German Open 2008

[Derrick Eide17]

WAIT WHAT?! Erik you had a chance at 4x4 WR but just threw the cube resulting in a penalty costing you the WR? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[tim]

Thanks, guys!

Kai is right, i was too lazy to create more journeys, so i had to reuse them, which worked quite well on my first 4x4 bld attempt (3:30 memo) until the cube popped. After that i couldn't really focus, made many mistakes and got some horrible memo times (>9 minutes 2nd 4x4 attempt, >12 minutes 5x5 bld).
(some statistics: i had to memorize about 580 images on Sunday morning, but i just got the first 450 right)
The multi bld attempt itself wasn't as exciting for me as it might sound, since during my last cube i already knew, that i got all other cubes right (stupid audience ).

btw. i tried to solve a 6x6 blindfolded on Friday evening (big thanks to Ron!). I memorized in about 30 minutes, but screwed up one of my first commutators for the centers. But i continued the solve until i finished all centers (after about 1h) and after the first two or three edges i popped and couldn't fix it . About 60-70% of the centers were solved on each face. What a horrible attempt... I better would've choosen the 7x7, that cube was so much better.

Lucas: FU!

 

[Derrick Eide17]

okay Tim You've inspired me to do BIG Multi BLD now and Big Cube BLD

 

[Rama]

Lucas: FU!

That's not the Tim I'm used to. :|
Congratulations Tim.

 

[Ron]

Amazing performance by Tim.
I just want to say that although Dennis was beaten yesterday, he (too) still has my full respect. Tim and Dennis are both amazing cubers.
This time Tim was the winner, I am sure Dennis will be back.

Ron

 

[KConny]

Awesome prefomance byt Tim, but I'm quite sure he doesn't have a video of two sub 20's in a row.

 

[DennisStrehlau]

HEY!

Congrats Tim!!!

Did you know:

-that i lost ALL my cubes in a bag on saturday evening
-that i didnt feel good about that (of course) and didnt want to do multi at all
-that i decided to do 20 cubes cause Tim was like: oh, you have to!
-that this was my worst result in multi EVER!
-that i finally got all my cubes back and this is more important than the FU****G result of my multi
-that erik isnt homosexuell
-that i will get my WR back (sorry Tim)
-that i finally can practise Speed (especially Megaminx)
-that i will also practise multi, but not yet
-that Erik, Arnuad and Lars slept at my place
-that Alonski (Nils) and me were sitting in the car as if an earthquake would start, when Erik puked
-that Alonski (Nils) studied all of us and can beat us all (in every event...and that one-handed) also he can beat us in teamsolve...ALLONE!

Greetings...Dennis

 

[DennisStrehlau]

AAAAAAND

-i flipped 2 edges in 1.34 seconds (Eriks Cube)

Greetings...Dennis

 

[Cerberus]

phew, great that you got your cubes back dennis, you were realy upset about it (ofc I understand that)
Big gratz to tim again, but by the way you memorized 5x5 exactly 11 mins, I looked at the stopwatch, because you pulled down blindfold and seemed to fall asleep, nothing happened for like 20 seconds.

 

[Markus Pirzer]

- We kinda forgot Ron's B-day a bit.... sorry Ron!!!!!!!!!!

Oooooops. Me too

Oh, it was Ron's birthday yesterday. Sorry Ron, I didn't now.

 

[Markus Pirzer]

How am I going to beat that!!! I feel like giving up on multi bld. Nice job, Tim, you are crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (There better be a video!)

Here's the first video. I've filmed a few seconds of Tim's world record:

www.rubiks-zauberwuerfel.de/videos/multiBLD24_part1.mpg memorizing

www.rubiks-zauberwuerfel.de/videos/multiBLD24_part2.mpg still memorizing...

www.rubiks-zauberwuerfel.de/videos/multiBLD24_part3.mpg solving. Tim was holding the cube far under the table. In this position he had absolute no chance to cheat, even if he wouldn't wear a blindfold.

www.rubiks-zauberwuerfel.de/videos/multiBLD24_part4.mpg solving the last cube

www.rubiks-zauberwuerfel.de/videos/multiBLD24_part5.mpg

 

[tim]

Thanks Markus for the videos .

www.rubiks-zauberwuerfel.de/videos/multiBLD24_part3.mpg solving. Tim was holding the cube far under the table. In this position he had absolute no chance to cheat, even if he wouldn't wear a blindfold.

This way of solving wasn't 100% cheat safe. I could've looked at the cube while putting it down/up.

 

[Hadley4000]

Why didn't someone hold the paper?

 

[tim]

Why didn't someone hold the paper?

Do you want to hold a paper for 40 minutes?

Amazing performance by Tim.
I just want to say that although Dennis was beaten yesterday, he (too) still has my full respect. Tim and Dennis are both amazing cubers.
This time Tim was the winner, I am sure Dennis will be back.

Ron

Thanks, Ron. I'm sure too, that Dennis will get the world record back very soon. He just had a very bad day yesterday. (I'll probably sell him my 10 cubes, so he can practice very hard )

 

[Hadley4000]

Why didn't someone hold the paper?

Do you want to hold a paper for 40 minutes?

Amazing performance by Tim.
I just want to say that although Dennis was beaten yesterday, he (too) still has my full respect. Tim and Dennis are both amazing cubers.
This time Tim was the winner, I am sure Dennis will be back.

Ron

Thanks, Ron. I'm sure too, that Dennis will get the world record back very soon. He just had a very bad day yesterday. (I'll probably sell him my 10 cubes, so he can practice very hard )

Very good point.

I bet you and Dennis will just keeping trading records back and forth.

 

[Pedro]

Why didn't someone hold the paper?

why hold the paper under the table?

 

[fanwuq]

1.Congrats, Tim! You are super crazy! 24 successful BLD in a row with one memo!!!!
2.Ron is crazy too! 3 second pyraminx, how?
3.I should start practicing BLD and pyraminx again.

 

[cmhardw]

Congratulations to Tim for this amazing new multi-BLD record! I also have much respect for Dennis, you guys are both incredible at this event! I too think that we might see you guys trading records for a while ;-)

Congratulations again, that was incredible!

Chris

 

[Mike Hughey]

Congratulations to Tim for this amazing new multi-BLD record! I also have much respect for Dennis, you guys are both incredible at this event! I too think that we might see you guys trading records for a while ;-)

Congratulations again, that was incredible!

Chris

I agree it was incredible!

If they're going to trade records, it's a little scary how things might go from here. Will we see a 50 cube attempt before the end of the year?

 

[masterofthebass]

i don't know if the number is going to increase a huge amount. I think they should start going for time... The number is incredible, but I would think seeing it done quickly would be great too.