Indonesian Open 2009

[CharlieCooper]

I already accepted that it would be a 1 day only event, but naturally I would prefer a 2 day event (actually, a 7 day event sounds )

It just seems to me that if maraton (love it arnaud!) are making so much effort to take timers and all the equipment with them, that they should make the most of it you too arnaud... but you don't fit in "maraton" ... maybe it could be "armaraton".

oh wait, and erik and rama are brothers... so... armaratoner it is then.

 

[AvGalen]

I already accepted that it would be a 1 day only event, but naturally I would prefer a 2 day event (actually, a 7 day event sounds )

It just seems to me that if maraton (love it arnaud!) are making so much effort to take timers and all the equipment with them, that they should make the most of it you too arnaud... but you don't fit in "maraton" ... maybe it could be "armaraton".

oh wait, and erik and rama are brothers... so... armaratoner it is then.

I prefer AVG MaRaTonCCEr

 

[Rama]

I prefer AVG MaRaTonCCEr

CCEr, when pronouncing it it reminds me of Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Well, I am very happy you are also coming to the Indonesian Open, we could need all the help and your humor.

 

[Ton]

if you guys are putting in so much effort, which it really seems that you are... wouldn't you want to make the most of the opportunity to make it a two day event? i know it's a lot more work for you (i would help if i could afford to come!) but do you not think it will be worth it? especially if you are showing some events that not all the cubers will know about, it will help get people excited about cubing in general. what do you think?

i think it's brilliant that maria is going to tell people how to run a competition. really great

Well we pre-finance the event our selfs, we never did a 2 day event as first competition, I simply can not take that financial risk. There must be 100 competitors at least (pp 10 Euro) before I can break even on the venue, besides this, I will buy timers and some displays that I plan to sell after the event and I did not see any request other that the cube events, on this forum, or on the Indonesian forums.

So this is why it is a one-day event

 

[VirKill]

Macharratonauddijk.....

6 in 1... How 'bout that?

It will be AWSOME to have you there Arnaud....And if you can make cris go along with you, then you'll officially be my hero....

Yea...I realize Multi BLD and big cubes BLD is not popular event in Indonesia. Even I assume there's less than 10 people in Indonesia who can solve 3x3x3 blindfolded. But there's still 6 moths to go, and I got more people interested in solving rubik's cube blindfolded after 'Pathetic Rubik's remembered live show' on TV couple of weeks ago.

 

[AvGalen]

Macharratonauddijk.....

6 in 1... How 'bout that?

It will be AWSOME to have you there Arnaud....And if you can make cris go along with you, then you'll officially be my hero....

Yea...I realize Multi BLD and big cubes BLD is not popular event in Indonesia. Even I assume there's less than 10 people in Indonesia who can solve 3x3x3 blindfolded. But there's still 6 moths to go, and I got more people interested in solving rubik's cube blindfolded after 'Pathetic Rubik's remembered live show' on TV couple of weeks ago.

I'll be there, having my Asian adventure (turned into a more regular and smaller trip) that I was planning for worlds.

Who is cris?

 

[Ton]

Who is cris?

Chris Hardwick

 

[CharlieCooper]

oh i understand now ton. well fair enough, i can see why you wouldn't want to risk too much on a first competition. it's great that you are organising one there though!

 

[Mike Hughey]

A 15/15 multi blind under the new rules (60 minutes) WOULD really surprise me.

I think VirKill can do it - especially with 6 months more practice. He's as fast as me at multi, and he hasn't been doing it as long, so I suspect he'll improve much faster than I did. He's clearly capable of 10/10 right now. I think I can get to 15/15 in a year or so, so for him to get there in 6 months seems quite reasonable to me.

So it wouldn't surprise me. But I would nonetheless definitely be impressed.

 

[Crazycubemom]

I'm still busy negotiating with the management's of the Hotel, with only 6 hour's different time very difficult to have get a contact with them.if i wake up at 5.00 AM they are having their LUNCH, and after that I have to wait if they get back from meeting etc,and for me it's easier to explain about how and what Rubik's Cube Competition by phone call then by e-mail ( they don't know about Rubik's cube) till I had to lead one of them to Google , speedcubing and You tube

And yes I got discount from them for the competition hall and next week I will call them again and again and again about discount for competitors who will to stay in their hotel.

I know for sure there are many speedcubers in Indonesia, I always reading their forum, they only don't have experience but we will see the result of Singapore Open , only a few of them but one of them I know him so well and he gonna stand as the first or second or third place. Indonesia is one of the biggest country in the World, fly to Singapore is cheaper then Domestic flight and not all Domestic airport's have International flight so .....








