UK Championship 2014

[JediJupiter]

One of the Rubik's employees told me that no Rubik's employee has ever participated in a competition.

 

[LucidCuber]

Shame I missed lots of the NR's etc today :/

Oh well, see you all tomorrow morning.

 

[PeelingStickers]

whoop broke all the comp PB's that I care about

Looking forward to racing some of yous in 5x5 and 7x7 tomorrow

 

[Myachii]

whoop broke all the comp PB's that I care about

Looking forward to racing some of yous in 5x5 and 7x7 tomorrow

I'll race you in 5x5... When I improve my speed by a minute xD

 

[JunA266]

Wow, twice when solving skewb I got an extra solve as the timer wasn't reset. Also somehow managed to take back a shengshou 3x3 in white that's not mine but I know who's it is so I will have to give it back tommorow!

 

[ryanj92]

Came today to defend my title in clock, got a skewb podium and clock single NR instead? Cool

 

[Randomno]

Alex Lau was judging me and told me to be more careful after karate chopping the timer to stop it... (Pyraminx solve and I'd never used a stackmat before.)

Judged some Megaminx solves, quite fun. Pretty funny when inbetween judging, while others were doing 3x3 solves and stuff, I was using my broken 1x3x3.

Spent ages trying to figure who TDM was. Still haven't figured it out.

Ollie beat 3BLD NR by four seconds then 2 DNFs. :/ Every 3BLD average there was a DNF... Didn't see any 4BLD successes, were probably some though.

Think I figured out who Billy, Rob and Mollerz were... Eventually

 

[MaeLSTRoM]

I got the Skewb NR average! And then lost it five minutes later...

Yeah. My bad :rolleyes:

 

[JunA266]

Yeah. My bad :rolleyes:

Trolololololololo!

 

[TDM]

Spent ages trying to figure who TDM was. Still haven't figured it out.

I still don't know quite a few people either I usually learn who people are by listening to what other people call them (if I haven't seen videos of them before). I look a bit like this.

E: from what you (I think it was you?) said earlier about having 'STAR' as your WCA profile, are you Charlie Stark? If so, I'll look out for your name when judging.

 

[Randomno]

I still don't know quite a few people either I usually learn who people are by listening to what other people call them (if I haven't seen videos of them before). I look a bit like this.

"Rob! Rob Yau!"

Pretty easy to figure out Rob, that happened twice.

I'll try and figure it out tomorrow...

Hoping for sub 30 single and sub 35 Ao5.

 

[Iggy]

Nice clock NRs!

Also nice 3BLD NR Ollie, finally sub me at all BLD events

 

[JunA266]

Anyohne have the link to the radio interview?

 

[angham]

So I can't make tomorrow because of unforeseen circumstances :'(
Had a blast today, great results in pyra and 2x2
Gl to everyone competing tomorrow!!

 

[Ollie]

It was a shame to see some laziness among certain people when it came to judging and running. When Group 1 judges and runs for Group 2 and vice versa, everything just goes far more smoothly and the competition doesn't go behind schedule.

And I'm still upset about the level of noise during 3BLD today, despite the numerous calls from James for quiet. I don't know if it was just me, but the noise levels of conversations from the spectator area was audible through ear defenders and was extremely off-putting.

Other than that, thank you to the organizers, I love Leicester comps

 

[~Adam~]

Sitting in the 'lobby' of the 5th floor of Premiere Inn at 4am. Apparently Leicester is wetter than the shower in the wee hours of the morning. I hope I make it in time for 3x3 but I wouldn't hold my breath. Good luck to everyone who does make it.

 

[Hssandwich]

I still don't know quite a few people either I usually learn who people are by listening to what other people call them (if I haven't seen videos of them before).

Did you notice me solving with Hoya in the 4x4 finals? Because you use Hoya don't you?

 

[Laradoodle4]

One of the Rubik's employees told me that no Rubik's employee has ever participated in a competition.

There are Rubik's employees? I met 2 people at comic con wearing Rubik's cube T-shirts who said they work for Rubik's cube, and they asked me if I was going to UKC, might be the same people...

 

[Randomno]

CHJ knows me. Someone else said something like "are you random-" and then stopped.

Hmm.

 

[tseitsei]

Nice 3bld Ollie :tu
gogogo sub-30 so close already...

And I'm still upset about the level of noise during 3BLD today, despite the numerous calls from James for quiet. I don't know if it was just me, but the noise levels of conversations from the spectator area was audible through ear defenders and was extremely off-putting.

Luckily we don't have this problem in Finland. People are actually surprisingly good at being quiet during bld here.

But I get upset when I read posts like this because this shows much disrespect towards people doing bld. Those people have practised countless hours to get a good solve at comp and then some idiots can't shut up for a few minutes to give them a chance to do that properly...

I mean no one comes to wave their hands in front of your face while you are speedsolving because that's just plain rude but still people have no problem making noise during bld. It can be just as distracting...