US Nationals 2009

[Anthony]

Anthony got second with 4/6 in a lot of time

In my defense, I spent the majority of my solving portion solving one cube. I solved them in a random order, I think I did 6, 1, 5, 2, 3, 4, so when I got to the 3rd cube I accidently did a different cubes memo on it and didn't realize that till I moved on to the next cube. So I spent like 15 minutes trying to undo what I did (which is really hard, and confusing) and then tried to remember the original memo.. I didn't even get it though. :/ But I was pretty close.

Anyway, US Nats really starts on Saturday, get ready for some records. *coughDanDavidRoweAlex*

 

[MatsBergsten]

I had 2 successful BLD solves (in 2 attempts), including my fastest official BLD solve. I believe that puts me back into 3rd position on the oldest BLD solvers list. I also had a personal best 5x5x5 (speedsolve) average.

Congratulations!!

But you won't beat me in a while if you don't start getting older quicker
than I am.

 

[IamWEB]

Anthony got second with 4/6 in a lot of time

In my defense, I spent the majority of my solving portion solving one cube. I solved them in a random order, I think I did 6, 1, 5, 2, 3, 4, so when I got to the 3rd cube I accidently did a different cubes memo on it and didn't realize that till I moved on to the next cube. So I spent like 15 minutes trying to undo what I did (which is really hard, and confusing) and then tried to remember the original memo.. I didn't even get it though. :/ But I was pretty close.

Anyway, US Nats really starts on Saturday, get ready for some records. *coughDanDavidRoweAlex*

Wow, 4/6, better be on tape. D:

 

[ManasijV]

Mike multibld 3/11??

 

[shelley]

Ryousuke Mondo has yet to do his multiBLD attempt.

 

[Tim Reynolds]

MultiBLD was hilarious. Alex Yu won with 2/2 in 4:05, Anthony got second with 4/6 in a lot of time, and I got third with 1/2 in 11:40 (LOLOLOLOLOLOL). I could have gotten second if I hadn't randomly decided in the middle of the second cube that I had memo'd wrong and changed things around for no good reason.

So the stats online are wrong? They show two people getting 3/3.

Hmm...I think we were just going on word-of-mouth, since when we checked last night multi wasn't up.

But I fail, since I knew about Andy's 3/3 last night during that conversation (as he was sitting next to me). I also failed at multi (and FMC, and somewhat magics), but oh well.

 

[Kian]

MultiBLD was hilarious. Alex Yu won with 2/2 in 4:05, Anthony got second with 4/6 in a lot of time, and I got third with 1/2 in 11:40 (LOLOLOLOLOLOL). I could have gotten second if I hadn't randomly decided in the middle of the second cube that I had memo'd wrong and changed things around for no good reason.

So the stats online are wrong? They show two people getting 3/3.

Hmm...I think we were just going on word-of-mouth, since when we checked last night multi wasn't up.

But I fail, since I knew about Andy's 3/3 last night during that conversation (as he was sitting next to me). I also failed at multi (and FMC, and somewhat magics), but oh well.

Nice 6x6 time, though! You've improved so much recently.

 

[IamWEB]

1 Joshua Nagel 1;11.21 1:12.84 1:16.31 1:10.28 1:26.44

Best: 1:10.28
Worst: 1:26.44

Average: 0:49.72 ???


ERROR!

 

[fanwuq]

The 27 move solution found by both me and Michael Young. It was my first full solution (almost linear, I messed up doing the block the first time so I just speedsolved it and rescrambled), found in less than 2 minutes, then I spent 45 minutes checking it over and over again. Michael found it in like 4-5 minutes (I think) and spent the rest of the time checking it as well.

scramble: D L2 R2 U B2 F L B' U B2 R D F2 D' R' U F2 U'

2x2x3: D' R' F' U2 L' F U F2 R2

F2L + OLL: B D B2 D B2 D B R D2 R'

PLL: R D2 R' D2 R F' R' D' R D R F R2 D'

R D2 R' R D2 R' cancels to nothing, resulting in a 27 move solution. Pretty lucky, but given the ease of the first block I think I could have done well either way. Tim Sun found a 5-corner skeleton in 22 moves, and his insertions canceled 5 and 3 moves, resulting in 30.

The funny thing is, for the past two days I had been saying "Well, I'm going to get a 27 on the first scramble..." etc. so now I have been saying that I am going to get 21 on the second scramble

Very nice solution and quite lucky, David!
Tim, that's pretty daring. I don't think I would bother insertion a 5-cycle in competition and nice job at cancelling so many moves! I found a few skeletons like that too, but I assumed that I would only cancel about 3 moves, so I did not attempt the insertion. May I see the solution?
My luck was terrible for that scramble; I always seem to get really unlucky ending on scrambles with easy starts.