I'm glad if AVG will come and helping MaraTon, and maybe another experience cuber's will come too to make this competition smooth ( Daniel Ortiga Villatoro, Jimmy Cool, Lars Vandenbergh ,Gilles Van de Peereboom and next ?????... WELCOME.
Maybe after competition we will go together to Bali ??? hmhmhm


Charlie... I miss you so much !!

 

[ddcrow]

Latest update, we have 25 cuber want to join the competition.. they come from these puzzle area
2x2x2
3x3x3
4x4x4
5x5x5

3x3x3 one hand
3x3x3 bld

 

[Ton]

Latest update, we have 25 cuber want to join the competition.. they come from these puzzle area
2x2x2
3x3x3
4x4x4
5x5x5

3x3x3 one hand
3x3x3 bld

We expect 70+ cubers to show up, 50 Indonesian and 20 other countries, a 2x2 round will take more than an hour. If we do 2x2 than this mean only two rounds of 3x3 or no average for the first round.

We prefer 3 rounds of 3x3 and for every one an average for the first round, else only the cubers in the final will have an average.

Only if less than <70 register we can make an new schedule with additional events

Current schedule for 70+ is:
3x3x3
4x4x4
5x5x5

3x3x3 one hand
3x3x3 bld
3x3x3 multi bld ( parrallel event with 5x5)

 

[CharlieCooper]

Charlie... I miss you so much !!

ahh maria! i miss you too see you soon i hope! shame you will not come to french open next week, arnaud and i are going to go to disneyland excited!

 

[AvGalen]

Charlie... I miss you so much !!

ahh maria! i miss you too see you soon i hope! shame you will not come to french open next week, arnaud and i are going to go to disneyland excited!

And yesterday Arnaud realised that he might combine his travelling, US Open and Indonesian Open so he would only have to fly 3 times instead of 4:
The Netherlands -> US Open -> Indonesian Open -> The Netherlands.
I was planning on 2 or 3 weeks and this would fit perfectly

(but for now I am very excited about Moscow and Disney)

 

[vertexian]

Wow, can't wait to meet you all at Indonesia Open 2009
By the way, so far we have 24 people interested to join, and the number I'm sure will be growing in time, as no publication -as far as I know- so far have been made other that postings on the internet forums or websites.

 

[Ton]

Wow, can't wait to meet you all at Indonesia Open 2009
By the way, so far we have 24 people interested to join, and the number I'm sure will be growing in time, as no publication -as far as I know- so far have been made other that postings on the internet forums or websites.

I am working with Ron to make the registration active this week, it can become a big event!!! We can manage 100 competitors

Maria will finalize to book the venue. So we are on track

 

[vertexian]

Good to hear that Ton. A big event it will be
I just got back from Singapore Open 2009 with Abel yesterday, I believe it was their first WCA competition also in Singapore, it have more than 100 competitors for Rubik's Cube event alone, 2 days competition with 9 events.
I'm hoping and believing Indonesia Open 2009 will be better
I'm thinking if it is possible for us to help you all find a sponsors here, so probably can lighten up your burden on the venue and other stuff.
Will be very good if can have the competition for free, so anybody, even the one that is just new to cubing can join, so we can make cubing even more popular here. Just let me know what can we help here. We will gladly help to make this competition a big successful event.

 

[Ton]

I'm thinking if it is possible for us to help you all find a sponsors here,

We have the support of the Rubik's distributor and Seventowns, we work close with them. I hope I can manage to get the registration fee down.

Thinks we need to arrange now
- 64 D2 batteries
- 8 Tournament Displays
- 20 cube covers
- 20 stop watches
- 20 blindfolds

The fee will be used to cover the above

Done
- Venue
- 8 stackmats, which I will sell after the competition

 

[vertexian]

Any specific stopwatch to use?, where to get the cube covers? or maybe can replace with something similar like small boxes, to cover the cube before inspection.
The expensive one will be for the tournament Display I believe.
Can you email me the event proposal if any? So we can start work on something. Thanks Ton.

 

[Ton]

Any specific stopwatch to use?, where to get the cube covers? or maybe can replace with something similar like small boxes, to cover the cube before inspection.
The expensive one will be for the tournament Display I believe.
Can you email me the event proposal if any? So we can start work on something. Thanks Ton.

We appreciate your offer but we just covered the displays and covers , courtesy of Seventowns. The other things we have plenty time to arrange.