Ohio Open 2011 - June 18th

[Mike Hughey]

Thanks, Ryan. The memorization went really well; I slowed down and went through my memory an extra time because it was going so well. Apparently I mismemorized on one of the two bad cubes - I needed to do parity, but I had even cycles for edges, so I messed up somewhere. I was off by parity on that cube, and a three-cycle of corners on the other one (I'm not sure what I did wrong there - perhaps I'll check it later if I can get the scrambles). I had had very little sleep and thought it was going to be awful, but it was actually pretty easy. I think this proves I am really giving myself the worst possible conditions when practicing, since I always practice very late at night - I can probably do two more cubes during the day than I normally do at night when practicing.

Chester is awesome - congratulations, Chester!

Did you know?
- the world record included two of my cubes?
- that's not as impressive as it sounds (they hadn't been restickered yet)?
- Chester lost the argument?
- he's very mature for his age, so he already knew he was going to?

 

[pistelli]

This was my first competition. Even though I didn't do that well, I had a lot of fun especially with the big pile of scrambled puzzles on the back table
Also, Congrats to Chester on his World record!

 

[FatBoyXPC]

This competition was a blast, even if I didn't get any sleep

Some DYK's:

- Shaden is a TICKLING MACHINE!
- There are only two types of people who do OH
- Crislip and Brechon are self-admittedly type other than "nub" (of those who do OH)
- Apparently Ethan being my son isn't believable?
- I seem to get better times when I don't practice (non 3x3 speed events, anyway)
- Shaden farts louder than he snores
- Shaden's phone defies the laws of physics
- Chester and Shaden really wanted donuts, then decided McDonald's breakfast was better
- Shaden REALLY knows how to make little boys and girls cry
- I got two sub-X averages where I only had one counting solve that was sub-X

And the most important one:
- Ethan once played with a meatslicer...to say the least, he learned his lesson.

 

[JBCM627]

Results are posted (Thanks, Tim). Scrambles: http://www.cubingusa.com/ohio2011/scrambles.pdf

 

[Mike Hughey]

Results are posted (Thanks, Tim). Scrambles: http://www.cubingusa.com/ohio2011/scrambles.pdf

Note that BLD rounds 1 and 2 were swapped. I know this because I was comparing against Rebecca's recall of her memorization that she gave me at dinner, and while her memorization was off, large strings of it are correct when compared against the round 2 first scramble, which is the only one she attempted. I also know the sheets got mixed up, so I suspect Jim just never corrected it for the website.

Rebecca's memo was significantly wrong, but I'm not sure if that's due to her having it wrong during the competition, or if she just got it mixed up by the time she gave it to me a few hours later. She suspected the reason she got it wrong was entirely because she messed up a Y perm.

Much thanks to Jim and Mitchell for a great competition!

 

[nlCuber22]

And the most important one:
- Ethan once played with a meatslicer...to say the least, he learned his lesson.

:S

 

[Julian]

Sounds like a fun comp