UK Open

[Erik]

Matyi Kuti (Mátyás) won the UK open with an average of 13.85 in the finals.
Breandon McElhill finished second (14.61) and Rama Temmink finished third (14.80)!
WR's: 2x2 single 2.65 (Ron van Bruchem!!! ) 4x4 single: 46.63, 5x5 single: 1:30.58

 

[AvGalen]

Wasn't Ron van Bruchem the man that once "cancelled" a 2x2x2 scramble because it was to easy?

I am wondering if 4x4x4 average and 5x5x5 average have also been broken. If you can do 46.63 (single) it shouldn't be that hard to get a sub-59 average.

Congratulations Mátyás, Rama and Ron! (and Breandon, but I have hearded his name before)

I want to see the full results!

 

[Erik]

yes that was Ron, and no these are all the WR's

 

[joey]

The UK NR for BLD was broken again, by the infamous Joey Gouly. It is now 2:27.81.

 

[Karthik]

Congrats Joey
And congratulations to all others too.

 

[AvGalen]

That infamous guy is starting to get famous

 

[masterofthebass]

Mátyás... what is there to say. His average was only in the 1:50s though.

 

[pjk]

Matyas also had a 1:36 5x5 in the same round he broke the WR w/ 1:30.

 

[masterofthebass]

Where did you get the results... I can't find them anywhere.

 

[pjk]

http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/c.php?i=UKOpen2007

Refresh the page if you don't see them there.

 

[masterofthebass]

nope... nothing for me

 

[masterofthebass]

Woops, I needed to refresh the PHP script. It seems safari decided to cache it.

 

[joey]

That infamous guy is starting to get famous

I can definitely say, that even though I have been to only two competitions, everyone has made me feel like one of the gang!

 

[alexc]

Wow, a lot of records broken on the same day!

 

[masterofthebass]

Not too many records. Only 4. At worlds there were 7 WRs, plus all of the NR and Continental Records. Granted, the UK Open is a smaller event.

 

[KConny]

That 2x2 WR seems strange... guy with 13.17 avg got 3.96 on that scramble. I think that lucky scrambles should be canceld.

 

[Erik]

define lucky scrambles...
a scramble with one whole layer correct would be incredible lucky for somone who solves: one layer-CLL but for a pure guimond solver it's useless!
You could say that a lucky scramble is a scramble solvable with less than say 8 moves. But I also saw a scramble with one move for one whole layer and then the diagonal switch. Optimal was 9 moves and still loads of people managed to do 2 seconds on it.
You have to be very carefull to make regulations for this, maybe 4 moves solves would be bad, but after all the idea of speedcubing is to solve a rubik's cube as fast as possible from a random position. Why should it be 'random but not the easy ones' ? Of course on the other hand we could end up with a 2x2 single WR of 1.5 seconds....

 

[ExoCorsair]

If there were a 'lucky' 3x3x3 scramble in which two complete layers were finished, is it justifiable to cancel the scramble?

 

[hdskull]

many ppl did bad on that scramble also, i guess lucky isn't really lucky, after all you have to be able to SEE the easy solution.

 

[Lt-UnReaL]

Are people given the same exact scramble for each round? Like, for round 1, would everyone get the same scramble?