnar had stolen the puzzle from his parents?
- Gunnar got a new competition PB after banging his head on the rafter?
- István had won 5BLD as Henrik, Lars and Arvid all DNF'ed their first attempt a few minutes above the timelimit, but risked his 1st place by allowing a second attempt?
- István rocks?
- Olivér thought he DNF'ed his last cube in multi and took several minutes before giving up and stopping the time?
 
Did you know that:
- I had an awesome time. :D
- Arvid did his cross with two hands during OH.
- That Arvid forgot he had a third cube to solve in multi.
- My current rolling avg of five for FMC is 34.333. (35, 35, 33, DNF, 32)
- The Danes sucks at traffic signs.
- We couldn't find the optimal route neither to the venue nor home.
- We only had 15 margin to my and Arvid's trains arriving in Jönköping.
- I was aiming for sub10 both for 4x4 BLD and 4/4 multi. Epic fail in both.
- I got my first sub14 singel in 3x3! So now my single is 0.30 better than my avg of 12 at home.
- That knowing rule 11a2 exists gave me another attempt for 3x3.

Thanks for a great weekend!
 
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It was a really great competition, and as usual not because of the results. :)

Holger and Aksel (and the rest of the family!) did a very good job on the organisation, Mads did a good job on being a WCA delegate and everyone else did well on being awesome too! :)

Did you know that:

- sleeping at the venue is always a good option?
- even if it's the floor of the venue? :P
- Daniel and Gunnar are awesome and funny?
- Bence is amazing in nearly everything now?
- Bence had a square-1 scramble where everything was done except EP?
- 7 move 2x2x3 block in FMC + sticking with it = DNF?
- my 4x4 bld was 4 pieces off?
- Lars solved officially the 5x5 blind before solving the 4x4 blind?
- i was so sure i messed up multi but i didn't?
- i had 1:05 edges on my second 5x5x5 solve but then i realized that two centers's 1x1x3 were swapped?
- i wasn't expecting 0.83 magic single? (it's one of my best times in ages)
- i wasn't expecting first place in multi either? (come on, István you can do better! ;))
- i am so happy for Henrink finally getting what he deserved a lot!
- Kirstine is lovely?
- i like small competitions?
- Tomasz using so smart cross on left, that he didn't waste neither time or move?
- he is still using ES 4x4 and 5x5?
- he kicks ass? :D
- judging the 7.91 was on of my best cubing experience?
 
sure it was a great comp

Did you know that:
-me and Gunnar are making an (un)official event called cube tossing?
-Kirstine got into the finals?
-I had giant hangovers both days?
-we left the last piece of the jigsaw to Gunnar untill he was done multi BLD?
-Tomasz and the hungarians are freaking cool?
-Oliver got the record at jumping at WC?
-I had 2 flipped edges at first BLD and 2 flipped corners at second?
-Aksel got his official BLD at first try?
-Holger got 0/3 multi BLD?
-Odder is very stoned?
-Gunnar did 2/2 multi BLD with a route he never used before?
-Me and Kirstine rocks in teamBLD
 
- All the chair at the venue was "syveren" by Arne Jacobsen (the man behind the egg and swan-chair) which cost approx. 300$ each?

Ahhh, so that's why I recognised them.

I think Mads has a nice picture of Istvan sitting on a "syveren" whose back legs are about to give up :)

Lars, you threw me off 7th place in 5x5BLD. Now I'm not in the top-3 of Europe anymore! Why did you do that to me? WHY?

I'm sorry Maarten, but taking that blindfold of was one of my best cubing moments ever! :D
 
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