Edit:
No great official results 2nd FMC scramble. May I have the scramble? Thanks.

 

[blade740]

U B2 U2 R2 U2 R' D F'' D2 B2 U L' D2 F L' B2 U' L2

 

[Faz]

16 David Woner USA 5.38 5.71 6.21 6.82 5.93 5.38 6.82 5.95

Kian, you don't have to eat a shoe......... yet.

Wow, people got fast times on scramble 1. Is it available?

EDIT: Oh no! Dan beat my competition average on 3x3!! Oh well, next comp. (whenever that is)

 

[blade740]

Scramble one was a 2 move layer and a 6 move CLL.

 

[Sa967St]

May I have the second square-1 scramble from the Qualification round?

 

[Lucas Garron]

Wow, people got fast times on scramble 1. Is it available?

My solve was U' L2' F R U R' U' F' U', if I got that correct from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w8tAO0qW8s. Feel free to verify and invert to make the scramble.

May I have the second square-1 scramble from the Qualification round?

Tyson has all the scramble PDFs. If you don't get it earlier, you can get it when we post all the scrambles.

 

[DavidWoner]

Very nice solution and quite lucky, David!
Tim, that's pretty daring. I don't think I would bother insertion a 5-cycle in competition and nice job at cancelling so many moves! I found a few skeletons like that too, but I assumed that I would only cancel about 3 moves, so I did not attempt the insertion. May I see the solution?
My luck was terrible for that scramble; I always seem to get really unlucky ending on scrambles with easy starts.

Edit:
No great official results 2nd FMC scramble. May I have the scramble? Thanks.

Well that's tim's style: really fast skeleton then insert.

Lemme get second scramble.

U B2 U2 R2 U2 R' D F' D2 B2 U L' D2 F L' B2 U' L2

13 move 3xcross:

U2 R B' L2 R F' U' B2 D

F2 D F' D'

which left nothing nice at all, with either premove F' or F2.

I found something that left 2 flipped corners in 21 moves (I think) but I didn't have time insert it.

 

[fanwuq]

Very nice solution and quite lucky, David!
Tim, that's pretty daring. I don't think I would bother insertion a 5-cycle in competition and nice job at cancelling so many moves! I found a few skeletons like that too, but I assumed that I would only cancel about 3 moves, so I did not attempt the insertion. May I see the solution?
My luck was terrible for that scramble; I always seem to get really unlucky ending on scrambles with easy starts.

Edit:
No great official results 2nd FMC scramble. May I have the scramble? Thanks.

Well that's tim's style: really fast skeleton then insert.

Lemme get second scramble.

U B2 U2 R2 U2 R' D F' D2 B2 U L' D2 F L' B2 U' L2

13 move 3xcross:

U2 R B' L2 R F' U' B2 D

F2 D F' D'

which left nothing nice at all, with either premove F' or F2.

I found something that left 2 flipped corners in 21 moves (I think) but I didn't have time insert it.

2x2x3:
R2U2D2F2U'D2 with L'R2 premove. Can't find anything good with it.

 

[puzzlemaster]

nobody did very well on 2x2 average... erik's sub 4 and got a 5.26 average? but yea that first scramble seems insanely easy.

 

[cmhardw]

Congrats to Timothy, Mike, Mondo, and Felix for achieving a successful 4x4x4 BLD solve at such a large, and stressful for BLD, competition! Also congrats to Mike Hughey for achieving the only successful 5x5x5 BLD solve in a US National competition for the second year in a row!

To those who did not achieve their solves, we've all been there! There will always be other competitions!

Chris

 

[ErikJ]

so yeah I basically sucked at everything except that 2x2 single.

E V E R Y T H I N G !

oh when I got back to the hotel I took an average of 30 on 2x2 and got like 3.7. then I got an average of 40 or so 3x3 solves of 14.23 with 13.16 RA of 12. why can't I do good in comp?

 

[fanwuq]

I just realized how much has changed in just a few years. Macky, former OH WR holder is in the bottom 3 for OH. Lars Vandenbergh, former Sq-1 WR holder did not even make it to the 2nd round. Lars Petrus was at the bottom of the list for 1st round of 3x3x3; and Frank Morris, Lars Vandenbergh, and Tyson Mao didn't make it into the 2nd round. Frank Morris, #1 6x6 and 7x7 solver just less than 2 years ago did not even make it past qualifications... While people I've never heard of and were not on David's or Kian's lists were doing surprising well!