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You must be very proud @openseas!

Thanks, Mark. We'll see how it goes (logo debate)

Any way, as advertised and expected(!), tons of BLD records today.
Angelo started off with WR mean (22.36) from the very first round. Unfortunately, nobody recorded his solves, just picture of his scorecard.

Then, Neel quietly made NAR 4BLD single (2:07). Nobody noticed that since it was "quiet event" and most people were working on 3BLD. (The rest of people for other events went out for lunch). When we realized that, every blders like, what? really?

Then, there was "THE FINAL".
The seat was, (from the left), Jeff & Angelo in the same table, Max sitting in the next table. The 3rd attempt, Angelo got 18.80. Many people gathered to (quietly) congratulate his new NAR...but in like 20s span, Max got 18.73, made a new NAR. So, naturally everybody ran to him. After a minute later, Jeff got the 3rd scramble and made 17.35.
It was like 3 consecutive bombing. After 2 sub 19s, it was not gonna be a total crazy thing to have 17s but actually the fact that it did happen was more than imaginable.

So, that was the summary. We still have 3 more 3BLD rounds, 2 more 4BLD rounds. Basically, I was able to watch 2 WRs, 3 NARs (2 doesn't count since it happened in the same day :-)). We'll see what will happen tomorrow.

For me, I made comp pb but not that good (2:21). For my first official 4BLD, my 2nd (13 something) and 3rd (20 something) was off just by one cycle. Actually, it was my first time did multiple 4BLD attempts in a day let alone 3 attempts in 1 hour. Hopefully, I can get some success tomorrow.
 
Still not much news here. Ironically I'm working on a timer but I haven't been doing many timed solves. I did land another sub-20 last night doing timer testing: 19.98 with a PLL fumble and another fumble finding the space-bar. I can still count all my sub 20s on two hands. Also did a bunch of sighted blind practice, went from "wait... which one is 'S' again?" to doing some advanced M2 by the time I was done.

Still no comps near me holding blindfold events other than early next month but I expect the early 2018 comps will be showing up soon. Time to start getting in shape.
 
That's a real shame. Was looking forward to his MBLD attempt.
Yeah I'm really bummed I didn't make it. I'll give more details about my week later. Congrats @openseas for your and Jeff's accomplishments so far. I need to go check cubecomps, there may be more by the time I'm writing this! :)

Humbling to think people in Europe are anticipating my events. Although multi was not going to be anything exciting. I think I was going to try two. ;)
 
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Yeah I'm really bummed I didn't make it. I'll give more details about my week later. Congrats @openseas for your and Jeff's accomplishments so far. I need to go check cubecomps, there may be more by the time I'm writing this! :)

Humbling to think people in Europe are anticipating my events. Although multi was not going to be anything exciting. I think I was going to try two. ;)


Thanks. Not much drama today except Max’s 17.87s 3BLD.

My 4BLD scorecard - the first official success!

For 3BLD, went to the 2nd round but made a stupid mistake. After finished solving, wasn’t sure whether there was a flipped edge or not (probably from the previous MBLD memo)- paused a little bit while then did a one flip. Turned out, no flip, missed sub-2. 1:50 DNF. :)
 
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Got a new OH PB over the weekend while waiting for my eldest son who was busy with a Karate class .... :)

18.46
R2 F2 R' U2 B2 R D2 U2 L' D2 R2 F R B F U F2 D' B2 R2

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z2 // inspection
D U' F R' F2 L' D2 // xcross 7
U' R U' R' // 2nd 11
U2' y R U R' U y R' U R // 3rd 19
U' z U' R' U R2 U' R' U z' // 4th 27
U2' F R U R' U' F' // oll 35
U2' R U' R U R U R U' R' U' R2 // pll U-Perm 47

// = 18.46 @ 2.55 tps
 
Great result.

Congrats @openseas on that 4BLD success. Congrats to Jeff too! Sounds like a great weekend.

Thanks, @newtonbase & @mark49152 .

By the time I was about to hit the table, heard some noise, so I thought it's either solved or a close one.
When I took off the blindfold, all those guys, Jake, Ishaan, Max, Riley, Jeff, Tim, Angelo were standing right next to me and watching me completing my first official solve! We celebrated together, what a great moment!
 
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Wow! A lot of news since I last visited :) That streak of Sub-19 3BLD singles ending in that incredible 17.xx must have been something to behold, really. I'm envious once again.

Got a new video for you guys! This time it's an unboxing of some of my latest acquisitons. To be honest, I think I'm turning into a cube collector more than a speedsolver :) I hope you enjoy it (with English subtitles).

 
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