Stefan live on German national TV - tonight - streaming available

[Cubenovice]

Stefan Pochmann is doing a bet on the "Wetten Dass" show tonight.
This is a very famous live TV-show in Germany where celebrities place bets on participants doing all kinds of stuff, typically against a time limit.

Tonight there are actually two cubers on the show: Stefan and Justin B.

I've already figured out what he's going do do but will not tell.
If you don't want to know; do not click through the rehersal shots at the wetten dass site...

Saturday 05.11.2011 20:15 - 22:45h
rerun 06.11.2011 10:30h

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Chat Let's cheer for Stefan

 

[Reinier Schippers]

Haha Ok, Joris did this too on Dutch TV

 

[Lucas Garron]

Ooh, thanks for posting. Sounds exciting already. :-D

 

[Goosly]

Can anyone record it and place the video on youtube? I won't be able to watch it live

 

[Jakube]

Stefan did a BLD-solve under water.

He took a bit longer than the promised to do, but the moderator said, that doesn´t matter.

Time was around 4:40 (~3 minutes memo)

And, that was the spectators voted and decided that his performance was the best of all. So he won a new car!

Congratulations, Stefan!

 

[Olji]

Crap... I missed it even though I put it on alarm...
*Mumbles incoherent curse words*
>:I

Better not miss the rerun! D:

 

[asportking]

Stefan did a BLD-solve under water.

He took a bit longer than the promised to do, but the moderator said, that doesn´t matter.

Time was around 4:40 (~3 minutes memo)

And, that was the spectators voted and decided that his performance was the best of all. So he won a new car!

Congratulations, Stefan!

Woah, someone seriously needs to record this and show us.

 

[Cubenovice]

Congratulations Stefan!

Had to sit through the whole show, wondering if I perhaps missed Stefan at the beginning.
Turned out he was the very last bet.

Memo looked a bit uncomfortable and near the end there was quite a long pauze (memo recall?)

Switched away after his performance so I didn't know he won a car.

 

[Cubenovice]

Video

[video]http://youtu.be/s2huaQLUWU8[/video]

 

[Litz]

Great job Stefan! Could tell you were nervous during memo but you still did it. Congratulations on the new car!

 

[Andreaillest]

A new car? That's amazing! Who says cubing is useless?
Congratz, Stefan! Well deserved.

And thank you for posting the Youtube link. Great watch.
Lulz, the celebrity wearing the hat is like Stefan's biggest fan.

 

[Cubenovice]

I think I have the scramble: L B' R D B2 D R U2 L2 B D' B F U L F L' (17f*)

 

[teller]

Gaaaah...that was a long time to hold your breath! Well done!

 

[amostay2004]

Gaaaah...that was a long time to hold your breath! Well done!

Yea the holding of breath was more impressive than the solve itself to me lol. Damn if only cubing could win me a car T.T

 

[Zane_C]

That was so fun to watch. Very good Stefan! :tu

 

[Micael]

Wow!
Totally deserved!:tu

 

[MiPiCubed]

Woooo! Go Stefan! Awesome!

 

[riffz]

He held his breath for about 110s. Great job Stefan!

 

[cubernya]

Almost 2 mins holding his breath, while using muscles? Wow, I can only hold mine for 4 mins without using muscles, probably like 1 with.

Anyway, great job, and congratulations on the new car!

 

[Stefan]

I think I have the scramble: L B' R D B2 D R U2 L2 B D' B F U L F L' (17f*)

That's correct, thanks. Here's the solve (using M2/R2):

z2 y

x' U L2' U' M2 U L2 U' x
R' U R U' M2 U R' U' R
U' L2 U M2 U' L2 U
U2 M' U2 M'
L U' L' U M2 U' L U L'
x' U' R' U M2 U' R U x
U2 M' U2 M'
U R' U' M2 U R U'
M2
U R U' M2 U R' U'
U' L U M2 U' L' U
x' U' R2 U M2 U' R2 U x

L U' L' U L' U' L U R2 U' L' U L U' L U L'
U' L' U R2 U' L U
U' L2 U L' U' L U R2 U' L' U L U' L2 U
U' L' U L' U' L U R2 U' L' U L U' L U
(R U R' D r2 U') (R U r2' U') (D' R)
(R2 U' R' F') (r U R2' U') (r' F) (R' U)
U' L U L' U' L U R2 U' L' U L U' L' U R2

Fairly nice scramble, should have been much faster but I had severe problems concentrating. Anyway, the audience loved it (I think I got 63% of the votes and we were six candidates), apparently they agreed with Thomas (the moderator) that the main thing was "blindsolving under water" so that the time didn't really matter.

Lulz, the celebrity wearing the hat is like Stefan's biggest fan.

That was Dirk Bach, a German entertainer. He was my "bet godfather", meaning he had to bet whether I could do it. And yeah, he was awesome with the cube necklace and his excitement.