Leaf Town 2013

Glad everyone seemed to have a good time yesterday, it was a blast to run, and running over an hour ahead of schedule always helps! I don't really have DYKs for this competition, but here are two of my favorite stories from the comp yesterday:

1. Anthony sees Lauren finishing her second 3x3 OH solve as he's walking by, and he says "Wow, you might beat me with that time!" Lauren thought he was totally being sarcastic as she got a 3:17, and replied "Yeah, suuure." Anthony then asks, "So how long have you been doing blind?"

2. Just another reason why Pro Timers are the devil: Yuxuan's little brother competed in Pyraminx, and he didn't start the timer correctly on his second solve. His fifth solve, he tried to stop the timer, but it Pro Timer'd and the time kept running. He suddenly looked really disappointed, and the judge told him, "You can still stop the timer!" But he responded "No, that's okay..." as he didn't care about his time if it were that bad, and just walked away with the timer still running. If he had a Gen2 timer, he would have had an average in Pyraminx, but now we might have scarred this future cuber for life with Pro Timers. (But probably not, I just think he only cared about getting a really good single and didn't understand how averages worked.)

Bonus Pro Timers are dumb story: Mike dropping his 6x6 at the same table as mine caused my timer to reset. Now I have to get a 6x6 mean elsewhere.
 
Kit Clement said:
2. Just another reason why Pro Timers are the devil: Yuxuan's little brother competed in Pyraminx, and he didn't start the timer correctly on his second solve. His fifth solve, he tried to stop the timer, but it Pro Timer'd and the time kept running. He suddenly looked really disappointed, and the judge told him, "You can still stop the timer!" But he responded "No, that's okay..." as he didn't care about his time if it were that bad, and just walked away with the timer still running. If he had a Gen2 timer, he would have had an average in Pyraminx, but now we might have scarred this future cuber for life with Pro Timers.
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^ this ^

I don't think he even realized he got a DNF average. I'll continue trying to teach him 3x3 and wait until he's faster at 2x2 before letting him compete in it (he somehow figured out 2x2 without knowing how to do 3x3 and I can't figure out what he's doing to solve the 2x2, I might make a video of him doing a 2x2 average or something).
If there's a comp with pyra, he's probably going to compete if I'm also competing. I even told him before the comp multiple times "you need to stop the timer correctly and do anything you can to stop the timer if it doesn't stop the first time because you're going to get a pro timer and the timer isn't going to stop when you stop it like that" but he still didn't listen :fp anyway as I'm typing this, he's repeatedly hitting me and asking when the next comp is going to be


Other DYK's:

Everyone thought my brother was cute?
I still can't get what I normally average at home in comp? (average sub 13 at home, couldn't sub 16 average in comp)
Evan (I think) was right next to me and we stopped the timer at the exact same time but I looked over and saw he got a 38.78 while I got a 1:0x.xx?
Qualifying for the final rounds were the easiest in probably 2 years around the area? (and I still failed qualifying for 2x2 finals because I'm 2 sec slower in comp than at home)
I think someone decided they wanted to become a teacher after seeing my brother compete?
I would've podiumed or gotten first in OH if I got what I normally averaged at home?
Kit's clock average was crazy?
3x3 finals was really stressful?
 
DYK...

Kit ran another great competition?
I finally did well at 3x3 BLD with a 1:02.86 single?
I won 3x3 BLD for the first time?
I got my first official 6x6 mo3?
On one of my 6x6 solves, my judge went to pick up the box for me to start inspection. He then withdrew and said, "Wait I forgot that you pick up the box when doing it blindfolded. I replied saying, "I will gladly do 6x6 blindfolded, but I don't think I should waste Kit's time. :)"?
Mike finally got a sub-20 3x3 average with 19.84!?
James LaChance did pretty good at 2x2 with a 3.58 average!?
I did the first solve in the finals and I got a 21.93?
Kids these days are getting too fast!?
Apparently I am a WCA statistorian?
We could tell how well the UMich football team was doing by hearing various jeers or groans coming from the bars?
I'm not that much taller than Rami Sbahi :p ?
 
DYK...

My hands were an absolute disaster from my skin disease?
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I got my first sub-10 in comp ever with beat up hands?
My stackmat timer went missing for four hours because someone took it then left it after they left for the day?
Even with two rounds of square-1, Neither Nathan nor I could come even close to what we actually average?
My mom was sad that Anthony Brooks had no hair?
She also was the one who started laughing when Brandon Mikel and Rami Sbahi were standing next to each other during the awards ceremony?
Kit's kinda fast at clock?
Kit's so fast at clock that real clocks stand still? That's why we were an hour ahead of schedule at one point.
Kids these days are getting too fast!?
You can only see Nathan's Gans III if you do the Gans Dance first?
 

