Irish Open 2011/2012

I was thinking of bringing my girlfriend to stay with me, (hence why she was listed as a guest Blake). Will this affect the hotel price or will they still give me the discount price for a double room if I'm competing but she isn't? Also any chance of a preliminary schedule, or at least a competition start time? I really wanna know when to be there, it turns out extremely awkward to get to Tuam from Belfast, I may have to go to Strabane first, or maybe even Dublin. I seen Av Galen was offering another two spaces for travel from Dublin but I would rather someone who needs it gets it than someone like me who would just benefit a bit.
 
When will the schedule be up? I'm curious to what days each event will be on.

Also, can I still register for 5x5 even if I might not beat the cutoff points?(or for that matter, not being able to find a 5x5 to borrow?)

2:38.13 5x5 sim :D

Edit: YES! 2:26.69 5x5 sim :D:D:D:D

It had a unfeasibly fast A perm though....
 
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So I decided not to bring the girlfriend since the costs are gonna be big enough for us as it is lol. Is there anybody out there looking to share a room? I'm happy enough to share with anybody really :) Drop me a PM or even a reply here and we can get something sorted!
 
Guys bad news. I won't be able to go anymore. Some stuff has cropped up last minute and its unavoidable. I'm absolutely raging here. Hope you have a great time.
 
Unfortunately I'm going to have to pull out of the Sunday afternoon events, as the only flight available on Sunday afternoon leaves at 13:25. Not sure what time I'll have to leave the event on Sunday, but Hopefully I'll be able to compete in some events on Sunday. Also hoping for some of my favourites to be on Saturday!
 
Cool, two rounds of pyraminx :)

What is the "Avg limit" column ? Is it something like "best of 2/avg of 5" ? (so if you reach the time limit within the two first solves you get to do an avg if not : too bad)
And why do you have a single solve limit ? Are you planning on interrupting the solves if they are slower than that ? O.O If so, are people that went over the limit still allowed to do another solve to try to reach the avg limit time ?
Sorry, but it isn't very clear ^^

BTW, about time limits : I feel like they are a bit useless here... they're meant for big comps with lots of people to not lose too much time. But there aren't so many people that registered here, we'll have plenty of time ! Just let everyone do an average, it'd be nice for the slowests !

On another note : Arnaud and I are still looking for 2 persons that want to share a ride from/to Dublin :D
 
From Dublin to Tuam Friday night and then back on Sunday night.
Time schedules are flexible, we just have to get the car back to the rental company before a certain time (but for more info on that, ask Arnaud he's the one that knows about the car ^^)
 
Zoé said:
What is the "Avg limit" column ? Is it something like "best of 2/avg of 5" ? (so if you reach the time limit within the two first solves you get to do an avg if not : too bad)
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Yes you are right with that. For 6x6/7x7 it would be best of 1/mean of 3

Zoé said:
And why do you have a single solve limit ? Are you planning on interrupting the solves if they are slower than that ? O.O If so, are people that went over the limit still allowed to do another solve to try to reach the avg limit time ?
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Single solve limits are there so that organisers have the power to stop people if they really are taking forever. Otherwise the competitor has a right to go on for as long as they want/need. It's not usually enforced if somebody takes, say, 10:30 for a 7x7, because that's not hindering the competition.

Zoé said:
BTW, about time limits : I feel like they are a bit useless here... they're meant for big comps with lots of people to not lose too much time. But there aren't so many people that registered here, we'll have plenty of time ! Just let everyone do an average, it'd be nice for the slowests !
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Sure, letting everyone do averages is really nice :)
But, although it's a small comp, that also means less judges, scramblers and timing stations so it might not really run any faster than at a bigger competition :/
 
kinch2002 said:
Single solve limits are there so that organisers have the power to stop people if they really are taking forever. Otherwise the competitor has a right to go on for as long as they want/need. It's not usually enforced if somebody takes, say, 10:30 for a 7x7, because that's not hindering the competition.
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Sure, that makes sense, but are people still allowed to do their second solve if they are stopped on their first one is my main concern. The only time I ever really saw a single time limit being set was at German Nationals and if you were cut off on your first solve you couldn't even do a second attempt. Which pretty much sucked for people that DNFed because of pops or other similar problems.
So I was wondering : is something like that gonna be applied or is just basically a safety-net that we might not even care for ?

kinch2002 said:
Sure, letting everyone do averages is really nice :)
But, although it's a small comp, that also means less judges, scramblers and timing stations so it might not really run any faster than at a bigger competition :/
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I don't think judges and scramblers will be a problem as we have two groups for most things or very few competitors so others can take care of that (the only problem will be the finals were all the "good scramblers" will probably also be solving)
Time stations I didn't think of... So you have a point ! I'm used to comps where we usually have plenty of those no matter what, I don't know how it will be here ^^ (if it's only a matter of that though, some people could probably bring their timer/mat and lend them. At least I wouldn't mind personally)
And I still think that 444 time limit could be a bit larger, 1:30 seems mean to me :p

Anyway, I'm not the one organizing, so whatever happens I'll be happy with it !
 
Yep yep, no prob ! We're Flying Friday morning and visiting Dublin all day if you want to join ! :)
 
We actually haven't booked the tickets yet, but we should fly back Monday morning around 9 I think. Though I am considering staying until Tuesday because the flights are cheaper that day and I like Dublin so I wouldn't mind staying a bit longer :p
And the plan for us so far is to stay... in the car, and then at the airport on Sunday evening. We took some pretty cheap traveling habits in Asia ^^'
 
r_517 said:
Yes they are allowed to do the second solve.
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Good :)
r_517 said:
This is a commonly used limit in most of the comps AFAIK :P
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I have been to more competition with time limits > 1:30 than =<1:30. And I looked at the competitors list and their WCA profile, there's a few that are just/barely sub 1:30 so yes I still find it mean for them !
But well, I do make all the time limits for the events I care for, so I'll stop pretending to be robin hood and defend the slower people :p
 
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