Princeton Fall 2012

[mrpotatoman14]

Yeah, but I don't know if I should put it up or not.

Why wouldn't you?

 

[cityzach]

Well, I was extremely close to having lost NAR. There was suspicion about if my hands were flat or not, but Bob was kind of watching so...

Yeah, there was some debate on one of the solves, but Bob let him slide.
Since Bob let him slide, it's probably safe to upload

 

[cubingandjazz]

UPLOAD IT its fine if Bob was ok with it and also its the NAR!

 

[StachuK1992]

You should have either claimed that you didn't get it on video, or upload the video.
Now that you've said something and have even expressed your personal doubts, people will inquire for verification.

 

[Czery]

Great competition!
I had lots of fun.

Got my first official blind solve.
Missed 3x3 final round by one rank.

 

[brandbest1]

Great competition!
I had lots of fun.

Got my first official blind solve.
Missed 3x3 final round by one rank.

Congrats at beating me at square-1! XD

 

[Mikel]

Congrats to Zach Goldman for not only getting his first 3x3 BLD success, but his first three 3x3 BLD successes

 

[cityzach]

Congrats to Zach Goldman for not only getting his first 3x3 BLD success, but his first three 3x3 BLD successes

Thanks a lot man! I wish so surprised haha.
I attempted to film them, but my camera shut off in the middle of the solve all 3 times. Stupid camera -__-

 

[brandbest1]

Thanks a lot man! I wish so surprised haha.
I attempted to film them, but my camera shut off in the middle of the solve all 3 times. Stupid camera -__-

That's why you have your handy dandy cameraman. lol that sounded so weird.

 

[cityzach]

That's why you have your handy dandy cameraman. lol that sounded so weird.

But even if I had a camera man the camera would have shut off. My camera just does that sometimes

 

[Czery]

Congrats at beating me at square-1! XD

Congrats for winning magic NAR!

But seriously, I got real lucky on those solves.

 

[Alan Chang]

I sent this out as an email to everyone but I'll post it here as well.

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Hi Princeton Fall 2012 competitors!

Thank you all for coming and making the competition so wonderful. This was a super awesome experience for me! It was my first competition, and I think it went really well! I hope you all had a lot of fun played with a lot of puzzles, met a lot of people, and had great solves. I had a super awesome time and I'm sure the rest of the staff and volunteers did too! I'd like to let you all know some things:

Results. The results are not up officially on the WCA website yet. That might take a few days. (I need the help of some staff to finalize some things, but they need tomorrow to catch up on school work.) So for now, please view the results at http://live.cubecomps.com/live.php?cid=77. In fact, let us know if you see any mistakes!

Survey. So, just like the last two years, we're sending out a survey so that we can run better competitions for you guys in the future! Please take a moment to fill out a survey:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dER2VlZ0NW5RR0YyNkViN1B3NHUtX1E6MA#gid=0

Lost and found. We have someone's tiled megaminx. If you are missing a megaminx, please let me know. If you missing anything else, or accidentally picked up anything that wasn't yours, please let me know.

Pictures. If you have any nice pictures you would like to share, please send them to me! (Or send me a link where I can view the pictures.) When we find time, we might try and improve our slideshow on our club website: princeton.edu/~cubeclub

Next Princeton competition. We're looking into something for the spring. Nothing planned yet, but we'll let you know!

Thanks again!

Alan

 

[TheAwesomeAlex]

Had fun at the competition.

 

[brandbest1]

Congrats for winning magic NAR!

But seriously, I got real lucky on those solves.

Now you're 26th in the world for square-1 average!
I'm now 101 in the world for square-1.

2x2- it was okay
3x3-broke my competition pb single
3OH-AWESOME AVERAGE sub-30
Clock- pb single
square-1- could've done better, 23 average
Magic-NAR
M.Magic-crap

 

[Bob]

LMAO! I won fewest moves.

That puts me 90 in the World, 12 in North America, 10 in USA.

 

[Tim Reynolds]

I had a 32 that I failed at writing...but wouldn't have won anyway. What should have won Fewest Moves for me was a 17 to 4 corners that I found with 5 minutes left. I tried to just do 2 crappy insertions but ran out of time.

Also, 8.86 3x3 single

 

[Mike Hughey]

LMAO! I won fewest moves.

That puts me 90 in the World, 12 in North America, 10 in USA.

Hey, that puts you in the famous "Club 31"! Welcome! I hope you don't stay in it as long as I have.

 

[Tim Reynolds]

Here's my 8.86. Look at my solution if you want to laugh at me.

L B R2 U F2 R U F2 U2 D' B L2 D' B2 D F2 B2 U2 B2

Spoiler

z2 D2 F2 L' (3|3)
U2 R' U R (4|7)
U2 L' U' L U2 L' U L (8|15)
U2 y' R' U2 R U' R' U R (8|23)
y' R U R' (3|26)
Rw U R' U' Rw' R U R' U' R' (10|36)
R2 U' R' U' R U R U R U' R (11|47)

YES I know that ELL. I realized just after I started OLL that I could have 1-looked the last layer.

 

[Bob]

Here's my 8.86. Look at my solution if you want to laugh at me.

L B R2 U F2 R U F2 U2 D' B L2 D' B2 D F2 B2 U2 B2

Spoiler

z2 D2 F2 L' (3|3)
U2 R' U R (4|7)
U2 L' U' L U2 L' U L (8|15)
U2 y' R' U2 R U' R' U R (8|23)
y' R U R' (3|26)
Rw U R' U' Rw' R U R' U' R' (10|36)
R2 U' R' U' R U R U R U' R (11|47)

YES I know that ELL. I realized just after I started OLL that I could have 1-looked the last layer.

Even I would have done ELL on that one.

 

[antoineccantin]

Even I would have done ELL on that one.

M U M' U2 M U M'?