Princeton Open 2008

[Ethan Rosen]

@ Siraj, that's not the better cube IMO
@ Sam, I'll try to get pariy down, but if not, I may either be incredibly lucky or get a DNF average. I'll try to memorize it though
@Dolphy: Will do

 

[masterofthebass]

BTW, I won't be there... I'll be in Canada on spring break. Jason, when are you coming back to Pittsburgh, if you are. Maybe this time we can finally meet up.

 

[ExoCorsair]

Square-1 event added, if anyone missed that.

 

[Jason Baum]

Dan, I'll be in Pittsburgh from March 14-21 or something like that. If you're in town then we should definitely meet up. PM me and let me know what your schedule is like.

 

[masterofthebass]

great... we have the same spring break. I'll be in Canada.

 

[Jason Baum]

Unbelievable. That's what, three times now? We just can't catch a break. =/

 

[Lotsofsloths]

Sloths: I'd be glad to help you out in BLD, but just to let you know I don't really know anything about M2. You'd be much better off asking Dan Cohen about it (assuming he is coming, which I'm not sure).

Well, I might just end up with cycle or Pochman for edges.
I'm getting really good with pure Pochman method
Just yesterday I got a 6:33 solve

 

[masterofthebass]

I started with pure Pochmann and then switched to M2 when I felt comfortable. If you understand the concept of T perm Edges, then M2 shouldn't be hard to do at all. BTW, my PB is like 1:12 or something.

 

[cmv0116]

question: What is the order of events like?

 

[sam]

Hi, the order of events is on http://www.freewebs.com/samboyles/schedule.htm
It is subject to change though depending on the amount of time we have.

 

[Jason Baum]

Couple of things:

The Square-1 event isn't on the schedule. Did you decide to drop it or just forget to put in on there?

Also, I noticed that "Andy Kang" is a registered competitior. Do you know if that's the same person as Andrew Kang? I don't think it's him, because Andy is only registered for 3x3x3 and there isn't a link to his WCA profile.

But if that's Andrew Kang, then dang... I better start practicing!

 

[sam]

lol, i knew someone would bring that up. I assumed it was someone else and i'm still pretty sure it is. As for square-1 its just not on my revised schedule yet. I'm still working on time frames for each event and timing them so that it will work out best with the side events.
Dont worry, I didn't forget about it .

 

[Jason Baum]

Okay, sounds good. Thanks for all your work so far! This is going to be a great competition.

 

[Lotsofsloths]

Andrew Kang is gonna be there...?
Wow.
I feel so privileged that I'm gonna meet all these people.

 

[alexc]

My goals:
2x2-sub 7.5, maybe sub 6
3x3-sub 19 and get to the finals
4x4-sub 2:00
3x3oh-sub 40
3x3bld-sub 2:30
3x3multibld-either 2 in sub 10:00 or 3 in sub 20:00 (probably just two)

 

[Lotsofsloths]

My goals:
2x2-sub 7.5, maybe sub 6
3x3-sub 19 and get to the finals
4x4-sub 2:00
3x3oh-sub 40
3x3bld-sub 2:30
3x3multibld-either 2 in sub 10:00 or 3 in sub 20:00 (probably just two)

My goal would probablly just these:

Get a sucessful BLD 3x3

Get a sucessful 2/2 Multibld in under 22min

Get into the final round with a SUB-20 AVERAGE..This ones a biggie..

 

[alexc]

I just got a 2:17.78 blindfolded, a new PB! The next solve I did was a 2:21.75, so I'm definitely almost sub 2:30 consistently. I want to do this at Princeton!

 

[Ethan Rosen]

My goals:
2x2-sub 8
3x3-sub 40 with at least one sub-35 solve
2x2-sub 2:30
5x5-sub 5:30
Pyraminx- don't come in last, maybe within a few seconds of 20. I need a better method :/
Sq. 1-Don't DNF. I shouldn't dnf now that I found an easier parity fixer, but that is my only goal

 

[ExoCorsair]

I don't have goals; I find myself performing better if I don't expect anything of myself.

 

[alexc]

I don't have goals; I find myself performing better if I don't expect anything of myself.

That probably is true.