Polish Open 2009

[KJiptner]

Thanks Arnaud .
It was
2x a 2-corner-twist,
2x an edge 3-cycle
and one was really bad, 5 edges and 4 corners off
After beeing interupted it was 6/16. Then I finished 5/6 of the other cubes a few min later. The whole attempt would have taken me like 1:05h - 1:10h or something. I had no big recall delays at this attempt. Memo was just not fast enough. I don't think I'll try 16 at worlds now. I'm not quite as good as Tim or Dennis. Especially when it comes to accuracy.
I've had enough sleep for this attempt, just for the first day (3x3 BLD Rd.1 and 5x5 BLD) I had only 1h, after the late-night trip .

 

[Konsta]

"two timer malfunctions": On two of the solves the timer stopped after 0.xx seconds so two additional attempts were given.

How many times a competitor can have an additional attempt?
Because I (obviously mistakenly) thought that you can only have 1 additional attempt if there's equipment malfunction or something similar happens.

I also thought it has to be 0.02, not 0.xx.

 

[CharlieCooper]

hey hey hey.... saying breandan won't win WC or get a WR is a pretty big claim! why on earth wouldn't he? don't say things like that, i'm sure you wouldn't like it if somebody ruled you out of winning a competition before it had even happened.

 

[(X)]

hey hey hey.... saying breandan won't win WC or get a WR is a pretty big claim! why on earth wouldn't he? don't say things like that, i'm sure you wouldn't like it if somebody ruled you out of winning a competition before it had even happened.

So we can't discuss our favorites (and not favorites) for the 3x3 event at WC?

 

[Chuck]

- 1h of sleep is a big problem for BLD events?
- 16 cubes in an hour is really, really tough (for now)?

I had only 1 hour sleep on the night before my 11/11, because I couldn't sleep myself off from all the excitement and nervousness (mostly nervousness). But I can't agree more that 16 cubes is really tough. :fp

It was 2x a 2-corner-twist, 2x an edge 3-cycle and one was really bad, 5 edges and 4 corners off. After being interupted it was 6/16. Then I finished 5/6 of the other cubes a few min later. The whole attempt would have taken me like 1:05h - 1:10h or something. I had no big recall delays at this attempt. Memo was just not fast enough. I don't think I'll try 16 at worlds now. I'm not quite as good as Tim or Dennis. Especially when it comes to accuracy.

Kai, don't give up! You only missed a few targets and just slightly more than 60 minutes. Practicing some attempts on 16 cubes Multi BLD at home before WC will be useful, I know you can do it as good as Tim and Dennis.

 

[Crazycubemom]

Come on Kai !! , Chuck is right , you can do it as good as another .

 

[CharlieCooper]

hey hey hey.... saying breandan won't win WC or get a WR is a pretty big claim! why on earth wouldn't he? don't say things like that, i'm sure you wouldn't like it if somebody ruled you out of winning a competition before it had even happened.

So we can't discuss our favorites (and not favorites) for the 3x3 event at WC?

of course you can, but it just sounded rather negative i'm not sure i'd like it if people said that about me, but there we go. nevermind.

 

[MTGjumper]

Charlie, you will not break the 3x3 WR average at WC.

Sorry

 

[Carrot]

I just checked up what the Pyraminx top 10 looked like after this week...

When adding the times from Polish Open the 10th place would be with a time of 6.44 (Erik Akkersdijk)

Very nice done Bruno(5.31) and Lucasz(5.15)!!!

but... With my 5.69 at Danish Special the top 10 pyraminxers is all sub6 averages ;-)

 

[Erik]

If I didn't mess up my last pyra solve in the final I'd have my sub-6 avg too 6.13, 8, 5.21, 5.low, 8+2 FAIL :fp
Anyway, pyraminx is a really fun puzzle, especially popular in Poland who have by far the most people in the top-10. Lucas Cialon, Tomasz Kiedrowicz and Grzegorz Lucyna are all 3 a candidate for the podium at worlds from Poland.
Bruno from Hungary is awesome too. Still it seems like Yohei Oka hasn't found his match yet with his lunatic times.

 

[Mr Cubism]

Only in turnaments 2009 (Polish open included), Tomasz has done more than 15 sub-10 solves.........nerves of steel

 

[AvGalen]

I send the 5 solves (and the 2 timer malfunctions) to Erik. He will put them on his youtube account.

The WCA-site still doesn't seem to have the updated results, but this is a small summary of all sub10 solves so far. Obviously people that go to many competitions have had more oppurtunities to get sub-10 so take that into account as well:

Tomasz Zolnowski-----------14
Erik Akkersdijk------------13
Harris Chan----------------6
Edouard Chambon------------5
Yumu Tabuchi---------------5
Eric Limeback--------------3
Milán Baticz---------------3
Yu Nakajima----------------3
Phil Thomas----------------2
Rowe Hessler---------------2
Yohei Oka------------------2
Adam Polkowski-------------1
Andy Tsao------------------1
Benjamin Sintes------------1
Breandan Vallance----------1
Dan Dzoan------------------1
Darren Kwong---------------1
Durben Joun Virtucio-------1
Ibrahim Vajgel-Shedid------1
Jean Pons------------------1
Jimmy Coll-----------------1
Kanneti Sae Han------------1
Kittikorn Tangsucharitthum-1
Kouetsu Ando---------------1
Michal Robaczyk------------1
Ming-Huan Tsai-------------1
Mitsuki Gunji--------------1
Phillip Espinoza-----------1
Piti Pichedpan-------------1
Robert Yau-----------------1
Ron van Bruchem------------1
Stefan Pochmann------------1
Syuhei Omura---------------1
Thibaut Jacquinot----------1
Tomasz Kaczorowski---------1
Waris Ali------------------1

 

[Konsta]

Robert Yau: 1 competition, 1 sub-10

 

[mazei]

I shall get on that list one day, mark my words.

 

[Doudou]

congrats tomasz! 10.07 is incredible. what happened in the 2x2 rounds? since no ones said anything im guessing my record still stands....i get so nervous every weekend

Lukasz got 3.55 and 3.78

Lukasz is baaaaaaaack !!
World Championnship is definitely going to be very interesting...

 

[Robert-Y]

Robert Yau: 1 competition, 1 sub-10

Best number of sub-10s to number of competitions ratio so far...

 

[Erik]

 

[antros]

subject on the Polish forum with links to photos: http://forum.speedcubing.com.pl/viewtopic.php?t=2434

 

[esquimalt1]

Ibrahim Vajgel-Shedid------1

Non lucky solve too

 

[IamWEB]

Poor Lucas Garron is not on that list...