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River Hill Winter 2012

Hats off to everyone for pulling this off! It was nice seeing everyone and meeting a lot of new people.
 
RyanReese09 said:
So how many people actually turned up?
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I think it was a pretty nice amount.

I failed a lot, but got a 26 OH average, my final round of 3x3 I got 3 11's (awesome for me), then a counting 17 :fp
Also, I got a 1:10.xx 4x4 average :P with a sub-1 (not counting). I failed everything about 2x2 with like 2-4 +2's and a DNF or two... I didn't compete in 5x5 at all. I wouldn't have made cutoff anyway.

I came in 13th in 2nd round of 3x3, but someone apperently left allowing me to come in 12th, putting me in the final round :)
 
flee135 said:
I'm from Howard County. We're always the one county that doesn't close for just a couple inches of snow.
(I hope I don't have to eat those words)
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Crap.

anyway, thanks to EVERYBODY for being so cooperative and helping out. Despite the time that was lost, the competition was extremely successful, and I had no idea in the beginning of the day that it would turn out like this.
 
Thanks to everyone who made this competition so successful! I'm very happy it all worked out in the end.
Best accomplishment: 44.25 4x4 single :D

BLD DNFs for Ryan:
1st: high 3s, 2nd: low 4s, 3rd: low 4s off by two moves :(
 
Yeah I'm friends with him and I have to say he's not at all like he is on the forums.

anyway I will tell the story from my point of view. Anybody can feel free to add if I forgot something or if something is wrong.

I got up at 5:30 in the morning yesterday and checked to make sure that there were no cancellations. There were no cancellations when I woke up, and there were no cancellations up through when I had left my house. As soon as I get to the school, a custodian approaches me and tells me that I can't use the school. It turns out just 5 minutes before I got there, they made the announcement that all howard county facilities are closed for the day. He was being a real jerk about it and basically told me to get the hell out. So as soon as he walked away, I brought in all the things for the competition and started setting up the room. The custodian got really upset, and threatened to call the principal. I told him yeah, get the principal on the phone and let me talk to him. He walked out of the room and was on the phone for at least 30 minutes while I was still setting up the room. He comes back into the room and says that he talked to the assistant principal and that he says I have to get out of the building. I complain some more, and continue setting up the room, but after some more time he actually gets me to the principal. I tried to negotiate with him, but he wasn't able to make any exceptions (but at least he was very nice about it). I called Bob and let him know that we needed to find a new place to hold the competition.

The next hour or so was spent calling random places trying to see if they could hold a last minute event at their venue. Just about every single place we tried to contact was either already booked or closed. During this time, we had a ton of competitors entering and just sitting around waiting, and the custodian also kept nagging me to gtfo. Eventually, I believe Rowe googled "clarksville venues" or something like that, and we found somewhere a little less than 10 minutes away. A couple cubers (I don't know specifically who. Rowe, Dan, Tim, Kian, others?) went over to the venue to make sure it was suitable, and it was actually perfect. On top of that, they lowered the price to something extremely reasonable, and gave us the entire day through 5:00 instead of only 5 hours. We took it and let all the competitors know where the competition would be held. We proceeded to have a pretty awesome competition!

Also, luckily enough, the 40 pizzas that I ordered did not go to waste. The papa johns that I ordered from happened to be right next to the new venue that we moved to.
 
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flee135 said:
Yeah I'm friends with him and I have to say he's not at all like he is on the forums.

anyway I will tell the story from my point of view. Anybody can feel free to add if I forgot something or if something is wrong.

I got up at 5:30 in the morning yesterday and checked to make sure that there were no cancellations. There were no cancellations when I woke up, and there were no cancellations up through when I had left my house. As soon as I get to the school, a custodian approaches me and tells me that I can't use the school. It turns out just 5 minutes before I got there, they made the announcement that all howard county facilities are closed for the day. He was being a real jerk about it and basically told me to get the hell out. So as soon as he walked away, I brought in all the things for the competition and started setting up the room. The custodian got really upset, and threatened to call the principal. I told him yeah, get the principal on the phone and let me talk to him. He walked out of the room and was on the phone for at least 30 minutes while I was still setting up the room. He comes back into the room and says that he talked to the assistant principal and that he says I have to get out of the building. I complain some more, and continue setting up the room, but after some more time he actually gets me to the principal. I tried to negotiate with him, but he wasn't able to make any exceptions (but at least he was very nice about it). I called Bob and let him know that we needed to find a new place to hold the competition.

The next hour or so was spent calling random places trying to see if they could hold a last minute event at their venue. Just about every single place we tried to contact was either already booked or closed. During this time, we had a ton of competitors entering and just sitting around waiting, and the custodian also kept nagging me to gtfo. Eventually, I believe Rowe googled "clarksville venues" or something like that, and we found somewhere a little less than 10 minutes away. A couple cubers (I don't know specifically who. Rowe, Dan, Tim, Kian, others?) went over to the venue to make sure it was suitable, and it was actually perfect. On top of that, they lowered the price to something extremely reasonable, and gave us the entire day through 5:00 instead of only 5 hours. We took it and let all the competitors know where the competition would be held. We proceeded to have a pretty awesome competition!

Also, luckily enough, the 40 pizzas that I ordered did not go to waste. The papa johns that I ordered from happened to be right next to the new venue that we moved to.
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It was incredible. Bob and I called at least a dozen places to find something that might work to no avail. If this place didn't end up working it is extremely unlikely that we would have had a competition at all.

I really appreciate how much everyone help with set-up, clean up, and running the competition. We were able to completely change locations, start an hour late, finish an hour earlier, and still did every event we were intending to except for 7x7. Special thanks to Felix and his family for handling adversity so well. This was a real team effort and we really accomplished quite a bit this weekend.
 
this competition was great especially considering all of the chaos in the beginning. Some of the competitors need to be punched in the face several times, but I'm not going to say any names. Also, did ANYONE get my 7.02 on video? Dan says that no one did but I might as well ask here anyway. But yeah, thanks for the awesome competition felix! :D
 
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