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AJ Blair said:
DYK...

My hands were an absolute disaster from my skin disease?
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Ouch! So amazing that you could pull off a sub-10 single like that.

DYK...

...after having terrible clock averages in comp as of late, I decided to loosen the screws and only tape it on one side?
...that doing that apparently works?
...my judging staff is awesome?
...my two best clock averages ever were done when I had all of my friends as judges? (more comfortable, not cheating of course)
...getting an hour ahead of schedule is awesome?
...my wrist hurt terribly right now?
...that they hurt not because of cubing, but because of carrying all the tables into the venue at 8am?
...parking in Ann Arbor sucks?
...I'm definitely going to try to keep it at the venue we had for Tree Town from now on since parking is much, much easier to get?
...it doesn't hurt (literally) that the Tree Town venue had tables set up for free?
...seriously, everyone thought that Yuxuan's brother was cute?
...Jimmy John's was filled with about 90% cubers at lunch time?
 
My turn! DYK...

Mikel said:
Mike finally got a sub-20 3x3 average with 19.84!?
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And this average crushed me by 4 seconds in 3x3 round 1 :(

Mikel said:
James LaChance did pretty good at 2x2 with a 3.58 average!?
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I knew John was scared, he'd caught wind about how well I was doing at home! $5 says he's off learning EG-1 because he knows he won't be able to keep up here soon :)

Mikel said:
Apparently I am a WCA statistorian?
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You can only say "apparently" when you didn't know. Using your BLD Memo skillz to repeatedly learn all WCA stats kind of takes away the fact from you not knowing :D

Kit Clement said:
...my judging staff is awesome?
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Well yeah, who wouldn't sit in a chair all day and get paid for it?! I do it at Nats/World for free!

Kit Clement said:
...my two best clock averages ever were done when I had all of my friends as judges? (more comfortable, not cheating of course)
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SKETCHY

Kit Clement said:
...getting an hour ahead of schedule is awesome?
...parking in Ann Arbor sucks?
...I'm definitely going to try to keep it at the venue we had for Tree Town from now on since parking is much, much easier to get?
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What are you talking about? Ryan and I parked right outside the venue :D

The rest of my list:
Ryan and I somehow ended up behind Anthony, and he's apparently that speed limits increase outside of cities
I completely botched round 1 of 2x2 and 3x3 (5.23 average 2x2, 23.9 average 3x3)
Mike Hughey beat me in 3x3!
The Hughey girls know to save dessert for last but tried to pull a quick one and get dessert first
Chester (wasn't at this competition) received a text message from Ilkyoo reading something like "You are the sunshine in my life, I love you!"
Mike's apparently not intimidating enough
So his daughters are going to instead pay somebody to clean a shotgun on the porch when they bring guys over
So Mike suggests bringing me over
Little do the girls know I'll be bouncer status anyway if they decide they want to hang out with boys
Kit is holding my 2x2 hostage to ensure I'll be at Hillsdale

Last, but not least:
Kit was supposed to pay for my dinner (he lost a bet), yet again, he weaseled out of it. He decided to get to the restaurant late knowing I'm fat and can't wait to eat!
 
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so i tried it again to reconstruct it and i got a 7.58 my first try

Scramble: D2 F2 D' B2 D' B2 F2 U' R B' D' R2 U R F L' R B U

Solution: (Z2) R2 U2 F U' R B' R2 //Cross 7/7
U' R U R2' U' R // F2L1 6/13
y' R U R' U R U' R' // F2L2 7/20
U' L' U L U2 L' U L // F2L3 8/28
U' R' U2 R' U R' U' R //F2L4 8/36
U' l' U' M U' L U R' F R // OLL+PLL Skip 10/46

46 turns/ 8.63 s = 5.33 TPS
 
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Coolster01 said:
Is that molluscum contagiosm? I had that in Summer of 2012, I hope it isn't spreading through cubing! That's why I clean my cubes after every comp :p
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I suffer from a skin disease called Epidermolysis Bullosa Simplex. It basically just means that the connections between my layers of skin are incredibly weak and break easily from friction and allow liquid to seep through creating blisters from common tasks like walking and writing. I was born with it and I just have to learn to live with it. Cubing does cause a lot of blistering for me, but I love cubing too much to give it up.
 
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