Guildford Summer Open 2011 - UK Comp!

[flan]

I predict 7.08 single or at least close.

 

[scotzbhoy]

Just got home. Thanks Dan and Rob for organising such a great comp, and to everyone else for the laughs!
Ok, let's get on with it.
DYK:
I only got 1 3x3 pop at this comp?
It cost me a place in the final?
I broke 9 competition PB's at this comp?
And got 4 new ones?
James is still joint top of the UK for master magic?
I beat Joey in the Square-1 final?
Thom was attacked with a soft toy?
I reclaimed my magic NR average?
Had I bothered to check what my worst possible average would be after the 4th solve, I may well have broken the single as well?
Dan is even more awesome at BLD than I realised?
Matthew is also awesome at BLD?
Were it not for a +2, Breandan would have got a 9.45 avg in the final?
0.31 seconds separated 3rd to 6th in the Megaminx first round?
I only just failed to make the next round in 3 events?
In 3x3 it was by 0.07 seconds?
"Oh no..."

 

[kinch2002]

All results are now online here

 

[Mollerz]

Great competition, congratulations everyone on the WRs, ERs and many NRs we had!

Thanks Rob and Daniel for organising, Sam (?) for bringing the modem so we could have live results and thanks everyone who was watching who kept pretty much dead silent during 3BLD.

 

[Selkie]

Just got back home. Was great to compete, see some great results and most importantly meet some members of the community finally. Looking forward to the next one.

Special thanks to Daniel and Robert for organising a great comp :tu

 

[cubersmith]

Well done to Daniel and Rob for organising a great comp. Was great to see 3 WR's 1 ER and 2 NR's. My first comp was good Hope to be at UK Open 2011, if it happens

 

[r_517]

I will never ever book any flight in the early morning again... Not only did it make me feel so sleepy over the two days, but I missed the meetup (did you guys drink btw?) on Saturday evening as well

My best regards to Dan and Rob who held the competition and made it run so smoothly, and congratulations for so many records

(Btw someone told me that his son videoed my solve? Thanks for not telling me you were videoing I always screw up in front of cameras..)

DYK:
- There are two train stations in Guildford. I totally lost my way and had to take a taxi to the venue
- I broke 9 PB's. Couldn't be better
- After so many competitions, I finally get a Magic average with only 1 screwed-up
- Breandan's T-shirt won
- Toey Gouly
- Sorry for leaving early and grapping the Internet away
- It took me 8.5 hours from the venue to my home
- I wanted to smash my Clock after the first solve of the second round
- I didn't realise I broke the Clock average WR after my last solve. I thought it was very close to the WR but missed it, until Daniel checked the (former) WR is 7.53, instead of 7.25
- My 5.88 solve had 2 lockups...
- I broke two fingers on my last solve of the Clock
- Chris's Clock's conditions made every scrambler mad. I was surprised that Chris could get such good results with a Clock like that... I couldn't even get sub60 with that one...
- Thanks to Sean, I finally learned a new alg for 3x3 after 15 months. The previous one was taught by Joey in Brsitol Open last year...
- Mandolay Hotel sucks. I had never seen such a small room (even much smaller than some hostels'), no air-conditioner, full of dust in some corners, but asking for 76 pounds a night!
- I wanted to have a solve with my Microbic, but got too excited after breaking WRs so totally forgot about that
- I was judging someone at the other side of the venue when Daniel broke his WR. Even the competitor I was judging paused his solve and went to see Daniel's results

Hope everyone had fun Can't wait for the next comp!

 

[Laura O]

- I didn't realise I broke the Clock average WR after my last solve. I thought it was very close to the WR but missed it, until Daniel checked the (former) WR is 7.53, instead of 7.25
- My 5.88 solve had 2 lockups...

Congratulations on your WRs.
It will be hard for me to beat that in 2 weeks.

 

[r_517]

Congratulations on your WRs.
It will be hard for me to beat that in 2 weeks.

Good luck on you (well maybe let it last a bit longer? jk)

I just found this vid on youtube. Thank hugarlandel for taking the vid

 

[amostay2004]

Congrats Sam

 

[kinch2002]

4th scramble of the clock final (WR single)
(-2,0)(-5,0)(-1,-5)(-5,-3)(-2)(-3)(2)(5)(0)(0)dUdd

 

[chicken9290]

great job man. when do you think youll get the average wr

 

[kinch2002]

Clock single and average WR. Sam Zhixiao Wang. 11.30, 6.78, 8.15, 5.88, 7.05 = 7.33
Single scramble was really nice ofc.

great job man. when do you think youll get the average wr

...

 

[cubersmith]

great job man. when do you think youll get the average wr

Average was broken

 

[James Ludlow]

Thread hijack here - can anyone tell me if this is the godly 5x5 Thom and Simon had?

http://www.witeden.com/goods.php?id=325

 

[Selkie]

Thread hijack here - can anyone tell me if this is the godly 5x5 Thom and Simon had?

http://www.witeden.com/goods.php?id=325

Thats certainly the one Thom had, not sure I saw Simon's. SS 5x5 + Maru out the box is lovely I've sent you a PM James.

 

[kinch2002]

Thread hijack here - can anyone tell me if this is the godly 5x5 Thom and Simon had?

http://www.witeden.com/goods.php?id=325

I think you mean Thom and myself
Yes it is.

 

[cubersmith]

Thread hijack here - can anyone tell me if this is the godly 5x5 Thom and Simon had?

http://www.witeden.com/goods.php?id=325

Oh, I meant to ask, why do you have pink on all of your cubes?

 

[kinch2002]

All the clock WR average scrambles: http://tinypic.com/r/2ykaon4/7

 

[r_517]

Cool. thx a lot