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Story Time with Uncle Tyson: the Blog

macky

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Story Time with Uncle Tyson: the Blog

We are looking for great cube stories from around the world. They can be pieces of cube history that not many people know about, amusing personal anecdotes, or even lists of awesome things about Lars Petrus and Stefan Pochmann. Share stories that the whole community will want to read.

No specific writing style is expected (though we do expect good grammar and punctuation); depending on the story, an informal or almost conversational tone may be appropriate. One idea that never materialized for US Nationals 2010 was an informal after-competition gathering to tell stories. Imagine writing down an engaging story the way you would tell it in person to a group of cubers. We have reposted the first story, "WCA's scrambling orientation," from this thread.

Please send stories to the gmail account 'uncletysonstorytime' with subject line "Uncle Tyson: story submission" with the following information:
* Your real name (this will be displayed on the post)
* Title
* Story itself
Submissions will be reviewed before being posted.

Please also let me know if you would like to be an editor or a semi-regular contributer. We will add your wordpress account as a co-author.

Looking forward to some great stories!

macky
 
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Owen

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Best idea ever. I'll definatly try to come up with a story.
 
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I remember a 2 part YouTube video of a cuber here who raced against his fellow high school student. It was a few laps around the track, but, before they could begin their foot race, they had to finish solving a 3x3. It was a very close race. Many spectators cheered them on.
 

macky

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New story: "Asian lucky draw champion" by Feliks Zemdegs

A few comments for others thinking of submitting a story. This is about the minimum required length. Despite the length, the cubers directly involved will certainly enjoy recalling this, maybe some others who were there can say, "ooh, so that was what all the noise was about." With personal stories, the sort of details about the cubers involved that faz included (how fast is Jihan? how did he do?) help the readers understand the background a bit more. Concise specific examples are nice.

The tone could be more informal, but this is the right idea for at least one type of stories we want to read!
 

macky

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The fast cuber is the star and the cube 3x3 not the fewest move challenger. Oddly enough I'm in the shade and I relive the cube in the world without any championship. That's the main reason that my story is not known by many people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP6DZHvCYLU


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Peut-être que tu peux écrire ton histoire en français ? Je peux fournir une traduction. C'est l'occasion parfaite de nous raconter qu'est-ce qui s'est vraiment passé....

[edit] et non, tes vidéos comptent pas.
 
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