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Polish Open 2008

Oh man. What an insane competition, it must have been awesome!! If Euro 2008 can beat this that would be crazy. 7.58!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Did anybody realize how high the level of the first 3x3 round was? Not quite osaka open, but still...

Grzegorz looks like: "it was damn easy, sorry for that..."
Funny that the Sq-1 WR is below the 3x3 WR now.
 
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Those Square-1 WRs are unbelievable... Congrats Grzegorz! But I have to say, this is the exact reason why I don't understand why Square-1 is mean of 3 instead of average of 5. The average WR is practically impossible to break now unless someone gets really lucky on more than one solve. It's not like Square-1 takes that long, and it's not that hard to scramble...
 
Ok, I just got back from poland and I'll begin to write my experiences of this adventure with Did you know? 's
I'm sure there will follow a lot more!

Did you know?

- Wadowice is known for 3 things? Cubing, The pope, and Chocolate?
- We took 17 hours instead of the planned 11 hours to get to Wadowice?
- We left at about 4 o' clock in the morning but only arrived at about 9 in the evening?
- This long trip resulted in 'quite' a bad travel/competition time ratio?
- We almost ran out of gas and made a 50km detour to get gas?
- We didn't break our speed record?
- Polish is a crazy language?
- I was dared to learn the word for thank you in Polish and still remember it the next day by a couple of Polish cubers?
- I succeeded on this? (it sounded like... dzjenkounjet to me)

- All girls at Poland are ***** hoooot!??
- We (Dennis and me) flirted with quite a couple and took a pic of us with 3 of our favorite female judges?

- The level of cubing is getting ridicilously high? :confused::eek:
- I'm quite ashamed of my results?
- I'd like to thank Tomas Zolnowski for borrowing me his spare 5x5 ES?
- I had to use this because mine got broken the night before? :(
- The competition almost looked like if it was a EC or WC?
- Rama and me were doing Rock Paper Scissors during the finals of 3x3 to get rid of the tension?
- You can view this at http://www.justin.tv/psf_live ?

- All girls in Poland are sooo hot?
- It intruiges me so much that I apparently mentioned it twice in this thread already? :rolleyes:
- Chip Skylark was also in the competition? (it was even written on my competitors card? xD)
- Bikshu will go to EC?


@PJK, no I DNF-ed it on purpose, I messed it up and got double par at the end too so I better wanted a DNF than a 1+ time... 4x4 went horrible, I was getting a lot of sub-50's in practise but I was shaking so much :( (and 3 times double par doesn't really help a lot either;))
 
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Erik said:
- All girls at Poland are ***** hoooot!??
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I swear to God that I won't miss the next polish championship..... :P:P:P

It looked like a really awesome competition. I followed it quite closely and it seemed you all had much fun over there. You lucky!

;)

And of course, congrats for all the awesome results. I'm considering to stop cubing... hehe
 
Did you know?

- Ton, Maria and I rang the door at Alexander's home at 06.00 in the morning.
- But apparantly we should've been there at 06.00 in the evening.

- That Erik and Joël had plenty of rest.
- Rama did not.
- I was a bit faster then Erik and Joël because of my shortage of sleep?

- After watching the Polish architecture, landscape and language Rama loves Poland?

- Rama definately will be at the next Polish Open.
- And try the Pope's favourite cookie from his youth?
 
A bit late, but anyway:

It was a great tournament and a great couple of days. The level of the competition was extremely high and because of the limited time some events had very hard to reach limits (<7 for 2x2x2, <25 for 3x3x3, <40 for 3x3x3_oh, <1:30 for 4x4x4, <12 for pyraminx, 10 minutes total for 2 3x3x3_bf solves).

I decided that I would take a gamble on 3x3x3_fmc and either get that WR I want so much, or DNF. Unfortunately it was another DNF :( because I ran out of time and got a very unlucky last layer. It was an incredibly hard scramble: U' F2 R2 U' B2 D2 U' R2 B2 U2 R' U2 L B2 U' L2 B' F U R2 F

The UBL-corner is the only correct piece, but that is actually a very bad thing because of the BL and UL edge. The UFR-corner and BR-edge are also problematic because they are permuted correctly but oriented incorrectly. To make it even worse, no corner-edge-pairs are present and almost every possible move creates a bad corner-edge-pair :(

It took me a long time to find this very nice beginning
(do premoves D B' D2 to see what is going on)
R' B' L2 D L' U' (2x2x2 block)
L' D2 R2 D L (MAGIC)

But then I couldn't find a good continuation and ran out of time. The only continuation I found was to insert R' F' R F in the "Magic" part so it becomes L' D2 R F' R F D (L R2). Those 4 moves orient 2 edges and fix all corners, but still leave a bad last layer because of the flipped BR-edge. I didn't have enough time to find to edge-3-cycle-insertions and DNF-ed.
Erik simply knew that ELL case and could have finished it in 13 moves. Some study at home found an even better way to do it AND actually break the WR:
Scramble: U' F2 R2 U' B2 D2 U' R2 B2 U2 R' U2 L B2 U' L2 B' F U R2 F
hypothetical WR: R' B' L2 D L' B U R' U2 R L' B D' B' R' D' R F' R F D L R2 D B' D2 (26)
2x2x2 (6): R' B' L2 D L' U' .
Pseudo-F2l (5): L' D2 R2 .. D L
Insert Last layer manipulation at .. (4): R' F' R F
Adjust last face (1): R2
Undo premoves / fix pseudo-F2l: D B' D2
Insert 4-edge fix at . (13): U B U R' U2 R L' B D' B' R' D L (used cube explorer for this which found many combinations that started with UBU and ended with DL. Maybe I could have found 2 nice edge-3-cycles with even better cancellations, but probably not)
 
CharlieCooper said:
Hadley4000 said:
Jason Baum said:
it's not that hard to scramble...
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I beg to differ...
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ditto
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I'd rather scramble 5x5s than Sq-1s, and that's saying something.

Not to mention comparatively few people know how to scramble it (whereas just about everyone who attends a Rubik's cube competition knows Singmaster notation and can be asked to scramble 3x3 and bigger cubes). And the people who do know how to scramble Sq-1s are most likely competing in it. At many competitions we only have one person doing all the Sq-1 scrambling.
 
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