UK Open 2010

[Cube-Fu]

... cider? ... no thanks, had enough!

 

[MichaelErskine]

I was hoping that the snippets that are missing from saturday night would come back to me.

Alas, they hasn't.

I don't want them too either I think. I am very, very sorry for my behaviour, and if I offended anyone, again I am sorry.

I wouldn't worry about it James.
You were way too entertaining to be offensive (to me at least )
I'm just wondering what I was like now!

 

[ben1996123]

Another article; http://swns.com/teenager-solves-rubiks-cube-in-9-2-seconds-091719.html

Some fails:

Rowan Kinneavy, 19, from Aberdeen, Scotland, smashed the world record in the traditional event by completing the puzzle in an astonishing 7.71 seconds, beating the previous record of 9.28 seconds.

Among the other particpants was Charloote Cooper, 22, one of the only women in the contest, and Ryder Stringer, seven, from Ilfracombe, Devon – this year’s youngest competitor.

Fast-fingered Breandan Vallance, 18, from Beith, Ayrshire in Scotland beat around 50 other hopefuls to be crowned king of the cube in Bristol.

He was one of 58 people...

 

[Stefan]

"one of the only women"

This always angers me. One of the few? Or the only? One of the only doesn't make sense, and journalists writing that should be fired on the spot.

 

[MTGjumper]

Finally, my DYKs:

Did you know:

- Rowan Winneavy (well, considering everyone has posted that so far...)
- Amos is really awesome
- Everyone failed OH
- I did surprisingly well in most events
- .... except square-1
- Me and Rowan have a right to be livid over the scrambles for our most important events
- I beat Breandan in H2H =O
- Charlie is an awesome host
- Beast pizza is beast
- Square-1 parity challenge was... interesting
- Thom completed my challenge; I obviously didn't complete his
- Agassi's Dayan was awesome
- Charlie is better than Joey at sq1
- Rowan is a pro at etch-a-sketch
- The cider boat is still awesome
- I got my first (semi)-official sub-10
- My 4x4 PB single still has OLL parity
- It was a bad weekend for parity, frankly
- + more, I forget

 

[Toad]

I think you've forgotten to mention the lunch time drink of choice Simon

 

[bobthegiraffemonkey]

Oh, another DYK which I should have put in before (I'm a bit forgetful sometimes).

There is a picture of me doing a BLD solve in the paper. Since both my BLD results were DNFs, I know they have a picture from a failed solve, which I find a little funny.

And yes, I do realise the irony of forgetting to mention this

 

[blakedacuber]

Oh, another DYK which I should have put in before (I'm a bit forgetful sometimes).

There is a picture of me doing a BLD solve in the paper. Since both my BLD results were DNFs, I know they have a picture from a failed solve, which I find a little funny.

And yes, I do realise the irony of forgetting to mention this

Any more 4x4 tricks?

 

[bobthegiraffemonkey]

Any more 4x4 tricks?

*cough*

I know pretty much all of the cases now, and I remember a couple of the cases there being wrong, but they were easy to work around. Some cases are fun .

 

[Cube-Fu]

Oh, another DYK which I should have put in before (I'm a bit forgetful sometimes).

There is a picture of me doing a BLD solve in the paper. Since both my BLD results were DNFs, I know they have a picture from a failed solve, which I find a little funny.

And yes, I do realise the irony of forgetting to mention this

I was going to tell you about that; I thought it was funny, and the way you, were the only one with your head up. (hehehe)

 

[MTGjumper]

I think you've forgotten to mention the lunch time drink of choice Simon

Heh, I knew I'd forget loads of stuff; it's a work in progress

Yeah, that stuff was really eye-opening.

 

[scotzbhoy]

Results are finally up!!
http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/c.php?i=UKOpen2010

 

[flan]

Yay I have a WCA profile.

EDIT: when I click on my name I dont have personal records. How do I find out my world ranking and such?

Edit 2: rowan isnt listed as number 5 WR so I guess the results arent on the database yet.

 

[bobthegiraffemonkey]

teehee, Breandan was slower on 2x2 than 3x3

 

[Toad]

Do not be alarmed when your personal profiles do not yet contain your new results, each individual profile has to be verified so they'll take a while to filter through

 

[Robert-Y]

Anyone who was judging me for Pyraminx:

I swear I got a 5.93 on the last solve? Could whoever has the score sheet, please double check?

Also I'll do my DYKs on another day, I'm just too lazy right now

 

[oprah62]

Robert got a sub 10 every Round :0

 

[Kirjava]

I swear I got a 5.93 on the last solve?

Ya, you did.

 

[kinch2002]

Yay top 100 for 2x2 single

 

[CharlieCooper]

I'll be checking over the results in the next week or so, please PM me with your specific requests for verification so that I definitely don't miss them. If you write it here, I won't necessarily read it.

Some other things...

The plant had to go today, apologies. You know it has been here though, if you know what I mean.

I love how my "livid" and "bloody" have been adopted by other cubers, it's especially fun to corrupt the English of somebody that isn't a native speaker.