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h2f said:
Congrats Mike, @Mike Hughey! I think you didnt mention you were 3rd in 4bld.
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That's true - I forgot to mention that. And this was a pretty respectable 3rd place at that, considering that 1st place was in fact the new world record (awesome achievement by Stanley Chapel!), and 2nd place was the current multiBLD WR holder. :-)

@mark49152 : I'm not sure if Donna is on here or not. I hope she responds.
 
Have a massive headache this evening, but managed a couple 3BLD attempts. Got a 4:07 DNF followed by a 4:12 success. The DNF was just one twisted corner—I twisted it the wrong way leaving it unsolved. Feeling reasonably good about this weekend.
 
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Nudged both my Ao5 and Ao12 a little lower in a short session today. I've nearly convinced myself that 23s are the new slow.

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asacuber said:
@Selkie just got appointed leader of WFC committee!
Congrats and all the best!
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Thank you! Delighted to be been appointed as the new leader of the financial committee and Treasurer of the WCA. Looking forward to the role at this exciting time.

Apologies I have not been as active of late in the thread my fellow mature brethren. Life and work has been very busy but still practicing frequently and seeing some good improvement in bigger cubes. Had my first sub 1:40 5x5 average last week.

I will try and be a bit more active and not to slack quite as much :)
 
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This past weekend I attended my largest competition yet, the Arnold Classic Africa 2018 in Johannesburg South Africa. I was also delegating along with 2 other delegates, 1 of them being the Senior Delegate for Africa.

3 full days of competition with all the WCA events with the exception of 5BLD. I participated in 10 events and managed some sort of PB either average or single on all events except for Pyraminx. There were 110 competitors in total, with 100 doing 3x3 alone. I managed a respectable 12th overall in 3x3, which is not to bad for an oldie although I was disappointed with my times I did get an average comp PB for 3x3.

I was happy at the end of the day with my performances in the events except for OH. I was bitterly disappointed with my times, and even more disappointed when the other delegates decided to scrap the 2nd/final round of OH because we were running quite over the schedule. I wanted a chance to redeem my bad times ... next time I suppose :)

The competition itself was quite exciting especially with all the other sports and events taking place over the weekend. These included Body Building, Power Lifting, Weight Lifting, Boxing, Karate, Archery, Bikini contests, Chess, e-Sports, and many more. We were wedged between Weight Lifting and Table Tennis. The constant weight dropping from the Weight Lifting was distracting at times depending on the size of the weight being dropped from overhead. Side note .... I'm amazed at how strong some people are.

We had a constant stream of spectators through our area with many competitors from the other sports stopping in to watch. The Arnold Classic organisers also stopped in quite frequently taking photos and videos and they seemed quite impressed with out setup and organistation so we're hoping that we get invited back to next year's Arnold Classic.

We also had a number of Continental and National records broken. Continental records for 3x3 Feet single and average, FMC single and average, and 4x4 single. National records for 3x3 average, 4x4 average, and Pyramix average. In fact the NR 4x4 record was broken in 2 consecutive rounds by 2 different competitors.

Overall is was a great competition and I look forward to the event next year (holding thumbs) ....

Arnold Classic Africa 2018 (Results - Brent Boswell).JPG

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SpartanSailor said:
And that 31 must have been full of mistakes and errors... i especially hate when that happens following a nice sub 20. Nicely done!
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I solved a pair into the wrong slot locking my brain up and killing my lookahead lol.

SpartanSailor said:
Sitting at the train station and just did my second ever sub-20 Ao5 with 19.26.

19.51, (16.34), 17.87, 20.43, (21.67)

I was legit shocked with that 16 too.
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Counting 17! You're way overdue for a shocker of a single. With that many full step sub 20s showing up (they couldn't all be lucky solves) you're due for something in the 12-13 neighborhood with a perfect storm.
 
pglewis said:
I solved a pair into the wrong slot locking my brain up and killing my lookahead lol.



Counting 17! You're way overdue for a shocker of a single. With that many full step sub 20s showing up (they couldn't all be lucky solves) you're due for something in the 12-13 neighborhood with a perfect storm.
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I’ve done the pair in the wrong slot more times than I’d like to admit....

Yeah, a nice string of sub-20s I was feeling good. I was definitely in the zone and things were going smooth.

I have a comp on Saturday, so we will see if I can pull off a sub-20 single when the pressure is on. But my primary focus is a decent 3BLD attempt. There’s a 10min cumulative limit so I won’t get but 2 attempts... I’m hopig to make the most of those two attempts!
 
SpartanSailor said:
I have a comp on Saturday, so we will see if I can pull off a sub-20 single when the pressure is on. But my primary focus is a decent 3BLD attempt. There’s a 10min cumulative limit so I won’t get but 2 attempts... I’m hopig to make the most of those two attempts!
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Good luck! You have the same 3bld strategy I had last time out. I felt reasonably comfortable in the 5-6 min range and hoped to get a safe one in that ballpark for my first solve and then throw caution to the wind on the second attempt, since I'm still a bit too slow for three attempts. I just couldn't get anything to stick in memory on comp day among being a little travel tired, comp nerves, and just one of those off days on top.
 
pglewis said:
Good luck! You have the same 3bld strategy I had last time out. I felt reasonably comfortable in the 5-6 min range and hoped to get a safe one in that ballpark for my first solve and then throw caution to the wind on the second attempt, since I'm still a bit too slow for three attempts. I just couldn't get anything to stick in memory on comp day among being a little travel tired, comp nerves, and just one of those off days on top.
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Yep. That’s my strategy. If I get a good scramble/easy memo and a smidgen of luck, I could surprise myself. But I’m plannig to be “relatively” safe for my first one. Although, if it’s an easy memo... I’ll let it rip and see what happens. I already have an official solve, so the pressure is off on that bit.
 
I got a crazy scramble on Pyra earlier today, resulting in a new PB of 1.97 and faster than the top 100 official single! It's worth a try if you can solve Pyraminx using LBL or L4E!

Scramble - B' U B U B R B R' U' B U u' b'
Solution - y' l u L R' L' R2 U' R' U'

In other news, I also got a new PB of 10.25 on 3x3... full step. I still can't shake that damned sup-10 monkey off my back!

Scramble - R' U2 F2 L' F2 R' D2 U2 R B D' B' F' U R D' L R D'
Solution - I have no idea except for the T-Shape OLL + U-Perm.
 
Jason Green said:
Ok, I know I don't post much these days... But I still get a little freaked out when a whole day goes by without anything on this thread. :)
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It does get a little unnerving.

In the interest of conversation: I ought to stay home and plow the corn field, but I'm planning to go to Clocks N' Cats 2018 on Saturday. I've done a few practice feet solves, but I'm afraid that my official attempt(s) will be my first blind solve(s) in over a month. I'll be running pretty short on sleep, too. Sometimes my short-term memory drastically improves with exhaustion; here's hoping! If I get there in time for 3x3 I expect to get a roughly 25 second average, and about the same time for pyraminx. Feet has a cutoff of 2:00, which I can make if I'm either good or lucky. Both could get me one, maybe even two, sub-1:30 singles. Blind I'd really like to get 3 attempts in 15 minutes. More likely 2, though in the off chance the first is a success I'll definitely push to get 2 more.
 
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