Oxford Open 2014 - May 17/18 (UK comp!)

[LucidCuber]

DYKs
-Greg loves tea.

-coffee house almost everywhere?

On the Saturday there was a place that did really good tea for £1. On Sunday, only Starbucks did very poor tea for £1.75 :/

Also, this was a very good comp for me, even more so than I realised. I achieved my goal of getting in top 30 for sum of ranks single/average. It was 28/35 now it's 26/29.

My 4x4x4 average rose 21 places from 58 to 37. Single rose 22 places from 52 to 30.
My 3x3x3 average also rose from 20 to 17. The highest it's been for quite a while, it had fallen to 45 at its trough.

Also Ciaran is getting alarmingly fast in every event. I don't even think he is aware that the new averages put him in world top 100 for 5x5x5 and 4x4x4.

 

[10461394944000]

looks like I should have gone to this competition

http://i.imgur.com/lSM7XLJ.png

scramble 3
z x D' l D2 R
y' U2 R' U R
y R' U2 R U' y L' U L
R' F R F'
U2 r U R' U R U2 r' U

5.16 **** my life

 

[bobthegiraffemonkey]

Billy 5BLD! Glad you didn't give up. Did Ollie not do sunday? Was waiting for his multi result but it never appeared.

 

[ryanj92]

Edit: 57.38 5x5 ER by Breandan

Finally, after so many 58's

EDIT: Also, it seems like Nottingham has a clock WR podium to reclaim soon...

 

[~Adam~]

-Adam and co had fun travelling to oxford.

On a related note I am never driving to and from comp each day again. Driving is for weekdays!
It was definitely worth it.

5.16 **** my life

You would've been in group B. I wouldn't lose sleep over it =D


I remember thanking Evan but not Daniel and James. Great job all round.

Also thank you to everyone for judging, especially the enthusiastic new competitors.

DYKs to come tomorrow unless everything has been covered.
I had completely forgotten about the minion and I was sober (no, seriously) so that probably explains what happened in BLD.

 

[10461394944000]

You would've been in group B. I wouldn't lose sleep over it =D

meh, kind of surprised no one else got a 5 or something on it though

edit: owait does anyone else do red cross/colour neutral?

 

[LucidCuber]

On a related note I am never driving to and from comp each day again. Driving is for weekdays!
It was definitely worth it.

I recognised this after Leicester, although the main downfall is having to get up seriously early and losing sleep, but I woke up at 3am on the Sunday anyway so it doesn't matter. The hotels are so expensive in Nottingham I might have to do it again though.

 

[scotzbhoy]

When I was on the train to Oxford, I thought '****, I've forgotten my camera'. As such I did no filming during the weekend. I've now got home and started unpacking, and realised I did not forget my camera. **** sake.

 

[NevinsCPH]

When I was on the train to Oxford, I thought '****, I've forgotten my camera'. As such I did no filming during the weekend. I've now got home and started unpacking, and realised I did not forget my camera. **** sake.

I've got my recorder but didn't film as much. Everyone is filming and space is quite tight to land a tripod.

 

[Evan Liu]

Billy 5BLD! Glad you didn't give up. Did Ollie not do sunday? Was waiting for his multi result but it never appeared.

Indeed, he was only there on Saturday.

 

[scotzbhoy]

I've got my recorder but didn't film as much. Everyone is filming and space is quite tight to land a tripod.

That's a good point, not a lot of space. Still, could've filmed other people. Probably would've filmed Ollie's WR...