Rutgers Spring 07

[dbeyer]

Wow, the competition was great.

I'd like to make a disclaimer. I sucked that day

 

[Tomarse]

Any new WR?

 

[dbeyer]

No, I sucked and didn't do anything at all that day ...

Except place 3rd for 5x5 speed. There were some really impressive 3x3 bld times and 3x3 averages, in my humble opinion.

Anthony Hsu shocked me!
2:30 3x3 BLD

One cubist had a 14.xx average winning the competition!

 

[ExoCorsair]

That's unfortunate, dbeyer, I was looking forward to a bunch of sub-3 5x5x5 times!

Anthony's 11.19 solve impressed me more than the BLD, but that might just be me.

 

[Cubinator]

Personally, I was really looking forward to seeing the bigger cubes bld; it's too bad you DNFed, because that would've been pretty cool to see (and the 8 cubes at once, too). Ah well. I had a really awful day cubing wise: I got very nervous, screwed up my G perm algs and ended up executing them as a corner cycle and an edge cycle (so I ended up executing 3 algs for PLL, because did a screwed up G perm alg that ended up doing absolutely nothing) on two solves, popped and somehow or another DNFed my second solve, etc. The two times I screwed up PLL, I got around 45 and 50 something seconds; the other two, I got in the thirties. My final average was like 45 seconds, even though I average much faster than that at home.

Then the 4x4 got cancelled, which was the only other event that I entered besdies 3x3 I did get two talk with some pretty fast cubers, though, and it was pretty fun. I also got a picture of a cup/3x3x5/pyraminx tower:

In the middle of the green triangle is the 3x3x5, and on the very top is the pyraminx.

I also bought a Magic from someone after the tournament was over (I was also going to buy a 5x5, but he sold out before I could get another one ), and since then my PB on Magic has gone from non-existant to 2.51

Now I'm hoping to go to either Trumbull (although a date and location would be nice *hint* *hint* ) or another competition soon after. Hopefully, I'll be able to redeem myself after my disastrous performance yesterday <_<

 

[ExoCorsair]

Originally posted by Cubinator@Apr 23 2007, 10:20 PM
Now I'm hoping to go to either Trumbull (although a date and location would be nice *hint* *hint* ) or another competition soon after. Hopefully, I'll be able to redeem myself after my disastrous performance yesterday <_<

http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/result...aptainsCove2007

There ya go.

I unfortunately will not attend this one, but I'm looking forward to seeing how everyone does there! Maybe dbeyer will get a successful BLD this time, neh?

 

[pjk]

Ian posted this on Yahoo:
Some results from Rutgers Spring 2007:

3x3: Mitchell Stern 14.xx average
Anthony Hsu 15.xx
Ian Winokur 16.5x

5x5: Doug Li 2:3x.xx average

Magic & Master Magic: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place were Tim Reynolds, Bob
Burton, and Peter Greenwood

3x3 OH: Anthony Hsu

BLD: Anthony Hsu
I think Rowe W. Hessler finished 2nd
Tim Reynolds

The 4x4 event was cancelled for time reasons.
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Congrats to all!

 

[dChan]

I was thinking that with every other comp a WR would be broken but I guess not. Maybe at Caltech something amazing will happen.

 

[Harris Chan]

Congrats everyone, especially Mitchell! Wow, I don't even know if I'll be able to pull a 14.xx avg at my first competition

 

[dChan]

Originally posted by Harris Chan@Apr 23 2007, 06:07 PM
Congrats everyone, especially Mitchell! Wow, I don't even know if I'll be able to pull a 14.xx avg at my first competition

Aww, you have to Harris. Do something amazing and get an 8 second solve!

 

[tenderchkn]

14 for you is like 20 for me, Harris...you can do that in your sleep.

 

[pjk]

I agree. Harris, you are a lot better than you think!